Michaela Daystar

For 11 years, Michaela helped develop the Social Justice capacities and commitments of undergraduate students at Mills College. While she was passionate about this work, she was also dismayed at the over-emphasis on the external, DOING aspects of it, with almost no space to support students in their BEING—to address past traumas, to develop emotional depth and resilience, and to understand who WE are in relationship to the issues we care about.
So she built HeartScapes at the intersection of SELF-REFLECTION, SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, and SOCIAL ACTION.
HeartScapes helps people who are committed to their precious contribution to the world. Who sense that in order to live our contribution, we need to build a nurturing spiritual practice, and the capacity to work with the shadowy, mucky aspects of ourselves. We do this through the system of Reiki, taught from the perspectives of its Japanese origins; an incredibly accessible, elegant, and deeply effective pathway to remembering the wholeness of our True Self.
Michaela learned embodiment-based trauma-informed practices through the organization Shakti Rising, and became committed to adapting trauma-informed principles and protocols for Reiki practitioners after studying trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness.