When you have chest pain or stroke symptoms, you need an emergency room.
When you’re looking for preventative wellness, you just might need
Prema Rose Wellness Suite, located inside the Bay Professional Building at 200 S. Wenona St.
Prema Rose owner Janet Kiehl is a life coach who, out of her own experience, wants to help other people.
“I like to help people get out of what I was in at one point,” she says.
Therapy is an important step toward mental well-being, but it’s not the only step.
“I like to take it and go further, move people forward in life,” Kiehl says.
Kiehl opened Prema Rose Wellness in September, after having gone through personal trials including the death of her mother and closing her wellness center in Traverse City.
“I took a grievance for a year to just mourn the death of my business, I mourned my mom,” Kiehl says. “Then, you know, time comes when, ‘OK, now, Janet, what are you going to do? You can't sit on the couch and cry for another year, right?’ ”
While moving forward wasn’t easy, Keihl says the best thing she did was ask herself what she would do if she could do anything she wanted.
“I wanted to open my wellness center back up.”
She found a space in the Bay Professional Building and decided it was the perfect place for Prema Rose Wellness Suite.
At the wellness center, she works with clients through life coaching plus offers a menu of services to manage and process trauma and reduce stress.
“Stress is a killer. It causes lots of things. I deal a lot with people who are under stress and get them out of fight or flight so they don't get disease,” Kiehl says.
Services offered include what you’d expect – paraffin wax treatments, foot detox treatments, and mentorships. There also are some unexpected offerings on the menu – The Harmonic Egg and Sound Bowl Massage.
The Harmonic Egg is a pod with a chamber that uses light, color, sound, and even its shape to immerse people in relaxation.
“It’s the music. It’s the tones of the music, the birds and the waterfall and the flutes and the harps. It’s very calming. It’s not a magic bullet, but it is very, very gentle,” she says. “We don’t want abrupt, because that’s going to send your body into fight or flight. We want it to be gentle so that your body can absorb it easily and then holds on to it.”
Sound Bowl Massage works in a similar way to draw out the tension and trauma. In a Sound Bowl Massage, the practitioner places bowls on a client’s back, buttocks, and shoulders, moving them around.
“Then I hit them with a mallet,” she says, creating a sound and vibration similar to striking a metal pole. “You feel the vibration. If I put it on your middle back, you feel it in your heart and in your liver and your gallbladder. It's just a light vibration.”
Kiehl explains that both the Harmonic Egg and Sound Bowl Massage work through the body’s energy to release the memories caught in the cells.
“Our whole body is a memory,” Kiehl says. “If we don’t release that memory, our bodies can’t function.”
Before the treatment, Kiehl says she spends time talking to each client to get an understanding of what’s going on. Then, she selects the music and lights for the kind of healing each person needs.
She doesn’t know how to explain how it works, she just knows it does.
“I sit you in the egg, give you a reclining seat, let you lay back, give you a nice blanket and tell you to just take a nap for 50 minutes and let the music work.”
She says most people feel the healing effects after the first session.
“You’ll release that old trauma that you no longer need. It’s just amazing and everybody’s a little different and processes things differently.”
Kiehl also wants to help other holistic professionals, so she rents space in her suite. She wants the wellness center to be a place for others to start and grow their businesses. Currently, she has a massage therapist and a woman who does reflexology renting space.
“I have room left for others to rent because I want some more like-minded (practitioners) in the holistic wellness area,” she adds.