ABOUT ME

Brandy King Lund
Founder of The Awakening Heart

A life devoted to the heart.

I have spent much of my life exploring what it means to be fully human while remembering that we are something more.

That inquiry has taken me through motherhood, spiritual practice, yoga, embodiment, healing, relationship, loss, love, and the many ways a life asks us to surrender what we thought we knew. It has taught me that awakening isn't somewhere outside our ordinary lives. It is here, in our bodies, our relationships, our joy, our grief, and the way we meet one another.

For more than twenty years, I have worked with people through yoga and somatic practice, ceremony, spiritual mentorship, retreat leadership, facilitation, event production, and community building. Along the way, I became an E-RYT yoga teacher, a licensed massage therapist and somatic practitioner, an ordained Priestess, and a longtime student of contemplative and embodied spiritual traditions.

The forms of my work have changed over the years, but the heart of it has remained the same: creating spaces, both grounded and sacred, where people can slow down, listen deeply, experience themselves more fully, and remember what they already know. I'm less interested in striving toward transformation than in gently dissolving the layers that obscure what is already here. I trust the intelligence within each person, and I see my role as making room for it to be heard. I've always believed that what we remember together doesn't stay in the room. It ripples out into our families, our communities, and the world.

And perhaps most importantly, I am a mother of three daughters, living in Portland, Oregon, and a woman still very much living the questions I explore in my work: learning, loving, creating, laughing often, getting things wrong, beginning again, and discovering what it means to embrace this life more fully.