A New State of Being

05/06/2026

This Mother’s Day, return her to herself. Rooted in nature and crafted with intention, our clean beauty rituals invite her to slow down, soften, and reconnect.

Our sheet masks make the perfect gift for moms—a simple, soothing ritual that delivers deep hydration and a moment of stillness, self-care, and should I say habit-stacking.

The best of the best, cleanest ingredients that properly hydrate the skin.

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What to get
Mother Mountain Herbals Prickly Pear Serum
Native Nectar Gemstone Roller

What to book
Restorative Herbal Poultice Facial
Facial Gua Sha

Now my favorite morning/evening tool, so easy to work with and improves circulation, releases tension while pressing in all serums & oils.

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Because she so deserves it,

Celebrating you
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Katie

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04/25/2026

Why we love Manuka Honey 🤓

In 1981, researchers at the New Zealand University of Waikato discovered that Mānuka Honey has a considerably higher level of enzymes than regular honey and identified its active agent, methylglyoxal (MGO)—the concentration of which is widely measured in the industry to determine the potency of what’s in the jar. These enzymes create a natural hydrogen peroxide that works as an antibacterial.

Activist's honey is wildcrafted in their homeland of Aotearoa New Zealand during a short seasonal window. Our Raw Manuka Honey is a pristine source of enzymes, amino acids and antioxidants that offer anti-inflammatory properties; helping to banish bacteria, harmonize skin’s pH and encourage cellular beauty from the inside out. As well as providing incredible immune and digestion support, our supernatural Mānuka Honey is also used to treat burns, wounds, acne and eczema, making these medicinal beauty products a must for everyone’s skin care.

The Activist Honey mask is a cult favorite worldwide, used in holistic treatments to support the skin's natural cycle.

With mild enzymatic exfoliation, honey can gently dissolve dead skin cells, & improve texture over time without abrasion- especially useful if your skin is reactive or if you’re avoiding harsh exfoliants.

Honey pulls moisture into the skin- maintaining hydration without clogging pores
and leaving skin soft, plump, and balanced.

Especially raw or manuka honey—is naturally:
antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, rich in enzymes and antioxidants
This makes it beneficial for:
Acne-prone skin, irritation or sensitivity, supporting skin barrier repair

When taken internally,

Unlike refined sugar, it provides:

Slow-releasing natural carbohydrates, trace minerals, and amino acids
providing a gentle energy support (especially if you’re depleted or fatigued) & adrenal/nervous system balance when used moderately

Manuka honey is well-studied for it's ability to inhibit harmful bacteria:
Supports immune response during colds, sinus infections, and sore throats, shortening the duration of upper respiratory symptoms.

Potency Matters:
MGO ~250 daily wellness
MGO ~500 therapeutic use

Studies show that the Methylglyoxal found in Mānuka Honey has been shown to increase and protect the production of collagen in the skin, promoting structural growth and regrowth. Mānuka’s amino acids harmonize perfectly the pH balance of our skin, helping us age gracefully. It is extremely hydrating for the skin, helping to retain moisture, which is an important part of preventing and reducing fine lines. Mānuka Honey can be taken internally or externally for this reason.

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📍at A New State of Being,

Book these inner beauty treatments to experience our Activist honey mask

Wednesday and Thursday openings this week

Nature is our greatest inspiration

It melts immediately with no heaviness and no residue, just soft skin that lasts you all day. Nothing synthetic or overpowering, just fresh in the way it should be.

Made in small batches, California spring in a jar.

Create your nature-inspired ritual 🕊️

keeping you hydrated & glowy,
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Katie

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04/24/2026

Lately being,
Energy Cleansing frequencies, dreamy parisian herbal poultice facials, mothering and healing, wanting to write more, sweet citrus whipped tallow 🍊

Taking time today to create this vision for you, I hope to see you soon📍ANSOB

Shop our clean beauty online and book your inner beauty treatment

Our newest products are the honeybump, sweet citrus whipped tallow, and tallow balm. Lately, I’ve had an urge to offer baby & kids safe products and our Milk bar soap, Skin Regen, and tallow balm are all little-one-friendly 🐥

04/02/2026

Treatments, rituals, and clean beauty for this season

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at A New State of Being,

at home,

Working with your tools and integrating Chinese medicine facial maps 🪭

Grab your gemstone roller,

Apply your favorite face oil & serum, and begin right below your collar bones, rolling out towards the armpit, then down the sides of the neck, and then up towards the jaw. This will activate the lymphatic system. Don't be afraid to explore- lately I've been rolling over my lips and right in the corners are linked to our kidneys, a great point for detoxification and release of fear, or your reactive state of being.

As shown in my newest post on Instagram, I don't forget the brows. Especially in this season, working your brows can release fluid around the eyes and detox stress as it's linked to our neck and shoulders. Notice if you feel any tenderness around the start of your brow and third eye 👁️.

Love, love, love this podcast

a look into Ayurveda wisdom in this season of renewal
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with love & care,
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Katie

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02/11/2026

When your Nervous System can finally exhale,

Our favorite nervous system-regulating offerings, specifically designed for a new state of being. That deep breath you take on the table isn’t accidental. It’s your nervous system moving out of survival mode and into safety.

Therapeutic Massage & Reflexology — an intuitive massage focusing on where tension lies, combined with Dien Chan Zone Facial Reflexology, a powerful technique that stimulates points or reflex zones on the face that correspond to specific internal systems, aiding in releasing blockages throughout your body via the nervous system. By activating your own cellular intelligence during homeostasis, you are able to bring balance and self-heal.

Restorative Herbal Poultice Treatment — a nervous system treat, our herbal poultice is a steamed medicine ball, packed with anti-inflammatory herbs to support the healing process. Rhythmic motions, including compressions, rolling, and stretching the muscles to increase circulation and move energy within. The warmth of the herbal poultice calms the mind and body, increasing parasympathetic tone and decreasing sympathetic overdrive.

Hinoki bath Wrap & Scalp Treatment — this treatment focuses on the 3 areas that store emotion in the body: the crown or scalp, the abdomen, and the fascia throughout. The body is being restored as the scalp, neck, abdomen, and feet are wrapped in hot, mineral-rich soaked towels from the healing waters of a Japanese Onsen, contributing mood stabilization and anxiety reduction. Fascial release massage with our tool unwinds a layer, but important layer of our tissue that stores emotions, healing the nervous system.

Self-loving rituals,

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Movement for your being,

Need a moment to self-regulate? Try these meditative movements that release tension in the spine and feel grounded almost instantly. Try for 3 minutes each:

Sufi Grinds
sit in criss-cross with hands on knees and move your being around and around going one direction and then switching to opposite.
Inhale moving forward and exhale moving backwards.
Open your chest as you move forward and curve your spine as you move backwards.
Also great for digestion support.

Swan Dives
Begin by sitting on your heels, hands touching the ground by your knees
starting with head movement, roll down and arch up
exhale as you go down, inhale as you go up
surrender, give gratitude to the year of the snake
rise to the year of the horse

Openings this Thursday & Friday
with love & care,
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Katie

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01/27/2026

Learning how to support our bodies through detoxification with rhythm

What I’m focusing on right now: detoxification & it's probably not the way you’re thinking. Supportive detoxification vs cleanses, here are some ways to improve your state of being with gentle practices.

Morning rituals by cleansing the skin — overnight, our skin regenerates. The skin repairs itself by shedding dead skin cells, and mild perspiration occurs even in cool environments, creating residue on the skin. I've been loving the Hydra Face Tonic with probiotics, promoting a healthy balance for a radiant complexion.
The goal is not deep cleansing, but refreshing the skin and restoring equilibrium for the day ahead.

Sauna — we love a meditative sauna sesh. Unlike working out, the body is not put into a fight-or-flight mode. A sauna exposes the body to external, passive heat while the body remains physically still. This allows the nervous system to shift out of stress and exertion and into recovery.
A sauna signals safety and recovery, while a workout signals challenge and adaptation. Both are valuable, but they serve opposite roles in nervous system regulation.

Lymphatic Drainage via Therapeutic massage — Lymph flows in one direction: toward lymph nodes and eventually back into the venous system. Massage techniques follow this anatomy, moving fluid toward major lymph node clusters (neck, armpits, abdomen, groin). Massage activates the parasympathetic nervous system. When the body is in a relaxed state, lymphatic vessels contract more effectively, improving drainage.
Stress and sympathetic dominance tend to slow lymph movement.

Night Rituals with whipped Tallow body butter 🌺— I've done my research, and proud to say I am an active tallow (body) user. Tallow is naturally rich in vitamins that are critical for skin repair and regeneration. Its effectiveness lies in barrier repair, cellular nourishment, and inflammation modulation, rather than surface-level hydration alone. Massaging my skin with our Vanilla hibiscus whipped tallow is my FAVORITE post-shower ritual.

Facial Cupping with Prickly Pear serum —Always use a facial oil or serum to allow cups to glide smoothly. Facial cupping is slow, repetitive, and soothing. This promotes relaxation and vagal activation, which enhances lymph movement and overall fluid regulation.
Supporting natural detoxification, reducing congestion, and enhancing skin vitality without stressing the tissue.

From both somatic medicine and Ayurveda: Unprocessed emotions are stored in tissues—especially our Fascia, Gut, Liver, Jaw/neck/hips
When you resist feelings or experiences, the body tightens. That tension restricts circulation and lymph, trapping metabolic waste.
Surrender softens tissue.
Soft tissue = moving fluids.
Moving fluids = detoxification.
This is why people often cry, yawn, feel warmth, or need the bathroom after deep relaxation, massage, sauna, or breathwork—Those are release responses.

So there it is — no crazy, intense diet or workout, just passive and intentional movement you can do in your own home, & by booking your monthly treatment at ANSOB.

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I've added some new highlights, chatting about our newest clean beauty and why I'm obsessed with them. Follow along as I talk more about these products and how to use them.

Weekly being...

Experience the therapies of rhythmic detoxification,
Save $40 when you book our Prana Sauna add-on to a Therapeutic Massage or Restorative Herbal Poultice treatment (a 2-hr offering) , this week only 🌨️

Limited spots available
Just book it & you're in

Stay warm & take care,
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Katie

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11/29/2025

the season of giving

& receiving...

KELP! Seaweed sheet masks
infused with an intensive, collagen-supporting serum that restores moisture, plumps fine lines, and soothes even the most sensitive complexions.

Mother Mountain Herbals Marigold Body + Face Oil
an oil to be used from head to toe: massaged onto damp skin after a bath or shower, by the drop as a face moisturizer, or lightly twirled into the ends of wet hair.

Restorative Herbal Poultice Facial
a holistic facial that focuses on the shoulders, neck, face & crown where stress manifests most. Feel lightness and clarity while skin is sculpted and lifted.

Mother Mountain Herbals Creosote Spray
an olfactory portal to the summer monsoons of the southwest, bask in its aromatherapy benefits on your body, hair, and pillow before bed.

Facial Gua Sha Gemstones
the perfect stocking stuffer that gives feel-good beauty

Conscious Coconut Moroccan Rose Body Scrub
our heart-opening body scrub, indulge in🌹and its stress-relieving aromatherapy benefits while hydrating your skin in cold-pressed coconut oil.

Prana Sauna + Body Polishing Treatment
our newest inner beauty experience, the Prana Sauna & Body Polishing treatment- an ancient tradition of cleansing, exfoliation and surrender. A treatment of renewal in our cocoon sauna.
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with so much gratitude,

I'd say a lot has happened this year...so much growth transpired and I'm beyond thankful for your continued trust and support through this season & past years. With time & patience (and a whole pregnancy,) I've realized the space was meant for me to expand my gifts and visions with you all along. And with every appointment I'm able to tune in to your needs, which is what a treatment should feel and look like. I hope you feel this support. Because it's what ANSOB stands for, to walk out feeling better, & to inspire a self-care routine not just through physical touch/movement, but to also fill your cup, allow grace through all the seasons, and connect with our Being. I love y'all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart as I'm writing this the day after Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for this time of the year spending time friends and family, it's so necessary.

Hope to see you soon,

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Katie

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11/05/2025

Lately being,

Join in on my thoughts & downloads this morning: Everything is coming into alignment.

This feels like completion after years & years of practicing massage therapy, learning different services and body treatments, massage modalities, ANSOB is complete. Beauty has always been the inspiration for my practice. Over the years, I have learned and discovered through these trainings, my personal reading, & perfecting different ways to treat the body- are all harmoniously going within- for a real therapeutic feeling and freedom. We will now have possibly our last treatment on our menu. It’s a sauna experience.
I have learned through Ayurvedic medicine and Chinese medicine that warmth is Vital for our being. Vitality is circulation, it is the Prana (life-force) running through your body. It’s the rhythmic vibration of your body from your toes to the end of your hair. This is where your nervous system is encapsulated; it needs to be taken care of, and that is why therapeutic massage has always been the goal in all of my treatments. Little did I know at the time the word therapeutic really meant taking care of your nervous system.

In our sauna treatment, my goal is for you to shed what no longer serves you. Support your body by detoxifying, relaxing, renewing & revitalizing the mind and body. Warmth creates movement within this treatment paired with our scrub, stimulating the lymphatic system, filtering the toxins internally while externally shedding a layer, leaving you feeling like a new being. I think finding a healthy routine with our offerings is a great way to support your overall well-being. The scrub is a physical exfoliant made with organic ingredients—sugar and cold-pressed coconut oil by Conscious Coconut (https://consciouscoconut.com) .

After the scrub, we apply our oil blends. The Detox blend is made with charcoal, lemongrass and chlorella, purifying the body. Our Calming blend has chamomile, melatonin and magnesium to help soothe and rest your being. I hope you’re in a new state, you find peace, where your body can heal & your inner beauty can shine. It was always about this healing practice: The mind-body connection, because by now, we all know when your mind is at ease, your body can heal. When your nervous system is in a restful state, that is when your dreams can come to fruition. All of your manifestations can come through and your body can function at its optimal. These are just thoughts as I’m on my walk. And I want to be more present for you and I hope you find time and a pocket of freedom in your day to do something therapeutic and healing for yourself. I want to start this Someday state journal because that was the beginning of A New State of Being, an end of a beginning.🥀

For a limited time,

I wanted to offer this to the Being Beauty community only, you can find this link either in our email and IG. Follow along on IG as I unbox our Steamy Wonder that arrived yesterday (Best day of my professional career) ! I made a highlight in case you missed it.

In Ayurvedic medicine, exfoliation is viewed as far more than a beauty practice — it’s a healing ritual that balances the body’s energies (doshas), clears energetic and physical blockages, and supports detoxification on multiple levels.

The Prana treatment is a 75 min experiece combining the healing powers of our Sauna and exfoliation, a time to reconnect with your self, and for renewal.

It has yet to hit the booking site- be the first to experience 🐍

daily rituals,

The term Elemental is reigniting- I'm enjoying creating this last offering not only because I've waited over a decade to get my hands on the Sauna but because this treatment is very elemental. Combining water, earth, & air - I can only imagine this treatment grounding your being. Awakening the senses and invigorating your nervous system in a supportive way.

Lately, walking with Sonnie has helped make this vision so clear. Being in nature helps too, when the weather is nice - it's hard for me to stay inside. I signed up with To Be Magnetic (https://tobemagnetic.com) , also after years & years listening to Lacey's podcast. And wow, tapping into your inner child, finding your "authentic code," and what makes you, you, is so liberating. The Deep imaging (DI's) are audios in the App, I listen to them during the walks, and Me and Mikey enjoy them at night while in bed. One of the best things you can do these days is to find ways to calm your Nervous system. Take care.

Hope to see you soon,

Katie
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10/14/2025

Happy October,

Hi, I hope you’re doing well. Over here, we are back at it- curating new treatments for

you(r Nervous system) and creating holistic skin experiences, with MORE to come!

Our facial herbal poultice is a potent and hydrating blend of botanicals and minerals designed to detoxify, restore, and nourish the skin. Infused with a carefully selected combination of ivy gourd, jasmine, Thai white clay, wild turmeric, ginger and sweet basil, this herbal poultice delivers deep hydration, brightens the complexion, and soothes the skin.

Lately being,

our woven therapies- as a new treatment arising from years of practicing facial massage, and our restorative body herbal poultice treatment, I was ready to curate an experience that holds layers of healing modalities into one. I like this expression woven therapies because it's symbolic to how our bodies are and how we hold on to our emotions and stress. Naturally, this treatment makes sense to me like peeling back layers and gently melting each area to simply feel better (& look vibrant.) I'm so happy to now offer the herbal poultice facial- a treatment you cant find anywhere else.

Have you seen our add-ons (https://book.squareup.com/appointments/762b9069-30c8-4678-9367-4b9b3b6a14b5/location/TVZJJ8KY908WR/services/N4N6VLEUWDHRK62KTOOQ2GV2) on the booking site? This is another way to create an experience that is uniquely yours and what you need at this time.

A few more ideas and inspirations are brewing over here in the studio. You may have caught my story on the Steamy Wonder, a canopy sauna that fits right over the table. It's something I've wanted for YEARS. And now, understanding energy a little bit more, being more knowlegable in our body's constitutions, and honestly, the older I get and feel, warmth and circulation is so crucial for vitality. I would love to offer body treatments with the Steamy wonder, like a scrub/ skin polishing treatment, that stimulates our lymphatic system, exfoliates and hydrates the skin. Who's in?

This Saturday is Benshen's Kundalini Immersion, a 10-hour training going into the depths of breathwork, mantras, and meditation. Something that speaks solely to my anxiety and overstimulated mind. I love practicing and moving the body in these ways; it helps move energy (stuck energy) and gives me the space for learning and being discipline- Giving back to yourself, making time for yourself, honoring yourself, and staying youthful through breathwork is a plus. I'm SO excited for this, I'll be joining virtually, and you can join too! It's something I've also been wanting to offer and experimented in one of our meditation events. Ok, are we also ready to bring those back!!?? I miss our little ANSOB community!

Night rituals with Activist,

ANSOB wouldn't be whole if I didn't bring you the best products for you to take home. It's a continuation of our treatments leaving you feel cared for. It's intentional, supportive, and my desire to grow our clean beauty collection is just as important as the treatments, another woven aspect to your experience. And I want to connect with you! Reply and let me know what you think about the new Green botanical body oil...which products are your favorite?? 🤗 I'd love to hear from you!

not too late for this one

Hope to see you soon,

Katie
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07/01/2025

Openings Thursday to Sunday

7/3-7/6

Add your inner beauty treatment to your weekend itinerary.

Treat yourself to a restorative staycation right here at ANSOB with me!

Healing from within,

Our cold-pressed Conscious Coconut (https://consciouscoconut.com) oil is a powerful, natural ally in all of our Inner Beauty treatments—especially for recovering from sun exposure. It’s rich in healing nutrients that support the skin from both the outside in and the inside out, offering deep healing, hydration, and holistic nourishment for sun-damaged and sensitive skin.
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Our amethyst Biomat provides a gentle yet powerful approach that supports healing at the deepest levels—physically, energetically, and emotionally. When heated, the amethyst emits FIR(far infrared) waves, which are absorbed by the body to stimulate:

Increased circulation & oxygen flow

Detoxification at the cellular level
Reduction in inflammation and pain
Relaxation of muscles and fascia
Enhanced skin regeneration and glow

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your post-4th inner beauty treatment
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with microcurrent

a 90-minute inner beauty treatment

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Hope to see you soon,
Katie

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