Meet Deb
Founder of Peaceful Wellness
Deb Phelps, C.MI, MMT, E-RYT500, LVCYT, YACEP
Founder of Peaceful Wellness
I’m Deb Phelps, a life-long mindfulness and meditation practitioner and teacher, sound and energy healer, life-long musician, certified aromatherapist, and yoga teacher with over four decades of experience. As the founder of Peaceful Wellness, I’ve created a sanctuary for those seeking holistic healing, spiritual growth, and a deeper connection to themselves.
My journey began early. I started playing piano in elementary school, and by 16, I was playing guitar and had discovered meditation. I also found I was drawn to Eastern philosophies. My roots as a musician gave me an intuitive understanding of vibration and rhythm—so when I found sound healing years later, it felt like a natural path home.
Everything I share is rooted in one simple intention: to help you find peace.
Over the years, I’ve discovered that each of us connects with peace in different ways.
Through an integrative blend of meditation, sound healing, energy healing, aromatherapy, and restorative yoga, I support people in navigating stress, anxiety, chronic pain, and life’s deeper questions. My approach is always compassionate and intuitive, grounded in the belief that healing is possible—and that it begins by slowing down and turning inward.
Deb's In Person & Virtual Services
Private sessions at Peaceful Wellness offer a quiet, supportive space to slow down, reconnect, and receive individualized care.
While in-person sessions are available in the Wellness Room in Madison, many of my private offerings are also available virtually or through distance sessions, allowing you to receive support wherever you are.
My work draws from sound healing, Reiki, aromatherapy, mindfulness, meditation, guided self-inquiry, and other gentle mind-body practices. Rather than using the same approach with everyone, sessions are shaped around the type of support you are seeking and your individual preferences.
Explore the different ways to work with me below.
In Person Sessions
Sound & Energy Healing
Sound Healing • Nervous System Support
Optional Reiki • Aromatherapy
A deeply restorative, personalized experience centered around sound, vibration, and deep rest.
During an in-person session, you remain fully clothed while resting comfortably on the massage table.
Singing bowls and other therapeutic instruments may be played around you, near the body, and, when appropriate and with your permission, on the body so you can experience the vibration more directly.
Each session unfolds slowly and is personalized to you. Sound is used to encourage deep relaxation, help the body settle, and support a greater sense of grounding and balance. Instruments may include singing bowls, monochord, chimes, rainstick, tuning forks, and other gentle therapeutic sounds.
Reiki and aromatherapy are optional and may be incorporated according to your preferences and intentions for the session.
Sound & Energy Healing may be a good choice when you are seeking deep rest, stress relief, nervous system support, grounding, or simply a quiet space where you don’t have to do anything except receive.
Distance Sound & Energy Healing sessions are also available, allowing you to experience guided relaxation, sound, and energy work from your own space.
AromaReiki Sound
Personalized Emotional Wellness Sessions
AromaReiki Sound is a personalized mind-body experience designed to support emotional wellness through a gentle combination of aromatherapy, Reiki, sound healing, mindful awareness, and guided practices.
We begin by exploring what is present for you and what you would like support with. Your session might center around softening inner tension, releasing worry, finding a greater sense of inner safety, returning to the present, opening to compassion, reconnecting with your inner strength, or cultivating greater self-acceptance.
From there, I create an individualized experience using intentionally selected essential oils along with Reiki, sound, breath, mindful awareness, and gentle guided practices.
The intention isn’t to force an emotion away or make you feel differently. Instead, you are invited to notice what is present with curiosity and care, explore what you may need, and create space for softening, support, and reconnection.
Private sessions allow us to move more slowly and personalize the process more deeply than is possible in a group experience. Your aromatherapy, guided practice, Reiki, and sound can all be selected and adapted around your particular emotional wellness focus.
As with all of my work, the process is choice-based. You are always welcome to participate in the ways that feel most comfortable and supportive for you.
AromaReiki Sound may be especially supportive when you’re experiencing emotional tension, worry, frustration, overwhelm, disconnection, or simply a desire to pause and reconnect with yourself in a compassionate and intentional way.
AcuAroma Therapy
Energetic & Vibrational Wellness
Coming January 2027
AcuAroma Therapy brings together aromatherapy and acupoint-based practices within an energetic and vibrational approach to wellness.
Essential oils are intentionally selected and incorporated with specific acupoints to create an individualized experience designed to support energetic balance and whole-person well-being.
My approach will bring this work together with the gentle, mindful, and individualized style already present throughout my private sessions. Sessions will be shaped around your individual wellness focus and the aromatic and energetic support selected for you.
Private AcuAroma Therapy sessions will be available beginning in January 2027.
More information about session options, areas of focus, and booking will be available closer to the launch.
Mindfulness & Inner Wisdom
Sometimes the support we need isn’t about doing more. It is about creating enough space to become quiet, present, and curious about our own experience.
My private Mindfulness & Inner Wisdom offerings provide individualized support for meditation, mindful awareness, self-reflection, and deeper listening.
Meditation Mentoring
Meditation doesn’t have to look the same for everyone.
Private Meditation Mentoring offers individualized guidance for your meditation practice, whether you are completely new to meditation, returning after time away, having difficulty establishing a consistent practice, encountering challenges, or wanting to deepen an existing practice.
Together, we explore meditation techniques that fit your needs, experience, and current circumstances rather than trying to make you fit one particular approach.
Your session may include guided meditation, practical instruction, reflection on your experiences, support with challenges you’re encountering, and suggestions for developing a sustainable personal practice.
With more than four decades of personal meditation practice and teaching experience, I draw from a wide range of mindfulness and meditation approaches while helping you discover what genuinely works for you.
Meditation Mentoring is available both in person and virtually.
Inner Wisdom Inquiry
Sometimes we don’t need another answer from outside ourselves. We need enough quiet to hear what is already within us.
Inner Wisdom Inquiry is a one-on-one guided mindfulness and self-inquiry session designed to create space for reflection, awareness, and deeper listening.
Through mindfulness, compassionate questions, guided reflection, and periods of quiet, we explore what is present for you—thoughts, feelings, patterns, questions, values, needs, or an area of your life that feels ready for greater clarity.
I don’t tell you what your answers should be. Instead, I guide the process and create a supportive space in which you can become curious about your own experience and listen more deeply to your inner knowing.
This can be especially meaningful during times of transition or uncertainty, when you’re exploring a question or decision, or when you simply feel called to reconnect with yourself.
Personalized Aromatherapy
Scentering Aromatherapy
Personalized Sessions • Custom Blends • Wellness Products
Aromatherapy can also be explored as its own personalized wellness experience.
During a private aromatherapy session, we’ll talk about what you’d like support with, your scent preferences, your previous experience with essential oils, and other considerations that can help guide appropriate oil selection.
Rather than simply choosing an essential oil because it is commonly associated with a particular concern, we’ll also pay attention to your own response to the aromas and what feels supportive to you.
Depending on the purpose of your session, a personalized aromatherapy blend can be created for you to continue using at home, along with appropriate instructions for its use.
Through Scentering Aromatherapy, I also create custom blends and aromatherapy products and offer a growing collection of wellness products, teas, and oracle cards available in the studio and online.
Virtual Sessions
Virtual Private Sessions with Deb
You don’t need to be in Madison to work with me privately. Several of my offerings are available online, creating a quiet, personalized space for rest, reflection, meditation, energy healing, and inner guidance from the comfort of your own home.
Reiki & Sound for Rest and Renewal
A quiet, personalized session you can receive from the comfort of your own home. We’ll begin with a brief check-in and grounding practice so you can settle in and identify an intention for your time together.
You can then rest comfortably while I offer distance Reiki along with gentle live sound, using instruments such as singing bowls, chimes, monochord, and other calming sounds. The session is designed to create space for deep relaxation, grounding, emotional ease, and renewal without requiring you to do anything other than receive.
We’ll leave a few minutes at the end for quiet integration and a gradual return. If you’d like, we can also include a brief oracle card reading for additional reflection and insight.
You’re welcome to lie down, recline, or sit somewhere comfortable during the session. Headphones or a good speaker can enhance the sound experience, but they are not required.
Insight Mindfulness or Inner Wisdom Inquiry
A One-on-One Guided Self-Inquiry Session
Sometimes what we need most is not another person telling us what to do, but enough quiet and support to hear what we already know within ourselves.
Drawing on my meditation practice since 1980, decades of teaching meditation and spiritual practices, and my experience as a spiritual minister and guide, I’ll lead you through a gentle process of slowing down, becoming grounded, and listening inward.
Through meditation, mindful inquiry, reflection, and thoughtful questions, you’ll be invited to notice thoughts, emotions, sensations, patterns, and inner responses with curiosity rather than judgment. The intention is not to analyze or “fix” you, but to create space for your own clarity and inner wisdom to emerge.
Sessions may focus on a question, transition, decision, recurring pattern, spiritual concern, or simply a desire to reconnect with yourself. Oracle cards may also be included if you would find them supportive as a tool for reflection.
This is not counseling or psychotherapy. It is a contemplative and spiritually supportive process centered on self-awareness, reflection, and inner listening.
Meditation Mentoring
Personalized Support for Your Meditation Practice
Whether you’re completely new to meditation, returning after time away, or wanting to deepen an established practice, meditation mentoring gives you individualized support rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
I have practiced meditation since 1980 and have taught meditation for more than 30 years. Together, we can explore practices that fit your personality, needs, lifestyle, and experience rather than trying to force yourself into a technique that doesn’t feel natural.
Your session might include help with:
• establishing a realistic and consistent practice
• exploring different meditation techniques
• working with distraction, restlessness, or uncertainty
• adapting meditation to your current season of life
• deepening an existing practice
• developing greater mindfulness in everyday life
• creating a personal meditation plan and practices to use between sessions
We may also meditate together during the session so you can experience a practice with personalized guidance and ask questions afterward.
AromaReiki / AcuAroma Therapy / Aromatherapy Support
A personalized virtual session bringing together aromatherapy, mindful awareness, energetic practices, and gentle reflection to support what is most present for you. We might focus on areas such as inner tension, worry, emotional overwhelm, grounding, rest, self-compassion, or creating a greater sense of steadiness.
Depending on your needs, our session may include AromaReiki-inspired practices, guided aromatic rituals, breath and body awareness, reflection, and gentle energetic techniques. As I continue my training in AcuAroma Therapy, selected principles may also be incorporated where appropriate, using intentionally chosen essential oils and energetic points with clear guidance for safe use.
We can also explore which aromas and products may best support you between sessions. When appropriate, I can create a personalized aromatherapy blend for you to use as part of your ongoing self-care practice.
No previous experience with aromatherapy or energy work is needed. The session is shaped around you and what you would like support with.
AromaReiki & AcuAroma-Informed Support
A personalized virtual session bringing together aromatherapy, mindful awareness, energetic practices, and gentle reflection to support what is most present for you. We might focus on areas such as inner tension, worry, emotional overwhelm, grounding, rest, self-compassion, or creating a greater sense of steadiness.
Depending on your needs, the session may include AromaReiki-inspired practices, guided aromatic rituals, breath and body awareness, reflection, and gentle energetic techniques. As I continue my training in AcuAroma Therapy, selected principles may also be incorporated where appropriate, using intentionally chosen essential oils and energetic points with clear guidance for safe use.
Because both AromaReiki and AcuAroma work with specific oils selected for the intention or practice, we’ll determine ahead of time what you’ll need. In some cases, you may already have an appropriate oil available. When needed, I can also prepare a personalized aromatherapy blend for you to receive before your session.
No previous experience with aromatherapy or energy work is needed. Each session is shaped around you, what you would like support with, and the aromatic tools appropriate for the practice.
Aromatherapy Consultation
A personalized consultation to explore essential oils and aromatic products that may support your everyday self-care goals. We can discuss your preferences, current needs, safe use, and options for creating a personalized blend or home practice.
Which Private Session Is Right for Me?
You don’t have to know before you contact me.
Sound & Energy Healing may be a good place to begin when your primary intention is deep relaxation, nervous system support, grounding, and receiving a personalized sound experience.
AromaReiki Sound offers a more intentional emotional wellness focus, bringing together aromatherapy, Reiki, sound, mindful awareness, and guided practices around what you are currently experiencing.
Meditation Mentoring is designed specifically for developing, establishing, or deepening your personal meditation practice.
Inner Wisdom Inquiry provides a guided space for mindful self-inquiry, reflection, greater awareness, and listening to your own inner wisdom.
Personalized Aromatherapy focuses more specifically on essential oils, your individual aromatic preferences and wellness intentions, and the creation of personalized aromatic support.
Beginning in January 2027, AcuAroma Therapy will provide another option for those interested in exploring essential oils together with acupoint-based, energetic, and vibrational wellness practices.
If you’re uncertain which offering best fits what you’re looking for, you’re welcome to contact me before booking.
A Personalized Approach
Whatever session you choose, you don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what you need or what the experience should look like.
We’ll begin with where you are that day.
My approach is gentle, individualized, and choice-based. You are always welcome to ask questions, express preferences, decline an element of a session, or let me know that something doesn’t feel supportive.
The intention is to create a space where you can slow down, feel supported, reconnect with yourself, and receive the kind of experience that feels appropriate for you.
Ready to Schedule?
Explore available private sessions and appointments, or contact me if you’d like help deciding which offering may be the best fit.
Rooted in Real Experience
I don’t just teach these healing practices—I’ve lived them. After navigating chronic illness, personal trauma, and grief, I turned to meditation, sound, Reiki, and yoga not as theory, but as survival. Now, I offer these modalities to help others find calm, clarity, and healing—just as I did.
Whole-Self Healing
Each session is designed to support your mind, body, and spirit—not just treat symptoms. We blend ancient techniques with modern comfort to help you feel safe, seen, and supported. Whether you’re seeking energy balance, emotional release, or deep rest, your experience will be uniquely yours.
A Space Just for You
Whether you’re celebrating a milestone, grieving a loss, or simply in need of rest, we’ll shape the session to meet your intention. Choose from Sound Healing, Reiki, Yoga Nidra, or a blend of all. Every visit is a chance to return home to yourself.
Deb Phelps
Sound Healer, Meditation Instructor
Spiritual Guide, Yoga Teacher, Aromatherapist
My Journey to Healing and Service
My path to becoming a healing practitioner was born from my own search for peace, strength, and wholeness. Over the years, I’ve faced significant health challenges, chronic pain, and personal hardships, including profound grief and traumatic loss. These experiences brought me to my knees—and then brought me to the practices that now shape my life’s work.
Meditation, sound healing, energy work, restorative yoga, and aromatherapy became my refuge and medicine. These modalities helped calm my nervous system, ease physical and emotional pain, and gently guide me back to myself. Each step of healing became an invitation to grow in compassion, presence, and resilience.
Now, it’s my joy and purpose to share these same healing practices with others—especially women who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or uncertain. I believe in creating a nurturing space where you can slow down, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and feel truly seen, supported, and empowered.
In the early 1990s, I served in the initial AmeriCorps program—a formative chapter that deepened my commitment to community and service. During that time, I was profoundly inspired by the teachings of the Greenleaf Foundation on servant leadership, which still influence the way I show up for others today. I went on to work in the nonprofit world for many years, always with the intention of supporting those in need and creating spaces of care and connection.
Your healing is possible. I know this, because I’ve lived it.
Walking the Spiritual Path
These photos were taken at the Drala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado—a sacred place of stillness and reflection. Sitting before the Great Stupa and alongside a statue of the Buddha, I felt deeply connected to the spiritual journey I’ve walked for so many years.
I grew up in the Catholic tradition, which gave me an early sense of reverence and quiet reflection. I was just 16 when I first encountered meditation—it opened the door to a lifelong journey into Eastern philosophies and inner stillness. Over time, my path expanded to include Buddhism, mindfulness, and the teachings of A Course in Miracles. My journey has been rooted in Buddhist and contemplative practices, which have guided me through deep personal healing and into service to others. I was also a longtime teacher of A Course in Miracles, and its wisdom continues to inform how I hold space—with compassion, gentleness, and trust in inner knowing.
Though my roots are deep, my heart remains open. I honor the many ways people connect with the sacred—through silence, nature, spiritual texts, or their own lived experience. In every session I offer, I welcome you just as you are and walk alongside you as a fellow traveler on the path to peace.
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