Screaming Octopus

FOUR OF SWORDS | The Art of Resting Without Guilt ✨

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is absolutely nothing.

The Four of Swords is your reminder that rest is not weakness, stepping back is not giving up, and silence is not stagnation. Sometimes your mind, body, and spirit need a damn minute to catch up with everything you’ve been moving through.

This card speaks to retreating from the noise, creating space to breathe, and giving yourself permission to pause. Not because you’re avoiding life, but because you’re preparing to meet it again with more clarity, intention, and grounded energy.

Maybe you’ve been carrying too much. Maybe you’ve been processing, healing, navigating change, or trying to figure out your next move. Maybe you’ve been so busy doing the work that you’ve forgotten to simply be.

The Four of Swords invites you to protect your peace, establish boundaries, and stop treating rest like something you have to earn. You don't need to have every answer today. You don't need to solve every problem before your head hits the pillow.

Sometimes clarity comes when you stop chasing it.

So take the pause. Step away from the noise. Let your nervous system exhale. Give yourself room to integrate what you've been learning and becoming.

You are not falling behind. You are making space for what comes next. 🖤

And here's your question to sit with: Where in your life are you being called to stop pushing and start listening?

Ready to shake things up, dive a little deeper, and then let it all settle?

October 29th brings The Samhain Gong Show, where we go inward with guided meditation, self-exploration, and a little personal unraveling. Think less lying around listening to pretty sounds and more getting curious about what’s going on beneath the surface. 👀

Then, on November 4th, Soul Soak takes the stage! This is your space to regulate, integrate, and let everything you stirred up during the Gong Show find its place. Because sometimes you need to shake things loose, and sometimes you need to let the dust settle.

One week to explore. One week to integrate. A little inner work, a little sound, and a whole lot of you.

Come curious. Leave a little more connected.

Wow. Crone Moon was absolutely marvelous. 🖤

Ten women came together to talk connection, community, and the stuff we’re not always given space to say out loud: hormone replacement, relationships, doctors, resources, and finding answers.

The wisdom in that room? Incredible. I’m so grateful for every woman who showed up ready to share, listen, and get curious.

I’ve been doing this work for five years, helping women move in a positive direction alongside my clients and friends. This time, I left the empty chairs in place when women canceled. Normally, I remove them because empty space.... But this time, I left them there as a reminder: we’re making space for the women who aren’t here yet, the women who are struggling and just accepting this change of life as fate.

The women searching. Struggling. Questioning what they’ve been told. Wondering what else they’re allowed to ask for.

Because this circle isn’t just about what happens in the room. It’s about what happens after we leave.

One woman shares a resource. Another asks a better question within the group or at her next doctor’s appointment. Someone starts talking openly about her experience and helps another woman find her way.

We have incredible resources right here in our valley, and we’re building a list. Sometimes, you just need to know where to look, who to ask, and that you have options.

Imagine these conversations spreading beyond the circle. Women sharing what they’ve learned, advocating for themselves, and helping each other do the same.

That’s community. That’s empowerment. And truly, that’s powerful.

So we’re doing it again.

If there’s enough interest, our next Crone Moon gathering will be November 10 at 6 PM.

If you’re curious, questioning, navigating the rivers of change, or just craving a room full of mature women willing to talk about the real stuff, come join us.

Let’s keep making space for the women who need it.

Frost Moon
Thursday, November 19, 2026 | 6:00–8:30 PM
Screaming Octopus | East Wenatchee

Connection, Community & Curiosity

Come gather, share some 🦋 tea, make some art, and get curious about the invisible threads that connect us.

We’ll slow down, connect, and explore through neurographic art, following the lines wherever they lead. Words, memories, feelings, insights, weird little flashes of knowing… what ever emerges.

We’ll close with a guided collective meditation, curated music, and space to settle into the collective energy of the group. No need to have all the answers. Just come curious and see what shows up when we slow down enough to listen.

Come as you are. Bring your curiosity. Bring your weird. Leave a little more connected.

Let’s gather.

I remember when we first started remodeling Screaming Octopus. I wanted a pretty large room, and once it was built, I remember thinking, “Is this too big?” A massage therapist who comes to see me laughed and said, “Oh, you’ll fill it.” I didn’t think I would. And then, of course, I did.

I’m noticing that this has become a pattern for me. Give me space and I will fill it. Give me room on my calendar and I’ll find something to put there. Give me an empty corner and suddenly I have an idea for what belongs in it.

But lately, I’m learning something different: space doesn’t have to be filled to have value.

People ask if I’m going to bring in guest teachers and speakers to fill the classroom. And honestly? Right now, I’m just enjoying the space. I don’t feel the need to immediately fill it. I’m learning to let it breathe.

And that lesson has started showing up in not only my life but my bodywork, too.

I’ve been exploring more subtle myofascial release lately. This is actually a Untangle and release session but now it's flowing into my regular massage sessions.

I’ve spent years working with deep tissue, deep pressure, MFR with pin and stretch, and getting into the muscle tissue. Now I’m becoming fascinated by what happens when I slow way down and work with the fascia, that beautiful webbing surrounding the body.

There is movement. There is release. There is circulation. There is lymphatic flow. But there is also something else happening. We're creating space.

Clients are coming out of these sessions in a deeply meditative state. Not because I’m doing more, but because I’m doing less. I’m giving the body room to respond instead of constantly asking it to change.

Maybe that’s the lesson I’m practicing everywhere right now in my life.

I don’t have to fill every room. I don’t have to fill every hour. I don’t have to fill every silence.

Maybe sometimes the magic is in what happens when we finally leave some space.

The Gong Show: Preparations for Samhain
Thursday, October 29, 2026

6:00 PM 7:30 PMThe

Gong Show Storytime is a "Come as you are". And in holding this space as always we arrive in silence and we leave in silence.... or minimal words allowing others their own experience.

You’ll be invited into a guided journey through sound and story. You may draw a card from the deck of awareness and choose your own adventure.

The sounds become part of the landscape as gongs, bowls, drums, rattles, voice, and other instruments weave their spell and guide you deeper into the story. The forest may feel familiar, mysterious, playful, challenging, or completely unexpected.

There is no right path. There is no wrong path. There is simply the path you choose.

The Gong Show is also a sacred space for mindful curious humans to expand and explore.

This is your time to relax. To unwind. To listen. To wander. To let your imagination stretch beyond the usual edges of your day.

So "Come as you are." Step into the forest. Choose your path.

Let the story unfold... who knows what moonlit adventure you may find.

Unmute the Soul group and private sessions.

This photo was taken on Orcas Island while I was there learning sound. I signed up thinking I was going to learn how to use my voice.

What I didn’t realize was that I was about to discover what my voice had been carrying.

I kept coming back to this tree. It was still growing, but look at what happened where the rope wrapped around it. The tree adapted. It found a way to keep reaching. But something was tethered there, constricting the growth and changing the way it could expand.

It made me wonder: What does the rope represent? What are we tethered to? What are we still carrying that is preventing a full release? AND Why do I keep returning to stand in front of this tree?

For me, toning became much more than making sound. Something deep started breaking open. Not in a dramatic, performative way, but in that strange place where the body knows before the mind does. Sound moved through places I didn’t realize were still holding on.

That experience became part of the inspiration for Unmute the Soul.

This is a somatic exploration of voice, breath, vibration, toning and sound. Not singing. Not performing. Not getting the notes “right.” It’s about listening to the body and discovering what happens when we stop controlling the sound and let something deeper move.

Sometimes what comes out is beautiful. Sometimes it’s raw, strange, primal, funny, emotional, or completely unexpected.

And sometimes… something finally lets go.

I’m offering Unmute the Soul as a group circle, as well as a private one-to-one experience for those who want a more intimate exploration of voice, breath, sound and what the body may be ready to release.

What are you tethered to?

And what might happen if you finally loosen the rope?

A huge shout out to Seattle Sound Temple and Julia Francis for allowing me to be curious in this space and Crack open my ability to use my vouice and do this magical work. Thank you, thank you ...thank you

Reiki-Infused Shamanic Sound Meditation

Saturday, October 17, 2026

8:00 AM 9:30 AM

Sound is the conversation you hear and feel. Reiki is the conversation that moves beneath it.

Leave the thinking mind at the door and let the sound take you on a shamanic journey through your own soul.

Drums, rattles, voice, Karuna with toning, gongs, Himalayan bowls, Reiki, and deep vibration come together in an immersive experience where something might shift, soften, release, or reveal itself.

No fixing. No forcing. No spiritual gold stars. Just lie back, listen, feel, and see where the journey takes you.

Come curious. Come open. Come ready to go a little deeper.