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SOUND OFFERINGS

Drop the pebble of the mind into the pond of the heart.

Collaborators Astara and Orion founded 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. We bring music, metaphysics, and mindfulness together in a new way to heal you at the root of life: vibration. 

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“We can change the world if we start trusting our own superpowers." ~ Nina Hagen

Did you know there is more electromagnetic activity in your heart and gut, than your head? There is. In fact, 100 times more! This ageless knowing and eternal flow of energy inside you is your embodied intelligence. How you came to express that life force is unique to you. We help you embrace your superpowers. As a result, live and work smarter, not harder.

Illuminate your heart and open the door to the magic inside you. Explore your own wisdom. Activate your natural healing intelligence. Discover new dimensions of being. Let Illuminating Hearts’ Sound Alchemy transform you body and soul.

Sound Alchemy

The common term Sound Healing is often used to describe the work we do. We like to call it Sound Alchemy. We believe that the medicine of the resonance creates healing AND is also a beautiful alchemy, changing states of being from dissonance into harmony.
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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 sonic architecture, the “cathedral of sound,” pulls from over 60 instruments representing musical traditions from around the world, such as the gong, didgeridoo, flute, drum, shruti box, singing bowl, hand pan, bell, voice, and more.
When life gets noisy and overwhelming, it is best to tune inside and listen to your center. The instruments help dissolve the noise inside you that is not you, allowing more flow and ease in your system. Our intentional sound is a channeled energy transmission, lifting you in expanded resonance, integrating hidden soul parts, and revealing healing through your own wholeness.
Join Astara and Orion in their sound studio for a preview of Sound Alchemy. The gong, bowls, voice, didgeridoo, flute, chimes and other instruments, all sing your soul into inner space where healing occurs.

Or invest in even more profound self-care and soul-care with our comprehensive and in-depth Soul & Sound Retreat.

“I had both a private session and a group Sound Alchemy session with Illuminating Hearts, and in both cases I was deeply moved by the shift I felt. I had a swell of release and relaxation come over me mid-way through, and by the end I felt I had let go and released resistance that had been holding me back historically. I highly recommend the experience of sound alchemy with Astara and Orion. It’s difficult to put into words how utterly luscious the experience really is!”
Kristine – Richmond, California

Mindfulness Retreats

We create a container for team building and work solutions beyond the ordinary.

Bring the gift of mindfulness to your workplace or organization. We help individuals and teams harness the intelligence of the body-mind connection to innovate, build effective leadership, and collaborate more smoothly together. Coupled with team reflection and engaging activities, our mindful retreats guide team members to rise above constraining thoughts and behaviors. When the well-being of your staff improves, the success of your business improves. Our retreats help your employees renew themselves, access creativity, and connect as a team. In turn, everyone shines brighter at the office.

Each Mindfulness Retreat is custom designed to meet the needs of your individual group, organization or company.
“Astara and Orion opened up my eyes to an incredible new experience. My session with them was unlike anything I have ever experienced. So grateful for their passion, spirit, calming nature, insight, and care. Can’t wait for another mindfulness session for our staff!”
Erin Riddle
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, KLIK CONCEPTS, PORTLAND, OREGON

Resonance & Recovery

Your Resonance & Recovery session with Orion provides recovery mentorship and guidance using meditation, mindfulness, sound, and resonance as the medicine.

Learn to live a sober lifestyle that honors the roots of all coping strategies. Unlock the vibrational keys of life to heal yourself body, mind, and soul.

SOUND COLLABORATIONS

We mimic nature’s intelligence through innovative collaborations across multiple wellness disciplines. Resonance is powerful medicine that amplify any healing modality.

Breath Alchemy

Acupuncture, Sound, and Alchemy

Breath Alchemy

Experience the magic of breath and sound in Breath Alchemy©, a dynamic hybrid of ecstatic breathwork and Sound Alchemy. Hit “reset” within a sacred container held by Astara and Orion. We lead you through simple breathing exercises to drop you into your body, while enjoying our vibrational medicine to support you. Journey inward, attune to love, and surrender to the mystery. Experience a deep release like no other restoring you body and soul. Appropriate for all levels.

“I inhale the unwritten and exhale out the unanswered.”
— Astara Raven, How The Stars Tell Time

Acupuncture, Sound & Alchemy

Three powerful practitioners: Astara, Orion, and Sandra Kreber combine Esoteric Acupuncture with Sound Alchemy for a unique energetic tune-up.

Sandra Kreber, BA, MSA, LAc, has been practicing Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 17 years. Fascinated by the body’s innate ability to heal, she discovered the gifts of Esoteric Acupuncture to strengthen your Heart Center and increase your central channel flow. Raising your heart vibrations opens your physical, etheric, astral, mental, and cosmic gates of consciousness, welcoming infinite possibilities for your journey.

As Sandra divines your improved flow, Astara and Orion support and amplify your healing experience with sound medicine. Healing is simply revealing the energy you’re made of.  Find out for yourself why Acupuncture and Sound creates Alchemy.

Instrument & Sound Healing lessons

We offer various instrument and sound healing lessons to individuals as well as to small groups. This includes gong, singing bowl, didgeridoo, drum, First Nation style flute, hand pan, shruti box, tuning forks, and other resonance makers. In addition to methodologies, technologies, tools, and accessories — we share our cumulative 20+ years of music expertise.

We can also help you purchase the instrument that calls to you.

Enjoy a glimpse into a family sound lesson at our home office.

To learn the fundamentals of sound healing can take time; design your own sound healing education package. Set up a free Alchemy Discovery Call to get customized guidance!

Orion Didgeridoo

In addition to learning how to play beautiful instruments, we can help guide you to find the instrument that is the best fit for you. We instruct you about supportive tools and accessories, as well as care for your instrument.

We can help you hunt down gongs, bowls, tuning forks, or a myriad of other specialty instruments as well.

Instrument Purchase Support

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Inner Space Club on Patreon

It is only in Inner Space where we begin to demystify the root cause of our modern pathologies. In the Inner Space Club we provide sound healing and soulful content to help you get to that special place within. We are each Inner Space astronauts. It turns out there are galaxies waiting to be explored within you.