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With love,

🌻Mary Justus | Embodied Essence

🌿Rooted in non-duality and quantum energy healing, my work reveals embodiment through somatic alchemy—
🪷A return to Presence, Truth, and the Freedom that has always lived within you.

09/09/2025

✨Embodied Reiki: First Degree + Somatic Energy Foundations

October 17–18, 2025 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina

“When the human body for this planet was designed, Reiki was incorporated into the genetic coding as a birthright of all people. It is a universal energy and was never meant to be lost.” — Diane Stein

✨ Reiki is the energy of life. It’s a simple, sacred way to meet your entire lived experience with meaning, gentleness, and presence.

In this First Degree training, you will receive four Reiki attunements and a grounded introduction to somatic energy healing. This added foundation helps you learn how to remain centered in your own system, so that you can support others in deepening their embodiment, healing, and awakening process with clarity and care.

You will receive:

• Four First Degree Reiki attunements

• History and lineage of Reiki

• The Reiki precepts

• Grounding, centering, and energetic protection

• Introduction to somatics

• Introduction to the chakras and energetic harmonics

• Practitioner presence & relational field dynamics

• Introduction to the human energy field

• Supervised practice time

• Study manual & certificate of completion

No prerequisites are required. Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive modality that can be practiced for self-care, and offered at a distance with friends, family, and community.

💫 Investment: $295
$75 deposit reserves your spot (applied to tuition).

🌿Class is already half full!
Please reach out soon if you’d like me to save your seat!

📩 DM me details and payment info.

🌻Learn more about me and my work through the link in my bio.

08/27/2025

✨ This is why I do this work.

Not because we need to be “fixed”—but because we deserve to be free. That freedom is inherent in our core.

And sometimes, it’s in the quietest moment—when another layer of the wall softens—that we remember what it feels like to be whole again.

Here we breathe a deeper breath, one we didn’t even know was possible.

🌿 For those who may be new here (or re-finding me), I’m Mary Justus.

I guide, support and honor individuals as they move through the healing and awakening process.

Through Polarity Therapy, Reiki, Perinatal Somatic Therapy, and Somatic Movement, I offer pathways of healing and awakening that support you in meeting what’s been held, integrating what’s ready, navigating the core wound and its deep imprints and returning to the freedom that is your birthright.

🕯️ I share more about this journey and the modalities I work through in my latest Substack writing—

link in bio if you’d like to read the full piece.

With love,
Mary Justus | The Embodiment Temple

08/23/2025

Sharing a message that came through me yesterday:

May we remember that true opulence is not measured in gold, but in the overflowing rivers of love, presence, and life itself. May this abundance ripple outward, nourishing the great weaving of existence.

Mary Justus | The Embodiment Temple

08/11/2025

Simplicity is the key.

08/06/2025

The body is a vessel of water and stars-
A place where grief, beauty, and joy can all move like tides.

What happens when we let the waters in our body move?

In this past weekend’s Lammas ceremony, I felt something powerful—
the web of relation being restored:

to myself,

to the group,

to the Earth.

🌿I’ve written about it in my latest Substack post along with a grounding practice to carry into your own life.

🔗 Link in bio

07/29/2025

This space has been calling to me for a long time—
a place for the medicine to land in words,
for the ordinary moments to reveal their quiet radiance and deep truth.

The Altar of Ordinary Life—my new Substack publication—has opened.

It’s a space for the ones remembering what’s already true:
Your body is the temple.
Your breath is the prayer.
Your life is the ceremony.

Inside, you’ll find:
✨ Soul-rooted reflections on embodiment & awakening
✨ Somatic practices & energy medicine
✨ The beauty, paradox, and poetry of ordinary life

My first letter is live: An Invitation to the Altar of Ordinary Life.

Step inside here:
https://substack.com/?r=13nffp&utm_medium=ios

07/28/2025

The sacred is not far away—
It reveals itself quietly in each moment,
in every breath,
in every sensation,
In every pulsation of life.

When we slow down enough
to come home to this space—
the healer within is revealed.

🌱This week, I have two spaces open for 1:1 sessions.
If you’re feeling called to deepen
Your relationship with yourself,
to come home to your embodiment,
or to receive support in tending something moving through your body or your world —
send me a message to claim one of these spaces.

07/24/2025

This Leo New Moon is not soft light.
It is the brilliant fire of your awareness—
the light that reveals, the light that heals.

And it is facing Pluto—
the underworld keeper,
the shadow alchemist,
the gate where transformation waits.

This is not about bypassing the dark.
It’s about seeing it.
Holding it.
Bringing it home to the fire of your heart.

🔥

The truth is:
Your awareness is the key.
It illuminates what has been exiled.
It calls your power back.

Let this moon be your mirror.
What is ready to be seen?
What is asking to be witnessed and transfigured—
in the temple of your own presence?

🌑

I’m planting this seed:

“May the light of my awareness
meet every place within me
that’s been hidden in shadow—
and may it transform.”

Drop a 🖤 if you’re ready to bring your whole self into the light.

07/21/2025

What if the most powerful practice isn’t something you do…
but something you notice?

Not a breath you need to deepen,
or fix,
or shape.
But a breath that simply is.

There is a quiet intelligence in the inhale and the exhale—
a rhythm, a pulsation—
already here,

Healing, repairing, moving as the rhythm of Life.

This is the art of subtle presence.
Not to escape the moment,
but to meet it.

Your breath is a living doorway.
A place where your body, your being, and the mystery of life
meet in stillness—
Now.

No effort.
Just attention.
Just a return.

Breathe.

Notice.

Inhabit your body.

You’re already home.

07/19/2025

Depression is essentially being in a state of chronic shutdown, a result of chronic dorsal vagal activation (one branch of our nervous system.) One of the best ways to upregulate your nervous system out of dorsal shutdown is through light active movement - like dancing, walking, exercising, etc.

Through 218 different studies with 14,170 participants, the researchers found that moderate reductions were made across the board with exercise, more so than simply prescribing participants with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Dancing stood at the top of the data charts in terms of the largest reductions in depression symptoms, while exercises like walking or jogging, yoga, and aerobic exercise with therapy were runners-up. In different demographics, the effects of exercises and standard treatment differed.

05/10/2024

Nothing needs to happen to the self that you already and essentially are. It does not need to be stilled, purified, transformed or improved. Above all, it does not need to be enlightened. It is already the bright light of awareness that shines in the midst of all experience, be that a deep depression, a moment of ecstasy or the taste of tea. It just needs to be seen for what it is. That is, it just needs to see or recognise itself as it is, before it is coloured or qualified by experience. What is the nature of the ‘you’ – the one you call ‘I’ – that shines brightly in all your experience?

– from ‘You Are The Happiness You Seek’, by Rupert Spira

To continue reading, order your copy here: https://rupertspira.com/store/you-are-the-happiness-you-seek

To book onto Rupert’s upcoming online retreat, 10–12 May: https://rupertspira.com/event/2024-05-10-the-divine-presence-within-online-weekend-retreat-at-home-10-to-12-may

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Monday	9am - 2pm
Tuesday	9am - 2pm
Wednesday	9am - 2pm
Thursday	9am - 2pm
Friday	9am - 2pm
Saturday	2:30pm - 2pm

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https://msha.ke/maryjustus, https://substack.com/@theembodimenttemple?r=13nffp&utm_medium=ios

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