Betti Rooted Lionheart (she/her) is an earth-based shamanic healer, somatic trauma practitioner, Fire Priestess, Minister of the Church of Earth Healing, and certified facilitator of Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects. From her 105-acre protected land sanctuary near Ithaca, New York, she founded Sacral Transformations to help teens, queer individuals, activists, healers, and change-makers turn trauma, rage, grief, and despair into voice, power, and purpose.
She partnered with Cybersoft Digital to bring her nature-based practice online in a way that welcomes marginalized seekers and clearly organizes her 1:1 sessions, youth mentorship, and community circles. We built a grounded, fast website on WordPress, Elementor Pro, and lightweight custom PHP.
The Problem
- Trust and safety: Deep wounds like sexual trauma, ecological grief, and queer isolation call for a site that feels safe, trauma-sensitive, and fully inclusive.
- Different audiences: The site had to speak with equal care to queer adults seeking grief circles, parents of struggling teens, and seekers wanting 1:1 soul retrieval.
- Long story, easy navigation: Her life story includes farm apprenticeships, home births, a cross-country motorhome trip to protect 105 acres, and her training in the Work That Reconnects. It had to be woven in without overwhelming visitors.
- Heavy media: Guided journey audio, spoken-word recordings, altar photography, and story archives risked slow loading on rural connections and phones.
What We Built
We built a nature-rooted sanctuary with forest green (#2D5A27), ceremonial orange (#FF6B00), real altar photography, and smooth audio.
1. Hero and free audio
Betti holds her medicine drum under open sky, with the Progress Pride flag in the navigation. The headline moves “From Despair, Depression, Anxiety, Rage, Grief, and Fear” to “Healing, Transformation, and Empowered Action.” An opt-in offers a free guided journey, “Moon, Sun, Earth, Sky: Elemental Healing with the Earth Keepers.”
2. Healer biography
Beside her sacred wheel emblem, Betti explains how she helps people turn trauma, rage, grief, and despair into voice, power, and purpose, with a focus on teens, queer people, and earth-keepers and 1:1 work since 2019.
3. Shamanic journeying
A green section presents shamanic healing as an ancient birthright, and explains journeying to meet loving spirit guides.
4. “Is this You?” checklist
Paired with a handcrafted elk rattle, six statements help seekers recognize themselves, from feeling deeply for the Earth to wanting real connection with others.
5. Healing outcomes
An altar photo introduces soul retrieval, recovering your voice, claiming empowerment, and releasing patriarchal sexual trauma from the body.
6. Community mosaic
A 12-photo grid shows the diverse people who have sat in circle with her, conveying belonging and safety.
7. Sacred activism
An unedited portrait of Betti covered in sacred mud from a Wailing Circle sits beside her credentials as Fire Priestess, activist, writer, and facilitator.
8. Spirit guides
Four types of helpers (Animals, Plants, Elementals, and Divine Beings) are shown with hand-painted rattles.
9. Animal allies
A bronze horse sculpture accompanies her personal allies: Tiger, Hawk, Elk, Panther, and Honeybee.
10. Elemental guides
Water, Fire, Earth, and Air are introduced with a grandmother medicine doll holding a clay water vessel.
11. Queer Despair and Resilience Circles
Bonfire grief circles, co-facilitated with Sebastian Stout (he/they), invite LGBTQ+ people to “scream, cry, rage, and release in a Queer Only Space.”
12. Teen mentorship
A portal for worried parents presents earth-based shamanic skills as a lifeline for teens facing mental health struggles, identity questions, and isolation.
13. Youth feature
Betti appears in a rainbow tutu beside a “Love Yourself” mural, showing how connecting with spirit guides builds self-love and resilience.
14. “The Bones of My Story” audio
An audio player lets visitors hear Betti tell her story in her own voice.
15. Fire as transformation
Tending a sacred fire, she reflects on eight years of healing: “It is okay to allow ourselves the time it takes to become Brave.”
16. Farm apprenticeship
Archive photos show her early life in tents and barns among 40 apprentices on an organic farm.
17. Motherhood
Her first son’s 2008 home birth and attachment parenting among coastal redwoods.
18. 105 sacred acres
After the 2008 financial crisis, her family traveled cross-country in a used motorhome and bought protected meadow and woodland in upstate New York.
19. Raising children on the land
The 2012 home birth of her second son, rural homesteading, and raising sons to be part of the solution.
20. The Work That Reconnects
Her encounter with Joanna Macy’s World as Lover, World as Self, Macy’s final East Coast intensive in 2016, and her commitment to healing ecological grief through circle work.
21. Archival poster
A hand-drawn 2019 flyer for the monthly Despair and Discovery Circle at Fine Spirit Studio in Ithaca.
22. Somatic healing with Kuan Yin
An altar feature shares her 2023 breakthrough in healing long-held patriarchal sexual trauma in the body.
The Results
- +170% teen mentorship and circle inquiries, thanks to dedicated pages for queer grief circles and youth mentorship.
- Hundreds of seekers joined the free “Moon, Sun, Earth, Sky” audio journey.
- 0.45-second load time on desktop and mobile, despite heavy audio and artwork.
- Deeper community trust, built through honest storytelling and a clear standard of safety for vulnerable seekers.
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