Dr. Joan Heartfield     Our Story     Tomas Heartfield

        Joan Heartfield Ph.D. has been involved in the exploration of human consciousness for most of her life. A thirty-year resident of Maui, Joan is one of Maui's more illustrious residents. A Who's Who of American Women Alumni, Joan's resume reads like a how-to-be-an-over-achiever handbook.
 
Joan began her professional career as an MFA in Dance, Drama and Theatre from the University of Hawaii in 1969. Shortly thereafter she migrated to Maui where she taught creative Dance, Drama and Theater, Tai Chi Ch'uan and Hatha Yoga for 10 years. A lifelong dancer and choreographer she saw the body as an integral part of human expression. She received her MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch West in 1980, and her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from The Professional School for Psychological Studies in 1985. She became the Director for The University for Humanistic Studies, Maui Branch, in 1980. She is a certified Holotropic Breathworker with a 3 year training from Dr. Stanislav Grof, and a Voice Dialogue Facilitator, having spent some years training with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone. She co-founded a Hypnotherapy Training program with Dr. Irv Katz and was the Community Arts Coordinator on Maui for many years. She is a woman who has always reached out to the edges of the human capacity to learn what it means to be an integrated human being. From being an Arica Trainer in the early Seventies to studies with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Campbell, Angeles Arrien, Swami Muktananda, Swami Sachidananda, John Grey and Charles and Caroline Muir, Joan has left no stone unturned in her search for tools to unlock our potential to know what are we or more importantly what we "can" be as integrated healthy and happy human beings. Joan has helped thousands of people find deeper meaning and aliveness in their own search for wholeness in a challenging world.

Currently Joan  has created a whole new sequence of experiences with her husband Tomas who she met in Ecuador in 1994. Through her work and life with him, she continued to explore and integrate their combined wisdom which birthed The Divine Feminine Mystery School Certification Training Program through the The Divine Feminine Institute, Romancing The Beloved for couples, Conversations That Matter for singles, and Opening To Love Ceremonies,   

With Tomas she found the ability to identify aspects of relationship so transformative that it changed the way she works with clients. She says, "I opened to a quality of intimacy so empowering and linked to The Divine, I realized I had stumbled upon what seemed like a missing link I never knew existed. I realized that the core of the human experience is all about our ability to love and be loved on all levels. I began to see how we filter and diffuse the love that wants to come into our life. Everything I had learned up till that point suddenly deepened and I began to teach from a place I can only identify as Source. This is a literal place where all experience becomes accessible and tangible. We live what we teach, and the joy in our lives is a real testimony to what we’ve  embodied.”