A sacred spa journey to self

Words LUISA MITCHELL

My journey with beauty and body therapy began in 2008. Moving to New Zealand, my life was on a detour, or so I thought. But this journey led me to where I am today, to who I am today, and building our new business, Sacred Float Spa.

There is always a silver lining and a story; a deep inner work in one’s life. There is always a story of how we became who and what we are today. My journey taught me to look after myself, to focus on the wellbeing of me and therefore my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. My family were strong walking alongside me as I did with them, but it took a while for me to understand why everything happens the way it does – the bindings and unbinding.

My journey of the self began with a car crash that caused chronic pain in my back and legs. Becoming sensitive to the energies of others, I eventually moved out of the corporate world and began my self-journey, while finding a way to heal my wounds. Through these steps, I was able to understand what it meant to energetically come back to oneness, bring all these fragmented parts of self back to the present, connect energetically and embrace with love.

Shortly after a trip overseas visiting my mentor and teachers in Peru and Hawaii, I was diagnosed with an illness that would slow down my work as a spiritual mentor. I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, which changed how life was moving for me.

This journey led me to understand the connection to breast cancer – as a woman, for women, for Mother Earth, as a mother and as a wife – both now and in previous lifetimes. There was the physical aspect of the body needing to push the cancer out of the body, and the energetic gravity-like pull of healing. After one year, I was completely healed of the breast cancer.

I have now created a space that represents all of my work and life experience. It is a journey one takes by feeling grounded and coming back to the self, away from the loudness that distracts us from our needs. It’s about the atmosphere; it holds you and supports you, it’s gentle on the eyes and soft. From the décor to the filtered and structured water, the spa ritual treatments with Li’tya (pronounced Li deeya) and hydrotherapy allow the cleansing of one’s self physically and connecting the self back to heart and Earth through the Australian Botanicals and the spirit of these products, staff and spa.

We welcome you to visit us at Sacred Float Spa!

www.sacredfloatspa.com.au