Carrie-Leigh Bartlett - Pure Lotus Wellness

08/09/2026

🌿 What if you spent one weekend learning how to bring a little more healing into your own life?

On August 22 & 23, I’ll be teaching Usui Reiki First Degree, and I want to remind people of something that sometimes gets lost in the world of Reiki:

- You do not have to become a Reiki Master.

- You don’t have to move through level after level.

- You don’t have to become a practitioner.

- You don’t have to start a healing business.

- You can simply learn Reiki… for you. 💜

First Degree Reiki is very much about the self.

It’s about learning to work with Reiki energy, developing a personal self-healing practice, and having something you can turn to when you need to slow down, reconnect and care for yourself.

And once you learn it, Reiki can become something you share quietly within your everyday life.

- You can offer Reiki to your partner when they’ve had a difficult day.

- To your children when they need some extra comfort.

- To your family and loved ones.

- And most importantly, to yourself.

Sometimes we become so focused on achieving the next level that we forget there is incredible value in simply learning something because it supports our own wellbeing.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking First Degree Reiki and deciding: “This is enough for me.”

In fact, for many people, that is exactly what Reiki was meant to be.

✨ A personal practice.
✨ A tool for self-care.
✨ A way to create quiet and stillness.
✨ A way to connect with your own energy.
✨ Something beautiful you can offer the people you love.

So if you've been curious about Reiki but thought, “I don't want to become a healer” or “I don't want to make this into a business,” this weekend may be exactly what you've been looking for.

🌿 Usui Reiki First Degree
📅 August 22 & 23
🕙 10:00am – 4:00pm both days

Come spend the weekend learning, slowing down, receiving, practising and giving yourself permission to make your own healing and self-care the priority.

Pure Lotus offers all levels of Usui Reiki. Learn how to Self Treat, Treat others and work towards Self Mastery. First Degree, Second Degree, Master-Teacher and Karuna Master.

08/09/2026

Have You Met Lily?

Our socialite and healing kitty will be sure to greet you at some point during your visit. Unless of course she is having one of her hard-core naps!

08/09/2026

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK AT PURE LOTUS?

The newest newsletter just went out — and there’s quite a bit happening as we soak up these last few weeks of summer!

Inside this week’s newsletter:

🔮 One/Two Question Psychic Readings | Saturday, August 15
🎶 Private 1-on-1 Sound Healing Sessions with Katherine |
Saturday, August 15
🌿 Nervous System Reset Workshop | Sunday, August 16
🧘‍♀️ Somatic Release Meditation | Sunday, August 16
🎵 Sound Bath Meditation | Sunday, August 16
✨ Plus session availability throughout the week!

AND...

The next blog in my Dysfunctional Family Roles Series is inside this week’s newsletter:

👑 THE GOLDEN CHILD: The One Who Can Do No Wrong

But being the Golden Child isn't always the privilege it appears to be from the outside.

What happens when a child learns that love, approval and belonging depend on being the successful one, the easy one, the impressive one — or the child who never disappoints?

And what happens when that child eventually becomes an adult? That conversation is in this week’s newsletter too.

Grab a coffee, find somewhere comfortable, and catch up on everything happening at Pure Lotus this week. ☕️

👇 Read this week’s newsletter here:

08/08/2026

Its Lion's Gate People!

Manifest the s**t out of your life! Intention and Emotion is your key!

Also...my poor husband...he doesn't know what to think of me. Lol

08/08/2026

🌿 NEXT WEEK AT PURE LOTUS | AUGUST 10–16 🌿

There are lots of different ways to connect with me and Pure Lotus next week. Whether you’re looking for some private one-on-one time, a little guidance from Spirit, nervous system support, somatic release, or simply a place to slow down and reconnect with yourself.

Here’s what’s happening:

✨ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12
Private Session Availability
🕓 4:00pm
🕕 6:00pm

These times can be booked for a variety of my private services, depending on what kind of support you’re looking for.

✨ FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
Private Session Availability
🕛 12:00pm
🕑 2:00pm
🕓 4:00pm
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🔮 SATURDAY, AUGUST 15

One/Two Question Psychic Readings — ONLINE ONLY

Perfect if you have something specific on your mind and don’t necessarily need a full reading.

One Question — $50
Two Questions — $75
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🎶 SATURDAY, AUGUST 15

Private 1-on-1 Sound Healing Sessions with Katherine

A chance to experience sound healing in a private, individual setting rather than a group environment.
www.pure-lotus.ca/katherine
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🌿 SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 — A FULL DAY OF HEALING

🧠 11:00am — Nervous System Reset Workshop
Learn more about the connection between stress, trauma, the nervous system and gut health, while exploring practical ways to help bring the body back toward regulation.
www.pure-lotus.ca/special

🌬️ 1:30pm — Somatic Release Meditation
A deeply grounding guided experience using breath, body awareness and somatic practices to help release some of the stress and emotion we carry within the body.
www.pure-lotus.ca/special

🎶 4:00pm — Sound Bath Meditation
Finish the weekend by getting comfortable, closing your eyes and allowing yourself to simply receive the vibrations and frequencies of sound.
www.pure-lotus.ca/special

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Pure Lotus Wellness Retreat
Private Sessions • Workshops • Meditation • Energy Healing • Psychic Mediumship • Somatic & Nervous System Support
www.pure-lotus.ca

08/08/2026

Anyone else Peri-menopausal? Lol
Apparently we're a new feminine Archetype called...The Destroyer....makes sense.

08/07/2026

✨ TOMORROW AT PURE LOTUS — SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 ✨

Tomorrow is a full day of workshops at Pure Lotus Wellness Retreat, with three very different opportunities to explore **energy, manifestation, and deeper inner connection.**

You can join us for one — or make a day of it. 💜

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🌿 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | The Four Element Reset

Reconnect with the four elements.Earth, Air, Fire & Water and explore how their energies can help us ground, clear, release and restore balance.

This workshop will be held outdoors, weather permitting.

✨ Bring a notebook, pen and water.

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🏮 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | The Lantern of Creation

What are you actually creating with your focus, beliefs, intentions and energy?

This workshop explores manifestation beyond simply “thinking positive.” We’ll look at how our limiting beliefs, unconscious patterns and mental blocks can influence what we are trying to create, and how intention and focused energy can help us move differently.

✨ Bring a notebook, pen and water.
🌿 Outdoors, weather permitting.

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🌳 4:00 PM | The Tree of Life Inner Journey

We end the day by going inward.

This is a 90-minute guided meditation journey through the Qabalah Tree of Life - not a walking or hiking meditation. You’ll be resting comfortably on meditation mats as I guide you through this sacred inner landscape.

🧘 Meditation mats are provided.
💜 Bring a pillow and your favourite cuddle blanket and get comfortable.

THREE EXPERIENCES. ONE SATURDAY.

Maybe you need grounding.

Maybe you’re ready to look at what you’re creating.

Or maybe you’re craving stillness, meditation and a deeper spiritual journey.

Come for the workshop that calls to you — or spend the day with us and experience all three, as they all flow beautifully with each other.

📍 Pure Lotus Wellness Retreat
📅 Tomorrow — Saturday, August 8
💰 $40 per workshop

There is still time to grab your spot. 💜
www.pure-lotus.ca/healing

08/06/2026

There is a good chance this article will make some people uncomfortable. Even p**s some people off. It might burst a few spiritual bubbles. I may loose followers....but what I have to say comes from my authentic self being honest.

Because somewhere along the way, parts of the modern spiritual movement started teaching that if we just "raise our vibration," "stay in 5D," "only focus on love and light," or "don't feed the negativity," then somehow the difficult realities of life will simply disappear.

But that's not how healing works! And it's not how the human experience works.

Our spiritual path was never meant to help us avoid reality. It was meant to help us walk through reality with greater courage, wisdom, compassion, and resilience.

There are real people suffering. There is real s**t happening in this world. There are wars, economic uncertainty, food insecurity, trauma, grief, and collective fear. And just because we may not experience it first hand....

....Pretending those things don't exist doesn't make them disappear.

In fact, sometimes what looks like "high vibration" is actually emotional avoidance wrapped in spiritual language.

- Sometimes "love and light" becomes toxic positivity.

- Sometimes "forgive everyone" becomes another way to avoid healthy boundaries.

- Sometimes "manifest a better reality" becomes an excuse to ignore the reality that's asking for our attention right now.

True spirituality doesn't ask us to bypass our humanity. It asks us to become more fully human.

- To hold compassion without collapsing.
- To acknowledge fear without letting it control us.
- To face uncomfortable truths without losing hope.
- To care for ourselves while caring about the world around us.

Your meditation isn't there to help you escape the storm. It's there to help you stand in the middle of it without losing yourself.

If that challenges your beliefs... that's okay.

Growth usually does.

My newest blog explores the difference between authentic spirituality and spiritual bypassing, why toxic positivity can actually keep us stuck, and how our spiritual path is meant to support us during life's hardest moments. Not help us pretend they don't exist.

08/06/2026

The Weekend Newsletter is here!

Inside this week's newsletter you'll find:
- The newest blog in the Dysfunctional Family Roles series: The
Golden Child – The One Who Can Do No Wrong
- Upcoming events and workshops
- Session availability

🌿 This Weekend at Pure Lotus Wellness Retreat

Friday Evening
• Mystic Circle Group Psychic Reading

Saturday
• Four Element Reset Workshop
• Lantern of Creation Workshop
• Tree of Life Inner Journey Guided Meditation

Sunday
• Private Sessions at Sugar Bones Farm

Whether you're looking for insight, healing, learning, or simply a peaceful way to spend part of your weekend, there's still room to join us.

And don't miss this week's newest blog, The Golden Child. On the surface they appear to have it all together, but behind the praise and perfection often lies a child carrying impossible expectations and hidden emotional wounds. If you've ever felt the pressure to always be "the good one," this one may resonate more than you expect.

📩 Grab a coffee, settle into your favourite chair, and enjoy this week's newsletter. I'll post the link below in the comments.