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Welcome

However you arrived, I’m glad you’re here.

People often arrive here when something has shifted and the old way of living no longer holds. It may be grief, loss, or a life transition that has brought you to a threshold. It may be spiritual emergence, a growing sensitivity to the unseen, or spirit activity in your home that you do not yet know how to meet. It may also be quieter than that: a sense that after years of building a career, raising children, caring for others, or simply moving through what life required, something in you is ready to live with more depth, meaning, and connection.

Others arrive through curiosity, longing, or a sincere desire to choose a more aligned path. You may feel called toward ritual, ancestral healing, plant spirits, animism, or the living world around you, while also wanting to move carefully and respectfully, without appropriating traditions that are not yours. You may be seeking a spiritual practice that feels rooted, honest, and authentic to your own body, ancestry, values, and relationship with place. You may not know where to begin, only that something meaningful is asking to be remembered or discovered.

However you arrive, there is often a quiet part of you that already knows something needs your attention.

Together, we create a grounded space where tenderness and truth can both be present. We work gently and with precision, tending what is raw, unspoken, or exiled, and meeting shadow, grief, longing, and inherited pain with care, curiosity, and compassion.

This work is also a remembering that your life is held in relationship, not only with other people, but with ancestors, land, spirit, and the more than human world. Through ritual, presence, and attunement, we listen for what is ready to be witnessed, released, restored, or reclaimed.

Creative expression is one of the ways I listen beneath the thinking mind, especially when words do not reach far enough. Before this work became my primary practice, I spent years as a public artist, and I continue to trust how collage, painting, movement, and symbolic imagery can give form to what has been unspoken. The practice is less about what you make than what emerges as you make it.

The path that brought me here

This path has been shaped by devotion and the sacred ordinary. I live as an animist, artist, and ritualist, taught again and again by land, seasons, grief, plants, ancestors, and the quiet ways the unseen speaks.

My animistic practice is rooted in feminist and liberatory values. To me, tending spirits, healing lineages, and deepening relationship with the living world are inseparable from questioning systems of harm, inherited conditioning, and the ways those patterns live inside our bodies, families, spiritual lives, and relationships.

I am also a mother walking alongside a teenager who keeps teaching me how to soften, reflect, and listen. Much of my life is simple and tangible. I tend a garden, make art, care for the place I call home, and keep learning how to live in deeper relationship with the world around me.

My queerness emerged later in life as I learned to inhabit the deepest parts of myself more fully. That becoming deepened my commitment to authenticity, cultural healing, and inner freedom. I remain a devoted student of this precious life, continually learning with the people I serve.

Death has been a primary initiation in my life. I lost my mother at 18, my husband at 28, and my father at 32. These losses widened me, softened me, and shaped how I accompany others. They taught me how to sit with what cannot be fixed, how to stay close to what is tender and true, and how to trust the kind of healing that unfolds through humility, surrender, and the arc of time.

If you have felt lost, undone, or far from yourself, I want you to know that I trust in your innate wholeness. This work is not about becoming someone else. It is about remembering what is true beneath the noise, protection, grief, and forgetting.

My life’s work and path is in service to the living, the dying, and the dead.

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Ways to Work Together

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Modalities That Inform This Work

These are some of the primary frameworks and practices that shape how I hold sessions and containers:

Ancestral lineage healing

Internal Family Systems - parts work

Hakomi - somatic mindfulness

Plant spirit mediumship, animist ritual, and ceremony

Intuitive guidance, energy healing, and energetic mediumship

Psychedelic preparation, ceremony, and integration support

Grief tending and support

Creative expression

Additional Offerings

End of life planning, vigil, and ceremony: death doula services with animist and ancestral ritual support

Virtual and in person cannabis ceremonies & cannabis late night art events

Small group containers for animist & ancestral practices and plant spirit mediumship

House clearings, land blessings, and compassionate psychopomp support

Equitable Access

I hold a small number of reduced rate spots in support of equitable access and community care. These openings are prioritized for BIPOC clients, 2SLGBTQIA+ folks, elders, and those for whom cost would otherwise be a barrier. If you would like a reduced rate scheduling link, please email me.

I also partner with an organization that offers funding for BIPOC individuals to access this work. If you are interested in applying, please reach out.

Please see the Green Bottle Method for more information about the equitable access scale.

60 minute session rates:

$175 Standard rate

$140 Partial support rate

$110 Supported rate

$75 Community care rate

Direct email: serrarueheart@gmail.com

Study, Training, and Lineages of Influence

My practice is informed by many years of study, mentorship, lived experience, and ongoing learning across somatics, grief work, animism, ritual, death care, ancestral healing, energy healing, mediumship, psychedelic education, and creative facilitation.

I began with energy healing, mediumship, shamanic practice, and creative facilitation, and over time this path deepened into somatics, parts work, grief tending, death care, ancestral healing, plant spirit mediumship, psychopomp work, and psychedelic preparation and integration. These streams continue to shape how I listen, facilitate, and accompany people through threshold experiences.

For those who would like a fuller view of my study, training, and lineages of influence, you can read that here: link

Training and Lineages

Somatics and psyche: Hakomi Levels 1 and 2 (2017–2020), IFS and continuing education (2018–present), NARM Level 1 (2022), PSIP (2022)

Death, grief, and the unseen: Reiki I–III (2008), Mediumship and Energy Healing trainings (2008–present), Death Midwifery with Yllva (2015), Sacred Death Care (2019), Conscious Dying Institute Death Doula Certification (2021), Plant Spirit Mediumship Apprenticeships (2022–2026), Francis Weller's Apprenticing Sorrow (2022), Psychopomp Training I (2023) and II (2025), Into the Underworld of Grief (2024), Social Justice Grief Immersion: Inviting Abundance (2024), Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner Training (2022), Grief and Somatics (ongoing)

Facilitation and collective care: Mindful Self-Compassion (2016), Creative Facilitation I and II (2016), Authentic Relating Games Facilitation (2017), Seeds of Alchemy Breathwork Training (2017), Public Art Boot Camp (2017), Universalist Church of Life Minister (2017), Underground Psychedelic Apprenticeship and Training 2+ years (2018), Psychedelic Anti-Racism (2020), Shamanic Journeying with Sandra Ingerman (2009), Shamanic Apprenticeship (2010, 2019, 2021–2023), Bee Shamanism (2019–2024), Psilocybin for BPD Training (2024)