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Heartfelt Whole Self was born from my own personal journey of learning to love myself and heal my own pain. I was once living a very different life from who I am now. I was living out of touch with Earth, my own body, and my soul's needs. I came to this work and this path through a major life upheaval and Kundalini spiritual awakening. It was a tidal wave of elemental force energy that turned the world as I knew it on its head. It was an awakening of my heart, a cracking open of my cosmic egg, my senses, empathic gifts, and new levels of awareness, as well as my core soul wound shadow coming home to Wholeness.

About Rae~Ven

My path of sacred service began with a spontaneous Kundalini awakening that transformed everything I thought I knew about myself. What first felt like chaos soon revealed itself as a profound homecoming — an initiation into deep presence, body wisdom, and the sacred alchemy of love. Through this awakening, I learned to presence pain as a portal and discovered that true healing begins with feeling.

Today, I walk the path of an Earth–Soul Midwife, Subtle Energy Alchemist, and Plant Spirit Ceremonialist, guiding souls through the natural cycles of death and rebirth, healing, and integration. My work blends quantum somatic energy healing, elemental and earth medicine ceremony, and subtle energy education to help others expand their capacity for presence and embody their unique Heart Light frequency.

Rooted in the wisdom of Mother Earth and the Sacred Feminine, my practice supports highly sensitive and awakening souls in remembering their wholeness, holding more love in the body, and transforming life through the alchemy of presence and sacred timing.

  • Thank you for being here and taking the time to read about my journey — the path that has blossomed into my sacred service in the world.

    A Kundalini awakening initiated this path. I was unaware of Kundalini at the time; the experience arose naturally, from divine timing of my soul. Overnight, I became someone I no longer recognized — awakened, expanded, and deeply changed. I had no tools, no language, and no community to guide me through it. It was messy, yes, but also liberating, awakening, and a profound homecoming.

    My natural gifts of spirit were activated, and I became a channel for spiritual wisdom. The awakening brought with it a path of karmic completion and self-mastery. I did not fully recognize the depth of the path at the time. Not long after, I experienced a deep physical initiation through Reactive Arthritis, which slowed me down and brought me into radical alignment with my body’s wisdom. Synchronicities aligned me with two Earth Angels to walk with in this darkness and chaos. With elemental guidance and Nature teachers such as the Trees, I learned to redirect mental energy flow, presence my pain, to surrender what I thought I knew, and to listen to the deeper knowing within. The pain became a portal — opening new dimensions in my body, expanding my capacity to hold self love, and deepening my presence in every moment of living.

    Grief became a medicine — an Earth medicine — teaching me how to evolve into higher consciousness through deeper feeling.

    🌿 My Path & Sacred Work

    I am an Earth-Soul Midwife, Subtle Energy Alchemist, Plant Spirit Ceremonialist, and UnityConsciousness Guide devoted to embodied presence.
    My formal training includes Shamanic and Energy Medicine, Sound healing, Ayurveda Yoga Therapy, Reflexology, and Reiki. My work with the sacred earth medicines, including Kambo, and plant spirits arises from years of ceremonial immersion, trainings, apprenticeship, and direct spiritual guidance with Mother Earth, the Elemental Realms, and sacred master plant teachers.

    I guide souls through portals of transition, death, and rebirth, midwifing the soul’s natural evolution into wholeness and integration. I empower individuals through their suffering, as well as through subtle energy education, and embodiment practices rooted in Sacred Feminine principles — deep heart presence, deep listening, and healing through the alchemy of ceremony and the radically open space of the Great Mother, the Great Mystery, the Unknown.

    I sense and commune with the subtlest layers of energy — emotion, essence, spirit, and multidimensional frequencies. It is often the most delicate presence or the deepest wound that speaks the loudest to me. I help others learn to navigate and become empowered through subtle energy awareness in their own lives, and to make peace with their darkness — awakening the inner alchemist and embodying their wholeness.

    ✨ My Gifts & Philosophy

    My sacred gifts of claircognizance, clairsentience, and channeling allow me to perceive the energetic roots of disharmony and imbalance across physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual layers of being.

    I believe that we must feel to truly heal — that emotional and energetic intelligence is the key to embodiment and freedom. Every human is empathic by nature; some are simply more attuned. As we learn to strengthen our empathic channels and boundaries, we align with humanity’s higher evolutionary path.

    I hold a special resonance with highly sensitive souls, neurodivergent beings, empaths, and those navigating trauma, chronic pain, or deep overwhelm.

    At the core of my philosophy is the understanding that every experience, illness, or challenge has both an energetic root and a soul purpose — and within that, a key for healing and evolution. We are multidimensional beings of resonance, capable of profound restoration and transformation when we align with the invisible truths of our nature.

    Embodied presence and sacred timing are some of the secret ingredients of Earth-Soul Alchemy — bringing light into the darkest places and transforming reality from within.

    🌕 My Spirit Name

    My spirit name is Rae~Ven, birthed from my given name Shanna Rae Barnard.
    One day, I began hearing it whispered over and over — Raven, Raven, Raven. I resisted at first, not understanding. But it returned, and in time revealed its meaning through the spelling:

    • Rae - Earth

    • ~ -Water and Connection

    • Ven -Spirit

    When I received this understanding, something clicked inside me. I felt resonance, expansion, and protection. The name itself became an expansive frequency — a protection, and a living bridge between Earth and Spirit

    💫 Why I Share

    I share this story because it reflects the essence of my work.
    I see and support the becoming of each soul’s unique Earth-Spirit connection.
    Through cultivated relationships with spiritual allies, elemental beings, and divine cosmic and Earth energies, we co-create pathways of healing, remembrance, and becoming.