Astara Raven

Sound Alchemy Portal - Lincoln
2024-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Holiday Constellation Party with Astara
2024-12-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters, Address given upon registration, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
We are now SOLD OUT. Feel free to join us at the next New Year Constellation Party with Astara!
Enjoy Heartifact Archaeology with Astara in a playful group setting and explore your heartifacts across time with friends. We’ll reveal individual brilliance and create combined power that you can harness as fuel for your life.
Each guest will have a chance to explore soul healing and channeling directly from Astara. Orion will be present to bring resonance medicine as further soul support. It will be a sweet, intimate, and magical night like no other! Tell a friend. Bring a friend. In a group field we amplify the healing together. It’s powerful.
This is a sober event. We will be serving non-alcoholic elixirs, but feel free to bring your own favorite sparkling drink.
When you each shine bright, together you form a constellation!
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:45pm. Event start time 7:00pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration* $55/$60 at door
This intimate party has VERY limited seating, and we are now SOLD OUT. Feel free to join us in January at the next one!

*if you prefer, Venmo Astara7 + include your email — we’ll add you to the list
We’ve opened our beautiful Illuminating Hearts home office to you to dive into the Akashic Records to heal past lives or even receive gifts and healing from that dimension, hear from loved ones on the other side, connect with your inner child or future self, unwind miasms or energy blocks in your body or field to alleviate symptoms, and build more circuits to say yes to your own power.
Right now, during the holidays, pristine light is flooding the planet and our consciousness, bringing powerful energies of regeneration, renewal and self-reflection. Let’s harness those energies together before the new year for profound healing and insight!✨
Can you sense it? 🤷🏻‍♀️
These energies peak on the SOUL-stice this Saturday December 21st at 3:19 am Central Time and continue on into the New Year. The longer night in the Northern Hemisphere draws us inward to our own light. ✨
If cost has been an issue to have a personal session, group goodenss is a fun way to experience Heartifact Archaeology in an amplified setting, connecting with like minded community. VERY intimate gathering with limited spots, be sure to reserve your seat now.

New Year Constellation Party with Astara
2025-01-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters, Address given upon registration, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
Enjoy Heartifact Archaeology with Astara in a playful group setting and explore your heartifacts across time with friends. We’ll reveal individual brilliance and create combined power that you can harness as fuel for your life.
Each guest will have a chance to explore soul healing and channeling directly from Astara. Orion will be present to bring resonance medicine as further soul support. Dive into the Akashic Records to heal past lives or even receive gifts and healing from that dimension, hear from loved ones on the other side, connect with your inner child or future self, unwind miasms or energy blocks in your body or field to alleviate symptoms, and build more circuits to say yes to your own power.
It will be a sweet, intimate, and magical night like no other! Tell a friend. Bring a friend. In a group field we amplify the healing together. It’s powerful.
This is a sober event. We will be serving non-alcoholic elixirs, but feel free to bring your own favorite sparkling drink.
When you each shine bright, together you form a constellation!
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:15pm. Event start time 6:30pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration* $55/$60 at door
This intimate party has VERY limited seating, and we expect to sell out. Be sure to reserve your tickets now!

*if you prefer, Venmo Astara7 + include your email — we’ll add you to the list
In the New Year, a whole new soul classroom is here for the planet and our consciousness. The Nodes of Destiny (the south & north nodes of the moon dictate our fate and what the cosmos calls upon us to evolve) are entering Pisces-Virgo lunar axis on January 11th for the next 15 months!
The collective energy of the following year and a half will focus on healing, spirituality, consciousness expansion, and creativity aligned with your deepest dreams. Let’s kick this cosmic party off together and say yes to our inner knowing (our soul) in the New Year. Together, we all must learn to let our imagination and intuition be the improved compass for our lives. ✨
When you enter this lesson plan by choice, and cultivate your theme for 2025, you show the universe within and without you are ready to step up your soul-aligned creatorship. ✨
If cost has been an issue to have a personal session, group goodness is a fun way to experience Heartifact Archaeology in an amplified setting, connecting with like minded community. VERY intimate gathering with limited spots, be sure to reserve your seat now.

Spring Equinox Constellation Party with Astara
2025-03-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters, Address given upon registration, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
Celebrate the start of Spring and plant your heart-i-facts as soul seeds in the garden of your heart. Let’s grow your juiciest dreams yet.
Enjoy Heartifact Archaeology with Astara in a safe group setting to explore your heartifacts across time with friends new and old. We’ll reveal individual brilliance and create combined power that you can harness as fuel for your life.
Each guest will have a chance to explore soul healing and channeling directly from Astara. Orion will be present to bring resonance medicine as further soul support. Dive into the Akashic Records to heal past lives or even receive gifts and healing from that dimension, hear from loved ones on the other side, connect with your inner child or future self, unwind miasms or energy blocks in your body or field to alleviate symptoms, and build more circuits to say yes to your own power.
It will be a sweet, intimate, and magical night like no other! Tell a friend. Bring a friend. In a group field we amplify the healing together. It’s powerful.
This is a sober event. We will be serving non-alcoholic sparkling herbal elixirs, but feel free to bring your own non-alcoholic sparkling drink.
When you each shine bright, together you form a constellation!
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:15pm. Event start time 6:30pm.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
Advanced Registration* $55/$60 at door
This intimate party has VERY limited seating, and we expect to sell out. Be sure to reserve your tickets now!

*if you prefer, Venmo Astara7 + include your email — we’ll add you to the list
If cost has been an issue to have a personal session, group goodness is a fun way to experience Heartifact Archaeology in an amplified setting, connecting with like minded community.

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

Constellation Party: A Night of Galactic Soulwork
2025-04-24 18:30 - 21:00, 2025-05-29 18:30 - 21:00 | Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters, Address given upon registration, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
The stars are whispering: it’s time for clarity, connection, and soul-level remembering. 🤩
Join Astara for Heartifact Archaeology in a warm, supportive group setting—where soul truths are uncovered, timelines are healed, and soul healing magic begins. You’ll explore your personal heartifacts across time, revealing your individual brilliance and co-creating shared power to fuel your life. 🚀
Expect laughter, tenderness, transformation, and connection as we quantum leap toward your juiciest timeline yet. 🚀
✨ Each guest will receive direct soul healing + channeling from Astara.
💫 Orion offers resonance medicine to support the nervous system and attune your field with vibrational healing.
You might:
💎 Dive into the Akashic Records
🌈 Heal past lives or receive dimensional gifts
🌀 Unwind ancestral or energetic imprints
👶 Connect with your inner child or future self
💫 Release body or field blocks
💖 Amplify your YES to your own power
It will be a sweet, sacred, and joy-filled night like no other. Tell a friend. Bring a friend. In a group field, the healing amplifies. It’s powerful.
This is a sober event—we’ll be serving non-alcoholic sparkling herbal elixirs. Feel free to bring your own favorite alcohol-free beverage. 🍋
✨ When each soul shines bright, together we form a constellation ✨
Pre-registration encouraged. Check in time 6:15pm. Circle begins at 6:30pm sharp.
Please arrive early so we can start on time!
🎟️ $55 Advance | $60 at the door

*Want to Venmo instead? Send to @Astara7 with your email and we’ll add you to the guest list.
Pre-registration encouraged — space is very limited and expected to sell out
💫 If cost has made 1:1 sessions out of reach, this is a beautiful way to experience Heartifact Archaeology in a powerful group setting—with soulful community by your side.

Constellation Party: A Night of Galactic Soulwork (Pop-Up)
2025-05-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters, Address given upon registration, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States

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.

Astara at Mystic Fest
2025-05-31 10:00 - 2025-06-01 17:00 | Mid-America Center, 1 Arena Way, Council Bluffs, IA, 51501, United States
See Astara Raven, Transformation Doula and Quantum Architect, speak at Spring Mystic Fest 2025 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Experience multidimensional Heartifact Archaeology sessions at her booth. Astara will be talking about how the heart designs time — quantum leaping, time travel, and how you can really create your life, consciously. Leap into a whole new YOU.
SATURDAY May 31st 10am-6pm
SUNDAY June 1st, 11am-5pm
Enjoy FREE access to the festival!
Book a Heartifact Archaeology Session with Astara Raven, intuitive channel and soul guide!
Be sure to drop by and experience Astara’s in-depth healing at her booth. Astara will provide short Heartifact Archaeology sessions exclusive to the expo — using conscious tarot, energy vortex healing, medical mediumship, shamanism, soul retrieval, and channeling. Astara channels soul wisdom via her Galactic Council including her Higher Self, soul guides, and loving ancestors to lift her clients into a new octave of love, abundance, and freedom. When she sings, she transmits soul restoring (re-“star”-ing) energy. Her first book How the Stars Tell Time: A Soul Adventure in the Quantum Wilderness, is on sale at her booth as well. Get a signed copy!
Book your session in advance! Heartifact Archaeology $89 (30 minutes)

“Beyond all our inadequate constructions, as well as within them, lies an electric truth: field-aligned currents carry love instantly between me, any star, or planet.” – Astara Raven, How The Stars Tell Time
Astara writes and teaches about the heart, the physics of the soul, and channeling in her book, How the Stars Tell Time: A Soul Adventure in the Quantum Wilderness, and her online school, Inner Space Academy — and she’s excited to bring energy architecture and cosmic wisdom to you at Mystic Fest. Get a signed copy of her book!

About Astara
As a California transplant to the heartland, Astara is a transformation doula, quantum architect, speaker, channel, shamanic practitioner, energy healer, songstress, author, filmmaker, architect, and sustainable leader. For over two decades she’s opened to psychic prosperity — expanding her senses to hear the universe — the Earth and cosmos — whisper its wisdom. She is co-founder of her company Illuminating Hearts. Her passion for metaphysics and sustainable design influenced her to create the Heartifact Archaeology Eco-System to heal and empower souls using the systems thinking of nature’s intelligence. All her soul tools weave together to facilitate the holistic healing she wished was in the world: going inward to the soul DNA of everything, so that we can thrive. 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.
Astara is a multidimensional soul guide here to help you be more multidimensional. Astara reminds you, “Your radiance awaits you. The Earth needs you shining as the star you are.”

★ 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!

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.

A Pairing Studio: Tuning in to Taste - SOLD OUT
2025-06-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Institute for the Culinary Arts – Sage Student Bistro, 5730 N 30th St Bldg 22, NE, 68111
Imagine listening to beautiful music while you eat. Such mindful music fosters a restful state in the body aiding in digestion. You chew slowly and thoroughly before you swallow, tasting everything. All of this allows you to absorb much more nutrition for your body.
We cordially invite you to join us for an immersive dinner experience at the Institute for the Culinary Arts at Metro Community College. We will play live intentional music that weaves sound and mindfulness with the enjoyment of food. Discover how tuning an environment’s auditory and atmospheric elements can transform a meal into a holistic sensory journey.
This course combines science, art, and mindfulness to deepen your connection to food, nourishing both body and soul. This event is perfect for anyone curious about the interplay of the senses.
Tune up your taste with us.

Read more about the event at our blog post Tuning in to Taste.

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!

The Quantum Heart + Gong Meditation with Astara & Orion
2025-08-22 17:30 - 19:30 | Bodhi Imports, 1645 S 17th St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States
“Beyond all our inadequate constructions, as well as within them, lies an electric truth: field-aligned currents carry love instantly between me, any star, or planet.” – Astara Raven, How The Stars Tell Time
Join us for a unique author talk and book event with Astara Raven and Orion of Illuminating Hearts at Bodhi Imports in Lincoln! Take a unique walk with Astara through the quantum wilderness to discover the secrets of the heart. ⚛️
Astara writes and teaches about the wild truths of quantum science and time travel in her book, How the Stars Tell Time: A Soul Adventure in the Quantum Wilderness and Inner Space Academy. She unpacks the beauty of energy architecture and cosmic wisdom in an accessible way.
Orion of Illuminating Hearts will join Astara to share a gong meditation — creating a resonance time machine — while Astara leads you in a guided quantum leap journey to jump timelines. If you’re ready to say yes to your soul and embrace the dreams you’re meant to live, join us. Let music, metaphysics, and mindfulness weave together in a new way to heal you at the root of life: vibration.
The event is free. After, there will be a book signing.
Learn how to reclaim time, creativity, and soul in a chaotic world! 💫

Soul Sessions with Astara at Bodhi Imports • Aug 23
The next day, Saturday August 23rd, Bodhi Imports is thrilled to bring Astara to our store on the magical Virgo new moon to provide her signature Heartifact Archaeology sessions.
Learn more 👉🏼 Soul Sessions with Astara

Astara Raven is a Quantum Architect, Soul Detective, Professor of Dreams, and Transformation Doula. She guides individuals into the quantum wilderness to reclaim their gifts, reframe their shadows, rewrite their story, and permission their power.
Her signature process — Heartifact Archaeology — is a multidimensional journey that weaves together shamanic practices, Sound Alchemy, energy architecture, vortex healing, guided self-hypnosis, and Human Design. Through this fusion, she helps clients rewire the subconscious, release trauma, upgrade DNA, and rise into the highest expression of Self.

Orion is co-founder of Illuminating Hearts and a renaissance human with many talents in service to evolving himself and humanity. Orion is a sound healer, multidimensional facilitator, sound man, recording engineer, music teacher, filmmaker, pragmatic mystic, Jedi, minister, and minstrel, as well as a mindfulness and recovery mentor.
His passion for music has been in Orion since the beginning. He knew as a child that sound would be his life, and that sound was the secret to life. Orion captures sound and film so you can enjoy our songs and stories at home. In addition to co-founding the unique approach to sound healing that we call Sound Alchemy, he created TINY Space PRODUCTIONS — where he discovered his passion for storytelling through film and audiobook recording.
★ read – How the Stars Tell Time
🎥 watch – We Are Not Alone and Biophilia
❤ learn – Inner Space Academy
♡ heal – Heartifact 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.

Recoding the Living Algorithm
2025-10-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Online
“You’re already shaping your health. Why not do it consciously?” – Astara Raven
Our bodies don’t just “store trauma” or “hold tension” — they run scripts again and again, sometimes unconsciously, until new instructions are introduced. A belief like “I am unsafe” can loop endlessly, generating cortisol spikes, tightened muscles, vigilance. Meanwhile, a belief like “I am held by life” runs a different algorithm, producing oxytocin, openness in the chest, relaxed digestion.
The exciting part? Algorithms can be rewritten. Through awareness, resonance, and practice, we can debug our inner code, compost the old conditioning, and start running programs that serve growth instead of survival alone. In essence, our body is a living alogorithm. ⚛️
Join Astara and other innernauts on the Aries Full Moon. Together we’ll harness the creative fire of spontaneous intelligence (imagination), innovation, and action (consciousness) so you can be the quantum architect of your own health from the inside out. In this class you’ll learn how to:

Recode Your Body’s Inner Software: Understand how beliefs, emotions, and cellular patterns function like programs — and learn simple tools to consciously rewrite your body’s “living code” for vitality, safety, and creative flow.
Activate Nature’s Intelligence Within: Experience resonance-based practices that awaken the body’s innate coherence — aligning your physiology with the same harmonics that guide ecosystems, galaxies, and collective consciousness.
Harness the Aries Full Moon Fire for Conscious Creation: Use the energy of spontaneous intelligence and action to transform stagnation into innovation — embodying your role as the quantum architect of your own health and the designer of your destiny.

✨ This drop-in master class will give you a taste of the energy technologies found inside Inner Space Academy.
✨ Even if you can’t join us live, register now and we’ll send you a replay you can watch after the live broadcast ends.
Inner Space Academy students join for free.Drop-In is $22.
Sign Up Here to Experience this Powerful Full Moon Activation for Yourself

“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!

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!

Ekphrastic: Poetry + Art
2026-05-02 18:30 - 22:00 | Harvester Artist Lofts, 1000 S Main St., Council Bluffs, IA, 51503, United States
Join us for an Ekphrastic show featuring Harvester artists & local poets.
Ekphrastic refers to writing or poetry that vividly describes a work of visual art, using detailed verbal representation to bring a painting, sculpture, or other visual object to life and explore its meaning. This will be a sweet dialogue between music, the visual, and the literary.
Astara is one of the poets sharing her ekphrastic poem inspired by Julie Jenowe’s artwork, Orion will provide music accompaniment. There will be many other poets reading their poems inspired by artwork in the gallery.
6:30 – 7:00: live music from Echo as people arrive
7:00 – 8:30: show
8:30 – 10:00: socializing
Investment: request a $5 donation at door.
