Sacred. Ceremonial. Rite. Worship. Routine. Massage Therapy is Holistic healing. Holy. Meaning that it not only serves the body, but the mind and spirit as well. Massage Therapy along with other healing modalities should be held to one’s highest regard and considered a priority when it comes to your self care/love regimen. Love is the highest frequency. When considering or booking a Massage Therapy session with Sweet Serenity Pampering Co., receiving Ear Candling or purchasing any of our products, I would like you to ask yourself questions and be clear of your intentions. Is this for pain relief, relaxation, clarity? Do I need assistance in releasing trauma or grieving a loss of a loved one? Or do I simply want to experience the healing, transformative Powers of touch? These questions and others answers will assist you in receiving the desired outcome from your session(s). Here are a few things you can do prior to, following and or during your session.
 
Journal - Journaling helps you to express what your inner thoughts, needs and desires are. In my humble opinion, one of the best forms of communication is nonverbal communication and emanates from within oneself. Journaling is suggested prior to and or following a session. Feel free to share with me if you like. 
 
Bathing – Water. One of the most powerful, healing, nourishing elements on this planet. Bathing is a lost art (ritual practice) that relaxes, cleanses, detoxifies and prepares the body and mind for the healing work that you are about to receive. As a Healer and Birth worker, I often prepare for clients or welcoming new life by way of ritual bathing. You can add herbs, salts, flowers, crystals, honey, etc. to compliment your bath as well as recite positive affirmations over yourself and into the water.
 
Breathing – Breath is Life. During your massage you will be in a deep relaxing, meditative state. Deep purposeful breathing not only releases stress and tension from the body, it also detoxifies and provides oxygen to your cells, muscles, blood and organs in and of the body. Use this time to do visualization exercises or to recite affirmations. Either verbal or nonverbal. Release. Let it Go! Breathe. Slowly inhale through your nose and slowly exhale through your mouth. Breathe. Breathe each breath as if it were your last breath.
 
Rest – Most people come to me for rest due to their hectic lives and busy schedules. Rest during your session. This is a time to lay your burdens down. Keep talking to a minimum. Rest following your session is vital as well. When you sleep/rest your body begins the process of healing and restoring itself. Whether returning to your bed, getting out in nature or any other place of tranquility, take the time to just BE. No television or cells phones. Take this perfect time to continue receiving the benefits of the aromatherapy and the work that your divine temple has just been blessed with. This is also a great time for personal reflection, counting your many blessings and preparing for the many blessings that are to come. Give Thanks!

Photo Credit: Ebele Ajogbe - Thank You Sister!

Much appreciation to the families and clients that I’ve served in 2015. From Massage Therapy, prenatal/postpartum support, births, childbirth education, breastfeeding support to herbal remedies and placenta medicine. I thank you. Thank you for trusting me and allowing me to be a part of something so sacred and life transforming. Seeing some of you in your raw, vulnerable power has inspired me to be a better woman and it continues to transform me daily. You all have taught me what it means to be a Wombman, Mother, Sister, Friend. These experiences don’t come from books, but from the true essence of being and of serving. I’ve heard your cries and your deepest fears. I’ve laughed and bared witness to your tears of pain and sheer joy.  I’ve rubbed backs, necks, laboring hips and bottoms. I’ve listened with goose bumps as you’ve sang to your unborn child to assist in their earthly arrival. I’ve expressed milk with my bare hands from the breasts of new mommies and held their babies close to my heart, as if they were my own flesh and blood. Thank you to those who have trusted me to prepare sacred medicine from the "Fruit" of your Womb, which carries spirit, medicine, and the DNA memory of your fore mothers. Thank you to the beautiful husbands who have allowed me to stand by your side, to serve, love and nurture you through your wives and your children (born and unborn). Thank you for welcoming me into your sacred space.

Thank you to those who have trusted me with your Wombs. With knowledge, herbal medicine, and ritual. Special Thank You to the ladies who accepted the invite and embarked on The Journey Within - 40 Day Womb Writings. For 40 days we wrote letters to our sacred, power centers to manifest, communicate, heal, clear and develop a beautiful, open and honest relationship with our Wombs. I look forward to creating sacred circles and Red Tents for us to come together to celebrate our "Blood Rights".

Thank you to those who have allowed me to use my gift of touch (laying of hands), massage therapy to assist yourselves as well as loved ones. Thank you for allowing me to be a vessel of healing. Thank you for the healing that you have reciprocated unto me. I’ve washed feet, prepared herbs/oils, anointed heads as well as given spiritual baths. Thank you to those who have allowed me to sit at the gates during your spiritual journeys of life, death and rebirth. And to not only sit at the gates, but trusting the sacred plants that I’ve cultivated and prepared with my own heart and hands. I am forever humble and grateful for each and every one of you and our journeys together. Thank you for the referrals, emails, calls, texts, the shares, for reading my blogs, and just overall for trusting my knowledge and wisdom. Thank you for believing in ME. I carry you all and your stories around within me. Thank you for honoring the spirit within you. You did not have to choose me, but you did. And for that, I cannot thank you enough.

​My intentions for 2016 (9) is that it is a year of Abundance, Prosperity, Laughter, Healing, Magic, ReBirth, Divine Restoration, Self Love, Creativity, Ancestral Wisdom, Power, Clarity, Sacred Sex, Sacred Ceremonies/Sites, Healing, Ritual, Growth, Dance, Dominion, Financial Freedom, Happiness and Unconditional Love, for myself as well as the collective Consciousness. I ask that this is the year that you tap into and build a relationship with the Divine God(dess) that is YOU. Happy New You from Sweet Serenity Pampering Co.!