Rooted & Reaching Wellness, 143 Park Ln (2026)

13/11/2025

All parts of the human experience show up on the massage table and in herbal wellness consultation ~ I am forever honored and humbled to walk alongside you and offer a helping hand.

13/03/2025

As a practitioner I choose to walk the path of learning continuously 🌀 This fall and winter I deepened into the study of elemental medicine.:.the principals that are the foundation of my herbal consultations and massage practice.:.Through the lenses of Tibetan and Ayruvedic medicine this clinical program and internship has infused my work with the a view of the inner and outer worlds, how our emotional and mental holdings and engagements form our physical presentations and subsequently grant the key to our freedom in the dance of healing. Developing the skill of pulse reading and further assessment of how our body presents with hot, cold, wet, and dry tissues has been a sacred container to all the western medicine training I use to bridge my work with individuals wellness care. Most days I feel like a liaison between medical practitioners and the ways of cultivating wellness through lived experience that are accessible, attainable, and a living right to all being. All tissues in our bodies can change from lymph to blood to muscle to skin to bones to nerves all the way through to our reproductive health. Whether the body is inflamed with fire, cold with contraction, stagnant with excess waters, &/or dry in the rivers of our bodies blood and lymphatic fluid. All systems in our body can find greater balance in health ~ Matters of willingness to change and destiny speak. This training was just the beginning with a teacher I will learn from for years to come. Grateful for her service and dedication on the path. Next stop India 😉

12/02/2025

Finding ways for the body to allow me to sink in .:. without sharpe points and force ~ therapeutic massage can be relaxation massage. These tool help me work with all body shapes and sizes with greater ease. Athletes particularly love it. 😉

16/09/2024

Happy Monday .:. Here’s some delicious chest & shoulder openers with massage and facilitated stretching. .:.

By moving the body around carefully in a way that allows the receiver to feel well supported I can find areas of restriction. My client and I can feel where they are actively engaged and holding a muscle. By utilizing gravity & motion the client can receive an embodied understanding of what muscles need to ”let go” and what needs to strengthen.

Also it tends to feel pretty great!

If you need a little pick me up, come see me in my practice in Kirkland !

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05/09/2024

This plant’s taste is bitter as all get out, herbaceous, with a rich deep undertone, & hints of acrid. When ingested this flavor sends a shiver down my spine. Settling me in the seat of myself, my center.

If we are focused on consuming only for enjoyment why would I intake such a flavor? Through taste you can distinguish herbal actions, getting acquainted with qualities that offer the body means for shifting

Health comes from consuming all flavors - sour, bitter, pungent (spicy), sweet, umami (savory)

Small amounts of bitter stimulates digestion; eases stagnation in the stomach; helps assimilation of nutrients and elimination of waste to occur

Acrid correlates to the influence if muscle relaxation ~ offering ease to the smooth muscle of our stomach & uterus, relaxing uterine cramps and untying those knots from your stomach. Even striated muscle can be more easily be relaxed when working with this remedy~ supporting the internal queue to drop your shoulders from your ears unclench your jaw

I have a deep love affair going with Blue Vervain~ Verbena hastata. One of two herbs I lovingly call the herbs of embodiment

A client recently asked how I would describe being grounded?

I imagine most folks have a sense for what it feels like to be with person who feel grounded. The common ‘down to earth’ sentiment. It feels steady, safe, present, connected. Imagine times when you’ve experienced a lived sense of these qualities inside yourself. What did it offer you?

To have ground underneath us allows us to be supported, held. To move and think with strength and grace

In comparison to have unsteady ground beneath us like when climbing a steep hillside, the challenge can interrupt this ease. Clenching muscles is apart of mistrust and being in a high alert state. Functional at times, but this high alert state is maladapted when we get stuck there as a baseline.

For me to be grounded is to be embodied~ To be nimble and creative in the face of a repetitive motion, production centered world. Knowing when my body & mind are overactive or disconnected, is to know when I need to come back to myself

Vervain helps me with this practice. What helps you feel grounded?

23/07/2024

Rooted & Reaching Wellness is settled into a brick-and-mortar in Kirkland, WA. Come experience a Therapeutic Massage that is attuned to your preferences, comfort, and therapeutic outcomes. Each session is unique for each recipient ~ Guided by my study of the human body and the wisdom of your embodied experience.

If you’ve received a massage from me - help me make a drumroll in the algorithm. Drop a few words about my work in the comments to help describe the multifaceted experience of a therapeutic massage with me!

Bookings available Monday-Friday ✨

I look forward to working with you!
Scheduling on my website link in bio

07/03/2024

Come dive into all things Nervous System Response; digestive capacity, pain management, mental clarity, stress response, emotional regulation, and more. While being introduced to plant allies that hold the capacity to support you when you just don't have it your own. Life is complex and cultivating resilience is the best thing we can do to ensure we are leading our own lives from a balanced place and showing up in all our glory!

From previous classes, the engagement during, and feedback after, this course has been so great I have expanded it and made it into a 6 hour workshop!

The day will conclude with a Build- Your- Own tea blend so you can take home the remedies and begin working with them.

Hosted at The Grateful Desert Apothecary April 3rd, in Joshua Tree California
Presented by Clinical Herbalist Lauren Flanagan

Seats are limited! To purchase your ticket scan the QR code or visit
www.RootedAndReachingWellness.Com

19/01/2024

Introducing the new symbolism of Rooted and Reaching Wellness ~ as Therapeutic Massage and Craniosacral Therapy become equal pillars to Clinical Herbalism in my work offerings to help folks rekindle wellness in their beings this updated logo feels complete.

Being Rooted in that which nourishes us ~ enlivens us to be Reaching into our passions; this is how we become centered in Wellness.

03/10/2023

In person class alert! 🔔🌿

Come share in the wonders of how herbal medicine can aid the human body’s nervous system in regaining and maintaining balance through the many asks that life presents us. ✨

The nervous system is the signaling pathway through the body and imbalance in this system intersects with many aspect of our health; adequate digestion, sleep, pain signaling, addiction /recovery, overall feeling center, clarity of mind, and on and on. ⚡️

This 4 hour long class allows space for the topic to expand our knowledge of how to identify nervous system over- & under- activity and how to meet ourselves during these times with support, as well as learning to cultivate resilience in our bodies for whatever comes our way in the future. 🌹

Interspersed throughout this class we will discuss and engage with body based practices that can help us regulate our nervous system ~ learning ways we can help the plants in their work.

During class you will have the opportunity to taste some of these remedies and prepare your own loose leaf tea blend to take home with you. 🌲

I completed a B.sc Herbal Sciences degree at Bastyr and I am excited to bring community education back to the space where my learning of plants and human health first deepened. 🌀

During my time at Bastyr I rooted into knowing the plants from a foundation of pharmacological action and human physiology. From this foundation I am happy to share all I have learned in my continued studies and clinical herbal work over the years integrated with elemental and energetic understanding of the plants and the human body. 🌱🌬🔥💧

Use discount code: ROOTEDRW5

Come get nerdy with me y’all!

26/05/2023

.:. Playing with Rose .:.

Blooms like a swelling wave move through our ecosystem as the plants begin to take their full expression. offering just a moment to capture their essence.

🌹 In the hours before dusk harvesting rose in a community garden, water trickling from a fountain behind me. I’m entranced feeling everything inside me shift. As I harvest I note they feel cooler than the air, her fragrance and sight lifts my drowsy end of the day veil. The slow task of harvesting and processing settles me. This is rose medicine, this is the medicine of engaging with plants.

🌀My life is “busy” full, of work and relating.. my northern skin is finally getting sun kissed in the best of ways. Even in joy my body is subjected to the extra heat of this motion and these longer days. In this season of spring turn summer, I can’t help but to follow the inspiration. Around my days work, and in the gardens I often find myself in activity for 15 hours a day. Leaving the rest of winter behind.

✨🌹🌊Capturing a moment is fleeting, just as capturing as flower is.

The more I take moments to balance the more I’m ready for the moment when it arrives.

Every year I deepen my capacity to continually engaged with elemental principals by learning how to balance my bodies inner terrain in “health”. With what I engage with, eat, drink, surround myself with, etc. Creating the causes and conditions for being well to emerge.

My bodies elemental make up asks to cool this motion with loads of raw veggies, essential fatty acids, proper hydration w/ minerals & electrolytes, aloe, and body oils. Cooling plants Oh, and rose! ..especially rose.

This body carry’s me so well, and I push it hard at times. I am so grateful for this growing wisdom of tending to her. The witnessing of revival feels like magic. Living beings merge with life ~ ebbing and flowing with our world. Thank goodness for the living plants and creatures to do this dance with.

- a clinical herbalist self work musings

03/10/2022

This summer brought new meaning to my work as a traveling bodywork practitioner! Thanks to everyone who hosted me in their backyard and retreat spaces. As the warmer weeks close out so do my travels. I am happy to be settling back into the Seattle area & my books are wide open for Therapeutic Massage & Herbal Wellness Consultations. Website link in bio for scheduling.

This season I will be bringing what the elements taught me while working in the outdoors back inside & Tuning into the subtleties of Craniosacral Therapy as I start my level 1 training next weekend.

Happy Fall Y’all! 🍁🌲🌬

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