Insula Yoga

05/01/2026

Scorpio Full Moon Community Acupuncture
Saturday, 5/2, at 4:30 & 6
Register via Maven Alchemy or text 512-934-1917

🦂🌝 The Moon is in Scorpio & making its way to peak fullness today at 10:22am on Bealtaine, marking the mid-point between the Spring Equinox & Summer Solstice. It's peak Spring energy & an opportunity to release what's holding you back from blossoming & growing.

There's an intensity in the air. Pluto (the God of the Underworld) is one of Scorpio's rulers & helps us surrender to the process of transformation. It's in Aquarius right now & creating a hard angle with this Full Moon.

It will help us go deep into all the muck of what we've been avoiding or deep within our subconscious to unearth what we don't know is there, return it to the Earth to compost, & bring nourishment to what's next in your life to grow. With Pluto's help, we can journey into our underworld & take the dark stuff of our life and learn to surrender & transform it into empowerment & wisdom.

The Scorpio Full Moon brings the Metal element of Autumn & its themes of surrender & letting go into Spring. As we tend to our gardens now, we have to get everything tidied up for optimal growth to occur. If we don't intentionally remove what's no longer needed, there isn't space for the new growth & our vision can be impacted.

I was reminded of this in my own garden. Several of our beautiful lilacs only produced a few blossoms this year because we didn't prune the dead blossoms from last year.

We can't fully bloom into our majestic nature if we're full of old stuff we no longer need.

The Full Moon acupuncture pattern connects deeply with Spring's Wood energy & the depths of Scorpio's Water element & surrendering. It inspires you to...

🌸 Connect with your element & nature. Have confidence to leave behind what's no longer needed & put your goals into action

🌸 Shed old wood & allow your true vision to emerge

🌸 Gain perspective from above to see your way home & put your dreams into action

🌸 Grow filled with order, purpose, harmony, & balance

🌸 Feel calm, stability from Mother Earth & receive ancestral insight, vision, & protection.

🌝 Full Moon Cycle Community Acupuncture
🌸 Saturday 5/2, 4:30 & 6
$50
🔮 Link in bio to register/text 512-934-1917 to join
🏠 5570 S Harbor Ave Unit A, Freeland

04/01/2026

it’s Go Time ⏩ What fuels you? What needs to drop off? Tomorrow is April 1st and the Full Moon. Come contemplate and move at Insula Yoga in Freeland at 10am. 🌕 register at the link on the image 🔮 cozy studio, limited spaces

03/25/2026

Come support your nervous system with a Spring Cleaning Community Acupuncture session!

🌬️ How'd you enjoy the boisterous wind & sun today? It was wild.

My anxiety was kicked up for no apparent reason, which happens for me on super windy spring days. I seem to feel the wind even when I'm inside.

Today was different, though. The wind seemed to be calling me, so I bundled up and went down to Sunlight Beach. It was SO windy, but it seemed to be just what I needed. Whether it was being near the water that nourishes & grounds me or the wind blowing the anxiety right out of me, my soul was settled by the time I returned home.

Spring can bring wild seasonal symptoms. Like...

🌸 anxiety
🌸 vertigo or dizziness
🌸 allergies
🌸 fatigue, low energy, or exhaustion
🌸 neck stiffness or pain
🌸 headaches
🌸 irritability, frustration, or anger
🌸 waking up between 1-3am
🌸 headaches or migraines
🌸 uncertain about what's next
🌸 lack of vision for next steps

I created a Spring Cleaning pattern to support our body, mind, and soul during the seasonal changes but also during these challenging times. I'm offering it as Seasonal Community Acupuncture and Private Seasonal sessions.

✨ For the first time, I'll be accepting walk-in clients for these seasonal community sessions this month. I highly recommend scheduling in advance, but if you're in Freeland and feel like stopping by, please do.

🌱 Wednesday, March 25th, 12-1:30
🌱 Saturday, March 28th, 1-2

The points support all 5 elements with a focus on supporting the Liver & Gallbladder; Spring cleaning to clear out the rubbish to make space for balance, harmony, and new insights; and finding your own inner qualities of love & care.

Libra Full Moon Community Acupuncture next Wednesday, 4/1. Appointments available at 1:30, 6, & 7:30

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland

🔮 Text Vanessa at 512-934-1917 to schedule

03/18/2026

✨ 🐟 🌚 Join me tomorrow, Wednesday, 3/18, for the Pisces New Moon. 🐟 🌚 ✨

The Pisces Moon Cycle Acupuncture pattern will connect to Spring (the Wood element/Liver & Gallbladder) Becoming energy and give roots & growth to all of the depth from Pisces.

It will inspire...

☘️ Connecting with ancestral wisdom, unity, & oneness. Tranquility & calm allowing your own inner wisdom to emerge.
☘️ The warmth & love that you need to shine through, feel resourced, stable, & whole. Joyful sunlight filling the Heart with nourishment & love from above.
☘️ Establishing the roots of your Spirit to flourish & grow.
☘️ Stabilizing & grounding your vision. Security + nourishment = energy & confidence.
☘️ Letting go to become Who You Are...Spring cleaning creating space to become.
☘️ Your Earthen bowl being made whole again to feel love & care, opening to receive it all.
☘️ Your spirit receiving the dreams & vision you need. What needs to grow & develop?
☘️ Supports the Crown, 3rd Eye, Throat, Heart, and Root chakras and all 5 Elements.

Slow down. Listen. Feel. What is your intuition and dreams communicating?

We'll be using Roman Chamomile on several points. It's a great oil for Spring and Pisces. It helps calm the need to control. Our Heart is reassured that it can let go. The tight grasp relaxes, which calms the Liver and soothes the Heart. We can finally see a new direction, revealing the bigger picture and connection with the Universe.

This is a powerful time to pause and connect with who you're Becoming.

🌟 8 SPOTS open 🌟
🎱 Reservations Required 🎱
✨ 60-75 minute sessions at 1:30, 6, & 7:30 ✨
🌝 Moon Cycle Acupuncture sessions are $50
🌚 Zero gravity chairs with 1-3 other community members
🌝 Everyone receives the same pattern to work with Moon's energy
🌚 Wear loose, comfy clothes

🏠 Located at 5570 Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, next to the Hearing Aid Center.

🌝 🌚 Ongoing offering near each New & Full Moon 🌚 🌝
🌝 Libra Full Moon - Wednesday, 4/1
🌚 Aries New Moon - Wednesday, 4/15

Can't make it Wednesday? Book a private session Friday, Saturday, or Sunday or Community session Saturday.

🔮 Link in bio to book or text 512-934-1917

03/17/2026

💥 Join Emily for Power Flow Yoga 💥

✨️ Sundays 10-11:15am
✨️ March 22nd - May 17th

Power Flow Yoga blends strength, balance, and breath through a continuous flow of poses.

This energizing class builds stability and flexibility while helping you reconnect to your body and mind.

All experience levels are welcome. Variations and modifications are offered so you can move at the pace and intensity that feels right for you.

✨️ Space is limited, so pre-registration is required
✨️ Link in bio with more info to register
✨️ $20

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga at 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, in Freeland

Emily is a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

03/14/2026

Support for Spring 🌱🌸 - https://mailchi.mp/be73295e363e/spring-forward-17382781 Winter has returned...at least for a few days. Did you get snow where you are? I miss the Colorado snow, but happily gave it up for our more moderate weather here on Whidbey. I do love when we get a little taste here. Hopefully, our beautiful spring flowers will bounce back. It's an opportunity to look to their embodiment of resilience for inspiration navigating our own challenging times.

02/28/2026

✨ 🧹 🌝 There's an Virgo Full Moon next Tuesday, March 3rd, (at 3:37 am) that will align with the Sun to create a Total Lunar Eclipse. Virgo is an Earth sign, detail oriented, and loves creating order with a good purge and cleaning. It likes getting to the root of things and can cleanse all levels...physical, emotion, and mental. It's ruled by Mercury, which is currently retrograde (appearing to move backwards) in Pisces.
The Virgo Moon Cycle Acupuncture pattern will connect with all of that Earthiness and the Spring's Wood element energy to support the seasonal transition, helping you see what's next on this journey of returning to light and how to burst forth and become.

This pattern will inspire you to open your eyes to life’s sparkles, & sacredness and see your own inner beauty...

🧹 Spring clean stagnant energy & old ways to make way for you own vital insight & wisdom
🧹 Return to calm & balance within your body, mind, & spirit
🧹 Let go of what is no longer useful and BECOME who you are
🧹 Find your inner qualities of love & care
🧹 Trust what you see
🧹 With new & vital insight, step forward with courage to unite your inner nature & purpose.
🧹Supports all Chakras and all 5 Elements

The Moon Cycle Community Acupuncture sessions are this Saturday, February 28th, at noon, 4:30, and 6. Book here.

🌟 8 SPOTS open 🌟
🎱 Reservations Required 🎱
✨ 60 minute sessions at 12, 4:30, & 6 ✨
🌝 Moon Cycle Acupuncture sessions are $44
🌝 Zero gravity chairs with 1-3 other community members
🌝 Everyone receives the same pattern to work with Moon's energy
🌝 Wear loose, comfy clothes

🏠 Located at 5570 Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, next to the Hearing Aid Center.

🌝 🌚 Ongoing offering near each New & Full Moon 🌚 🌝
🌝 Virgo Full Moon - Saturday, 2/28, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌚 Pisces New Moon - Wednesday, 3/18, day time TBD; 6 & 7:30pm
🌝 Libra Full Moon - Wednesday, 4/1, day time TBD; 6 & 7:30pm

02/03/2026

Yoga With Lauren is continuing their Flow + Restore at Insula Yoga . It's a grounding, nervous system regulating class. Sometimes Lauren brings her guitar, and it becomes a Live music class ✨️🌈🦋

"There comes a time when the most important thing in life is for us to allow something older and wiser to catch up to us, as if the only way forward involves a step back - away from the competing disasters of the world and into the dusky realms of imagination, where things take new shape before entering the barrenness and glare of the daily world. Those living at a particular time are never simply the denizens of history or the pawns of time, they are also the only possible recipients of the messages of eternity trying to slip into the world and sustain the discourse of the eternal drama of life, death and rebirth. Before a meaningful future can be found, something ancient and enduring about the world must be rediscovered. The balance of the future depends on the presence of ancient things. By turning within and growing down, we find the original mind and old soul within us. The old mind is the poetic core that is naturally abundant with ideas and images, that which remains eternally threaded to the animistic, altruistic, ever-abundant source of life." - Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End

01/30/2026

Resourcing for the Leo Full Moon 🦁🌝 - https://mailchi.mp/82388cc996e8/resourcing-for-the-leo-full-moon How are you caring for yourself these days? This evening a quick drive down to Sunlight Beach after dark, blaring NIN Head Like a Hole was the intentional energy shift I needed. Metal cuts Wood and Water extinguishes Fire, after all. Have you noticed that certain music styles diffuse certain energetic moods, support mood shifts, or supports energetic focus? I discovered a whole new way to understand this during grad school studying TCM.

01/19/2026

✨🧘‍♀️ Rhythm through Nervous System Support... ✨🧘‍♀️

Our Nervous System is wired to protect us and keep us safe during high stress and traumatic times. These days our world seems to be filled with opportunities for our nervous system to feel like it's working overtime. If it's in a constant state of protection, how can you thrive and get out of that mode?

We're able to go with the flow, connect with purpose, and evolve more easily when we feel safe in our bodies and world. Learning about the power of the Vagus Nerve and the Polyvagal Theory changed my life, helping me navigate chaos and rebuild life after Long COVID symptoms in 2020.

Saturday, January 24th, begins the first offering of a 6 session series to share what I learned from Dr Arielle Schwartz about the Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery.

You'll learn practices that you can take off of the mat into your daily life to reduce stress and create balance, growth, and resilience.

I hope to offer this series 4 more times this year and begin a weekly, ongoing Yoga for Balance, Growth, & Resilience class for participants who complete this foundational series.

Stress Reduction & Resilience Yoga 6 session series
Saturdays 4:30-5:45
✨January 24
✨Feb 7, 21
✨Mar 7, 14, 21

✨$132 or 3- $46 auto payments.

✨Gentle, Vagal Nerve focused yoga, breathwork, and movement.
✨This class should be accessible by most.
✨pre-registration for the series & limited to 6✨

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, next to the Hearing Aid Center.

✨Link in bio to register
https://linktr.ee/insulayoga

01/16/2026

✨ 🐐 🌚 On Sunday, we have a New Moon in Capricorn that encourages us to commit to investing in ourselves and future. It's ruled by Saturn, which gives us discipline, helps us take responsibility, and create structures that support success. It helps us see what's working and what's not.

This Saturday, I'm hosting the Moon Cycle Community Acupuncture sessions. The focus is to CREATE SCAFFOLDING for your energy flow in 2026. The pattern will inspire you to...

🪐 Drop into a deep state of rest, restore your soul, and rediscover your stability & power in the face of chaos & disillusionment
🪐 Trust appropriate timing, courageous action, and the gradual return of radiance
🪐 Cultivate perseverance & resilience
🪐 Supports & balances all 7 Chakras

2 spots remain at 4:30pm

The Moon will be in Capricorn from Friday at 3:46 am until Sunday at 2:17 pm, so if you can't make the times on Saturday or they sell out before you're able to book, I am open to adding a group session on Friday evening at 6 or Sunday afternoon. Please reach out if that interests you.

This is such great energy to be working with and the pattern is so supportive for the energy of the world. We can also work with this energy in a private session Friday or Sunday.

🌝 Connecting with the Moon's Cycle can bring in grounding, creative, nourishing energy & help bring a natural rhythm into your life 🌝

🌟 4 spots per session 🌟
🎱 Reservations Required 🎱
✨ 60 minute sessions at 12, 4:30, & 6 ✨
🌝 Moon Cycle Acupuncture sessions are $44
🌝 Zero gravity chairs with 1-3 other community members
🌝 Everyone receives the same pattern to work with Moon's energy
🌝 Wear loose, comfy clothes

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, next to the Hearing Aid Center.

🌝 🌚 Ongoing offering near each New & Full Moon 🌚 🌝
🌚 Capricorn New Moon - Saturday, 1/17, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌝 Leo Full Moon - Saturday, 1/31, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌚 Aquarius New Moon - Saturday, 2/14, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌝 Virgo Full Moon - Saturday, 2/28, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm

📷 Harsh Singh via Unsplash

01/15/2026

Steady Scaffolding & Capricorn New Moon

In the final months of 2025, the words “Steady Scaffolding” kept arriving while my mind was quiet during yoga at the studio. It’s become my intention for not just 2026, but this whole 9 year cycle that began this year. This week leading up to the Capricorn New Moon on Sunday is a great time to plant seeds of your own for 2026 and the next 9 years...and finalize your letting go and shedding of the Wood Snake energy, which ends with the next New Moon on February 17th.

This year lays the foundation for the new 9 year cycle that will complete in 2035. What are you committing to that will help you evolve into who are you hoping to be in 9 years?

A key, steady scaffolding for me this year is creating my own alchemy. I'm so excited to be starting Lorie Dechar's year-long Alchemy Mentorship next month. So much changed for me last year, and in the first days of 2026, I can feel the continued clarity and evolution of how I show up as a collaborator in others' journey to transform and heal...to help you find rhythm, flow, purpose, & evolution.

Rhythm through the Science of Numbers...
Last week, I had a powerful remote Numerology + Alchemy session with a dear client back in Denver. We've been doing remote sessions for over two years, and the last few have been landing so powerfully. The collaboration with her has taught me how impactful this work can be, how it can guide us through challenging times, and that it's time to share this work with others.

The big take-aways for me:
✨ Staying tuned into the rhythm of the year, allows the wisdom to land and take shape
✨ Having a session with each planetary cycle, breaks down the year into 7 smaller phases to support the year's evolution (about every 7-8 weeks)
✨ Old patterns & beliefs, deeper meaning, and hidden threads of connection seem to come to light during the sessions
✨ It's WAY more than just a numerology reading. It's an intuitive flow that works through the lens of numerology
✨ Returning to a written report, helps to stay grounded in the purpose of the year's energy and allows for reflection & wisdom to land
*Link in bio to finish reading
📷 Last Moon of 2025