Wellness Studio Open House: March 5-6, 10am-7pm

2011 is a powerful new year, of new shifts, new growth, and a world of support from the universe to fulfill great healing. Anything that is based from pure love and true to our life's purpose is going to be supported this year.

For three years, Peaceful Acres has continued to share with our patrons and our friends some of the most unique ancient natural healing methods.  We are educating and providing training opportunities for techniques that many never would have expected to learn about or practice.  The new wellness center is a central location for a place that everyone can experience instant relaxation, transformation and enlightenment. Combining the talents of many gifted people we are offering classes, workshops and holistic services to help guide you on your own path of purpose and overall well-being.

Please join us for our Grand Opening Open House March 5-6 from 10am-7pm.    The open house will be an opportunity to meet the many talented wellness practitioners who will be joining the Peaceful Acres Wellness Studio staff.  Mini-sessions will be offered for Reiki, Reflexology, Massage Therapy, Intuitive Readings, and other services.  Our gift shop will also be open in the studio and is stocked full with our many wonderful lavender creations!

Peaceful Acres has great expectations for downtown Wilmington and is excited to be a part of helping shape the future of Clinton County.

Wellness Studio Downtown Parking Map

Downtown Wilmington parking availability, or the lack their of, is a much talked about issue. As Peaceful Acres prepares to open their downtown Wilmington studio, we are here to educate and inform Wilmington residents and other visitors about the parking truth. Plain and simple, a direct trip from an unlimited amount of parking spaces to Wellness Studio doors is faster than walking to your car at Wal Mart or Krogers. As a downtown frequenter, I can assure you this is the case.
According to research completed by Buy Local Clinton County "there are 500+ parking spots available inside the Historical District alone." And these are FREE spots! Besides the on-street parking spaces on South St. and Main, there are many other FREE parking spots on side streets and unrestricted lots within a block of Wellness Studio by Peaceful Acres.
For your convenience, Peaceful Acres has created a Wellness Studio parking map. Also review the downtown parking map created by the Buy Local campaign. Use these when visiting the Wellness Studio, and while you're at it, visit many of the other fine downtown businesses!

Wellness Studios by Peaceful Acres to open in downtown Wilmington

Peaceful Acres is excited to announce they will soon assume a presence in downtown Wilmington. “Wellness Studios by Peaceful Acres” will be a full-scale holistic care source and wellness center located at 14 N South Street (formerly the Next to New Consignment store). The projected opening date is March 1st.

Opening a wellness studio has long been a vision of owner Kym Prell. Kym is a certified Reflexologist and Reiki master and has held regular workshops at Peaceful Acres Lavender Farm since 2009.

The center will feature several experienced healers and wellness practitioners from around the area, providing such services as Reflexology, Reiki, Massage Therapy (licensed), Tai Chi, Yoga, Self-empowerment workshops, Intuitive Readings, and Astrology readings. The new space will also feature a gift shop with Peaceful Acres Lavender Farm handmade creations as well as many other wellness products.

Adult and youth classes will be offered for the majority of services, with individual and group classes available. Designated days for “Walk-ins” will also be offered. To learn more information about Wellness Studios services and to get updates on class schedules, visit the “Wellness Studio” page at www.peacefulacreslavenderfarm.com.

Ice Hits Peaceful Acres

As the entire Midwest experiences serious winter weather, Peaceful Acres asks all of our supporters and friends to send warm, positive energy to our lavender fields! Lavender is not adverse to cold and snow, but ice poses a definite danger to the life of lavender plants. Lavender is a very woody plant, and the weight of the ice coupled with high winds can cause plants to split and break off.

We found our lavender plants covered in ice on Tuesday and were worried that severe wind we were to receive overnight (gusts over 40 mph) and freezing rain may cause us to lose some plants. Thankfully, however, the lavender stood strong overnight, and we didn’t receive any more ice today. At this point, we have not lost any plants and the lavender is currently holding no ice.

Peaceful Acres is committed to research on lavender care and protection. We plan to plant an additional acre of lavender this growing season and would like to experiment with low hoop housing to provide more protection for our plants during Ohio’s harsh winters. To protect your own lavender at home, Kym suggests placing a bed sheet, plastic or any other covering over your plants.

Warm yourself up this winter by visualizing yourself attending our third annual Summer Solstice Lavender Festival June 18 and 19! This will be our biggest and best event yet, and we can’t wait to share it with you! Pick your own lavender bundles, yoga in the fields, nature trails, lavender food, music, vendors, Reiki, reflexology, lavender gift shop, adult and children lavender workshops, and many more activities planned! Mark your calendars now and spread the word to friends and family!

A year's time and lessons way beyond myself...

Here we all are.. we have stepped into another new year.. we have been through another full cycle of another beautiful year. This however, is a year so different than any year any of us here on earth now have ever experienced.

I know this, and I can feel this with all of my being. Things are changing, everything is always changing, but it is different this time. The univers

e, the earth, the entire energy is crying out for healing, and crying out to be re-noticed.

Like I have said so many times before, our ancestors before us were so much more connected, to each-other and to everything around them. They knew the plants, the animals, they knew on a personal level everything around them that could be of use, and so importantly they knew and valued the exchange of energy. Giving and receiving on so many levels.

The last few years have brought about a global awakening, or should I say a global test of awakening. There have been so many obstacles put in the path of so many people. So many people loosing their jobs, their homes, everything we all valued as the basics in life...

There have been so many chances to let it bu

ry you alive and force you to a life of grief, or a chance to truly clear the clouds of your perception, see things exactly as they are, honor them for what they are and how they came to be, and then use them to GROW..

We all do have our down times, we are ALL on this human path and have human emotions. I will be the first to tell you that I am not always happy and in a perfect space of bliss... but I will tell you that every single thing put in my path have all been such a blessing because they all helped me to grow into who I am and what I value in this life. The hard things, and the things of complete joy..they are all a part of me. Every person I have been blessed to learn from, to meet, a little bit of every one of them is a part of me and who I am. Its a wonderful feeling to think of many of those people, (and animals) and feel the essence of them all around me, because they are a part of me, it becomes really hard to feel alone...

I am much more able to see my obstacles, or my s

adness, really honor it and then let it go.. get back to really seeing the beauty in so many things all around me, so much easier than I every thought possible.

We live in a life of abundance, weather you see it now or not, it is so available to you, and you will feel so amazed at a NEW start to life. A newness to everything around you, like you are a child discovering things for the first time. I know for me, these feelings were intensified with my Reiki master attunment.. like something made the final click I needed to feel the warmth of the world around me and be on my true path of purpose... but you don't need that to feel what I now feel.

As I look back at the past few years and the changes I have gone through I know the root of changes and how important they each are to set you on a new experience of life around you..

I have no idea if there is an order these need to go in, but I feel everyone experiences them at some level over and over and maybe in cycles. I tend to do a lot of things backwards, or in an order that seems very out of the normal.. on so many levels of life... but that's just how I roll :)

As I think of my path and the 'order' which I fully learned and lived each of them, I see right away how the last one I 'got' may really be the best to start with for most people. However, in the universe everything happens exactly the way it should in exactly the order it should for every person. No two people are on the same path. Its yours and yours alone and YOU are the only one who can truly listen and know what is right for you at a specific time in your life...

The most recent thing I finally TRULY learned about is self care. I have heard it most of my life I have said I practiced it, but so much of mine, and I know many other peoples make up is meeting other peoples needs. Making sure they are cared for.. especially being a mother, a wife, a husband providing for your family.. You truly can do no one else any more good than you do for yourself. If you really want to be the best help you can to those you love, you better really understand this concept. You can not give out any more love, respect, care, or nurturing than what you have contained inside of yourself FOR yourself. It was said to me many many times, but not until you are really taking that time for filling yourself will you every fully understand what I am saying.. What really helped me through this was to throw out the window all of the worry and issues I was having trying to see my place in the world. When I started running workshops, I quickly realized that I was about the youngest person in the room every time. I started thinking, who I am I to teach these people anything, to lead them in any way.. I worried about what I really could teach people. I was drawn so strong to play this role in life but very un-confident in WHY. As soon as I changed my thoughts to what fulfills me and what am I passionate about.. the rest faded away and I look for that feeling in many places of life.

Start simple and see where it leads, find the feeling that fulfills you the most and make more time for it. Fulfill yourself by fulfilling what makes you happy, You will be in gratitude that you did.

The next thing is truly LETTING GO of everything. This does not mean giving up, or loosing hope at ALL. This is simply acknowledgement that the universal energy flows through the world at the path of least resistance. It flows to positive light and only works for the highest good of everything involved. This may not always be easy or what you think you really want.. because you are now letting the universe/ god/ the outside forces lead you on your path here. I know from my own life, completely letting go does not always mean you will loose everything you let go of, it just allows that space for the winds of the universe to blow freely and gently push you along your path. When you say you have let go but you are still holding on, even with little strings on the way you want the outcome to be personally, you have strings in the way of that wind and it cant really do what it needs to do for you.

Which brings me to another thing, giving and being completely unattached to the outcome. When you give things, such as love, energy, and support to other people purely from your heart with no strings attached.. this is where true magic can happen. I personally give because I absolutely love giving, its a win win place for me because in spaces such as my client sessions, in workshops, or just in my daily life.. any small thing I can give to someone else instantly adds so much joy into my life. But if you don't feel that instantly that is completely fine, all people are different and we all experience things differently. Just remembering how energy works, what you put out there is what you will receive back, is some form or another. Don't do things expecting something back in any other way either though, because you are attaching strings. Just know the universe will provide for you and leave it at that.

The last thing I want to touch on, since I am trying to write a blog and not a book... (thank you for reading this far if you have) is the importance of being in gratitude. Feel the connection to everything around you and be so grateful for it all. We are so blessed by this life. Our soul chose to come down to this earth to fulfill a journey, and to live this life you are living. Everything is so beautiful. Looking out my window as I am writing this I am in gratitude. The sun is shining on the trees, they are all so strong and so full of energy, they are leafless and dancing gently with the wind. The birds are flying through the branches and much of nature is sleeping, yet providing to so many others, including me. We are all so blessed to be here on this earth, and I feel so connected and so full of purpose just knowing I am a part of it all. I am connected to everything and everyone in some way, and so are you. Your path will touch so many other peoples path and parts of you will be carried with them, just like I carry so many with me.. Gratitude just grows more gratitude and with that comes feeling more connected to the world around you, with connection comes an awakening of your own inner knowing and inner purpose. If you have trouble being in gratitude, start how I did, make a list every day of things you are grateful for. It may start with one thing, I know mine only had a few, and that's ok. You will be amazed at how your list will grow. Can't think of one? Start by being thankful for getting out of bed, for having another day in this life, or having your loved one for another day in your life, because no one is gaurenteed another day.

With ALL of that said..I was feeling so called to share this information with you because we are all in a time of amazing movement. The power of manifestation seems to be amplified right now all over the world. Things you used to have to focus on for a long time to make them a reality are somehow being instantly answered by the universe, IF they are only for the highest good. Time seems to be timeless right now. (and for me, who has a hard time with the concept of time anyways.. this can feel really overwhelming) At the same sense, everything is so amplified right now, and the intensity of the low points can easily pull you down if you don't consciously change the way you think of your own reality. Because that is what it is, it is your own path and your own reality, but you are so far from being alone on it.

We all need each other and connection to each other more than ever, for support when we give it and support when we are in a space to accept it. It is all infinite, it is all connected and life is so so beautiful. Praying in a sweat lodge is my way of practicing connection, but this of course is not the only way of connecting. A lot of knowing comes from within.. and a lot comes from the universe, your guides, and from messengers everywhere waiting to be discovered by you.

In all of history time blocks of years had great change, HUGE shifts that the people and animals of earth had to adapt to and change with. It really makes me wonder how we could be so naive as a whole to think that we are in the ONLY period of time on this earth that will be the same forever. Earth is actually over-due for an ice age. Hearing that and seeing the research was a wonderful reminder of adaptation. Animals in nature who are most adaptable to climates, movement and changes are the ones who are the strongest in number.

Wankantanka... the great mystery... there is so much in connecting to it all and embracing it on your path.

Honoring the light within...

Next week is the traditional time of giving thanks, of gathering with family and sharing time together. I don't know about everyone, but I do know for so many people the past few years have really been shifting to a space of being in true gratitude every day. Sometimes you get to a place of really feeling you are at your lowest point to make you open up and surrender to letting spirit/ the universe take control and give in to trusting. We are being asked to feel this trust and this gratitude every day, even when you are at your highest points too..

There is so much shifting... so many trials...so many hard spaces of life we are and have been asked to go through. Every single one of them is a chance to live in love and to grow more into your spiritual essence and purpose in this life. I spent so much of my life searching for something I felt I was missing, like so many people do..when it was all here all along, all around me, all within me. All around you, and within YOU...

When I first started truly opening up to so many things I used to not pay attention to, I really was worried about who I said certain things to, who I would offend, who would think I was completely nuts.... I thought that was important. However, it didn't take me long to let go of that, because I now know that we are all so connected, all the same, all of the same divine light. It is not about religion, or about my beliefs being different than anyone else's, it is about finding that space where they are the same. In the root of all religion are really the same beliefs, when you take it to the simple level of things. Love, compassion/ forgiveness, and being grateful, then taking the time to honor these things through meditation, silence or prayer.

We each do of course have our own uniqueness and our own individual path we need to fill, but it is finally coming back to a time where we are not meant to do that alone, it is about connecting with each other and using other people and other animals, other plants, as our way of finding our own light. We have so much in us that always wants an answer to things as well, and a huge part of getting back to the true core of our being and our purpose is accepting and flowing and growing. We will never know all of the answers and we will always be given a chance to learn and to grow.

I have been so honored and so blessed by so many teachers, so many elders making a presence and sharing their knowledge. I started off my weekend last weekend at the Star knowledge conference at Serpent Mound. These conferences are such a beautiful amazing form of sharing and of growth. They hold 13 a year all over the country, so many elders from many places are coming together and speaking out, sharing their knowledge and their truth. We should all feel so honored for this chance at this time. They do not have to share but they have been asked to by divine means because our planet needs this. Not just our local community, our city, our state, but everyone all across parts of the world are being asked to heal this earth...

Sunday Uncle Bob Randall came out and spent the day at our farm. His culture was living one of the oldest ways of life as we know it in Australia. They did not have homes, they did not own the land, they lived with the land. They lived like this for longer than our history can even think about. Their youngest children could survive in a desert finding food, water, making shelter, and living in harmony with not only each- other but with all living things. There was no war, because all tribes treated each-other equally, with respect, and they had a true sense of living on the earth. They did not own the earth, because she owns us. Settlers came in and began to make it known they owned the land, and everything changed. It is always a sad situation when someone believes their ways are the only ways and are right. That is just not what it is meant to be. We are all meant to learn from each-other and share with each-other so that life can be experienced to the fullest it possibly can.. WHY else are we here?

I am still processing so much from my recent experiences with Bob and Barbara and with so many other people, and animals and plants that have come so willingly into my life. Being taught original song and ways of ceremony really does move your spirit to a place not able to be explained by words.... learning from any elder is something to be cherished and respected and honored.....I am ready for a space of honoring all that has been learned. I have been going inward which I feel is so important for the balance of the physical and the spiritual. There are so many messages readily available to anyone who is willing to open up and listen, feel, see or sense them. They are all around you, they are in your dreams, they are in your experiences with other people and from the physical realm of life we are all here walking in. It is definitely not always easy, and personally I am working on the balance of being in pure spirit and true purpose while still dealing with and keeping a balance on earthly in the now, life things.

I find so much comfort in the realization the last month has given me, and that is how connected we all truly are. So many people are finding their light and connecting it to others, so many people, not just us, not just in our community are working on ways to become self sufficient again, the way things used to be and can be. We are all people made up of our individual experiences, we each pick up the essence of other beings we learn from, we meet. A little bit of what we resonate with in each path we cross becomes part of who we are and our light we carry around in this world. The root of growing is letting everything originate in love, because anything that is of pure love will be supported by the universe. "The wind of love is everywhere" as Bob sings in one of his many beautiful songs..it is just allowing that wind to surround your entire being, soak into your soul and emit from your breath..

I am truly in so much gratitude and so much thanks, to the earth, to being connected, to floating on the winds of love and letting go of earthly things we were all taught as being the most important things in life.. Life is always changing and I know deep in my soul we are all being asked to reconnect to each-other and to everything around us, so we can also change and bring this earth back to a space of balanced living. May you all make the time to re-connect with your family and soak in your blessings, this next week and every week after....

Months of changes..earthship movement

So much has been going on in our lives since the last time we posted....

Everything around seems to be moving in hyper-speed, and everything internal is fighting for some quietness in order to process this incredibly fast shifting. As many people know we had put our farm and home up for sale this year. Like so many people in this economy we were feeling really pressured to make some conscious changes. We took an amazing trip out west this summer. It was a trip that was making up for 7 years of no real family vacations with the kids. It was the most needed and amazing experience to completely step out of life, and be able to look at this life we had created from an outside view, and really spend amazing time connecting with each-other. So much of what we thought needed to happen was to truly use this as a chance to fulfill a dream. Moving out west, into the mountains..or near the ocean..to a place of beauty so intense it still fills me with tears when I think about it all. Leaving it all behind and completely simplifying life could really create a space of Mike not always feeling compelled to keep up with the physical farm duties, and a chance for me to step back from so much work running several businesses and missing out on time with my kids. So many beautiful places we visited we could easily picture ourselves in long term. The kids were really amazing and so excited about just about any new place as a new home town. Living out of the van for a month, camping and staying with wonderful people along the way REALLY gave us even more of a view of the life we knew we needed to work at. It was so easy to picture ourselves so many places because all we really need is each-other...food and someplace comfortable to sleep.....

So much of what our society has gotten away from has to do with having way too much, needing way too much. Turkey vulture flies over very often, its message is so important now..waste not want not... In the history of cultures, everyone used what was available to build homes, clothes, tools, they worked together as community for the highest good of everyone involved. I'm not sure when it all happened, but man did we take a giant leap away from the resourcefulness of our ancestors!!

So here we were. We knew we were being asked to make some major changes, and it is so important to me that we start healing this earth, start replenishing what is so little and what used to be thriving. Our thoughts, our energies, and certainly our way of life will directly effect the next 7 generations. Thinking of starting over somewhere else is so amazing, but starting to build a home from scratch and the effects of physical activity to Mikes body was very overwhelming. So many messages I was getting on our trip was all about community. So much of our time and energy had been spent the last few years building this earthship for the farm, the wellness center, and the main foundation and framing was already done..... it only made sense to continue what we had already come so far on. Although this was not the intension for this building, everything in our lives change, everything shifts and it all happens exactly the way it needs to.

So for now, between the double vending events, and taking care of our amazing kids, we have been working every spare moment on getting the earthship sealed in before winter. Let me tell you, going from freeing my mind from everything I once knew to stepping right back into the fast flow, plus adding building a home, has definitely not been easy. Ive had so many doubts and questions along this part of the journey. However, the beauty of it is knowing this is what we need to do, and Mike is always so amazing at encouraging me and assuring me it will all work out. (somehow we have completely switched roles, because that used to BE me and now he does it FOR me :) The letting go ALWAYS allows the universe to flow freely within our lives.

Our home and woods will soon belong to someone else, and parts of me are sad, but so much more of me knows how important and needed working together as a community is with the shifts going on in this world. Even more of me knows that every can and tire packed into this home with mud is one more can or tire that is not being burned or dumped into a landfill.

We have had some volunteers through the last few months, and we are SO grateful and thankful to each and every one of you! There are some wonderful things you can learn from spending time on this building and we are always very open to extra hands, and can always use extra help.

My aunt who passed away several years ago made a cd for us all, on the cover is her beautiful smiling face and the sentence "what lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us" (Ralf Waldo Emerson)

That is it...that is everything... it is what we hold inside, the essence of who we are that is always with us, so much of the rest of the world changes and shifts and we must be flexible with it. Living with compassion and love and only the highest good of everyone inside.... thats how we can make it through everything and it is together...

I do know my role with the farm is changing, and I am so excited to start focusing on the Wellness retreats very soon.... empowering ourselves is the most amazing step we can take to healing this planet...