The Raven Heart

03/21/2026

It’s that time:
✨Spring Renewal: Awakening the Spine✨

Register on the MINDBODY app or send us a message. Limited spots.
Members receive 20% off.
No experience needed, all are welcome.

A Somatic Movement, Reiki & Restorative Experience

Spring invites the body to awaken after the stillness of winter. Just as sap begins to rise through the trees, our own life force begins to move again through the spine.

In this special afternoon, we’ll explore the spine as both a physical and energetic channel of renewal. Through gentle somatic movements, breath, and restorative yoga, we will soften the tissues of the back body and invite the nervous system into deep rest.

We will also journey through the energy centers (chakras) along the spine, bringing awareness and healing to the places where energy may have become stuck or held.

Louise Hay spoke of the spine as representing our support system in life, and each vertebra holding emotional patterns connected to how safe, supported, and expressed we feel in the world.

Through guided meditation, Reiki, gentle massage/touch and intentional rest, this experience becomes an opportunity to:
✨ release stored tension in the spine
✨ restore flow through the nervous system
✨ gently clear and balance the chakra centers
✨ reconnect with the body’s natural intelligence for healing

As spring energy begins to rise in the natural world, this practice invites us to release what the body has been carrying and allow fresh life force to move freely through the spine.

03/21/2026

We are so excited to share next week who will be joining us for this magical day ✨

03/20/2026

Happy Spring Equinox 🌷✨

Join us tomorrow to celebrate this powerful shift 🤍

Happy March 1st 🤍

✨The Nest: Spring Equinox Celebration✨

March 21st at 7:00pm-9:00pm
Investment: $60+hst
Members receive 20% applied at check out

The nest is a universal symbol of home, safety, and potential. By entering this shared space, we prepare ourselves to take flight with our intentions as the season unfolds. Can you feel it?

Join Us For A Sacred Journey of Cacao, Om, & Sound Immersion.

Just as birds gather materials to build their nests in the spring, we gather to build our intentions and prepare a safe, warm space within ourselves for new life to emerge. This Spring Equinox event is a sanctuary, a nest, designed to shed the old and nurture the new.

Our journey begins within the safety of our communal nest where we share the heart-opening medicine of Ceremonial Cacao, allowing us to drop into our inner sanctuary. As we sip, we set our personal “seeds”, the intentions we wish to manifest from this secure, nurturing space. We will unite our voices, chanting the sound of creation creating a unified field of harmony and alignment. A powerful experience.

With hearts open and intentions set, you will rest in a landscape of sacred sound.

Please dress comfortable, bring water to drink, a journal and pen and a mug for cacao or tea✨

03/18/2026

We Are Looking For A Practitioner To Join Our Team 🖤

The Raven Heart is expanding, and we are opening space for a new practitioner to join our sanctuary.
This is more than a position.
It’s an invitation to be part of a space rooted in healing, presence, and deep care for the people who walk through our doors.
We are open to a range of holistic modalities, whether you are a Reiki practitioner, massage therapist, osteopath, or offer something unique that supports the mind, body, and spirit.
What matters most is not just what you do, but how you hold space.

We are looking for someone who:
• Is grounded, responsible, and self-led
• Feels genuinely called to support others on their healing journey
• Carries a depth of presence, compassion, and integrity
• Is committed to their own growth and personal practice
• Is aligned with the energy and intention of The Raven Heart

Opportunities for continued learning, collaboration, and training are available within our space.

If you feel a resonance with this, we would love to connect.
Please send a little about yourself, your offerings and why you think you would be a good fit to theravenheartsanctuary@gmail.com

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03/18/2026

Voices of The Raven Heart 🖤

Every person who walks through our doors carries a story. Stories of healing, of returning to the body, of learning to breathe again…
Of finding calm in the nervous system and connection within community.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing real experiences from the people who are the heart of this space.✨

“The balance of mindfulness and physical conditioning at The Raven Heart brings positive changes to my mind and body… and through the sense of community, my spirit.”
— Larry✨

If you’ve been feeling the pull to begin, to slow down, or to reconnect…this may be your sign.

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03/17/2026

🤍Indian Head Massage🤍

Book your appointment today! Appointments available this Friday ✨
60 min treatment: $95+hst
Book via the MINDBODY app or send us a message!

At The Raven Heart, Indian Head Massage is more than a treatment, it’s an act of self care that deeply nurtures the body, clears the mind, and restores energetic balance.

Rooted in ancient Ayurvedic tradition, this ritual focuses on the chest, shoulders, neck, scalp, face and upper back. Areas where tension, stress, and unspoken emotion often collect. Through rhythmic movements, gentle pressure, and intentional touch, stagnant energy begins to move… the body exhales, the mind softens, and the spirit returns to stillness.

✨ Physical Benefits
•Relieves tension headaches and jaw tightness
•Improves blood and lymphatic flow
•Stimulates hair growth and nourishes the scalp
•Releases shoulder and neck strain from daily stress

✨Energetic & Emotional Benefits
•Clears heaviness from the crown and third eye chakras
•Balances prana (life force energy) through the upper chakras & marma points
•Supports deep rest, clarity, and nervous system regulation
•Invites grounding while opening the pathways to higher awareness

✨Spiritual Essence
Each session honours the marma points, the sacred meeting places of body, energy, and consciousness. As these portals awaken, the subtle body begins to harmonize, guiding the spirit toward stillness and integration. Clients often describe feeling “lighter,” “clearer,” or more connected to something deeper within.

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03/17/2026

Happy March 1st 🤍

✨The Nest: Spring Equinox Celebration✨

March 21st at 7:00pm-9:00pm
Investment: $60+hst
Members receive 20% applied at check out

The nest is a universal symbol of home, safety, and potential. By entering this shared space, we prepare ourselves to take flight with our intentions as the season unfolds. Can you feel it?

Join Us For A Sacred Journey of Cacao, Om, & Sound Immersion.

Just as birds gather materials to build their nests in the spring, we gather to build our intentions and prepare a safe, warm space within ourselves for new life to emerge. This Spring Equinox event is a sanctuary, a nest, designed to shed the old and nurture the new.

Our journey begins within the safety of our communal nest where we share the heart-opening medicine of Ceremonial Cacao, allowing us to drop into our inner sanctuary. As we sip, we set our personal “seeds”, the intentions we wish to manifest from this secure, nurturing space. We will unite our voices, chanting the sound of creation creating a unified field of harmony and alignment. A powerful experience.

With hearts open and intentions set, you will rest in a landscape of sacred sound.

Please dress comfortable, bring water to drink, a journal and pen and a mug for cacao or tea✨

03/13/2026

Yoga For The Little Ones & The Grown Ups

We have had a lot of interest for this one so we are bringing it to life ✨ And we hope you will join us!

BEGINS: April 4th - April 25th
INVESTMENT: $70+hst per child Ages 4-8
Register by sending an email to theravenheartsanctuary@gmail.com

This 4-week yoga program for children (ages 4–8) and their caregivers is less about achieving the perfect “Downward Dog” and more about connection, emotional regulation, and play. At this developmental stage, the goal is to bridge the gap between a child’s high energy and a grown-up’s need for calm.

We will be using a blend of movement, breath, and partner poses to strengthen the bond between child and caregiver while building physical literacy.

This program offers meaningful benefits for both the individual and the relationship, specifically designed to improve a child’s motor skills and body awareness while providing them with a practical “toolkit” for navigating moments of frustration. For the grown-up, it serves as a rare, dedicated window of undistracted time to simply play and connect, effectively reducing stress for both parties. Ultimately, the experience creates a shared “secret language” of breaths and poses that the duo can carry home to transform bedtime or other high-pressure moments into opportunities for calm.

✨Meet Ingrid:

Ingrid Parrott – Certified Yoga Teacher

Ingrid is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher with a specialized 95-hour training in trauma-informed yoga for youth. She brings mindfulness, creativity, and intention to every class, guiding students to build strength, flexibility, and emotional balance while cultivating calm and self-awareness.

03/13/2026

S A V E ✨ T H E ✨ D A T E

We are so excited to share our 4th Community Wellness Event is happening soon!

This event has continued to be a success because of YOU! We can’t thank you enough for your love and support!

Over the years, The Raven Heart has become a place where people come to reconnect with themselves, to breathe a little deeper, to move, to heal, and to remember they are not alone on the journey.
And this gathering has become a reflection of that.

This day is a celebration of everything that lives within this space: connection, healing, curiosity, and the magic that unfolds when people come together.

On May 2nd, we will once again open our doors and welcome local wellness practitioners, vendors, and passionate community members who are dedicated to supporting holistic health and wellbeing.
✨ Explore wellness offerings
✨ Connect with inspiring local businesses
✨ Discover new pathways to healing
✨ Celebrate the beauty of community

Whether you have been walking alongside us since the early days of The Raven Heart or are just discovering this space, you are invited to join us.

🖤 Save the date: May 2nd
More details to come.

We are also incredibly grateful for the local businesses and practitioners who continue to join us and share their work with our community.

This event would not be what it is without the passionate people who show up each year to offer their knowledge, gifts, and services. Together, we create a space where our community can explore new pathways to wellness and connect with the many incredible practitioners and small businesses right here in our own town.

Supporting local and supporting one another is a big part of what makes this day so special.

03/12/2026

Still integrating the experience of seeing Wim Hof speak this week. One of my favourite experiences so far!

What I appreciate most about his message is the deep belief in the body’s incredible intelligence, its ability to regulate, heal, and overcome far more than we often give it credit for. I have to remind myself often how far I am come on my journey and when I do I instantly move into a state of gratitude.

He speaks a lot about remembering that we are more than just a body… that there is a deeper part of us, a soul, a consciousness, experiencing life through this physical form.

And when we reconnect with the body through the breath, we begin to remember that relationship again.
This is such a powerful experience and my hope for humanity.

He speaks about something powerful:
that we actually have more agency over our bodies than we’ve been taught to believe. This we must remember.

So many of us have learned to disconnect from the body…
to override its signals, push through exhaustion, or ignore what it’s trying to tell us.
But the body holds immense wisdom.
I am deeply passionate about holding space for others to reconnect to their bodies.

Through practices like breathwork, movement, stillness, and awareness, we begin to remember that we can listen to the body, work with it, and support its natural ability to regulate and heal.

For me, it was a powerful reminder of something I witness every day in the studio and what I have witnessed with myself.
When we slow down…
When we breathe…
When we create space for the nervous system to soften…
The body begins to do what it was always designed to do.
Heal. Regulate. Restore.

The body is far more powerful than we’ve been taught to believe.

We are far more powerful than we think.

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03/09/2026

Blessed International Women’s Day 🖤

Today I feel especially grateful for the incredible women who help bring The Raven Heart to life.
This space is healing, and its energy has been shaped and infused by the many powerful women who hold space within these walls.

To the women who teach, support, heal, and serve this community, thank you.
And to the women who come here to practice, receive, rest, and grow, you are just as much a part of this circle.

My prayer today is that women everywhere feel their strength, their worth, and the deep wisdom they carry within.

I am deeply grateful to be surrounded by such incredible women in my family, my life, and in this community.

With love,
Ashley 🖤