Join us for an evening of connection, healing, and transformation.
Guided by Juanita Hufnagel, a Stress & Trauma-Informed Health Specialist and advanced shamanic practitioner and Reiki Master who has apprenticed under traditional Andean shamans from Q’ero in Peru.
This ceremonial cacao experience will open your heart and awaken your inner wisdom.
Cacao, a sacred plant medicine from South and Central America, has been used for centuries to foster connection, emotional balance, and spiritual growth. Cacao is more than a drink; it's a heart-opener, a guide, and a healing medicine. This ceremony blends energy healing with Louise, intention setting, and the wisdom of sacred plant medicine to help you connect with your heart and release what no longer serves you.
During this ceremony, you will be guided through:
🌟 Heart-opening cacao meditation
🌟 Energy healing and intention setting
🌟 A safe space for emotional release and transformation
💛 Rediscover your connection to self and spirit. 💛
NEW ADDED DATE: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 7PM
WHEN: January 9th, 2025 ** SOLD OUT **
TIME: 7 pm
Investment: $59
Reserve your spot today! 🌟 Spaces are limited.
👉 Learn more and register: Louise@aurorawellnesscentre.com
Get to know your facilitator Juanita Hufnagel's bio:
Juanita Hufnagel is a Canadian writer, international lecturer, and Stress & Trauma-Informed Health & Wellness Specialist. She is a multi-disciplinary creative, teacher, and advanced shamanic practitioner in Core Shamanism who combines ancient wisdom with modern therapeutic approaches cross-culturally to promote healing and transformation. Juanita is the former owner of a traditional plant medicine healing center and has apprenticed under traditional Andean shamans from Q’ero in Peru, completing initiations at sacred apus (mountains) such as Ausangate. She is also a Reiki Master and a trauma-focused somatic therapist, with advanced training in Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).
Her work focuses on helping individuals rewrite their personal stories—the energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual narratives that shape their lives. By reframing these narratives and reconnecting fragmented parts of the self, Juanita empowers individuals to achieve deeper emotional regulation, personal growth, and creative expression. She hosts group and private sessions in soul and power animal retrieval, extraction work, compassionate deposession and curse and hex unravelling.
Juanita has performed numerous Pachamama despachos (Mother Earth gratitude ceremonies), land blessings, and cacao ceremonies in both Peru and Canada and believes in a practice of spiritual ecology and connecting to nature. Her ceremonial work blends energy healing, sacred space-holding, and a deep understanding of group dynamics and co-regulation. She has been invited as a guest lecturer by institutions such as the University of Costa Rica, where she led workshops on the connection between movement, ancient medicine, and creative wellness. Her teachings explore the relationship between the nervous system, emotional regulation, collective witnessing, and the healing of incomplete trauma cycles.
As the author of the Invisible Worlds series, Juanita uses storytelling and myth to explore themes of healing, resilience, and transformation. Her earlier artistic work is part of the National Gallery of Canada Library Archives, and she is a Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient in literature. Juanita’s integrative approach merges art, ceremony, and therapeutic practices to create profound and lasting change.
Splitting her time between Vancouver Island and Cusco, Peru, Juanita brings a unique blend of cultural, spiritual, and therapeutic insights to her practice. For more information, visit her website at www.twistedtummy.com or follow her on Instagram at @mytwistedtummy.
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✨ What’s Included:
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✔ Delicious, healthy recipes
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Join us at Aurora Wellness Centre, Parksville area for a journey within, guided by Sound Healing Practitioner Aurora Rising & Bio Energy Healing Practitioner Louise.
Sound Healing is an ancient healing modality which employs the use of sacred instruments to induce the theta brainwave state, promoting deep meditation, relaxation and healing of the mind, body and soul.
Sound healing is safe for all ages and is an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, sleep disorders and chronic pain. Relax, go inward, shed what no longer serves you, and journey toward all that is in alignment with your highest self.
Bioenergy healing, which involves working with the body’s energy field to promote healing and balance, can complement sound therapy quite effectively. When sound therapy is integrated into bioenergy healing sessions, it can help to amplify the flow of energy throughout the body, enhance relaxation, and facilitate the release of energetic blockages.
Using various sound tools such as crystal sound bowls, gong, and even voice toning can help to entrain the body’s energy field to harmonious frequencies, promoting a deeper state of balance and well-being. The vibrations from sound therapy can also help to stimulate the body’s natural healing mechanisms and promote a sense of inner peace and harmony.
Combining bioenergy healing with sound therapy can offer a holistic approach to wellness, addressing the physical, emotional, and energetic aspects of health and promoting overall balance and vitality.
Relax and allow the vibrations and guided meditation to transform you in this powerful journey of healing.
Recommendations for attendees: Water, yoga mat, small blanket and head rest, and a covering for the eyes such as a blindfold or small cloth.
Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in and get comfortable.
DETAILS
DATES: Thursday, January 30th!
TIME: 7- 8:30 pm
INVESTMENT: $59 plus GST
Payment Options:
You have 3 ways to pay for this event:
1. DEBIT: If you choose to pay by e-transfer, please send payment to louise@aurorawellnesscentre.com (all lower case is fine) and make the password "sound".
2. CREDIT/DEBIT with Square
3. CASH/CHEQUE: If you sign up at Aurora Wellness, you can pay a $25 CASH deposit to hold your spot to Louise. If choosing this option, please arrange a time with Louise to drop by the wellness centre by calling ahead: 250-927-0876.
We truly cannot wait to serve you and help you enjoy our sound healing
Warmly,
Louise and Aurora Rising
Save your spot!
AYURVEDA TREATMENTS AND METHODS
For Natural Well-being and Beauty
A 50-hour, 8-day certification program
2025 date coming!
Ayurveda Foundations of Health and Beauty
Ayurveda Beauty Methods
Skin care, eye and lip care, haircare, and body care including common symptoms, imbalances, and issues and how to improve them
Ayurveda Treatments
I've been immersed in Ayurveda and yoga - studying, living, teaching, and simply being completely in love with them both! - for nearly 15 years. With a cancer (the sign of nurturing) ruled 10th house and exalted Venus (the planet of beauty) in the 6th house of health and healing in my astrological chart, I am naturally drawn to sharing the sweetness of the daily self-care methods and treatment practices that nurture wellness and beauty from the inside out - not only leaving us feeling radiant and at our best, but full of vitality, vibrancy, clarity, and self-connection.
This 50-hour, 8-day intensive is a certification program designed to educate and prepare you to be empowered and clear on your personal path to self-health and radiance as well as to teach and practice these Ayurveda treatments and methods for natural wellness and beauty within your community or around the world.
An Ayurvedic wellness and beauty practitioner improves clients quality of life through teaching and practicing Ayurveda treatments and methods that promote whole-self-health.
The treatments and methods work on internal and external levels to balance doshas, reduce stress, eliminate toxins, improve tissue nutrition, and enhance tissue quality so that the individual can experience the wellness and resulting radiance that is inherent in each one of us.
The training will provide you with the education and experience to have exquisite self-care that cultivates your personal wellness and beauty, and to offer guidance, education, and treatments in professional settings.
This is a standalone training that can get you started as an Ayurvedic Wellness and Beauty Practitioner, as well as a fantastic addition to current massage therapy, holistic consulting, Ayurveda consulting, Yoga teaching, or esthetician work.
Daily schedule
9 - 10a | Yoga practices
10:15 - 11a | Learning and discussions
11:15 - 12p | Practical
1p | Lunch and break
2 - 3p | Learning and discussions
3 - 5p | Practical
5:30p | Dinner and finished
Includes
Investment: $2,500 + tax
Early bird discount of $200 for paid in full by December 28th,2023
Location
Aurora Wellness Center, between Nanoose and Parksville (Kaye Road) on beautiful Vancouver Island.
The closest airport is in Nanaimo, or you can:
Fly into Victoria and drive 1.5 hours to the center, or
Arrive in Vancouver, take the ferry to Nanaimo, and drive 20 minutes to the center!
Additional treatments included if time permits (snehan/abhyanga, udvartana, etc)
Email Kelsey at info@illumineayurveda.com or phone 780-267-7419 to register
“We can learn to live well, age well, and thrive - naturally”
(Kelsey Brusnyk)
About your Guide - Kelsey Brusnyk
Kelsey Brusnyk is a teacher of Ayurveda and Yoga and Ayurveda health counsellor, bodywork therapist, and chef. She helps clients and students apply the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga to their modern lives so they can naturally restore and maintain balance in their body, mind, and entire being and as a result, live well, age well, and thrive.
Learn more about Kelsey on www.illumineayurveda.com or find her on instagram at @kelsey.ayurvedayoga
Let us retreat from our regular schedules and demands and come together for a day of health, healing, and self-care.
Through the wisdom and practices of Yoga and Ayurveda you will enhance your body health, self-connection, and clear calm mindstate, resetting your entire system and setting yourself up for a healthier, happier new season.
Offered at the seasonal change four times each year, this is an opportunity to carve out time for self-exploration, expansion, rejuvenation, and restoration. The retreats are suitable for all levels.
Location
Aurora Wellness Centre in Nanoose
In The Seasonal Rejuvenation Day-Retreats You Will:
Schedule
9 - 11a | Pranayama (breathwork) and yoga poses for strength and balance
12p | Fresh Ayurvedic lunch and break
1:30 - 2:30p | Discussion on yoga philosophy, seasonal Ayurveda, and intention setting
2:30 - 3p | Guided intuitive energy management meditation
3:15 - 4:45p | Preparation, passive, and restorative yoga poses to support healthy posture and breathing, enhance the deeper flexibility of ligaments, and restore the nervous system to a space of ease, clarity and calm
5:30p | fresh Ayurvedic dinner and finished
2024 Schedule TBA - Mark your calendar!
Spring retreat:
Summer retreat:
Autumn retreat:
Winter retreat:
Investment
$275 per session
(or $1000 for all four)
Registration
Contact Kelsey at 780-267-7419 or info@illumineayurveda.com to register
Tea Ceremony is a beautiful ritual that slows us down and connects us to ourselves, others and nature. Through tea ceremony we start seeing Magic in the ordinary or in the mundane, and are able to feel and experience life more fully.
In our Sacred Self Love & Acceptance we use a loving & transcendental blend that will lead you out of the keyed-up state of fight or flight, relax and release any muscle tension, let go of emotional baggage, as you let the warmth & love caress you.
There’s something very loving about taking time to connect with each herb – feeling it in your hands – inhaling the fragrance – just really connecting with it.
When you take the time to become aware and notice what your body needs, you prioritize your time to make your body a better place.
Tea can be a vehicle of focus for returning to our center and invoking peace and calm. In our herbal tea ceremony, we hold space for one another and ourselves to feel the subtle rising of energies that accompany the tea and herbs as we drink.
Buddhist monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh speaks often of the peace that comes with drinking tea:
“I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me. I am informed by the tea, changed. This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed:
All the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
There is only the tea and me, converging.”
You will enjoy your evening with our loving tea ceremony, learning how to care for you; your body and mind.
Your meditation will have you wrapped in blankets and covered in healing crystals to help invoke your intentions your lovingly placed in your tea.
Allow your body and mind to to bathe in the healing vibrations of the crystal bowls and drums. Drumming shifts the brain from releasing stress chemicals to releasing endorphins and other healing chemicals. Spiritual Journeys, inner connection, dream states, trance-induction, and healing have been attained through the use of Drumming and sound healing. Normally, the brain cycles back and forth between the analytical left hemisphere and the creative right hemisphere. While drumming, however; the hemispheres become synchronized, working together simultaneously, which results in a transcendent state of consciousness.
Ultimately, A Sound Journey puts us in touch with our higher consciousness where wisdom, healing, and an understanding of our true -self come into being. Drumming awakens the capability to communicate with the inner-self for a deeply profound personal growth.
Calm the mind, Rejuvenate the body, Harmonize your soul
Recommendations for attendees: Water, yoga mat, small blanket and head rest
Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in and get comfortable.
DETAILS
Date: Looking to book a private ceremony for you and your friends or co-workers?
Time: 7 - 9 pm
enrollment $55
Payment Options:
You have 3 ways to pay for this event:
1. DEBIT: If you choose to pay by e-transfer, please send payment to louise@aurorawellnesscentre.com (all lower case is fine) and make the password "sound".
2. CREDIT/DEBIT with Square
3. CASH/CHEQUE: If you sign up at Aurora Wellness, you can pay a $25 CASH deposit to hold your spot to Louise. If choosing this option, please arrange a time with Louise to drop by the wellness centre by calling ahead: 250-927-0876.
We truly cannot wait for you to experience our Sacred Tea Ceremony & Sound healing Meditation.
Warmly,
Louise and Tracey
Please email louise@aurorawellnesscentre or call 250-927-0876 for more information or to book your spot!
We also offer private ceremonies for a group of your friends, family and colleagues!
Healing Wheels
While normally associated with the traditions of Indigenous people and communities, the healing wheel is, in fact, a pan-cultural, pan-temporal symbol found in one form or another on every continent.
In short, the healing wheel is a symbol of the entire creation that sanctions sacred space for the purposes of prayer, meditation, and deepening our understanding of our relationships to ourselves and the timeless aspects of creation (the universe).
Modern medicine has affirmed what we have felt for a while, chronic stress and anxiety are damaging to all systems of the body. Albeit, stress is a major contributor to mental, emotional, and physical health. It also contributes to fatigue, lack of inspiration, and to every part of your body from head to toe. Consequently, it destroys our ability to deal with life’s challenges creatively.
This journey takes you to a beautiful wheel at Aurora Wellness where we will focus on your personal vision & healing. We will guide and support you in enriching your spiritual, physical, and emotional health through energy healing, Bemer Vascular healing (blood flow is so important to recover and restore our bodies), meditation & crystal manifestation and our loving cacao ceremony accompanied with crystal bowl sound therapy.
Healthy Mind-Body Connection
Your body has its own intelligence, it feeds on not just the food you eat, but everything you say, think and do. The key to living a healthier life is treating your body with both kindness and discipline. Learn to set healthy boundaries, manage your stress and change your negative self-beliefs.
The main goal is to assist you in creating a healthy mind-body-soul connection. A healthy functioning Wheel:
We each have the power to change our environment and our reality by changing thought vibration. It makes matter manifest. It all comes down to your personal vibration.
If you are like me, all I wanted was fulfillment and happiness.
Raise your vibration and step into your own healing story. We are programmed and wired in a certain way throughout our life situations. So let’s rewire to love ourselves fully and completely the way it is meant to be.
3 things impact the love for yourself:
Mind
Emotions
Energy
I literally know, when my vibration of love is HIGH, there is nothing I can’t have, create or experience.
Because when I am vibrating high, I vibrate at the exact frequency that the amount of happiness, money, growth, contribution, connection and love that I desire knows exactly how to find me.
We would like to show you how to do the same…
Introducing the Healing Wheel Retreat!
What your Healing Wheel Retreat Will Look Like
You will start your evening with our loving cacao ceremony, learning how to care for you; your body and mind.
Your meditation will have you wrapped in blankets and covered in healing crystals to help invoke your intentions you lovingly placed in your cup. Everything is energy and the belief is that the high vibrations of crystals affect and interact with the body’s own energy field. The high vibrations of a crystal can turn the dial up on your own energy or it can get to work redirecting or channeling energies that can cleanse any blockages in the chakras and bring the body, mind, and soul into alignment.
What is a Cacao Ceremony?
Cacao Ceremony is a beautiful ritual that slows us down and connects us to ourselves, others and nature. Manifesting from and for the HEarth — this sacred ritual will create beauty beyond comprehension. The sacred plant medicine of Cacao has the power to transform the vibrations of your body towards their highest form. This guided ceremony is a therapeutic journey where one is enabled to touch the Divine Light and Darkness and become Oneness from within.
In our Sacred Self Love & Acceptance Cacao Ceremony we use a loving & transcendental blend that will lead you out of the keyed-up state of fight or flight, relax and release any muscle tension, let go of emotional baggage, as you let the warmth & love caress you.
There’s something very loving about taking time to connect with your cup of cacao – feeling it in your hands – inhaling the fragrance – just really connecting with it.
When you take the time to become aware and notice what your body needs, you prioritize your time to make your body a better place.
Cacao can be a vehicle of focus for returning to our center and invoking peace and calm. In our cacao ceremony, we hold space for one another and ourselves to feel the subtle rising of energies that accompany the cacao as we drink.
The healing spokes of our Wheel
Indulge in an unforgettable, 4-hour candlelit journey where you'll experience six distinct holistic healing modalities to relax and restore.
We will be gathered in a circle for our healing cacao ceremony with guided gentle breathwork. Dissolving into silence, and meditation we then reconnect with the sacred ground. (60 mins)
Arising you will then move into the 2.5 hour candlelit, healing wheel with our 3 certified energy practitioners and relaxing Bemer vascular mat therapy to enhance your blood-flow for healing the body and mind.
BEMER CAN ENHANCE:
• Oxygen Delivery
• Local Blood Flow
• Muscle Conditioning
• Recovery
• Performance
• Physical Fitness
• Muscular Strength
• Endurance & Energy
• Vitality & Well-Being
• Stress Reduction & Relaxation
Closing Circle ( aproximatly 30 mins)
In our Healing Wheel Circle you can experience Entrainment.
"If you’ve ever been in the presence of a deeply calm person, or perhaps a spiritual master, you may have noticed something quite intriguing. Your breathing will tend to slow down, and the body settles into a relaxed state. In short, the powerful resonance of the serene energy field of a regular mediator, or spiritual master, has the capacity to influence you, and you will find that you naturally sync to their tranquil and expanded consciousness. This process is called ‘entrainment’ and it can also be used consciously by people working in trauma, yoga teachers, parents, in the workplace or in any relationships.
The gravitational pull towards synchronicity is one of the founding principles of the natural world. It is observable in our everyday lives and immortalized by the theories of Quantum physics. This basic law of physics teaches us that everything in the universe is made up of particles or waves, vibrating like strings at different frequencies. From the cells in our own bodies to the light and sound waves that echo through the universe. Within these vibrational phenomena, resonating particles will communicate with, and influence each other.
The vibrational frequency of two objects in contact will frequently fall into sync. When the frequencies are the same, it is called ‘resonance’. When a vibrational body of a stronger resonance influences another in its field, leading the beat, it is called entrainment.
Our bodies naturally entrain to external rhythms without us really noticing. The leading beat may come from a piece of music; influencing our internal rhythm through waves of sound. It may be the waves of light which set our circadian rhythms. Phases of the moon entrain hormonal cycles, and our own breath influences our heart beat and respiration.
In coming to understand the power of entrainment and the effect it can have on our being, we can use it to harmonize and heal our physical, emotional and spiritual bodies." - The Healing Power of Entrainment - uplift.love
The Healing Wheel Retreat is our signature program that comprises a holistic integrative approach designed to tune in on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels, allowing an organic healing process to naturally unfold. This begins by attuning to your authenticity and honouring your highest potential.
Our Healers
Undeniably, our group of healing practitioners are true masters of their craft. Using a variety of holistic healing techniques, we’ll relax and realign your whole body - mind - soul, bringing you back into balance. Likewise, our Healing Wheel retreat focuses on concepts of self-inquiry. Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual blockages are identified and removed.
Read their bios' in the next section.
We want to welcome you to to this amazing evening of healing;
Calm the mind, Rejuvenate the body, Harmonize your soul
Date: New date to be announced
Time: 6 - 10 pm
enrollment $222
Please email louise@aurorawellnesscentre or call 250-927-0876 for more information or to book your spot!
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