Peony

Peony Peony is an acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine practice owned and founded by Paige Barnes in Seattle.

The Latin name “Paeonia,” derives from the name “Paeon.” Paeon was a Greek disciple of Asclepus, the god of medicine. In Traditional Chinese medicine, peony is a foundational herb commonly used to support women’s health and injury due to trauma. Ancient Chinese poets depict peonies as a symbol of honor, abundance, love, affection and feminine beauty.

10/26/2025

Ghost Heart ♡
Today I shared Ghost Heart, the second ritual of Ghost Souls.

We explored the connection between your heart and your lungs. Your lungs are the messengers of your heart.

We worked with dried ginger to warm from within and Sarah essential oil to expand your breathing capacity. ✨

This was also the first time I introduced the ritual cards — companions for each practice that you can return to anytime.

Two more rituals remain in this series.
You can experience Ghost Souls through the cards (now available) or join the live retreat on November 16th on Vashon Island.

“ It unfolds over long distances, streaming to the ocean of your body. Moving through a canyon—layers of stone, stacked ...
10/25/2025

“ It unfolds over long distances, streaming to the ocean of your body. Moving through a canyon—layers of stone, stacked colors of rust, rose, and deep violet.”

A little peek from Ghost Hall, the fourth ritual in my Ghost Souls series that I’m writing now 🍂 Blue’s keeping me company as always—my loyal writing buddy 💛🐾

There are still two ways to join this season’s fall rituals:
🎴Ritual Cards
🌕 Live retreat on Vashon Island — November 16

Click the link in my bio under Seasonal Rituals to learn more, or send me a message if you’re curious. I can’t wait to share these nourishing fall rituals with you ✨

✨ Announcing Fall Ritual Cards and a Retreat! - https://mailchi.mp/c5ac2040ba15/the-body-sublime-fall-live-retreatI’m so...
10/19/2025

✨ Announcing Fall Ritual Cards and a Retreat! - https://mailchi.mp/c5ac2040ba15/the-body-sublime-fall-live-retreat

I’m so proud to share two fall offerings 🍂

Ghost Souls—a deck of five ritual cards to support your self-care this season. Each opens into a guided ritual: forest meditation, ginger foot soak, acupressure, affirmations, and restorative breathwork.

In-person retreat at Hanna Barn on Vashon Island for a live Ghost Souls gathering—a day to rest, breathe, and renew. You’ll take home your own ritual cards.

Message me for more information.

10/07/2025

It’s so exciting to make the Ghost Souls ritual kits… 🌿
They’re filled with some beautiful plant allies and care:
✨ a mugwort warming stick
✨ saro essential oil
✨ lung-harmonizing tea, inspired by Huang Qi Jian Zhong Tang (Astragalus Decoction to Construct the Middle).

Each herbal bag includes:
• Gui Zhi (10g)
• Bai Shao (10g)
• Zhi Gan Cao (6g)
• Gan Jiang (6g)
• Da Zao (2 pieces)
• Huang Qi (12g)
(Honey to be added by you — a sweet act of completion. 🍯)

Unique ritual cards are on their way separately — each one a small portal for reflection and restoration.
I’ll be mailing these kits off tomorrow, full of love and autumn wildness.

There’s still time to join us:

📅 Sundays: Oct 19 & 26, Nov 2 & 9, 2025
🕙 10–11:30 AM PT
💻 Zoom (recordings available)
💲 $300 (includes ritual kit + cards shipped to you)
👉 Link in bio

Are you ready to return to yourself this fall? 🌙

Come Roar With Me In Ghost Souls, I’ll guide you to awaken your inner wildness—where breath, imagination, and body meet....
10/05/2025

Come Roar With Me

In Ghost Souls, I’ll guide you to awaken your inner wildness—where breath, imagination, and body meet. Like the grizzly’s roar, you’ll feel your landscape inside come alive.

Through meditation, herbal foot soaks, acupressure, affirmations, and restorative breathing, you’ll surrender, let go, and begin.

Join me. Leave spacious, nourished, and inspired.

📅 Sundays: Oct 19 & 26, Nov 2 & 9
🕙 10–11:30 AM PT | 💻 Zoom (recordings available)
💲 $300 includes ritual kit + cards

✨ What story do you tell yourself about your pain?I’ve been in conversation with pain for most of my life—low back, neck...
09/23/2025

✨ What story do you tell yourself about your pain?

I’ve been in conversation with pain for most of my life—low back, neck, knee, little flare-ups that shift and resurface. For years I thought, this is just the wear and tear of being a dancer. Later I thought, once I have access to the right care, I’ll be free from it.

And while I’ve found help, I’ve also discovered that pain isn’t just shaped by clinical narratives—stories about wear and tear, hormones, the aging process, or psychological wounds. These explanations are helpful, but they don’t tell the whole story.

I’m learning to imagine my body as an ecosystem—what waters flow here, what plants grow here, how the light moves through this inner landscape.

Through ritual and meditation, I’m beginning to see my pain differently—not as a problem to fix, but as part of a living story that reveals light within me.

✨ What waters flow through your body? What plants grow there? How does the light move through your inner landscape?

By turning inward, I can shift the sensations in my body away from the ways the world interprets them, and toward how I perceive myself—feeling my body’s strength, beauty, and unique rhythm.

⸻

✨ What is your heart saying?The lungs are the messenger of the heart—carrying its light through the body with each breat...
09/22/2025

✨ What is your heart saying?
The lungs are the messenger of the heart—carrying its light through the body with each breath.

In Ghost Souls, we’ll imagine the lungs as a waterfall. Inside, at the heart, a nest of starlings.

🌬 Inhale — the waterfall expands, wings shimmer and chatter.
Exhale — the waterfall thickens, the starlings hide.

Breath by breath, more starlings appear—
until they take flight, carrying the message of the heart through your whole body.

Join me for Ghost Souls, a four-part ritual of rest and renewal through breath, herbs, and embodied practice.

📅 Sundays: Oct 19 & 26, Nov 2 & 9, 2025
🕙 10–11:30 AM PT | 💻 Zoom | 💲 $300
Includes ritual kit + cards shipped to you.
👉 Link in bio

I’d love to see you there!

Ghost Souls - Feel Grounded, Restored, and Renewed in Autumn - https://mailchi.mp/5f7780161429/peony-the-body-sublime-au...
09/20/2025

Ghost Souls - Feel Grounded, Restored, and Renewed in Autumn - https://mailchi.mp/5f7780161429/peony-the-body-sublime-autumn-21073610

Feeling pulled by work, news, and endless responsibilities? 🍂 Ghost Souls offers rest. Join me for 4 online rituals with meditation, acupressure, foot soaks & affirmations. Includes a ritual kit + cards. Sundays Oct 19–Nov 9, 10–11:30 AM PT. $300. Recordings available. 🌿

✨Gratitude for Dr. Krystal Couture ✨Waking up this morning with images still swimming from Dr. Krystal Couture’s Pelvic...
09/15/2025

✨Gratitude for Dr. Krystal Couture ✨

Waking up this morning with images still swimming from Dr. Krystal Couture’s Pelvic Acupuncture course this past weekend. 🌸

It was a profound experience to be with a group of healers willing to be vulnerable, open, and knowledgeable about the pelvis, the pelvic floor, and all the physical and emotional layers that come with it.

I am so grateful to Dr. Couture—for her expertise, her constant pursuit of knowledge and healing, and her generous sharing of her work. 🙏

I’m excited to begin integrating these skills gently with my clients, starting first with practice among friends. I had the incredible opportunity to work with deep stabilizing muscles in the back and abdomen, as well as the tender pelvic floor itself.

Beyond the techniques, it was truly heartwarming to be in community—meeting healers from across the country, all dedicated to their craft and to supporting others.

It was an honor. Thank you, Dr. Couture. 💛

Learn more about her work here: https://krystal-couture.com/pelvic-care

✨ When the world feels unsettled, we can return to what is sacred.Ritual is a way to ground ourselves, return to our lig...
09/12/2025

✨ When the world feels unsettled, we can return to what is sacred.

Ritual is a way to ground ourselves, return to our light, and remember the love that is here.

I’ll be sharing Ghost Souls, four live online rituals this autumn—a season of transition and change. I’ll guide you through meditations, herbal foot soaks, acupressure, affirmations, and restorative breathing practices that help you move from summer’s vibrance into winter’s stillness.

💛 Included with your registration: a ritual kit with saro essential oil, Chinese herbs, Lung-harmonizing tea, a mugwort warming stick, and a set of five original ritual cards—delivered to your door.

Ritual Details
📅 Sundays: Oct 19 & 26, Nov 2 & 9, 2025
🕙 10–11:30 AM PT
💻 Live on Zoom (recordings available)
💲 Tuition + Ritual Kit + Ritual Cards: $300

🔗 Register through the link in my bio

✨ When the world feels unsettled, we can return to what is sacred.Through ritual we ground ourselves, return to our ligh...
09/12/2025

✨ When the world feels unsettled, we can return to what is sacred.

Through ritual we ground ourselves, return to our light, and remember the love that is here.

I’ll be guiding four live online rituals this autumn—a season of transition and change. Together we’ll explore meditations, herbal foot soaks, acupressure, affirmations, and restorative breathing practices that help you move from summer’s vibrance into winter’s stillness.

💛 Included with your registration: a ritual kit with saro essential oil, Chinese herbs, Lung-harmonizing tea, a mugwort warming stick, and a set of five original ritual cards—delivered to your door.

Ritual Details
📅 Sundays: Oct 19 & 26, Nov 2 & 9, 2025
🕙 10–11:30 AM PT
💻 Live on Zoom (recordings available)
💲 Tuition + Ritual Kit + Ritual Cards: $300

🔗 Register through the link in my bio

✨ In Ghost Souls, we return to our senses.We connect with how we feel the world.We connect with how we feel autumn—and w...
09/11/2025

✨ In Ghost Souls, we return to our senses.
We connect with how we feel the world.
We connect with how we feel autumn—
and what this moment of change is asking of us. 🍂

We connect with the light that surrounds us,
as a mirror of the light within.

🌕 The light all around is the light inside you.

I’d love for you to join me in a series of guided rituals that support change and renewal—through reconnecting to your own light, wisdom, and power.

Ritual Details
📅 Sundays: Oct 19 & 26, Nov 2 & 9, 2025
🕙 10–11:30 AM PDT
💻 Live on Zoom (recordings available)
💲 Tuition (includes Ritual Kit + Ritual Cards): $300

Your ritual kit will be shipped directly to you and includes:
✨ Saro essential oil
🌿 Chinese herbs
🍵 Lung-harmonizing tea
🔥 Mugwort warming stick
🃏 Autumn ritual cards

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4000 NE 41 Street, Bld D
Seattle, WA
98105

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+12064195481

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