Meet Rose, founder of Women’s Empowered Health Solutions.

Hello and welcome to my blissful life!

I’m Rose Velasco, a Certified Holistic Healing Arts Specialist, and Cannabis Health Coach.

Lost or Seeking?

In my early 20’s, I had no responsibilities or life goals. I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. 

I was a wanderer, I had lived in 4 different states and had spent most of my time adventuring and exploring.

I didn't have a purpose, no formal education, and no career.

I was lost.

I have always been a seeker of adventure. I had a hard time staying in one place for long.

I knew, deep down inside, that I would eventually need to settle down, get an education and make something of my life, but at the moment, I was enjoying living in the moment.

Now that I look back on it, perhaps I was subconsciously searching for my path.

At 24 years old, I became a single mother.

I had to put my adventures on hold.

My life changed direction, and I needed to take on the responsibility of raising another person. 

After my handsome little son came into this big crazy world, I enrolled in school, graduated, and started on the path of Harley Davidson Technician — for 17 years.!

I spent a little over a year learning the craft of motorcycle maintenance and repair. I met my ‘future’ ex-husband at the school and followed him to Reno, where I persevered in getting my ‘female’ foot in the door of a male-dominated industry.

I have always been a firm believer in the saying, “Anything is possible!” and THAT is how I was able to stick it out through thick and thin in an industry where women were scarce.

It’s from this life experience that I created the tagline that I use in my business today — “Live to Love ~ Love to Live''. Inspired by the old Harley Davidson motto “Live to Ride ~ Ride to Live.”

Through many struggles and challenges, I remained steadfast in my mission to raise my son with all my love to the best of my ability.

When I became an empty-nester, I knew I wanted to change my career, my path, and my experience of life. 

Once again, I felt lost.

My son didn’t need me as much, and my passion for motorcycles was waning. I needed some feminine balance to all the masculine energy of the past 17 years.

I wanted to learn how to care for my body as I got older.

I was gaining interest in growing my own food, being more mindful of my mental state, and even joining a gym so I could explore Yoga.

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”

— Harriet Tubman

Back to school I went, at age 42!

I was on a mission to complete a 180-degree change.

After 4 years in holistic training, I graduated and spent a few more years throwing spaghetti at the wall, trying to design a business model for myself that made sense. It was the greatest challenge of all!

When I look back at what seemed like a life of struggle and misfortune laden with challenges, now it looks like a long list of lessons full of blessings that guided me onto my true path.

My past experiences and education have led me to live my life's purpose of creating my own business.

Now I am helping other women overcome their challenges and create the life they want to live.

If we are anything alike, chances are…

  • You were never taught how to be aware of your body or how to cope with your emotions.

  • You never got the “sex talk” from a parent or family member. 

  • You just guessed how life was all supposed to be and made it up as you went along.

Or maybe you did have all of the support you needed and are just curious how you can support yourself and your body holistically and synergistically.

Because you, like me, don’t think that the Western medicine approach and pharmaceutical companies always fix the answers to all of your problems.

Either way, chances are, you found me because you’re looking for some answers or remedies to the issues you are facing and probably looking to reinvent the next stage of your life.

Let’s face it, aging as a woman comes with major change.

Whether that be physical, emotional, mental, or a combination of them all, I want you to know that you don’t have to trek this journey alone.

I’m so glad you made it here! 

I hope you poke around my site and find something that resonates with you and learn how my services may be of help.

🌹Rose

My Certifications

  • Certified Transformational Life Coach & Holistic Nutrition Specialist through Southwest Institute of Healing Arts

  • 800CYT Master Yoga Teacher through Spirit of Yoga/SWIHA

  • Certified I AM Yoga Nidra* Facilitator through Amrit Yoga Institute

  • Certified Sound Healer, Chakra & Crystal Energy Specialist through Life Changing Energy Institute

  • Certified Cannabis Health Coach through Cannabis Coaching Institute

  • Certified Cannabis Consultant & Level 1 Interpener (sommelier) through Trichome Institute

  • Certified Cannabis Wellness Advisor through Dr. Dustin Sulak and Healer

My Short Story.

I am currently in my early 50s, I am the sole parent of an adult son and daughter-in-law whom I officiated the marriage of.

I have an overprotective and extremely spoiled fur baby dog who lives up to his Sanskrit name ‘Sukino’ (meaning Happiness or Joy).

Although Kino lives up to his name most of the time, he is a very strong Boxer, German Shepherd mix, and does NOT like baths.

So when he is in much need of a good scrubbing, my kids come over and it usually takes 3 of us to bathe him!

I live in the beautiful and surprisingly green desert of central Arizona and have called it home since 1974.

Desert hiking is my passion as long as I don’t see any snakes or mountain lions.

I’ve moved out of Arizona several times and always found myself coming back to live near family and friends, explore the most beautiful state that I have had the pleasure of living in, and soak up the warm sun.

For most of my adult years I worked in a male-dominated, ego-driven career where I required compliments from others on my job performance in contrast to my physical stature to make me feel good about myself (I was a Harley-Davidson technician and only 5’ tall and 115 lbs…it wasn’t the norm). 

I was determined to be better at my job than any of the men I worked with, which worked because, for the last 2 years of my past career, I was an instructor, teaching men (and a couple of women) how to be H-D Technicians not only at the school I went to but at the factory in Milwaukee.

Now that I have spent years practicing Yoga and Yoga Nidra for my healing, I look back on my level of self-esteem back then and realize that’s exactly why I needed compliments from others to feel good about myself.

These two modalities alone were the cruces to healing my low self-esteem.

THE EARLY YEARS

I am the youngest of 6 children, and both of my parents worked full-time jobs.

My after-school hours were usually spent out running around, causing chaos.

I was in the clear as long as I was home when the street lights came on. But it was always a thrill to sneak out late at night to hang out with friends. 

I like to say, “I am a child survivor of the 70s”. I believe it gave me grit.

I was quite rebellious and had run away 3 times before I finally moved out at the age of 16.

I was not in touch with my feminine energy whatsoever.

I never tracked my moon cycle, didn't know what self-care was, and never felt comfortable in my skin.

I only really knew how to survive and how to self-medicate with the usual street drugs of the mid-80s-early 90s.

To the detriment of my mental and physical health, this lack of self-awareness and self-respect went on for years until I became pregnant and a single mother.

That was my cue to make a major change in my life, and I went to school to be a Harley technician.

Through my myriad of experiences in life, I have learned that it takes the driving force of BIG disruption to create BIG change.

THE FIRST STEP OF THE JOURNEY

When I started experiencing changes in my body in my early 40s, I chalked it all up to “getting old” and working too hard.

I was nearing the end of a physically taxing career. I was pretty strong from the work I did but I had my chiropractor on speed dial and a membership at a massage clinic to help me when I lifted something too heavy or got out of alignment in my spine. 

I also became a pro at drinking my pain away. At the time, I had no idea that I didn’t need to be miserable.

During one of my ‘moments of anger and disgust’, tired of ‘working for the man’ in a corporate position, I quit my job, and my career of 17 years and headed back to school at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts at the age of 42.

I yearned to recreate my life and start a new career where I could care for my aging body rather than continue with this hard physical work that was breaking my body.

It was there that I found my feminine side.

I was starting to feel the overload of masculine energy become balanced with feminine energy.

The part of me that enjoyed nurturing myself. 

I began cooking and eating more nutrient-dense vegetables and ‘superfoods’.

I volunteered for a local gardening company, then got a job with them and spent the first half of my day, before going to classes, tending to plants, chickens, and even a couple of goats!

I was tuning in with Mother Earth and loving it! 

In school, I was learning all about psychology, nutrition, yoga, mind-body awareness, and the healing benefits of meditation.

By learning and practicing mindful eating and mind-body awareness, I began feeling more in tune with the rhythms of my body and getting sensitive to what was and wasn’t working with my health regimen.

MY ENTREPRENEURIAL  ADVENTURES

While attending the full year of holistic nutrition, I had aspirations to start my own dehydrated snack company.

That morphed into a nutrition coaching business, teaching people how to eat seasonal, organic, unprocessed, and local foods.

I named it Symply S.O.U.L.

I have food sensitivities and other people are always asking me about what foods to eat for certain issues, so I like to stay abreast of the latest nutrition-based discoveries and suggestions.

Symply S.O.U.L.

Blue Sky Green Mat Yoga

4 years of schooling at SWIHA flew by. I graduated as a Certified Holistic Healing Arts Specialist.

I focused on Yoga and meditation while working in studios and started a yoga business teaching classes outdoors.

I named that business Blue Sky Green Mat Yoga.

It also included teaching for 3 years in local studios and being teacher’s assistant in the Yoga teacher training program that I had attended years prior.

Out of State Farm Hand

When an opportunity to teach Yoga and work with cannabis came up, I moved to another state to live in a tent and get some experience on a cannabis farm for several months. 

Aside from doing some Yoga here and there and remaining true to my mindful eating, the rest of my health regimen fell by the wayside.

By the end of my 3 month stay, I was broken on the inside.

When I came back home my life changed drastically and I fell into a depression.

I was isolated for so long on the farm that I had a hard time communicating with others again.

I needed to go back and practice all that I had learned in school.

Still, something was missing.

I was having trouble sleeping and started drinking until I passed out just so I could fall asleep. 

I was still having aches in my joints and bouts of depression mixed with anxiety.

I felt like maybe I was drinking too much but was having a hard time quitting or even slowing down.

I knew there had to be something else that would help.

And then COVID came along and pushed me down even harder. Now I was even more isolated.

Alcohol became my best friend and confidant.

I stopped practicing Yoga, I stopped eating healthy, and I was getting by on binge-watching Netflix shows that helped me escape reality.

I know that I am not alone in letting my health regimen wane, especially during the pandemic.

Through email subscriptions, online research, and time spent on the farm, I was becoming more aware of how cannabis could help with depression, anxiety, and addiction.

This is when I started using cannabis medicinally, with caution and intention.  

I had stopped using it recreationally several years prior because it was starting to make me paranoid and increase my social anxiety. Little did I know it was because cannabis was getting stronger. I was also, not yet, educated about the effects of the different cannabinoids.

THE MAGIC BULLET!

This led me to find the Cannabis Coaching Institute.

I hopped on the bus and enrolled. It was right up my alley, and I learned all about how to use this plant medicine ‘medicinally’, meaning in low doses with the right chemical makeup to bring relief to my symptoms.

I graduated as a Certified Cannabis Health Coach.

What a great combination to enhance all the skills I got in 4 years of SWIHA. Now it was a matter of getting back to my holistic practice once again and putting all the puzzle pieces together to create a system of healing and sustainable sobriety.

I started to combine cannabis with Yoga Nidra meditation that expanded into my physical Yoga practice.

Before long, I was back in school at The Trichome Institute, learning how to fine-tune my trigeminal nerve (the nerves used for smelling) to properly evaluate the psychotropic effects of cannabis so I could be empowered with how I wanted to feel rather than just winging it.

IT WAS WORKING!

I was becoming happy, hopeful, and motivated again! I had created this system and the positive results were encouraging me to stay on track with my mental and physical health regimen.

It all came together into a synergistic and holistic approach to stepping into this new stage of my life with grace, comfort, and creativity. It has empowered me to take control of my health and happiness and create the life I crave!

Living With Purpose!

Now, I am the proud owner of Rose Velasco Coaching & Women’s Empowered Health Solutions, where I coach women on habit change, mindfulness, tapping into their higher guidance and embracing their “Becoming”.

I am the creator of the Monday Meditation Club, the Self-Forgiveness Workshop and the Sustainable Sobriety System .

And I am ‘becoming’ a Transformational Retreat Leader through Wanderlust Entrepreneur so I can provide women the opportunity to experience deep healing and create profound transformation in their lives during and after a retreat.

Currently, I am growing a community of like-minded women supporting each other through their challenges and supporting their wins.

If you’re a woman who wants to support your mental and physical health holistically, I welcome you to join my Facebook Group, Women’s Empowerment in Health.

I am now on the Executive Team of W.E.C.A.N., a network of certified Cannabis Health Coaches and Educators advocating for the legal, safe and medicinal use of cannabis.

Now, I am a Founding Member of The Effective Cannabis Newsletter; a monthly newsletter that provides access to quality, reliable medical Cannabis research and wisdom with a directory of certified Cannabis Health Coaches and Educators.

How I Can Help

I am so passionate about my results from the combination of holistic methods that I have to share them with other women that feel like they are suffering through this transition in their life and seeking to create a more meaningful and blissful experience of life!

  • 1:1 coaching is tailored to meet your specific needs and address your unique challenges. Together we uncover the issues that are keeping you from living the life of your choosing, then work on introducing the methods that I offer that work best for you in your current situation.

    Once you have started on the path of energy alignment and self-awareness, you are free to get creative with reinventing your future for a life of bliss.

  • Through the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra, you drop from the thinking mind into the feeling body and then into a state of conscious awareness where you can change your relationship to thoughts, actions, reactions, and habits that no longer serve you.

    Allowing you to recreate your experience of life.

  • Personalized Cannabis Coaching for self-empowerment when using cannabis as medicine.

    Everyone reacts differently to cannabis. Every plant has a different chemical makeup called a ‘Chemotype”. 1:1 Cannabis Coaching helps you discover and dose the chemotypes that work best for you.

    Feel confident in your abilities to purchase the cannabis medicine that fits your specific needs and desires. Know that you don’t have to wing it when it comes to your health and well-being. Start balancing your ECS to balance body, mind, and soul.

  • Start your week off on the right note with a weekly meditation via zoom for lowering cortisol levels, reducing stress, anxiety and restless sleep and bring a healthy mindset back into you life.