Grounded Moon

03/05/2026

This drum circle was so cool tonight. I love introducing people to the drum and I love even more to see the skepticism at the beginning turn into embracing. The drum is such a powerful tool for anyone but especially for those on any sort of healing journey.

🥁✨ Why Drumming Regulates the Nervous System ✨🥁
Rhythm & Regulation | ABC Mental Health & Recovery Series

When we talk about regulation, we’re talking about the nervous system.

Stress, trauma, substance use, anxiety, grief — they all impact how the nervous system fires. Sometimes it becomes overactive (fight or flight). Sometimes it shuts down (freeze or collapse). And sometimes it feels like we’re stuck somewhere in between.

Rhythm helps.

Research in neuroscience and trauma recovery shows that steady, repetitive rhythm can help bring the nervous system back toward balance. This is called entrainment — when the body synchronizes with an external steady beat.

Here’s what happens when we drum together:

🥁 The repetitive rhythm stimulates the vagus nerve
🥁 Heart rate and breath begin to synchronize
🥁 Cortisol (stress hormone) can decrease
🥁 Feelings of isolation reduce through shared rhythm
🥁 The brain shifts from chaos toward coherence

Drumming is bilateral and rhythmic — meaning both sides of the body are engaged in a predictable pattern. That predictability signals safety to the brain.

And safety is the foundation of healing.

For individuals navigating substance recovery, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or trauma — rhythm offers something powerful:

Not talking about it.
Not analyzing it.
Not performing.

Just regulating.

At our Rhythm & Regulation Drum Circle, we focus on:

• Slow grounding rhythms
• Breath and drum synchronization
• Community connection without pressure
• Safe, choice-based participation
• Silence and integration

No musical ability required.
No performance expectations.
No spotlight.

Just steady rhythm.
Just nervous system support.
Just community.

If your body has been holding more than your words can express —
Come let rhythm do some of the work.

📍 126 Elk Street, Rock Springs, WY
📅 March 4th
⏰ 6:00pm - 7:00pm
🎟 Donation-based

You deserve a regulated nervous system.
You deserve to feel steady again.

— Sandi
Grounded Moon

03/04/2026

Prom Dress Drive Event!

Taste and See Consignment is hosting a Prom Dress Drive at their shop! If you have a prom dress you’re ready to pass along, this is a great chance to give it a second dance on the dance floor while earning a little back.

👗 Consignment Style Event — 50/50 split on sold dresses
💐 Shop for prom dresses at a great value
🎟️ BONUS! Everyone who purchases a prom dress will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a refund of their dress purchase — yes, one lucky person will get their dress for FREE!

Help us make prom more affordable and more magical for someone in our community.

Important notes:
Drop off starts March 2-March 24th

The buying event is on March 28th

Only 20 $5 VIP tickets will be sold from March 2nd- March 15th.
Angel fund: in store monetary donations accepted for those that cannot afford a dress
Also accepting very gently used dress shoes and accessories to go with this event!

Let’s make this a great event for our community.

03/04/2026

https://yogaforward.org/breathe-for-hope/

Join us for a day of yoga, meditation and meaningful community connections.Return to Yourself...One Breath at a TimeThis special one-day retreat is dedicated to helping you reset, renew, and recharge.And while you are enjoying a day of self care, your registration fee will go to funding scholarships...

03/03/2026

Think about a cork in the ocean.

Push it down…
it pops back up.

It only stays down
when something is holding it there.

So ask yourself —

What are you still gripping?

Release it.

Rising is natural.

03/01/2026

🌑✨ Hello March 1st. Hello 55. Hello new year. ✨🌑

Today is my birthday—and also the day I choose to begin my new year. There’s something about March that feels like a true reset for me. Fresh energy. New intentions. A quiet but powerful yes to what’s next.

At 55, I feel clearer than ever about what matters. Health is no longer a side note—it’s the headline. How I move, how I rest, how I nourish my body, my mind, my spirit. Sound, frequency, breath, presence… these aren’t just practices I share—they’re how I live.

As a sound practitioner, my goals are expanding. I’m deepening my craft, honoring the science and the sacred, and stepping into the role of future training facilitator—because this work deserves integrity, grounding, and heart. I’m also currently in real estate courses, working toward my license, because growth sometimes looks like building new skills alongside old wisdom.

This season of life holds so much gratitude.
For my parents, who gave me roots.
For my siblings, who know my whole story.
For my children and grandchildren, who remind me why healing matters.
For my husband, my steady partner in this life.
For lifelong friends who’ve walked decades with me.
And for new connections who arrive right on time.

We’re in the middle of a lunar eclipse, with a full moon tomorrow, and yes—Mercury is retrograde 😌. It’s a potent mix: reflection, release, recalibration. Perfect energy for a birthday. Perfect timing to recommit to what feeds my soul.

So here’s to March.
Here’s to getting older and getting truer.
Here’s to sound, service, family, learning, love, and becoming.

Wishing you all a beautiful first day of March. 🌕
May this month bring clarity, connection, and exactly what you need.

💫 With love and intention,
Sandi 🌙

02/28/2026

🌊 Floating Sacred Sound – April 10
Rock Springs Civic Center Pool

Priority access opened 48 hours ago to those who previously commented FLOAT.

There are now 5 floating spots remaining.

If you’ve been waiting for the public registration link — this is it.

This is a 45-minute guided Sacred Sound experience while floating, fully supported on an air mattress in the pool.

No swimming required.
Two certified lifeguards on duty.
Limited to 20 participants.

Once the final 5 spots are filled, registration will close and a waitlist will open.

Register here:

https://square.link/u/no8JYioK?src=sheet

Grounded Moon 🌙

02/28/2026

02/26/2026

Today is the Heart Opening Sound Bath at Beauty & Bliss ✨

Doors open at 7:15pm.
Bring yoga mat, eye masks, pillows, blankets, or anything else that you may want to get comfortable with.
Most items are also available at the studio for your use.

Come exactly as you are.

02/26/2026

The Day My Healing Began

There was a day I was certain would be my last.

Not because I wanted to die.

But because I wanted the pain to stop.

That morning, I held my child a moment longer than usual at the babysitter’s door. Their small frame fit perfectly in my arms, their thick hair brushing my face as I inhaled, memorizing them. My child was all adventure — always running, always falling, always getting back up. Their little nose was scabbed from their latest collision with the ground. Their honey-grey eyes, the color of a trout’s skin in summer light, looked up at me with complete trust.

They wrapped their arms around me again before I left.

“I love you Momma. Goodbye,” they said, their five pudgy fingers smushing into my cheeks.

I forced my voice to stay steady. “I love you too.”

I turned before they could see my face. My vision blurred as I walked to the car.

I believed I was protecting them.

The last few months had hollowed me out. I felt like a cotton ball soaked in water — heavy, shapeless, without structure. I worked in mental health. I was the one that advocated for people to find their way back. But inside my own body, I was disappearing.

I didn’t know how to get better.

I only knew I was getting worse.

I believed my children deserved a mother who wasn’t carrying this darkness. And if I couldn’t become her, I believed the most loving thing I could do was remove myself.

I drove without direction, aware of the other drivers around me, wondering if they would remember my face later. Wondering if anyone would know. Wondering if anyone could see what was happening inside me.

Then a thought interrupted everything.

Su***de doesn’t solve your problems. It just gives them to someone else.

My mind answered immediately.

Your children.

In that moment, something shifted.

The instinct that had convinced me to die — my instinct to protect my children — became the reason I chose to live.

I realized I didn’t need to know how to heal yet.

I only needed to be willing to begin.

I pulled into the parking lot of the counseling center where I worked. My hands trembled as I picked up my phone and called my boss.

“Hi Mya,” she answered gently. “What’s going on?”

That was the moment my healing began.

Not when I became well.

When I became honest.

Healing, I would learn, is not a straight path. It is crooked. It winds forward and backward. It leads you into the dark forest and asks you to stay long enough to find your own wisdom there.

There were no instant fixes. No moment where everything suddenly made sense.

There was only the decision, again and again, to stay.

To listen.

To learn my nervous system instead of fighting it.

To meet myself with compassion instead of shame.

That day was not the end of my story.

It was the day I stopped trying to escape myself and began the long, sacred process of coming home.

Everything I teach now was born from that decision.

I share this because healing is not reserved for other people.

It is available to anyone willing to begin.

Even on the day they thought they couldn’t go on.

Especially then.

02/25/2026

This session has been canceled due to not meeting minimum advance registration.

I want to share this openly and clearly, because it’s important.

Sound baths require transporting a full room of instruments, arriving early, setting up, and creating the space before anyone arrives. In order to offer these experiences sustainably, advance registration is essential.

While we deeply appreciate those who show up at the door, we do need to know in advance that enough people are planning to attend.

✨ The next Sound Bath at Beauty & Bliss is already scheduled.
If you’re interested in attending future sessions, please register ahead of time so we can hold the space.

Thank you for understanding and supporting this work 🌙

The next Sound Bath at Beauty and Bliss is the Spring Clearing on March 26th at 7:30pm

02/24/2026

Most of us don’t realize how much tension we’re carrying.

The body braces all day —
for noise, for pressure, for responsibility.

Floating changes that.

When the body is fully supported by water,
it stops bracing.
And when the body softens,
the nervous system follows.

Breath slows.
Muscles release.
Thoughts quiet.

Floating Sacred Sound
April 10
Rock Springs Civic Center Pool
Limited to 20

If you commented FLOAT on the previous post,
keep watching your inbox.

Grounded Moon

02/24/2026

Did you know that the crystal tuning fork clears spaces just like sage or palo santo?

The CRYSTAL RESONATOR is a very special precision tuning fork which represents a new development with regard to sound and crystalline structure by Jonathan Goldman. While quartz crystals are affected by all sound, they are particularly aligned with the energies of this tuning fork due to the fact that the CRYSTAL RESONATOR is tuned to a lower octave sub-harmonic of the actual frequency of quartz crystal. The original frequencies that inspired this tuning fork came from acoustic scientist John Worrell Keely, a man who was the sonic counterpart of the electrical genius Nikola Tesla.
You can purchase this directly from iSound institute.

https://www.isound.institute/store-1/p/lelaqkmrmc1m6njawm44z6aymqzmnt