The Pheal

In very proud to share this special project that’s bloomed into a full fledged nonprofit org that’s been made possible by some of the most revered and truly gifted healers I’ve had the honor of knowing in this city.

A special shout out to Jaina Portwood and Chance York. I’m never not blown away by your character, intellect, talent, abilities, wisdom, and excellent taste in music. Thank you for sharing your gifts with our corner of the world and taking them across the globe in such fantastic ways.

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now through 11.27.22

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🚨 ALERT 🚨

HEALING MARKET EVENT

Join me (Sofia🙃) and The Pheal with .earth for the Creator’s Fair at Station 10 Saint Paul. Sunday, January 30th, 10 am - 5 pm.

I’ll be doing discounted mini massage, cupping, and sauna wrap sessions as well as group sound healing sessions throughout the day. I will also be doing a pop-up with a spread of my favorite products.

YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS

I will be opening my books for some slots to be booked ahead of time so you can reserve your spot—NO DEPOSIT NECESSARY! Stay tuned for the schedule to go live and special booking rules next week.

Covid precautions will be taken. Masks will be required. I will have my own Conway HEPA air purifying filter and disinfectant mist spray to ensure viral aerosols are eliminated before and after every session.

Massage + Cupping
15 min $30
30 min $60

Sauna Wrap
15 min $25
30 min $50

There will be tons of other incredible healers and vendors at this event so come masked and vaxed and soak up the much needed healing vibes!

when your clients try to explain where their tension is and just start voguing instead.

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Anyone else wish they were a pretty pile of fruit today??

If the covid burnout is getting to you like it is for us we highly suggest an infrared sauna session. At least then you’ll feel like a pretty pile of human.

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happy new year little phealers

as we venture into what looks like another difficult year ahead—let’s take space to center and remember that we can do and get through hard things. three things I want to touch on to help us ensure our perseverance; mental health, safety measures, self care.

it is exhausting work to move through this pandemic and the effects it’s had on our mental health so far. remember to step back, take deep belly breathes, center and ground, and reach out for help if you need it. it’s ok to need it. It’s normal to need it. it’s human to need. if you need help finding mental health care, the walk-in counseling center in south mpls is a fantastic resource for anyone—for you to get started. as always reach out to me if you feel called to.

I strongly encourage everyone to do everything they are capable of to mask with n95, kn95, and n94 masks in public. get vaccinated and boosted. this is our only way through to the other side. I know it can be hard to trust in our American institutions. that’s justified. but we can rest assured the science to support these safety measures is sound, reliable, free of bureaucracy and globally peer reviewed.

self care is paramount in these times. going beyond doing something nice for ourselves, it is a basic necessity to replenish and pour into our minds, bodies, and spirits. simple ritual routines like drinking a glass of water every morning before we do anything else, writing a page in a journal once a day, meditating for even 5 minutes—these practices are examples of a baseline we can all put into practice. diving deeper into healing work of the body will help us move through any difficulty with less heaviness and greater ease. Breathe work, massage, energy work, exercise, all of these and more are accessible to us all whether it be with ourselves or professionals. seek it and you will receive it.

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it’s official: CERTIFIED REIKI MASTER

After a long awaited step into this new phase of mastery I am thrilled to be able to offer Reiki at the master level.

I know what you’re thinking…
Right. Cool. So happy for you…Wtf does that mean?

It means a lot for me personally, but essentially my ability to heal with this modality has come full circle and touches on every level of the human experience. Physical, mental, emotional, and now spiritual. I also have the ability to teach Reiki and pass attunements to students.

Though I won’t be teaching right out the gate, I do anticipate teaching to become a part of my practice within the structure of The Pheal as it grows. But more on that later.

Now I’m focusing on fine tuning my skills to help my clients with their healing needs. Reiki can be a powerful tool in all areas of health and well-being and the best way to understand it is to pair education with experiencing it. Book online for a full session or add Reiki onto any service.

Any questions?? Ask in comments!

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There’s no feeling like the one you get after a cupping and infrared session.

The benefits seem never ending when you apply them to how they affect your life and overall well-being. But we’ll name a few anyway.

Cupping therapy pulls stagnant blood and toxins to the surface/skin level allowing the circulatory and lymph systems to properly flush them out. This creates space for new blood flow, vascular and connective tissue growth, and allows for better mobility and overall function.

Enter infrared. How can we make that detox even deeper? By applying infrared light therapy to the body. This trigger the body to generate its own heat so your getting the benefits of heat on both sides with the added benefit of being able to comfortably withstand higher temperatures promoting even deeper detox. Your body is doing work while you’re resting —burning off unnecessary toxins and calories then sweating them out. The heat promotes better circulation, cellular turnover, relaxation, pain relief, clearer—tighter skin, relief for chronic fatigue, and the list really does go on.

Pairing these two super powered treatments will always deliver results immediately and long after. What benefits do you need??

We recommend cupping every two weeks and infrared 1-3 times a week. With our variety of time intervals it’s easy and accessible to develop a healthy detox and maintenance routine at The Pheal.

We sent out an email about it— happy holidays.

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The Infrared Sauna Wrap services at The Pheal give you more than just a nice sweat detox.

Did you know our infrared sauna blanket from is infused with amethyst crystals?

This opens up the body to deeper healing benefits beyond the physical.

Take it from the experts at HigherDOSE—“The amethyst stone, which deepens and enriches the powerful benefits of infrared, is meditative and calming—working with emotional, spiritual and physical connections to encourage satisfying stillness, balance and peace. Also, it’s often used to eliminate impatience (hello, New Yorkers). Here’s how it works: our blankets are covered in amethyst, and as infrared heat passes through the blanket, the amethyst healing properties reach higher frequencies. Simultaneously, as infrared heat penetrates our body, our bio availability heightens, allowing us to absorb the amethyst elements with a deepened sense of intensity.”

Swipe for a glimpse at soaking up the goodness and sweating out the toxins. ➡️

exactly what we need after on infrared sauna wrap. a mystical pearl beach shower under a rosé sky.

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I’ve been on a hiatus from posting!

This was both intentional and a little unintentional. Sometimes you just have to unplug and pay attention to what right in front of you. But I’m happy to be back and sharing.

Look at this beautiful pattern I whipped out on a client a couple weeks ago. I love how the cups tell you exactly where the most stagnation is occurring.

The darker the cup mark the more stagnation and stifled flow of Qi. The lighter it is—the more Qi balance and flow. This doesn’t mean the light mark don’t reap the benefits of cupping. Anywhere cups are placed— the local and surrounding tissues are prompted for vascular and connective tissue new growth as well as reduced muscular tension. This contributes to the pain relief you might experience after a cupping session is it provides more oxygen, blood flow, and mobility for the area(s).

the dust is staring to settle on one of the most chaotic and intense retrogrades we’ve seen in a very long time. As Mercury goes direct we will still have some unpacking to do until Nov. 2nd but the hard part is coming to a close. I don’t often share astrological musings here but when we survived something as epic as all that, I feel it’s a must even if concise. The pot is stirred and the contents are now settling. As the air clears, the coming weeks present opportunities for working it out. But for now rest is needed and well deserved. We did that. It’s time to heal. Now go schedule your bodywork services and take a nap little phealers.

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we need each other to heal. sometimes that means at a distance. sometimes that means right next to each other. It can look like a lesson learned. it can look like playing an active role we’ve never played before. regardless of how—the truth of togetherness in healing remains.

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🌙🔮OCTOBER DEALS🔮🌙

NEW CLIENTS

book any DETOX or SWEAT bundle service and receive 20% off through October

(includes 30 minute session in our sauna blanket—one per client and must be new to The Pheal)

EXISTING CLIENTS

review challenge! leave a review on Google & Vagaro by October 31st and receive 15% off your next service through the end of the year

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Let’s make magic happen phealers!!

DROP A 🔮🌙 IN THE COMMENTS IF YOU’RE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THESE DEALS!

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Working with peoples bodies daily for a decade, you start to notice the slight differences that end up being the things that bring us together. And it’s these that we find both our uniqueness and similarities in.

After watching the last night, and hearing how every star interpreted the theme of American independence— celebrating American designers and the renaissance currently taking place in fashion, particularly around body inclusivity, gender fluidity, and using fashion to highlight our biggest social issues like racism and climate change, I was left feeling inspired and hopeful. These themes translated into some of the most collectively diverse looks in fashion we’ve seen to date.

For me it’s a glorious reminder of how beautiful our differences are together. (So long as said differences aren’t subjecting anyone or thing to harm that is—the event was closed to anyone unvaccinated and masks were required in doors).

Q***r people, BIPOC, and women seem to be at the forefront yet again—leading us into a new age. An evolution put on display with art as the vehicle into an era of healing one another, together, from the damage the patriarchy, the binary, and every other symptom that hails from its sickness.

Together we heal.

we’re here to let the light in.

I get the question, ‘what IS reiki?’ constantly. And truthfully I struggle to an easy digestible answer. If you understand the basics of quantum physics— matter and vibration, then you understand energy in all it’s different forms. Light energy, heat energy, sound energy, electro magnetic energy. The list goes on.

Reiki energy healing is a specific and singular modality of energy work. It follows a particular school of thought and is passed down directly from its original conduit and re-discoverer Dr. Mikao Usui.

The word reiki itself is self explanatory. ‘Rei’ meaning higher knowing/intelligence, and ‘ki’, in reference Qi or life force energy.

Essentially Reiki healing is divinely designed as an avenue to manipulate the abundant energy you already posses to promote better health throughout the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self.

Whatever challenges you may be facing in life Reiki can be a deeply profound experience in your healing journey— there’s nothing Reiki can’t touch.

Book a full Reiki healing session or add it onto any full service at The Pheal.

Yes. Hello? It’s us. The Pheal. Just reminding you to book your fall and holiday appointments ASAP. Things are getting tight! And winter is COMING.

That idea you had about doing a massage and infrared sauna wrap when the weather gets colder— yeah so did everyone else. Hurry before the appointments are gone!

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Pretty Balanced from is the best wind down, post service, hug you from the inside beverage known to human kind.

In our humble opinion of course.

Available at The Pheal. Don’t have a service on the books? That’s ok! Book a 15 minute shop block to come check out the space and grab some high vibing, anti-stress goodies to help get in your phealings. Link in bio.

babe, just stay in.

take that bath.
do that hair mask.
and the body scrub.
sip that tea, then call us and spill it. 🫖
we’ll take care of what you can’t.
get in your phealings.

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climate change may be keeping our air quality low, and our elected officials may be choosing money over the integrity of our land and water via pipelines, but we won’t let that stop us from healing ❤️‍🩹

when we put ourselves in the way of the systems that hurt people and our planet it is paramount that we take time to recover and tend to our own needs. sustainability is everything, weather you’re fighting racism, pipelines, or anti-trans policy. that’s what The Pheal is here for.