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EST. 2016 • HEART-CENTERED SANCTUARY • ONLINE + IN PERSON

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Make with your hands. Heal with your heart. We are a studio-sanctuary for soulful craft, mindfulness rituals, creative healing circles and slow living — helping sensitive humans reconnect head, hands and heart.

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Your heart is not a project. It’s a home.

Heartwork is the brave practice of listening inward. Soul is what happens when you create from that listening. We blend art therapy, contemplative practice, herbal wisdom and community care into simple daily rituals you can actually keep.

No hustle. No perfection. Just warm hands, honest stories, clay, ink, breath, tea, candlelight — and people who get it.

♥ trauma-informed✦ beginner friendly● small circles max 12

About — Heartwork and Soul

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Our promise
Soft space for hard feelings. Come as you are.

We teach people to make art & make peace with themselves.

Founded in a sunlit garage studio in 2016, Heartwork and Soul began as Sunday gatherings: soup, sketchbooks, stories. Today we host weekly healing circles, seasonal retreats, a soul-craft shop and an online membership of 4,800+ tender hearts in 23 countries.

Our method — Head → Hands → Heart — moves you from overthinking into making, from making into feeling, from feeling into belonging. Every workshop pairs a craft (clay, collage, ink, fiber, candle-pouring) with a guided inner practice (breath, journaling, sharing).

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2016 — Soup & Sketchbooks
First 8 neighbors around a folding table. Theme: “What does home feel like?”
2019 — The Sanctuary Opens
We convert a 1920s chapel into studio with clay room, tea loft and quiet garden.
2022 — Heartwork Method™
Our trauma-informed curriculum launches; 200 facilitators trained.
2025 — Soul Membership
Daily 10-minute rituals, full-moon circles live, and craft kits mailed monthly.

Practices & Offerings

Choose your way back to yourself

01 / CRAFT

Soul Craft Workshops

Clay pinch pots for anxiety, grief collage, intuitive painting, hand-stitched intentions, candle-pouring for new beginnings. All materials included.

From $45 • 2.5h • Book spot →

Art supplies
02 / HEAL

Healing Circles

Small, held spaces for grief, burnout, transitions, mothering, sensitivity. Breath, journaling, witnessing — never fixing. Led by trained holders.

Tuesdays & Sundays • Join circle →

Healing circle yoga
03 / REST

Retreats & Rituals

Dawn tea meditations, full-moon gatherings, seasonal day-retreats: forest walk + sauna + soup + silence. Plus online membership for daily care.

$129 day retreat • See dates →

Sunset field retreat

How it works

Head → Hands → Heart

A 90-minute session flows in three movements. You arrive buzzy, you leave rooted. No art skills needed — only honesty.

Community gathering
01 ARRIVE & GROUND — 15 MIN

Herbal tea, shoes off, phones to sleep. Guided breath + body scan. You are welcomed by name.

02 MAKE & FEEL — 50 MIN

Hands lead. Collage your week, shape your worry into clay, stitch an intention. Gentle prompts, lo-fi music, no critique.

03 WITNESS & INTEGRATE — 25 MIN

Optional sharing in pairs. Closing candle ritual + take-home card: one tiny practice for tomorrow morning.

Reserve Your Cushion

Soul Journal — Stories, Rituals, Notes

Fresh from the heart desk

Slow essays on grief, joy, creativity, rest and craft. Read one with tea. Each piece ends with a 5-minute practice you can try today.

Morning pages for a heavy heart

A gentle 10-minute journaling ritual to move grief through ink...

Coming soon →

How clay calms anxiety

Why squeezing, pinching and smoothing regulates your nervous system...

Coming soon →

Candle ritual for new beginnings

Pour intention, light courage: a step-by-step evening practice...

Coming soon →

Questions, tenderly answered

Everything you wonder

What exactly is Heartwork and Soul?

We’re part art studio, part mindfulness sanctuary, part community living room. We teach soulful crafts paired with inner practices so you leave calmer, kinder and more connected — to yourself and others.

Do I need to be “artsy” or spiritual?

Not at all. 70% of our guests say “I can’t even draw a stick figure.” Perfect. We work with process, not product. All beliefs (and doubts) welcome.

What should I bring?

Just yourself in comfy clothes. We provide aprons, materials, tea, blankets, journals. Studios are scent-light and wheelchair accessible.

Can I join online?

Yes! Full-moon circles, morning pages and craft-alongs stream live with replay. Monthly kits ship with clay, ink, tea and candle.

Is it therapy?

Our circles are therapeutic but not therapy. Facilitators are trauma-informed and we partner with licensed therapists for referrals when needed.

Visit / Join

Come sit with us awhile

Studio Sanctuary: 14 Lantern Lane, open Tue–Sun 9am–7pm. Full-moon online circles every month. First visit includes tea + journal.

♥ Tuesday Healing Circle — 6:30pm, 12 spots, $35
✦ Sunday Family Clay — 11am, all ages, $25
☾ Full Moon Online — live, free for members

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