Heartward Sanctuary
In Service of a Sane World
Where Life, Death and Dance are Held Sacred
Featured Events
Pre-Samhain Ancestor Season Offerings
In honor and observance of the threshold of ancestor season beginning or peaking in different cultural traditions, we will come together for various offerings that ritually greet the autumnal and ancestral season.
Healing Services at Heartward
Ancestral Healing
Healing inter-generational trauma through ancestral lineage repair practices, facilitated by Julia Hartsell of Heartward Sanctuary.
Life Transitions
Pragmatic, soulful and skillful ritual techniques and ceremonies for tending the seasons of human life through life transitions.
Julia Hartsell
Julia is Co-founder, Director and Liturgist at Heartward Sanctuary and tends several shrines and gravesites there. With an animist worldview, her work is focused on reclaiming relational ways of living and ancient forms of medicine in service of personal, ancestral and cultural healing.
Heart: Old Indo-European → Latin cord. Central or innermost part; Seat of life and consciousness
Ward: Old English weard, turn toward. Also: Guardian, Keeper, One who watches over
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan is a writer, herbalist and NC state-licensed acupuncturist with over a decade’s experience in Asian medicine and related healing arts. As the co-founder of Heartward Sanctuary, Jonathan is Heartward Sanctuary’s resident gardener, apothecary, and incense artisan.
Ancestral Grove
Tending Cycles of Life and Death on a Natural Burial Ground
By returning to ancient ways of honoring our dead, Heartward Sanctuary seeks to help restore balance, connection and wholeness for the living, the dead and the earth.
