Maven Alchemy

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?

02/03/2026

Yoga With Lauren is continuing their Flow + Restore at Insula Yoga. It's a grounding, nervous system regulating class. Sometimes Lauren brings her guitar, and it becomes a Live music class ✨️🌈🦋

"There comes a time when the most important thing in life is for us to allow something older and wiser to catch up to us, as if the only way forward involves a step back - away from the competing disasters of the world and into the dusky realms of imagination, where things take new shape before entering the barrenness and glare of the daily world. Those living at a particular time are never simply the denizens of history or the pawns of time, they are also the only possible recipients of the messages of eternity trying to slip into the world and sustain the discourse of the eternal drama of life, death and rebirth. Before a meaningful future can be found, something ancient and enduring about the world must be rediscovered. The balance of the future depends on the presence of ancient things. By turning within and growing down, we find the original mind and old soul within us. The old mind is the poetic core that is naturally abundant with ideas and images, that which remains eternally threaded to the animistic, altruistic, ever-abundant source of life." - Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End

01/30/2026

Resourcing for the Leo Full Moon 🦁🌝 How are you caring for yourself these days? This evening a quick drive down to Sunlight Beach after dark, blaring NIN Head Like a Hole was the intentional energy shift I needed. Metal cuts Wood & Water extinguishes Fire.

Have you noticed that certain music styles diffuse certain energetic moods, support mood shifts, or supports energetic focus? I discovered a whole new way to understand this while I was in grad school studying TCM. I was an emotional wreck.

My 14 year marriage dissolved the year before I started school while I was living in Minneapolis, which is where my path to being an acupuncturist, yoga teacher, & intuitive truly began. It's where my heart was broken in two & I found the path back to myself.

Minneapolis holds a special place in my soul, & the chaos & distress being experienced there is landing in my body and activating old threads needing to be shed. It's been a rollercoaster of emotions. It's exhausting & depleting...& I know that I'm not alone in being in that space.

As you're navigating your own process, I invite you to play with music, activities, & natural elements to see if you, too, find a connection with the 5 Element controlling cycle & emotions:

Fire melts Metal (Grief) - music that's uplifting/activities that bring joy
Metal cuts Wood (Anger) - music that's metal or sharp tones
Wood weakens Earth (Worry) - music that's woody, like a cello, or walking in the woods
Earth holds back Water (Fear) - music with nature sounds/feels earthy to you or grounding yourself outside with earth
Water extinguishes Fire (Mania/Anxiety) - music with water sounds/is flowing & fluid or being near the water

We have a Leo Full Moon on Sunday (Full at 2:08 pm) in the final days of the Wood Snake & Saturn in Pisces. We're in the in-between...waiting...for the last moments before the new energy arrives.

Leo is courage, pride, ego, Heart, Fire, & Solar Plexus. It's ruled by the Sun, which is predictable, dependable, ever present...even when obscured by clouds or on the other side of the Earth at night, & gives the moon its light.

Link in bio to continue reading.
📷 Sunlight Beach after dark

01/24/2026

Turns out, it was never about being strong enough.

Anxiety isn’t just fearful thoughts you need to reframe. It’s a full-body fear loop that keeps you trapped in two places at once:

→ Your body stuck in fight-or-flight (sympathetic dominance)
→ Your mind spiraling, searching desperately for control

And here’s what nobody tells you: addressing just ONE side doesn’t work.

I spent years trying to “think my way out” of panic while my chest stayed tight, my jaw stayed clenched, and my nervous system kept screaming THREAT.

The shift happened when I learned to untangle both loops:

🧘‍♀️ For the body: Brain retraining to interrupt the alarm. Vagal toning to activate calm. Somatic practices to complete the stress cycle.

🧠 For the mind: Bringing focus back to THIS moment. Breaking tasks into tiny steps. Using grounding mantras that anchor you in safety.

When you address both body AND mind the fear loop finally breaks.

That’s what we’re doing together in Daily Regulate. Forty days of practices that teach your nervous system it’s safe to let go.

💬 Which loop gets you stuck more often the stress loop in your body or the uncertainty loop in your mind? Drop a comment below.👇

And if this resonated,📍save this post so you can come back to these tools when anxiety shows up.

01/22/2026

Loving-Kindness Meditation 🙏💚🔮 - https://mailchi.mp/5ae297121922/loving-kindness-meditation Loving-Kindness meditation is an ancient Buddhist practice that helps us to connect with compassion, kindness, and good will towards ourselves and others. I find myself turning to this when my world feels like too much, and I feel like I have no control over the chaos. It can also be a powerful form of self-care & collective healing and have a positive effect on stress, anxiety, health, and empathy.

📷 Hellebore preparing to bloom in my yard

01/22/2026

Going Into Our Underworld 🕳️🔮🧩 - https://mailchi.mp/c85f61db765b/going-into-our-underworld The energy this week is heavy, and yet, we've had two nights of the Aurora Borealis's magic rain over our planet with its majestic brilliance that's other worldly and days of sunshine. It's like the Universe is trying to help us keep our spirits lifted as we go deep into the underworld. Pluto is the God of the underworld, and it's in Aquarius. The same place that it was 250 years ago when our country was formed.
📷 Aurora over my neighbor's house 1/20

01/19/2026

✨🧘‍♀️ Rhythm through Nervous System Support... ✨🧘‍♀️

Our Nervous System is wired to protect us and keep us safe during high stress and traumatic times. These days our world seems to be filled with opportunities for our nervous system to feel like it's working overtime. If it's in a constant state of protection, how can you thrive and get out of that mode?

We're able to go with the flow, connect with purpose, and evolve more easily when we feel safe in our bodies and world. Learning about the power of the Vagus Nerve and the Polyvagal Theory changed my life, helping me navigate chaos and rebuild life after Long COVID symptoms in 2020.

Saturday, January 24th, begins the first offering of a 6 session series to share what I learned from Dr Arielle Schwartz about the Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery.

You'll learn practices that you can take off of the mat into your daily life to reduce stress and create balance, growth, and resilience.

I hope to offer this series 4 more times this year and begin a weekly, ongoing Yoga for Balance, Growth, & Resilience class for participants who complete this foundational series.

Stress Reduction & Resilience Yoga 6 session series
Saturdays 4:30-5:45
✨January 24
✨Feb 7, 21
✨Mar 7, 14, 21

✨$132 or 3- $46 auto payments.

✨Gentle, Vagal Nerve focused yoga, breathwork, and movement.
✨This class should be accessible by most.
✨pre-registration for the series & limited to 6✨

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

✨Link in bio to register

01/16/2026

✨ 🐐 🌚 On Sunday, we have a New Moon in Capricorn that encourages us to commit to investing in ourselves and future. It's ruled by Saturn, which gives us discipline, helps us take responsibility, and create structures that support success. It helps us see what's working and what's not.

This Saturday, I'm hosting the Moon Cycle Community Acupuncture sessions. The focus is to CREATE SCAFFOLDING for your energy flow in 2026. The pattern will inspire you to...

🪐 Drop into a deep state of rest, restore your soul, and rediscover your stability & power in the face of chaos & disillusionment
🪐 Trust appropriate timing, courageous action, and the gradual return of radiance
🪐 Cultivate perseverance & resilience
🪐 Supports & balances all 7 Chakras

2 spots remain at 4:30pm

The Moon will be in Capricorn from Friday at 3:46 am until Sunday at 2:17 pm, so if you can't make the times on Saturday or they sell out before you're able to book, I am open to adding a group session on Friday evening at 6 or Sunday afternoon. Please reach out if that interests you.

This is such great energy to be working with and the pattern is so supportive for the energy of the world. We can also work with this energy in a private session Friday or Sunday.

🌝 Connecting with the Moon's Cycle can bring in grounding, creative, nourishing energy & help bring a natural rhythm into your life 🌝

🌟 4 spots per session 🌟
🎱 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 Insula Yoga, 5570 S Harbor Ave, Unit A, Freeland, next to the Hearing Aid Center.

🌝 🌚 Ongoing offering near each New & Full Moon 🌚 🌝
🌚 Capricorn New Moon - Saturday, 1/17, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌝 Leo Full Moon - Saturday, 1/31, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌚 Aquarius New Moon - Saturday, 2/14, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm
🌝 Virgo Full Moon - Saturday, 2/28, at 12, 4:30, & 6 pm

📷 Harsh Singh via Unsplash

01/14/2026

Steady Scaffolding & Capricorn New Moon

In the final months of 2025, the words “Steady Scaffolding” kept arriving while my mind was quiet during yoga at the studio. It’s become my intention for not just 2026, but this whole 9 year cycle that began this year. This week leading up to the Capricorn New Moon on Sunday is a great time to plant seeds of your own for 2026 and the next 9 years...and finalize your letting go and shedding of the Wood Snake energy, which ends with the next New Moon on February 17th.

This year lays the foundation for the new 9 year cycle that will complete in 2035. What are you committing to that will help you evolve into who are you hoping to be in 9 years?

A key, steady scaffolding for me this year is creating my own alchemy. I'm so excited to be starting Lorie Dechar's year-long Alchemy Mentorship next month. So much changed for me last year, and in the first days of 2026, I can feel the continued clarity and evolution of how I show up as a collaborator in others' journey to transform and heal...to help you find rhythm, flow, purpose, & evolution.

Rhythm through the Science of Numbers...
Last week, I had a powerful remote Numerology + Alchemy session with a dear client back in Denver. We've been doing remote sessions for over two years, and the last few have been landing so powerfully. The collaboration with her has taught me how impactful this work can be, how it can guide us through challenging times, and that it's time to share this work with others.

The big take-aways for me:
✨ Staying tuned into the rhythm of the year, allows the wisdom to land and take shape
✨ Having a session with each planetary cycle, breaks down the year into 7 smaller phases to support the year's evolution (about every 7-8 weeks)
✨ Old patterns & beliefs, deeper meaning, and hidden threads of connection seem to come to light during the sessions
✨ It's WAY more than just a numerology reading. It's an intuitive flow that works through the lens of numerology
✨ Returning to a written report, helps to stay grounded in the purpose of the year's energy and allows for reflection & wisdom to land
*Link in bio to finish reading
📷 Last Moon of 2025

01/07/2026

Come join Lauren to Flow + Restore mid-week at Insula Yoga in Freeland.

Midweek flow + restore yoga begins tomorrow at Insula Yoga in Freeland - visit the website for all the details!