Summer 2026 | East Hampton, New York
This summer I will be offering in-home sessions across the East End of Long Island and seeing clients at Shou Sugi Ban House. Please get in touch if you have any questions. In home bookings can be made here. If something you are looking for is unavailable please reach out to christiana@animatehealing.com.
Thank you for being here.
Private and in home offerings
Ceremonial bodywork + herbal care for women
Ceremonial bodywork and herbal care draws from a wellspring of energetic and physiological practices for supporting vitality. This work is specifically for the female body and tends to the many dimensions of our beings. Appropriate from menarche through menopause, with a special focus on fertility, not only for procreation but for creative potential. Sessions may include: bodywork including abdominal therapy, plant baths, compresses, castor packs, moxibustion, closing of the bones, energetic healing and more.
Rituals for Preconception, Pregnancy & Postpartum 2hrs+
Rituals for cellular and spiritual nourishment. Includes: Hands on bodywork, herbal compresses, baths or steams and energetic healing. + Closing of the bones for postpartum. Appropriate for anyone who has ever have been or would like to become pregnant. Also Supportive after pregnancy loss.
Abdominal Sobada 1hr+
Bodywork focusing on the womb and abdomen. Includes herbal treatments when necessary. Supports healthy digestion, monthly cycles, fertility and the spiritual health of women of all ages.
Energetic healing, plant studies + Rituals
Informed by personal studies and the ancestral traditions of Europe and americas. Tending to individual & collective wellbeing through song, prayer, ceremonial arts and elemental connection.
Enter into a meditative state conducive to inner exploration, inspiration and spiritual guidance while receiving the direct transmission of healing though ambient sound. Sound journeys are guided with antique Himalayan and crystal bowls, gongs, vocals and other percussive instruments. Available in home and at Shou Sugi Ban House.
Restore balance and harmony to the energetic and physical body through sound therapy, bodywork, energetic cleansing, breath and verbal processing. Available in home and at Shou Sugi Ban House.
Ceremonial Immersion / 8hrs
Immerse yourself in the consciousness of our plant teachers through structured ritual, inner exploration and visionary experience. Explore new territories within yourself and the natural world. Available upon application to individuals and small groups. Please contact us for more details and to apply.
Mark important life transitions though ritual recognition, acknowledgement and support. All sessions are customized to honor the unique passage you are passing through and are suitable for groups, couples and individuals.
Appropriate for: marriages, birthdays, birth, moving, new jobs, divorce, pregnancy loss, death and more.
Available in home and at Shou Sugi Ban House.
Workshops
Coming soon
Enter into deeper relationship with the body and your innate capacity as a creator through the breath, yoga asana, dance, vocal practice, sound healing, plant education, journaling, meditation and more. Custom workshops and events available upon inquiry.
Hello,
My name is Christiana, I was born on long Island, New York and moved to Portugal at 2 months old and am descended from primarily German and Irish ancestry.
I am an artist and musician, healings arts practitioner and student midwife. I have been serving the east end of Long Island through classes, retreats and one on one sessions for almost 12 years. The foundations of my learnings were born from the land, plants and waters of my home lands and have been supported through formal study and apprenticeship in herbalism, tantra yoga, ceremony, art, bodywork and women’s health. You can read more about my journey here.
I feel blessed to have served many kinds of people over the years, those who gravitate towards me the most are the spiritually curious, sensing there is something beyond the reaches of their current experience. By guiding people how to sustain altered states of awareness, inner exploration and how to safely open (and close) their senses people leave with an expanded capacity and understanding of their own unique magic and place in this web of life.