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RUNE READINGS & MENTORSHIP
The runes are ancestral guides - powerful symbols of transformation, clarity and truth. In a reading, we explore what’s stirring in your life through the lens of the Elder Futhark, uncovering insight, guidance, and deep remembrance.
For those called to go deeper, my 1:1 mentorship offers a space to build your own relationship to the runes.
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AUDHUMLA TALLOW
Crafted in small batches with grass-fed/finished tallow, Audhumla is a return to ancestral nourishment. Every jar is infused with intention and wisdom of the old ways.
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SACRED GRIEF WORK
Grief is not a problem to solve - it’s a rite of passage. In this work, we create space for sorrow to be witnessed, honoured, and tended. Through ritual, conversation and somatic practices, we explore grief as a teacher, a portal, and a path back to wholeness.
Primal Currents of Stone and Star is not just a rune guide - it is a devotional offering to the Elder Futhark as living, breathing forces of the natural and unseen world. Written for seekers, animists, grief tenders, and those who feel the ancestral pull of the old ways, this book reclaims the runes not as sterile tools of divination, but as beings with deep memory and presence. Each rune is explored as a current of energy, woven with Norse cosmology, the primal forces of earth and star, and your own unfolding relationship to the sacred.
Inside you’ll find:
Reflections on all 24 runes of the Elder Futhark
Mythic storytelling, Norse creation cosmology, and ancestral insights
Rituals, meditations, and practices for deepening your relationship with each rune
A rewilded approach to rune work grounded in animism, spirit, and land
Whether you are just beginning your rune journey or returning to it from a deeper place, Primal Currents of Stone and Star opens the door to a more intimate, embodied, and mythic relationship with the runes.
My gift to you! Download below.
AUDHUMLA TALLOW SKINCARE
Ancestral nourishment for modern skin
Before lotions came in plastic bottles and ingredient lists became unreadable, there was tallow
the sacred, time-tested fat our ancestors trusted to protect, soothe, and heal the skin.
Audhumla Tallow is my offering of remembrance.
Crafted in small batches from grass-fed, grass-finished beef suet, each jar is a return to what your body knows and craves: simplicity, integrity, and deep nourishment.
Rich in vitamins A, D, E, and K, this golden balm mimics our skin’s natural oils, making it deeply absorbable and incredibly effective for dryness, eczema, scarring, inflammation, and overall skin resilience. It is gentle enough for babies, potent enough for cracked hands, and beloved by those who want to return to the earth’s medicine.
Infused with intention and sometimes wild herbs or essential oils, each blend is a ritual - pure, primal, and unapologetically real.
“Your skin doesn’t need trends. It needs remembering.”
🜁 Whole-body products
🜂 Sustainably sourced from ethical Canadian farms
🜃 No fillers, no preservatives - just tallow, love, and clean ingredients
🜄 Shop unscented or seasonal blends crafted with reverence
“Ash weaves together intuition, ancestral wisdom, and a deep connection to the unseen in a way that made me feel both grounded and expanded. Every ritual felt intentional and alive, like stepping into a timeless space where I could speak freely.
Ash doesn’t just guide rituals, she creates portals. Each experience helped me shed old layers, reconnect with my inner knowing and remember who I am. Her presence is calm, wise and powerful. I left our session feeling transformed, seen and re-rooted in my purpose”
- Matthew L.
“There can be no words for what this work has meant to me. I came to Ash carrying a grief I didn’t know how to name - not just the loss of someone I loved, but the loss of parts of myself along the way. Through her guidance, I was able to enter sacred space, where grief wasn’t something to fix or move past, but something to honour, to tend, and to learn from.
Ash holds space with such reverence, wisdom and deep presence. Her grief work helped me reconnect with my body, my ancestors, and a part of myself that had been in hiding. The rituals we shared and the conversations we had changed the way I move through the world.
-Theresa G.
“My rune reading with Ash was incredibly accurate and deeply affirming. It was like she saw straight into the heart my questions - and offered clarity I didn’t even know I needed.
Hannah R.
“The runes opened a doorway I didn’t expect. Ash holds the space with such reverence and insight, I left feeling empowered, seen and guided in a way that felt ancient and wise.
Claire S.
“This wasn’t just a reading, it was an experience I will never forget. I have been working with the runes for 30+ years and I met them in a way I didn’t know was possible during our session.
Leif M.
Grief Support Sessions
Holding space for sorrow as sacred, and loss as a threshold
Grief is not something to be fixed, it is something to be tended.
In these one-on-one sessions, I offer a compassionate, grounded space to honor your losses in whatever form they’ve taken: death, illness, heartbreak, estrangement, identity shifts, or the invisible griefs we were never allowed to name.
With over 12 years of experience as an end-of-life doula and a facilitator for traumatic loss support with the BC Bereavement Helpline, I bring not only professional guidance but deep personal understanding. My own path has been shaped by chronic illness, miscarriage, and suicide. These losses changed the landscape of my life and they became the ground from which my sacred work grew.
Grief is not linear. It arrives in waves, memories, silence, rage, and tenderness.
In our time together, I will meet you where you are—with no judgment, no urgency, and no expectation for resolution. Just presence. Just witnessing. Just deep, loving attention.
Each session may include:
Somatic grounding and breathwork
Guided reflection or ritual practice
Gentle inquiry and narrative work
Integration tools for your daily life
Space for silence, tears, storytelling, and truth
These sessions are for anyone navigating the threshold of grief, recent or ancient, clear or complicated. You do not need to explain your pain to justify being here. You are welcome with it all.
"To grieve is to love without a place to land.
In these sessions, we make a place.
For the ache. For the memory.
For the breath you forgot you were holding."
🜁 Sessions available online or in-person
🜃 60 or 90 minute sessions available
🜂 Open to individuals, families, or caregivers
🜄 Sliding scale available upon request
Thresholds: A Grief Companion for the In-between
In Thresholds, grief guide and end-of-life doula Ash Embla offers a deeply compassionate and grounded companion for those navigating profound loss. Drawing on over a decade of experience in hospice, ritual facilitation, and trauma-informed care, Ash invites us into the raw, transformative territory of grief, not as a problem to solve, but as a sacred process that reshapes the soul.
Through a weaving of personal story, somatic insight, mythic perspective, and earth-based ritual, Thresholds offers the reader not a map, but a lantern, something to carry into the dark.
This is not a guide for “moving on.”
It is a guide for staying present.
For finding meaning in the aftermath.
For letting grief remake you, gently, fiercely, and with deep integrity.
Whether you are grieving someone you love, something you lost, or the version of yourself that no longer exists, Thresholds will meet you where you are. And it will walk with you, step by step, until you begin to remember that you are still here and still becoming.
Download the e-book here.
Bone Art & Ritual Carvings
Reclaiming the forgotten, remembering the wild
I work with ethically sourced bones and skulls, most gathered from forest floor or gifted by hunters who share a deep respect for the animals they harvest. These are not objects, they are stories. They are vessels of spirit and memory, shaped by time and the elements.
🜁 Each piece is one-of-a-kind
🜂 Custom ritual carvings available by request
🜃 Informed by Norse tradition, animism, and ancestral memory
🜄 Available for purchase through the site or by direct inquiry
Email: essenceskulls@gmail.com to discuss custom design
