Welcome to the garden.
About Me and My Practice
​A long-time professional teacher, coach, mentor, and program director, I am also a trained Shamanic Healing Practitioner and Death Midwife. I am pleased to offer along with shamanic healing, including extraction, soul retrieval and dream ​work, life transition services, with a focus on end-of-life planning, spiritual and practical care and bereavement support.
A member of the Board of National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA), a member of National Association of Certified Death Midwives (NACDM), International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA), Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS) and Society for Shamanic Practice (SSP),
I participate in regular meetings and workshops and am committed to always building my knowledge, skills and networks to better serve you.
​Mission: Hjertehagen Healing Passages exists to provide intentional and compassionate life and death transition healing and support through complementary nonmedical means for anyone as requested, regardless of cultural, educational or socio-economic background, with the understanding that We Are One yet are each unique, with two things in common: We are born, and we die.
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Vision: The Hjertehagen vision is quite literally that of a garden of the heart, a place where life and death transitions can grow, flower and bear fruit
- Through individualized and small group safe spaces and practices to learn, plan and heal;
- With exceptional compassionate nonmedical care for all who seek healing and support during transitional times by care givers who are paid competitive wages they deserve for the profound service they provide, and for those who choose to volunteer, with benefits that care for them in return;
- Beside and complementary to, modern medical modalities as chosen by those seeking healing and support;
- Considering the whole person physically, mentally, psychologically and spiritually, honoring each person as a unique individual as well as part of a family or community, while respecting and appreciating diversity, including cultural, racial, religious, educational and socio-economic.
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Values: Permission, Intention, and Compassion are fundamentals of shamanic practice, and of life transition work. Hjertehagen services are built on these fundamentals, along with Honesty and Integrity. All services are implemented with honest and compassionate conversation and action to provide intentional and personalized healing and support.
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Services: Recognizing the importance of life transitions, including end-of-life and beyond, Hjertehagen offers shamanic healing sessions including extraction healing, power animal or soul retrieval, dream work, or psychopomp work.
Life transition services include marriage, house clearing and blessing, and doula model-specific end-of-life planning, practical and bereavement support. Hjertehagen Healing Passages also offers special events including monthly online drum circle and both online and in-person workshops, classes and events.
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Reminder: Hjertehagen Healing Passages services are not a replacement for medical treatment.
Shamanic healing works with non-ordinary realms as well as ordinary reality and can take some time.
Death doulas provide services that complement, but remain outside of, medical provision.
If you are in a medical or welfare EMERGENCY, please call 911 or your nearest crisis hotline.