The HEART of LIFE
The HEART of LIFE
The Heart of Life Retreat
11 weeks, one to one,
to stop circling the same thing.
Maybe you've done the retreats, the courses, the meditations, the trainings. Maybe you've simply spent a long time understanding yourself.
Either way, you can usually see the pattern while it's happening.
And it still comes back.
“I knew it. I just didn't allow myself to do it.”A woman of 45 in Taiwan
“All the things I know are good for me. I plan to do them, and I just don't execute.”A man of 33 in Malaysia
Different lives, almost nothing in common — and the same sentence.
One of them had a name for it: a life that keeps going round in the same loop. That's what finally made her reach out.
I'm Lucy. 16 years in the corporate world, then a deep awakening that sent me into consciousness, the body, breath and sound — and 7 years of circling the same things myself while I learned my way through them.
What I do now isn't a technique I picked up. It came together slowly, out of all of it.
I'm not here to give you my answers. I'm here to hold a space safe enough and loving enough for you to connect with your own heart — and from there, to release, remember, and embody your true self.
Certified in QHHT (Level 2) · Yoga · Breathwork · Sound Healing · Egoscue Postural Alignment (Level 2) · Nutrition · Tony Robbins Trainer
In your first session, we map where you are now, what feels stuck, and what you want to change — the thing you've been circling, finally named. This becomes the starting point for your journey.
11 weeks through Release, Remember and Embody — letting go of what you're still carrying, remembering what you already knew underneath it, and embodying love into the life you actually live.
In your final session, we return to where you began. Your answers, scores and reflections are brought together so you can see your journey side by side — and your personal Journey Book is created.
It begins with a private call — 30 minutes, free, and with nothing expected afterwards. The first and final sessions run 2 hours; the nine in between are 60 minutes. In person, or online via Zoom.
Not 11 appointments. One journey, with a beginning, a middle and a completion, built around what you came for.
11 weekly sessions — 60 minutes each, with 2 hours for the first and the last.
In person, or online via Zoom · English or 中文
A retreat you don't travel to — because you can't embody something in a borrowed room. It only counts where you actually live.
$6,888 USD Begin with a Private CallWe talk first. There's nothing to pay on this page.
or message me first if you'd rather ask something
11 consecutive weeks, ideally. Payment plans available.
Five parts, every week. Two of them are conversation — that's the part that surprises people.
A short preparation video comes to you first — 5 to 15 minutes of stretching to bring your body into alignment, so you arrive already settled instead of spending the first 10 minutes getting there.
What happened this week. What you noticed. Whether what we found last time made it into your life — and if it didn't, what got in the way.
This isn't a catch-up. It's guided. I prepare before every session — breath, stillness, my own alignment — so that I arrive ready for you, and then we follow what's actually present when we meet.
The same scent, together — Release, Remember or Embody, depending on where we are. Your Four Sacred Scents arrive before the Journey begins, so wherever you are in the world, we're breathing the same thing at the same moment.
My own method, using voice, intuitive singing, sound and breath to guide you into a relaxed, inwardly focused state. From there we follow what arises. Sometimes the guidance comes through me. Sometimes straight through you. Usually it's a conversation between the two.
What came. What it means. What it asks of you this week.
That last part is where most of this work falls down. Plenty of people will guide you into a profound experience. Far fewer will sit with you afterwards and work out how it becomes an ordinary Tuesday. The insight isn't the point. Living differently is — and that only happens in the conversation about it.
It's Tuesday afternoon, the old pattern arrives, and you're on your own with it — often surrounded by people who love you and don't quite understand what you're doing. That's where this work quietly comes apart. Not because the session didn't land. Because living it alone is hard.
So for 11 weeks, you're not on your own with it.
The key takeaways, the golden nuggets, and what it's asking of you this week. You don't have to remember it — it's waiting for you in writing.
When something meaningful comes up between sessions, you have somewhere to bring it. I answer during business hours — I travel, so I'll always tell you which time zone I'm in.
A private reflective companion set up with your context, to think alongside you between our sessions. A free ChatGPT account is all you need.
Not the handful of free videos — everything I've made. The Sonic Sound Medicine recordings, the whole alignment series, all of it, for 3 months.
Posted to you
If essential oils can't be posted where you live, the Four Pathways scented wooden blocks instead — the same 4 scents.
And throughout
A session gives you an hour of clarity.11 weeks gives you somewhere to stand in between them.
An example — Linda's book, made from her own weeks. Yours will look nothing like it.
At the end, a book is made from your 11 weeks. Your words. Your photographs. Your own drawings from the first week and the last.
Printed, bound, and sent to you.
Made only for you. It isn't something we sell, at any price.
Linda, 45 · Taiwan
Name changed at her request
S = self · W = work · R = relationships
She drew her life as circles. Her self and her work were crammed into one blob. Her relationships sat in a small box, alone, on the far side of the page.
She scored her relationships 0 out of 10.
Her first week — self and work as one blob, relationships marooned
Her last week — three circles, herself the largest
She drew it again. 3 separate circles now, in her own hand. Herself the largest, in the middle. Work smaller, touching. Relationships no longer marooned.
She scored her relationships 7.
In between, something quieter happened. She started looking at apartments. Not because anyone suggested it — she'd simply never allowed herself to picture living somewhere of her own before. She began imagining what it would look like. Sunlight. Wooden floors. Somewhere she could do yoga.
Did anything outside change? — “No.” Then who changed? — “I did.”
“If you hadn't contacted me again, I really would have just sunk back into work.”
Nothing dramatic happens if you don't do this. That's rather the point. The loop is comfortable, and another year goes by inside it.
An ordinary week that feels different. Catching yourself in minutes instead of a fortnight. An afternoon spent on something you actually wanted.
Her own two words for it were comfortable and worth it. His was “it's a tool.”
Not “I don't get triggered any more,” but: when I am triggered, I can also come back to myself.
Sometimes change isn't never being triggered again. It's discovering that you know how to come back.
“Give yourself a chance. Don't tell yourself you have to achieve something specific — you may not even know what you want yet. Just give yourself a chance. In the process you'll discover a different version of yourself.”Begin with a Private Call
We talk first. There's nothing to pay on this page.
or message me first if you'd rather ask something
That's a perfectly good answer.
2 minutes, and it tells you which phase you're in — Release, Remember or Embody.
Begin the Ritual60 minutes, in person or on Zoom. One thing seen clearly.
“I spelled out what it is exactly. Before, it was a vague, vague idea.”Book One Session
3 sessions of 60 minutes, in person or on Zoom. Something surfaces, and then we have somewhere to take it. Your 3 ritual oils arrive before we begin.
Book Three SessionsIt's the same work, whichever way in you choose. The Journey is simply what happens when it's given 11 weeks to move in.
No. One of the two people who've completed the full Journey described himself this way about 18 months before he started:
“Complete non-believer. 100%. I was a software engineer. This is illogical.”
He finished the whole thing. He didn't leave believing what I believe — he left with what he called “a tool,” and the thing he'd been circling for years finally named.
Thirty minutes, free. We talk about what's bringing you here and whether the Journey is the right shape for it. There's nothing to prepare, and nothing is expected afterwards.
If you find you'd rather go deeper than a conversation, that's what a single Heart of Life Session is for — 60 minutes at $444, and we can arrange one from there.
Before we begin, you answer 30 questions about your life — where you are, what's in the way, what you'd want to be different. In the final week I ask you all 30 again, and we look at them side by side, with your own drawings and your scores across 7 areas.
There's also a quick check-in at week 6, and it's there for a reason. The middle is where embodiment feels like nothing is happening. Both times I've done this, the client had already moved most of the way towards what they came for, and couldn't feel it yet. Seeing it is what carries you through the second half.
At the end we don't simply ask do you feel different. We go back to where you began and look at it together.
Because a retreat isn't a place you go. It's a place you come back to — and the place you're going is yourself.
Traditionally a retreat means stepping away from your life for a few days. And it works, while you're there. Then you come home, and life pulls you back into the old patterns.
This one happens inside your life instead: the same kitchen, the same commute, the same people who don't quite understand what you're doing. 11 weeks, in the place you'll still be standing when it ends.
It's closer to a guided meditation with music. You do some breathwork, you listen to me sing, you relax — and then we talk while you're relaxed. That's all it is. You're not unconscious and you're not out of control.
It's my own method, called Sonic Sound Hypnosis. Because hypnosis is part of it, your consent is confirmed out loud before we begin, and you can pause or stop at any moment.
Yes — Sonic Sound Hypnosis was developed for exactly that reason, because people wanted to work with me who don't live near me. We meet on Zoom.
Your Four Sacred Scents arrive before the Journey begins, so we breathe the same thing at the same moment wherever you are.
The Journey runs as 11 consecutive weeks where possible, and should be completed within 4 months — the momentum is part of how it works.
A single session is used within 1 month, and 3 sessions within 3 months.
Just let me know at least 24 hours before and we'll find another time. If a session is missed with no notice, it counts as taken. Emergencies are emergencies — tell me and we'll sort it out.
It's me, not a support desk, and it's for what comes up between our weeks. I answer during business hours — I travel, so I'll always tell you which time zone I'm in. Outside those hours, your Lumina AI companion is there whenever you need to think something through.
The Four Pathways scented wooden blocks instead — the same 4 scents.
All prices are in US dollars.
ALAS Circle members receive 5% off everything, the Journey included. Joining is free — that's rather the point of it.
Because it isn't 11 sessions — it's 11 weeks.
The hours are longer at each end: the first and last run 2 hours, so it's 13 hours together, not 11. There's the mapping before and after, and the check-in in the middle.
But mostly it's the weeks in between, and the book made at the end.
Take out the oils, the t-shirt and the memberships — all of them in the shop, if you want to check — and the hours with me work out slightly cheaper in the Journey than in a single session.