Presence Studio

12/08/2025

❄️ Tonight is the final night of our Core Series! ❄️

A brand-new 7-week winter program beginning Monday, December 15th:

✨ Winter Restore & Strengthen Series ✨

A cozy, grounding, strengthening winter series designed to help you reconnect with your center, rebuild stability, and move through the season with more ease and strength. 💪❄️

This program runs for 7 weeks — 7 people — 7 Mondays — $120.
Join in person at 27 Dock Road or via Zoom from wherever you are. 🧘‍♀️💻

If you’d like to sign up for this restorative + strengthening 7-week program, just text 506-609-0671 to reserve your spot.
Spaces are limited! 🤍✨

12/08/2025

✨ Last-minute cancellation ✨
Reflexology appointment tomorrow, 10:30–11:30am.
Text or call 613-715-3580 if you'd like to book it. BOOKED

12/06/2025

Would you like to join our classes from home? ✨
Too cold to go outside or dealing with wintry conditions?
Online classes are now available via Zoom!

Join virtually from wherever you are cozy, comfortable. 🫶🏻

Text 506-609-0671 to receive your private Zoom link.

Sessions are gentle, grounding, and focused on listening to your body. 🤍✨

12/05/2025

Feeling stressed or “wired but tired”? 😮‍💨💛

Here are simple foods that can naturally help bring cortisol levels down

When the body is overwhelmed, your adrenal system works overtime but certain foods gently support the nervous system, heart, gut, and muscles, helping the body soften its stress response from the inside out. 🌿✨

🥑 Avocado brings healthy fats that calm the brain and stabilize mood.
🍓 Berries are packed with antioxidants to protect the body from stress overload.
🐟 Salmon supports heart health and helps reduce the stress response.
🍫 Dark chocolate (70%+) in small amounts helps regulate cortisol and brings a sense of calm.
🍌 Bananas support serotonin and help the gut brain connection settle.
🍵 Chamomile tea soothes the vagus nerve and signals the body to slow down.
🥬 Leafy greens and 🎃 magnesium rich foods relax the muscles and ease tension.

These nourishing foods work together to bring the body back toward balance, helping you feel more grounded, calmer, and supported during stressful seasons especially December. 🤍✨

12/03/2025

Do you find that December feels extra stressful? 🎄😮‍💨

Between the over-commercialization, the pressure to “do more,” and the financial strain so many people are facing right now, it’s no wonder cortisol levels climb this time of year.

When the nervous system senses pressure it shifts into fight or flight making us feel tense, overwhelmed, and disconnected from the true meaning of the season. ✨

This year, try choosing simplicity over stress. Instead of focusing on the commercial side, shift toward meaningful connection: slow evenings with loved ones, shared meals, storytelling, walking outside together, or making something homemade. 🍲🕯️

Walk through the house with softer lighting, light a candle, reduce the noise and practice mini resets throughout the day like one minute of soft breathing, a warm drink without your phone, or stepping outside for a moment of quiet.
Just these tiny changes help drop cortisol and bring the body back into balance. 🌿🤍

Let December be about presence, not presents. Time, love, and attention are the real gifts. 🎁🤍✨

12/02/2025

✨ Do you know how much sound really affects the body? ✨

In the early 1900s, Nikola Tesla spoke openly about the power of frequency, energy, and vibration long before modern science caught up. He believed the entire human system responds to vibration, and today we can actually measure how sound impacts the nervous system, cortisol levels, and emotional well-being. 🎶💛

In one of my sound healing courses, I learned how certain frequencies like 528 Hz and other restorative tones can help the body shift out of stress mode and into a calmer, more regulated state. And honestly, when I work with clients (and even on myself), I feel the difference every single time.

The breath slows, the shoulders drop, and the whole system softens. ✨😌

Sound travels through the body’s tissues, fascia, and water content, gently influencing the vagus nerve, lowering cortisol, and helping release emotional tension we don’t even realize we’re holding.

It’s not just “relaxing music” it’s vibration interacting with the body at a cellular level. 💫🌿

Here are just a few things I’ve learned and now interpret and use in my own practice:
🎵 Frequencies help calm the stress response
🎵 Sound supports cellular repair through vibration
🎵 Healing tones can release emotional heaviness stored in the body
🎵 The nervous system responds instantly to certain vibrations

Sound truly is medicine ancient, intuitive, and now scientifically supported. When we sit in stillness and listen to a healing frequency, the entire body responds with relief, softness, and balance. 🤍✨

12/02/2025

12/01/2025

Do you ever notice your body feeling on edge even when nothing is wrong?
That’s your nervous system asking for stillness. When we don’t pause, cortisol our stress hormone ,stays elevated, keeping the body in a low-grade fight-or-flight mode.
Over time, this affects sleep, digestion, mood, immunity and even how grounded we feel.

Finding moments of quiet isn’t a luxury it’s nervous system medicine. 🤍✨

✨ Why Stillness Matters
❤️Rest lowers cortisol so your body can shift into the rest-and-digest state
🧡It gives the adrenals a break so your energy can rebuild
💛It calms the mind, slows the breath, and signals safety to your whole system
💚It helps soften muscle tension, jaw clenching, and that “buzzed” feeling in the body

✨ Ways to Bring Your Body Out of Fight-or-Flight
🩵Sit in silence for 2–5 minutes and gently lengthen your exhale
💙Place a hand on your chest or belly and breathe into that contact
💜Try legs-up-the-wall or reclined rest to settle the nervous system
🤍Step outside for a few quiet breaths of fresh air
🩶Soften the jaw, drop the shoulders, unclench the hands

This is the first post in a little series I am creating on simple supportive things you can do to help your body feel safe rested, and restored.
More to come.🤍✨

12/01/2025

No experience necessary. Whether on your mat or in a chair 🪑 🤍✨