Hilary Lake Healing Arts

11/12/2025

Resting in Reciprocity & Abundance: Cultivating a Culture of Care & Nurturing Connection together . . .
Soul Song Circle on Thursday evening and new offerings from the Garden of Healing Connection and a Gratitude Ecstatic Dance coming up - https://mailchi.mp/4d5084d099a7/hillakehealingarts-marchnewsletter-14189196

11/11/2025

I love singing in the gorgeous, resonant and round space of the chapel at Emmanuel Episcopal Church where I have my new office.

It feels like a reclaiming of my English ancestral heritage to be here and to be composting what’s not helpful while also welcoming what is nourishing. Just like the trees give away their leaves to nourish all that is around them in generosity and reciprocity I know that I need to give my gift of song and singing more.

So come join me to be in resonance and harmony together every 2nd Thursday of the month at least through January. November 13th, December 11th and January 8th 7-8:30pm.

I’ll guide us in some embodied warm ups for our bodies and voices and then will teach and offer some simple soulful songs for us to share in singing together. Bring your own songs or just join in singing along.

Donations appreciated and not required.

This song is All the Leaves by Batya Levine.

Learn more through the link in my bio or just come!

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11/05/2025

You are not alone my ancestors remind me again and again.

When I’m in need of deep rest, renewal, balance and new perspective my well ancestors guide me back to the Earth, back to my heart, back to presence and love.

This song came through directly from them a couple of years ago and I sing it to myself often this time of year and any time of year that I need it.

The truth is we all have well ancestors who are here for us and who have wisdom to offer us.

Offering Finding Faith with Horses with Carolyn Stofenfels of for the last time this past Sunday amidst the last day of Samhain, gave me a visceral experience of how connected we all are to these threads of ancestral wisdom. Our stories are so interwoven and there are some stories that our souls remember in ways we can’t understand with our minds. Our bodies remember and the animals remember, they never forgot, they just know.

We can welcome our souls to return as we welcome our well ancestors to be more in an active collaboration together with us.

How are you inviting your well ancestors into the conversation with your vision of what’s possible?

What gifts and guidance may they have to offer you on your path to fulfilling your soul’s purpose?

They might even help you to discern your soul’s purpose in this life time.

If you’re interested to go deeper with these questions, my Nurturing Balance series of 1-1 sessions may support you on your embodied journey of discovery and discernment.

Blessings on your Samhain integration as we go deeper into the darkness.

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Last slide with fire - song Ancestor Guides by Hanna Leigh

10/29/2025

There is one more opportunity to be with the horses in community for Finding Faith with Horses coming up this Sunday, November 2nd 2-4pm.

This last month we will be acknowledging the losses of this year and how we are in relationship with grief amidst a time when many cultures honor their ancestors. These special horses at Carolyne Stolzenfels' farm are very gifted at supporting the transformation of grief in my experience. They meet you as you are and welcome you to shift into being more fully embodied and therefore to release what wants to be released and then to welcome in the blessings that are simply here for you.

This picture of me from this past month (it was a very warm day!) shows a beautiful beam of light connecting with the heart of Magic and yes he is very magical. I encourage you to come and experience it for yourself.

Here's the link to sign up to join us on Sunday afternoon: https://www.wildfiredreams.com/.../finding-faith-with-horses
And today is Carolyne Stolzenfels' birthday! Blessed b'earthday Carolyn! 💓💫

10/27/2025

Creating in the Darkness: practices for this time of Samhain both at home and in community - https://mailchi.mp/7586dde32837/hillakehealingarts-marchnewsletter-14188667

10/16/2025

The hag torches are back again and ready just in time for Samhain or All Hallow’s Eve. This time of the thinning veil and vibrant trees seduces us into the darkness with so much aliveness. The Celts practiced rituals at this first fire ceremony of the winter to welcome the Cailleach or the Old Hag and ask her for guidance, forgiveness and healing. She’s also associated with the creation of the landscape as well as surrendering into the darkness of death that inevitably brings rebirth.

Mullein which is the plant at the center of these torches generously offers lung and ear renewal medicine and is connected to the air element. Helping us to bring more spaciousness, expansiveness and openness into our lives with its leaves and flowers. The dead stalk as a torch can then help us to release and keep away what we no longer need and is no longer serving us just as the leaves are falling to the Earth as compost. We can invite in our well ancestors during ritual to offer us guidance as well as protection from energies and or ancestors who are not yet well and may be draining us.

Simply cut off the tip of the torch to expose the dry stalk, light the end (patience, it takes a minute), place it in a bowl of soil or sand and make your prayers. You can then compost the soil or sand back into the Earth with whatever you are releasing.

I love the process of co-creation that happens between the wild mullein stalk, hot beeswax, delicate flower petals and my hands. The petals are all from my garden and the roses are for love, calendula for gentleness, chamomile for rest, lavender for self care and anise hyssop for spirit connection. The co-creation is an embodied prayer with these beings as I sing with my ancestors, I honor the Cailleach, our Mother Earth, all mothers and all beings.

You can have your own through the link in my bio and I’ll send it to you before Samhain if you order it by October 24th.

🙏🏼🕯️🖤🍁🌀✨

10/13/2025

Honoring Land and Ancestors, an Indigenous People's Day reflection and invite to join The Gathering this Tuesday evening for more learning and sharing about our relationship to ancestors. - https://mailchi.mp/f5c6bd62e351/hillakehealingarts-marchnewsletter-14188393

10/13/2025

On this Indigenous People’s Day may we honor those living and on the other side, the ancestors of the land, wherever we are who are of that land. These people who have been and are in an indigenous co-creative relationship with the land.

May we honor their sovereignty and the land’s sovereignty, their resilience, and the land’s resilience. Here I honor the Waganakishing, Odawa of the Anishinaabe.

And may we remember that whoever we are, we also have ancestors who are of the land where they are from and that we can remember them too. We can reconcile within ourselves with them and can show up with greater integrity with all peoples and beings. This is what my indigenous and non-indigenous elders have taught me.

The Buddhists say that all beings were our mothers.

May we remember that all beings are our ancestors and that we will become theirs too.

How do you want to be remembered?

If you’d like to learn and share more about ancestors in community, join me, and others for The Gathering, Tuesday, October 14th 7-8pm at the Carnegie Building in downtown Petoskey 451 E Mitchell St. I’ll be sharing a bit of my experience with ancestral healing and inviting us into a conversation together. No experience needed and all are welcome. Free for all.

These photos were mostly taken while on a pilgrimage last October to my ancestral homelands in Poland and England, and a few at my home on the land of the Anishinaabe.

10/10/2025

I’ve been deep in the practice of making herbal medicines from the Garden of Healing Connection for months now and even more intensively as the first frost came this week. I’m excited for all the new remedies coming together and to create space I’m offering all that have left from last year at up to 30% off for a limited time through October 20th.

Learn more here when you click on each medicine: https://hilarylake.com/shop-2/

So many sweet wonders to welcome into your care routine and ritual practice.

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10/04/2025

Coming Home to Our Sacred Bodies, Sunday October 5th, 2-4pm in Charlevoix with Carolyne Stofenfels of as a part of our Finding Faith with Horses series.

We’ll also be meeting in November 2nd to honor what we are letting go of and acknowledge all of life as ancestors.

Register to join us through the link in my bio.

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10/01/2025

ReMembering the Dark & Light: reflections on cultivating a fluid balance at this time of the changing season and beyond . . . also Finding Faith with Horses happening again on Sunday, The Gathering with a conversation about ancestral healing and up to 30% off herbal medicinals now through October 15th - https://mailchi.mp/9e5c329dff72/hillakehealingarts-marchnewsletter-14187997

09/30/2025

This Sunday, October 5th, Carolyne Stolzenfels of and I are offering Finding Faith with Horses again to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom and spiritual path through gentle interactions with her beautiful equine teachers.

Join us to explore your relationship to your intuition and faith through a connection to horses and their embodied gift to bring us fully present. This is a sacred gift at this time of so much disconnection to help us re-member our inner nature to feel more resourced and nourished amidst change.

This month we’ll be focusing on the theme of Coming Home to Our Sacred Bodies. I’ll be sharing about how horses offer us an opportunity to reconnect to our own life force through our bodies, which we can do at anytime with or without horses.

It's by donation and you can learn more and register to join us here:

Finding Your Faith With Horses Sundays from 2 pm to 4 pm, September 7, October 5, November 2 We're thrilled to announce our new group program "Finding Faith with Horses" starting this September. These sessions are designed to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom and spiritual path through gentl...