
Start Where You Are
Heartwood Healing Arts is a peaceful retreat space for healing and personal growth, rooted in the heart of Prince Edward County in Cherry Valley. When you visit us, choose from a variety of supportive options for your personal retreat, including holistic treatments, supported self-guided experiences, or simply space to rest and recharge. Whether you have an hour or a full day, create your own retreat and enter a space where time softens and something deeper can unfold.
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Begin Your Journey
If you want direct, personalized support, visit our treatment space and explore our diverse holistic therapies designed to nurture your mind, body, and spirit. If you feel drawn to explore inner and outer landscapes, embark on Spirit Maze. This is a thoughtfully designed, self-paced outdoor journey set within our charming, wildish garden. If you need room to rest, think or simply need some space and unstructured time, retreat to Heartwood Cottage.

Acupressure
Using a map that is thousands of years old, acupressure can help you find your way home to yourself. Chi is the vital force that permeates and forms everything in the universe, including you. Acupressure is a way we can influence and direct that chi to bring you into better relationship with yourself and the world around you. Starting wherever you are, all roads lead to home. Acupressure sessions use gentle finger pressure on combinations of acupressure points to ease discomfort, relieve pain and establish balance in the body, mind and spirit.
Acupressure treatments are 30, 60 or 90 minutes.

Aromatherapy
Some say the fragrance of a plant is its spirit. Aromatherapy is a powerful form of plant medicine that uses the concentrated essence of botanicals to guide you to a place of renewed vitality. It is as delightful to the senses as it is beneficial to the body, mind and spirit. Light and rhythmic, aromatic massage is a deeply relaxing and restorative way to receive the benefits of essential oils. Custom blends for home use are another way to enjoy the care that plants can offer you.
Aromatic massage and aromatherapy facials are 30 or 60 minutes.

Yoga & QiGong
Harness the power of subtle energies to promote healing. Make friends with your body. Showing up on the mat is the first step. Taking what you practice on the mat into your everyday life is the next. Whether it is yoga, qigong or meditation, any somatic exercise that connects body, breath, movement and intention is offering you the chance to swim in an ocean of potential healing. One-to-one sessions can help you establish a home routine, explore particular practices that interest or challenge you, and expand your ability to enjoy self-care.
One-to-one or doubles yoga and qigong sessions are 30 or 60 minutes.

Water Therapy
Step into our heated therapeutic pool and release yourself into a warm, weightless world where your body can unwind and your mind can get some deep rest. Every muscle will be invited to soften as you float, guided through fluid stretches, rhythmic movements and restorative acupressure. Time slows, stress fades, and relaxation unfolds in steady soothing waves as you remember how to unwind and restore yourself back to factory settings.
Water Therapy sessions are 50 minutes, with time to change.
Seasonal: May to October

Tarot
Who doesn’t want to be able to see around corners? Using the language of dreams, mythology and everyday story telling, tarot can uncover what you most need to know about your life right now. Reading the cards can assign purpose and meaning to facets of your present reality and illuminate the secret yearnings of your heart. By consulting the cards, you reveal your story, adding clarity and insight to the choices you make.
Tarot readings are 30 or 60 minutes.

Hedgewytch Curios
We have a small, changing collection of botanical blends and handmade magical objects created on-site. They are available in limited amounts and their creation depends entirely on inspiration from the season and the land. Customized blends and simple ritual objects may be crafted upon request. These unique pieces continue the work beyond your time here.
Hedgewytch curios and custom blends range in price.

Spirit Maze Retreat
Imagine stepping into a living oracle card! Wander our untamed meditation gardens, where the land is alive and ever changing. Gardens bloom and soften, paths shift and edges blur. While human spaces are tended, the wild spirit always lingers. Each oracle card garden embodies a unique spirit of place and serves as a mirror portal into the vast landscapes of your inner world. Find yourself in conversation with archetypes of healing, memory, transformation, love, and mystery. Every card offers a path and an invitation to reconnect with yourself through quiet rituals, energy practices, journaling, play, and imagination. This gentle, potentially transformative experience invites openness, curiosity, and deep self-reflection. Your time in the Spirit Maze is structured and supported yet self-directed.
Spirit Maze can be enjoyed solo or with a friend.
Seasonal: May to October

Heartwood Cottage
Heartwood Cottage offers a gentle pause from the pace of everyday life. It’s a place to land, exhale and simply be. Tucked privately at the back of the property, it is designed for quiet restoration and unstructured time, whether you’re integrating a treatment, spending a solo retreat day, or just needing space that feels like your own. Inside, you’ll find a cozy, fully equipped layout with everything you need for comfort and ease, including a bedroom, bathroom, kitchenette and table, and living area with a huge picture window. Outdoors, the space extends into nature, with a sunny back deck and a side patio with a place to eat, read, or simply enjoy some time listening to life in the garden. It’s a private, peaceful and intentionally simple place that invites you to rest, integrate or just be somewhere different for a while.
Heartwood Cottage can be enjoyed solo or with a friend.
Seasonal: May to October, Day Use Only

Design Your Retreat
Heartwood Healing Arts is a private retreat space where you can shape your visit in whatever way best supports your needs. Create a combination that allows for experience, rest, quiet integration, and maybe even a lovely lunch catered by a local chef.
Treatments and Readings
30 minutes - $65
60 minutes - $130
90 minutes - $195
Water Therapy
50 minutes + time to change - $150
Yoga and QiGong
30 minutes - $30
60 minutes - $60
Spirit Maze
3.5 hours solo - $195
3.5 hours pair - $350
Heartwood Cottage
4 hours half day - $175
8 hours full day - $325
Lunch and Snacks
Chef's choice - $40

About Janet Elson
Janet finds joy in blending mystical wisdom with practical steps. Her lifelong journey into metaphysical concepts and their real-world applications inspired her to open Heartwood Healing Arts in 2005. With deep training and experience in acupressure, aromatherapy, yoga, qigong, and divination, Janet brings a compassionate, creative, and holistic approach to supporting you through life’s challenges, while opening space for renewal, insight and meaningful transformation.
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Reserve your time at Heartwood Healing Arts and create a retreat that is uniquely your own, woven together with the experiences, rest and space that you need.