Koru Touch

12/31/2025

🌙✨ New Year’s Eve: Moon Meets the Seven Sisters

Tonight, as the Moon draws close to the Pleiades — the Seven Sisters, we’re invited into a story held by First Nations peoples for countless generations.

In Aboriginal Australia, the Pleiades are known as Minyipuru — Seven Sisters — women of spirit and strength who travel together across the land and sky. In many versions of the story, the Sisters are pursued by a man who will not honor boundaries or sacred law. So they keep moving — crossing country, carrying their wisdom, protecting one another — until, in a final act of survival and sovereignty, they rise into the heavens. And there they remain: together, luminous, and forever beyond harm.

This isn’t just a “myth.” It’s a songline — a living teaching that ties the stars to the Earth, guiding people through time with lessons about respect, protection, and the power of sisterhood.

So on this New Year’s Eve, when the Moon meets the Seven Sisters, we can take it as a gentle omen:

🌙 May we enter the new year with clear boundaries.

✨ May we travel with those who protect our light.

🌌 May we remember we are never meant to walk alone.

Happy New Year, under the guardianship of the Sisters.

12/29/2025

Koru Touch — A Moment of Immersion ✨

Where the Soul of Healing Meets the Modern Seeker 🌿

At Koru Touch, we know some guests are looking for more than a standard spa experience. They want results and meaning — a place where facial massage, bodywork, and holistic treatments feel like a true immersion into renewal. 💆‍♀️💆‍♂️

If you’re tired of franchise routines and one-size-fits-all services, you’ll feel the difference here. This isn’t about fuzzy robes and surface-level pampering. It’s about skilled touch, soft tissue restoration, and the subtle energetic field of the body — offered in a calm, refined, fragrance-free, plant-based sanctuary. 🌱🤍

Our philosophy is rooted in the oldest stream of healing — a way of seeing that honors the soul in all things and supports a relationship with your Higher Self, the inner wisdom that knows what you need to heal. 🌍✨

Through quiet rest, intentional touch, and sacred self-care, the nervous system softens, the body unwinds, and harmony becomes possible again. 🌙🕊️

Come as you are. Leave more connected — to your body, your breath, and your deeper self. 💛

12/29/2025

✨ As the Year of the Snake comes to a close, we’re reflecting with deep gratitude on a year of expansion, devotion, and remembrance. 🐍🤍

This year brought powerful milestones:

🌙 Gregory completed the final gateways toward becoming a QHHT Practitioner (Level 1) — rooted in the teachings of Dolores Cannon and Sarah Breskman-Cosme.

👐 It also marked 26 years as a Licensed Massage Therapist, including advanced study in Anatomy Trains with Tom Myers.

🌈 Ray deepened his path in Esogetic Colorpuncture Light Therapy, a gentle approach using light + color to support balance, coherence, and nervous system restoration.

📸 We expanded our offerings with the addition of a BioScan Kirlian Digital Camera, bringing greater clarity to light-based energy work.

🐾 And we welcomed a new soul into our family — Tashi, our French bulldog, who carries the lineage of a long line of beloved angels who have gifted our lives. His Bhutanese name means “the bringing together of happiness.”

🌿 Koru Touch remains a vegan, fragrance-free sanctuary, and we’re deeply honored to be recognized as one of the Top 3 Spas in Winston-Salem.

If you’re new here… welcome.
If you’ve been with us… thank you. 🤍

✨ Booking is open — link in bio.

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12/22/2025

✨ 12 • 25 • 25 ✨
A sacred numerical countdown to Christmas… 🎄💫

For this final energetic window before the holiday, I am opening space for a private shopper experience, guiding you personally through meaningful, plant-based gifting with ease and care. 🤍

⏳ For the next 24 hours only
✨ Offer ends at 8:00 PM on 12/23/25 ✨

During your one-on-one private shopping time with me, enjoy:

🎁 Up to 20% off
🌊 OSEA Skincare – ocean-infused, plant-based radiance
🌿 Shankara Body Oils – Ayurvedic nourishment for body & nervous system
🌸 Romany Botanicals Flower Essences – subtle vibrational plant allies for emotional balance, clarity & heart support

Flower essences are especially beautiful holiday gifts — gentle, soulful, and perfect for those who value inner harmony as much as outer beauty. ✨

I’m here to help you select the perfect gift — thoughtfully, calmly, and with intention.

📲 Text me directly: 336-682-9956
💌 Or DM me here to schedule your private shopping moment

Let gifting feel supported, personal, and aligned.

With warmth,
Gregory 🤍

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12/15/2025

🌿❄️ | Seasonal Announcement (Retail + Facial)🌹Laurel Skincare🌹

Winter calls for warmth, nourishment, and deeper care—for both skin and nervous system. This season, we’re offering two new winter-focused ways to restore radiance at Koru Touch.

NOW IN RETAIL 🌹Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose 🌹

A limited holiday offering from Laurel Skin, this deeply hydrating facial mist supports dry, dehydrated winter skin with whole-plant botanicals that strengthen the skin barrier, encourage lymphatic flow, and restore vitality. Crafted with Damask rose, tulsi, marshmallow root, astragalus, and cranberry seed oil, it’s a beautiful daily ritual—or a thoughtful Christmas gift.

💆‍♀️ NEW Seasonal Service ❄️✨Replenishing Winter Ritual Facial — 80 min ✨❄️

This cocooning winter facial centers around Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose and Laurel’s Honey Rose Spice Mask, a warming blend of raw honey, heirloom roses, and aromatic spices that gently exfoliates, stimulates circulation, and awakens a soft, rosy glow. Through slow massage, warm compresses, and intentional touch, the lymphatic and circulatory systems are supported—leaving skin luminous, hydrated, and deeply comforted.

🛍 Shop Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose:
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📅 Schedule the Replenishing Winter Ritual Facial:
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12/15/2025

Just in Time for Christmas: Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose + Our New Replenishing Winter Facial

As winter settles in, our skin asks for deeper nourishment, warmth, and care. We’re delighted to introduce two seasonal offerings designed to support you through the colder months—both rooted in whole-plant beauty, intentional touch, and the quiet restoration winter invites.

🌹 NEW in Retail | Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose —

Just in time for Christmas, Laurel’s Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose has arrived at Koru Touch. This limited-edition, deeply replenishing facial mist is crafted for dry, dehydrated, and devitalized winter skin. A lush blend of Damask rose, tulsi, marshmallow root, and astragalus floods the skin with hydration while supporting barrier repair, lymphatic flow, and seasonal vitality. It’s the perfect daily ritual—or a thoughtful, nourishing gift for someone you love.

✨ NEW Seasonal Facial | Replenishing Winter Facial — 80 minutes
We’ve also created a new winter-only facial experience to cocoon the skin in warmth and renewal. The Replenishing Winter Facial centers around Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose and Laurel’s Honey Rose Spice Mask, a warming blend of raw honey, heirloom roses, and aromatic spices that gently exfoliates, brightens, and stimulates circulation. Slow massage, warm compresses, and intentional touch support the lymphatic and circulatory systems—leaving skin luminous, hydrated, and deeply comforted.

Whether you’re seeking a moment of rest for yourself, radiant winter skin, or a meaningful holiday gift, these offerings are designed to meet you where the season calls you inward.

🎄 Winter Elixir Tulsi Rose is available now in retail
💆‍♀️ Replenishing Winter Facial is now booking for the season

We look forward to welcoming you into warmth.

With care,
Gregory & Ray

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12/10/2025

We are humbled to share that Koru Touch has once again been recognized as one of the Top 3 Best Spas in Winston-Salem for 2026. ✨💚
For ten years, this honor has reflected not only the treatments we offer, but the way we live, the choices we make daily, and the unseen layers of care carried by practitioners Ray Pruett and Gregory Cartwright.

What many never see — but always feel — is the quiet, intentional architecture behind every moment at Koru Touch.
This sanctuary is not curated for aesthetics or branding…
it is built as a living altar, tended with devotion, and aligned with a lifestyle of purity, presence, and plant-based integrity.

Behind each session rests a field prepared long before a guest arrives:

🌬️ Molekule air purification in every treatment room
A vow to those with sensitivities, respiratory concerns, immune fragility, or fragrance intolerance — ensuring the breath is safe, clean, and supported.

💧 Alive Water vortexed at home
A reflection of how we choose to live: gently, cleanly, and in harmony with nature’s intelligence — mirroring the spiraling movement of springs and rivers.

✨ Rayonex frequency support (Paul Schmidt method)
A subtle harmonizing layer that encourages coherence within the biofield, supporting guests in releasing tension and entering deeper states of ease.

🧺 Supima® Cotton linens as sensory medicine
Touch matters. The nervous system responds instantly. Pure, refined natural fibers become part of the healing ceremony, inviting the body to soften.

🌱 Plant-based, fragrance-free product integrity
Every oil, serum, and formulation is vetted down to hidden ingredients. Nothing synthetic enters the sanctuary. Nothing that disrupts the subtle field.

🜁 Global sacred art — silent allies in the room
Aboriginal healing art, Bhutanese and Tibetan pieces, Acoma Pueblo pottery, Khmer weaving, gemstones, and guardians of light.
Each piece was chosen not for decoration, but for its capacity to anchor prayer, protect the space, and elevate the healing field.

These elements form a tapestry of care that holds every guest —
body, mind, and soul.
They are part of the unseen conversation between practitioner and space, between breath and intention, between the human and the divine.

This is how Ray Pruett and Gregory Cartwright serve.
This is the sanctuary they tend.
This is the heart behind a decade of recognition through the Three Best Rated award.

For those who feel called to walk deeper into the story, the full blog rests here:
🔗 http://www.korutouch.com/s/stories/behind-the-scenes-holistic-spa-2

12/10/2025

Why My Astrology Chart Explains the Healing Arts I Practice ✨🌿

My recent relocation astrology report offered a profound affirmation:
the modalities I practice are not random — they are written directly into my chart.

My ascendant aligns with Juno, which means I’m designed to heal through relationship. Clients feel safe, seen, and met because the chart itself encodes relational trust and partnership.

I also carry Chiron Rising, known as the Wounded Healer. This influence reveals that my own healing journey is the foundation of how I guide others — through empathy, intuition, and lived understanding.

Here’s how the planetary lines explain why each modality belongs in my practice:

🌿 Integrative Massage & Esalen Massage
Guided by Chiron & Pluto — the planets of deep release, emotional integration, and transformation through touch.
🌸 Holistic Facials
Influenced by Vega — a star of harmony, beauty, refinement, and healing through plant intelligence.
It explains why whole-plant skincare aligns so strongly with my spirit.
🔮 QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique®)
Neptune rules trance, intuition, past-life recall, and spiritual opening.
It literally marks hypnosis, regression, and soul wisdom as part of my destiny.
🧡 Abdominal Collective Techniques
Pluto governs the deep body — organs, fascia, psoas, emotional memory.
This is why abdominal therapy is so naturally integrated into my work.
🌀 Functional Spinal Movement
Uranus directs energy through the spine and nervous system — the body’s antenna.
This explains my calling to restore flow, movement, and intuitive alignment in the spine.
🌈 Esogetic Colorpuncture Light Therapy
Neptune + Vega emphasize healing through frequency, color, vibration, and subtle-body work.

And at the heart of the chart sits Sirius, a star of mastery and spiritual initiation —
a reminder that my healing path is a soul contract.

All of these influences weave together into the work I offer each day at Koru Touch:
a sanctuary where body, soul, and spirit return to harmony.

12/09/2025

The Sacred Textile Beneath Every Healing Session: The Making of the Yathra Blanket ✨🌿

In my treatment room, healing is supported not only by technique, but by the wisdom of global lineages that surround and elevate every session.

Your treatment bed holds a Yathra blanket from Bhutan…
🧶 prepared wool
🌀 symbolic motifs including the Tibetan Eternal Knot

Above it hangs “Shinay / Calm Abiding” (Śamatha) — teaching that healing happens in silence through prayer, meditation, and rest.
Beside it, Green Tara dissolves fear and elevates emotional healing into physical release.

Two Aboriginal Bush Medicine artworks hold ancestral memory and plant wisdom.
These ancient civilizations create an energetic matrix that supports every modality I practice:
✨ Holistic Massage Therapy
✨ Holistic Facials
✨ Esogetic Colorpuncture Light Therapy
✨ Spa Rituals
✨ Energy Work
✨ QHHT — Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique®

Together, they complete ley lines, invite downloads, dissolve blockages, and return you to your soul’s harmony.

12/08/2025

North Carolina gifted us her first snow today — 12/08/25 — a soft, luminous beginning to winter. ❄️✨
Our French Bulldogs slipped into their hibernation rituals, and Soi Kitty awaited his warm meal with regal patience, while the fireplace filled our home with a grounding, hearth-centered warmth. 🔥💛

On this quiet day off, Ray and I prepared the treatment rooms with devotion.
We upgraded the lighting with two sacred guardians: Green Tara and a massive Ohm piece from Bhutan. Ohm — the first sound in the creation of the universe — restores stillness, peace, and deep rest simply by its presence.

These pieces are more than visual beauty.
They communicate directly with the higher selves of all who enter, opening the subtle body before the healing session even begins.

We then dressed each treatment bed in the Bhutanese weavings from our October journey — each one a prayer, a lineage, a vibration. 🇧🇹🕊️

Astrologically, today blends multiple currents:
♐ Sagittarius season for meaning and vision
💧 Winter’s Water element for stillness
🐀 Water Rat month for intuition and ancestral memory.

Together, they create the perfect environment for healing and spiritual recalibration.

Wherever you rest tonight, may you feel wrapped in the universe’s wool-sweater embrace — warm, supported, and gently guided forward. 🌨️🤍

12/04/2025

✨ Gemini Full Supermoon Ritual: Cleansing Under the Stars ✨

Tonight, I’m celebrating the last full supermoon of 2026 under the enchanting energy of the Gemini moon. ♊️ I’ve placed all my crystals in a rainwater and Himalayan salt bath out in the garden, letting them soak up the moon’s magic. As the moonlight bathes them, they’re being cleansed and recharged with new, luminous energy. 🌕✨

Let’s embrace this moment to release the old and welcome fresh insights.