Reclaim your energy & live the radical life your rebel heart longs for--without burning out.
Reiki Classes, Somatic Coaching & individual therapeutic Bodywork for burnout recovery.
Transmute your burnout into resiliency with rest.
Whether you’ve spent six months or six decades of your life trapped in toxic hustle culture, teaching your body that it is safe enough to choose differently requires slowing down. When you slow down, your body learns how to take in different information. The cues of safety and comfort become more familiar, and your nervous system begins to heal.
Slowing down is essential because you cannot heal your burnout with the same pace that hurt you. Equally important, you do not need to practice any of this perfectly and you absolutely do not need to do it alone.
Rest Alchemy for
Femmes & Thems.
Rest Alchemy is a unique combination of professional, therapeutic, and holistic skills designed to remind you that your body is magic.
It isn’t just about taking naps or adding another self-help book to your TBR list.
It’s a potent combination of Clinical Somatics, Reiki Energy Healing, and Intuitive Bodywork that allows you to:
- take back your power & stop feeling stuck in a burnout loop
- figure out who you truly are & honour all the versions of you it took to get here
- create a life that reflects the world you want to live in & live in alignment with your values
Your body is the link & rest is the portal.
slow down & be held by the rest witch
1:1 Virtual & In-Person Sessions
Deepen your understanding of how accumulative stress and burnout affect your brain, body, and being. Heal your nervous system by letting the body lead. Therapeutic bodywork sessions with your choice of clinical somatics, registered massage therapy, and/or reiki energy healing.
In-Person Edmonton Reiki Classes
Reiki is a Japanese relaxation technique, based on the properties of Universal Energy. Become attuned to this healing energy and holistically support your wellbeing gently, safely, and powerfully. Level 1 and 2 are currently offered in small groups. 1:1 teaching is available by request.
Foundations of Rest
Online Course. Explore the core pillars of rest, practice somatic exercises, receive continuing resources, and supported homework to turn the theoretical into embodied knowledge. Learn to slow down and practice skills that allow your nervous system to heal.
*Coming Soon in 2026*
I'm Alys McLeod (they/she) aka The Rest Witch.
I offer transformative sessions and classes to support folks in expanding their nervous system capacity to experience the vitality, belonging & liberation their rebel hearts long for.
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Sliding scale pricing offers three options rather than one fixed price. This structure makes it possible for more people to access the Body Brew offerings.
If you identify as a man and feel called to work with me, you must pay the rebalance access for your sessions to offset the imbalance of patriarchal structures.
Thank you for being a part of this collective care movement and being honest in your choices!
- Please use the discount codes during booking if you would like to pay Fair or Community Access prices–if it is your first time booking, I will double check with you at the end of your session
- All prices are listed at Rebalance Access
- Body Brew does not accept tips
- Prices are inclusive of tax
Community Access
Code: COMMUNITY
($20 less than Fair)
For those with currently limited financial resources who will benefit from access supplemented by the community. Recommended for those with no insurance coverage.
Fair Access
Code: FAIR
($20 less than Rebalance)
For those with sufficient financial resources and who can pay fair value for the session. Recommended for those with insurance coverage.
Fair access rate sustains the free and paid offerings at Body Brew.
Rebalance Access
All prices are listed at Rebalance Access.
For those with more than enough financial resources and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequality. Recommended for those with insurance coverage.
Rebalance access rate supports the community access and Body Brew Mutual Aid Fund. All funds above fair access collected from this rate that are not utilized by community access are put into a mutual aid fund donated monthly to disabled, queer, and/or BIPOC folks.
Everyone who pays the rebalance access rate supports the community access and Body Brew Mutual Aid Fund.
All funds above fair access collected from this rate that are not utilized by community access are put into a mutual aid fund donated regularly to disabled, queer, and/or BIPOC folks.
The total amount collected over 2-4 months is divided equally between the current requests via Canada Mutual Aid Google Sheet.
I offer direct billing for the following insurance companies.
- Alberta Blue Cross
- Telus Health
- Sunlife
If your insurance company is not on this list, but you have coverage for massage therapy, you will receive a receipt you can use to submit for reimbursement yourself.
All sessions that include hands-on bodywork are elligible for insurance coverage. This includes Rest Alchemy (in-person), Massage & Reiki, and Massage Therapy sessions.
Somatic Embodiment and Reiki Energy Healing sessions (virtual or in-person) are not currently available for insurance coverage.
Please email [email protected] if you are unsure whether your session will be covered.
No-shows will be charged the full amount of their missed session.
Late cancellations (less than 24 hour notice) will be charged a cancellation fee of 50% of their treatment up to $50.
Multiple sessions rescheduled last minute or just outside the 24 hours cancellation window will be subject to client review.
I primarily use jojoba oil or coconut oil for massage. A variety of organic essential oils may be incorporated into your treatment by request.
Allergies are taken seriously and product ingredient lists are reviewed if you list an allergy in your intake form.
Unscented, sensitive skin laundry detergent is used for all linens.
The space is regularly smoke cleansed with sweetgrass, blue sage, mugwort, or cedar.
This is not a scent free environment, but only natural scents are used.
Femmes and thems (ie folks that identify as a woman or non-binary or two-spirit) are prioritized at Body Brew.
If you identify as a man, you MUST be a confirmed referral that has been cleared with me by a current client (ie spouse or partner of current client), and/or book a consult call as to discuss working with me before booking any 1:1 sessions. I have full authority to cancel your booking if you do not follow this procedure.
If you feel truly called to work with me, you are required to pay the rebalance access for your sessions to offset the imbalance of patriarchal structures.
Being a trauma-informed practitioner means that I have taken continuing education at a level that gives me a deep understanding and knowledge about the effects of trauma on the body at individual and systemic levels. I am educated in nervous system healing, somatic embodiment, polyvagal theory, decolonization, and clinical somatic movement. On a personal and professional level, I have practiced and continue to practice, ways of being that liberate myself and the collective.
Ways I show up as a trauma-informed practitioner & human:
- Body Brew Mutual Aid Fund
- Sliding Scale pricing
- Scholarships and payment plans for courses
- being a teacher with nuance and flexibility for the needs of individual students
- increasing my capacity to hold space for others in genuine and deeply felt ways
- knowing where my limits are, physically/mentally/emotionally, and honoring them
- understanding the scope of my practice
- personally donating and supporting non-profits I care about
- being in the ongoing process of decolonizing my mind, body, and ways of being
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