What are Heart Pains?
The Heart Pains ceremony is a rare, full-day healing experience designed to release and restore.
The heart is often a place we protect.
Over time — through loss, grief, and the thousand small moments of feeling unseen, unheard, or unmet — we place things in front of the heart. Not 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.
The challenge is that we are not usually aware of all the ways we’ve learned to guard ourselves. And those layers of protection — however understandable their origin may be — can deter 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. It is directly linked to mental clarity, emotional balance, and spiritual consciousness.
The Heart Pains ceremony works with both the physical and energetic bodies to gently release what has been held there. What has accumulated in front of the heart as protection and guarding.
What, in another season of life, likely developed as a response to big or small trauma — keeping you safe from perceived or real harm.
And now, perhaps, keeps you from yourself.
The Elegance of the Heart Pains Ceremony:
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.
This level of transformation doesn’t just benefit you—it stands to impact your family and the next seven generations.
I’m the first and currently the only certified Heart Pains ceremony facilitator in the Pacific Northwest, bringing rare depth of care and integration to this ancient work.
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.