Spring Wellness
Fundraising Workshop
Open - Renew - Align
A Day to Rest, Restore, and Reconnect
Ready to soothe your nervous system, restore balance and promote healing and wellbeing?
Join us on Saturday, April 25, 2026 for a nurturing one-day wellness workshop in a private home overlooking the Napa Valley. Meet local practitioners and experience their offerings while you take a loving pause for self-care alongside a supportive community.
All proceeds benefit Heart-Forward. Know that your participation and contributions help support the retreat experience and further Heart-Forward’s mission to expand restorative and healing opportunities to all - regardless of income. These ripples extend outward to families, communities and generations!
Discover and experience heart-centered practices like:
Anointing Oil • Emotion Code • Intuitive Readings • Journaling • Meditation • Sound Bath • Usui & Angelic Reiki • Qigong • Yoga & Pranayama
Enjoy a nourishing lunch in the company of like-minded individuals while you explore your intentions and attend to self-care.
Space is limited to 20 participants. Save your spot today!
What to Expect:
Where and When:
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 9:30am - 5:30pm
Location: A private location overlooking the Napa Valley; details provided upon paid registration.
Investment: Donation-based event
All are welcome. (Value of $250 per person.)
See details regarding our practitioners below.
Meet Your Practitioners
Click on links to learn more about each practitioner.
Monica Nagy
Usui Reiki & Sound Bath
Julie Baldia
Monica Nagy & Julie Baldia combine to provide Reiki and sound bath treatments.
Reiki is a compassionate, heart-centered energy practice that supports balance, relaxation, and inner harmony. It meets you exactly where you are, inviting ease and renewal on physical, emotional, and energetic levels. Each session is guided by intention and presence, creating space for gentle healing and transformation.
Through light touch or hands-off techniques, Reiki encourages deep relaxation and the body’s natural ability to restore balance. Sessions are calming, non-invasive, and ideal for anyone seeking clarity, stress relief, or emotional and energetic support.
Usui Reiki is the traditional form of Reiki, originating in Japan. It works with the universal life force energy, channeled through the practitioner’s hands to promote grounding, balance, and overall well-being.
A Sound Bath is not music with a melody, but a wash of sound meant to promote inner calm, release tension, and balance energy centers, helping you unplug and find clarity. It is a passive experience designed to move your focus from the thinking brain to a more relaxed, dream-like state.
Usui Reiki & Sound Bath
Gigi Grady
Gigi Grady offers a combination of 3 decades of experience in corporate America, 14 years of experience as a mediator, and a highly unique Energy Healing and coaching framework that targets multiple areas of joy, peace, creativity, success and fulfillment in the lives of clients. The Energy Healing methods work to assist clients in the clearing of false belief systems, anxieties, fears and any imbalances that may be blocking them from achieving their full potential.
Gigi possesses a level of insight, intuition, healing facilitation, knowledge, professionalism, and business acumen few can claim. Combined with her unique vision and strategy skills, each client experience is empowering, results driven, and fun. Gigi works diligently to help clients align their unique energy healing needs with the best methods to attain a client’s highest and best outcomes. Additionally, Gigi offers a very unique healing and coaching framework combination that pulls from a client’s unique strengths and talents, then aligns them with what a client loves to do and feels passionate about, removing any energetic and subconscious blocks throughout the entire process. This process can open the client up to new possibilities and potentials, often resulting in exciting, empowering, fulfilling, and inspiring personal and professional paths.
Gigi has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, and a Doctorate of Law with an emphasis in Environmental and Public Interest Law. Gigi is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, and is a Certified Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code practitioner.
Monica Lopez
Angelic Reiki
Monica Lopez is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) and the founder of Napa Valley Health & Wellness, where she empowers clients to transform their health—mind, body, and soul. As a Certified Holistic Health Coach, Stretch Therapist, and Angelic Reiki Practitioner, Monica offers a practical, whole-system approach to sustainable wellness.
Through personalized one-on-one sessions and immersive wellness experiences, Monica helps clients release chronic stress, regulate the nervous system, and create lasting lifestyle change. Her work centers on building sustainable habits that prevent disease, support healing, and restore balance at every level of well-being.
A core component of her practice is Angelic Reiki, a high-vibrational healing modality that invites angelic presence and guidance into each session. This gentle yet powerful approach emphasizes spiritual connection and intuitive insight while supporting energetic balance. Angelic Reiki helps release energetic blockages, calm the nervous system, and restore a sense of peace and clarity. It is nurturing and accessible to anyone seeking relaxation, emotional support, or deeper spiritual alignment.
Deeply passionate about whole-person wellness, Monica inspires individuals to take an active role in their health and cultivate vibrant, balanced lives. Her mission is to educate, support, and provide high-quality resources that empower each person to step fully into their highest potential.
Darlene Meltzer
Qigong
Darlene Meltzer has been in the fitness industry for over 40 years. Her various certifications are through the Integral Institute of Qigong and Tai Chi IIQTC, Balance Body certification in Pilates (mat, reformer, Cadillac, barrel, and chair), and a Qigong Certification through Lee Holden.
She is an ACE certified personal trainer. and earned a Bachelor's (BS) in Psychology. When she was 20 years old she was in a very serious car accident. This influenced her focus on health and healing. She sought out various ways to heal her body and mind. She now practices mindfulness such as buddhist meditation, Pilates, qigong, tai chi, breathwork, and yoga. This is all brought into her work.
Darlene's approach to health is a holistic one. She believes in working with the whole person, taking their complete lifestyle into account. This means that not only your physical state is important, but also that of mental and emotional states all in one. She encourages training connecting the mind, body, spirit, and nutrition all in a balanced lifestyle. Her hobbies include hiking, a love of the outdoors, biking, traveling, and creating art!
Ashley McAndrew
Anointing Oil & Crystal Educator
Ashley McAndrew is the mother of three beautiful children, a wife, and owner & creator of Green Goddess Essentials. an enchanting herbal self-care and crystal boutique. Ashley is devoted to healing the collective—one mind, body, and soul at a time. Her metaphysical haven of healing crystals, sacred jewelry, spellbinding candles, fragrant incense, and mystical décor come together to uplift, soothe, and illuminate your path. Let her bring a little serenity, and goddess magic into your world.
Ashley will be facilitating an Anointing Oil Session where guests will customizing a blend of oils, herbs and crystals based on personal intentions and needs.
Daphne Riley
Yoga & Pranayama
Daphne Riley has over 20 years of personal yoga practice. She brings a deep love of mindful movement and breathwork to every space she teaches. She completed her first 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2010 at Pure Yoga in New York City, and later completed a second Spanish-language 200-hour training in 2019 in Costa Rica through Yoga Revolution Academy.
Yoga has been a life-changing anchor for Daphne, especially during her decade living and working in NYC as a public high school teacher. Throughout those demanding years, yoga became her steady foundation, bringing grounding to both body and mind, and ultimately opening the door to her spiritual journey. Today, she is the Founder, Director, and Lead Teacher of Doce Lunas, an online Spanish school for adults that she launched in 2024.
Daphne is especially passionate about helping others experience the healing power of pranayama and mindful breathing. Through the breath, she believes we can return to ourselves, cultivate resilience, and reconnect with what matters most. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, hiking, biking, practicing yoga, playing guitar, and volunteering as an interpreter for Botanical Bus, an organization that provides culturally centered, holistic health clinics for Latine and Indigenous immigrant communities throughout Sonoma County.
Jan Kucker
Psychic Medium & Intuitive
Jan Kucker’s spiritual work is about helping YOU transform old beliefs of not being good enough, or not trusting yourself enough to make wise decisions. Jan is passionate about inspiring you to reawaken your soul to remember how beautiful, powerful and wise you were destined to be!
The focus of Jan's work is helping YOU heal the wounds of your heart and soul through self-empowerment. Angels and Spirit Guides help Jan show YOU how to live an empowered life, embracing your destiny to live a life a life filled with great joy, love and laughter.
Jan is able to read the energy from pictures, jewelry and even business cards. Bring any of those items to a session, or send pictures of yourself via email, and you will be given the tools and guidance you need to move beyond your present situation. During your reading, you will gain sharper awareness, develop greater inner-strength and learn to make wiser choices that will bring you the happiness you deserve.
Sakhon Nhek
Intuitive artist, tarot reader
Sakhon Nhek is an intuitive artist tarot reader, clairvoyant, and clairaudient practitioner whose work bridges creative expression with spiritual guidance. Coming from a lineage connected to shamanic wisdom traditions. She has devoted years to cultivating practices that honor her intuition energy and the unseen realms. Her intuition supports healing insight and reconnection to one’s authentic self. She holds a compassionate grounded container where transformation can unfold naturally and where each person is invited to remember the wisdom they already carry.
Guest Ambassador
Cynthia Winters-May
Cynthia Winters-May is your dedicated Guest Ambassador for the day. She will be there to warmly welcome you upon arrival, ensure your experience flows seamlessly, and guide you gracefully between activities, making sure you feel cared for from start to finish.
Cynthia will be your friendly point of contact throughout the event. She is committed to making sure your arrival and departure are effortless, taking care of every detail so you can move smoothly from one activity to the next and simply enjoy the experience, making sure you feel cared for from start to finish.