Miraspa

10/20/2026

- Meet Ashley! A New Way to Find Relief at MIRASPA 96 --> Meet Ashley --- Our Newest Massage Therapist! We're excited to welcome Ashley Ferrick to t  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ....

10/14/2026

- What's Happening at MIRASPA: A Season of Healing, Connection & Celebration 96 --> As the seasons change and we move toward the close of another year, make space for what no  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏...

10/11/2026

🌿 Healing Beyond the Walls of MIRASPA 🌿

Oooo.. so this is what our therapists are doing when not seeing clients at Miraspa 👀.. and we just LOVE seeing our very own Megan bringing her healing touch into the beauty of nature!

While spending time in North Carolina, Megan is offering bodywork experiences surrounded by the sounds of flowing water, fresh air, and the natural world. 💚

What a beautiful reminder that healing doesn't have to happen within four walls.

We're so happy to share this little glimpse of Megan's work beyond MIRASPA!

✨ Nature. Bodywork. Connection.

10/05/2026

During Sunday’s Kundalini Meditation, we had the opportunity to spend time exploring the theory behind the practice—not simply moving through the stages, but understanding why we do them.

Why shake the body? Why move before becoming still? Why allow energy to move rather than immediately asking the mind to become quiet?

This is one of the things I love about active meditation. We don’t have to force ourselves into stillness. We can use the body as the doorway.

Movement can release what has accumulated. Awareness begins to deepen. And then, when stillness comes, it can feel less like something we are trying to do and more like somewhere we have arrived.

I want to explore more of this in our Sunday classes—not just how to meditate, but what meditation actually is and the many ways we can enter it.

What happens when you try to sit quietly and meditate?

Does your mind settle…or immediately start making a to do list? 😄

09/29/2026

All summer, Tulsi grows quietly outside MIRASPA 🌿

Today, I finally harvested her.

Now her fragrance is drifting throughout the spa—the unmistakable sweet, earthy scent of Tulsi—and every time I breathe it in, I’m reminded of India.

Especially Vrindavan.

While I was there, I visited a small shop filled with Tulsi malas and necklaces, and I had the chance to watch a craftsman making the beads by hand from Tulsi wood.

Seeing that process changed the way I looked at those little wooden beads.

Tulsi is more than a beautiful plant. In the Vaishnava traditions of India, she is sacred—revered as Tulsi Devi and associated with devotion, purification, and spiritual practice.

And a Tulsi mala isn't simply something you wear until the beads “turn brown.”

With time, the wood changes through touch. The natural oils of your skin deepen its color. The beads become smoother and softer from being handled, worn, prayed with, and lived with.

They begin to carry the evidence of a practice.

And today, standing inside MIRASPA with the fragrance of our own freshly harvested Tulsi filling the rooms, I found myself thinking about those hands in Vrindavan carefully shaping Tulsi wood into beads.

I brought ten malas home with me from Vrindavan. Some found their way to my Moon Sisters as gifts and the remaining, I decided to place at MIRASPA for anyone who feels drawn to one.

A living plant. A sacred tradition. A strand of beads. A daily practice.

Different places, connected by the same beautiful plant. 🌿

Tulsi • Holy Basil • Sacred remembrance

09/28/2026

A little glimpse into our Autumn Equinox at the Green Witch Fest 🔥🌿

Meditation, movement, fire, community, sunrise, ritual... and a little bit of magic in between.

Some experiences are hard to capture in photographs. This one needed movement ✨

09/25/2026

🍂 GREEN WITCH GATHERING — THIS WEEKEND! 🌿

Join us Saturday at Honey DEW Acres Farm for a day of local vendors, workshops, movement, herbs, community and autumn magic — and stay for the weekend, because the gathering continues after the market closes.

🌕 SATURDAY EVENING
6 PM — Meditation with Tonya
7 PM — Full Moon Fire, Drumming & Chanting

🔥 SUNDAY MORNING
7 AM — Dynamic Meditation with Elmira
An active Osho meditation combining breathwork, expressive movement and sound, the HOO mantra, deep stillness, and celebratory dance.

Potluck Breakfast to follow

🌕 12 PM — Full Moon Circle
Elmira & Nicole will lead a special Autumn Equinox Full Moon Circle with meditation, movement, somatic release and ceremony.

The Full Moon invites us to release what we are ready to stop carrying. We’ll move it through the body, offer it to the fire, and create space to reclaim what we want to carry forward into the new season.

Come for Saturday. Stay for the fire. Camp under the autumn sky. Wake up and move with us Sunday morning. 🍁🔥🌕

Honey DEW Acres Farm
3413 W. Northtown Rd., Normal, IL

06/21/2026

05/19/2026

JOIN us as Becky Cobb continues our journey through the energy centers— and this Wednesday is Loving Kindness.

For compassion.
For softening.
For reconnecting.

Through presence.
Through rhythm.
Through simply allowing yourself to be held in community for a while.

Join us at MIRASPA for an evening of heart-centered meditation, reflection, and grounding practices. 💚🌸

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers of the world —

the ones who gave birth,
the ones who nurture,
the ones who protect,
the ones who guide,
the ones who hold space for healing, growth, and love.
Motherhood is not only Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers of the world —

the ones who gave birth,
the ones who nurture,
the ones who protect,
the ones who guide,
the ones who hold space for healing, growth, and love.

Motherhood is not only something expressed through the body.
It is also expressed through presence, compassion, patience, wisdom, and the ability to care for life in all its forms. In many ways, we are all being called to become better mothers to this world and to one another.

I also want to acknowledge that this day can carry tenderness and grief for many people. For those missing their mothers, longing to be mothers, navigating complicated relationships, or remembering someone who has transitioned — you are not forgotten in today’s celebration. I feel that too.

Today, may we celebrate love in all the ways it shows up.

Softly. Fiercely. Imperfectly. Sacredly.

Happy Mother’s Day. 🌹