Rethinking skincare as connection, not correction.
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I’m one part aesthetician, one part mystic, and two parts glam squad (with a pinch of moon goddess thrown in for good measure). I wholeheartedly believe that natural beauty can also be luxurious.
Rethinking Skin Health
Most of what we’ve been taught about skincare comes from marketing — messages that tell us to correct, perfect, or fight against what our skin is doing. But your skin is not a problem to fix. It’s a living, intelligent organ that’s constantly communicating, renewing, and working to keep you in balance. When we shift from controlling the skin to supporting it, everything changes. True radiance doesn’t come from force — it comes from understanding.
My approach is rooted in that belief: that your skin is capable, responsive, and deeply connected to the rest of your body.
Skin as a Living System
Healthy skin is part of a larger ecosystem — a reflection of your internal balance. It’s supported by the lymphatic network, circulatory flow, microbiome, and nervous system. When any of these systems are sluggish or stressed, the skin will show it through inflammation, congestion, or sensitivity. Rather than chasing symptoms on the surface, my work focuses on restoring movement, balance, and communication throughout the body.
When flow is restored, the skin begins to heal and glow naturally.
Movement as Medicine
Most conventional skincare centers around products — but the skin also thrives on movement. When the fascia, neck, or jaw hold tension, circulation slows, and skin loses vitality. Through lymphatic drainage, Gua Sha, and connective tissue release, I help the body regain rhythm and flow. This encourages oxygen, nutrients, and vitality to reach the skin’s deeper layers — creating radiance from within. Healthy skin begins with movement.
Whole Plant Support
I believe in feeding the skin, not fighting it. The plant-based formulations I work with are crafted from whole botanicals, rich in living nutrients — antioxidants, enzymes, minerals, and vitamins the skin easily recognizes. Unlike synthetic, watered-down, vitality-stripped ingredients, whole plants work in harmony with the body’s natural rhythms. They offer balance, strength, and repair — meeting the skin where it is and guiding it gently back to equilibrium.
This is skincare that supports rather than forces. A partnership between the skin and the intelligence of nature.
Nervous System Care
Your skin and your nervous system are deeply connected. Stress, overstimulation, and chronic tension all show up on the skin — through inflammation, dullness, or imbalance. Each treatment I offer is designed to bring you back to a state of rest and regulation. Through slow, intentional touch and a rhythm that follows the breath, the body naturally shifts into its healing state — where repair, absorption, and renewal can occur with ease.
Calm is where transformation truly happens.
From Routine to Ritual
True skincare isn’t about perfection — it’s about presence. I see each facial as a ritual of reconnection, a moment to slow down, listen, and meet your skin where it is today. When we move away from the culture of quick fixes and surface results, we uncover something deeper: awareness, patience, and trust in the body’s wisdom.
Skincare becomes a ceremony, a way to reconnect with yourself through touch, breath, and nature.
In Essence
This is not skincare as self-correction. It’s skincare as self-connection.
My practice blends movement, plant medicine, and mindful ritual to support the body’s innate intelligence. The goal is not to change your skin. It’s to create the conditions for your skin to remember how to heal, glow, and thrive on its own. When we treat the skin as part of the whole, radiance becomes the natural result.
I’m here to help:
Support your skin’s natural intelligence through movement, plants and mindful touch;
a slow, intentional approach to vibrant, resilient skin.
I treat my clients by creating the conditions for their skin to remember its own wisdom.
“Vyleta”, a play on my maternal grandmother's middle name, has been my alter ego since my younger years.
She first emerged when I wrote for a fanzine dedicated to the band The Cure, a space where I could shed the expected roles and embody the parts of myself I kept hidden: sexy, vibrant, exuberant, sultry, with a dark romantic edge. Vyleta was my escape into vintage old Hollywood glamour, mysticism, and unapologetic femininity. She is the version of me who danced in the shadows and wasn't afraid to be seen.
Think Dita Von Teese as a skincare-educated aesthetician, equal parts ritual and seduction, science and soul. That's the essence I've carried through the years, and it's precisely the energy I brought to life in creating my brand and sanctuary.
The birth of Vyleta Aesthetics was a leap into the unknown—yet somehow I knew this was what I'd been meant to do all along. Let me explain…
And this is Vyleta
My journey into botanical esthetics was divinely guided.
After moving to Colorado from Wisconsin in 2017 with our two young children and dogs, I left behind a home I'd built from the ground up—marriage, kids, an award-winning garden, and a position as Special Education Executive Director for a large school district. The move was meant to be inspirational, but it became the breaking point my spirit had been demanding.
My hands were cracking and bleeding; boxes of band-aids each month to keep blood off paperwork. My nervous system lived in constant fight or flight, caught between being mom, organizational leader, and fierce defender of students in a litigious department. Alcoholism numbed the pain but accelerated an underlying autoimmune disease. Three months after our move, we were nearly homeless, eventually jobless, and desperately needing intervention.
In the emergency room with 60% blood oxygen, I was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease and antisynthetase syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease. My cracked hands had been warning me for a year. On an oxygen tank and unable to find light, I finally asked my higher self, God, the universe: When was I last truly happy?
The answer came instantly: When my hands were in dirt, tending to the earth.
My Milwaukee house sold. Financing appeared. At 48 years old, the moment I considered the Denver School of Botanical and Medical Aesthetics, joy flooded my heart and vibration moved through my entire body.
Since that awakening, Vyleta Aesthetics was born—a sanctuary where I treat skin as a reflection of the nervous system and spirit. I'm a certified Breath and Sound Healer, Elite Body Sugaring Practitioner, and Colorado Licensed Esthetician, with advanced training under Cecily Braden (American Spa Magazine's 2020 Educator of the Year) in Gua Sha Facial Fusion and Thai Herbal Poultice therapy—modalities that honor Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Thai Medicine, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, and connective tissue manipulation.
I am not only alcohol-free, but also cleared my body of over 20 prescription medications. Now I understand: true skin transformation happens when we honor the body's innate wisdom, regulate the nervous system, and partner with nature's rhythms through slow, intentional touch. Every treatment I offer is designed to help you remember what it feels like to come home to yourself.