who are we?
Love? Luv? So much to love! We truly do luv us!
We luv us isn’t a vanity statement plate or ego-centric rally cry, it is a celebration of everyone who accepts the call for the collective change we seek. When you change for the better, we all change for the better. We support the highest aspects of universal, self awareness and healing in relation to the human collective experience. U are a part of US, and WE LUV US.
WE LUV US Integrative Apothecary
We nurture collective change through the Apothecary, a pop-up space for our clients, as well as regenerative health and quantum healing practices. The physical apothecary located on Caledonia Street in Sausalito, California, is a spiritual launching pad for brilliant clients, artists, and healers responding to the call for healing, self-awareness and change.
Our clients come from a diverse range of religious and spiritual belief systems, but all are open to healing and living their highest potential through optimal health, restorative cognitive function, and well-being. They share the intention, commitment, and trust necessary for collective change. We are committed to uplifting, inspiring, and healing our local and global community through our holistic healing systems and methods.
Kerstin Marie Wheale
master healer, holistic therapist, Teacher of presence
"presence is an organizing intelligence"
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Kerstin Marie Wheale is a natural-born healer, spiritual teacher, and Master Healer who has devoted more than three decades to the art and discipline of healing.
Healing is not simply her profession. It is the way she has lived her life.
From early childhood, Kerstin Marie experienced an unusual sensitivity to people, energy, Spirit, and the natural world. What began as an innate capacity became a disciplined practice shaped by extensive study, extraordinary teachers, tens of thousands of hours of direct experience, and a lifelong commitment to service.
Her gift is an ability to see beyond what a person presents on the surface—to perceive the soul, illuminate what is asking to be understood, and help people come into deeper relationship with their own truth.
She is, fundamentally, a healer's healer.
Her practice includes leaders, artists, healers, adults, couples, families, and children—sometimes several generations of the same family—and can extend to the animals they love.
Whether working with a child, a family, a healer, or a leader at a profound threshold, Kerstin Marie begins with the same essential orientation:
What is needed here?
Her work is directed toward wholeness—not simply alleviating what hurts, but helping people open the heart, deepen awareness, recognize their gifts, strengthen their relationship with Spirit and intuition, and live with greater meaning, love, freedom, and integrity.
She teaches as she heals. Her intention is to support greater sovereignty—to help people know, trust, and heal themselves.
A Life Devoted to Healing
Originally drawn to psychology and intending to pursue doctoral study, Kerstin Marie's direction changed after a serious automobile accident in 1992. Her recovery deepened her understanding of healing and opened a period of intensive study and apprenticeship.
Her teachers have included H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizin, Chöngtul Rinpoche, Angeles Arrien, Dorothy Maclean, and Eileen Caddy, among others.
Her education included Reiki Mastery and extensive study across energetic, contemplative, intuitive, spiritual, and holistic healing traditions. She later became a teacher and mentor to other practitioners.
Yet no single modality or tradition defines her.
Her deepest education has come through decades of accompanying people through illness, loss, love, family, relationship, transition, spiritual awakening, and profound change.
Compassion and truth are inseparable in her work—the compassion to meet someone where they are and the willingness to illuminate what needs to be seen.
From Healing to Presence
Across decades of practice, Kerstin Marie began to recognize a deeper continuity beneath what she was witnessing:
Presence is an Organizing Intelligence.
Healing addresses pain, suffering, and imbalance. In Presence, we become aware of how we are participating in the complexity of our relationship to life.
From this understanding, Kerstin Marie developed the Presence Alignment System (PAS)—an architecture for making the organization of human participation observable and measurable. PAS gives structure and measurement to patterns she had perceived intuitively through decades of direct practice.
Her retreats and teachings bring Presence into direct experience through nature, animals, silence, relationship, intuition, and community, including her 2026 Presence Retreat in Montana's Centennial Valley.
A Living Practice
Kerstin Marie maintains a private practice in Sausalito, California, and Jacksonville, Oregon, serving clients throughout the United States and internationally.
She and her husband, Dr. Nicolas Vallejos, founded We Luv Us Integrative Apothecary in Sausalito, California. Together, they tend a small orchard in Southern Oregon and share their lives with two Labrador Retrievers.
For Kerstin Marie, there is little separation between the healer, the teacher, and the person.
She lives the work.
Her purpose remains simple: to help people heal what needs healing, become more fully themselves, and live the best life they are capable of living.
Healing serves wholeness.
Wholeness serves life.
Presence is Love in Action.
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Kerstin Marie Wheale
Master Healer · Holistic Therapist · Teacher of Presence
Creator, Presence Alignment System (PAS)
To set up a consultation with KM, call (415) 375-8010
Nicolas Vallejos
Doctor of Chiropractic, Health Director
"I strive to manifest personal and/or cultural repair by maintaining a connection to nature and nurturing that connection in others as well as establishing healthy relationships in community. To design functional ecosystems that are modeled after nature, conserve resources and increase abundance plus bring attention and awareness to subtle energy systems. To discover and share tools that empower the planet. To expand awareness of appropriate technology and encourage use of more ecological, health built internal and external environments"
As a functional doctor with over 20 years of experience in optimizing the health of neural, musculoskeletal, and cognitive integration, Dr. Nico operates on the foundation of an individual's understanding of their function and inner dimensions of work. Through a multidisciplinary approach, he strives to balance systems and enhance health through adjunct evolution strategies. This holistic perspective enables Dr. Nico to offer unique insights and tailored solutions to address complex challenges and successfully support individuals and organizations in achieving their health and sustainability goals.
To set up a consultation with Nico, call (415) 375-8010
the we continues
The beginning of lifelong shared love with"We Luv Us", circa 2005
In the spring of 2004, on a foggy Cow Hollow SF day, the Great Lady Fortune allowed Kerstin Marie and Dr. Nico Vallejos to meet in a health food store while shopping for dinner. After many years of collaborative work together – with artists and incredible clients of all kinds, owning various healing spaces on Union Street and having expansive spiritual life experiences together, in 2011 they embarked on the creation of We Luv Us Integrative Apothecary, a sacred healing space located on 108 Caledonia Street in Sausalito, California.
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We Luv Us is a spiritual launching pad for brilliant clients, artists, and healers responding to the call for healing, self-awareness and change. They are happily married lifelong healers who are in service to God, humanity and nature. They love humans, animals, children, nature, and most of all life. They own a small organic farm in Southern Oregon. They watch over two young white labradors, OsoRico and River, who are very calm, cute, and are always present to bring a smile to anyone's heart.
River and OsoRico - 5 year old fully trained universal
healing wonder dogs
