I have put some extra information in here due to discussions in class. If you are a quick reader maybe 5 mins… but more likely a bit longer.
- Intro
- Key themes for winter healing
- Holistic Practices to maintain in winter
- One further thought with Cortisol Spikes and Inflammation
- Retreat workshop Friday 26th June
- Why to keep your neck warm in winter – holistic discussion
- Lymph, Fascia, TMJ and pelvic floor
- Breathing through Winter
Winter is nature’s profound pause—a sacred time of contraction, introspection, and deep replenishment.
In holistic traditions (including Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and seasonal wellness practices), it corresponds to the slow, flowing, introspective energy that supports the kidneys, bladder, bones, and nervous system.
Just as trees shed leaves in autumn to prepare for winter’s rest, we too are invited to release, conserve, and rebuild our vital life force.
It’s not about high-energy expansion but quiet strength, inner luminosity, and grounded resilience. Think cocooning warmth amid the chill: soft textures, gentle movement, and soul-nourishing stillness.
Key Energetic Themes for Winter Healing
Introspection & Reconnection: The longest nights of winter invite journal work, meditation, and reconnecting with your inner wisdom. It’s a time to dream, envision, and align with your essence. Working through techniques of letting go stored grief and realigning to the pathways of healing.
Rest & Conservation: Energy turns inward. Overdoing it depletes our foundational energy reserves. Winter encourages earlier bedtimes, slower days, and creating space for healing.
Emotional & Energetic Release: Suppressed fears, grief, or stagnation can surface. This is a powerful window for gentle release work—through breath, sound, or energy attunement—to clear what no longer serves you.
Nourishment & Replenishment: Focus on warming, hydrating, and mineral-rich practices to build immunity and vitality for the weeks ahead. Remember our broths… herbal teas and enriching soups.
Holistic Practices for Winter
To put this into more practical terms.
Maintain Mindful Movement & Body Work
Gentle, restorative practices like mindful movement, yoga, or therapeutic movement help circulate energy without depletion. Focus on hips, lower back, and kidneys.
Our more rehearsed Fetal pose or supported inversions promote lymphatic flow and calm the nervous system. Pair with breathwork to warm from within.
Energy Healing – Frequency Attunement
Reiki, sound healing, or personalised energy sessions are especially potent now. Winter supports deeper states of receptivity—ideal for clearing blockages, soothing adrenals, and restoring subtle body balance.
Nutrition & Nourishment
Embrace seasonal, warming foods: root vegetables, soups, stews, bone broths, ginger, cinnamon, and cooked grains. Hydrate with herbal teas (nettle, tulsi, or ginger). In holistic views, this maintains the balance of cooling, moistening while supporting warmth and activity.
Emotional & Mental Wellness
Journal prompts like “What am I ready to release?” or “What seeds am I nurturing for spring?” Counter seasonal blues with uplifting practices, community connection (in balanced doses), and boundaries around overstimulation.
Please try not to fall into language, I am too old, too tired, too overwhelmed…. for all of this stuff….. Your mental health and sense of purpose are everything when it comes to youthful vitality.
Another mention about Cortisol Spikes and Inflammation
In our modern world, constant exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR or EMF) from phones, Wi-Fi, laptops, and other devices can quietly act as a hidden stressor, subtly disrupting our body’s natural balance. Especially when using prior to sleep or having devices in your room.
Research suggests that chronic EMR exposure may contribute to elevated cortisol levels by activating the body’s stress response and increasing oxidative stress, which in turn can fuel low-grade chronic inflammation.
This ongoing cycle can leave you feeling wired yet exhausted, emotionally reactive, or physically heavy. By mindfully reducing EMR in your environment, such as using airplane mode at night, grounding practices, blue light filtering glasses, etc, you support your body’s detoxification pathways, help regulate stress hormones, and create more space for emotional release.
For your information, Defender Shield are the products that I have used for our family. Radiation-deflecting phone cases, the air tube headphones and blue light filtering glasses have been a compulsory health investment from me in safety equipment for my young people and ourselves. They are premium products from America (expensive) and have no real quality comparison or effective competitors at this time.
If you want to have a look at their various products, here is their link Defender Shield.
Upcoming Events
Transform and Release Grief, Tension and Trapped Inflammation
Friday 26th June 2026 | 10am – 1pm or 11am – 2pm | $180
In this intimate, small-group workshop, we create a deeply supportive space to gently release and transform stored tension and grief held within the body, mind, and soul.
This is a profound, uplifting, rejuvenating journey of soul alignment, emotional freedom, and radiant wholeness—coming home to your most liberated, vibrant self.
This is non-denominational and welcomes all faith-based and non-faith-based approaches to spirituality.
45-minute personalised treatment session of either massage, facial, or energy healing – allocated on first in preferenceRefreshing, nourishing beverages and snacks2 hours of transformative wellness practices, including:
🔹Mindful Movement
🔹Aromatherapy and Frequency Therapy
🔹Meditation
🔹Sound Healing
Friday 26th June 2026
$180
Even though the day is with me, Your booking is directly with The Wellness Path. Follow this link here to book your place 🙏🏼.
Body, Heart and Soul Alignment
It is that time of year and season change where energy attunements are extremely beneficial.
Through gentle, intuitive touch I connect with your body’s wisdom and receive clear guidance to support your healing on every level—physical, emotional, and soul.
During the session, I may bring awareness to what needs attention, release stuck energy, or make subtle corrections. Many people leave feeling noticeably lighter, clearer, and more at ease, often with reduced pain and a deep sense of wellbeing.
To Book text me as each week over winter, I have changing availability Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays.
To learn more, read here – scroll down the page about half way down.
At Cascade Walk Arcade 90 minutes $150 cash only. I can see you at The Wellness Path $180 for 90 minutes.
Please keep your neck warm!
Over the years you have heard me talk about the importance of keeping your neck warm in winter.
I thought I would go into a holistic discussion as I know some of you do not feel as cold on an overall body level, but I would like to help your innerstanding on a holistic level of why to keep the neck warm.
Prevents External Cold Invasion (Holistic Energetic Gate)….
I know it sounds like gibberish….
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the back of the neck is the “Wind Gate”, where wind and cold easily enter the body, disrupting defensive life energy. Keeping the back of the neck warm, preserves active energy, supports Kidney energy, prevents colds, stiffness, headaches, and seasonal fatigue.
This keeps balanced energy rather than allowing contraction against the cold to result in depletion.
Supports Circulation, Lymph & Fascia Flow (Form & Fluid Function)
The neck houses major blood vessels (carotid arteries, jugular veins), lymphatic pathways, and deep cervical fascia layers that envelop muscles, thyroid, trachea, and nerves.
Cold causes vasoconstriction and fascial tightening, leading to stagnation, puffiness, and reduced immune drainage. Ice therapy is great here for managing inflammation, however cold all the time should be avoided.
Gentle warmth promotes smooth lymphatic movement, better oxygenation, and fluid vitality — aligning with winter’s call for deep nourishment and preventing the sluggishness that can affect the whole body including brain fog.
Nourishes Thyroid & Metabolic Warmth (Endocrine & Functional Balance)
The thyroid gland sits prominently in the anterior neck, regulating metabolism, temperature, and energy.
Exposure to cold can stress this area, slowing function and contributing to winter fatigue or hormonal imbalances.
Keeping the neck warm supports healthy thyroid activity, maintains core warmth, helping to balance cooling/restorative and active warmth energies essential for creating balanced health.
Soothes Cranial Nerves, Especially Vagus (CN X) for Nervous System Calm
Multiple cranial nerves traverse or are influenced by the neck, including the vagus nerve (the longest cranial nerve), accessory nerve (CN XI for neck/shoulder muscles), and glossopharyngeal….. ooh another big name!!!
Cold-induced tension or constriction can irritate these pathways, heightening stress responses, affecting swallowing, voice, heart rate, digestion, and mood.
Warmth relaxes surrounding fascia and muscles, supporting vagal tone for better parasympathetic “rest & digest” function — crucial during winter’s inward healing focus.
Reduces Tension in Muscles & Fascia for Structural Ease & Energy Flow
From an anatomical perspective, the neck’s sternocleidomastoid, trapezius, and deep stabilizers connect directly to the jaw (TMJ), shoulders, and pelvic floor via fascial trains.
Cold tightens these tissues, creating compensatory holding patterns that restrict movement and subtle energy channels.
Maintaining warmth preserves natural cervical curve, eases myofascial tension, supports posture and cranial-sacral rhythm, and allows freer flow through the throat physically and energetically and — preventing winter-related headaches, jaw clenching, or emotional stagnation.
A bit more clarification of fascia, lymph, TMJ and pelvic floor
The contracting energy of winter needs lymphatic drainage, TMJ release, and pelvic floor fascia working well to keep your immune system strong. They are profound allies for whole-body health with physical release and energetic restoration.
The lymphatic system — our gentle waste-clearance and immune network — often slows in the colder months with reduced movement and more indoor time.
Lymphatic work helps to move stagnant fluid, reduces puffiness, eases sinus congestion, and calms the nervous system, inviting clarity and lightness to the body and mind. We assist this every session of our breathwork and mindful movement.
When combined with mindful Trigeminal nerve release, we soften the common winter-held tension in the jaw (a storehouse for stress and unexpressed emotions), relieving jaw pain, headaches, and neck tightness while freeing energy flow through the throat centre – physically and energetically.
Extending this work deeper, we bring awareness to the pelvic floor fascia — the interconnected web linking the jaw, diaphragm, and pelvic bowl — releasing chronic holding patterns that can trap fear, grief, or fatigue during this introspective season.
So….
Keep doing what you can! Gentle movement, breathwork, our holistic tecniques.
No matter how bad your pain and inflammation may get, – we need to keep you moving within these parameters to assist your overall wellbeing including; brain health, nervous system function, muscular skeletal, emotional and hormonal wellbeing… just to mention a few!😂
Breathing Easily Through Winter
Please let me know if you need to restock on any Young Living Oils.
Basil Essential Oil – I use with opening airways quickly and effectively.
Retail $61.70 / VIP discounted to $50 cash or $55 EFT
or
Aroma Siez – the one I use in most classes and events
Retail $78.65 / VIP discounted to $65 cash or $69 EFT
If there are others that you are after, just let me know as I have a huge collection at home and the office.
Normal Reejuv Fusion for July August
Monday 4.15pm
Tuesday 8.55am
Thursday 10.45am
All at Corlette Hall
Again…. I trul feel that if you are reading this sentence – I would love to give you a big hug and say – well done!
I hope you enjoyed the information 🤗
~ Best Wishes Always ~ Maree
Maree Frawley 
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