Journey to Harmony

Journey to Harmony Massothérapeute agréé ~ Intuitive Massage ~ Sound Balancing ~ Myofasciaal Release I have been offering massage in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 2013.

Our bodies are extremely fascinating and can do a lot for us when we maintain balance. I wish to be a part of your path to wellness, restoring your body to its most optimal state. I believe in a holistic approach to address the underlying causes to your current concerns. My goal is to work with you, bringing more self-awareness to your daily life, to enhance body functionality, injury prevention a

nd most importantly, long-term vitality. I am able to work with a range of pressure; however I specialize in myofascial release, deep tissue massage, face/scalp treatment, prenatal massage, chronic pain and patterns, joint and muscle restrictions (reduced range of motion or shortened/tight muscles) to restore optimal and pain-free body movement. My journey through the path of bodywork and the healing arts has become less tangible, yet, having a more profound impact. All paths to be of greater service have led to sound, vibration and energy…after all, we are pure energy. And so, I have started to incorporate sound healing into my massage practice. Massage Session (60 or 90min) + a complimentary 15-20min ‘tune up’ which is the beginning sequence of the longer Biofield session, or a spinal walk with the weighted forks or Biofield back treatment. The Tune-Up is complimentary and a great way to explore an introduction to sound balancing and sound medicine. It can bring more coherence and harmony to your body and life force. See Sound Balancing on my website for more information on Biofield Tuning and vibrational healing.

$80 for 60mins (approx 75min with the tuning)*

$120 for 90mins (approx 105mins with tuning)*

* adding the Tune-Up is optional. You can book just a massage without the tuning if you prefer. Please book accordingly. Important: Currently, I am only accepting cash/EMT and not able to provide a receipt for insurance. I look forward to connecting and being a part of your path to harmony and wellness.

~ Valentina Vera, Keeper of Frequency ~

Céline nailed it. Her face says it all. That conviction to wear the shoe. Who can relate?🙋🏾‍♀️I love my feet AND I also ...
05/06/2025

Céline nailed it. Her face says it all. That conviction to wear the shoe. Who can relate?🙋🏾‍♀️I love my feet AND I also love dancing!

Being stylish is just one reason why we might sacrifice our foot wellness. However, there are ways in which we can still care for our feet, even when we might have to wear tight shoes for dance, work, play.

I invite you to take a couple hours to join me on this journey to connect deeper to your feet ~ these precious vehicles for doing what we love! Walking, dancing! Moving! They carry us as we walk through the world…they hold our weight against gravity…they are with us since we were in our mothers’ wombs.

Participants will learn:
🦶🏼basic foot and ankle anatomy (I promise it will be fun & exciting!)
🦶🏼Foot-awareness exercises
🦶🏼What to do in an emergency (spasms, rolled ankle, swelling) & who to seek for help!
🦶🏼How to care for our feet daily and especially as dance students
🦶🏼Explore some different tools we can resource for better maintenance of foot health
🦶🏼Self-massage

❗️Please note: this workshop is not meant to be a diagnostic space. We will be exploring our own unique feet and creating a self-awareness of our feet. If you have any foot conditions, including past surgeries or injuries, please indicate in the form when you register. I can give guidance of what steps you can take, but with this being a group session, I will not be providing individual assessments.

📋Registered participants will receive all tools and information.

Energy exchange (includes all materials/toe spacers will be an additional $4):
$40+HST: $45.99 (workshop)
$44+HST: $50.59 (workshop + toe spacers)

Limited to 15 participants

To register: please see link above

This workshop will be facilitated in English; Spanish and French will also be available. All document materials will be delivered in English.

Side note on Céline’s clip - the entire film was very powerful. This particular clip caught my attention and smile because she speaks truth haha! It’s nice to share the reality of such an iconic diva confirm with dry humour, that yes, sometimes we do put ourselves in uncomfortable situations to do what we love.

Chronic back pain? Chronic fatigue? Weak metabolism or digestive imbalances? Tight hips? Do you sit a lot (office work, ...
05/06/2025

Chronic back pain? Chronic fatigue? Weak metabolism or digestive imbalances? Tight hips? Do you sit a lot (office work, driving, aesthetician)?

Have you considered an abdominal massage?

Many clients come with an intention to relieve back pain, especially lower back or hip pain but might be hesitant to receive touch or approaching their issues by treating the abdomen.

Why abdominal massage? There are numerous benefits.

From an Ayurvedic lens, of which I am most influenced, abdominal massage:

👐🏾 promotes overall well-being by balancing fire (Agni) and harmonizing the body systems
👐🏾 restores balance by relieving congestion in the abdominal-pelvic region
👐🏾 improves digestion by stimulating enzymatic functions and peristalsis
👐🏾 eliminates toxins and promotes detoxification
👐🏾 provides relief from constipation, decreases bloating
👐🏾 overall the gut can operate more efficiently, fulfilling its function
👐🏾 managing dysmenorrhea & regulating menstruation

Through mindful touch, and breathe awareness during an abdominal massage, a lot of chronic tension and long held trauma can find a way to be liberated.

Specific application of massage and fascial techniques can help to reduce the adhesions from poor posture and open up the space, inspiring greater mobility of the tissues and spaces between organs so they can function more optimally and encourage a better quality of breathing.

If you would like to explore this unique and effective approach to your wellness and addressing your chronic issues, I invite you to book an abdominal massage. I weave techniques and approaches from my various paths of study: Ayurveda, Swedish and Thai massage, myofascial release, reflexology & herbalism.

You can book online through my bio where it is listed under Specialized Therapies.

Thanks for your trust in my work.

Full details on my website under Abdominal Massage.

Time for a Spring Tune Up? How are you feeling coming out of winter hibernation? Or after the last five months of planet...
04/09/2025

Time for a Spring Tune Up? How are you feeling coming out of winter hibernation? Or after the last five months of planetary retrogrades and the recent eclipse season?😮‍💨 There is a lot of ⚡️energetic⚡️noise around us.

We are living symphonies. What can do we do when we are “out of tune”?

“Through the introduction of the coherent sound input of the tuning fork, chaotic waveforms come to a more harmonious expression.” Electric Body, Electric Health. Eileen Day McKusick, pg. 20, 2020.

If you’d like to explore this modality to bring more coherence and harmony to your body and boost life force, I offer complimentary tune-ups as part of a massage session.

🤗 book online through bio

Here for you during this seasonal transition!🌀🍂As the air and sunlight are changing, I hope you are doing well through t...
10/16/2024

Here for you during this seasonal transition!🌀

🍂As the air and sunlight are changing, I hope you are doing well through this transition into Autumn.

𝐀 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓. ✨I will be away until January 15, 2025.✨Please look ahead to book.

👐🏾I am in my office:
Sundays 10h00 - 17h00
Tuesdays 09h00 - 19h00
Wednesdays 10h00 - 17h00

👐🏾Seasonal transitions and the end of year can bring different stressors and I would love to support you through these times. Also, if you need to use up your insurance amounts, please note my last date of work for this year.

🙏🏾As always, I deeply appreciate all your referrals and support to my growing massage practice! If you haven’t come to visit me at the location in front of Parc LaFontaine, I hope I do see you before the end of the year!

If you’ve enjoyed your sessions with me and received some benefit, I’d appreciate if you can leave me a Google Review as it helps illuminate my work, 11 years of education & experience in this very big city. Post a review through Google: Audrey Barber, Massothérapeute agréé

Book a massage appointment: journeytoharmony.ca

Wishing you warmth and wellness during the beginning of this cold season,
Audrey 👐🏾✨

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✨Prenatal Massage✨ One of my absolute favourite offerings…massage for mothers! If you didn’t know, I specialize in pre a...
05/13/2024

✨Prenatal Massage✨ One of my absolute favourite offerings…massage for mothers!

If you didn’t know, I specialize in pre and post-natal massage! So if you are pregnant or know a mama who is, please know I have a lot of experience working with mamas and it brings me a lot of J O Y!

Pregnancy is a deeply transformative journey for a woman emotionally, spiritually, mentally and of course, physically.

Pre-natal massage is beneficial in all trimesters as the mama’s body shifts and transforms as she grows her baby. Each trimester has its unique beauty and challenges of which I consider deeply, and of course the unique experience of the mother’s health and needs at each stage.

Post-partum care is extremely important for mamas. And post-partum isn’t just the days and months following a birth, it is every single moment after the birth! So yes, all the years after a baby is born. I’ll share more on this soon!

Here I’ve mentioned the physical needs, but of course, there is the whole layer of emotional and psychological stressors that our mamas are *constantly* processing! Constantly! So, a massage is great and helpful at any stage of pregnancy or postpartum.

✨We need to continue to prioritize our mamas’ care! When mamas are thriving, our children and our communities thrive!✨

👐🏾If you know a mama or mama-to-be and would like to support her, I also offer gift certificates and packages.

Also, if you’ve recently had a baby, you are always welcome to bring your baby to your appointments and I can adjust the positioning so you can still receive the care you need during that special time, without having to part from your baby and still honour the baby’s needs.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I’m located in the Montréal Plateau, around the corner from Sherbrooke Metro.

Blessings during this fertile season…when we celebrate our mothers and our Earth Mother - Blessed Gaia.

📷 .ina 🙏🏾

🌱Spring 2024 UPDATE: As the world is shifting rapidly…so are the costs associated with running a small business (which I...
04/14/2024

🌱Spring 2024 UPDATE: As the world is shifting rapidly…so are the costs associated with running a small business (which I’m sure many of you already feel and understand).

Given my distinct education and experience, compared to the minimal requirements to offer massage therapy in Quebec, I feel it’s necessary to raise my rates. My service fees reflect my 2200hrs education, 10+ years of experience & additional courses, operating costs & the rising costs of living.

As of May 1, 2024, these will be my rates:

45mins $88

60mins $111

90mins $155*

120mins $222

*I’ve needed to adjust my 90mins fee for some time now, so I understand it’s a jump, but feels more realistic.

If you book future appointments before May 1, 2024, I will honour my current rates – however, if you cancel or reschedule your appointment, the new rates will apply. I’ve made my schedule for now until June and will remain similar hours over the summer. If I need to reschedule an appointment, then I will still honour the rate.

However, to support your wellness journey, I’ve decided to offer packages! This way you can save a bit and gift yourself the consistency in wellness that is a necessary element for overall well-being.

To purchase a package, simply send an e-transfer with the amount. It will be documented. Your receipt of the package is your email from your bank of the “Sent E-transfer”

º An insurance receipt will be provided for each massage after you attend the session.

º Packages can only be used for you.

º Ideally used up by the end of this year.

I look forward to connecting and being a part of your path to harmony and wellness. ✨

😌Feeling inspired and rejuvenated as a bodyworker! ✨ It was a beautiful day learning aquatic bodywork in a saltwater poo...
08/10/2023

😌Feeling inspired and rejuvenated as a bodyworker! ✨ It was a beautiful day learning aquatic bodywork in a saltwater pool and surrounded by my awesome colleagues from Community Healing Days!

💧This experience was deeply enriching to my own relationship with water and how my body responds to water…that’s not in a tub or lake or ocean or float tank…or streaming down from the shower.

💧To float in a safe container and surrender deeply and listen and allow the body to use its own wisdom to reveal and unwind the chronic patterns, the stuck energy…the stuff that we don’t see when we stand up or lie down for an assessment…

🌀It’s fun to play with the absence of gravity and see what is revealed.

💧✨Water holds such deep, ancient wisdom. Codes of high frequency for healing! Stay tuned for more updates as I explore this new path of bodywork! I am ecstatic to offer sound healing as part of my massage practice, but to eventually incorporate water therapy in some form, is what I truly envision.

✨Sound is light is frequency.
💧Water is light is vibration.
✨Same energy…different words based on which frequency is being expressed.

When we work with the body, both it’s physical and non-physical elements, we are actually facilitating its own healing through the movement of energy…through cellular wisdom and fluid patterns/the body’s natural rhythms.

👐🏾Dedicated to YOU!👐🏾It’s been an honour to be of service to my Halifax, and now Montréal communities over these past te...
08/01/2023

👐🏾Dedicated to YOU!👐🏾

It’s been an honour to be of service to my Halifax, and now Montréal communities over these past ten years. I am so grateful for all of the people that have crossed my practice in these last 10 years. I feel deeply blessed to connect with clients of all streams of life and who are committed to their own journey of wellness and harmony. And I am thankful to my peers, colleagues and teachers who continue to nourish this path with inspiring me to grow and serve.

I am grateful to be here and now, because many of my life’s greatest epiphanies and inspirations have come through during many of my treatments - either as divine messages or huge downloads showing me the potentials of my path. Aside from the joy of working with clients and witnessing your healing, these bursts of inspiration are what have kept my devotion to grow as a human and therapist.

Thank you for trusting in me - to come to me for your wellness and care. Thanks for feeling safe enough to share your inner truths, your hard moments of grief, loss, or transition. Thanks for sharing my name amongst your circles and for coming back when you needed support.

✨As this calling to serve continues, I am humbled to step further into the realm of vibrational medicine (sound healing, sound balancing) and energy…after all…we are pure light.✨

In deep gratitude and honour to continue to serve you,

Valentina (Audrey)
~ Keeper of Frequency ~

🙏🏾🤗In celebration of this anniversary and gratitude to you, I’d like to offer $10 off all massage sessions and gift certificates until August 31, 2023.

👐🏾In addition, for every massage appointment, I will donate a portion to When the Village Meditates, a Montréal-based community organization that supports marginalized peoples in their inner journey towards wellness and healing.

Book Online ~ Link in bio or check out my website for more information

• Massage Practice Update • ✨Hello dear souls, thanks for your patience over the last few months as I made a transition ...
11/10/2022

• Massage Practice Update •

✨Hello dear souls, thanks for your patience over the last few months as I made a transition from Nova Scotia to la belle province, Québec!

Although I am still settling and riding the waves of transition, seasonal change and life upgrades, I am blessed and grateful to Life for steering me in this direction.

✨I am excited to share that I am restarting my massage therapy practice here in Montréal!

After seeking out a space that feels like sanctuary, I am pleased to share announce that I will be offering my services from Centre Tranquillitas on rue Ontario est.

I appreciate your continued support to share within your circles that I am offering services here.

Link in Bio to book online!

My starting availability is:

Fridays 1300h - 1930h (flexible)
Sundays 1000h - 1630h (flexible)

I will continue to add more availability as I grow my practice here.

I *am* able to provide receipts for insurance purposes in here in QC.

Please check out my website for more information on my offerings and bio. I look forward to organizing sound baths and women’s circles.

In deep gratitude for your continued support as I walk this path of devotion to healing & serving my community.

Blessings,

Valentina (Audrey)

• Saturday Appointments • as I’ll be away for several days in September during my regular hours, I’ve opened up two Satu...
09/01/2022

• Saturday Appointments • as I’ll be away for several days in September during my regular hours, I’ve opened up two Saturdays to serve you.

10am - 4pm (flexible)
I’m open to your schedule requests during this time frame.

*Please DM or email me at journeytoharmony@protonmail.com to book as these two days are not available on my online schedule.*

As September is filling up and I am preparing to move to Montréal, I invite you to book in if you can. Please contact me if you have any scheduling request or issues booking and I’ll do my best to get you in!

I’ll likely be hopping between Halifax and Montréal until the end of the year, so if I do have any dates, it will be posted here or if you’re on my email list you’ll be notified. If you’re not on my Email list be would like to be, please DM or Email me :)

Thank you!
~ Valentina

Dedicated to YOU! ~ I am so grateful for all of the people that have crossed my practice in these last 9 years. I feel d...
08/18/2022

Dedicated to YOU! ~ I am so grateful for all of the people that have crossed my practice in these last 9 years. I feel deeply blessed to connect with clients of all streams of life and who are committed to their own journey of wellness and harmony. And I am thankful to my peers, colleagues and teachers who continue to nourish this path with inspiring me to grow and serve. 

I am grateful to be here and now, because many of my life’s greatest epiphanies and inspirations have come through during many of my treatments - either as divine messages or huge downloads showing me the potentials of my path. It often comes like a huge bolt of energy that fires up my whole being and excites me to continue exploring this path of healing. I think it’s because when I’m “in the zone”…it really is like a meditation…and this is where the magic happens for a client receiving, and for me, in that state of calm to receive these messages too. Aside from the joy of working with clients and witnessing your healing, these bursts of inspiration are what have kept my drive to grow as a human and therapist. These are and were the moments that feed my soul to be of greater service to the collective.

The various conditions and scenarios that I’ve encountered have given me the opportunity to be creative with my knowledge and skills, to address your issues in the most effective way possible. I know every therapist is different and we each have our own styles, but I thank you for coming and choosing me. I love and enjoy my approach….it feels like a dance. A dance of skill and awareness, a dance of movement and presence, and a dance with the tissues. 

Thank you for trusting in me - to come to me for your wellness and care. Thanks for feeling safe enough to share your inner truths, your hard moments of grief, loss, or transition. Thanks for sharing my name amongst your circles and for coming back when you need support. 

As this calling to serve continues, I am humbled to step further into the realm of vibrational medicine (sound healing, sound balancing) and energy…after all…we are pure light.

In deep gratitude and honour to continue to serve you,

Valentina (Audrey)
~ Keeper of Frequency ~

🎉As of August 8, 2022, I am able to offer receipts for Registered Massage Therapy, however, I am not direct billing to i...
08/10/2022

🎉As of August 8, 2022, I am able to offer receipts for Registered Massage Therapy, however, I am not direct billing to insurance. If you require a receipt, please book your session as Registered Massage Therapy accordingly.

To account for the rising costs of living, I have had to adjust my service fees. If you do not require a receipt, you may choose the uninsured option for a reduced rate. I believe massage and wellness services should be accessible to everyone. Your well-being is important to me and I hope to serve you with this reduced rate that still honours my services.

✨Also new: 45min massage sessions

✨Important Reminder: Currently, I am only accepting cash/EMT and able to provide a receipt for insurance but not direct billing.

I look forward to connecting and being a part of your path to harmony and wellness.😌

Please contact me directly if you have any questions.

Book online: link in bio or at
journeytoharmony.blog

Thanks for your continued support!
Valentina (Audrey)😌

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1030 Rue Cherrier, Suite 401
Montreal, QC
H2L1H9

Opening Hours

Friday 1pm - 7:30pm
Sunday 10am - 4:30pm

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