Wholesome Wellness and Breath

12/15/2025

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🙏 100,000 Hearts Walking for Peace - We are deeply humbled and grateful. Just over one month ago, on November 8th, we opened the Official page to share our Walk for Peace journey. Today, Dec 13th, we’ve reached 100,000 followers in just 35 days.

But this isn’t about a number. It’s about 100,000 hearts choosing to walk with us in spirit. 100,000 people saying “yes” to peace, mindfulness, and compassion.

To every single person who follows, shares, comments, and walks with us—thank you. You are not just followers. You are part of this journey to raise awareness of peace.

Together, we walk. Together, we grow. Together, we have peace and spread peace.

The journey continues—2,300 miles from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C. With your support, every step plants a seed of peace.

Thank you for believing in this walk. Thank you for being here. May you and all beings be happy and at peace. 🙏✨

05/01/2025

Only 2 more days to snag tickets to Spring Farm Fest! With admission for access to several workshops and activities costing the amount or less for just one spot at one of my workshops/seminars or one of my higher specialty classes outside of Farm Fest 😱

This will be the last Breath-work-shop I do for awhile, so if you missed the one in the Fall you won’t want to miss this!

You will get a comprehensive packet with the science behind your breath, and walk away with many helpful tips for incorporating Breathwork into your lifestyle to improve your Oxygen uptake, enhance your Creativity, improve your lymphatic drainage and balance your hormones, improve your athletic performance and cardiovascular rhythm/health, and much much more!

I will also throw in tips for using these methods to help children learn to self-regulate in times of overwhelm. Additionally, we will have extra time at the end for questions and further discussion.

Hope to see you there!

-Olivia, Wholesome Wellness and Breath

It's almost here! Tickets for Farm Fest: Swing Into Spring are limited, get them here...

https://www.farmfestms.com/swing-into-spring

04/08/2025

Dive into the science-backed role and importance of Breath with a Certified Breathwork Practioner! Hope to see yall there 💫

Last chance for this one for awhile as I will be teaching a whole different class in the fall 😀

We've got another class lined up for Farm Fest: Swing Into Spring. Thanks to Olivia Heusser for coming back and teaching again! She had a lot of compliments on her class at Farm Fest last fall.

Tickets are limited. Get them early. They are $25 per adult and go DOWN when you buy a couples or a family pass! Get them here....
www.FarmFestMS.com/swing-into-spring

01/18/2025

Hello all, it has been awhile. Life has been hectic as my family and I are doing everything we can to get moved so we can finally be together but we are currently still in the middle of that process.

Now that it has become more of a waiting game, & we are slowing down, I have started working toward a slight rebrand.

This is an extremely lengthy post, I don’t expect that all of this information to be important to everyone but I have a lot to say so, here you go. It might sound like a goodbye, but it’s really like a rebirth and I just want to explain myself to anyone who is curious.

Before I go on, I hesitated to even post this because I would like to start my new pages fresh. But I know that many of you were active and engaged, attended sessions, enjoyed my workshop at Farm Fest, or were genuinely interested in beginning your Journey to Self.

Additionally, I still get many requests for online content & even personalized meditations.

So just know that I am still here, I will be back to offering sessions and teaching workshops after our move, and in the meantime I’d love to see you over at my new YouTube channel - 💚

But while I’m here, I need to talk to all of my followers as a whole.

As you might have noticed, my name on here has changed. Wholesome Wellness and Breath is still very much staying alive and will continue to be the over-arching identity of my (many) online & in-person offerings, but I am restructuring and segmenting how my content is laid out because though I am no longer active on Facebook, I have expanded my online presence as a wellness-oriented content creator tenfold running 8 pages and counting, working with large fitness/wellness brands, beta-testing for a new platform I’ll have 2 new pages on, and more.

So anyway, why Hike Naked?

Hike Naked was the name of my jewelry business from 2014-2016 ish (you can still find this on IG). I lost access to the page that I had after losing the email, and rebranded to Garden Verbena Co in 2016.

Stay with me 😂

I don’t make jewelry anymore, at least not as a business, so Garden Verbena Co has officially become the name of our Homestead, & Hike Naked is the the alias of my online Breathwork, Meditation, and Spiritual Guidance.

My Fitness coaching will be completely separate from all of these, no name or alias, just me. I still actively coach, I am just not taking any new clients until we move.

Anyway, Hike Naked is a metaphor for exploring the depths of your mind as a reflection of your environment and allowing yourself to be “naked” and vulnerable in doing so. It is a signal to strip your self-imposed limitations, to reconnect with All, and a tool for your healing.

It might sound like I’m doing too much, but when your only option is self-employment you absolutely have to keep your streams open. Self-employment income is extremely inconsistent. I’m also just multi-passionate with a mission to help contribute to a better future for us all🙏

I haven’t decided the fate of this page, so if you have ever been interested in my Science-Backed Guided Breathwork experiences and Meditations from the comfort of your own home, my new YouTube page is up and going & full video content will be released soon (bear with me while I figure out the settings on my Blue Yeti).

My old YouTube page may go back to being ASMR relaxation & meditation content, it is undecided.

If you were an active supporter, that is all you need to know. Save yourself time and stop here. I love you and appreciate all of you deeply💛

Moving forward, I just want to remind anyone who was gaining knowledge, resources, or anything else from the content that I put out on my page - I was doing hours of research for free, combing through scientific journals and citing, creating colorful graphics, and bringing you great groups and events to join, just to help make education and community accessible for everyone.

But without engagement, this page tanked and the content went unseen. This was disheartening after the many months of hard work that I put into posting. I started seeing my views drop every single day.

So whether or not I continue posting on this page, please consider this when you are seeing posts from other pages or groups that you gain knowledge or resources from… your engagement could make or break small creators and businesses just trying to build something & feed their families in a financially challenging and harsh world.

In fact, your engagement could have meant that our little family could have been together by now.

And if you are one of those ghost followers and you have kids, a support system, stable income, and/or you are able to actually come home to your family every night, consider yourself blessed. Not everyone has that and it’s what we have struggled with for many years. Going online was our only other option to possibly build a better situation.

Anyway, thank you for reading, and for the people who have been supportive and engaged, I hope you follow me over to the new platforms. More information to come on my Youtube channel 💛

10/23/2024

This weekend I had the pleasure of teaching what ended up being 4 classes on Functional Breathwork and attending a variety of workshops at Farm Fest in Central Mississippi and I was absolutely blown away by the kindness we encountered, the amount of knowledge & homesteading inspiration we walked away with, and how many kindred soul connections we made 🥹🙏 Mike Kidwell thank you for organizing an amazing event!!! Anyone interested in keeping up with future events can join Mississippi Self-Reliance Network 💫

08/13/2024

People may seek to supplement with Collagen to help tighten up loose skin, improve hair skin and nail health, help with muscle efficiency and recovery, strengthen and add density to aging bones, improve gut health, soothe inflammation, help accelerate wound healing, and improve cognitive health.

I take Collagen as a supplement every day and drink/cook with freshly made and store-bought Bone Broth, I also ensure that I am getting plenty of vitamin and mineral sources on top of my naturally-derived multivitamin. I do notice a huge difference when I am getting enough Collagen versus when I am not.

When choosing the right product(s) there are many things to consider. The body has difficulty breaking down Collagen in its whole form so choosing a product that is already in peptide form with the necessary ingredients for proper absorption can help. However, a large concern with processed collagen is the prevalence of heavy metals.

A high-quality product will have third-party testing and NSF or USP certifications, which you can find listed on brand pages. These certifications are incredibly important for supplements containing Zinc, Copper, and Manganese, as these are categorized as heavy metals and inconsistency in a product formula can cause poisoning and severe damage to the body.

Since heavy metals are present in almost every store-bought product, we have to find our balance and understand what is doing more good than it is harm and vice versa. Sadly, many other heavy metals have been found in supplements on the market that do more damage than good in their concentrations.

You can find charts online with Collagen study results for many of the top brands and luckily there are fairly safe options out there!

If you learned something, hit the like button and share this post with a friend💛

Sources:

“Collagen Peptides & Heavy Metals: What You Need to Know.” CB Supplements, cbsupplements.com/cc/collagen-peptides-heavy-metals/.

National Institutes of Health. “Office of Dietary Supplements - Vitamin C.” Ods.od.nih.gov, 26 Mar. 2021, ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-HealthProfessional/ #:~:text=Vitamin%20C%20is%20required%20for.

León-López, Arely, et al. “Hydrolyzed Collagen—Sources and Applications.” Molecules, vol. 24, no. 22, 7 Nov. 2019, p. 4031, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24224031.

08/11/2024

ASMR Meditations are a full mind-body sensory experience. ASMR has been shown to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, turning off our "fight-or-flight" response, promoting greater levels of relaxation. Leaving the person feeling “emotionally lifted”, and allowing the mind to rest and heal.

A personalized mix of soft-spoken and whisperered uplifting guided suggestions for greater feelings of abundance, well-being, and optimism - this wonderful experience can leave you feeling cleansed and inspired 🩷

If you are fortunate enough to be able to experience the ASMR phenomenon, you will find that this session will keep you from any mental distractions and put you in a trance, and will begin to look forward to your daily meditations.

As a former ASMRtist, I am so excited to offer this as an in-person session, as it holds a very special place in my heart as someone who is heavily meditated but can still get overstimulated or distracted at times.

Direct message or fill out the form on my website to book. This session will need to be held in-home (or virtually) as I do not have studio space to use at this time. Payment at scheduling, waiver required.

08/10/2024

After close to 9 long years of sharing Kei with his career, and 5 long years of our children sharing their daddy nearly 90% of the time… our exhausted military family is finally getting the opportunity to become a full-time family!

We are, however, sad to announce that this means that after all these years, we have plans in motion to leave the Bay to go about 2.5-3 hours North near Meridian Mississippi.

We will continue to visit occasionally for family and friends and any special events or opportunities for Wholesome Wellness and Breath, but the majority of my services will be conducted both virtually and within the areas we reside.

We do not have an official date at this time, but we intend to be fully moved before the end of October, no later than December. So for the next few months, or until we leave, I will be offering sessions a la carte at a heavily discounted rate for all of my services.

The catch is that I have extremely limited and spotty availability and I am still taking my regular clients, so these sessions will need to be paid for upfront when scheduling and any cancellations or no-shows will not be refunded or able to be rescheduled without additional payment.

Inner-work sessions will be carried out in-home or at the beach. I do have other options for Fitness Training. Release of liability waivers will be required for any/all sessions.

As the weather cools down, I will host my weekly donation-based Meditative Breathwork sessions at the beach with gathered interest.

If you would like to support our family for free, please consider interacting with my social media posts to increase my reach. My posts have dramatically decreased in reach and it has been almost pointless to post at all 😕

Peace and blessings to everyone, I love you all and hope to enjoy these final months on the coast to the fullest!

07/30/2024

Be sure to like and follow Farm Fest & check out the original post for all the amazing workshops lined up!

07/24/2024

Life update - my husband flew me out to Park City Utah for the weekend where he was guest teaching and attending the Train High Jiu Jitsu camp so we booked an EPIC yoga experience through Park City Yoga Adventures at the Homestead Crater, & even better, on the evening of the Full Moon! It was Kei’s first yoga class and he CRUSHED it🙏

It was quite the weekend - I traveled during the outage, first flight was cancelled so we rebooked a heavily delayed flight and somehow got there, then my flight home erased my ticket completely so Kei got us a rental (one of the last available) & drove us 28 hours home!

But we met a ton of amazing people and got to experience the gorgeous Utah landscape. 💛

Back home now, and back to work!

07/18/2024

Folic acid didn’t exist on planet Earth until humans decided to try and mimic the folate nature provided.

Boy did we fail.

Folic acid is close to correct but it’s wrong.

The key to unlock my door is close to being able to unlock your door - but … it can’t.

Don’t take Folic Acid. Ever.

Use
- Folinic Acid: supports energy, neurotransmitters, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, fetal development, DNA base production
- Methylfolate: supports homocysteine metabolism, nitric oxide levels, fetal development

You can use both forms or just one of them. I prefer using both as they have different jobs.

Prenatal vitamins usually use Folic Acid. More aware companies use Methylfolate. Hardly any use the combination of both Folinic acid and Methylfolate.

I was the first to ever provide this combination in a prenatal vitamin way back in 2012.

Optimal Prenatal has supported women and future generations for over a decade.

Support a healthy pregnancy the most comprehensive way possible by using Optimal Prenatal (8 caps per serving)

We also have other multis with this combination
- Kids Chewable Multivitamins (1 yr and up)
- Multivitamin One (1 cap a day)
- Multivitamin Plus (8 caps per serving)
- Optimal Man (4 caps per serving)
- Prenatal Essentials (2 caps per day)

Sensitive to methylfolate? Experience anxiety, headaches, joint pain or irritability from it?

We have formulas using only Folinic Acid for you
- Optimal Prenatal MF
- Prenatal Essentials MF
- Multivitamin One MF
- Kids Multivitamin Chewable MF

All available at seekinghealth.com

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