Hilary Lake Healing Arts

Hilary Lake Healing Arts How can this affect my life? Earth
Connecting with the place and honoring the indigenous history and people of the land as well as our own ancestry.

Hilary Lake Healing Arts is cultivating a culture of connection by supporting empaths and caregivers to heal through life transitions and changes in nurturing relationship with all beings. Vision
In a world where there is collective trauma, embedded systems of oppression and therefore great harm and disconnection, Hilary is committed to co-creating inclusive and welcoming spaces for individuals and communities to honor the feminine, the body and the Earth as we remember our connection to and receive nurturing support from the web of life. Mission
We are all bridges between the Earth and the Sky in constant change with the elements and Hilary co-creates inclusive and welcoming spaces that allow for the shifts that are needed in our personal and communal lives to open to this nurturing relatedness with all of life. She does this by offering her healing arts community ministry in the form of body-mind integrative counseling, grief guidance, ritual and ceremonial guidance, astrology, speaking, sharing art, classes, workshops and retreats as well as healing products. By learning about and fulfilling unmet needs within ourselves and being compassionately present with the needs of others and our environment, we are able to take the risk to expand ourselves to create the change that we are called to create in our own lives and in the lives of others. Ethers
Cultivating awareness internally in both stillness and movement, sounding and silence to stay present with feelings and sensations while alone and in action in relationship with others. Discerning our needs and how to fulfill these needs in ways that honor all of life. Water
Cultivating intimacy with ourselves and others to create a sense of greater safety and trust in our lives. Fire
Discovering and owning our personal power, privilege, sovereignty, and capacity in relationship and in community. Air
Expressing our truth through creativity and in collaborative co-creation with others. Integrity
Honoring one’s authenticity in the moment within the current alignment and continuing to be curious about what else is possible. We are all on a healing journey in our own ways and no one heals someone else. We are simply able to support each other in our own natural healing process. Inclusion
Welcoming all aspects of self, beings, cultures, stories, identities, orientations and abilities as valuable and important. Creative Empowerment
Trust that we can all uplift ourselves through our own creative process

Balance
The ever shifting process of change that is a moving experience of equanimity and harmony. Interdependence
All is woven together in the sacred web of life.

How are you navigating the waves of change that we collectively facing in the so called United States? How are you findi...
01/26/2026

How are you navigating the waves of change that we collectively facing in the so called United States?

How are you finding ways to show up for not just yourself, not just your family, for all families and all your neighbors?

It can be unclear, overwhelming, confusing and disorienting. I don’t have answers and I’m very much inspired by the Singing Resistance movement that has formed in Minneapolis and is growing to sing together amidst the horrific harm we are witnessing across our country and around the world. This is one way we can resource ourselves together to cultivate true resilience.

I’m excited to offer a space in Petoskey for us to sing together on a monthly basis at the soul song circle and our next one is Thursday, February 12th 7-8:30pm.

The theme will be singing resistance to be solidarity with those in Minneapolis, Minnesota and everyone facing trauma and harm around the world as we resource ourselves to keep showing up and taking action.

Learn more through the link in my bio.

In gratitude for everyone who is showing up in the ways that we can day by day.

The 2026 Sidereal Moon Calendar is complete and ready to be sent out into the world on this first new moon of the year!W...
01/21/2026

The 2026 Sidereal Moon Calendar is complete and ready to be sent out into the world on this first new moon of the year!

While I don't consider myself a visual artist, I do love the grounding, focus and reflection that creating this calendar the last few years has offered me at the turning of the Gregorian calendar. That said, this calendar offers a balanced look at the Sun and the Moon while giving the true 13 sign sidereal Sun sign dates. Learn more about true 13 sign sidereal astrology here: https://oneskyastro.com/true-sidereal/

Why would that be helpful you might ask? Is what you're feeling in your embodiment in relationship to other bodies important to you? Is connecting science and spirituality important to you?
This is about our collective relationship to our cosmic family (mostly Earth, Sun, Moon and constellations) and how that shows up for us in the Northern hemisphere in alignment with the Celtic cycle of the year that informed at least half of my ancestors and many European ancestors for many generations.

It has helped me to feel more connected to how what I'm feeling is related to the Earth, Sun, the Moon, the stars and my ancestors offering me a larger perspective amidst everything else that is changing and feels so intense right now. There's a sense of renewal and rhythm that is possible with a longer view and an invitation to remember that we are a part of these cycles and can remember to realign ourselves with them too. And it helps me to see what’s worth fighting for and protecting so that these natural cycles continue for our descendants and many generations to come.

If you have questions I'm here for them! DM me.

I print a very small batch and the shipping costs quite a bit, so if you buy more than one there's a discount. Also there's a 10% discount through the end of the month.

Learn more here: https://hilarylake.com/.../2026-hand-drawn-sidereal-moon.../

How can we be present to the crises that we are facing and how that shows up in our own bodies while we are navigating o...
01/11/2026

How can we be present to the crises that we are facing and how that shows up in our own bodies while we are navigating our own personal changes and challenges in creative & life-giving ways?

This is a question I live with daily and have been seeking guidance to grow through to be able to be more present, embodied and available to show up with more integrity in all areas in my life.

I can’t say that I have the answer, I don’t believe there’s a one size fits all answer. I do have practices that I engage in and am in exploration with others about. The more I’m in dialogue and experimentation with others, the more I learn. How about you?
What I’m learning about myself is that I need time to ground, rest & notice that I am held, supported and connected. I also need a safe sacred space in which I can welcome my emotions to move through me as I allow my body to take the shape of what I am feeling. From there I need to imagine what else is possible and to invite my being to evolve and grow through what I am experiencing. To trust that I can take the risk to create myself anew or at least create something from the pain. That might be a drawing, a poem, a prayer, a song, a dance or even just a connection. I also need to feel that I am co-creating, not in a vacuum alone, that my ancestors, the Earth, Spirit, community, family are in the process with me.

What do you need? If you’d like to explore this question in a creative way in community, I invite you to join me for Creating Through Change: the art of crafting sacred space, a 6 week course happening at Crooked Tree Art Center starting January 15th and on Thursdays evenings 6:30-8:30pm until February 19th.

This is about meeting the moment that we are all in together and that each of us are in individually as an intimate community, to support each other to discover what we each truly need and yearn to create. We are creating to connect with our souls and the call that each of us has in this lifetime. We will use the Social Change Ecosystem Map included here as a resource to discern how we are called to contribute the collective change that we are in together.

Do you feel the call?

Here’s the link to learn more and register before January 13th.
https://crookedtree.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/crookedtree/event.jsp?event=22829

There's a $60 discount if you are a CTAC member.

01/07/2026

I’ve been singing this song to myself lately acknowledging that it’s a challenge to lean in, to trust the process and to embrace all the grief that has been present for me and that is connected to the collective. It’s called Lean Into the World and is from Lawrence Cole who offers grief ceremonies and mentors others in this much needed work. He has taught a few of my teachers too. Thanks to .gaia for sharing this song and your powerful stories 💗

I’ll be sharing the song on Thursday (tomorrow) January 8th at the soul song circle in the chapel at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Petoskey. Our theme is Trusting the Process and certainly what I’m needing these days. What about you? Come sing with us in this sweet octagonal space that resonates like a bell 🔔

While we won’t be meeting in February, do check out the Creating Through Change: the art of crafting sacred space 6 week course I’m offering at Crooked Tree Art Center in Petoskey

Each week we will be exploring a different creative art form and element to learn how we are called to hold sacred space for ourselves and others. One week we will be experimenting with how we can use vocalization and sound including instrumentation to relate to and express our grief in collaborative and playful ways. I will share a couple simple songs and facilitate a co-creative jam using our voices, instruments and movement. No experience needed! Just curiosity and a willingness to open to perfectly imperfect expression.

Change can be scary and bring up grief for our inner children (where the parts of our soul reside) and they want to play again so how can we create a safe and sacred space in which they feel welcome and can trust their truth, their feelings and aliveness is wanted? This is one of the questions I’m holding tenderly for this course and I’m inviting you in to join me in the exploration.

You can learn more and register through the link in my bio. Registration closes January 13th and the course begins Thursday January 15th and runs through February 19th 6:30-8:30pm.

May creativity guide you through the darkness.

✨🌀🖤🌀✨

As I’ve been preparing and offering these soul song circles I’ve noticed that when I’m singing regularly I’m less shut d...
01/06/2026

As I’ve been preparing and offering these soul song circles I’ve noticed that when I’m singing regularly I’m less shut down, less overwhelmed, less afraid, less frozen. Instead I feel more alive, energized, playful, inspired, connected and resourced. Singing especially with others has this impact and then I find I can bring these songs into my daily life too. Come experience it for yourself!

I’ve been inspired by other song catchers and song circle leaders this past year and I’m excited to keep offering the soul song circles in 2026 as I keep learning new songs.

We are meeting this Thursday, January 8th at 7pm in the chapel at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Petoskey and our theme is Trusting the Process. This has been a mantra for me in 2025 and I’m bringing it into 2026. Whatever you are facing personally and or with the collective, may these songs offer you some inspiration, guidance, solace and an opening to wonder in the mystery of life as they have for me. Everyone is welcome to bring and share simple songs too. Learn more through the link in my bio.

We won’t be meeting in February since I’m offering a course Creating Through Change: the art of crafting sacred space on Thursdays starting January 15th, which will include vocalization too! We will resume March 12th.

As I've been preparing and offering these soul song circles I've noticed that when I'm singing I'm less shut down, less ...
01/05/2026

As I've been preparing and offering these soul song circles I've noticed that when I'm singing I'm less shut down, less overwhelmed, less afraid, less frozen. Instead I feel more alive, energized, playful, inspired, connected and resourced. Singing especially with others has this impact and then I find I can bring these songs into my daily life too. Come experience it for yourself!

I've been inspired by other song catchers and song circle leaders this past year and I'm excited to keep offering the soul song circles in 2026 as I keep learning new songs.

This month, we are meeting this Thursday, January 8th at 7pm in the chapel at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Petoskey and our theme is Trusting the Process. This has been a mantra for me in 2025 and I'm bringing it into 2026. Whatever you are facing personally and or with the collective, may these songs offer you some inspiration, guidance, solace and an opening to wonder in the mystery of life as they have to me. Everyone is welcome to bring and share songs too. Learn more here: https://hilarylake.com/event/soul-song-circle/

We won't be meeting in February since I'm offering a course Creating Through Change: the art of crafting sacred space on Thursdays starting January 15th, which will include vocalization too!(see the comments for more info) We will resume March 12th.

While I don’t tend to celebrate the Gregorian calendar new year much since it doesn’t feel like a new year amidst the de...
01/05/2026

While I don’t tend to celebrate the Gregorian calendar new year much since it doesn’t feel like a new year amidst the deep winter, I do feel it’s a helpful moment to reflect and feel through some layers of the previous year.

This year was one of deep loss, grief and discernment as well as opening to more clarity, focus, joy and support as a result. I can see how my personal experience mirrors the collective in so many ways and how we are all going through a profound rebirth of our perspective of who we are and how we are called to embody our values in ways that care for each other, all humans and all of life.

I created so much and grew in ways that were both fulfilling and have yet to reach fulfillment. While offering an online course, Co-Creating Through Our Grief, I conceived of a child and then after the course ended little River Willow Branch was born early. We planted them as a seed of healing for our lineages and with the land amongst their Willow family in the Garden of Healing Connection.

I continue to grieve and heal through this great loss and opening as I let go of so much that wasn’t truly serving my soul and called in more loving support with all my relations. This experience clarified and continues to clarify all my relationships and especially with my ancestors as we transform old patterns into reclaimed healing gifts together.

While how I am of service in the world is deeply important to me in this lifetime, I have come to see that simply being my authentic loving self is how I can be of the greatest service to all. I have reached out for more support than ever this year and am still learning to ask more consistently and to receive it.

I am so grateful to my partner August, my mother, my family, friends and community. I see more and more that we are just walking each other home day by day, moment by moment through the waterfall of life.

May we walk home with our loving souls guiding our way through the darkness.

-feeling the waters of life in El Yunque
-view from El Yunque to the ocean with August

01/01/2026

What if we made resolutions to evolve not just for ourselves, for the well being of all of life?

As we pass through the Gregorian new year, some of us will renew our commitments with resolutions. While I have done this many years myself, I’ve decided to invite myself into evolutions rather than resolutions this year.

These are ways that I can honor how I am choosing to evolve and to invite others to evolve with me. I see that we are always evolving all the time and always have been back to the beginning when life first emerged. I am choosing to take the deep time long view perspective amidst the great uncertainty we are collectively facing.

From this perspective, while we may be amidst a mass extinction on planet Earth, I am also inviting the possibility that we can will evolve through it and not because we made it happen, but because we chose to be in a loving relationship to all of life and to consciously create together.

As I was in Borikén or Puerto Rico last week with my family, I was aware of how tenuous life is in the oceans and in island cultures. How fragile reef environments are rapidly disappearing as well as so many other vulnerable ecosystems and human cultures. Places like Borikén (what the local indigenous people call this land) are often ladened with trauma and yet there is incredible beauty, resilience, wisdom and wonders to discover and learn from all around.

There are reefs growing on piers and shipwrecks, an ancient stone circle, a 300 year old Ceiba tree being honored and cared for and bioluminescent dinofalgellates that light up the water at night like the stars. These are just a few of the places and beings I had the honor to meet and learn from. They showed me that to think with deep time in mind is how we flourish amidst massive change.

How can we create from this deep time perspective moving forward?

What inspires you to evolve into a more aware human?

Learn more about how to embody a deep time perspective and invite yourself to consider how you are evolving through Creating Through Change: the art of crafting sacred space, a 6 week course starting January 15th
See link in my bio. 💫

12/28/2025

How do you grow through the fear of the unknown and invite yourself to emerge little by little just like the sun at this time of year without pushing?

What are you afraid to face and or to feel through?

How can you welcome your emotions to inform your creative process amidst the change you are experiencing and invite more parts of you into collaboration together?

While transitioning from the overwhelm of December holiday prep to the magic and beauty of Puerto Rico to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday and the holidays, I noticed my body cramping up and locking down as we travelled. I wanted to rest and relax but it was difficult to actually let go. It required patience, time, curiosity as well as tuning into my body and inviting my emotions and sensations to communicate their needs.
What are you telling me? What are you needing? I asked these parts of me.

Usually it was care, love, breath and movement. Sometimes more gentle and other times more wild and expressive.

Movement welcomes energy to be in motion, which is what it’s meant to do. Emotion is e-motion, energy in motion. So when I feel stuck, tight, tense or shut down, I invite in movement even if it’s very slow and simple or silly and awkward looking.

The fluids of your body will thank you since some of them don’t move much unless you move like your lymph (hello immunity) and the blood moving through your veins back to the heart.

Invite the waters around you to support your movement and be mindful of how your body actually wants to move. Trust in the flow and notice that you are in a creative process not only with yourself, with all that flows.

You can explore your relationship to the fluids of your body and to the element of water during Creating Through Change: the art of crafting sacred space, a 6 week course through Crooked Tree Art Center in Petoskey starting January 15th on Thursday evenings.

Mindful movement will be the focus of our third class and each week will have a different creative practice and elemental focus as we craft sacred space for ourselves amidst change.

Learn more through the link in my bio and sign up before January 8th.

What is the creative structure and foundation that you are weaving for yourself in 2026?How are you tending to your soul...
12/15/2025

What is the creative structure and foundation that you are weaving for yourself in 2026?

How are you tending to your soul and creative self as we transition into 2026?

As we are in the darkness: of the winter, of our emotions, of the collective dark night, can you witness, experience and be present and loving with yourself just as you are amidst your yearnings and desires for change?

What tools do you have to come back to simply being present?

One of my favorites is to notice the support of my bones.

Take a moment right now to just breathe and notice how held you are by your bones and by the Earth. Inhaling into your bones and exhaling into the Earth. Can you stay with the simplicity of this practice?

Maybe it feels like a relief or maybe it’s a bit boring or another feeling. Just notice.

Another practice that returns me to being present is crafting. There are so many different crafts that one can do and all crafts have materials that offer a structure of some sort to what is being created. Simply being with these materials as they are, appreciating them, feeling them and feeling my body at the same time can have a powerful effect of bringing me more fully present.

I had this experience while practicing weaving on my hand loom this weekend. The loom and the hand spun wool is from Devonshire, England very close to where both sides of my father’s family are from. They have mostly all been sheep farmers for hundreds of years in the same place. Being with these materials and this practice awakens something simply grounded and ancient for me.

Crafting sacred space can be like this too. It requires some foundational structure and tools to welcome the art of the sacred to move through.

If you’d like to learn more and practice the art of crafting sacred space as well as exploring weaving both literally and figuratively with others in community, join us for Creating Through Change: the art of crafting sacred space at the Crooked Tree Art Center in Petoskey for 6 Thursdays starting January 15th-February 19th 6:30-8:30pm.

Learn more here: https://crookedtree.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/crookedtree/event.jsp?event=22829

Song: Weaving Remembrance by Hanna Leigh


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Moving in Grace is an expressive arts ministry offering mindful embodiment guidance for individuals, groups and communities to cultivate resilience through inner and outer reconciliation.

It is a way of being in the world, in relationship with oneself, all beings, the Earth and the Infinite with deep trust that we are innately guided and if we cultivate reconciliation within we are more likely to be able to do the outer work of reconciliation.

It is a way of life that integrates spiritual consciousness into all daily activities with an emphasis on activism.

There are many ways that one can bring a space of grounded awareness in and rest in this ground as one’s home and Hilary offers ways that can powerfully shift your life towards a more integrated embodiment of your highest and deepest held beliefs through enjoyable, creative and even blissful practices and perspectives to InBody the Change.