Joy Evans

As a trauma-healing educator, I have an archive of videos and recordings to help you practice restorative rest. https://patreon.com/joyevans

Stay Rooted!

Joy Evans, MSW (she/her) combines trauma-healing with sound and forest therapy to lead people out of the perpetual stress response, to reconnect with the details of the senses and return to clarity, centered self, and vibrancy. You, my friend, are worthy of rest, and I hope my videos bring you deep peace! All of my videos are invitations to slow down, connect with your heart, reset your nervous system, and notice the healing presence of nature. I post new videos regularly that inspire awe or joy and often mix nature’s rhythms with the calming sounds of my alchemy crystal singing bowls. Check out my Patreon community, Sound Healing Rooted in Nature, for access to short & longer videos + livestreams.

01/20/2026

So wonderful to welcome the Winter Cohort to Bloedel Reserve’s Strolls for Well-Being Program!

The Strolls experience is a reflective journey to support your connection with (your) nature in all its richness.

Winter is a beautiful season for reflection at Bloedel. As you slow down and bring your awareness to each moment, there are so many beings to meet in the gardens right now.

With each walk you develop your ability to be present and mindful of each moment. Enjoy your Winter Strolls!

If you missed the Winter cohort, you can join us in March for the Spring Cohort.

01/03/2026

Looking back at 2025, I’m so grateful to each of you who attended my workshops! 🙏🏼

I love collaborating with amazing partners to facilitate these beautiful ongoing programs that help our hearts/minds/bodies attune to the rhythms of nature🌿

✨New Moon Gatherings
🌕Full Moon Sound Healings
🌲Strolls for Well-Being
☀️Seasonal Celebrations

In 2025 I was also honored to be part of wonderful healing events with:

, retreat
, Healing Stones
, Mindfulness Meditation Series
, Pause: 8 Month Support through Menopause
, Winter Gathering to Support Survivors of Domestic Violence

✨Join my newsletter to stay connected with upcoming 2026 community workshops, events, forest walks and retreats: www.joyevansmsw.com/contact

12/26/2025

Hope your holiday is merry & bright!

SweetPea likes giving rides to fairies (and elfs), yet she’s so glad Santa found someone else to give him a ride last night! This Santa ride through some of her favorite evergreens was long enough for this 19-year-old puppy!

🌲SweetPea’s Tree friends include: Juniper, Incense Cedar, Redwood & Western Red Cedar

12/22/2025

✨❄️Winter Solstice Blessings!❄️✨

🌲Yesterday Elaine and I gathered gifts from trees blown down by recent winds, building our Winter Solstice Spiral with branches from a very old Broad-leaf Maple that gracefully fell, Cherry branches covered in moss, several types of Fir that glisten in the night due, fresh Cedar boughs, and the center altar tree stump is covered with a beautiful patch of moss that came from another giant Maple.

✨As we honored the longest night, we had the most beautiful display of stars decorating the trees standing around our Winter Solstice Spiral.

🕯️May you find deep rest this Winter!

Rest that lets your body feel cozy and held. Rest that feels safe. Rest that lets your mind quiet. Rest that invites your energy home to yourself. Rest that allows you to bravely turn your reflections inward. Rest that lets you dream and remember your dreams. Rest that allows you to hope. Rest that makes your heart feel warm. Rest that restores your soul.

❄️✨🌲🕯️you can learn more about and join me in gentle practices of rest at, joyevansmsw.com

12/21/2025

I’m so grateful to each of you who joined for the last new moon sound Healing of 2025!

✨The new moon invites us to listen deeply, and this lunation is especially potent energy as we stand at the threshold of the winter solstice on Sunday—the longest night of the year and the return of the light.

During these sweet New Moon gatherings we listen for the messages from our hearts and draw an intention for the community from the oracle deck.

Sending your heart Harmony & Balance for this next moon cycle✨🌲🙏🏼💕

12/16/2025

Are you ready for deep rest?

Winter is a beautiful time of year for dreaming and focusing inward. Each one-on-one Sound Healing with Joy is a unique soundscape guided by your intentions and supported by the gentle energy of alchemy crystal singing bowls. These energy healings also create a practice for you to reconnect with your body and heart facilitating self-compassion and emotional healing.

✨Book Your Winter Session online: www.joyevansmsw.com/soundhealing

✨Contact Joy to schedule a private small group sound healing.

12/15/2025

We got “stuck” behind the BIFD Holiday Music Fire Truck Tour 🚒 last night, and then it turned onto our street!
It was so fun!🌟🎄🎶

12/08/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us Saturday! The Winter Gathering with community was so nourishing.

Blending chanting, yoga, and sound healing our nervous systems experienced a yummy reset while raising funds for Give to Heal to continue to support those impacted by domestic violence.

✨Learn more about how to support this healing work at www.givetohealpnw.org

And spreading light (and the amazing aroma therapy of cedar, spruce, fir + lavender) was my favorite seasonal candle 🕯️ Three Trees from

12/05/2025

What have the Full Moons taught you this year?

Look up and notice the December Full Moon in its fullness on Thursday 4th. And let’s honor the rhythm of the full moon together!

✨🌕 Join us Monday, Dec. 8 for the final Full Moon Sound Healing with Joy of 2025 🌕✨

Register in advance to reserve your spot & props to cozy up (limited to 20 folks in-studio) or join us via Zoom from home in your pjs!

This Full Moon in Gemini is the final Supermoon in a series of three and the final full moon of 2025.

Anyone noticing the alignment of sun-earth-moon? King Tides expected this week are the impact of the Winter Full Moon. Is the alignment pulling on your emotions? Join us as we practice how to let go & flow ✨🌕

11/27/2025

So much gratitude for each of you who joined me today for Mindful Meditation in the Japanese Guest House at Bloedel.

Today the alchemy crystal singing bowls were sharing the energy of connecting to our ancestral roots/ earth energy, opening our hearts/ tree energy, and clearing our minds to connect with the web of connection/ plant energy.

“What would it be like to consume with the full awareness that we are the recipients of earthly gifts, which we have not earned? To consume with humility? We are called to harvest honorably, with restraint, respect, reverence, and reciprocity… Sustain the ones who sustain you and the Earth will last forever.”

Learn more about the daily acts of Honorable Harvest in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”.

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