From Shadows to Sacred:
The Story of Wisteria Dawn
I was raised in poverty, addiction, and chaos—shaped by a mother battling drugs, an alcoholic step father, and an absent father who never quite found his way. By my teenage years, I was already grown, experimenting with life in all its messy ways: late night parties, bartending shifts that blurred into sunrise. I was the girl who poured drinks and listened to strangers’ stories, offering the kind of therapy everyone forgot by morning.
But even then, something inside me was searching. The poetry circles I started in city cafés, the deep conversations over bar counters, the questions I kept asking—they were all signs that my soul was calling me somewhere higher.
Maybe it was destiny, or maybe it was the magic of being born under a full moon, all I knew that my practice on the mat was bringing me closer. The turning point for me was Reiki that opened doors to a level of healing I didn’t know existed. My previous studies through world religions and ancient wisdom expanded into Rosicrucian teachings that felt like home to my soul.
From 2016, poetry gatherings I hosted with my young son by my side became my conscious conversations. By 2017, yoga classes I was teaching became my sacred spaces. My Reiki practice, officially opening in 2020, became a sanctuary for those ready to turn their own shadows into gold. That was when I left full-time bartending and devoted myself to teaching, healing, and writing.
These days, my life looks very different as a mother of my infant daughter and my son...now a teenager. I still bartend occasionally, but now only at weddings—and some weekends, you’ll find me officiating the wedding instead of serving the drinks. My full-time calling is helping others find what I found: the power to alchemize pain into purpose.
At the heart of my work is a clear mission: to support integrative wellness of mind, body, and soul. Whether through energy healing, yoga, chakra work, astrology, poetry, or conscious dialogue, everything I offer is devoted to cultivating union, balance, and divine harmony.Because I know what it feels like to be lost. And I know how to find the sacred in the mess.
If you’ve walked through fire, if you’ve ever felt too broken or too far gone for healing—know this: you are not disqualified from being sacred. Your past is initiation. And it’s never too late to turn your life into something divine.
— Wisteria Dawn, owner of Wisteri-Yoga & Reiki LLC