Reintegrating plants and practices of the old ways into the modern days
Ventura's Premiere Wellness Spa + Herbal Apothecary Established in 2015, Venture Well blends a modern herbal apothecary with traditional healing arts practices. For individuals seeking a natural BALANCE to our modern world, we offer a unique approach to wellness, rooted in nature's healing power. Come get to know owner, Jessy Raspiller :: Somatic Herbalist, at one of our Pop Up events or make an appointment to explore your own healing journey one on one
10/01/2025
✨ Three years ago, the keys to the spa became mine.
What started as “just a few hours a month to explore this aromatherapy adventure” has grown into a space where lives (including my own) have expanded in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
This fall you’ll notice some subtle but beautiful shifts at the spa—new artwork, fresh energy, and an even deeper focus on the healing work that happens within these walls.
I’d love to invite you in to celebrate this milestone with me.
New Client Special
45-minute Tune-Up for $111
Come experience what it means to expand your life.
09/17/2025
The turning of the season is here. 🍂
Fall reminds us that change is natural, that letting go is part of the cycle, and that there is wisdom in slowing down.
This journey is for the woman who feels the pull to return—
to her body,
to her breath,
to the quiet truth she carries within.
Just as the leaves return to the earth floor, we too are invited to soften back into ourselves. To find nourishment in the pause. To root, release, and remember.
✨ Sacred Return is your invitation to lean into ritual—
to come home again and again throughout this season.
Join me inside this virtual journey and honor autumn’s call to return.
06/30/2025
Radiant Expansion
An immersive summer ritual to awaken your inner vitality
🌿 At Lotus Healing Studio | July 27th
Join me for an intimate journey rooted in the energy of midsummer—a sacred space to reconnect with your body, recalibrate your nervous system, and expand into your next season with clarity and ease.
Through Aroma Fusion, guided somatic practices, and intentional rest, we’ll move stagnant energy and welcome in spaciousness—physically, emotionally, energetically.
This is for you if you’re craving:
• A moment to slow down and soften
• Connection to your own inner rhythm
• Support in shedding what no longer fits
• A reawakening of your radiance
Spots are limited to keep our circle sacred. Send me a DM for the link or jump on our events tab.
Let’s gather in the heart of summer and remember how much light we hold. ✨
06/23/2025
SIXTH SENSE is here
A journey of remembering what’s already within.
This isn’t about adding more—it’s about clearing the path and softening into your deeper knowing.
Each month from August to January, we walk with one oil. One energy center. One story. One invitation.
We anoint. We listen. We return.
We begin with Bergamot for balance and nervous system clarity, then move with the seasons into:
• September – Blue Tansy for cooling agitation and softening inner tension
• October – May Chang for uplifting anxiety and reconnecting to joy
• November – Vetiver for grounding exhaustion and restoring boundaries
• December – Pimenta Berry for warming isolation and digesting emotion
• January – Frankincense for expansion, perspective, and spiritual presence
Enrollment is now open—link in bio.
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06/20/2025
Honoring the Summer Solstice ☀️
The longest day. The fullest light. The sun at its peak.
The Summer Solstice invites us to pause and witness the fullness of life—
to acknowledge how far we’ve come, and to harness the vitality that’s available now, without tipping into overextension.
This is a moment of radiant clarity.
Of becoming visible.
Of dancing with the fire, while staying rooted in balance.
Essential Oils to Support the Season
•Rose – Softens the heart, opens the emotional body, and invites joy, compassion, and connection.
•Blue Tansy – Cools emotional heat, soothes irritability, and supports relaxation in the face of inner or outer tension.
•Rosemary – Stimulates clarity and focus, balances mental and physical energy, and helps recalibrate when scattered.
•Black Spruce – Grounds the nervous system, restores strength, and offers a deep sense of rooted calm during times of intensity.
To learn more about using these oils and anointing the body to tune into the season, join us for one of our summer ritual offerings.
Visit the events page for details or send us a DM
06/01/2025
✨JUST LAUNCHED: 2025 HERBAL TRAVEL KITS ✨
Last summer, as I packed for Italy, I found myself curating a mini herbal apothecary—tinctures for sleep, a little nose oil for the plane, my favorite salve for sore travel muscles, and of course, some support for digestion (because: pasta 🍝).
That ritual sparked something bigger… and now, I get to share it with you.
🌿 This year’s Travel Kit is officially here for pre-sale through June 6th
🌿 We’re only making what’s ordered
🌿 Kits ship out June 18th—just in time for summer adventures
Each kit includes 6 plant-powered tools for immunity, rest, digestion, nervous system support & radiant travel vibes:
🌙 Sleep Care Tincture
🛡 Echinacea Immune Support
💧 Herbal Nose Oil
🧈 Honeyshine Magnesium Body Butter
🌸 Travel Ease Flower Essence
🌿 Triphala Digestion Capsules
Perfect for flights, road trips, hikes, hotel rooms, or simply feeling at home in your own body—wherever you are.
Reserve yours now before pre-sale closes!
👜 Link in bio to order
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05/12/2025
Remembering & Reclaiming is a self-anointing journey to awaken your innate wisdom—your embodied knowing and your deeper truth.
Through the intentional use of essential oils and gentle activation of your body’s energy centers, this practice invites you to return to your body as a sacred vessel—one that listens, softens, and remembers.
This is about building a new baseline of awareness—one that keeps you centered, attuned, and expanding. Rooted in ritual, you begin to reclaim the parts of yourself that have been quieted by time.
You are the altar.
The oils the offering.
The energy the medicine.
Join us online for this self-paced journey. Connect to others through our global WhatsApp community as you discover.
05/01/2025
Illuminate: A Summer Solstice Ritual Retreat
Step into the light of your own wisdom. Join June 21st for an immersive half-day experience.
•Awaken your intuition
•Build confidence
•Ignite your inner radiance
Through movement, breath, herbal rituals, and sound, you’ll reconnect to the power that already lives within you.
Spots are limited—reserve your place now and let your radiance lead.
04/22/2025
Happy 🌍 Earth Day
In a time and place in history where it seems we’re more disconnected from our bodies, our ancestors stories and the natural realms; it feels like more than ever it’s time to come home to the Mother that nurtures us all.
We’re a month into Solstice School and have a broad range of opportunities to reconnect, discover and expand into a deeper more pleasurable way of existing.
If you’ve been experiencing the “weight of the world” this year, come, let’s drop that from your shoulders and re-invest in the arts + traditions of the past so we can expand our future.
Explore our in person and online journeys via the Solstice School tab. DM us for the link.
🌍Next Up:
•Herbal Oiling - Tonight 5-7pm
•Emergence 1/2 Day Retreat - Saturday 10-3pm Upper Ojai
•Splendor 3 day weekend in Paso Robles May 16-18th
•”Remembering” an online journey coming in May
04/13/2025
GIVEAWAY TIME — Join Us for EMERGENCE
We’re thrilled to offer one lucky soul a free spot in our Emergence: Ritual Retreat happening April 26 in Ojai — a nature-based journey into herbal lineage, land connection, and sensory ritual.
You’ll also receive a copy of “Medicinal Herbs of California” by Lanny Kaufer — an incredible resource for deepening your herbal relationship with our native plants. “Chumash Ethnobotany” by Jan Timbrook. An incredible depth of plant and land wjsdom. Lastly we’ve included a brand new Herbarium. A space for you to store, record and expand your botanical wisdom.
Here’s how to enter:
1. Follow both .life and .and.seed
2. Like this post
3. Tag a friend in the comments (each comment = 1 entry, so tag away!)
4. Bonus Entry: Join the Venture Well newsletter by tapping the Let’s Connect button in .life’s profile
Giveaway closes Wednesday, April 17 at 11:59 PM
Winner announced Friday, April 18 via stories and DM.
If you win and can’t attend, you’re welcome to gift your spot to someone else to enjoy this nourishing day on the land.
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Let the beauty of emergence call you in — good luck!
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Ventura Pop Up Yoga was founded in efforts to bring more people to a yoga mat.
Jessy and Jen began "playing" yoga in the parks of Ventura by accident in the Summer of 2014. Jessy had just gone through her initial yoga teacher training and was required to provide 8 hours of free classes to an under served market. She invited her friends to the park that had been intimidated to attend the yoga studio she went to. After that first accidental "pop up" in the park, Jen noted that people who had never tried yoga were rolling out their mats in this relaxed environment.
In April of 2015 Jessy and Jen along with friend Heather Perry committed to Popping Up in the parks twice a week for some 'Yoga in the Wild'. These donation based classes quickly caught on and in a short amount of time their flagship Sunday class was hosting up to 50+ students a week.
The girls set out into the community committed to leave spaces and places better than they found them. They began by popping up at local businesses/retail to bring awareness to unique Ventura locations, hosting beach cleanups, and as well as specialty Pop Up events.
Today Ventura Pop Up Yoga hosts classes 7 days a week as well as several Pop Up workshops a month. Depending on the season you can find multiple classes hosted outdoors or during the winter months, find classes at their seasonal indoor home.
Jessy and Jen love the community that has been created out of sharing their love for yoga. They pride themselves on practicing with brand new yogis each week, meeting practitioners from around the world, and the partnerships they've created in this community.
They recently launched their newest vision, Venture Well Yoga, which will continue the efforts to reach more people in unique spaces and places.
An open invitation stands to join us for your first yoga class or deepen your practice with us.
