Holistic Wellness & Expression w/ Terah Kelleher, Greensboro, NC (2025)

08/06/2025

Are you feeling uprooted and can’t find your footing? This can manifest physically with lack of balance, aches and pains, and feeling anxious. Learn ways to come home to your body and to mindfully get in touch with your nervous system. Living with lifelong anxiety led me to study the body and how it ticks. There are no easy hacks, it can be a journey of a lifetime. This class will feature key practices that have helped me along the way.

Class includes: 6 hours at a beautiful lake house surrounded by nature. Lunch and tea ceremony. 5 hours of wellness education with movement and stillness practices such as yoga, Pilates, creative writing prompts, guided meditation, and ancestral and nature medicine ways.

Location: Four Farms Place , this place is special to me. It's ancestral land, used to be owned by my great uncle Joe and aunt Jean.

Also includes a free individual 6o minute Somatic Experiencing OR Celtic Reiki session booked separately on another day ($90 value).

Click link in bio for more info and to book.

07/27/2025

My daily walks involve seeing how nature changes every day. In nature, I feel connected to myself and the universe. I also feel rooted. Today, I walked down this sidewalk cradled by the crepe-myrtle trees, above and beside me, and its blossoms, underneath my feet, and thought of my Granny named Myrtle. Even though she and others have passed on, I feel her and them. I believe they speak to us in signs and symbols we'll understand.

As I start to be more open about my ancestral healing ways and practices, I'm amazed at how others share their stories with me. We feel more comfortable to say things like, "Yes, I speak to my grandmother in the park AND I'm rooted in this reality."

Please share any stories you have here.

If you want to dive deeper into all the ways we can practice feeling rooted, while meet like-minded people, surrounded by nature, check out my Tending Your Roots Day Retreat on August 24th from 11 to 5 pm at Four Farms Place, a lake house retreat. Link in bio.

07/22/2025

Day Retreat & Workshop: Are you feeling uprooted and not able to find your footing? In times like these, it's easy to get kicked up into the wind of frenetic energy. This day retreat can assist you in finding and tending your roots so you can find your footing, with the use of movement, stillness, guided meditation, nature and ancestral connection, and nervous system education. Includes: 5-hour workshop, tea ceremony, lunch, and a coupon for 50 % off either a 60-minute Celtic Reiki session OR a 60-minute Somatic Experiencing session (both a $45 value).

Click link in bio for more info and to book!

07/18/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to our Somatic Movement & Sound Bath this Tuesday at Four Farms Place! Our goal was and is to raise vibrations and to commune with the elements of nature within and around us. Thank you, and Windy for collaborating with me!

My sister, Gretchen, shared an article with me the day before by a woman named Lyla June, commenting on her Native American and European roots. It's a call to arms in a different way:

"Our task is to shake the amnesia. To not be ashamed of our European-ness, but to reclaim our beautiful grandmothers, to reclaim our venerable grandfathers, to reclaim our lost languages, our lost ceremonies, our lost homelands and become one with the Great Sacred Motherland of Europe once again."

"Our task is to honor our ancestors, even those who caved beneath the weight of systematic destruction and became conquerors themselves. Our task is to remember that we are those beautiful Earth People...".

If we go back far enough, we came from people who honored and cherished this Earth. We just have to remember!

07/09/2025

Had a wonderful Yoga + Sound Bath + Reiki session/class with Naghmeh Taefi last week. Thank you to the participants who made it a wonderful experience!

More to come about another one coming up this Tuesday!

06/24/2025

I taught at our second annual Summer Solstice Somatic Sisters Collective Retreat this past weekend and did what seems to be my ritual on the way back home - I stopped at my maternal second great grandmother Sarah's gravesite in Wilkesboro, NC. Here's a colorized picture of her from Ancestry.

I've always been aware of the unseen and mystical aspects of life that are hard to explain in this world, but an upgrade happened in the past decade. After a hard time in my life, I had a dream that an older woman stood beside my bed. A year later, I dove into genealogy research and saw this picture and remembered that dream. Granny Sarah, an Appalachian midwife, was the woman in my dream. Gazing at the photo, her beautiful wise crone eyes and lined face, as gorgeous as an old growth Oak Tree's bark, told me everything was going to be ok, follow me, my sweet granddaughter.

Next, I dove into researching the Cailleach. Sharon Blackie, English author, said the Cailleach is "the remarkable gigantic old woman in the Gaelic folkloric traditions: the Cailleach, the creator and shaper of the land, and (in Scotland, at least) the spirit of the season of winter." Scott Richardson-Reid, Scottish author, called her the "Midwife of Scotland".

How does this all go together? Well, I turned 47 today and what a blessing to have gained the wisdom, creating lines on my aging tree of a body. I look forward to becoming an Old Growth Tree, the ones I gaze up at in wonder and awe of their lined bark and crown of leaves reaching the sky! What beauties that stop you in your tracks.

05/08/2025

Somatic Experiencing Study session tonight, with this amazing human Holly Sofley, after a nice dinner. We had all our notes and manuals, outside in this beautiful weather, going over our beginner and intermediate level stuff and preparing for our next training weekend where we'll go over sexual trauma, car accidents, and more. Somatic Experiencing Training is such an organic layered process! Our bodies are amazing and have such a capacity to heal.

I see many more Somatic Experiencing trades and study sessions in our future, Holly! Omg we're almost at advanced year!!

04/27/2025

Scotland: Witch Burning Tour Day. One of my Scotland research projects was to look into what is called “The Burning Times”, which took place from 1563 to 1736, after the Scottish Witchcraft Act became law. This law made it legal to torture and execute anyone who was accused of witchcraft. If you read accounts of any of the torture, no wonder a person would confess, after all the heinous things done to them. The tests to see if someone was a witch, well, were laced with trickery and barbaric, reflecting the backwards ways of the times. According to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, “anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 people are estimated to have been accused, with 84% being women”. Women on the margins of society, widows, and single women were targeted. However, men accounted for the others tortured and burned as well.

I research this for many reasons. One being that some of my ancestors would've lived during these times and I wonder how their lives would've been in Scotland, during that time. The other is that we are in a period in time when old ideas are being kicked up that stink of these times. Fear and scarcity breed laying blame on another as a scapegoat or a way to solve the problem. “The Other” in society is usually targeted and the bully mindset has a way of rising to the surface. It’s an age-old script that some grab a hold of that goes back centuries. According to Celeste Larsen, the author of “Heal the Witch Wound: Reclaim Your Magic and Your Power”:

“Ultimately, the witch craze was not the result of just one single factor. Rather, it was a conglomeration of influences that worked together over the span of hundreds of years to shape early modern Europe into the ideal environment for a continent-wide witch hunt: misogyny, patriarchy, religious tyranny, scapegoating, land disputes, the rise of capitalism, shifting views about magic, political propaganda, and an established history of persecution and violence.”

Before I left for Scotland, I looked at a variety of tours centered around this subject. We decided on the Edinburgh: Old Town Witches Tour & Underground Vault. Juniper aka Jude was our wonderful tour guide!

To read the rest, website link in bio.

04/21/2025

Scotland Day 1: Gardens & Castles. Upon my arrival, I met up with my childhood friend, Amanda Respess, a university history professor and cultural anthropologist. It worked out that we both would be doing work research at the same time in Edinburgh, Scotland. Here's us posing in front of Edinburgh Castle and looking over onto Edinburgh, after dinner at the Witchery Restaurant. We spent the day at the Royal Botanical Gardens for different reasons. Learn more.

To read my full blog post click the website link in my bio.

04/16/2025

"We are writing to enthusiastically recommend Summer Solstice Mountain CE Retreat that we both had the privilege of attending last year. From the moment we arrived, nestled in the breathtakingly beautiful and peaceful mountain setting, we knew this experience would be something special.

The continuing education curriculum was exceptional. The instructors were knowledgeable, passionate, and created a supportive and collaborative learning atmosphere.

Beyond the material taught, the retreat fostered a wonderful sense of community among the participants. Connecting with other dedicated massage therapists in such a nurturing environment was invaluable. Sharing experiences, insights, and laughter created a powerful bond and provided the perfect environment to fully immerse ourselves in learning and self-care.

It was more than just a continuing education course; it was a deeply nourishing and empowering journey for our professional and personal growth.

We returned feeling refreshed, revitalized, and equipped with a significantly expanded "tool belt" of knowledge and techniques.

We wholeheartedly recommend this retreat to any massage therapist seeking to deepen their skills, connect with a supportive community, and rejuvenate their mind, body, and spirit in a truly exceptional setting.

Sincerely,

Megan Allred NC LMBT 12800
&
Julia Allred NC LMBT 9000"

I couldn't shorten this testimony. Melissa Hinnant Smith , Emily Terrell Roels , Madelin Semper , and I thank you for these kind words more than you'll ever know! And the picture was the icing on the cake!!

To register or to learn more about our June Somatic Sister's Solstice Retreat click the link in my bio.

04/15/2025

Come Join me and my 3 amazing colleagues this June! Get your CE's, rest, relax, and learn. Spaces limited! See you there 😉😀. Follow the link in my bio for more information and to book.

04/14/2025

Key things I've noticed about walking in my usual areas back home:

1) My plant and tree friends have more clothes on aka foliage, since I've been gone. Not as naked.

2) Walking etiquette on pathways has switched to walking on the right and not the left side in Scotland, even if this isn't a hard and fast rule. This seems to match driving ways.

3) I like to say "hello" and "I've missed you" to what some may call inanimate objects in nature just like I say "hello nice to meet you" or "hello beautiful" to them when they're new to me.

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