the Journal
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Bone Broth: A Healing Elixir + Market Guide
Sleep Self Care: Deep Healing Kit
Maintaining adequate quantity and quality of sleep is essential to optimal health and wellbeing. While you sleep, your body is repairing itself and heals on a deep level. A good night’s sleep affects every area of life including:
Up Level Autumn: Medicinal Hot Chocolate
As the temperatures start to drop, there is nothing like a tasty warm beverage in hand while you are cozying up under a blanket or relaxing by the fire. BLNCD educator and wellness practitioner, Rachel Lyn, has come up with a nutrient-rich treat to level up your seasonal drink game. Packed with healing ingredients, the alchemy of her Medicinal Hot Chocolate is not only delicious but also intended to activate and harmonize the body, mind and spirit.
Modern Heirloom Life Nutrition Program
A 5-WEEK COURSE TO NOURISH AND DEEPEN self discovery and connect with supportive community by way of foods, dietary approaches, home-care and wellness topics. Led by Rachel Lyn - an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Healing Arts Practitioner - together we explore concepts, ideas and modalities specifically for the season based in ancient healing practices and modern science such as:
5 Tips for Surviving Daylight Savings
YOUR GUIDE TO ADJUSTING TO THE CHANGING DAYLIGHT HOURS AND TURNING BACK THE CLOCK.
Wildfire Healing: At-Home Trauma Care for my West Coast people
The year has brought nothing short of a greatly deep need for healing, patience and trauma repair. Between quarantine, uprising and the wildfires along the west coast, we have a lot of work to do. My heart is heavy for the people and animals that have been so heavily effected. Although in here in the Minnesota midwest, my mind is across the country.
Summer Sips: Easy Mocktail Guide 101
We are seeing some amazing options for summer beverage alternatives that we just had to share with you. As we emerge into summer heat and are able to see community more and more, there is nothing like having a cool beverage on a patio with friends or at the lake with family. Also as a result of the last year, collectively we're experiencing a shift in how we connect with one another including the desire to be more present during our gatherings.
CranioSacral Therapy De-Mystified: Yes.. it's for You
CranioSacral Therapy often has a mystical quality. I receive a lot of questions about what it is, who should try it and what the benefits are to having this modality in your selfcare routine. And the answer is everyone should have CranioSacral in their life and the benefits are limitless.
Sauna + Healing: My Time on the North Shore
The North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota might - scratch that - is one of the most beautiful parts of the planet that I’ve been able to experience. Autumn on the North Shore is truly nothing short of transformative. I think in the healing world we hear that a lot. Transformative. But what does that even mean when its only being used for marketing and promo. It isn’t something that exists in the mind as a strategy as a way to move forward but rather - what an environment like the North Shore teaches us - is that transformation is something you feel in the present moment. Nature. She is the one that teaches us transition.
Cannabis: CBD + the Wellness Industry
I’m sure you’d agree that 2020 has been one incredibly interesting year, to say the absolute least. An array of deep seeded emotions, transformations, beginnings + endings and hopefully great insight into what may be at the top of the priority list in wellness - emotional, physical, societal, and political.
Home Library: Quarantine + Trauma Repair Edition
We have a lot of time at home these days. Although I typically love books more as reference than sitting down to read cover-to-cover, a found a few gems that have been tried and true for self-study in the areas of breath work, meditation, spirituality and herbs. For April, I wanted to connect you with some of my favorite reads that work great as study guides to dig a little deeper as well as hold peace within.
Self-Massage for Beautifying Body
How much do you love feeling fresh energy moving through your body…think of when you’ve just finished a workout, yoga class or received a massage or bodywork. Incredible, right?! As a bodyworker, I absolutely love walking clients through a personalized body care protocol for home. Super simple ways to manage stress and feel more in the beautiful body of the present moment. Accessible techniques that you can do at home.
Crystal Healing: Science and the Woo
So I’m going to dive right in… Light is vibration. The entire electromagnetic wave spectrum of visible light is vibration of different frequency. Gemstones and crystals capture and shape light, which projects energy. So basically, the measured science and the woo are the same thing. Let’s look at how science and woo-woo weave together.
CranioSacral Therapy + Ayurveda: Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom
I absolutely love how these two modalities come together. Although completely from seemingly different backgrounds and concepts, they have so much in common in intention both scientific and spirit.
Sessions: Multi-Sensory Integrative Healing
I'm honored to announce that individual sessions w/ myself at House of Heartland, here are the offerings… away we go.
Radiant Heart Healing Session
An integrative healing experience designed with focus on the lymphatic and nervous system to clear, soothe and nourish.
Thyme & Black Mission Fig: Nourishment Oatmeal
Thyme and black mission fig in a hearty oatmeal set for an unruffled tone to the day. Wonderful for holding times of hormonal shifting and a busy mind. Due to their nutrient palate, this duo soothes the nerves and nourishes the feminine physique. Calcium and potassium from black mission fig provide muscle and bone support while thyme provides a relaxation to the feminine reproductive.
Sunshine Kumquat Dill Aioli + Easter Healing
As a Midwesterner, sunshine in any form is a moment of wellness this time of year. Sometimes finding the light by way of plants comes easier than direct rays. Easter has been an interesting holiday throughout my life. In my mid to late 20's, Spending time in the kitchen had been one of my favorite ways to spend time during holidays and long afternoons to which I could devote to a recipe or two.
Millet Cakes w/ Herbs de Provence: Welcome Spring
Dried herbs have a way to enliven Spring as gentle reminders that earth is coming back to life under the layers of melting snow. Herbs of France and Italy have been making a strong entrance into my cooking lately baked goods, of course, included.