Maria Fiordalisi, Helianthus Holistic Arts

03/24/2026

✨✨Spring Awakening: Aromatherapy for Seasonal Renewal✨✨🌷🌷

An experiential and scent making workshop
The earth is stirring. Buds push through last season’s debris. Light returns in longer arcs across the sky. Spring asks us to clear what we’ve been holding, to make room for what wants to emerge.
Join clinical aromatherapist, Maria Fiordalisi, on April 11th for a 90-minute journey into the intelligence of aromatic plants and the energetics of spring. We’ll explore how essential oils support the body’s natural inclination toward renewal - clearing stagnation, supporting detoxification pathways, and anchoring rising creative energy.
You’ll learn experience a guided sensory exploration of essential oils selected for Spring, and create your own custom blend to carry the season’s medicine with you.
Walk away with a 10ml personal aromatherapy roll-on, educational resources, and practices for weaving scent into your daily routines.

🌷When: Saturday, April 11th, 10:00am-11:30am
🌷Where: The Sole Point Reflexology & Meditation - 1020 Johnsons Ln Unit A1, Mississauga, ON L5J 2P7
🌷Investment: $84.75 (HST included)
Limited to 12 participants
To register email Connect@thesolepoint.ca

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03/23/2026

Join me on ….
Essays, rituals, and reflections for sensory living and seasonal rhythm. I’m Maria — educator, holistic wellness practitioner, reflexology therapist, clinical aromatherapist, barefoot wanderer, and student of Ayurveda.
Link in bio to join.

03/16/2026

03/08/2026

Happy International Women’s Day! 🙌🏻

Shoutout to the incredible women who make my world brighter. The friends who check in, the business owners who do their work with heart, and the humans who remind me what showing up with purpose really looks like.

I appreciate you. For your friendship. For your support. For the fire you bring to everything you do. You are the reason women’s spaces feel like home.

03/06/2026

AROMATHERAPY + AROMA MASSAGE

Aromatherapy, also referred to as Essential Oil therapy, can be defined as “the art and science of using essential oils which are aromatic extracts from plants, to balance, harmonize and promote the health of the body, mind and spirit”. Discover how aromatherapy, essential oils and custom blends formulated specifically for you can help support your physical, mental and emotional health. The consultation is designed to gather information and health history and includes one custom product. This can be done virtual or in-person.
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AROMA MASSAGE
An aromatherapy massage includes a massage to the body and includes the face and scalp. The therapeutic properties of the essential oils used relax and balance your body and mind.

On a scale of 1-10 how badly are you in need of a massage or some self care?!👇🏻👇🏻

03/05/2026

Happy International Book Day! 📚📖
What’s everyone reading?👇🏻👇🏻
Let’s create a list of book recommendations together for Spring.🌷

03/03/2026

How’s everyone feeling with this blood full moon?! 🌑🩸👇🏻👇🏻
Do you do moon rituals at all?!👇🏻

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📸: Pinterest

03/02/2026

There is a particular kind of tired that sleep doesn’t fix.

It arrives quietly, the way seasons change here in late winter — not all at once, but in accumulation. One grey morning folding into the next. The light still thin. The ground still hard. And somewhere in the body, a slow leaking that you don’t notice until you reach for something — enthusiasm, presence, the simple pleasure of a deep breath — and find the well lower than you expected.

I noticed it in the last few weeks, in the middle of a stretch of days that were full in every measurable sense. Meetings, deadlines, decisions, the particular cognitive weight of compliance work that asks you to hold many threads simultaneously without dropping any. The kind of busy that looks productive from the outside and feels like static from the inside. I wasn’t unwell. I was just drained. And the word, when it finally landed, felt precise in a way that stressed or tired never quite does. Not empty. Not broken. Just slowly, steadily losing something I hadn’t been replenishing.

I found a word (thank you Google) for what fills the hours around that kind of depletion: brain rot. It’s an ugly phrase and I think that’s intentional. I think we need something that capture the texture of the thing, the way forty-five minutes of scrolling leaves you feeling simultaneously overfull and hollow. We consume information the way we sometimes eat when we’re not actually hungry. Compulsively. Reaching for something we can’t name. And the body, which is always more honest than the mind, registers it as what it actually is: noise. Chronic, unrelenting noise that the nervous system was never designed to metabolize.…. To read more join my link in bio.

How have you been feeling lately?!👇🏻👇🏻







📸: Steven Kamenar

03/02/2026

Burnout develops over time when prolonged stress overwhelms the body’s ability to recover. It can affect energy levels, concentration, sleep, emotional resilience, and the nervous system’s capacity to switch out of a constant state of alertness.

Reflexology is a complementary therapy that may support burnout recovery by encouraging deep relaxation and helping to regulate the nervous system. When the body is given regular opportunities to move into a rest-and-restore state, it can begin to rebuild its capacity for rest, energy, and emotional processing.

Reflexology may also help improve body awareness, supporting individuals in recognising early signs of fatigue or overwhelm. This awareness can be an important part of recovery, helping people respond more gently to their limits rather than pushing through exhaustion.

While reflexology does not replace medical or psychological care, it can be used alongside appropriate support as part of a gradual, holistic approach to recovery. By working with the body rather than forcing change, reflexology may help support resilience and a more sustainable return to balance over time.



💜 The Irish Reflexologists’ Institute (IRI) is the professional body for reflexology in Ireland, supporting reflexologists through education, professional standards, continued learning, and a connected practitioner community. 💜