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.

02/19/2026

✨Every one-on-one sound healing session with Joy is a unique soundscape guided by your intentions and supported by the gentle energy of beautiful crystal singing bowls.

✨These energy healings session create a practice for you to connect with your body, your emotions, and your heart. It’s a practice of self-compassion and pathway to emotional healing.

This past month, during sessions with folks from communities of recent immigrants and/or connected to Minneapolis, there has been a repeating intention in every session... folks want to feel calm.

These are folks working toward community change — we weren’t focused on about being calm so that injustice could be ignored. It’s about developing skills of presence, self-compassion, and resilience that allow you to keep engaging. With all that is happening in our communities, it’s not surprising that the nervous system gets activated. We need ways to tend to pre-existing hypervigilance in the body. Sound healing can be a powerful modality for practicing what calm can feel like.

For February, I’m honored to hold private Sound Healing sessions for you and up to two more people at the same rate as an hour one-on-one session.

🌈 I want you to be able to give the gift of practicing co-regulation with those around you who might never try sound healing on their own.

✨Book your in-person Session with Joy
Mondays

www.joyevansmsw.com/soundhealing

02/09/2026

Joy combines trauma healing practices with sound healing 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.

The UC Berkeley PATH to Care Center offers Sound Healing with Joy as a remote service. Spring Semester sessions are open to UC Berkeley students, staff, faculty, affiliates, and community members of all genders directly or indirectly impacted by sexual violence, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence (dating and domestic), stalking, or sexual exploitation.

✨ Registration at: bit.ly/SoundHealing25

These 1:1 sessions offer a way to engage in direct energy work to release trauma from the body. The sounds from the alchemy quartz crystal singing bowls can be impactful physically on the mind/body and allow the brain to enter a peaceful theta (or pre-sleep) state, helping the mind to settle, the parasympathetic nervous system to engage, and the body to access the benefits of deep rest. Using guided breath work and nature imagery along with the sounds of the singing bowls, sound healing offers a practice of deep relaxation.

What do singing bowls sound like?
You can listen to Joy playing her quartz crystal singing bowls on YouTube: youtube.com/

More about the impacts of sound healing on Joy’s website: https://joyevansmsw.com/soundhealing

🌈 Who is Joy?
Joy Evans, MSW (she/her) offers sound healing with crystal singing bowls in a trauma-informed way that supports folks who are facing trauma, or struggle with accessing deep rest. To learn more about Joy and her practice visit, www.joyevansmsw.com.

If you have any questions or need support, please email ptcadvocates@berkeley.edu.
PATH to Care Center: care.berkeley.edu

Please reach out to ptcadvocates@berkeley.edu 7 days in advance to request accommodations, such as CART and ASL.

✨ Registration at: bit.ly/SoundHealing25

02/06/2026

Did you get my latest newsletter?
🔥Imbolc: Hope for Spring

🌈 I send out news about once a month with information about what’s happening in the rhythm of the seasons, invites to upcoming workshops, walks, retreats, and I love sharing community resources. There are some beautiful collaborations germinating right now; be the first to know.

✨You can sign up at www.joyevansmsw.com

02/01/2026

Imbolc Blessings!

This year the Full Moon in Leo is on Imbolc! I’d love for you to join me on Monday night as we honor the full moon and connect with the flow of water 🌊 AND connect with the element of fire on Imbolc 🔥

🌕 Full Moon Sound Healing with Joy
Monday, Feb. 2
7:30 - 8:30 pm
online & in-studio

Like the waters surrounding Bainbridge Island we are impacted by the moon. With gently guided breath work and the calming sounds of alchemy crystal singing bowls, attune to the energy of the full moon.

🌕 We gather monthly on the Monday nearest the full moon. Mark your calendars for Spring dates: Mar. 2, Mar. 30, May 4

Subscribe to Joy’s Newsletter to learn more about Imbolc: joyevansmsw.com

Registration through Dayaalu Center for Wellbeing ’s website:
dayaalucenter.com

01/29/2026

SweetPea McWaddles went to the 🌈Rainbow Bridge on January 16, 2026.

She adopted Elaine and I when she was ~12 and we walked beside her for almost 7.5 years.

She loved getting her paws on earth, and all these pictures are from her final adventure to visit friends on Orcas Island atop Turtleback, among the ancient trees, and playing in mossy fairyland.

As we adjust to daily rituals without her little pitter patter, we’ve been receiving the sweetest light rainbows in the kitchen and on our daily walks.

🌈✨Little reminders that SweetPea is waiting at the Rainbow Bridge for us.

A dear friend said it best “May the love we have shared with these beings always remind us of our deep capacity for joy, presence and unconditional love.” ~Monica 💕✨

01/20/2026

So wonderful to welcome the Winter Cohort to Bloedel Reserve’s Strolls for Well-Being Program!

The Strolls experience is a reflective journey to support your connection with (your) nature in all its richness.

Winter is a beautiful season for reflection at Bloedel. As you slow down and bring your awareness to each moment, there are so many beings to meet in the gardens right now.

With each walk you develop your ability to be present and mindful of each moment. Enjoy your Winter Strolls!

If you missed the Winter cohort, you can join us in March for the Spring Cohort.

01/03/2026

Looking back at 2025, I’m so grateful to each of you who attended my workshops! 🙏🏼

I love collaborating with amazing partners to facilitate these beautiful ongoing programs that help our hearts/minds/bodies attune to the rhythms of nature🌿

✨New Moon Gatherings
🌕Full Moon Sound Healings
🌲Strolls for Well-Being
☀️Seasonal Celebrations

In 2025 I was also honored to be part of wonderful healing events with:

, retreat
, Healing Stones
, Mindfulness Meditation Series
, Pause: 8 Month Support through Menopause
, Winter Gathering to Support Survivors of Domestic Violence

✨Join my newsletter to stay connected with upcoming 2026 community workshops, events, forest walks and retreats: www.joyevansmsw.com/contact

12/26/2025

Hope your holiday is merry & bright!

SweetPea likes giving rides to fairies (and elfs), yet she’s so glad Santa found someone else to give him a ride last night! This Santa ride through some of her favorite evergreens was long enough for this 19-year-old puppy!

🌲SweetPea’s Tree friends include: Juniper, Incense Cedar, Redwood & Western Red Cedar

12/22/2025

✨❄️Winter Solstice Blessings!❄️✨

🌲Yesterday Elaine and I gathered gifts from trees blown down by recent winds, building our Winter Solstice Spiral with branches from a very old Broad-leaf Maple that gracefully fell, Cherry branches covered in moss, several types of Fir that glisten in the night due, fresh Cedar boughs, and the center altar tree stump is covered with a beautiful patch of moss that came from another giant Maple.

✨As we honored the longest night, we had the most beautiful display of stars decorating the trees standing around our Winter Solstice Spiral.

🕯️May you find deep rest this Winter!

Rest that lets your body feel cozy and held. Rest that feels safe. Rest that lets your mind quiet. Rest that invites your energy home to yourself. Rest that allows you to bravely turn your reflections inward. Rest that lets you dream and remember your dreams. Rest that allows you to hope. Rest that makes your heart feel warm. Rest that restores your soul.

❄️✨🌲🕯️you can learn more about and join me in gentle practices of rest at, joyevansmsw.com

12/21/2025

I’m so grateful to each of you who joined for the last new moon sound Healing of 2025!

✨The new moon invites us to listen deeply, and this lunation is especially potent energy as we stand at the threshold of the winter solstice on Sunday—the longest night of the year and the return of the light.

During these sweet New Moon gatherings we listen for the messages from our hearts and draw an intention for the community from the oracle deck.

Sending your heart Harmony & Balance for this next moon cycle✨🌲🙏🏼💕

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.

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Bainbridge Island, WA
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