Earthly Essence

10/25/2026

Well, it looks like it’s finally my turn for a Practitioner Spotlight! 🥹🌿

It’s a little funny being on this side of things when I’m usually the one celebrating all the incredible practitioners who make up our Collective!

I’m incredibly grateful to be building a community alongside so many passionate, heart-centered individuals who believe in the power of collaboration over competition.

And I’m equally grateful that I get to do work through Earthly Essence that feels so deeply aligned with my heart and soul. ❤️

Here’s a little peek into the work I love so much and the heart behind it all. 🌿✨

🌿 PRACTITIONER SPOTLIGHT 🌿

✨ Meet Cassandra Brausen, Creatrix of Earthly Essence, Spiritual Coach, Shamanic Practitioner & Teacher, and Chapter Director of the Lakes Area Wellness Collective!

What if healing wasn’t about becoming someone new, but remembering the wholeness that has always existed within you?

This belief is at the heart of Earthly Essence, where Cassandra creates sacred, welcoming spaces for individuals to reconnect with themselves, the natural world, and their own inner wisdom.

With over a decade of experience in holistic wellness and spiritual development, Cassandra weaves together shamanic practices, yoga, meditation, energy work, intuitive guidance, and nature-based experiences to support healing, personal growth, and soulful alignment.

Through one-on-one sessions, workshops, sacred ceremonies, community gatherings, and immersive retreats, she invites others to slow down, listen inward, explore their authentic paths, and rediscover the wisdom they carry within.

🌸 Her work is rooted in the understanding that healing is not about fixing who we are, but reconnecting with the wholeness that already exists within us.

Beyond Earthly Essence, Cassandra is also the Chapter Director of the Lakes Area Wellness Collective, bringing her passion for community connection, collaboration, and accessible whole-person wellness into the heart of our lakes area communities.

We’re grateful for the vision, heart, and dedication Cassandra brings to creating spaces where both individuals and communities can grow and thrive!

💚 Learn more about Cassandra, Earthly Essence, and our growing community of wellness practitioners at:

www.lakesareawellnesscollective.com

🌿 www.earthlyessenceexperience.com

09/30/2026

1,000. 🥹✨

That feels kind of wild to say.

What started as a little space to share the work I love has grown into this beautiful community of people who have found their way here through retreats, classes, circles, events, healing, nature, and all the little pieces of Earthly Essence along the way.

I’m just feeling really grateful today.

Thank you for being here, for supporting this work, and for continuing to grow alongside me. 🤍🌿

1,000 souls in this little corner of the world. Pretty freaking special.

📸 Jasmine Doyle of JDesigns and Video, LLC.

09/29/2026

I still don’t really know how to put this weekend into words. ✨

We arrived Friday with a storm moving in around us. Each woman stepping into the space carrying her own story, her own season, her own reasons for being there.

As we opened our circle and called in the directions, thunder rolled across the lake and lightning lit the sky around us. There was this incredible electricity in the air. The kind you could feel in your body. We eventually had to move part of our ceremony indoors, but somehow even that felt like part of what the weekend was asking of us: to listen, adapt, trust, and stay present with what was unfolding.

And then the weekend softened.

There was movement and stillness. Laughter and tears. Drumming at sunrise. Tea and ceremony. Time in the woods and on the water. Rest. Healing. Learning. Beautiful conversations. Women witnessing one another, supporting one another, and remembering pieces of themselves.

I am still in awe of what was created inside this circle.

To every woman who trusted this experience and brought her whole self into the weekend, I thank you. And to every facilitator, healer, teacher, volunteer, and helping hand who made it possible, thank you for helping bring this vision to life. So grateful to Jenny Manney with Seen & Serene for capturing this weekend so beautifully, and to Melissa Pachak for sharing her voice with us. 🫶

Somehow every year reminds me all over again why I keep creating this.

Year five of Empower Your Inner Goddess, thanks for being the best one yet! 🤍

See you all in 2027.✨

09/21/2026

So grateful to have had the opportunity to hold space alongside Karly Kalstad for these incredible women over the past four months. ❤️

Watching each woman move through this experience in her own unique way — reconnecting, remembering, releasing, and reclaiming — has been such a gift.

Thank you for your trust, your vulnerability, and your willingness to show up for yourselves and one another. It has truly been an honor to walk alongside you. ✨🌹

09/18/2026

🍂 A little behind-the-scenes autumn magic…

I’ve been putting together these little intention bundles for Autumn’s Invitation, the cozy Autumn Equinox circle I’m guiding this weekend, and they’re making me so happy. 🌿✨

Each one is filled with a different collection of dried flowers, herbs, botanicals, and other offerings from nature—each carrying its own meaning and invitation for the season ahead.

No two finished bundles will be quite the same. 🤎

There’s something so beautiful about allowing nature to remind us when it’s time to release, make space, and intentionally choose what we want to carry forward.

Can’t wait to share this experience at Wellness at the Winery this Saturday. 🍂

09/17/2026

🍂 Getting so excited for Wellness at the Winery at Bear Creek Winery this Saturday!

And did I mention—it’s FREE?! ✨

Bring a friend. Bring your family. Bring the kids. Or simply come on your own and spend the day connecting with some pretty incredible people, practitioners, and local businesses in our wellness community.

There will be wellness experiences throughout the day, a local market, winery tours, and so much more! I’ll be closing out the day with Autumn’s Invitation, a cozy Autumn Equinox ceremony. 🍁

Saturday, September 19 | 11–4
📍 Bear Creek Winery

Come for an hour or stay for the whole afternoon. 🤎

09/16/2026

I’m still finding the words for this weekend. ✨

This year’s Empower Your Inner Goddess: 5th Annual Women’s Yoga & Wellness Retreat 2026 was woven around sovereignty — remembering who we are beneath the noise, the expectations, the roles, and the places where we have forgotten our own knowing.

We journeyed with Áine, the Fairy Mother Goddess, calling in her archetypal energies of light, courage, beauty, joy, sovereignty, enchantment, and remembrance.

There was fairy magic everywhere.

Tucked into the woods.
Woven around the altar.
Scattered along the paths.
Reflected across the lake.
Carried in the tiny details and unexpected moments that somehow felt sacred.

But more than anything, this weekend felt like presence.

Presence in the circles.
Presence in the silence.
Presence in the laughter.
Presence beside the fire.
Presence beneath the trees.
Presence in the tears, the hugs, the resting, the releasing, the remembering.

I felt so deeply there.

So present.
So full.
So connected to the women, the land, the work, and the magic unfolding around us.

Watching women soften, open, receive, reconnect, laugh, release, and return to themselves was something I will carry with me for a long time.

There was so much love here.

So much tenderness.

So much magic.

So much remembering.

And through it all, the Earth was holding us.

May we keep choosing the path that brings us home to ourselves. With sovereignty in our bones, magic in our hearts, and a little fairy dust still woven through our light. ✨

09/08/2026

✨ Empower Your Inner Goddess Retreat weekend is almost here. ✨

Our 2026 retreat officially SOLD OUT back in June, and this Friday we welcome 30 incredible women for a weekend of connection, healing, reflection, and remembering.

As I step away to prepare, facilitate, and be fully present for the retreat, Earthly Essence messages and emails may receive a slower response over the next few days. I’ll be back and catching up again Monday. 💕

If you’ve been watching Empower Your Inner Goddess: Retreat and thinking, “Next year, I’m coming,” scan the QR code to join the 2027 interest list.

Empower Your Inner Goddess begins Friday. ✨