Awakening Heart invites you into a new story of what is possible in love.
Open and align yourself for a healthy romantic relationship rooted in truth, honoring, and safety.
We move together through winter — a time for reflection, clearing, and awakening to the new.
You'll be guided to cultivate the mature qualities of your feminine and masculine nature, deepening your inner balance, self-trust, and capacity to love with both courage and compassion.
This program is about making space ...
Space for connection that feels mutual, nourishing, and aligned with your life's path. Whether you’re grieving the past, embracing your sacred preparation, or actively dating, you’re welcome into the Awakening Heart Program, a space for your awakening heart.
This is for you when you are ...
- Ready to deepen your roots in self-love, emotional security, and inner stability, so you can create a healthy, intimate partnership from a place of wholeness rather than need.
- Inspired to take courageous, proactive steps—both inwardly and outwardly—to attract a loving, mutually fulfilling partnership that honors your values and reflects your authentic self.
- Healing old relationship patterns, raising your standards, knowing your worth, and becoming more open, discerning, and available to be found by a love that honors who you truly are and who you are becoming.
- Gaining clarity about what true compatibility means for you and opening to the energetic resonance of experiencing it with another.
Joy Answers Questions About Awakening Heart
Community Love for Joy
"Joy, thank you for your love, love light and your radiance."
"Joy, you hold the feminine energy so beautifully while balancing the masculine within yourself."
"Joy is generous and she 'walks the walks.' An excellent example for all!"
Three and a half years ago, at 52, I met my now-husband, Gavin. We joyfully live, work, and play together in the wilderness of Mt. Shasta, and our shared journey continues to deepen and transform us both. We're becoming more fully who we are, together.
I want that for you, too! And I believe it's possible.
Through my own experience of preparing for and finding love, and years of guiding others, I've come to understand something essential: If you want to attract love, you must become available to give and receive it. This means knowing your worth, trusting your wisdom, healing old patterns, and having the courage to open your heart and be seen.
Over the years, I've developed and refined a rich collection of practical tools, relationship teachings, and embodied practices that help women prepare for, recognize, create, and sustain healthy, flourishing love.
Messages from the Heart from Past Program Participants
"Joy, I want to say thank you to you and for what you're doing with Gavin. All the resources and the workshops... You are making a huge difference in my life... All of it... is healing my heart and my life, so thank you."
"When I took some classes with Joy and Gavin and she offered this, I was like, oh, this would be perfect, because this is what I need, and also the spiritual base."
"I have definitely changed a lot, and I'm just gonna keep continuing, and go dancing as much as possible."
"I really need the support of other women that I don't have locally… I've been in groups before, so I know that they can be helpful, but especially wanted a spiritual one… This is really beneficial for where I'm at in my life…"
"The exploration and the vulnerability of being so received is really part of the reason that the next chapter of my life has unfolded into this beauty, this wonder, and this miracle of the intimacy that I have with myself and the intimacy I have with my partner.
Through Awakening Heart and the Singles Retreat, I learned the real receiving of our fragile humanity: showing up in front of it, in spite of it, and because of it. I walked away ready and met my beloved."
~ Deborah Wilder
This Sacred Container Includes:
Seven Live Online Group Sessions
Each two-hour gathering offers a safe space to explore self-honoring, discernment, sensuality, and honest revelation. Through intimate, practical experiences, you'll uncover new truths and reclaim your power
New Year Calibration Ceremony
A larger community experience to clarify your intentions for the coming year. You’ll be guided to step into the energy of your future self and begin shaping a frequency signature that reflects your becoming.
Energy Tune-Up Audio Practices
Guided breath and visualization to release past patterns and open to new possibilities — in your body, your nervous system, and your day-to-day relationships. Access to Joy's Complete Energy Tune-Up Collection.
Useful Frameworks & Handouts
Signature teachings on extraordinary love, with dating scripts, e-books, inquiry prompts, and guided processes that bridge inner transformation with courageous action—helping you align with the love you desire.
Private Online Community Space
A private, interactive community exclusively for Awakening Heart participants to share reflections, offer support, celebrate breakthroughs, and deepen sisterhood. Connect anytime in our password-protected space.
Awakening Heart Online Hub
Your central hub for schedules, Zoom links, resources, and session recordings to revisit or catch up anytime, on your laptop or mobile app. Plus bonus videos, including inspiring True Love Story interviews.
Awakening Heart Pillow Book
A beautifully designed journal shipped to your door—a companion for reflections, insights, and creative practices. Bring it to live sessions to capture discoveries and deepen your journey. U.S. and Canada only.
Personal Coaching Add-On
For deeper support, private sessions with Joy help you move through emotional and relationship blocks, receive trusted guidance, and feel compassionately witnessed. Add coaching at special Awakening Heart rate.
Practical Wisdom. Powerful Practices. Lasting Transformation.
This journey brings together proven principles for healthy relationships, embodied practices, and meaningful self-discovery to help you develop the awareness and essential skills that support healthy, flourishing love.
Along the way, expect meaningful insights, personal breakthroughs, and lasting shifts in how you relate to yourself, to others, and to love itself.
You are invited to be an intimate member of this circle of women — a temple devoted to awakening the heart, deepening trust, and attracting a safe and extraordinary romantic relationship.
I'd Like to Be a Part of this
Join us for our third year as we open to new levels of love, desire, intimacy, and truth.
The circle offers a safe, intimate container and provides each participant with a nourishing flow of personalized reflections and support.
Seven Fridays
11 am - 1 pm PT (2 - 4 p.m. ET, 7 - 9 p.m. U.K.)
December 4th, 11th, and 18th
January 8th and 22nd
February 5th and 19th
Plus Monday, January 4th, from 4 - 6 pm PT for our Women's Ceremony.
Awakening Heart + Three Individual Coaching Sessions - Pay In Full
$1,495
Save when you Pay in Full
YES, I'LL CHOOSE COACHING PAY IN FULLAwakening Heart + Three Individual Coaching Sessions - Payment Plan
$525 x 3
Charged Monthly
YES, I'LL CHOOSE THE COACHING PAYMENT PLANMore Messages from the Heart
"Joy, thank you for your love and your light and your radiance, and for guiding us and creating this sacred space. I love your beauty."
~ Connor Schatz
"I love it. It's juicy! And I'm just really happy with this group. I've become much more vulnerable, open to receiving support, and appreciative of the journey"
~ Deborah Davis
Sponsored By Conscious Dating Network
We are thrilled to partner with Conscious Dating Network to spread the word about Awakening Heart. Jill Crosby, the founder/owner of Conscious Dating Network, is committed to offering the best dating sites and opportunities like this for mindful singles to grow together. She knows that group programs are among the most effective ways to empower her members and equip them with the skills to attract their life partners!
Welcome, Sister,
I'm here walking with you in this journey of living from your heart.
As a guide for women devoted to awakening through love, my work lives at the intersection of spiritual embodiment, intimacy, and transformation. I hold spaces where the feminine can rise in her fullness — through the heart, the body, and the field of connection itself.
I lead various women's circles and programs, drawing from decades of experience as an intuitive coach, priestess, traveler, licensed massage therapist, Jin Shin practitioner, tantra student, and yoga instructor. As a soul-somatic integration practitioner, my devotion is to your homecoming, through inquiry, ceremony, prayer, and embodiment.
I don’t teach from a pedestal; I walk beside you, as a companion in awakening, helping illuminate what’s ready to emerge as you activate the most alive, honest version of yourself.
Love, Gratitude and Graciousness
"Thank you all for being in my life. These last 3 months have been life-changing for me at a very crucial time in my life... When I came here... I felt like I was on my way down to the end. And now, more possibility and new flowering in my life."
~ Liliana Stansbury
"The last 3 months have been particularly challenging in my life, and I feel like this group has been a solace and a comfort in the midst of it... I just love being a part of this group. It's been so special, so thank you."
~ Shyamala Engelhart
"I'm just so happy to be here. These are my people. I'm already thankful for what I'm learning here. I feel like I have a sounding board. So I definitely appreciate that. Light. Wisdom. Energy. All of it."
~ Maria Bries
Birds Eye View of Live Session Topics
Session 1:
The High Heart of Desire
We begin by listening beneath conditioning, fantasy, and wounds to discover the desires of your heart. You’ll explore what you truly long for in love, how you want a relationship to feel, and the qualities of a partnership that support your flourishing. Clarify what your heart truly wants.
Session 2:
Healing & Reclaiming
Releasing the past and strengthening your capacity to love. We’ll explore past hurts, grief, old relationship stories, and the fears that may still guard your heart. Through compassionate awareness and healing practices, you’ll deepen your self-worth, emotional freedom, and trust in yourself.
Session 3:
Sacred Preparation
Preparing your heart, body, and life for love. Sacred Preparation is a time to become more grounded, confident, and available for partnership. We'll explore self-trust, feminine and masculine strengths, healthy boundaries, receptivity, and making room for love in your home, time, and heart.
Bonus Session:
Women's Ceremony
Gather with a larger circle of women for our New Year Calibration. Reflect on the year behind you, honor what you've learned, and listen to the wisdom of your future self. Through guided reflections and shared intentions, align your heart, energy, and choices with the woman you are becoming.
Session 4:
Opening to Love
There comes a time when preparation becomes opening. This session invites you across a new threshold, shifting your posture, expanding your energy, and claiming your availability. Through embodied presence, explore being seen, making your intentions known, and taking courageous action.
Session 5:
The Inner Compass
Discernment, intuition, and dating without losing yourself. Attraction can stir fantasy, chemistry, and projections. Learn to stay rooted in self-trust as you get to know someone, recognize red and green flags, explore true compatibility, and see what is real rather than what you hope for.
Session 6:
Wings of the Heart
Love + Truth. Healthy love takes more than adoration; it asks for courage and skill. Practice making Sacred Asks, honoring clear agreements, speaking honestly with compassion, showing genuine appreciation, and navigating difficult conversations. This is where we begin practicing relationship.
Session 7:
Courtship with Life
We come full circle to the love affair you nurture throughout your life: the one with yourself. Explore new frontiers of intimacy, the pace of grace, and ways of championing what is becoming—in you and another. Learn to honor what is, welcome growth, and keep tending to yourself in all areas of your life.
A guiding light
“While the structure and wisdom she brought to the process were immensely invaluable, what sets Joy apart from other coaches is that she is a deep knower of the spiritual world—this is an extraordinarily unique talent and one that I was so grateful for. I wholeheartedly endorse her on all fronts: as a knowledgeable coach, a guiding light, and a truly kind human being.”
- Debra Wilbur
Forest Bathing Guide, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, and Death Doula
www.insideoutimmersion.com
Awakening Heart is a transformational journey for women ready to deepen their confidence, strengthen their inner knowing, and develop the courage and essential relationship skills to open more fully to love and create the healthy, intimate partnership they truly desire.
Yes! I'm ready for love.FAQ's
Is this a fit for me if I’ve done a lot of personal or spiritual work already?
My sexual orientation is towards women, will I fit into this circle, or is it for heterosexual women only?
What if I can’t attend all the live sessions?
I'm in the early stages of dating someone, can I join?
What happens inside each gathering?
Is there a refund policy?
What kind of support is available during the journey?
How should I prepare before joining?
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