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Heartland Healing Arts

Clear the Heart and Mind, Restore Self Love & Inner Peace. Discover your birthright of inner peace. Call for a complimentary 20 minute phone session.

Shamanic Healing and Practitioner Teacher, Trauma Informed Counseling (Compassionate Inquiry), Reiki & Rahanni Energy Healing and Training, Celtic Medicine Wheel Teacher, Women's Circles Offering Counseling services, Shamanic, Rahanni and Reiki healing to help you find your inner empowerment to heal, love and value yourself. I'd love to hear from you.
805 570 8532
caragardner@yahoo.com

04/19/2026

Ignoring the feminine perpetuates the same trauma patterns that got us here.

The systems that exiled the feminine benefit from male centered spirituality.

Naming earth, body and the feminine aspect of god as sacred is the remedy.

The work is not to become more spiritual, it is to be fully embodied. To feel the spirit of the goddess that lives in the body.

Accessing and remembering this empowerment is the radical healing work of this generation. Not just for women but for men too.

Forging the mine fields of shame, self hate, projection, dissociation, frozen emotions with fierce compassion and tenderness is the healing needed now.

Immersing in nature connection, ancestral remembering, somatic practices, intuition development, sexual healing and compassionate inquiry of emotional blocks is radical reclaiming of the feminine.

Women need supportive safe spaces to remember our sovereignty and transmute generations of disempowerment and prejudice.

Let’s make an oath to never again abandon ourselves. To honor the feminine mysteries and our ancestral grandmother’s earth wisdom that’s here now to guide us home to the truth.

Becoming Wild and Beautiful 6 week course begins Wednesday 4/22.
Join an intimate circle of women for support during these times of rising.

This class is excellent for therapists who are interested in nature wisdom practices for trauma.

04/14/2026

Embracing a tree is mother’s comfort, belonging to earth, rooted deep, rising up with strength and grace. Ye are not separate but born from her like an acorn to become a source of nourishment and inspiration for others.

Becoming the Mother Tree - Remembering our eco-ancestors and wild earth constellations course is starting next week Earth Day! April 22 for 6 Wednesdays

Let’s join together for healing practices that take us into the body of nature for spring awakening and the resilience we need for these times!

Becoming Wild and Beautiful is your birthright. Knowing and feeling the instinctual wisdom and power in your DNA is for you to remember and embody.

The healing journey in our Age of Enlightenment is not complete without ancestral integration which includes our exiled animal nature.

Our bodies are an ecological evolutionary genetic weave of the web of creation, plant, animal, fungi, elemental. We are 90% leopard…

Shamanic practices include our more than human kin for magical healing and guidance. They are not outside of us but the wild feminine parts that have been demonized and repressed from our psyche and bodies.

Our nervous system is a shapeshifter not a straight line. Not an unaffected static fortress that the wounded masculine has forced upon the world. The elements, seasons and wild animal parts respond to stress and creation. Eco ancestral retrieval is reclaiming our power from the systematic desecration of our wild feminine origins.

We are being called by Mother Gaia to feel our embodiment and call of our ancestral mothers to re-member the truth of who we are. Sacred Earth

🐆tap my bio link for more info!

📷Treespiritproject

04/08/2026

When the world is in chaos, when your heart is heavy with emotion, when daily life is burdened by worry, access your creative resilience mirrored in our Wild Wise Kin!

Becoming Wild and Beautiful is for women who are seeking ways to support themselves and others during these times - to inhabit the resilient capacity of your nervous system, your ancient inner beauty and eco-ancestral gifts of empowerment.

We are the children of earth, air, fire, water-
walking, standing, flying and swimming creatures.
Remember Remember

Unleash your primal powers of radical resilience, cunning creativity and instinctual intuition that will guide you through these changing times!

Creating space for shamanic somatic embodiment to guide you into emergence, calling on all your wise and wild resources to navigate a deeper way of embodying your energy and meet outer challenges with your inner fire.

We meet the moment by energizing our organic AI, Authentic Intelligence as wild feminine embodiment. This gathering circle provides a grounded magical space to support one another and rise with change. Reptile, ocean and mammal ancestral kin, snake, dragon, dolphin, jellyfish, jaguar and horse, are calling us to bring our inner powers alive.

Wild conscious intelligence from millions of years of evolution live within you. Discover new ways of working with trauma other than the model of nervous system regulation based on a mammalian predator/prey sympathetic response. This approach inspired by Dr. Azra Bertand’s ecosomatics work combined with shamanic journeying and power animal retrieval will give you a new integrated access to creativity, intuition, fierce knowing and power.

We need to dive deep within our cellular memory to access the primal eco-ancestral intelligence that offers us gifts of resilience that only wild animal and plant know better, as quantum adaptation.

Learn more by tapping my bio link. Class starts online zoom Wednesday April 15th 5-8pdt!

🖼️Sligo artist

12/03/2025

Welcome to my new beautiful garden space for Heartland Healing! I’m thrilled to share this magical and peaceful space for in person one-to-one sessions in Fairfax CA.

I moved to this 111 year old house 6 months ago and renovated the back garden cottage that called me to this location. A private creek side sanctuary in the heart of a downtown neighborhood with towering redwoods, oaks and bay trees.

I’ve practiced the healing arts for over 12 years professionally. I have a 1st Class Honors degree in Counseling and Psychotherapy from Ireland specializing in Ecotherapy. Also while living there for 4 years I apprenticed and trained in Advanced Celtic Shamanism and received my Reiki Master/Teacher and Rahanni Teacher level. I certified in Compassionate Inquiry Trauma Therapy with Dr Gabor Mate and many other healing therapies if you’d like to read my website bio.

Primarily I’m holding safe heart centered intimate spaces for people who are ready to meet what issues are arising in the now- through a childhood trauma and ancestral lens. Healing happens through dialogue counseling, psychic revelations, unveiling ancestral burdens, parts work, grief therapy, deep compassionate self regard, emotional expression and hands on shamanic healing.

I found this path of service through a dark night of the soul which revealed my truest gifts and calling. I am a wounded healer and am passionate about supporting people who have experienced similar traumas. I continue to work with and face my inner integration from religious programming, patriarchal conditioning and feminine represssion, grief and loss, empath/narcissist dynamics and childhood trauma. I live and embody the path of healing and it is my sacred calling to support you through your own life initiations.

I work with both men and women - especially women who are seeking ways into their sovereignty through the heroines journey.

Hands on healing with Reiki, Rahanni or Shamanic healing is available for all.

I am guided by the divine feminine: Brigid -the fiery arrow, the Cailleach wise owl/moon seer. Serpent, Stag, Selkie & Swan. The dark goddesses Inanna, Sedna and beloved Mary Magdalene.

Much love 🌹🌀🙏

11/17/2025

Moon Sisters you are invited to a dark moon Grief Ritual and Shamanic Journey with sacred burial sites of Ireland. This Thursday 11/20 at 5pm pdt online.

The energies are profound this week for a sacred pause to tend to grieving what is in the dark ready to be released. We are in a powerfully aligned time for healing with the moon and Venus’ descent to the underworld. A time to grieve our losses and let die the old for this final shedding in the Year of the Snake, diving deep to find regeneration and rebirth.

Included will be:
-Shamanic journey to a sacred burial chamber in Ireland that aligns with Samhain sunrise
-Grief ritual with the elements
-Meeting the Cailleach
-Journaling prompts
-Group connexion and sharing

We are working with the energies of the Ancestral Realm, Moon, Venus and the Dark to assist us with healing our exiled inner places that need holding and expression.

What energies need tending within you? Power Loss, Soul Loss, or your Golden Shadow - unmanifested gifts that lay dormant hiding under unmitigated grief. Swim to the depths and retrieve the precious jewels that belong to your soul.

This is the first of three Grief Rituals I’m holding over the next three dark moons preparing us for Venus rising in February.

If you feel to amend scrolling fever and allow yourself to be present in a safe restorative healing community space for women you are welcome. It’s where we can begin to set down our burdens and get real with ourselves and each other. My spaces are deep medicine and guided by ancestral connection, based upon a foundation of healing with real life experience not just information or trendy quick fixes. The Cailleach shows us the way to trust our inner unfolding.

Comment dark moon or send a DM for more info.
~much love 🌑

Cailleach art by
Photography by me

10/05/2025

When you go home to god how do you explain - how do you find words for what it is that moves the very soul of your life? It’s here in these stones, in this wind, in this nevereverland echoing ancient voices alive pulling me to see again. To feel them, their devotion. Their knowing that is beyond ours. I climb again, and again. Across the grykes, over the fissures that separate us in time. The winds that sing a song I can’t describe, only feel. All I know is my spirit is free. I clambor home up treacherous hills split with rain and time , pleading to remember. Where are thee - in the hawthorns, in the other world of sweet spring waters, in the sky ever changing. I know somehow. Somehow I know.

06/16/2025

My next Introduction to Celtic Shamanism course starts Wednesday June 18th for 5 consecutive weeks 4-7pm pacific online! I’ve been teaching this class for 8 years and have much to share about Ireland and the healing medicine of our ancestral lands.

This class offers an introduction to the Celtic medicine wheel. We will learn and practice shamanic journeying and begin to build our own (mala) altar. Our intimate circle offers personal support for the emergence of deep healing with yourself and earth.🌿

The earth is calling us to remember that we are part of her, interconnected in the web of life. Shamanism, the oldest earth based spiritual practice, is a devotion in deepening our relationship with the elements and learning the wisdom that supports and guides life. This practice helps us develop a relationship to nature, the result is living every day as sacred. Healing ourselves, Healing the Earth. 🌿

Each week we will do shamanic drum journeys to a different element and direction on the medicine wheel. Earth, air, water, fire. You’ll discover your spirit guides and power animals waiting to help and guide you. Join our intimate group for a supportive, gentle yet powerfully transformative time as we navigate to find the unwavering strength of spirit connection to all life.

Tap my bio link for more information or DM me with questions. Classes are open for female identified 🌸

02/02/2025

As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them. As hawks rest upon air and air sustains them. So would I learn to attain free fall, and float into Creator Spirits deep embrace knowing no effort earns that all-surrounding grace.
~D.Levatov

Self portrait ~ Gap of Dunloe, Kerry 2002

During a personal time of healing and recovery, this Imbolc is ever sweeter feeling the breath of Brigid feed my soul with her inspirational Imbas.

She is the Awakener, the earths renewal of hope and magical transformation from darkness into light.

My life, my heart, my hope, my hearth. Brigid guides me to green pastures and renews the spark of spring within when the fields have been fallow and muddy. Her warmth lights up the path of longing that leads me to drink from her well and enliven the very earth within.

Her green mantle wraps me up in a soothing embrace. She raises the dead in the grace of her beauty - birds eggs, bulbs blooming and light returning.

Oh spring, you warm my eyes and heart with color and hope. The sparrows and robins sing your song. The daffodils, narcissus and delicate catkins intoxicate the senses with golden yellow sweetness.

Praise Brigid, Celtic Saint and Goddess, embodied earth and heaven sent. I am your daughter, your devotee of hope and faith springing eternal.

For all of you in Brigids hearth, we rise 💛

09/17/2024

The portal is open to invite some special women into my next Celtic Shamanism Practitioner online course starting on September 28-29th! We create an intimate circle for the emergence of deep self healing - a space to hold and guide you on your heroines journey of greater sovereignty.

If you’re a therapist, healer, artist or seeking your higher life calling and ancestral connection to Celtic wisdom this course will deepen and expand your soul purpose and awakening.

The earth is calling us to remember that we are part of her, interconnected in the web of life. Shamanism, the oldest earth based spiritual practice, is a devotion in deepening our relationship with the elements and learning the wisdom that supports and guides life. This practice helps us develop a relationship to nature, the result is living every day as sacred. Healing ourselves, Healing the Earth.

Nature based spirituality is pure Celtic spirituality. A beautiful way of breathing the sacred into everyday life.

The 7 weekend course starts September 28th over 7 months. Each month we journey to a different element and direction on the Irish Celtic medicine wheel. You’ll discover your spirit guides and power animals that help and guide you plus many healing techniques including soul and power retrieval.

The course is deeply therapeutic while laying the foundation for your own earth connection and shamanic practice.

Join us for a supportive, gentle yet powerfully transformative time as we navigate to find the unwavering strength of spirit connection to all life. Your guiding light and strength of service is needed now more than ever. Become the healer you were born to be!

Tap my bio link for more information or DM me with questions. Space is limited.

09/12/2024

Why do we enter the portal of the medicine wheel, spiral of seasons and chamber of shamanic initiation?

This is the path of self awareness, healing, deep wisdom and growth. As we open our senses to nature we realize we are in relationship with all life co-creating our reality.

Mother Nature has been exiled from religious beliefs and practices - we are bringing her back into the center of what is holy.

Without this wisdom practice and ancestral awakening I would be adrift and untethered in the world. Excavating and integrating trauma is the path of embodiment and true power. As I enter the threshold of the Crone this practice, knowledge and power is nonnegotiable. The fires consume and transform us into who we are meant to be. It is what guides us through the dismantling of outworn coping mechanisms and false core beliefs to usher in authenticity and unflinching presence.

I am a guide, a seer, wounded healer and holder of compassionate space for bringing our darkness into the light. Or light into the darkness.

Celtic ancestral lineage called me to this sacred spiral path. I am here to support us in our rising.

Sovereignty, Self Love, Inspiration, Listening and Trusting the guidance from Spirit and Nature.

If you’re called to join an intimate and supportive circle of women ONLINE for 7 months on the Spiral Path of seasons tap my weblink I’d love to hear from you. We start September 28th. 🌀🤍 Contact:
https://www.heartlandhealingarts.com/shamanic-practitioner-training

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Thursday	9am - 5pm
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