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“changing the world, one spirit at a time”

I’m participating in an event coming up next week. It will be amazing!

Faye the Tattooed Psychic does readings for people, communicates with the other side and well I have no idea what will happen but after watching her work on a friend of mine- it will be phenomenal.

Spiritus
cost $12
Thursday March 18th
7pm at the Jewel Box Theater

I will be doing tarot readings after the show, but who care about that-come see an amazing woman do her thing to empower and heal the world!

more about Faye can be found here

listen

it seems as if a wake up call is needed in order for humanity to take mother nature seriously.

sunset at la push

with the massive shifting of the earths land masses mother nature has alters the size and shape of our planet making the days shorter. it’s only a fraction of a second but alas she also re-arranged a whole bunch of peoples living space and removed many from the planet.

you can make a difference. you can stop consuming as much. you can eat foods closer to season and grown in your hemisphere. you can choose alternate transportation occasionally. you can support small, local business. you can clean up litter. you can donate money to green technology or alternative energy or saving a tree, an animal or the water.

no just you do these small things won’t seem to help in the slightest. but it will in fact help. one person choosing different means that their friends see changes and ask about them and maybe try them out.

don’t change everything at once.

change one thing.

your food.

your means of getting to and from work.

turn the heat down.

planting something.

link to article of shortening of the day.

full moon

it’s time to shed. full moon

the full moon reminds us to release those things we no longer need to take into the future, to lighten up, to shift and to embrace the cycles of growth and death.

this month i would love to shed my gym membership. i have come to realize this is a huge drain on my finances and a huge excuse to remain sedentary and fat. hello, irony. for me the gym represents large chunks of time i don’t currently have, but instead of utilizing the 20 minutes i do have to exercise i put it off and make plans to go to the gym for a real workout. which never ever happens. so bye bye gym.

this month i am also shedding a need to micro manage my schedule. to embrace add-ons and impulse customers, those who cancel or book last minute. i also embrace the ability to find space for everything i desire to do. i do this willingly knowing that come this time next year i will no longer have to leap but can choose.

i am shedding my past relationship with my business and willing to leap blindly into this new awesomeness that has manifested. i want to have no expectations besides the willingness to learn and be delighted by everything it is bringing to me.

i am also trying to shed the ’should’ and the desire to force things into being before they and i am ready to properly nurture them. i am willing to let them gestate and hang out in the shadow to gain more clarity and confidence. i am willing to stop should-ing on myself and others and to gently remind myself in moments of angst and panic that ’should’ never made any situation any better. i will try to embrace love instead of should.

i am willing to engage the piece of me that is afraid of my fae nature and desires to “be normal’ to start conversations and to listen to both sides and not choose anything. i am willing to see everything and walk away knowing more but not having to act or change or whatever is there looming all yuckified.

i’d love to hear what you are shedding-tell me in the comments!

leaving on a jet plane

the annoying thing about traveling on an airplane is the having to look images at all your objects as potential weapons

dental floss = yes = what? = duh strangulation

knee high socks = ? = also potential for strangulation but more effort seems required as stretchiness happens

toothbrush =? = could jab at eyes, likely hood of breaking or loosing toothbrush in process high

pants/trousers/shirts/skirts = hmm= i think we are ok

book = well it is a hard back= but bludgeoning someone with it would suck, i’d rather use the flight attendants coffee pot

ok what other things do i have that i could inflict harm with?

why do we have to even ask this question? why is this an issue? don’t you think telling me i can use my pen to stab someone in the jugular vein might make me more likely to create violence? before it was just a pen, and sometimes it held my hair up, but never would i have seen it as a weapon (unless threatened with physical harm).

so the dental floss, and other weapons of the household variety get shoved in the checked case and the clothes and book come with me.

once i traveled to new zealand which is a nice long flight from seattle and i really wanted to learn to knit (oh the beauty of their yarns) so my dear friend offered to get me started–and then we thought about it and realized that there was no way in hell they were ever going to allow me anywhere near a plane with knitting needles and blunt scissors (this was 2002 or 3). so i still have yet to learn.

sometimes the price of protection, involves looking at the world in a very bleak way. it is no wonder it is so hard to reach out, to trust, to love. we have a lot of information telling us how horrible we are and making us think that someone might mix a bomb in their shampoo and toothpaste containers.

in my world i would not have to look at my dental floss as a weapon damnit!

sleep deprivation anyone?

Sleeping Beauty

sleeping beauty at dragoncon 2009

this time of year there seems to be an epidemic of insomnia. it’s time to catch up on those zzz’s while immersing yourself in pampering and relaxation.

starting with a scalp and neck massage to gently remove those shoulders from your earlobes. using scented hot oils we soothe the nervous system and start transforming tension and stress into ooze.

moving down to the feet for some specific reflexology work designed to ground and nurture your endocrine and nervous system, slow down brainwaves and allow deep cellular healing and relaxation.

let those faeries work their magic on you and…

wake up a reviatlized super hero (with a tiara)

90 minutes $125 through February only $100

pics… finally!

here we go… i have no pictures of the space before the painting started as the camera got forgotten!

reflexology corner just painted

look it’s spicy plum! and the cute blue rocking chair i picked up for $10 at half price goodwill day!

the main room and hair nook

you can see most of the main room and the hair station in the bay window. the room is high drama red and the nook is very berry pink to match chivahn’s hair

looking toward massage room and kitchen

look at those florecent light monsters! they are all gone now! we were going to drap them and then we found out we have friends have amazing skills and so we pulled them all out! Memory you rock!

good by crappy lights!

you can see peeps in the kitchen and the poor massage room that got used as a dumping ground whilst we did the rest of the house. Chris comes today and claims his room so that will be brilliant!

reflexology and potions nook

here is my room almost all put together! more things keep getting arranged and art and mirrors need to be hung but other than that it is BEAUTIFUL!

tarot nook

the tarot nook in my room is so cozy and beautiful i can’t even describe it. the picture does a bit of an injustice as you notice the cords and don’t see the details…

trust me it feels so lovely in this room!

so my friends never loose hope! it took me 10 years of floundering and hard work to manifest the space i always longed for. but now i get to work here every day!

i hope you come to visit soon!

happy hour is every tuesday from 5-7pm… come visit and get short yummy sessions for small yummy prices!

open house is friday feb 19th 6-9pm come celebrate with us, take a tour and get raffle tickets to win a take over of helle for you and 5 friends. seriously this is an awesome prize and well worth the time to drive to georgetown!

don’t forget to register for the couples massage class! i was just typing it up last night and it is going to be yummy! contact me to register via email or phone! there are two class times valentines weekend! check out details on classes page!

we are in the new space!

but that’s for another post… sorry!

this post is all about barefoot running while i download the pictures of Helle and my room

i am a big advocate of being barefoot-hence the name barefoot phoenix. i pretty much think shoes are evil as you can see by many of my previous posts.

so it is very exciting for me to see research being done about how good it is for your body to do things like run barefoot. this video almost makes me want to take up running-which if you know me is spectacular as i have been know to state very forcefully and loudly that i only run if something is chasing me.

barefoot running on YouTube

in case you were wondering

no we still do not have keys to the new space *grumble*

yes i would really like to be in there painting *pouts*

no i am not finding patience and easy thing currently *stomps around a bit*

yes you can send over some please move the last remaining bit out cuz you don’t even live here anymore and amy wants to make the house pretty energy. *lights candle*

now for some fun announcements!

Helle Happy (2)Hour(s) Begins Feb 2nd! Try our fun short services for not a whole lot of cash… plus relax into the space, drink a cup of wine (or tea) and enjoy a few nibble. see menu here at the bottom!

(we may also give you a paint brush the first week, ok not really)

my birthday is on saturday and i am trying to figure out how to make it special without investing very much money into it. i am having difficulties so any and all suggestions are encouraged in the comments!

couples massage

The Perfect Valentine’s Day gift!

Learn how to give an amazing massage without harming or stressing out your own body! We will learn techniques drawn from Thai massage, Swedish, Indian head massage and more.

We will learn all techniques clothed so dress in layers and bring pillows and blankets to lay on.

2 offerings of this class:

Saturday February 13th 5-6:30 pm- be sure to enjoy dinner after in Georgetown

Sunday February 14th 1-2:30pm

Cost: $45 single or $80 couple

Where: Helle’s new home (whose address is escaping me at the moment)

Contact Amy to register!

don’t have a partner? mine is out of town , so if other singles aren’t there you can work with me bring your friend, or your mother, brother, sister, neighbor…

This will be certifiably YUM! so don’t miss out!

doing the scary

so i have a new group that i am in and it’s big! and exciting! and i have found myself leaping into the scary… straddling that tree

and i am amazed and in awe and i’m a bit worried i am going to explode or implode.

there is a big forum, there are amazing people sharing the hurt, the stuck, the yays! and helping support and cheerlead the other amazing people and i am so inspired!

my timid mouse self is so very present and yet there she goes commenting again, or nosing around. who is this person sitting at this computer? i almost don’t recognize me.

anyways i had to share as i think big things are in store in a way i cannot put into any words, shape, image, form, color, or sound.

big ideas! big new fun! here we go!

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