Maven Alchemy

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.

03/17/2026

Pisces New Moon...Endings in the Becoming 🐟🌚 - https://mailchi.mp/e81ee23ed6c6/pisces-new-moon-wednesday I know that I've been talking about letting go, shedding, & endings for the last 3+ months, but guess what? Here we go again. This is the final push. We have a few more days to really tidy up any loose ends & let go of storylines we've been itching to end. These endings will breathe the life into your becoming. 📷:An egg-like glow of the Virgo Full Moon, illuminating a feather. What incubating dreams or visions are ready to Become for you?

03/14/2026

❄️ Winter has Returned...an Opportunity to Embody Resilience ❄️

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.

As I shared earlier in the week, these changing weather patterns and transitioning into Spring can bring seasonal symptoms that really bring you down, instead of feeling uplifted. Like...

🌸 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 1:1 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 14th & 28th, 1-2:30; 21st 12-1

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.

What do you need to spring clean in these last days before the Pisces New Moon on Wednesday and Spring Equinox on the 21st?

Watch for an email in a few days with more information about the Pisces New Moon Community Acupuncture session on Wednesday. Appointments available at 1:30, 6, & 7:30

Link in bio to schedule and read full newsletter.

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

🔮 Text Vanessa at 512-934-1917 to schedule

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

02/14/2026

Nurture 2026's new energy & flow by connecting with the Moon‘s rhythm from seed to harvest. Esoteric + Alchemy Acupuncture brings connection for the changing light into community, a pause for self-care, & balance for your nervous system to journey through the Wheel of Life with clarity, intention, & purpose.

Join me TOMORROW to connect with the energy of the Aquarius New Moon & Lunar New Year.

✨ TIMES AVAILABLE at 4:30, & 6 ✨

✨ 🕊️ 🌚 Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, which is the perfect time for self-love & self-care. Aquarius is the sign associated with humanity and the collective. When we care for & nurture ourselves, we have the capacity to care for others. Being resourced & grounded, allows us to take aligned actions for the good of all.

An Air sign, Aquarius is ruled by Uranus & Saturn and helps us move beyond boundaries & old, limiting paradigms. The Aquarius New Moon next Tuesday, February 17th, (at 4:00 am) will align with the Sun to create a Solar Eclipse and usher in the Lunar New Year & Yang Fire Horse. Now it's time for action and movement into the space we created with the release with the Wood Snake.

This New Moon invites us to investigate how our actions as individuals ripple out to impact our community, the collective, and humanity. It wants us to feel & understand that we're all connected. When we care for ourselves, are resourced & grounded, and have the capacity to keep our nervous system healthy, we show up with space to help others & our world.

The pattern will inspire you to...
✨ Integrate knowledge to wisdom
✨ Connect with the virtues of unconditional love/wisdom, compassion, understanding, & forgiveness
✨ Be open to connecting with your ancestral allies to feel their warmth, love, wisdom, nourishment, care, & protection
✨ Feel stabilized & safe so that warmth, peace, love, & tranquility may arrive
✨ Open your inner vision to what is present in your life, the season you're in, what it can become, and see the way forward with stability & courage
✨ Supports Crown, 3rd Eye, Throat, Heart, Solar Plexus, & Root Chakras

🔮 Text 512-934-1917 to book
🏠 Located at Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland
📷 Harsh Singh via Unsplash

02/12/2026

Caring for Self & the Aquarius New Moon 🕊️🌚 - https://mailchi.mp/1a45ec5bb912/caring-for-self-the-aquarius-new-moon It's time to crank up the self-care. The next few weeks we'll experience energy shifts that haven't been felt in our life times and won't again. It may leave you feeling exhausted, ungrounded, heavy, scattered, overly emotional, or like you're on a roller coaster. Start planning your self-care now. Caring for ourself is a radical way to care for humanity. When we start with ourselves, we have the capacity to care for others.

Caring for ourself is a radical way to care for humanity. When we start with ourselves, we have the capacity to care for others. Being resourced and grounded, allows us to take aligned actions for the good of all.

I avoided self-care for years and was taught early in life and in the Marine Corps to not listen to what my body & soul were communicating and keep plugging along. Ain't nobody got time for that!

As my mental and physical health began being impacted by years overriding my body's communication, I was forced to listen...and had many great alternative therapy providers and yoga teachers help me understand what self-care looks like.

What I need changes, both seasonally and as I grow & evolve. Sometimes what I framed as self-care wasn't always the best for me, so it's important to adjust as you go. Acupuncture has been part of my self-care since 2008. It is wild that it's been 18 years! I realized last week that I hadn't gotten poked in 5 months! What?!

Please don't wait that long. If it's been a while since you saw me or another acupuncturist who you love, please come see us! My session with Jess helped SO much! I felt so cared for & nourished and was reminded why I practice this medicine...it works! I immediately felt more balanced, grounded, and integrated, instead of overwhelmed & scattered.

When we take time to pause from our daily life and turn our attention inward, we give ourselves time to feel and listen to what's impacting us. Sometimes it's the current events of the world or it's old energy or emotions that we stored away in the moment because we didn't have the space to deal with it. Whatever it might be, knowing what makes us feel safe and nourished helps us cultivate a greater capacity to digest and purposefully let go of life's stresses.

In addition to seeing providers, my self-care go-tos are...
❤️ vagal toning practices, like vooing, bumble bee breath, cyclic sighing
🧡 yoga nidra naps (I set an alarm to manage how long I sleep)
💛 warming up a tube sock with rice in the microwave for my neck & ears
💚 batching cooking & freezing meals for times I don't have the energy to cook
💙 saying no
💜 connecting with my higher self, guides, angels, & ancestral allies
🕊️ doing a Loving Kindness Meditation, my recording I shared a few weeks ago
💜 listening to my intuition & paying attention when I ignored it
💙 hydrating (I start my day by drinking 2 cups of room temperature water)
💚 applying oils on moon cycle acu point patterns every night before bed
💛 watching the sunset (often at Sunlight Beach)
🧡 eating high quality dark chocolate (in moderation & mindfully)
❤️ doing PT exercises that support a strong sacrum & low back before bed

I try to incorporate these into tasks that are already part of my day, so they, too, become automatic. When I'm making coffee, I heat up the rice sock, drink 2 glasses of water, do vagal toning breathwork, and shaking qi gong. When I'm driving in the car, I'm vooing, humming, and cycle sighing.

What are your favorite self-care practices that you can lean into in the upcoming weeks?

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 🦁🌝 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 & Water extinguishes Fire.

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 while I was in grad school studying TCM. I was an emotional wreck.

My 14 year marriage dissolved the year before I started school while I was living in Minneapolis, which is where my path to being an acupuncturist, yoga teacher, & intuitive truly began. It's where my heart was broken in two & I found the path back to myself.

Minneapolis holds a special place in my soul, & the chaos & distress being experienced there is landing in my body and activating old threads needing to be shed. It's been a rollercoaster of emotions. It's exhausting & depleting...& I know that I'm not alone in being in that space.

As you're navigating your own process, I invite you to play with music, activities, & natural elements to see if you, too, find a connection with the 5 Element controlling cycle & emotions:

Fire melts Metal (Grief) - music that's uplifting/activities that bring joy
Metal cuts Wood (Anger) - music that's metal or sharp tones
Wood weakens Earth (Worry) - music that's woody, like a cello, or walking in the woods
Earth holds back Water (Fear) - music with nature sounds/feels earthy to you or grounding yourself outside with earth
Water extinguishes Fire (Mania/Anxiety) - music with water sounds/is flowing & fluid or being near the water

We have a Leo Full Moon on Sunday (Full at 2:08 pm) in the final days of the Wood Snake & Saturn in Pisces. We're in the in-between...waiting...for the last moments before the new energy arrives.

Leo is courage, pride, ego, Heart, Fire, & Solar Plexus. It's ruled by the Sun, which is predictable, dependable, ever present...even when obscured by clouds or on the other side of the Earth at night, & gives the moon its light.

Link in bio to continue reading.
📷 Sunlight Beach after dark

01/24/2026

Turns out, it was never about being strong enough.

Anxiety isn’t just fearful thoughts you need to reframe. It’s a full-body fear loop that keeps you trapped in two places at once:

→ Your body stuck in fight-or-flight (sympathetic dominance)
→ Your mind spiraling, searching desperately for control

And here’s what nobody tells you: addressing just ONE side doesn’t work.

I spent years trying to “think my way out” of panic while my chest stayed tight, my jaw stayed clenched, and my nervous system kept screaming THREAT.

The shift happened when I learned to untangle both loops:

🧘‍♀️ For the body: Brain retraining to interrupt the alarm. Vagal toning to activate calm. Somatic practices to complete the stress cycle.

🧠 For the mind: Bringing focus back to THIS moment. Breaking tasks into tiny steps. Using grounding mantras that anchor you in safety.

When you address both body AND mind the fear loop finally breaks.

That’s what we’re doing together in Daily Regulate. Forty days of practices that teach your nervous system it’s safe to let go.

💬 Which loop gets you stuck more often the stress loop in your body or the uncertainty loop in your mind? Drop a comment below.👇

And if this resonated,📍save this post so you can come back to these tools when anxiety shows up.

01/22/2026

Loving-Kindness Meditation 🙏💚🔮 - https://mailchi.mp/5ae297121922/loving-kindness-meditation Loving-Kindness meditation is an ancient Buddhist practice that helps us to connect with compassion, kindness, and good will towards ourselves and others. I find myself turning to this when my world feels like too much, and I feel like I have no control over the chaos. It can also be a powerful form of self-care & collective healing and have a positive effect on stress, anxiety, health, and empathy.

📷 Hellebore preparing to bloom in my yard