Trauma Informed, Heart Centered, Sacred Healing Space, dedicated to Nervous System Regulation and Generational Trauma healing.
The Healing Studio for all Cycle and Curse Breakers.
11/06/2025
✨ “What do you even do?” ✨️
I get asked this a lot — and the truth is, it’s hard to fit into a tidy sentence.
I work with the body, but not just the muscles.
I listen to what your system is whispering — or sometimes screaming — beneath the surface.
I help your nervous system remember how to feel safe again.
My hands read what words can’t say.
They trace the stories written into your tissues — the tension you’ve carried for years, the protection your body built when life got too heavy, the exhaustion of always holding it together.
This isn’t a massage.
It’s a recalibration.
A soft reboot for your entire being.
Clients leave feeling lighter, more open, more themselves.
Sleep deepens. Breath returns. Emotions find their way out instead of staying stuck.
Your body starts communicating again — not in pain, but in peace.
What makes my work different isn’t just what I know — it’s how I see you.
Not as a bundle of symptoms to fix, but as a whole person whose body is trying its best to heal.
You don’t need to explain what’s wrong. Your body already will.
I just help it remember the way home. 🕊️
Reach out to Candace Raynes if you're ready to let go of all that's been ailing you💚
11/03/2025
New Schedule -
10/31/2025
It is with a heavy heart that I must notify you of the immediate closure of Shifting Light Studio at 1787 Rte 640, Hanwell NB. This was not an easy decision to come to but it is a necessary one.
This has been a year of deep reflection, shedding skins (it is a
9 year and snake afterall) and re-evaluating alignment.
When I first took over the new space I had a full team of practioners and teachers. This past 2 years has seen huge turnover and the team really had a lot of their own personal stuff coming up this year specifically so we had to start looking at future sustainablity.
Candace Raynes and Shifting Light are still here for you, it is just going to look a little different!
The reality is the space is far larger then I personally need and without a full team operating full time I have made the decision to simplify.
I (Candace Raynes) am moving my personal practice back to 231 Canada Street (southside folks send me a message and we will chat). My life looks so different now then it did when we started this journey and after months of reflection I am pulling all the way back and super simplifying this life again so that I am able to show up in my own personal life in the ways I want to.
I am grateful for the opportunity to show up these last few years in a different capacity then I had been, however this year really made me ask a lot of questions about what I truly desire, where I really want to go and what that all will look like or feel like.
Sometimes we take on more responsibilty then we know what to do with and it gives us the opportunity to really sit with what truly feels good. I never saw myself being a clinic owner/operator but also couldn't say no to such an incredible opportunity. That being said, I realized that I took on more then I even want to be doing. When I left the military it was with the intention to have more time and less stress...
I have noticed this last year that doing marketing does not bring me joy, that I am not showing up for myself or my kiddo the way I really want to be and started to ask myself some really important questions about how I want this life to feel.
Sometimes it is okay to let go of things that are no longer serving.
Sometimes we spend years chasing a Dream that might not even be our Dream anymore (or maybe it never was to begin with).
Sometimes saying Goodbye is just a way to begin again, in a more healthy and aligned way.
So with all of that being said, treatments are all moving to 231 Canada Street (beginning November 3rd), classes are on hold until the rebirth fully takes effect and I am only saying goodbye to a space, not all of you!
Everything else for you stays the same, just the location is changing.
Shifting Light Studio (and Candace Raynes) are going through a big shift, a revamp if you will that will ultimately be better for all of us. I will be better able to show up for YOU my incredible clients, my girl will get a more present mom and life will feel a little more simple even amoungst the chaos that is being human.
Watch for pop up classes, retreats, traveling sound baths, online options and a revamp of offerings, schedules and alignment. We are in the midst of the biggest transformation many of us will face in this lifetime and honouring ourselves and our needs is top priority!
I appreciate your patience as we flow through this change together. Just know that if you in the thick of it and it feels like nothing makes sense, you are not alone!! Give yourself the space to make the really hard choices that most align with you, your heart and how you want this life to feel.
Thank you for your continued support and any questions can come to me!
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So I've debated on how deep to go into “Who I Am” for months…to the point of just not doing it and dragging my feet in putting myself out there. That, however, will not help anyone - myself included, so here goes!
I was raised in a dysfunctional family (this is putting it lightly and I'll be going into that deeper in my blogs as time unfolds so keep your eyes open and ear to the ground), filled with generational pain, drug and alcohol abuse, and a general lack of Faith in the Divine/God/Source or whatever resonates most with you if any of it.
The highlights of the generational dysfunction include having children far earlier than society deems natural, marrying too young and an over-all case of pure self-loathing that manifested in a broken marriage, physical and emotional violence, and a seemingly deep-seated addictive personality to anything that would numb the pain of existence (money, s*x, alcohol, drugs, and dangerous living).
The pattern would seem to be being broken in one area only to pop up in another place and time with the same general outcome; mother's suffering from anxiety and depression, father's displaced from the lives of children and back to trying to numb the pain all over again!
It seemed like a never-ending circle of hopelessness and anguish that just wouldn't go away! Then trauma hit my oldest daughter and I decided enough was enough… I REFUSED to watch my children ”suffer” the same living experience I had (I had believed that the cycle had already been broken… boy, was I wrong!). I realized the only way to break the pattern was to actually do something different, take different steps than had ever been taken before and to stop pretending that the problems didn't stem from ME first and foremost. That was the hardest thing for me, realizing that each and every decision I made (sh*t-past or not) had brought us to that pivotal moment in our lives. To say that my oldest had finally decided that she was done living the life she had been given is putting it lightly… She helped blow the lid off the entire facade and has brought much needed healing to our family unit 💞
Sometimes our lives have to completely collapse around us before we can see the light… Before we can go inside and start healing the past pain, trauma and dis-ease in our lives. Often we are so blinded to the ‘truth’ that the glass ceiling must fall before we are even able to start looking at where it all came from and what started it all. This isn't blaming our past for the life we live nor is it blaming our parents or our ancestors because I firmly believe we ALL do the very best with what we know and until we know better nothing really changes… Once we know better we do better! Each generation does better than the generation before because we all want to be a better version of what we lived.
Life as I knew it fell down around me almost two years ago and the changes I've seen in myself, my children and those around have been incredible… I won't pretend it's been easy because it hasn't HOWEVER I will promise you it's worth it! There is nothing more empowering than taking the reins in your own life, taking ownership where ownership is due and learning another way live…
If you've had past trauma, family dysfunction, drug/alcohol abuse, anxiety or depression, are feeling stuck in your life, are in physical pain or suffering from any Mental Health concerns or are just done with living a life of pain of any kind then reach out, Reiki has truly saved my life in so many ways, in all ways actually!
There's not a day that goes by that in not thanking the universe for bringing in my beautiful teachers, mentors and all the AMAZING people I've met these past two years… I no longer “live” my past but have learned to love it (most days anyway and the days I'm not loving it, I'm learning to love myself for where I am instead) and all of the lessons it's given me.
Brighter days are possible for All of us and I would be honored and grateful to help you help yourself 💞
