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Sol Ascend by Kelly Merryman Turner

Movement and Energy Medicine

10/29/2026

It starts as “I just want to relax and turn my brain off for an hour…”

Then something softens. Your breath slows. Your body finally gets the message that it’s safe and in that space, the deeper magic happens.

Clarity. Release. Insights.
More than rest— restoration of the mind, body and spirit.

That’s what happens when your nervous system gets out of survival mode long enough to remember who you are.

Come experience it for yourself at my monthly Reiki Sound Healing Circle WUUM

🗓 First Thursday of every month
🕡 6:30pm
📍 Santa Monica

Next circle: Thursday, November 5.
Come solo or bring a friend who needs this too 🤍

Link in bio to save your spot.
💗🪽🙏✨

10/24/2026

Personal reflections on Beauty & Balance… ♎️✨🌸

At our closing ceremony, I realized the entire retreat had felt so natural to plan and to guide…like Blair and I had done this before together and we were just remembering the details.

I felt the same way when I started practicing and then teaching yoga. And when I played a crystal bowl for the first time. And then again when I led my first Reiki training.

A full-body knowing.
Soul recognition.
Alignment resonating through every cell.
This is my path.

The entire retreat my soul was smiling, my higher self was cheering, and my heart was so full of gratitude and love for the 15 women who said yes to us and to themselves.

Walking the labyrinth together at sunrise on our final day was a powerful moment symbolizing the cycle of life— endings, new beginnings, death and rebirth.

As we walked, my favorite Ram Dass quote popped into my head:

“We are all just walking each other home.”

There is nothing more meaningful to me than helping women find beauty and balance along the way— in themselves, in their lives and in the world. To hold their hands for part of the journey is an absolute honor and joy.

And I’m so grateful for my Libra partner in beauty and balance Blair Cobb

On the Libra New Moon last year, I joined Blair’s regular Tuesday night breath work class which evolved into our signature healing experience— a return to balance and wholeness through breath, sound and Reiki.

To cap that with our first retreat under this Libra New Moon was without a doubt divinely guided and an exciting new beginning for us. ♎️✨💫

Coming up next:

Join us Tuesday 10/27 at WUUM for Breathe & RISE 🌕 — a safe space for women to let that s**t go together and remember who they are under the noise.

10/24/2026

Sunrise on our last morning in Ojai as we walked the labyrinth together in silence, you could feel the shift that had taken place. Even the weather had shifted from summer to fall.

Each woman walked her own path but we walked together— at a slower pace than we arrived, with a softness in our bodies and an ease and lightness in our collective energy.

We walked as the embodiment of beauty and balance ♎️

That’s truly what this experience was all about…

🌿 A meditative morning hike grounding in nature
 😮‍💨 Powerful moments of somatic release in breathwork and yin yoga

✨ Soothing, restorative calm during Reiki and sound healing

🤸‍♀️Morning yoga embracing movement that felt like play
 🌅 Silly moments of pure joy at sunset on Meditation Mount
 🔥 Reverence around the fire ceremony connecting to ancient wisdom in our bones
 🛸 S’mores, stargazing and fireside chats about everything from life’s challenges to aliens

🎨 Manifesting through creative self-expression led by Stacy Seligman Kravitz

🌸 Connection over delicious meals prepared lovingly by Chef Chris Chris McConathy

Deep and light.
Sacred and silly.
Stillness and movement.

Healing that was balanced and beautiful to witness in every way.

Thank you to our 15 beauties for saying yes to us and to yourselves and for the unique light you each brought. You were the golden thread in everything we co-created. 💖

And a special thank you to our Beauty & Balance sponsors— all female founders we admire and love:

Four Truffles
THE URBAN + THE MYSTIC
Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez
Milamend
Ancient + Brave
Soulidago

Want to be the first to know about our next retreat? Comment BALANCE and we’ll send you the details.

10/12/2026

Magic is real. 💗✨

10/03/2026

7 maybe weird things I love as a Reiki and somatic sound healer:

1. The first moment of silence
�Before the first note, everyone’s still deciding if it’s safe to let go. Then they land. Silence is my first instrument.

2. The shift when the room drops in
�Breath slows. Bodies start falling into rhythm together. That’s entrainment and the power of co-regulation: nervous systems helping each other feel safe.

3. The exhale
�Mid-session, someone releases a breath they’ve been holding for… maybe years. It’s audible and unplanned. It’s one of my very favorite sounds, and I’m the one with the instruments.

4. Leaving and coming back
�I step out at the end, walk back in, and the room feels completely different. It’s like stepping into a cocoon. Tell me energy isn’t real.

5. Bodies softening
�Shoulders drop. Jaws unclench. Hands uncurl. The body says what the mind won’t.

6. The look on everyone’s faces
�As I walk around with instruments infusing Reiki, every face wears the same peace. They have different lives and different stories but one expression. Oneness.

7. The build and release of energy
�Energy rises, crests, and settles like a wave. In somatic work we call this pendulation: the nervous system learning it’s safe to feel and safe to come back.

Which one surprised you? 👇

Sound healers, what’s your fav?

And : if #2 and #7 happen in your sessions by accident, my masterclass Somatics for Sound Healers teaches you to facilitate them on purpose. Comment or DM SOMATICS for the waitlist.

10/01/2026

1000 days alcohol-free 🤍

Recently I realized that this journey has been about more than just sobriety. It’s been about self-trust, freedom, and resiliency. Sovereignty.

The same sensitivity and anxiety that once fueled my drinking turned out to be my intuition. Now I can hear it and I trust myself enough to act on it.

People are often surprised that Reiki is what helped me most. But I don’t see it through just one lens. As a Reiki Master Teacher, sound healer, yoga teacher and somatic coach, my work bridges mind, body and spirit. That’s exactly how lasting change happened for me.

Now when anxiety spikes, I don’t reach for a glass. I put my hands on my heart, breathe, and let Reiki move through me. My body softens, my mind quiets, and I can hear what’s underneath. Often, it’s my intuition trying to tell me something.

No sound bowls, no yoga mat, no one else required. Just me, coming home to myself.

That’s sovereignty. And it’s in you too. ✨

I’m creating a special Reiki training for sensitive women who want to stop numbing their anxiety and start trusting their intuition. DM me “SOVEREIGN” to be the first to know.

Or follow along for more 🤍✨

09/26/2026

My harvest, as promised 🌾

On the Spring Equinox, I led a sound bath for a women’s retreat in Ojai.

When I pulled up to the retreat home, a sudden knowing dropped in:

I’m going to lead my own retreat here one day.

At the Summer Solstice, I launched the Beauty & Balance Retreat with my Libra partner Blair Cobb

And between the Fall Equinox and this Harvest Full Moon, we sold it out. 🎉

Every detail, and this incredible group of 14 women, came together with ease. Cosmically aligned and divinely guided.

Looking back, I can see how creating this retreat has been a beautiful mirror for my own becoming. Beauty and balance revealed themselves as the pillars guiding my life and my business forward in new, expanded ways.

I arrived in Ojai on the Spring Equinox burnt out. On the drive up, which was surprisingly healing, I realized I’d barely had a handful of days off in months.

That exhaustion became the threshold to the chapter opening now. One where balance isn’t defined by self-care activities, but by sustainability, self-worth and freedom. Where being of greater service no longer means abandoning myself.

How fitting that it comes full circle under an Aries Full Moon in Libra season, the axis of self and other. 🌕

And next month, we host our retreat on the Libra New Moon, the sign of beauty and balance itself. 🌑 A new beginning, planted in everything this season taught me.

What are you celebrating from these last six months? Tell me below. I want to celebrate with you. ✨

09/07/2026

August as an emoji 🫠 September💡

August and eclipse season felt like it brought a wrecking ball through my life.

It was filled with so many days that left me questioning everything I hold certain— health scares, financial uncertainties, unexpected news, harsh realizations and sudden shifts in my own thinking.

It ended with a lot of difficult decisions. And even more lessons.

Literally me 🫠

Yet it also brought a strange sense of deep trust and anticipation that something much bigger is opening for me. And some of the wildest synchronicities I’ve ever experienced, asking me to trust.

Two things can be true at once— we can be scared sh*tless of what’s happening around us and also feel deeply connected to faith and a knowing that it’s all happening FOR us, not TO us.

What cracks us open becomes fuel for our becoming.

Within every challenge is a hidden blessing and greater lesson.

With September’s arrival, the dust has been slowly clearing. I recommitted to my daily practices (I like to call them miracle makers!) and have been embracing space to think, breathe and be after a full, busy summer.

In that integration, an incredible shift has been taking place. So much clarity and BIG, exciting next steps have been revealed 💡

I’m not the same version of me who walked through the door that’s been slowly opening all year.

I said yes to the future calling me forward. And I’m so ready for who I’m meant to become next.

What (and who) are you saying yes to?

If you’re in the messy middle and ready for clarity and support to move through it instead of staying stuck in it— this is exactly the work I do with clients in my somatic coaching sessions and private healing work.

I’d love to help you integrate and find your next steps. 🤍💡

09/02/2026

Just one step, one yes, can be a giant leap forward in the direction of your dreams— and to becoming the version of you calling you forward.

Enrolling in Sound Healing Certification & Business Mentorship was the step that changed everything for me. And, it brought me to the community that years later continues to be a daily source of connection, support and inspiration.

If sound healing is calling you, we would love to help you answer. Fall training begins on September 14th.

DM me SOUND HEALS for your free program guide and a very special Angel discount 🤍✨

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