Ashley Natalya, LMT, RSME

04/01/2026

Threat lives in the body. Our nervous system is based on a healthy biological principle of managing threat responses. Fight, flight, freeze, & fawn are useful with awareness and flexibility!

However, so many of us incur too many stressors that our autonomic nervous system stays in a up-regulated or down regulated state without the flexibility to return to calm & clear.

So much of talk therapy does not meet this biological imperative and know what to do to support the BODY to release threat.

As a somatic Coach and Licensed Massage Therapist I’ve spent the last 30 years working in the body through somatic practices, uncouple from anxiety, depression, shock, and trauma.

Today in the mail, I received my mentors book and unbeknownst to me, he included my feedback around his work on the back of the book. I’m so honored. This work has deeply affected my personal healing and so many of my clients unfolding into wholeness.

03/28/2026

We all love a left point break🌊 in beloved Mexico!🇲🇽 Unplugged for a solid week from all obligations and media was so necessary. We all had some great surf sessions and I can finally say I totally love long board single fin dancing…next time I will make it to the end of the board!

So grateful for our friends we made and the little town we will return to!

Viva Mexico!🇲🇽

03/14/2026

How do we step into a committed bond with our own Light body. We are a living water body filled with crystalline nerve, fascia, cells, 🧬 DNA…we are a living crystal! Breaking through the false view of being different than nature we align with the elements and the planets.

🪐 Saturn offers us the vibratory frequency of structure and sovereignty over our ability to be self-aligned. Clear with a earthly landing pad for our intentions and ultimately receptivity to creative essence. Ruler of Capricorn ♑️ magical Sea Goat.

Practice tuning up your Crystal body, let the sound and your awareness unfold.

03/12/2026

The wisdom body cannot be workshopped. It is a living experience of transmission from elder, mentor, time, biological new imperatives, and rites of passage.

Many of us in entering our mid-life of Fifties and Sixties sit in this liminal seat of identity shifting from career, mother, partner, wife, into a force of intelligence that is Presence based.

We are so much closer to spiritual ripeness and easeful casual acceptance. But there are few opportunities for the actual invitation of inquiry or reciprocity.

As we no longer live close together in multigenerational tribes, pods, or families. We lose the ripe attention that humbles us into what Wisdom is. We have youth continuously centering itself as the aging wonderful humans become obsolete in the “productivity” ethos of this system.

I am rolling around in this rich soup finding so much radically changing inside. I am unfolding into this territory of a zenith energy where I am clearly not young. And I am clearly not old. Things are changing like rock walls in a canyon, layers of life creating such an epic view.

I am saddened that colonialism took away the natural culture of wise woman. Times when elders were cared for and mentored us into the pearl moon time. Times when young people could not enter elder spaces. Times when there was reverence, piety, humility, around an elder. A time when there was deference on topics held by the elders.

We have lost so much art of humanness with capitalism and colonialism!

I am dreaming, singing, listening, and resting the comfort of AGE.

skymothertemple

03/11/2026

The wisdom body cannot be workshopped. It is a living experience of transmission from elder, mentor, time, biological new imperatives, and rites of passage.

Many of us in entering our mid-life of Fifties and Sixties sit in this liminal seat of identity shifting from career, mother, partner, wife, into a force of intelligence that is Presence based.

We are so much closer to spiritual ripeness and easeful casual acceptance. But there are few opportunities for the actual invitation of inquiry or reciprocity.

As we no longer live close together in multigenerational tribes, pods, or families. We lose the ripe attention that humbles us into what Wisdom is. We have youth continuously centering itself as the aging wonderful humans become obsolete in the “productivity” ethos of this system.

I am rolling around in this rich soup finding so much radically changing inside. I am unfolding into this territory of a zenith energy where I am clearly not young. And I am clearly not old. Things are changing like rock walls in a canyon, layers of life creating such an epic view.

I am saddened that colonialism took away the natural culture of wise woman. Times when elders were cared for and mentored into the pearl moon time. Times when young people could not enter elder spaces. Times when there was reverence, piety, humility, around an elder. A time when there was deference on topics held by the elders.

We have lost so much art of humanness with capitalism and colonialism!

I am dreaming, singing, listening, and resting the comfort of AGE.

02/09/2026

State changes are a fact of life in a world where our Nervous System can get hijacked. All of a sudden we are in a threat response that is so total and often familiar we do and say things on autopilot.

This is so normal. It is both biological and built into our psyched as we hold a multiple of parts of our personality.

Talk therapy is not often effective in meeting these parts and developing enough tools to be able to work with and create coherent inner Self leadership.

I love IFS, Internal Family Systems but more over I see how these state changes happen in the body and iff we can slow down and become aware and befriend these parts of us we become one amazing team.

I deeply believe if we don’t understand and connect to these state changes we lose access to freedom in exploring our higher states of consciousness and liberation.

We are living in times where coherence is so important so we all need to do our own inner work within our own system.

I am here as an guide, ally, and resource for your personal unfolding.

Give me a call to chat about how I work!
✴ Free 20 minute call 📞 link in bio!

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02/06/2026

01/25/2026

I know this started long ago. People of color have been being gunned down on American streets by the police for fifty years! We’ve been watching our government fund a genocide in Gaza and now we are seeing armed federal agents gunning down American citizens! More people have been put in detention centers than the entire holocaust. I do not stand with America. I do not stand with American government if our representatives do not do something they are all accountable. This is a fascist regime and it has been building year after year. The military complex is here for us.

12/30/2025

Feeling moments of light as the winter here in Oregon is being so fickle and uncommitted. Solstice was rich with teachings. The main one is to be clear with where my attention goes. Things continue to not go as planned, entire visions unravel into something else.

Then in the dance of “oh this is here” and I am asked to meet it! Sometimes I just want to hide away. I want to be a slob. I want to do it all wrong. I want to really fail. But my spiritual practice and strong manager parts won’t let me indulge in my tendency towards collapse. So I sit with the sour disappointment. I must be with all the disappointments as teachers. Really such a good one for me, teaching me again and again to see what is the whole need not just mine.

Every day is like a gift to be smushed in my face. Mostly it’s my young longing for ideals that hook me. And my very Capricorn ability to see an entire scene, event, happening etc…in my imagination. It makes me an impeccable creator, but leads me to not be available to the moment.

As disease and injury are hitting ones close to me I am aware how we must not take things as a personal penance of some cosmic vengeance. Even as they are ruthless. It must be a practice of right view, then met with compassionate action, and if I am lucky I can rest in some sense of non-dual essence by singing Tara mantras, heart sutra Om Gate Para Gate Para sam gate boddhi soha, sky gazing, dancing, IFS parts talks, doggy snuggles, and deep cries with my besties!

So as the light hit these pearl earrings my fabulous friend Katherine made for me I felt this selfy would send you a bit of me and my words would give you even more inside.

May these ripe dark 12 nights be feeding you.
Xoxox Natalya

12/09/2025

Join us a free up your joy and foolishness. Find you jester, Trickster, sacred clown, or precious idiot!

We learn from one of the greats Lady Rizo who continues to hone her love of community and play through this work.

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!

Just come to explore yourself in your own foolishness and/or serious Fool.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.” — Henry Ward Beecher

Let’s get freed up together!

Where: Sky Mother Temple, Hood River
When: Saturday 2-4:30
Cost: Sliding scale: Carol Burnett-$50, Kate Mckinnon $65, Charlie Chaplin $75

Support local artists and businesses!

Register in the linktree in BIO!

11/28/2025

Swallowing the Pearl 🌕 Moon-Full Moon on-going Women’s initiation group! Starts this Thursday 5:30-7pm

This is an ongoing Monthly Full Moon group gathers to support our Self-Initiation into our Pearl Moon Time.

Women, ages 47-59 are welcome to join as we explore: What turns us on!
What are we here to disrupt?
What is our expression and identity?
What kind of an Elder are we becoming!
How do we thrive in our new body?

As we find our rhythm and pulse, Natalya will hold the container as we collaboratively build our initiatory community.

We will meet for six full moon cycles and have optional pop-up soirées to feed our inspiration and cultivation: like saunas, fires, art time, movement and touch choirs, Authentic Movement, and whatever is a need for the individual/group. There is a full description at Sky Mother Temple website.

This is a closed container so we ask for clarity on your commitment to yourself and others.

✴Come to this first meeting to see if this is a fit for you and whether you want to continue!

Please RSVP in the linktree in my bio.

This Full Moon, Thursday 5:30-7pm
Sky Mother Temple, Hood River OR

11/14/2025

Create your own set of hand-painted cards from nature. Join artist and ink-maker Molly Holmlund for a fun, creative workshop in the spirit of giving. We will experiment with natural inks from foraged materials gathered in the Gorge, made by Molly. Each participant will leave with a set of 5 cards, including envelopes, and will learn techniques and insight into the world of alchemy. 

No experience necessary!

15 spaces available .

Register at www.skymothertemple.com