Joy Evans

Joy Evans As a trauma-healing educator, I have an archive of videos and recordings to help you practice restorative rest. https://patreon.com/joyevans

Stay Rooted!

Joy Evans, MSW (she/her) combines trauma-healing with sound and forest therapy to lead people out of the perpetual stress response, to reconnect with the details of the senses and return to clarity, centered self, and vibrancy. You, my friend, are worthy of rest, and I hope my videos bring you deep peace! All of my videos are invitations to slow down, connect with your heart, reset your nervous system, and notice the healing presence of nature. I post new videos regularly that inspire awe or joy and often mix nature’s rhythms with the calming sounds of my alchemy crystal singing bowls. Check out my Patreon community, Sound Healing Rooted in Nature, for access to short & longer videos + livestreams.

12/16/2025

Are you ready for deep rest?

Winter is a beautiful time of year for dreaming and focusing inward. Each one-on-one Sound Healing with Joy is a unique soundscape guided by your intentions and supported by the gentle energy of alchemy crystal singing bowls. These energy healings also create a practice for you to reconnect with your body and heart facilitating self-compassion and emotional healing.

✨Book Your Winter Session online: www.joyevansmsw.com/soundhealing

✨Contact Joy to schedule a private small group sound healing.

12/15/2025

We got “stuck” behind the BIFD Holiday Music Fire Truck Tour 🚒 last night, and then it turned onto our street!
It was so fun!🌟🎄🎶

12/08/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us Saturday! The Winter Gathering with community was so nourishing.

Blending chanting, yoga, and sound healing our nervous systems experienced a yummy reset while raising funds for Give to Heal to continue to support those impacted by domestic violence.

✨Learn more about how to support this healing work at www.givetohealpnw.org

And spreading light (and the amazing aroma therapy of cedar, spruce, fir + lavender) was my favorite seasonal candle 🕯️ Three Trees from

12/05/2025

What have the Full Moons taught you this year?

Look up and notice the December Full Moon in its fullness on Thursday 4th. And let’s honor the rhythm of the full moon together!

✨🌕 Join us Monday, Dec. 8 for the final Full Moon Sound Healing with Joy of 2025 🌕✨

Register in advance to reserve your spot & props to cozy up (limited to 20 folks in-studio) or join us via Zoom from home in your pjs!

This Full Moon in Gemini is the final Supermoon in a series of three and the final full moon of 2025.

Anyone noticing the alignment of sun-earth-moon? King Tides expected this week are the impact of the Winter Full Moon. Is the alignment pulling on your emotions? Join us as we practice how to let go & flow ✨🌕

11/27/2025

So much gratitude for each of you who joined me today for Mindful Meditation in the Japanese Guest House at Bloedel.

Today the alchemy crystal singing bowls were sharing the energy of connecting to our ancestral roots/ earth energy, opening our hearts/ tree energy, and clearing our minds to connect with the web of connection/ plant energy.

“What would it be like to consume with the full awareness that we are the recipients of earthly gifts, which we have not earned? To consume with humility? We are called to harvest honorably, with restraint, respect, reverence, and reciprocity… Sustain the ones who sustain you and the Earth will last forever.”

Learn more about the daily acts of Honorable Harvest in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”.

11/14/2025

A rainy Autumn walk at Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island.

It’s always a good day to take a stroll through the gardens in a forest!

11/08/2025

When you book your one-on-one Sound Healing with Joy on Monday afternoons through December 1, you’ll receive a 20% discount on the session.

There is a sweet Yoga for Kids series in Dayaalu Center’s large studio, which *might* occasionally share some extra joyful sounds into the small studio. This is a great opportunity for parents to practice rest while your kids are practicing yoga with Annie.

This time of the year is a beautiful for letting go and tuning inward. Once the sound session begins and your focus is on the alchemy crystal singing bowls, it’s amazing how everything else melts into the background.

✨ Sound healing can be impactful both physically on the mind/body and energetically on the subtle energy bodies. Each session is a unique soundscape guided by your intentions with gentle sounds that cleanse and energize your energy centers, as needed.

With gentle energy and the intention of supporting you connecting to your body and heart, these personalized sessions facilitate self-compassion and emotional healing.

🌈 Joy Evans, MSW (she/her) combines trauma healing practices with sound and forest therapy to lead people out of the perpetual stress response to reconnect with the details of the senses and return to clarity, centered self, and vibrancy.

✨ Learn about the benefits of sound healing: www.joyevansmsw.com

🍂 Listen to Joy’s approach of Sound Healing Rooted in Nature: youtu.be/8O14b8dPKlg

11/04/2025

There were some magical creatures in the park this October 🎃

We 🧡 Bainbridge Island Parks! 🍂

11/02/2025

So grateful to everyone who took their hearts to the woods with me this Fall!🍂

Forest bathing is such a beautiful practice. And it is such an honor to spend time with the forest noticing both nuances and dramatic changes, and then getting to introduce human friends to my tree friends.

If you’re wondering if this practice might be good for your well-being, check out “Why Trees Can Make You Happier” or learn more about the benefits of forest therapy on my website: www.joyevansmsw.com/foresttherapy

Do you already love being amongst trees and wonder what’s the purpose of a guide? Forest bathing with a guide allows you to let go of time keeping, let go of wayfinding, and introduces practices of being fully present. Having a scheduled time and structure can be helpful in accessing meaningful time with trees and noticing the details of the season.

While I’ve wrapped up my last public forest bathing walk for the year, if your heart is seeking a guided experience among the trees, please connect with me or call me 510-467-0084 to chat about scheduling a private forest bathing walk.

🍂 Guided forest bathing can be a beautiful way to deepen the connection with trees you already love.



The Song of the Leaves by Mary Oliver

What can I say?
What can I say that I have not said before?

So I’ll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story and you are somewhere in it and it will never end until it all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum, and the chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child
is singing still.

I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four and the leaf is singing still.

11/02/2025

Samhain Blessings!

At this time of the year, we find ourselves at the mid-point between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice. It’s a time for ancestral healing, reflection, and preparing our minds, bodies, and hearts for the dark half of the year.

As you pause to notice this seasonal shift, what are you ready to let go?

If you want to practice letting go in community, join us Monday night for November’s Full Moon Sound Healing with Joy.

November’s supermoon will be the visually biggest and brightest of 2025.
Let’s honor the rhythms of the season together.

🍂 Registration through dayaalucenter.com

Full Moon Sound Healing with Joy
Monday, November 3
7:30-8:30pm

We are water. Just like the water that surrounds Bainbridge Island, our physical bodies -approximately 60% water- are impacted by the gravitational pull of the moon, especially during the full moon and new moon when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment.

Cozy up in-studio at Dayaalu or join us from home. Tune into the energy of the full moon to feel the ebb and flow of the tides within you. Reconnect with your heart through gently guided breathwork. Allow the calming sounds of alchemy crystal singing bowls to carry you into a deep practice of restorative rest. Let go of whatever no longer serves you.

In this community sound healing, gentle attention is given to the heart chakra of each person to support your connection to the element of water. Sound healing supports the mind to settle, the brain entering a peaceful theta state (or pre-sleep), and engages the parasympathetic nervous system to let the body relax and access the full benefits of rest. The vibrational energy of alchemy quartz crystal singing bowls can be impactful physically on the mind and body, as well as energetically on the subtle energy bodies. Learn about the benefits of sound healing on Joy’s website, www.joyevansmsw.com/soundhealing.

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