Abundant Heaven Healing Collective
is a community devoted to wellbeing,
guided by nature’s rhythms,
embodied practices,
and shared wisdom.
This is a Healing membership that functions more like a collective.
This is a shared practice space for us to show up as we are,
where we learn about how to work with the body and mind and emotions,
and where we practice aligning with natural cycles, our selves, and one another.
The vision:
Healing is both personal and collective. Healing is relational. Everyone deserves safe spaces for healing.
The mission:
We aim to create healing spaces of shared power with the goal of mutual care and mutual thriving.
The invitation:
As a patient / client of Abundant Heaven or as a participant in our Vagus Nerve Deep Dive course, we are extending a special invitation to you to:
Join the Healing Collective as a Founding Member
We want to engage with our community and those who are dedicated to making wellbeing and healing a way of life.
We invite you to join us as a Founding Member to add your voice and presence in co-creating the shape of this offering in its early stages.
Founding Members commit to sign up for 3 months of membership in the Healing Collective.
What you receive as a Founding Member:
As a Founding Member you will:
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Co-create and help shape our Healing Collective. You will have a space to offer your input in these beginning stages and help build this community from the ground up
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Be part of the Healing Collective at our lowest cost ever
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Be invited to 4 healing calls each month (see below for all the details)
The offering:
4 online video calls per month:
1 teaching call & 3 practice space calls
Every 2-3 months we will explore a new theme in the teaching calls and practice calls.
The teaching calls:
are a space to explore the traditional conceptual framework and world view of where the healing practices come from that we work with. This helps us to more fully embody the wisdom of these practices by having them (and us) rooted in context.
We'll begin with foundational information around Chinese medical theory / world view (yin & yang, 5 elements, organs, seasons, and deciphering what specific patterns mean in health and illness).
A strong focus is making these learning spaces grounded and practical, exploring how these concepts can inform and infuse our daily lives with more wisdom so we may live in greater alignment with ourselves, each other and nature.
The practice space calls:
are a space for us to engage in simple, yet powerful healing techniques together that are rooted in both science and traditional healing lineages*. We will begin with Qi Gong and energy practices for self-healing and cultivation. We'll go through the exercises live so you can experience them, ask questions, refine your technique and practice with others.
The first 3 months will go through Five Element Qi Gong, Wang Ji Wu Qi Gong, and a variety of energetic and somatic exercises to explore and deepen our relationship with our own energy, body, mind, emotions and spirit, and the interplay of these parts of self in relationship to nature and the changing seasons.
*Because we are working with traditional wisdom and healing lineages, there isn't always a scientific explanation for how and why something works. Science is only just beginning to catch up to some of the embodied, intuitive understandings of how these healing modalities actually work, how the body-mind-spirit functions, and how nature really operates. We'll engage in open inquiry around it all.
The Healing Collective will gather in an online community space called Thinkific.
You can join us no matter where you are.
"Unwavering steps forward"
“In a time of intense darkness and fear around the unknown, Shanti taught me tools and provided holistic support, so that I could see the light and feel comfort in complete surrender.
I still employ the physical and spiritual practices Shanti shared with me. They built the foundation on which I’ve grown and expanded in alignment with my authentic self.
Shanti meets you where you are, and with deep knowledge and intuition, guides you toward your truest path. You’ll be the one to walk it! But she empowers you to take unwavering steps forward."
- Amy S.
(Soulful Storyteller, Content Strategist & Media Relations)
Also included in the Membership:
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A Virtual Community Space for ongoing connection and sharing the healing journey with members of the Healing Collective
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A Growing Video and Resource Library with healing techniques, information on working with specific health challenges, and recordings of all of our live weekly calls
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A Contemplative Space - including writing prompts, reading recommendations, inspiring art and poetry & guided meditations by Shanti
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An “AMA - Ask Me Anything” space - to share your burning questions around health, healing, and human-ing
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Seasonal in-person gatherings (~4 per year) - this will evolve as the Collective gets up and running to provide more opportunities for community connection through seasonal gatherings in the San Jose / Bay Area.
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Bonus Guest Teacher Calls exploring a full spectrum of healing modalities
For these kinds of group classes the 4 calls per month would be valued around $125+ / month, not including the value of all the other Membership resources.
As a Founding Member, you will receive this all for $49 / month (with a 3 month commitment)
This is over a 60% discount.
The Founding Member rate will be locked in for as long as you keep your membership in the Healing Collective.
We are only announcing the Healing Collective to people on our mailing list at this time.
When we announce this membership to our larger community the rate will go up.
This Founding Member offer expires on February 1st
Choose Your Payment Plan and Join Us:
*If the cost of participating in this space excludes you from being here, email us at info@abundant-heaven.com.
We are committed to equality and inclusion. We have a donation fund to help cover monthly costs and bridge the gap for those who need it.
If you resonate with our vision and mission, and it is within your means, please consider donating or gifting a membership to others.
Your guide: Shanti Ma (aka Jessica Giese-Gardner, L.Ac., MTCM)
For many years I have been dreaming of creating a healing community.
That dream began in 2005 when I went on retreat in Peru and had some of the most profoundly transformative experiences of my life.
It was there that I realized I am meant to do healing work.
So I found my way to Chinese medical school, completed a 4 year Masters, apprenticed for 2 years, and studied martial arts intensively for 6 years.
That dream led me to become a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist and create a thriving clinic and healing space with my beloved husband for the past 13 years.
And along the way I have realized many things:
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healing is not linear, it is cyclical
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sustainable healing happens over time and in relationship, not in isolation or reducionism
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we need connection to palpably feel we are not alone
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no one received an instructional manual at birth for “How to Human in a Body”
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and we don’t get new updated manuals as we age and evolve
And this creates so many gaps and so much need for ongoing connection, information, wisdom, and community.
Which is why I continue dreaming into other ways I can offer support to help provide more consistency, accessibility, and connection outside of the treatment room.
So today a part of that dream is coming to life:
I would like to formally invite you to our Healing Collective.
This dream has been a long time coming and I am so grateful and devoted to see it taking shape.
With the intensity of these times, collaborating in creating healing communities and devoting time to regular healing practices of reconnection is absolutely crucial so we get less and less dysregulated and imbalanced, no matter what life dishes up.
I am so excited to see and feel the healing we can create together!
"Shanti is the first person that made me want to say yes"
"I have wanted to explore healing practices and my core nature as an empathetic being my whole life but I never really knew where to start. Honestly, Shanti is the first person that made me want to say yes and explore this."
- Kristine B.
Healing Collective Schedule:
Teaching Calls: 1st Thursday of the month from 12 noon - 1:30pm PST
Healing Practice Space Calls: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Thursdays of the month from 9:30am - 10:30am PST
Our Opening Call will be on Tuesday January 27th from 12 noon - 1pm PST to open the Community Space together, go over a few logistics, and offer a short energy practice and guided meditation.
Our 1st Teaching Call will be on Thursday February 5th from 12noon - 1:30pm PST
Our 1st Healing Practice Space Call will be on Thursday February 12th from 9:30am - 10:30am PST
All live calls will be recorded and video replays will live in the Healing Collective Membership on Thinkific.
*If the cost of participating in this space excludes you from being here, email us at info@abundant-heaven.com. We are committed to equality and inclusion. We have a donation fund to help cover monthly costs and bridge the gap for those who need it.
If you resonate with our vision and mission, and it is within your means, please consider donating or gifting a membership to others.
"She's given me hope that I can do something about this"
“Jessica’s work has changed my life. She has brought my pain levels down from 7 (out of 10) to near zero. No, it wasn't instantaneous, but we worked together to figure out what things worked and what didn't. Maybe just as important as the lessened pain is the hope she’s given me that I can do something about this without surgery.”
- Christine H.
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Abundant Heaven Healing Collective
Community Agreements:
Being part of a shared space means having shared understandings and agreements.
These agreements are not about perfection or control.
They are about intention, awareness, and shared responsibility in creating a space where healing does not come at the cost of harm.
This is a living ethos and as such it will evolve over time as we do.
1. We practice mutual care
We honor both individual needs and collective well-being.
No one is expected to over-give, self-sacrifice, or perform care at the expense of their own capacity.
Rest, boundaries, and discernment are respected.
2. This is a facilitator-led space with shared humanity
This space is stewarded and guided by a primary facilitator, who holds responsibility for structure, safety, and direction. The organizational vision is to create spaces of shared power over time through collaboration with the goal of mutual care and mutual thriving.
Every member is respected as a full human being with wisdom, agency, and lived experience. Leadership embodies mutual respect.
3. We move at the speed of trust and nervous system safety
There is no pressure to share, disclose, heal, or transform on a timeline.
Listening is as valued as speaking. Silence is welcome.
We honor that healing is not linear.
Healing unfolds through rhythm, repetition, ritual, and community - not urgency.
We make it a practice to show up as we are.
We make it a practice to accept and celebrate ourselves and others as we are.
4. We do not assume sameness
We acknowledge that bodies, identities, histories, and access differ.
We avoid universalizing our experience or assuming that what works for one person works for all. We engage our curiosity over certainty.
5. We are committed to creating healing spaces
This space intentionally works to combat:
- racism
- classism
- sexism
- ableism
- sizeism
- ageism
- heteronormativity
- spiritual superiority
This does not mean harm will never occur — it means we commit to awareness, accountability, and repair when it does.
6. We welcome feedback and repair
We acknowledge that we are all human and we don’t expect perfection.
If something feels misaligned, confusing, or harmful, members are invited to bring it forward — directly, gently, and with care.
Repair is an integral part of being in relationship with ourselves and one another.
7. Consent is foundational
You always have a choice.
Your participation is optional.
Practice suggestions are always invitational.
8. We speak from lived experience
In our practice space, we use “I” language and avoid diagnosing, fixing, or instructing others unless explicitly invited.
This is a space for shared practice, presence, and connection.
9. Privacy and confidentiality are respected
What is shared in this space stays in this space, unless explicit permission is given.
We honor the vulnerability and trust it takes to show up and be seen in community.
10. We trust the medicine of rhythm
Attendance, engagement, and participation may ebb and flow with life and seasons.
There is no requirement to keep up, be consistent, or prove commitment through output.
Belonging is not earned through performance or productivity.