Solar Eclipse Sound Portal
2023-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Manhattan, 481 Zeandale Rd., Alsop Sanctuary, Manhattan, KS, 66502, United States
“Sound is our mother tongue. It is the language of our soul.” – Illuminating Hearts

Join us on the day of a new moon and a full solar eclipse for an incredible evening of soul healing, soul empowerment, and sound alchemy at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Manhattan, KS. Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts will guide you into the gate of time in your heart using our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Step through a soulful portal of resonance into innate wisdom for a fuller expression of YOU.

This eclipse window is offering a dose of willpower and courage to honestly illuminate your deepest needs and take action on your own behalf. 🔥
👉🏾 Take a relentless stand for your embodiment and fulfillment.💪🏼
👉🏼 It starts with releasing the resistance so you can embody and feel into your needs. ⚡️
We create a sonic space for you to dissolve the noise that isn’t you so that YOU can emerge with gusto. 🎶 Invest in self-love and self-care with us! We layer resonance that bio-mimics nature and the universe; what your body and soul intrinsically recognize as healthy.
Using heart wisdom from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into your center for a beautiful sonic journey. Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to support your own healing, creative genius, and soul evolution. Learn about quantum everything, star think, and how to access the wisdom inside your heart. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic stargate.
“Sing because this is a food our starving world needs.” – Hafiz
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:45pm. Event start time 7:00pm. Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. The heart gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. “Sound healing” is better described as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Our intentional sound is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts, and revealing the magnificence of your healing capacity. Take some much needed time to TRULY drop in and restore (re-star) yourself. Your body will thank you. Your entire energy field will glow again! Read more about Sound Alchemy

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” —Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” —Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” —Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Sound Portal: Beyond the Veil
2023-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Harvester Artist Lofts, 1000 S Main St., Council Bluffs, IA, 51503, United States
“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing you to access the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

This time of year is celebrated as the time when the veils between our world and the realm of our departed loved ones gets thinner. This is a powerful time that we can open up to what is beyond the reach of our eyes and instead see with our hearts, our bodies, and inner vision.
Join us in Council Bluffs at the Harvester Artist Lofts gallery as Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts guide you into the gate of time in your heart using our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Step through a soulful portal of resonance beyond the veil. On the first Friday in November, we are thrilled to share sonic space amid the art show Penumbra: Where Shadows Come To Life. Penumbra is a varied collection of the odd, eerie, magical and more. It is named for the full moon lunar eclipse occurring opening weekend.

Using star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into your heart for a beautiful sonic journey. Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to support your own soul evolution. Learn about quantum everything, star think, and time travel. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic stargate.
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:45pm. Event start time 7:00pm. Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration available with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. The heart gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. “Sound healing” is better described as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Our intentional sound is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts, and revealing the magnificence of your healing capacity. Take some much needed time to TRULY drop in and restore (re-star) yourself. Your body will thank you. Your entire energy field will glow again! Read more about Sound Alchemy

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” —Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” —Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” —Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Winter Solstice Sound Portal
2023-12-16 19:00 - 21:00 | OM Center, 1216 Howard Street, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to return to the Om Center to ring in the magic of the winter season — literally! The Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere marks the darkest day with the shortest period of daylight, heralding a season of drawing inward. Step through a soulful portal of resonance into this blessed window of dark, to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your best path forward.
Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time AND LIGHT in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to support your soul evolution. Learn about quantum everything, star think, and time travel. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate and light-gate.
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:45pm. Event start time 7:00pm. Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. The heart gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. “Sound healing” is better described as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, but without difficult integration time or effects. Our intentional sound is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts, and revealing the magnificence of you.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way. – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” —Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” —Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” —Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Sound Alchemy Immersion Omaha - February
2024-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S 10th St., Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to share the healing power of Sound Alchemy at Bancroft Street Market. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breath, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:30pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Spring Equinox Sound Alchemy Omaha
2024-03-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S 10th St., Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to share the healing power of Sound Alchemy on the full moon equinox. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound into spring. Reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breath, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:00pm. Event start time 6:30pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Sound Alchemy Immersion Omaha - April
2024-04-21 18:00 - 20:00 | OM Center, 1216 Howard Street, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to share the healing power of Sound Alchemy at the Om Center in Omaha. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound on the full moon to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breath, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 5:30pm. Event start time 6:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Sound Alchemy Portal Des Moines - Spring
2024-05-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, IA, 50312, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to bring the healing power of Sound Alchemy to the Unity Center of Des Moines. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound into this blessed Taurus new moon window to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breath, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:00pm. Event start time 6:30pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

BONUS: Astara is available before the event — all day Saturday — for private one-on-one soul sessions through her powerful, multidimensional Heartifact Archaeology system that digs into the roots of your issues for your best healing mind, body and soul. Come to the event after for deep integration!

There are only five spots, be sure to book your session in advance!

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Sound Alchemy Immersion Omaha - May
2024-05-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S 10th St., Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to share the healing power of Sound Alchemy at Bancroft Street Market. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound during the full moon window to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breath, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:30pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Journey to Peace with special guest Astara Raven
2024-06-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Sumtur Ampitheater, 11691 S 108th St., Papillion, NE, 68046, United States
Joy Brings Light and the City of Papillion present Journey to Peace, a sound healing series led by Andrea Joy at the Sumtur Ampitheatre. Astara Raven joins as a special guest on June 12th.
Embark on a transformative path to inner peace inside the Journey to Peace series, where soothing summer sound healing awaits you. Andrea Joy and Astara Raven come together to explore the restorative power of gentle melodies, creating harmony for all on this special night. This series is open and available to the community because we believe EVERYONE deserves to thrive.
All ages + Accessible
Bring food + drinks to enjoy the sunset while building community. Non-alcoholic drinks recommended for hydration in the heat and better experience with the sound.
RSVP to SAVE YOUR SPOT!
Andrea Joy is the founder of Joy Brings Light. She harnesses the transformative power of JOY to empower individuals and organizations, illuminating pathways to a brighter world. Joy Brings Light offers multidisciplinary consulting services with a focus on fostering inclusivity, community, and growth. From dynamic facilitation and inspirational speaking to immersive sound healing experiences and bespoke solutions tailored to your needs, Joy Brings Light is committed to equipping clients with the tools and strategies they need to cultivate thriving, equitable spaces and amplify joy in their lives.
As a California transplant to the heartland, Astara is the cofounder of Illuminating Hearts. She is a transformation coach, intuitive channel, author, shamanic practitioner, energy healer, sound healer, filmmaker, architect, sustainable leader, and so much more. Astara facilitates holistic healing by digging into the soul root, where everything begins. Astara knows we are here to learn how to be multidimensional, which means we develop resilience through embodied soul awareness.

Summer Solstice Sound Alchemy Omaha
2024-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S 10th St., Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to share the healing power of Sound Alchemy at Bancroft Street Market. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Our intentional sound workshop teaches you breath and toning tools, and connects you with your body’s healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:30pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Full Moon Sound Alchemy Omaha - July
2024-07-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S 10th St., Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to share the healing power of Sound Alchemy at Bancroft Street Market right before the full moon. Step into the full moon portal with restorative sound to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our resonance medicine, ecstatic breath work, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence.
☕️ Enjoy a heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea — it is like an herbal microdose of cacao with notes of rose and lavender. It is such a small amount of cacao it will not overstimulate or keep you awake, yet it will open your heart and channel!
Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:30pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Om at Last: Yoga Finale + Benefit
2024-07-31 18:00 - 20:00 | OM Center, 1216 Howard Street, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Join us for a very special yoga + sound benefit + a sweet farewell to the Om Center (1216 Howard St. in the Old Market) — this is the last official event at this beloved event center in Omaha. All proceeds will go to Project Intentional.

This is a donation-based event and there is no advanced registration. Suggested donation starts at $20 — the more you pay, the more you support Project Intentional. Pay at door. Bring yoga mat as well as nesting materials for the sound after. We suggest you arrive early around 5:30-5:45 pm to find parking and grab your spot!

Yoga + Sound
In collaboration with yoga instructor Theresa Cassaday, Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts accompany the yoga practice with an intentional holistic soundscape — also called Nāda Yoga. Nāda yoga is based on the premise that all that exists in the cosmos, including human beings, consists of an eternal stream of sound vibrations. Nāda is the infinite unstruck sound inside you and around you, with no beginning or end. Our sonic container helps you remember your connection to your body, resonate with your inner sound and wisdom, and reconnect to the great sound stream of universal consciousness we call Om.

Sound Alchemy
After yoga, immerse yourself fully in our Sound Alchemy, like an extended savasana. Sound Alchemy is a restorative, multi-instrumental-vibrational-time-machine creating a supportive space for you to renew and reconnect to your bio-intelligence. Our multi-instrumental sonic architecture represents musical traditions from around the world, including the gong, didgeridoo, flute, drum, shruti box, singing bowl, hand pan, bell, voice, and more. Our instruments help dissolve the noise inside you that is not you, allowing more flow and ease in your system. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating hidden soul parts, and revealing healing through your own wholeness.

Sound Alchemy New Moon Portal - Fremont
2024-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | The Blue Yoga Studio, 529 North Main Street, Fremont, NE, 68025, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to bring the healing power of Sound Alchemy to the Blue Yoga Studio in Fremont. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound into this blessed Leo new moon window to reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breathwork, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening Hearth tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:30pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Bonus: Experience life-transforming 1:1 soul sessions with Astara
Private Sessions: Astara is available all day Saturday before the event for her powerful Heartifact Archaeology soul healing sessions. Astara uses a wealth of transformation tools in her effective, multidimensional Heartifact Archaeology ecosystem of healing. Her healing work mimics the wisdom of Nature’s Intelligence to reconnect you to your own essence. Dig a little deeper into the roots of current or chronic life issues for the most effective healing and revealing. Heal in every dimension of being: mind, body and soul. Come to the event after for deep integration of your soulful energy healing!

There are only a few spots, be sure to book your session in advance!

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Illuminia vol. 1: A Tale of Shared Visions
2024-09-07 12:12 - 2024-09-08 12:12 | Freedom Healing Ranch, 1199 Co Rd 25, Craig, NE, 68019, United States
An intimate overnight experience designed to ignite human imagination and inspire a brighter future.
What does it mean to be human? How can we bring meaning into our existence? Can our shared visions help shape a future of hope and positive impact?
Welcome to Illuminia, a collective exploration of creativity, magic and community.

Program

*Magic relies on the unknown. The order of events can change without notice.

Your Life is Art

Experience incredible play and presence,
balanced with inner reflection and healing.
Connect with the land, the sky, and community!

The possibilities of the experience are bound only to your imagination. We’ll provide a guideline, you’ll fill in the rest.

Illuminating Hearts

“We help you illuminate your heart, the seat
of your soul, your power — where all
healing and intelligence begins.
We cross-pollinate sound and energy,
science and spirituality, theory and
the experiential to em-power leaders
and create coherent teams and community.
We bring music, metaphysics, and mindfulness
together in a new way to heal you
at the root of life: vibration.”
— Astara and Orion, founders of Illuminating Hearts

The Land

The Freedom Healing Ranch is a
former 467 acre hunting ranch
turned into a living sanctuary where
human potential meets nature’s wisdom.
We hold a vision to regenerate the land
through permaculture principles, while
building creative living spaces and
growing a community that can
accelerate waves of positive impact.

Imagine OR
2024-10-03 08:00 - 2024-10-07 17:00 | Freedom Healing Ranch, 1199 Co Rd 25, Craig, NE, 68019, United States
Illuminating Hearts is thrilled to be a part of the second annual OR Gathering!
We will be bringing our Sound Alchemy and shamanic song medicine to the incredible new air yurt at the Freedom Healing Ranch. This is the largest yurt in the nation!
Cultural creatives, soulful seekers, leaders, and dream builders from all over the world are descending on this sustainable land to dream a new world together.
At OR we explore a variety of themes and workshops focused on world music, movement, art, performance, mental wellness, maternal health, soil regeneration, ocean activism, carbon removal, indigenous wisdom, sweat lodge, sound healing, breathwork, and Chinese medicine. Join us at this immersive gathering to spark creativity, foster human connection, and fundraise for global impact.
This transformative experience is sold out!
Regardless, you can learn more about this OR Gathering by following us on social media or go to the ticket link.

Sound Alchemy 11:11 Portal - Des Moines
2024-11-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Unity Center of Des Moines, 414 31st St., Des Moines, IA, 50312, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to bring the healing power of Sound Alchemy to the Unity Center of Des Moines. Step through the soulful 11:11 portal with us inside our restorative sound. Reconnect with your brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — ready to illuminate your path. Immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breath, and toning tools — giving you access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
This powerful energetic threshold is also our wedding anniversary! Thanks for celebrating love with us.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:00pm. Event start time 6:30pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Using the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time, Astara will guide you into the gate of time in your heart inside our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way. – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Sound Alchemy Portal - Lincoln
2024-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Milkweed Event Space, 6220 Havelock Avenue, Lincoln, NE, 68507, United States
“The soul speaks to you through the body, our sound helps you listen.” — Astara Raven
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to bring the healing power of Sound Alchemy to Milkweed Event Space in Lincoln, NE. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound into your own authentic self where you can reconnect with the brightest light in your core — your true north or inner compass — always ready to illuminate your path. When you immerse yourself in our intentional sound, breath, and toning tools — you also gain deeper access to your body’s natural healing intelligence. Enjoy a cacao heart opening tea ceremony to awaken your channel with our organic Hearth Tea. Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul.
Are you ready to reveal the magnificence of you?
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:30pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration $50/$55 at door (Advanced Registration with book: $70/$75 at door)

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

During each Sound Alchemy event, Astara uses the star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time to guide you into the gate of time in your heart. Our cathedral of sound is a sonic time machine! Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through our sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. It’s gate opens you to the zero point beyond time, the source field, the quantum field — where you can travel beyond time, meeting up with younger and older versions of you to undo outworn conditioning and remember the future.
The goal of all energy medicine healing modalities, including sound, is to cultivate the conditions within which your body can heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that communicates directly with our electromagnetic body, allowing us to use more of our brain and body then we normally do. We describe “Sound healing” as Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals AND it creates alchemy, altering dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Alchemy is changing the fundamental relationship to yourself and the world. Sound Alchemy is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating lost soul parts. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

With your commitment and full participation, our Sound Alchemy has the potential to invite one or more of the following benefits:

✨ Engage the parasympathetic nervous system through deep physical relaxation, connecting you to your natural healing intelligence.

🧬 Sound creates infrared light, which powers the structured water-building mechanism in cells, in turn powering our biology run by life-giving electricity, activating your natural healing intelligence at a cellular level.

🧠 Tune up the brain. Synchronize the two hemispheres of the head brain creating inner peace and calm.

🧠 Use more of your brain. Activate the alpha, theta and gamma states of the brain — to increase well-being, access clear vision, widen perception, engage creativity, invite focus, and enjoy a richer sensory experience.

🌀 Create systemic coherence between the gut brain, the heart brain, and the head brain allowing the body to collaborate with its natural healing intelligence.

🫁 Learn breathing and toning techniques to come home to your body — daily practices you can take home to flow life force better.

🫁 Build vagal nerve tone for well-being, stimulating the release of endorphins, relieving stress, promoting a reduction in anxiety, reducing pain, and promoting euphoria.

🫀 Increase Heart Rate Variability for longevity and vitality.
🫀 Access your heart-light (power) for multidimensional healing.

🫀 Find the gate of time in your heart where you can learn to jump timelines to retrieve lost parts of you and pull you into your desired future.

🫀 Listen to the heart to receive support from your Higher Self, guides, or ancestors.

🪐 Experience attunement with the stars, the earth, the cosmos, and your natural rhythms — promoting integrative wellness.

❤️ And so much more!

“Our resonance time machine opens you to the multi-dimensional nature you are, allowing access to your healing intelligence and the quantum field in a clearer way.” – Astara Raven

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Sound Alchemy at UniQuest Day Retreat
2025-04-05 08:00 - 20:00 | Mallet Lodge at Platte River State Park, 14421 346th St., Louisville, NE, 68037, United States
Astara and Orion bring the gift of Sound Alchemy to the spring 2025 UniQuest Retreat. Illuminating Hearts helps individuals and groups create greater coherence to heal, feel connection & belonging, rest the brain and body, reduce stress, experience mindful presence, support cellular health, and activate altered states of being safely. When our well-being improves, our community improves!
When life gets noisy and overwhelming, it’s time to return to our center. Our holistic organic sound (non-amplified) is an antidote to modern nervous system over-stimulation — the fight/flight of our daily world. Our instruments dissolve the noise inside each person that is not them, allowing more flow and ease in their system.
Read more about Sound Alchemy in our blog: Healing and Alchemy. Read more about the research behind Sound Alchemy in our blog: The Benefits of Resonance Medicine.
UniQuest Presents: A One-Day Retreat of Music & Meditation
Transform Your Spirit Through Sound & Connection
Date: April 5th, 2025 8:00am-8:00pm
Mallet Lodge, Platte River State Park (Daily Park Pass Required)
Awaken Your Soul with a Day of Music and Meditation
+ Drum Circle with Standing Buffalo
Feel the rhythm of the drums energize your body and soul as we begin the day with connection and vitality.
+ 90-Minute Sound Alchemy by Illuminating Hearts (2-3:30pm)
Astara & Orion
Immerse yourself in the healing vibrations of sound, designed to balance your energy and bring peace to your mind.
Kirtan with Jason Adams
Raise your voice and spirit through sacred chant, creating harmony and joy as a community.
Meditation & Energy Circle
Close the day with deep stillness and powerful energy work to ground your experience and uplift your heart.
All Meals Included:
Enjoy nourishing breakfast, lunch, and dinner to fuel your body and support your journey.
* BONUS OFFERINGS +
Readers and healers will be available during breaks and meals for private sessions (additional cost).
Don’t Miss This Transformative Experience!
Tickets are limited and they’ll go fast.
Total Investment: $97, payment secures your spot!
Mail check or money order to:
The Henry Foundation PO Box 4041 Omaha, NE 68104
Please include your email address for confirmation

How the Heart Designs Time: Immersion Experience (Sold Out)
2025-05-17 10:00 - 19:00 | Henkel’s “Forest Sanctuary” Home, ﻿﻿948 Hemlock Ln., Sagamore Hills, OH, 44067, United States
Update: although this event is sold out, if you are interested in bringing the same immersion experience to your town and community, reach out and we can design it together!
We’re thrilled to invite you on another unique walk through the quantum wilderness! On Saturday, May 17th at the forest sanctuary home of our friends Jason and Tanya Henkel, they’ll be hosting us in one of their innovative and playful Deviation Gatherings.
If you’re craving a recalibration towards your inner guidance system — whether you’ve been stuck in your head, feeling overwhelmed, or experiencing anxiety, fatigue, burnout, or mild depression — this experience will be the tune-up and warm embrace you need.
How the Heart Designs Tell Time – Immersion Experience
Nature’s Intelligence (NI) is the OG version of AI. NI winks and whispers, “AI? Is anything truly artificial?” Then it winks again and replies, “No,” because everything is alive. Our most advanced technology is merely a toddler imitation of a cosmic wisdom—older than time—that we hunger to re-member. That’s why wisdom traditions and shamanic practices worldwide immerse themselves in nature’s teachings for healing and re-enchantment of our body, energy field, and planet. NI is our greatest mentor. When we begin to listen, breathe, move, and pay attention to that aliveness within and around us, we truly come alive.
Join Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts for an immersive day to re-enchant yourself and embrace your own nature—your aliveness. Get to know your soul architecture more intimately. Build the capacity to hold the infinite energy that you are, and step onto a path of clarity and power. Enjoy personal reflection and healing, Sound Alchemy (resonance medicine), a cacao heart-opening Hearth Tea ceremony, Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing), transformational shamanic journeying, breathwork, soulful conscious movement, time travel/quantum leaping, and Merkaba activation.
Release the illusion that you must think your way through life. Instead, learn how to feel your way!Become the conscious designer of your life to redefine soul-aligned success, health, thriving, joy, and higher consciousness. As if that’s not enough, you’ll leave with a special gift: a signed copy of How the Stars Tell Time, written by Astara.
Join us and other fellow seekers for an enriching, fun, and revitalizing experience!
Date: Saturday, May 17th, 2025 (10am–7pm)
Location: Henkel’s “Forest Sanctuary” home
Cost (all included): $222
**Please RSVP at your earliest opportunity if interested by responding to this email**

PS: This will be first come, first serve, and it will fill quickly. We’re keeping this gathering intimate, capped at 20 participants.
PSS: To keep cost to a minimum, we are going to do potluck style snacks/food.
Book a Heartifact Archaeology Session with Astara Raven!
Astara will provide her signature Heartifact Archaeology sessions the next day after the immersion experience.
Chronic conditions, negative habits, and toxic thought patterns have roots in emotional and energetic imprints stored in the body and field. Astara will help you unwind deep-seated patterns and uncover authentic knowing at the soul root.
As a quantum architect and transformation coach, her work mimics the systems thinking of Nature’s Intelligence using diverse tools: conscious tarot, Sound Alchemy, medical mediumship, shamanism, vortex healing, channeling, Energy Codes©, Quantum Architecture©, time travel, DNA upgrades (ancestral healing), Akashic Records (other lifetimes), Soul Star Mapping© (astrology, Human Design, numerology), and more.

Echoes of Joy: Sound Healing Event & Holistic Health Expo
2025-06-07 09:00 - 13:00 | The Relevant Center, 21220 Elkhorn Dr., Elkhorn, NE, 68022, United States
Peaceful Hearts Holistic Foundation is hosting a NEW community event, Echoes of Joy – Sound Healing Event and Holistic Health Expo, and we would love for you to join us. Discover innovative wellness options from local vendors and then settle into mindfulness inside a Sound Alchemy immersion experience.
Holistic Expo begins at 9:00 a.m. | Sound Alchemy begins at 11:00 a.m.
All ages welcome!

Echoes of Joy is a transformative community-wide experience featuring Illuminating Hearts’ Sound Alchemy. This event is designed to provide comfort and relaxation through sound healing, and it will also showcase innovative wellness options from local vendors.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a yoga mat, blanket, bolster, or pillow to ensure their comfort throughout the event.

Soul Lab Workshop: Quantum Heart, Quantum Mind
2025-08-16 10:00 - 13:00 | The Blue Yoga Studio, 529 North Main Street, Fremont, NE, 68025, United States
A 3-hour somatic soul lab retreat to align body, mind, and soul — your inner cosmos. This workshop is typically exclusive to Inner Space Academy, but we’re opening it up to YOU for a trial orbit pass if you’re ready to dip your toes in stardust. Join Astara Raven — quantum architect, professor of dreams, soul detective, and founder of Inner Space Academy — alongside Orion + special guest teachers Ginger Rosenthal (Yoga) and Julie Jenowe (Qi Gong) for a multidimensional experience of movement, stillness, and soul. Through guided meditation, gentle somatic practices, resonance medicine, Energy Codes and frequency-based teachings, you’ll:

🌺 Anchor into your body’s intuitive wisdom
🌀 Harmonize heart + mind through breath and flow
🔑 Open new neural pathways for healing and insight
💎 Activate the quantum architecture you are born with
🌈 Connect with a soulful community in sacred space

This is more than a workshop or class — it’s a portal into your deeper self.

Pass Option 1: Gateway Pass – $88
🌠 One-time retreat access 🌀 Trial Orbit drop-in to Inner Space Academy 🎁 Apply toward your first month of Inner Space Academy if you join within 7 days! Perfect for first-timers ready to dip their toes in stardust.
👇🏼 Gateway Pass

OR

Option 2: Unlimited Universe Membership – $111 per month
🚀 Ongoing access to the Soul Lab + all live Conscious Creator Circles 🔓 Includes this 3-hour retreat 💝 Bonus 1:1 Soul Session with Astara ($177 value) 🌲 Evergreen enrollment – join anytime, cancel anytimeFor those ready to dive all in with their soul at the wheel.
👇🏼 Become an inner space astronaut

About Astara
As a California transplant to the heartland, Astara is a quantum architect, professor of dreams, soul detective, channel, shamanic practitioner, energy and sound healer, author, filmmaker, architect, and sustainable leader. She is co-founder of her company Illuminating Hearts. Her passion for metaphysics and sustainable design influenced her to create the Heartifact Eco-System to heal and empower souls using the systems thinking of nature’s intelligence. She teaches a new paradigm of energetic wisdom to awaken old souls inside Inner Space Academy online — so they can learn to activate their own psychic prosperity and channel. ★ read – How the Stars Tell Time ❤ learn – Inner Space Academy ♡ heal – Heartifact Archaeology Eco-System or Sound Alchemy ☾ sign up – on our mailing list where science, sound and metaphysics intersect!

Soul Sessions with Astara at Bodhi Imports - Lincoln
2025-08-23 12:00 - 18:00 | Bodhi Imports, 1645 S 17th St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States
If you’re craving a recalibration towards your inner guidance system — whether you’ve been stuck in your head, feeling overwhelmed, or experiencing anxiety, fatigue, burnout, or mild depression — a session with Astara will be the tune-up and warm embrace you need.
Bodhi Imports is thrilled to bring Astara to our store on the magical Virgo new moon to provide her signature Heartifact Archaeology sessions.
Book a Heartifact Archaeology Session with Astara Raven!
Chronic conditions, negative habits, and toxic thought patterns have roots in emotional and energetic imprints stored in the body and field. Astara will help you unwind deep-seated patterns and uncover authentic knowing at the soul root.
As a quantum architect, soul detective, and transformation doula, her work mimics the systems thinking of Nature’s Intelligence using diverse tools: conscious tarot, Sound Alchemy, medical mediumship, shamanism, vortex healing, channeling, Energy Codes©, Quantum Architecture©, time travel, DNA upgrades (ancestral healing), Akashic Records (other lifetimes), Soul Star Mapping© (astrology, Human Design, numerology), and more.
Date: Saturday, August 23, 2025 (12pm–6pm)
Cost (30 min): $89
Sessions fill quickly — claim your time in sacred space.

The day before these soul sessions enjoy her FREE author talk + gong meditation. Learn more 👉🏽 The Quantum Heart on Friday August 22, 2025 at 5:30pm-7:30pm also at Bodhi Imports.
Enjoy both events and tune up your soul at the root of life: vibration.

Illuminating Hearts: A Decade of Sound
2025-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S 10th St., Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
“Our resonance medicine brings music, metaphysics, and mindfulness together in a new way to heal you at the root of life: vibration. ” – Illuminating Hearts
Astara and Orion of Illuminating Hearts are thrilled to return to Bancroft Street Market to celebrate a decade of sound healing. That’s right, we’ve been practicing Sound Alchemy now for ten glorious years! 🎉
IYKYK. If you know, bring a friend. If you don’t know, give resonance medicine a try. 🥳
The heart holds the highest concentration of electromagnetic energy, the intelligence you’re made of. Step through a soulful portal of restorative sound with us to illuminate your heart — your inner compass and power center. 🫀
Our night starts out with breath and toning practices. Then we open our sonic time machine — the cathedral of sound — to connect you with your body’s healing intelligence so you can heal in your own way, in your own time. After the sound, enjoy a microdose of herbal cacao in our heart opening tea ceremony. Our organic Hearth Tea was designed just for our sonic magic. ☕️
Using the power of resonance, Astara and Orion invite you into deeper states of being to heal you in every dimension of your being: mind, body, and soul. ✨
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:30pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Ticket Tiers
Early Bird $35 (through Aug 30, 2025 at 11:30 pm)
Advanced $40 (Aug 31–Sept 19, 2025)
Last Minute Magic $45 (Sept 19, 2025 after 5 pm)
for a signed book, simply add on at purchase

Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. If you have an Illuminating Hearts mindfold/eyemask, please bring it. If this is your first one, you will be provided a loaner! (we have them for sale at our events) As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere. We aim for a low scent space to help everyone breathe easy.

Astara often shares star codes from her book How the Stars Tell Time to guide you into the gate of time in your heart. Astara will be available to sign books after you journey through the sonic star-gate. Or you can simply add a book onto your ticket purchase and receive a signed copy when you arrive!

Sound is an unseen, yet effective modality that reminds us who we are beneath the noise of modern life — at both the cellular level and the quantum scale. The aim of energy medicine is simple: to foster the conditions that allow your body to heal itself. Sound is a vibrational language that helps us use more of our brain and body — we become more intelligent. We call “sound healing” — Sound Alchemy. Resonance medicine heals and it creates alchemy, converting dissonant states of being to harmonious ones. Sound Alchemy is an energy transmission, lifting you in spacious resonance, bringing lost parts home. Our sound brings you to new states of consciousness like entheogens, yet without difficult effects.

Benefits

Sound is more than a sensory experience — it’s a healing modality that works at the vibrational root of stress, imbalance, and disconnection. Backed by emerging science and a decade of fieldwork, resonance medicine is where the poetry of healing meets measurable change.

🫁 1. Reduces Stress and Activates the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
🧬 2. Support cellular health and Bioelectric Regulation
🧠 3. Enhances Brain Function and Mental Clarity.
💗 4. Regulates Mood and Emotional Resilience
🌬️ 5. Builds Vagal Tone Through Breath and Vocal Resonance
🫀 6. Promotes Internal Coherence and Systemic Intelligence
🌿 7. Restores Biological Balance through Nature’s Rhythms
🛌 8. Improves Sleep and Circadian Rhythm
🎶 9. Provides Non-Pharmacological Pain Relief
💡 10. Ignites Creative States and Inner Vision
👂🏼11. Full-Spectrum Sound Rests Your Brain
🌎 12. Social Resonance Invites Emotional Co-Regulation
Learn more: The Benefits of Resonance Medicine

Illuminating Hearts is a Love Lifestyle Collaboration (LLC) out of the heartland, providing diverse innovative mindfulness services so that others may thrive. We help you imagine, solve, create and live vitally from the intelligence of the heart and soul. Collaborators Astara and Orion cross-pollinate sonic resonance and heart coherence, science and spirituality, theory and the experiential. We weave our integrative offerings from a multi-disciplinary eco-system of acoustics, metaphysics, mindfulness, mysticism, fluid movement, bioenergetics, somatic awareness, and sustainability. Consequently, such a diversity of disciplines coming together creates a more holistic approach than any one discipline on its own. Learn more about Astara and Orion.

What our friends say:
“I just got to experience Illuminating Hearts for the first time tonight. It was an incredible journey, via sound, through the many places my mind was able to take me. Absolutely wonderful experience. A universal vacation through mind, body, and spirit. I look forward to more. Thank you!” – Brain Wetjen, Omaha, Nebraska
“I had my first experience with Illuminating Hearts at a Sound Alchemy event last night. It was incredible! I can’t put words on it. I am still vibrating with the love and healing I experienced even this morning. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts! Many blessings be upon you! Abundant love and gratitude!” – Carol Radke, Omaha, Nebraska
“Illuminating Hearts are pure magic. Never before have I felt vibration in every cell of my body, creating a thrumming that transformed time and space. My whole body became rivers of sound. Orion and Astara are bringing a profound experience into the world, don’t miss it!!” – Susan Steindorf, Owner of Dayaalu Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington
FAQs
Are there minimum age requirements to enter the event?
As an event for deep relaxation and meditation, children aged 12 and up may attend to maintain this atmosphere.
What can I bring into the event?
Dress comfortably. Bring your favorite yoga mat/blanket/bolster/pillow to make a comfortable nest. We will provide everyone with loaner mindfold/eyemasks so you can enjoy the sound in the dark of inner space. We will have them for sale at the event if you want one to take home!
What’s the refund policy?

We refund cancellations in full received 24 Hours or more notice in advance of the event. Any cancellations we receive with less than 24 Hours notice in advance of the event will not be refunded. Read our full event policy.
Will there be filming or recording at the event?
When you enter an Illuminating Hearts (IH) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Read our full event policy, including a notice of filming, video and photography. Upon entering the event, you agree to our event policy and effectively release IH, its illuminators and collaborators, and each and all persons involved, from any liability connected with filming or recording. You also waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties associated with the recording. Our intention for filming and recording is to harvest beauty for the world. Thank you for being a part of this event with us!
Can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email sound@illuminatinghearts with any further questions.

Soul Esteem and Psychic Prosperity
2025-10-18 10:00 - 13:00 | Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters, Address given upon registration, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
Love says, “I am everything.”Wisdom says, “I am nothing.”Between the two, my life flows.— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What if your power isn’t something to earn or take — but something to remember?
Join Astara Raven for a 3-hour immersive Soul Lab Workshop exploring the inner territory of Soul Esteem — the felt knowing of your inherent worth — and activating your intuitive gifts through the lens of Psychic Prosperity. In this intimate in-person experience, we will:
🌺 Explore the difference between Self Esteem vs. Soul Esteem 🔮 Identify and amplify your psychic strengths (your inborn “clairs” and technologies of creation) 🧬 Rewire limiting beliefs and recode your inner authority 🔑 Use Heartifact tools, meditative mapping, and sound to integrate the work 🌈 Connect with a soulful community in sacred space This is more than a workshop or class — it’s a portal into your deeper self. This workshop is part of the Soul Lab collection of 15+ courses inside Inner Space Academy (ISA). To attend, you must be an active ISA member.
💸 Cost: $111/month subscription🔓 Includes access to biweekly Conscious Creator Circle calls, the Soul Lab bimonthly workshop series, and the full Inner Space Academy course library.*This is also Level 1 of Heartifact Certification, so if you feel called to go deeper, your learning rolls forward seamlessly.
💎 Space is limited. We have 6 spots left for this in-person session.📍 Location shared upon registration.
Sign Up Here to Heal, reveal, and design the juiciest life you’re meant to live — from the inside out.

“The more diverse, inclusive, and caring systems we want to create in the world — even as all the disruption and intensity shakes down — is going to take innovative thinking fueled by your creative gifts, soul wisdom, and inner strength.” – Astara Raven
About Astara
As a California transplant to the heartland, Astara is a quantum architect, professor of dreams, soul detective, channel, shamanic practitioner, energy and sound healer, author, filmmaker, architect, and sustainable leader. She is co-founder of her company Illuminating Hearts. Her passion for metaphysics and sustainable design influenced her to create the Heartifact Eco-System to heal and empower souls using the systems thinking of nature’s intelligence. She teaches a new paradigm of energetic wisdom to awaken old souls inside Inner Space Academy online — so they can learn to activate their own psychic prosperity and channel. ★ read – How the Stars Tell Time ❤ learn – Inner Space Academy ♡ heal – Heartifact Archaeology Eco-System or Sound Alchemy ☾ sign up – on our mailing list where science, sound and metaphysics intersect!

Pleasure Activist
2025-12-13 10:00 - 13:00 | Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters, Address given upon registration, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
“Every experience is holy when you remember who you are.”
– Astara Raven, Inner Space Academy
Pleasure is not a luxury. It’s a liberation strategy.
In this 3-hour immersive Soul Lab Workshop, we’ll explore Pleasure Activism — the soft-but-mighty art of honoring your full-body YES — alongside the courageous work of shadow integration. When pleasure and shadow are allowed to dance, you unlock deeper intuition, stronger boundaries, and the kind of authenticity that feels like coming home to yourself.
Together, we’ll weave Tantra’s wisdom — that all creation is divine expression — directly into your lived experience.
In this intimate in-person experience, you will:
🌺 Discover why shadow + pleasure are inseparable
🔮 Own your story — so it doesn’t own you
🧬 Rewire limiting beliefs into desire-led clarity
🎵Integrate with Heartifact tools, meditative mapping + sound
🌈 Connect with a soulful community in sacred space
This isn’t a class.
It’s a portal — into the creative, sensual, sovereign you.
Registration
This workshop is part of the Soul Lab collection of 15+ courses inside Inner Space Academy (ISA).
To attend, you must be an active ISA member. This is membership for soul seekers ready to live awake, and lead a new world.
💸 Cost: $111/month subscription
🔓 Includes access to biweekly Conscious Creator Circle calls, the Soul Lab bimonthly workshop series, and the full Inner Space Academy course library.
*This is also Level 1 of Heartifact Certification, so if you feel called to go deeper, your learning rolls forward seamlessly.
💎 Space is limited. We have 5 spots left for this in-person session.
📍 Location shared upon registration.
👉🏼 Claim your spot + say YES to the juiciest life you’re meant for.

“The more diverse, inclusive, and caring systems we want to create in the world — even as all the disruption and intensity shakes down — is going to take innovative thinking fueled by your creative gifts, soul wisdom, and inner strength.” – Astara Raven
About Astara
As a California transplant to the heartland, Astara is a quantum architect, professor of dreams, soul detective, channel, shamanic practitioner, energy and sound healer, author, filmmaker, architect, and sustainable leader. She is co-founder of her company Illuminating Hearts. Her passion for metaphysics and sustainable design influenced her to create the Heartifact Eco-System to heal and empower souls using the systems thinking of nature’s intelligence. She teaches a new paradigm of energetic wisdom to awaken old souls inside Inner Space Academy online — so they can learn to activate their own psychic prosperity and channel.
★ read – How the Stars Tell Time
❤ learn – Inner Space Academy
♡ heal – Heartifact Archaeology Eco-System or Sound Alchemy
☾ sign up – on our mailing list where science, sound and metaphysics intersect!
