Insights & Reflections
A living journal of teachings, practices, and wisdom from Deva Moon Academy—where esthetics meets spirit.
2026 as a Year 1: What It Means for Relationships and New Beginnings
2026 marks a Year 1 in numerology, the beginning of a new nine-year cycle focused on identity, intention, and conscious initiation. In relationships, this energy shifts the focus away from maintaining old dynamics and toward understanding who you are becoming. Year 1 invites you to redefine patterns, clarify standards, and form connections from a place of self-awareness rather than habit. What begins now carries long-term influence, making this a pivotal year for relational resets. How you choose to relate in 2026 sets the foundation for the years ahead.
Rose Quartz: How to Work With This Crystal for Emotional Safety
Rose quartz is often called the “love stone,” but its most important work goes far beyond romance. At its core, this crystal supports emotional safety, nervous system regulation, and a calm, steady connection to the heart. Rather than attracting love from the outside, rose quartz helps you feel safe within yourself first. When the heart feels supported and regulated, healthier relationships form naturally. This is where rose quartz becomes a tool for grounded, sustainable love.
Why Self-Worth Shapes the Love You Experience
Self-worth quietly shapes the kind of love we allow into our lives. It influences what we tolerate, how we set boundaries, and whether relationships feel safe or destabilizing. When self-worth is rooted internally, love tends to feel mutual, steady, and nourishing. When it is fractured or outsourced, relationships often carry confusion, anxiety, or imbalance. Understanding this connection helps us change relationship patterns at the root rather than repeating them in new forms.
How to Begin a New Year Without Forcing Reinvention
The pressure to reinvent yourself at the start of a new year can feel overwhelming, especially for sensitive and intuitive beings. True transformation doesn’t come from force, urgency, or becoming someone new overnight. This piece explores how to begin the year with nervous system safety, alignment, and intention, allowing growth to unfold naturally and sustainably without burnout.
Why 2026 Is a Year One, and Why That Matters for How You Begin
2026 marks the beginning of a Universal Year One, the start of a new nine-year cycle where intention matters more than momentum. This isn’t a year for pressure or rushed reinvention, but for laying foundations with clarity and discernment. Understanding Year One energy helps you begin consciously, avoid common missteps, and create outcomes that are sustainable, aligned, and supported from the ground up.
Deva Moon Academy: A Different Way of Working With Energy
Deva Moon Academy offers a grounded, ethical approach to energy work that centers embodiment, discernment, and nervous system safety. This is not about trends or performance, but about integrating spiritual practices into real life with clarity and responsibility. Learn what makes Deva Moon different and how its teachings support sustainable healing, integrity, and true alignment.
2026 Intention Setting Ritual: Crystals, Sound & Spirit-Led Visioning
The energy of 2026 arrives with a call to expand, align, and rise into a clearer version of yourself. This intention setting ritual blends crystals, sound, and Spirit-led guidance to help you release old patterns and step into the new year with purpose. If you feel full, uncertain, or ready for deeper alignment, this ritual will open your field, activate your vision, and anchor the frequency you want to embody in 2026.
Don’t Take 2025 Into 2026: How to Clear Old Energy Fast
The final weeks of December hold a powerful opportunity to reset your mind, body, and energetic field. Every year carries emotions, memories, and unresolved weight, and when you do not consciously release them, you unconsciously repeat them. This guide walks you through how to clear the energetic residue of 2025 so you can enter 2026 lighter, aligned, and fully open to the blessings ahead. Learn the rituals, practices, and spiritual hygiene tools that help you let go of what no longer belongs in your new chapter.
How to Stay Calm, Grounded, and Unbothered This Holiday Season
The holiday season may look joyful on the surface, but it also activates old emotional patterns, nervous system overload, and energetic fatigue. If you are sensitive, intuitive, or hold space for others, you feel this shift faster than most. This guide shows you how to stay calm, grounded, and truly unbothered in December by understanding your triggers, regulating your system, and moving through gatherings with clarity and spiritual sovereignty.
Energetic Armor: Your Crystal Guide to Holiday & Family Boundaries
The holiday season can bring both warmth and emotional overwhelm. Between family dynamics, social expectations, and energetic noise, it’s easy to lose your center. Energetic Armor explores how to use awareness, intention, and crystal support to stay balanced through it all, not by blocking connection, but by cultivating discernment. Learn how to create an energetic “boundary bubble,” choose the right crystals for calm and protection, and move through gatherings with clarity, peace, and radiant confidence.
The Art of the Container: How to Hold Sacred Space Without Over-Giving
In the healing arts, caring too much can quietly become carrying too much. Many practitioners blur the line between empathy and absorption, taking on their clients’ emotions instead of simply holding space for them. The Art of the Container explores how to cultivate boundaries that protect your energy without closing your heart. Learn the difference between empathy and sympathy, apply the 80/20 Rule for sacred balance, and discover visualization techniques to keep your energy clear, grounded, and fully your own.
The Practitioner’s Alchemy: 5 Protocols for Transmuting Client Holiday Stress
The holiday season can fill your treatment room with both joy and unseen emotional weight. Clients carry stress, tension, and energetic residue that can easily transfer to you if left unchecked. The Practitioner’s Alchemy reveals how to transform that heaviness into harmony through five grounding and transmutation protocols, from crystal grids and breath resets to post-session clearing rituals.
The Spiritual Guide to October: Crystals, Sound, and Seasonal Energy Practices
October carries a sacred rhythm, a time when the veil between worlds softens, and both the body and spirit crave grounding. It’s the season of shadow work, sound healing, and calling abundance into our spaces. In this guide, we explore rituals that blend ancient wisdom with modern practice, from harnessing the energy of the Blood Moon and creating your own Crystal Cauldron Meditation, to honoring Samhain through sound and clearing stagnant energy with sage and cinnamon.
Grounding Ritual for the September New Moon and Eclipse
“The September 21st Virgo New Moon and solar eclipse invite us to release old patterns, reset our routines, and plant grounded intentions. This blog shares a step-by-step grounding ritual with crystals, breathwork, and affirmations to help you align with the energy of renewal and stability.”
Meet Katrina Yokoyama: Guiding Practitioners to Heal Beyond the Skin
Katrina Yokoyama: Licensed Esthetician | Energy Healer | Educator | Founder of Trin Spa Skin & Wellness and Deva Moon Academy