Coming Home to Feeling

Voice & Relationship Healing, Ritual Gatherings, Embodiment & Expressive Arts
for visionaries, creatives, artists, & healers

Returning to your natural rhythm

Coming home to the feeling body—turning towards sensations, honoring impulses, and aligning with the rhythms of inner and outer cycles—is an act of rebellion. It is a healing journey of returning and reclaiming, and a YES to the life energy that empowers soul purpose and creative becoming.

It is a Sacred Journey home to one’s aligned path, and the web of belonging where one’s natural way blossoms in service to the whole.

Embodied Arts is a healing Hearth where embodiment, creativity, and expression intersect in service to truth, beauty, belonging, love, and heartfelt ways of living, healing and creating together.

Welcome. We’re so happy you’re here.

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“Ava has an intuitive sense of what is going on beneath the surface. She provides fine-tuned guidance that has huge impact.”

Joanna Garner
Creativity Guide/Storyteller/Experience Designer

Begin Your Journey

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Voice & Relationship Therapy

Your voice is a living instrument shaped by your personal history, the intergenerational patterns of your lineage, and our collective history as female bodies. Through a trauma-informed, somatic, and relational approach, we’ll bring loving presence and vibrational attunement to the patterns that cause you suffering. Inso doing, walking towards more congruency and visibility, so that you can joyfully live the responsibility of your purpose and receive the nourishment of aligned relationships and a creative life.

Embodied Voice E-Course

A self-paced, downloadable course designed to bridge the wisdom of your body with the living instrument of the voice. Through guided practices and teachings you’ll begin to grow in awareness around your patterns, while gaining insight into the healing spiral towards change. Restore intimacy with the language of your body and your womb and the path of becoming a more honest voice for your inner experience, allowing for more authenticity, self-trust and creativity to emerge.

The Hearth Online Gathering

A monthly online ritual gathering for women who desire a space to tend to the heart and the voice. Rooted in science and spirit backed principles of the communal field, of sound, and of indigenous practice of song and gathering in circle, these gatherings are a space to tune into to the wisdom within, and to be nourished by beauty, the arts and togetherness. Through community, song, herbal plants and prayer, we create a space to listen, feel, and be.
Beginning Fall 2025.

Ava Grace Appenrodt sits cross-legged on a wooden dock by a calm lagoon, smiling warmly, as her dog looks over the water.

Ava Appenrodt

I’ve always been passionate and extremely driven, but for many years of my adult life, I felt held back in someway. The dreams and visions I carried — around my work and artistic becoming — felt hard to bring to life in a way that brought me the success and joy I knew was possible.

It wasn’t until I found aligned developmental trauma practitioners and group healing environments that I began to unravel the patterns in my system that had closed in on themselves, in protection, and deep fear. Being felt and living out my creative dreams, with the exposure that it brought, felt unsafe and scary.

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. So many of us carry quiet hesitations—around being seen, taking up space, and trusting our unique way of expressing and moving through the world.

My work is in service to creating spaces — through the alchemical power of ritual, the arts, and relationship — where the most sensitive and unmet aspects of our inner experience can be met with warmth, presence, understanding and the invitation to unfurl at their own pace.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re holding back, struggling to express yourself in the ways you long to, know this—a beautiful path of healing and discovery awaits…

The Voice-Heart Connection

The voice and the heart are intimately connected. Often times, patterns we’ve developed around our voice have been shaped by a once-helpful need to protect the heart, and keep us safe.

This time on the planet needs the voices of female bodies that have liberated themselves — to lead, innovate, educate and facilitate — to mother, nurture, and care — with heart, guided by the wisdom of the body and the Earth.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • When the voice is not a relaxed and congruent expression of our core self, it can manifest in both subtle and tangible ways, including:

    • Physical Symptoms: Conditions like thyroid issues, tension in the throat, or recurring vocal strain may signal an unresolved disconnect between your expression and your inner truth.

    • Boundary Fatigue: The constant need to assert boundaries can stem from a voice that is not congruent with one’s embodied energetic transmission — a voice that has been conditioned to prioritize others’ comfort over your own core needs.

    • Food and Nourishment Imbalances: Challenges in your relationship with meals—whether overeating, undereating, or difficulty enjoying food—can reflect injuries around the voice and freedom of expression that influence an ability to enjoy and feel nourished in the relationship with food.

    • Difficulty Receiving: Whether it’s receiving compliments, support, or love, resistance to receiving often points to a deeper vulnerability in feeling met and seen.

    • Not Feeling Seen or Heard: This persistent experience might be a symptom of patterns developed to keep you safe—silencing parts of yourself, minimizing your needs, or shrinking your presence in relationships.

    • Feeling Like You're Not Living Into Your Creative and Professional Potential: When your voice is stifled, your creative and professional expression may feel stagnant. You might have ideas, talents, and dreams that never fully take form, not because they aren’t viable, but because something within you doubts your right to take up space, be visible, and share your gifts with the world.

  • Summer 2025! Dont’ forget to add your name to the waiting list so you can be informed of when it’s released.

  • The work with the voice is a relational and energetic journey, as it takes time to build trust and for energetic integration and embodied transformation to happen. Many of the injuries around our expression happened in relationship and must be repaired through relational attunement. Our sessions together are guided by patterns that you’re noticing in your life, around relationship, work, or expression. We will slow down and explore the energetics of your experience, which is where the healing and integration happens. Sometimes we will work with vibration and sound, and often times, we will be together through talking, sensing, and attuning to the process that is happening. With new clients, I like to work in containers that are at least 3 months long.

  • Often times, when we unravel the patterns around our expression, and become a more congruent voice for our true needs and desires, we are given the opportunity to recreate our life. I see this as — life as art — and it invites a beautiful, but not always easy, reorganization of how we live that is in support of our creative energy. Practically, this is where my work shifts from more therapeutic work to coaching work, which generally I find is focused on business and relationship. Supporting our creativity, and our connection to life energy, involves subtle shifts and refinements into how we live and structure our life. This is Life-as-Art Coaching.

  • I do! Payment plans are always available for my 1:1 work. If you deeply resonate with this work but finances are a barrier, I’m always open to a conversation. I also will be offering group voice & visibility processes which is another more financially accessible offering — those will be coming in the Winter of 2025.

  • Yes, I offer in-person sessions and ritual offerings in person in Santa Cruz, California. I also offer retreats internationally — stay tuned!