Laura Onea

​​​​​​​I started offering holistic beauty workshops as an intuitive addition to my private lessons, making room and holding space for finding pleasure and self nourishment through meaningful interactions and deep conversations amidst the current noise. Maybe now more than ever we need to (re)learn how to be in communities and hold space for one another, we need extended moments of focus and presence, and reconnect with nature in all of its forms. The workshops are the embodiment of my own values, love of nature, multi-faceted creativity, lifestyle and aspirations, and I am super excited and curious of how they’ll evolve further, of how we’ll evolve together. They are my soul project and one powerful medium through which I feel I can contribute and make a difference towards women’s health and wellbeing, by helping them heal their skin from the inside out, while also shifting a few sticky mindsets and narratives along the way.

In my countless interactions with the women in my make-up chair (although not necessarily restricted to this context) I hear how so many are struggling with their skin, in various forms, but what I also hear, which is even more important, is a lack of confidence in regards to the healing power of their skin, a confusion on what else they should be trying (often focusing on just products or dermatology prescriptions), and a general helplessness and unawareness of what the underlying causes of their symptoms or struggles might be. I am also seeing and hearing women looking for the perfect product (be it mainstream or green) to magically erase the issues with their skin (or their feelings of disconnect and not belonging, for that matter), while their nutrition and overall relationship to food, their exposure to toxicity (be it the beauty and household products they use, the food they eat or the environments and people they expose themselves to) and their emotional health are questionable to say the least. There's a rush to fix oneself (whether it's about something visible or not), but little to no space for deeper breaths, for sustained meaningful relationships, for permission to rest or allowing oneself to be in an ongoing (healing) process.

I also see women allowing others to define or distort their perception of beauty, hence they start questioning their worth, individuality and inner value, while adhering to TRENDS, INFLUENCERS, NARROW BEAUTY STANDARDS and fear-mongering MARKETING TACTICS.

There’s a polarity to how we perceive beauty nowadays. It’s either dismissed as trivial and shallow or, to the other extreme, there’s an almost addictive focus on external beauty, an urgency and a pressure to conform to standards and defeat age. I am a container of none. I have a sense and a growing awareness of the fact that I’m here to find and plant the seed of a middle ground. I want you to live and leave these workshops with a sense of awe, curiosity, playfulness and gentleness in regards to the beauty in and out of yourself. And to remember that HEALING (your body, skin or soul) is rarely, if ever, about FIXING or finding the PERFECT, IRREFUTABLE ANSWER.

What does beauty truly mean to you? What makes you feel beautiful? How do you cultivate beauty in your own being and life? These are some REAL questions I invite you to reflect upon, and that we will be addressing, with openness and gentleness, during my workshops.​​​

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