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Maven Alchemy, 5570 Harbor Avenue, Unit A, Langley, WA (2026)

03/25/2026

🌬️ How'd you enjoy the boisterous wind & sun today? It was wild.

My anxiety was kicked up for no apparent reason, which happens for me on super windy spring days. I seem to feel the wind even when I'm inside.

Today was different, though. The wind seemed to be calling me, so I bundled up and went down to Sunlight Beach. It was SO windy, but it seemed to be just what I needed. Whether it was being near the water that nourishes & grounds me or the wind blowing the anxiety right out of me, my soul was settled by the time I returned home.

Spring can bring wild seasonal symptoms. Like...

🌸 anxiety
🌸 vertigo or dizziness
🌸 allergies
🌸 fatigue, low energy, or exhaustion
🌸 neck stiffness or pain
🌸 headaches
🌸 irritability, frustration, or anger
🌸 waking up between 1-3am
🌸 headaches or migraines
🌸 uncertain about what's next
🌸 lack of vision for next steps

I created a Spring Cleaning pattern to support our body, mind, and soul during the seasonal changes but also during these challenging times. I'm offering it as Seasonal Community Acupuncture and Private Seasonal sessions.

✨ For the first time, I'll be accepting walk-in clients for these seasonal community sessions this month. I highly recommend scheduling in advance, but if you're in Freeland and feel like stopping by, please do.

🌱 Wednesday, March 25th, 12-1:30
🌱 Saturday, March 28th, 1-2

The points support all 5 elements with a focus on supporting the Liver & Gallbladder; Spring cleaning to clear out the rubbish to make space for balance, harmony, and new insights; and finding your own inner qualities of love & care.

Libra Full Moon Community Acupuncture next Wednesday, 4/1. Appointments available at 1:30, 6, & 7:30

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland

🔮 Text Vanessa at 512-934-1917 to schedule

03/23/2026

🌬️ Spring isn't just allergy season. It's neck-and-shoulder season.

Wind externally. Stress internally.
Both tighten the same tissues.

If you’re waking up with:
🌬️ A stiff neck
🌬️Pain turning your head
🌬️ Shoulder tension that won’t stretch out
🌬️Headaches creeping up from the base of your skull
..then you may be experiencing the impacts of Spring energy or wind.

In Chinese Medicine, wind invades the upper body first. Add laptop posture and pressure at work, and the Gallbladder channel locks down fast.

Heat helps. A scarf helps. Topicals help.

✨ But regulation fixes the pattern.

Most people feel noticeable relief quickly — often within a session. And after a series?

✨ Your body is far less reactive to tight neck triggers.

If your neck is running your week, book your appointment or free 30-minute consult via the link in bio...or text Vanessa at 512-934-1917.

There's no reason to muscle through it and miss out on the sunshine when it shines through on Whidbey.

For the month of March:
🔮 Maven Alchemy Starter Package: 90 Minute New patient session + 2 -75 minute follow-ups $333
🔮 3 PACK FOR CLIENTS: Ongoing patients 3 follow ups $300

🏠 Located at 5570 Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, at Insula Yoga (next to the Hearing Aid Center).

🌸 Special Spring Cleaning Acupuncture pattern to support our body, mind, and soul during the seasonal changes but also during these challenging times. I'm offering it as Seasonal Community Acupuncture and 1:1 sessions.

✨ For the first time, I'll be accepting walk-in clients for these seasonal community sessions this month. I highly recommend scheduling in advance, but if you're in Freeland and feel like stopping by, please do.

🌱 Wednesday, March 25th, 12-1:30
🌱 Saturday, March 28th, 1-2:30

The points support all 5 elements with a focus on supporting the Liver & Gallbladder; Spring cleaning to clear out the rubbish to make space for balance, harmony, and new insights; and finding your own inner qualities of love & care.

03/21/2026

💥 Join Emily for Power Flow Yoga 💥

✨️ Sundays 10-11:15am
✨️ March 22nd - May 17th

Power Flow Yoga blends strength, balance, and breath through a continuous flow of poses.

This energizing class builds stability and flexibility while helping you reconnect to your body and mind.

All experience levels are welcome. Variations and modifications are offered so you can move at the pace and intensity that feels right for you.

✨️ Space is limited, so pre-registration is required
✨️ Link in bio with more info to register
✨️ $20

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga at 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, in Freeland

Emily is a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

03/18/2026

✨ 🐟 🌚 Join me tomorrow, Wednesday, 3/18, for the Pisces New Moon. 🐟 🌚 ✨

The Pisces Moon Cycle Acupuncture pattern will connect to Spring (the Wood element/Liver & Gallbladder) Becoming energy and give roots & growth to all of the depth from Pisces.

It will inspire...

☘️ Connecting with ancestral wisdom, unity, & oneness. Tranquility & calm allowing your own inner wisdom to emerge.
☘️ The warmth & love that you need to shine through, feel resourced, stable, & whole. Joyful sunlight filling the Heart with nourishment & love from above.
☘️ Establishing the roots of your Spirit to flourish & grow.
☘️ Stabilizing & grounding your vision. Security + nourishment = energy & confidence.
☘️ Letting go to become Who You Are...Spring cleaning creating space to become.
☘️ Your Earthen bowl being made whole again to feel love & care, opening to receive it all.
☘️ Your spirit receiving the dreams & vision you need. What needs to grow & develop?
☘️ Supports the Crown, 3rd Eye, Throat, Heart, and Root chakras and all 5 Elements.

Slow down. Listen. Feel. What is your intuition and dreams communicating?

We'll be using Roman Chamomile on several points. It's a great oil for Spring and Pisces. It helps calm the need to control. Our Heart is reassured that it can let go. The tight grasp relaxes, which calms the Liver and soothes the Heart. We can finally see a new direction, revealing the bigger picture and connection with the Universe.

This is a powerful time to pause and connect with who you're Becoming.

🌟 8 SPOTS open 🌟
🎱 Reservations Required 🎱
✨ 60-75 minute sessions at 1:30, 6, & 7:30 ✨
🌝 Moon Cycle Acupuncture sessions are $50
🌚 Zero gravity chairs with 1-3 other community members
🌝 Everyone receives the same pattern to work with Moon's energy
🌚 Wear loose, comfy clothes

🏠 Located at 5570 Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, next to the Hearing Aid Center.

🌝 🌚 Ongoing offering near each New & Full Moon 🌚 🌝
🌝 Libra Full Moon - Wednesday, 4/1
🌚 Aries New Moon - Wednesday, 4/15

Can't make it Wednesday? Book a private session Friday, Saturday, or Sunday or Community session Saturday.

🔮 Link in bio to book or text 512-934-1917

03/17/2026

💥 Join Emily for Power Flow Yoga 💥

✨️ Sundays 10-11:15am
✨️ March 22nd - May 17th

Power Flow Yoga blends strength, balance, and breath through a continuous flow of poses.

This energizing class builds stability and flexibility while helping you reconnect to your body and mind.

All experience levels are welcome. Variations and modifications are offered so you can move at the pace and intensity that feels right for you.

✨️ Space is limited, so pre-registration is required
✨️ Link in bio with more info to register
✨️ $20

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga at 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, in Freeland

Emily is a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

03/17/2026

Pisces New Moon...Endings in the Becoming 🐟🌚 - https://mailchi.mp/e81ee23ed6c6/pisces-new-moon-wednesday I know that I've been talking about letting go, shedding, & endings for the last 3+ months, but guess what? Here we go again. This is the final push. We have a few more days to really tidy up any loose ends & let go of storylines we've been itching to end. These endings will breathe the life into your becoming. 📷:An egg-like glow of the Virgo Full Moon, illuminating a feather. What incubating dreams or visions are ready to Become for you?

03/14/2026

❄️ Winter has Returned...an Opportunity to Embody Resilience ❄️

Winter has returned...at least for a few days. Did you get snow where you are? I miss the Colorado snow, but happily gave it up for our more moderate weather here on Whidbey. I do love when we get a little taste here. Hopefully, our beautiful spring flowers will bounce back. It's an opportunity to look to their embodiment of resilience for inspiration navigating our own challenging times.

As I shared earlier in the week, these changing weather patterns and transitioning into Spring can bring seasonal symptoms that really bring you down, instead of feeling uplifted. Like...

🌸 allergies
🌸 fatigue, low energy, or exhaustion
🌸 neck stiffness or pain
🌸 headaches
🌸 irritability, frustration, or anger
🌸 waking up between 1-3am
🌸 headaches or migraines
🌸 uncertain about what's next
🌸 lack of vision for next steps

I created a Spring Cleaning pattern to support our body, mind, and soul during the seasonal changes but also during these challenging times. I'm offering it as Seasonal Community Acupuncture and 1:1 sessions.

✨ For the first time, I'll be accepting walk-in clients for these seasonal community sessions this month. I highly recommend scheduling in advance, but if you're in Freeland and feel like stopping by, please do.

🌱 Wednesday, March 25th, 12-1:30
🌱 Saturday, March 14th & 28th, 1-2:30; 21st 12-1

The points support all 5 elements with a focus on supporting the Liver & Gallbladder; Spring cleaning to clear out the rubbish to make space for balance, harmony, and new insights; and finding your own inner qualities of love & care.

What do you need to spring clean in these last days before the Pisces New Moon on Wednesday and Spring Equinox on the 21st?

Watch for an email in a few days with more information about the Pisces New Moon Community Acupuncture session on Wednesday. Appointments available at 1:30, 6, & 7:30

Link in bio to schedule and read full newsletter.

🏠 Located at Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland

🔮 Text Vanessa at 512-934-1917 to schedule

02/28/2026

✨ 🧹 🌝 There's an Virgo Full Moon next Tuesday, March 3rd, (at 3:37 am) that will align with the Sun to create a Total Lunar Eclipse. Virgo is an Earth sign, detail oriented, and loves creating order with a good purge and cleaning. It likes getting to the root of things and can cleanse all levels...physical, emotion, and mental. It's ruled by Mercury, which is currently retrograde (appearing to move backwards) in Pisces.
The Virgo Moon Cycle Acupuncture pattern will connect with all of that Earthiness and the Spring's Wood element energy to support the seasonal transition, helping you see what's next on this journey of returning to light and how to burst forth and become.

This pattern will inspire you to open your eyes to life’s sparkles, & sacredness and see your own inner beauty...

🧹 Spring clean stagnant energy & old ways to make way for you own vital insight & wisdom
🧹 Return to calm & balance within your body, mind, & spirit
🧹 Let go of what is no longer useful and BECOME who you are
🧹 Find your inner qualities of love & care
🧹 Trust what you see
🧹 With new & vital insight, step forward with courage to unite your inner nature & purpose.
🧹Supports all Chakras and all 5 Elements

The Moon Cycle Community Acupuncture sessions are this Saturday, February 28th, at noon, 4:30, and 6. Book here.

🌟 8 SPOTS open 🌟
🎱 Reservations Required 🎱
✨ 60 minute sessions at 12, 4:30, & 6 ✨
🌝 Moon Cycle Acupuncture sessions are $44
🌝 Zero gravity chairs with 1-3 other community members
🌝 Everyone receives the same pattern to work with Moon's energy
🌝 Wear loose, comfy clothes

🏠 Located at 5570 Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, next to the Hearing Aid Center.

🌝 🌚 Ongoing offering near each New & Full Moon 🌚 🌝
🌝 Virgo Full Moon - Saturday, 2/28, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌚 Pisces New Moon - Wednesday, 3/18, day time TBD; 6 & 7:30pm
🌝 Libra Full Moon - Wednesday, 4/1, day time TBD; 6 & 7:30pm

02/14/2026

Nurture 2026's new energy & flow by connecting with the Moon‘s rhythm from seed to harvest. Esoteric + Alchemy Acupuncture brings connection for the changing light into community, a pause for self-care, & balance for your nervous system to journey through the Wheel of Life with clarity, intention, & purpose.

Join me TOMORROW to connect with the energy of the Aquarius New Moon & Lunar New Year.

✨ TIMES AVAILABLE at 4:30, & 6 ✨

✨ 🕊️ 🌚 Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, which is the perfect time for self-love & self-care. Aquarius is the sign associated with humanity and the collective. When we care for & nurture ourselves, we have the capacity to care for others. Being resourced & grounded, allows us to take aligned actions for the good of all.

An Air sign, Aquarius is ruled by Uranus & Saturn and helps us move beyond boundaries & old, limiting paradigms. The Aquarius New Moon next Tuesday, February 17th, (at 4:00 am) will align with the Sun to create a Solar Eclipse and usher in the Lunar New Year & Yang Fire Horse. Now it's time for action and movement into the space we created with the release with the Wood Snake.

This New Moon invites us to investigate how our actions as individuals ripple out to impact our community, the collective, and humanity. It wants us to feel & understand that we're all connected. When we care for ourselves, are resourced & grounded, and have the capacity to keep our nervous system healthy, we show up with space to help others & our world.

The pattern will inspire you to...
✨ Integrate knowledge to wisdom
✨ Connect with the virtues of unconditional love/wisdom, compassion, understanding, & forgiveness
✨ Be open to connecting with your ancestral allies to feel their warmth, love, wisdom, nourishment, care, & protection
✨ Feel stabilized & safe so that warmth, peace, love, & tranquility may arrive
✨ Open your inner vision to what is present in your life, the season you're in, what it can become, and see the way forward with stability & courage
✨ Supports Crown, 3rd Eye, Throat, Heart, Solar Plexus, & Root Chakras

🔮 Text 512-934-1917 to book
🏠 Located at Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland
📷 Harsh Singh via Unsplash

02/12/2026

Caring for Self & the Aquarius New Moon 🕊️🌚 - https://mailchi.mp/1a45ec5bb912/caring-for-self-the-aquarius-new-moon It's time to crank up the self-care. The next few weeks we'll experience energy shifts that haven't been felt in our life times and won't again. It may leave you feeling exhausted, ungrounded, heavy, scattered, overly emotional, or like you're on a roller coaster. Start planning your self-care now. Caring for ourself is a radical way to care for humanity. When we start with ourselves, we have the capacity to care for others.

Caring for ourself is a radical way to care for humanity. When we start with ourselves, we have the capacity to care for others. Being resourced and grounded, allows us to take aligned actions for the good of all.

I avoided self-care for years and was taught early in life and in the Marine Corps to not listen to what my body & soul were communicating and keep plugging along. Ain't nobody got time for that!

As my mental and physical health began being impacted by years overriding my body's communication, I was forced to listen...and had many great alternative therapy providers and yoga teachers help me understand what self-care looks like.

What I need changes, both seasonally and as I grow & evolve. Sometimes what I framed as self-care wasn't always the best for me, so it's important to adjust as you go. Acupuncture has been part of my self-care since 2008. It is wild that it's been 18 years! I realized last week that I hadn't gotten poked in 5 months! What?!

Please don't wait that long. If it's been a while since you saw me or another acupuncturist who you love, please come see us! My session with Jess helped SO much! I felt so cared for & nourished and was reminded why I practice this medicine...it works! I immediately felt more balanced, grounded, and integrated, instead of overwhelmed & scattered.

When we take time to pause from our daily life and turn our attention inward, we give ourselves time to feel and listen to what's impacting us. Sometimes it's the current events of the world or it's old energy or emotions that we stored away in the moment because we didn't have the space to deal with it. Whatever it might be, knowing what makes us feel safe and nourished helps us cultivate a greater capacity to digest and purposefully let go of life's stresses.

In addition to seeing providers, my self-care go-tos are...
❤️ vagal toning practices, like vooing, bumble bee breath, cyclic sighing
🧡 yoga nidra naps (I set an alarm to manage how long I sleep)
💛 warming up a tube sock with rice in the microwave for my neck & ears
💚 batching cooking & freezing meals for times I don't have the energy to cook
💙 saying no
💜 connecting with my higher self, guides, angels, & ancestral allies
🕊️ doing a Loving Kindness Meditation, my recording I shared a few weeks ago
💜 listening to my intuition & paying attention when I ignored it
💙 hydrating (I start my day by drinking 2 cups of room temperature water)
💚 applying oils on moon cycle acu point patterns every night before bed
💛 watching the sunset (often at Sunlight Beach)
🧡 eating high quality dark chocolate (in moderation & mindfully)
❤️ doing PT exercises that support a strong sacrum & low back before bed

I try to incorporate these into tasks that are already part of my day, so they, too, become automatic. When I'm making coffee, I heat up the rice sock, drink 2 glasses of water, do vagal toning breathwork, and shaking qi gong. When I'm driving in the car, I'm vooing, humming, and cycle sighing.

What are your favorite self-care practices that you can lean into in the upcoming weeks?

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