This Work Began as a Question.
Meet Selene
It started in Thailand.
What began as a long backpacking trip to unplug from the busyness and performance of the corporate world, turned into a deeply transformative pivot to purpose. A grueling, but powerful experience that inspired a belief from the body as a machine to listening to it as a living, sensing system. Six weeks in a place where the pace of the body was taken seriously. Where stillness wasn't laziness and touch wasn't just technique. The phrase echoed through the culture there: the recognition that the body isn't a problem to be fixed. It's a system that knows how to return to itself, if someone would just hold the space long enough.
That realization created the path to bodywork.
It was time to come home, leave the marketing career and begin the journey to therapeutic massage; along with myofascial release, manual lymphatic drainage, craniosacral work, lomi-lomi, and energy work. This something was beyond collecting modalities. It was an intention to understand the body more completely. Every certification was in service of the same question that was sitting there since Thailand:
“What does it actually take for a nervous system to feel safe enough to let go?”
It was then that Veluna Wellness was born.
Selene Isolde Awen (License # MT-2025-0133) holds an AAS in Therapeutic Massage and advanced certifications in myofascial release, manual lymphatic drainage, craniosacral therapy, lomi-lomi, and energy work. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT/CMT) and Reiki Grand Master with over six years of practice.
My Approach
Sessions at Veluna aren't treatments.
They are structured like ceremony.
There is no intake checklist to rush through. No sequence of techniques applied on a timer. Each session opens slowly. There’s a threshold, a breath and an intention. From there, I follow what is actually present. I note the places that are held, the quiet signals and the patterns the body has been carrying long past their usefulness. I don't chase symptoms but wait instead for the deeper truth.
The elemental tools I draws from, the slow stretch of fascia, the rhythmic flow of lymphatic drainage, the stillness of craniosacral-inspired holds…
They all serve one outcome:
Your nervous system finding its way back to regulation.
Relaxation can feel shallow. This is something quieter than that. It's actual settling. The kind where you leave and notice hours later, that the world feels fundamentally different.
The work is slow by design. It asks for presence.
Some people arrive here already knowing. They have tried other things and something still just feels unresolved. But if you suspect you need something quieter:
A held space, a real pause and a session that treats your body as the intelligent, sacred system it is, you have found the right door.
Always with care,
Selene
The Origin of Veluna
born from the ruins. rooted in intention.
“I didn’t build Veluna Wellness from a place of perfection.
I built it from the ruins…
From burnout.
From trauma.
From silence.
And from the decision to finally make space for the kind of healing I never had—slow, sacred, and mine.”
- Selene Isolde Awen
