Heartsong Healing Arts

08/31/2026

We have a Book Club starting tomorrow (Tuesday) at Heartsong Healing Arts! The book is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a beloved exploration of Indigenous wisdom, reciprocity, gratitude, and our relationship with the natural world.

We have room for more participants if you'd like to join us! We'll meet the first and third Tuesdays at 6 pm. Yes, there is grace if you 5-10 minutes late, so don't worry too much about that.

I'll be there as early as 5:45 pm with tea and refreshments if you'd like to come earlier to visit. I'm so excited about discussing this beautiful book!

For those who love meaningful conversations, lifelong learning, and exploring life's deeper questions.Twice each year, our Spiritual Seekers Book Club gathers around a carefully selected book that invites reflection, insight, and personal growth. Together, we'll read, and meet twice monthly to co...

08/27/2026

If you’ve been feeling the need to clear some mental space, reconnect with yourself, or simply step away from the noise for a few hours, I’d love to have you join me for Be Free Breathwork this Friday evening at Heartsong. 💜

We’ll spend the evening with guided breathwork, music, reflection and integration, creating space to breathe deeply, let go of some of what you’ve been carrying, and see what unfolds.

If you feel a little nudge as you’re reading this, come breathe with me Friday night. 💜

Be sure to resister, so I can plan enough snacks.

Be Free Breathwork is a monthly guided group transformational breathwork experience designed to help participants release stress, emotional blocks, limiting beliefs, and patterns that no longer serve them while reconnecting with their authentic selves. Participants should plan for approximately t...

08/20/2026

Need a break?

The first weeks of a new school year can be a lot.

Teachers are back in classrooms, giving their energy all day. Parents are juggling new schedules, activities, homework and earlier mornings. And sometimes by Friday evening, you’re simply tired.

This Friday, give yourself two hours when no one needs anything from you.

Come get comfortable, close your eyes and let the soothing tones and vibrations of crystal singing bowls fill the room. We’ll begin with a gentle guided meditation and then settle into a deeply restful sound experience.

Nothing to accomplish. Nothing to keep track of. Nowhere else you need to be.

Just rest.

Sound Healing Experience
Friday, August 21 • 7–9 PM
Heartsong Healing Arts

Slow down. Breathe. Come home to yourself.

Learn more & reserve your space:

https://www.heartsonghealingarts.com/offerings/sound-healing-experience

08/13/2026

If this song isn’t a testimony to how fruitless it is to worry about what others think of us, I don’t know what is.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DWuvvyU7D/?mibextid=wwXIfr

07/22/2026

Sometimes the best classes are the ones that don’t go according to plan.

This morning, I had the privilege of sharing yoga with the first through fifth graders at Empowering Families’ summer program. The room was alive with the beautiful chaos of childhood—a large gymnasium, a loud fan, basketballs bouncing, breakfast being served, conversations happening in every corner.

For a moment, I wondered how we would ever settle in.

Then we simply began.

We gathered in a circle and came home together.

Home to our hearts.
Home to our breath.
Home to our bodies.

The noise around us didn’t disappear, but it no longer mattered.

Together we wandered across an imaginary prairie. We greeted the morning sun, became an eagle soaring on the wind, stretched out like a snake basking on a warm rock, crouched like a coyote and howled to our fellow coyotes, grew into a prairie tree with roots deep in the earth and branches reaching for the sky, then became Dome Rock—steady, strong, and unmoving. Finally, we rested before rising again to frolic across the prairie like playful fairies.

Children have a beautiful way of reminding us that imagination isn’t something we leave behind as we grow older. It’s a doorway back to wonder.

After class, I offered hugs to anyone who wanted one. One by one, the kids—and even a few teachers—came forward with open arms. Those simple embraces felt like little blessings.

Experiences like this remind me why I love sharing yoga beyond the studio walls. Instead of asking children to move faster, perform more, and pay attention to everything outside themselves, we can offer them something different. We can remind them that they can always come home—to their breath, to their heart, and to their body. That kind of knowing is a gift they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Thank you, Empowering Families, for trusting me with your wonderful first through fifth graders this morning. My heart came home, too.

07/21/2026

The Long Way Home
By Lisa Betz-Marquez

The heat has been relentless.

People are quick to anger. Patience feels distant. Grace, often nowhere to be found.

Lately, I’ve sensed a crackling in the air.

Whether it’s the heat, economic uncertainty, politics, or something else entirely, I couldn’t say. It’s something I’ve noticed.

Lately, life has been quietly reminding me that what matters most is often found in the smallest moments.

My mom broke her wrist a couple of months ago. Thankfully, she’s healing well, but the experience reminded me that the people we love become more precious with every passing year. Ordinary afternoons together have become something to savor instead of something to assume.

I’ve been thinking about Heartsong, too. About the atmosphere I’m creating. I hope the room itself holds a quiet presence that invites a slower breath, a softening of shoulders, and a quiet setting down of whatever the day has asked us to carry.

This morning, before the heat settled over everything, I sat on the porch with my coffee. Two rabbits bounded through the grass, taking turns leaping over one another. The birds were singing. The bluffs were there, as they have been for thousands of years. Before long, Patches curled into my lap, claiming his dose of love.

Despite the world’s concerns—the economy, the climate, the politics—the birds are singing. The bluffs are there. Patches wants his dose of love. The rabbits are playing, reminding me that no matter what is taking place around me, there is room for playfulness.

Sometimes delight is reason enough to carry us home to our hearts.

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About The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home is a place for quiet reflections on everyday life—stories of nature, healing, community, and the small moments that shape us in ways we don’t always recognize at the time.
I hope these essays invite you to slow down, look a little closer, and discover that sometimes the longest journey is the one that leads us home to our hearts.

07/17/2026

Lisa here. ❤️

With a month of classes and events now underway at Heartsong Healing Arts, I'm excited to introduce something that's been growing in my heart for a long time—Individual Healing Sessions.

In many ways, this isn't new. It's simply giving a name to work I've been honored to do with people for many years.

Over the years, I've discovered that what many people need most isn't advice or someone to fix them. They simply need a safe place to be heard.

Each 90-minute session begins with a conversation. Together, we'll create a safe, compassionate, and confidential space where you can share whatever is on your heart. Drawing upon more than 20 years of experience as a Reiki Master, along with sound healing and a broad foundation of holistic healing practices, I'll walk beside you with curiosity, compassion, and an open heart, creating a space where you can listen deeply to yourself and allow your own healing journey to unfold.

Sometimes insight comes through conversation. Sometimes peace comes through silence. Sometimes Reiki or the soothing vibrations of sound healing help us settle into ourselves in a way that words alone cannot. Often, something begins to shift when we see an experience through fresh eyes, discover new possibilities, and remember that we already carry within us more wisdom, resilience, and capacity for healing than we may realize.

No two sessions are ever the same because no two people are the same.

Whether you're navigating a life transition, carrying grief, feeling overwhelmed, struggling with a difficult relationship, or simply longing for a quiet place to breathe and reconnect with yourself, I'd be honored to spend that time with you.

💛 Individual Healing Sessions
Reiki • Sound Healing • Compassionate Guidance

Learn more or schedule your session here:
https://www.heartsonghealingarts.com/offerings/heartsong-healing-session-with-lisa

Slow down. Breathe. Come home to yourself.

Reiki • Sound Healing • Compassionate GuidanceEvery healing session with Lisa begins by simply sitting together. In a safe, compassionate, and confidential space, you'll explore what has brought you here, creating space for the session to unfold naturally. With more than 20 years of experience a...

07/17/2026

We are loving this space. Today marks one month since our first class at Heartsong. What a beautiful beginning it’s been. Thank you to all of the students who have joined us for classes here. We are so excited about the future!

Check out our offerings at the link below. Look for a new fall schedule next month, with some exciting events planned.

www.Heartsonghealingarts.com

07/16/2026

Be Free Breathwork is a monthly guided group transformational breathwork experience designed to help participants release stress, emotional blocks, limiting beliefs, and patterns that no longer serve them while reconnecting with their authentic selves. Participants should plan for approximately t...