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07/25/2025
Oh Venus day, how I love thee…let me count the ways. 🙏🏻
On Fridays if you’ve visited me you’ve probably noticed my little shelf in the corner of the treatment room is lit up and decorated with a fresh rose 🌹, water and other trinkets.
Every day of the week is ruled by a specific planet (and there are hours for every planet every day of the week) and I specifically work with Venus energy any time I’m working on things for the business.
At home I work with Vesta, she sits 2 degrees my ascendant and quite literally was with me the moment I was born.
It kind of makes me giggle how one is the goddess of love and beauty and the other is quite literally virginal. It’s probably my Gemini rising. 😂 Anywho…Vesta is a story for another day if you’d like me to talk about her let me know. 😉
Venus is the goddess of love, money, beauty and wellness. On her altar are fresh roses, a comb 🪮, honey 🍯 from , a bee 🐝 (Venus rules honey and bees and if you know me I love bumbles 🥹) shells and a dish to make her offerings for blessings.
If you’ve studied ancestral veneration, anything that is used in that altar is for the dead exclusively.
The difference is…Venus is a living and loving energy and I invite clients to bring their favorite earrings on Fridays to place on the altar during treatment and to make her an offering of chocolate or something sweet. When you wear the earrings, you’re literally embodying the spirit of Venus. ♥️🙏🏻✨
07/24/2025
Happy New 🌚 Moon in Leo. 🦁 🔥 ✨
How do I celebrate the new moon? New moons are for setting intentions and planting new seeds for the next 6 months. Leo is a fire sign and when I’m honoring the new moon I think about the element that corresponds so tonight I’ll be lighting a red (red for my hearts desires) candle (if it was a water sign new moon I’d take a bath or make moon water) pulling tarot for guidance and writing out my hearts desires. 🕯️ I’m a Gemini rising so I write out everything 😂
Leo medicine is theatrical and not-afraid-to-take-up-space energy so I want you to think BIG. 🙌🏻
How do you plan to celebrate the new moon?
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07/23/2025
I just completed an incredible training with and wanted to share my experience. 🤲🏻 🌸✨
Connie is charming, magnetic and an absolute wealth of knowledge in Holistic therapies. I particularly enjoyed her facial sculpting and facial reflexology sequence that also dives deep into her unique perspective of Celtic wisdom.
I learned so many new and beautiful techniques to add into my sessions. 🙏🏻 Her deep admiration and appreciation by weaving elements of Grandmother ocean into her offerings through Oracle, massage techniques, sound healing and energy work also spoke to me as I’m a Lomi Lomi practitioner.
Thank you Connie for putting together a beautiful and unique holistic training that was both informative and an enjoyable learning experience. I can not wait to see what other beautiful offerings you put out into the world in the future so I can continue to train with you. 🫶🏻
If you’re a Licensed Esthetician or Massage Therapist seeking Holistic facial massage training I can not recommend her online course enough.
Please give the a follow and her link to her training is in my linktree in my bio. ♥️
07/22/2025
Update: Annnnnddd we have a phone number.
I’ve also filed a police report, I’ll keep ya’ll updated as I can. Thank you for your kind comments and support, it means a lot to me. I’m pretty sure she never thought I’d post her voicemail publicly (I have nothing to be ashamed of) or call the police and file a report. I want others to know this behavior is not acceptable, you are never anonymous, the internet is forever and I will call the police.
If you are bullied by someone, tell the authorities. Let others know so they’re aware of the situation. Threatening someone by insinuating you’re going to do harm to them is illegal. She did it with a blocked phone number but she never thought she’d get caught.
I hope if you’re being bullied or find yourself in a similar situation that by me sharing my experience it helps you to be brave enough to stand up for yourself. 🙏🏻
I’d tag you but you blocked me and left a voicemail anonymously. 😂 Just know nothing is really anonymous and since you want to threaten people please know I have cameras everywhere. 😉
07/21/2025
Dear Dirty Deleter 😉
Oh how I hope this shows up in your newsfeed. 🙏🏻 I saw your comment before you 🐓 💩ed out and deleted what you wrote about “her feet look dirty” on a video I posted yesterday of my work.
Babe, you picked the wrong page. 🤗 See I don’t normally have time for people like you but I’m off today and I’m going to take a moment to give you the attention you were screaming for. 💋
I receive regular pedicures…I probably spend about $2000 annually on professional pedicures actually.💰 Also, I sanitize my feet before and after every single session, my polish is dark in the video but I like that color sooo 🤷🏼♀️ and the soles of my feet from delivering massage do change color from the friction of my sole against my clients skin. 👌🏻
I’m going to say this because some of you keyboard warriors don’t know it but every single time you comment, share or like a content creators post it boosts the algorithm so more people see my content so actually your goal of attempting to knock me down a peg does the opposite. 😃 And be SO sure if you say something rude I’m going to respond.
I will screen shot you, tag you and post you so can receive full credit for your commentary. 😘
Have the life you deserve. ✌🏻
07/21/2025
I posted a video yesterday of me working and it’s blown up on TikTok, Instagram & Facebook (I can’t believe I’m actually getting traction on Facebook! That never happens 😆🙌🏻)
I watch myself in videos and I think to myself, gurrrl you’re a mess. 😫 I need to fix this, this and this. 📝 Maybe you shouldn’t have posted that, it’s not your best work. 🫣
Let me say this…self doubt is a thief of dreams, ya’ll. Stop doubting yourself and your abilities. 🫶🏻
My point in writing this post is I’ve gotten a ton of supportive comments, follows, shares and my website is booming because I posted a video I recorded the other day ago where I was tired, beet red and what I felt at the time I posted was not my best work but decent and posted it anyway. (Content creation can get exhausting and in order to stay in front of people, you gotta post regularly 😉 so I posted it.)
Post the content ya’ll, if you’re waiting for perfection…you may never capture it and no one will get to see your work. 👣♥️✨
07/18/2025
Plant Spirit 🌿✨: Your session begins with a mini intuitive reading, Tarot is centuries old and can help you gain clarity and offers divine wisdom from the universe.
Followed by an Ayurvedic dry brushing ritual that will stimulate & encourage movement in your body’s lymph system to create an overall full body glow. Tibetan singing bowls are placed on specific points on the body and the vibration of OHM known as the sound divinity & the universe, fills the space around you.
A warm oil made of Olive, Almond, Sunflower & Avocado with notes of Douglas Fir, Black Spruce, Orange Blossom & Rose and infused with Gem Essences Rose Quartz & Herkimer Diamond is brushed lightly onto the skin followed by a spa relaxation massage with light to medium pressure that is tailored to your specific needs. Warm, herbal infused compresses are applied to your back, feet and neck.
Aroma’s of Frangipani, Palo Santo & Sandalwood swirl around you to support the Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Throat, Third Eye and Crown Chakra’s, a gentle lymphatic brush massages your facial tissue to help encourage lymph flow. A deep oil cleansing and a heart mixed apothecary style mask are applied to the face and neck followed by warm herbal infused compresses.
Your ritual concludes with Laurel Whole Plant Organic’s signature grounding scalp massage with warm aromatic Rosemary, Black Cumin & Turmeric oil to stimulate lymphatic & circulatory movement and to promote a vibrant scalp and hair health.
07/08/2025
I’ll be in one of my most beloved little towns from 7/12-7/15 on our belated 18th wedding anniversary trip. (It was May 14th 😃 but I had trainings to attend) 🙏🏻
I’m planning on eating all the lobster 🦞 rolls, chow-dah, drinking all the Sam Adam’s, having my aura picture 📸 taken for the millionth time 😂, making brooms 🧹,visiting the botanical gardens 🌸 buying all the candles 🕯️ and crystals 💎 and doing all the witchy 🔮✨ things.
If you’re a client and you reach out, I’ll return your phone call/email upon my return to the studio on 7/16.
If you’d like to follow along on my journey, stay tuned to my stories. ✨
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I've always been a free-spirited flower child, born in the wrong era my mom says. As a child, I loved making floral crowns for all the other girls in the neighborhood, spending hours laying in the front yard gazing at the clouds floating by, searching for 4 leaf clovers, and always on the look out for all things magic in my Gramma's garden.
Fast forward to my early twenties and I was struggling to find my path. I worked in retail and was a bartender for several years and while it provided me much needed personal growth, I found it wasn't fulfilling my need to really connect with people. I knew I wanted to go back to school but was wise enough to know traditional college wasn't for me. Growing up, I enjoyed giving my mom massages when she came home from working long hours (As single mothers usually do) and with her gentle push to explore a local Massage school, I quickly became fascinated with studying mind, body and spirit connections.
I graduated from Career Training Solutions in 2004, returned to school to earn my Associates in Massage Therapy from Heritage Institute in 2007 and graduated in 2008. I'm a Board Certified Massage Therapist with the NCBTMB and am also a Licensed Massage Therapist with the Virginia Board of Nursing. I've worked in a variety of settings from Medical Massage Clinics, Wellness Centers, Day Spas and High end Hair & Make-Up Studios. In recent years I've also worked with several popular artists, my most noted work has been with the "The What Makes You Country" and "Kill The Lights" tours. I've furthered my education by studying FasciAshi with the Center for Barefoot Massage, Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy (Later re-named DeepFeet Bar Therapy) Basics & Advanced Master Techniques, Ashi-Thai, Sarga Bodywork, Gua Sha Face Lift, Thai Herbal Poultice Facial Techniques, LWPO Lymphatic Drainage, Fijian, Bamboo Fusion, Lomi-Lomi, Abyhanga, Swedana, Garshana, Shirodhara, Champissage, Naysa, Ayurvedic Hot & Cold Stone Therapy, Reiki, Reflexology, Body Treatments, and Prenatal. My passion is ancient Massage, Beauty and Body rituals and I'm consistently searching for techniques to study and add to my practice.
After my husband and I welcomed our son in June of 2015, and because I've always had an interest in skincare passed down to me by my Grandmother (She says there's 3 things a girl should spend her money on cute shoes, linens and skincare) I decided I wanted to further my education by exploring Aesthetics. I graduated from Clarity Beauty Academy in 2016 and am a Licensed Esthetician through the Virginia Board of Cosmetology. I’ve also completed a course in Master Esthetics. I knew right away from my studies in Massage and passion for Ayurveda, I wanted to focus on the philosophy behind Slow Beauty by sharing the practice of daily self-care rituals with Whole Plant Based Products (Enter Laurel Whole Plant Organics) with my clients. Aesthetics has brought a unique balance between the muscles and skin to my practice and has opened doors to explore other healing techniques such as Crystal Healing and Plant Medicine into my personal life and studies.
When I'm not in the studio creating customized beauty and wellness rituals for my clients, I enjoy spending time with my husband, son and family. I can often be found in the kitchen dancing barefoot and dabbling in Italian cuisine, and my bedside table is always littered with a stack of books and crystals.
Kristy Poux at The Silk Mill Retreat
Certified Massage Therapist & Licensed Esthetician
