What is possible when we harmonize the heart?
Harmonizing the Heart is the affectionate name I have given to a beautiful Daoist Alchemy ceremony known as “Heart Pains”. It’s a rare, full-day healing experience designed to release the pain and stories that have been stuffed around your heart in order to restore its vibrant nature.
A Harmonizing the Heart Session is available after an Attunement Session.
Bringing Harmony to the Impact of a Thousand Small Moments:
Most of us are aware of protecting our hearts in some way, shape, or form during our life to date. The degree to which that protection has built up over time and the impact it’s having on our life are often less recognizable.
It can be through loss, grief, and the thousand small moments of feeling unseen, unheard, or unmet that we place things in front of the heart. It’s seldom done consciously, and rarely with any desire to harm. Simply as a way of surviving what may have been too much to feel at the time.
A form of self-preservation that with time secretly accumulates to become a type of armor that brings our heart out of harmony.
That armor dulls our ability to fully feel, and to access the heart’s innate wisdom.
The Heart Houses the Shen:
In Chinese Medicine, the heart houses the Shen, often translated as Spirit, and is directly linked to mental clarity, emotional balance, and spiritual consciousness.
A session of Harmonizing the Heart invites us to work with both the physical and energetic bodies to gently release what has accumulated in front of the heart as protection and guarding.
The Elegance of Harmonizing the Heart:
What’s elegant about this ceremony, in my experience, is that by working directly with the Pericardium and Heart channels of the ancient Chinese roadmap of the body, two synergistic movements are happening at once throughout the session.
One half is about the release. The careful, reverent clearing of what no longer belongs between you and the truth of who you are — your ability to feel, and to engage fully with your own heart.
The other half is equally sacred.
As what has been stored begins to soften, dissolve, and move, we call in and reinforce the true Divine nature of the heart. Its connection to something larger than circumstance, history, or the stories that have gathered around it.
We are not only releasing. We are also restoring. Because when space opens, it matters deeply what fills it.
Reconnecting with the true essence of the heart is its own profound healing.
Many of my clients feel largely misunderstood in their family of origin, which can contribute to the layers of protection we form around the heart in order to survive in the family they still love. As we do the deep inner work to harmonize the heart, the benefits extend beyond us, to touch the lives of those we love, our communities, and the world.
Just imagine the benefit of a world vibrating with the true essence of the heart. Wow. I’m not sure about you, but just the idea of that stops me in my tracks. I can’t wait to share this work with you.
If you’re curious where to begin, an Attunement Session is the first step, and a Discovery Call is the place to explore it together.
The Heart Pains ceremony typically follows the Ghost Points ceremony for a reason.
That initial layer of work prepares the ground. Sets restoration already in motion in the invisible architecture of the body and energetic field.
The Heart Pains ceremony then meets what is ready to be met — at the next level of transformation.
The Heart Pains Ceremony is offered as a full-day, in-person experience. It is rare. It is held with great care.
And it is available only to those who have genuinely arrived at this layer of the work — typically those who have experienced the Ghost Points ceremony and are moving through Stage 2 or 3 of the Nine Stages of Alchemy.
Heart Pains 1-Day Session (USD4000/-)
The traditional format: a full day (currently averaging 8.5 hours) devoted to the Heart Pains ceremony itself.
What’s included:
I’m the first and currently the only certified Heart Pains ceremony facilitator in the Pacific Northwest.
What’s elegant about this ceremony, in my experience, is that by working directly with the Pericardium and Heart channels of the ancient Chinese roadmap of the body, two synergistic movements are happening at once throughout the session.
One half is about the release. The careful, reverent clearing of what no longer belongs between you and the truth of who you are — your ability to feel, and to engage fully with your own heart.
The other half is equally sacred.
As what has been stored begins to soften, dissolve, and move, we call in and reinforce the true divine nature of the heart. Its connection to something larger than circumstance, history, or the stories that have gathered around it.
We are not only releasing. We are also restoring. Because when space opens, it matters deeply what fills it.
Reconnecting with the true essence of the heart is its own profound healing.
The Heart Pains ceremony catalyzes profound transformation—and transformation deepens with support over time.
Many clients continue their journey through:
Are you working with another practitioner? The Heart Pains Ceremony can powerfully support your existing journey. Whether you’re working with a psychologist, life or business coach, naturopath, acupuncturist, craniosacral therapist, or any other combination that focuses on personal and professional well-being, the Heart Pains Ceremony can serve you well. Especially following the Ghost Points Ceremony.
Intrigued by the Heart Pains, but unsure how to get to this level of work? Some clients begin with ongoing alchemy sessions and build toward the longer Ghost Points Ceremony. Others just know it feels right and dive directly into the Ghost Points Ceremony. After you’ve experienced the Ghost Points Ceremony, we can talk about whether a Heart Pains Ceremony would further benefit your journey, and explore right timing. Click here for other ways to work together.
Photo by Caylie Mash Photography. Washington. February 2025.