The Silk Mill Retreat

Happy Satur-yay! Your barefoot bestie is in studio busy as bee 🐝 today.

👀 1 million views on Instagram?! I never thought I’d see the day. 🤣🙌🏻

Ahhh…how I love Royal treatment days.😌🙏🏻✨

Begin with the ancient Ayurvedic ritual Garshana to help exfoliate and improve your skins appearance. Followed by an Ayurvedic massage with medicinal oils tailored to your specific skin and body needs (or Dosha). This massage is a lymphatic massage - meaning it promotes the movement of the lymphatic system. The massage oils contain a blend of carefully chosen, potent herbs, known for their ability to strengthen the physiology, nourish the skin and body tissues, leaving the skin beautifully supple and smooth and your body and mind rejuvenated.

Having relaxed the body, you are now ready to relax the mind and nourish the scalp and hair. A cool eye compress is placed over the eyes to protect and refresh the eyes. Warm milk is poured onto the forehead in a continuous and rhythmic stream, following specific therapeutic patterns and slowly seeps into the scalp and nourishes the hair.

The gentle weight and warmth of the milk on the forehead stimulates the pituitary gland and in this way it is said to calm the mind, enhance circulation in the brain, improve memory and encourage sound sleep. It is especially effective for those who are experiencing anxiety, insomnia, depression, headaches, and stress and is an invaluable tool for balancing most sinuses, head and neck disorders.

Lying quietly on the table after your Ayurvedic massage and hair and scalp treatment; your body and mind completely relaxed and at peace - a canopy is placed over you. Your head remains cool and outside of the steam canopy. The canopy quickly fills up with warm herbal steam. Modern research shows that during steam treatment we experience an increase in our white blood cell count, lymphatic drainage, and circulation - thus The Royal Treatment of detoxing and nourishing the body is made complete with this final simmering.

Ya’ll have been asking me to create an Amazon storefront for things I use in my sessions for a long time so I spent a little time creating one this morning. 🙏🏻

I now have one at the top of my linktree on IG and I’ll also link in the comments below on Facebook.

Please know that while these are things I use in my sessions, I didn’t go buy them all at once. These are tools and amenities I added to my practice over time as my client base grew and as I was able to afford them. Do NOT feel pressured that you have to buy things to give an amazing client experience.

In the spirit of full transparency, I do make a small commission on purchases made through my storefront even though I have zero clue how much that actually is because I’m still figuring it out. 😆

Enjoy! 🛍️

*Edit: I’m posting this because it’s a regular request from my students, if you don’t shop on Amazon that’s cool and I love that you have chosen to stand firm in your beliefs whatever they are. I don’t shop at Target, 🤷🏼‍♀️ I have my own reasons. I have students all over the country who don’t have access to the same things as me and this is the easiest way to collect all those things that are tools I personally use and put them in one place for accessibility. 🤗♥️

I just had the most beautiful reading with my Astrologer this afternoon. 🥹🙏🏻

If you’ve been following me for a while you know quarterly transit readings are my most favorite gift I’ve given to myself over and over again for nearly 5 years.

Laura’s insight for the coming months ahead is absolutely invaluable, comforting and her spot on accuracy and prediction is uncanny.

If you’re looking for an astrologer…I can’t recommend Laura enough. ♥️ Give her a follow! ✨

This isn’t my usual content but felt called to share.

This morning while having my coffee, I watched a video of a woman on TikTok who was sharing how she watched an influencer fill her empty fridge to the brim with all her favorite things and didn’t even stop to ponder how much each item was. She just threw whatever she wanted in the cart, checked out with a card that didn’t decline and went home and filled her beautiful, fancy fridge. 🛒

And this sweet woman shared something super vulnerable on the internet about how she was 36 years old and had never had the experience of going to the store and filling her cart without counting to the penny or worrying about how much she spent.

Just like the lady in the video…I grew up with a single mom. My mom worked 3 jobs to make ends meet and there were times we were on and off food stamps and I was on reduced lunch at school. Although most people going to school with me never knew because my Gramma & Papa pitched in however they could by purchasing my school clothes and filling in to help my mom as much as they could/she would allow because she’s a prideful, resilient woman who taught me a lot about how to stretch and make due.

When I started out as a Massage Therapist at 23 years old, newly married, the 2008 housing collapse had just happened. I made “too much” for assistance and had a tight budget of $60 every two weeks to live on and THANK heaven we had Aldi because I honestly don’t know how we did it. We ate a lot of ramen, a lot of pans of green beans and potato’s and fried corn bread. But our bellies were full.

I remember just starting out and thinking God, if I can just get to a point where I can go food shopping inbetween paychecks, that’s how I know I will have made it. 🙏🏻

Building my business…the goal was never a wait list, a curated social media feed or for social media recognition even though my accounts have gained a ton of traction over the past year. Those are ALL things I’ve worked hard on and I’m sincerely grateful for.

The goal for me was always wanting to go shopping for food without stressing about every penny I spent.

And it was just yesterday, I was driving home from the store with a trunk full of food and with the utmost gratitude that here I am, all these years later of hard work and dedication to my profession and business going home to fill my fridge. And I did it inbetween paychecks without even thinking about it until that video showed up in my newsfeed this morning.

I say this because sometimes we forget what our previous struggles and sacrifices were to get to where we are today. There are things we take for granted today that we only ever dreamed of not so long ago. 🥹 So…I just want to share if you have a roof over your head, your good health, a partner or family who loves you and a fridge full of food today…you’re probably richer than you think. ♥️