heartwork:
somatic healing for the heart
Our hearts take so many energetic hits in a lifetime. They absorb heartbreak, loss, longing, unspoken needs, and unprocessed feeling. They clench, guard, tighten, and try to keep us safe. And yet beneath the armor, the heart is still a fire — an engine of purpose, connection, and aliveness.
Heart Work is a somatic practice dedicated to the heart’s return--A deeply held private container designed to support the healing, opening, and renewal of your emotional and energetic heart.
A series of four sessions to unblock, unclench, open, express, heal, and soothe the emotional body and physical/energetic heart.
This involves opening into the physical body around the heart as well, creating a coherent space for our heart's electromagnetic field to expand and for our physical body to feel more spacious, allowing the heart to work against less resistance.
Through movement, breath, sound, and intuitive expression, we learn to listen to what the heart has been holding and create pathways for expression and renewal.
You do not have to be a movement practitioner with any experience.
In Heartwork, we learn to cultivate awareness, choice, and consent with ourselves to do this exploration. When we shut down the heart to feeling, we shut down to fulfillment. We shut down to the full spectrum of our human life.
A regulated nervous system and coherent heart are not static;
they are dynamic, alive, responsive.
The human experience is meant to move, feel, flow, and transform.
Heart Work guides you back to that natural rhythm — to a heart that feels, expresses, and opens again.
A heart that remembers its strength, its softness, and its power to lead your life from truth.
~Origin Story of heArt Work~
Over the past several years, my work has become more and more heart-centered. In many traditions, the heart is a center for greater sense of purpose, connection, and love.
I greatly needed this work for myself after years of holding unexpressed pain, anger, unspoken words, unresolved issues.
These unexpressed emotions were at odds with the DESIRE in my heart--to create, connect, live, and LOVE more deeply.
I felt I had only a few choices--one: go numb, be eaten alive by these feelings and risk projecting them onto others continually or into my life
OR
Alchemize them--
use the awareness of my experiences to express and release these feelings in a transformed way---one that brought beauty, wisdom, and harmony instead of more scorching fire or apathetic indifference. Many people end up shutting down instead of learning to process what we are holding. I emphathize. The world can move fast and hit hard.
The heart is soft (but powerful) by nature, and needs space to heal.
I wanted to learn the balance of keeping a heart-fire warmly lit, passionate, and open, while also healing and acknowledging what it held in its own intelligence.
Because the heart is also our greatest compass, but this guidance can be hijacked by our wounds.
This led me to a path of deeper patience, self-awareness, and a willingness to explore new methods of healing practice. I integrated what I'd immersed in for years through yoga, somatic movement, chakra and energy work, psychosomatic Shadow Work, and Shamanic Soul Retrieval. This isn't conceptual study--my journey took me around the world and deep within through a multicultural blend of immersive study.
This is a potent bundle, but a beautifully soft return.
These practices became necessary rituals of energetic hygiene, intentionality, and CURIOSITY.
As they birthed themselves as a fusion of somatic work, subtle body study, and various modalities, I learned that I am not my past, my pain, or a lost cause--even when my heart was broken, hurting, collapsed, afraid.
Eventually, through this process which I spent years refining, I found laughter, light, release, so much insight, and ultimately, a connection I now share with others through this work.
I know what it feels like to live with conflict in the heart--to struggle to forgive, let go, and find a deeper understanding and relationship with our spirit.
A big part of the healing in this process is being witnessed, heard, guided, and supported. Instead of finding judgement or abandonment--we have the opportunity to be seen even as we are vulnerable, to heal even as we are imperfect, to embrace the creative potential of our lives wherever we find ourselves.