Greetings,
Welcome and thanks for visiting. As a Holistic Health Practitioner and Artist I have been building my practice since 2013. Currently I am combining my work within a community mental health discipline in the Springfield, MO area and online.
-Praxis-
->Hara is an eastern word/prefix that is used to describe an inner energy field of the gut. Hara is a centering and expanding system, a foundation of health flowing near the vagus nerve, influenced by external stimuli and internal processing patterns. I am curious what hara means for you?
->Our work is a place we support from an integrative health perspective combining indigenous, eastern, and western traditions.
-> Through health practices such as rest, movement, real food processing and ritual in community we can practice healing and live in ease. Being interconnected and interdependent requires accountability. In our work we address intersectional privileges to understand and change systems of historical, institutional, systemic oppression.
-> When I use we, I am speaking from my internal community and collective respons-ability. What bothers us is an opportunity to get to know each other deeper.
Inspiration + Education with and for Nature, Curiosity, Creativity
Garden of Hara is our lifestyle. We grow herbs, vegetables, flowers and chickens in a .5 acre urban farm in Springfield Missouri in addition to wild foraging, hunting, butchering, and crafting. We play and make joy in the same folds of loss, grief and catastrophe. I grew up in the WUI of Los Angeles, on the edges of suburban urban development and what us modern folk call ‘wilderness.’ I extend gratitude to all my relations, my family and teachers for their support in my existence. Experiential education has been our method of learning and teaching since 2009. Plant ecology and herbalism has been in our practice since 2011. As an herbalist, I am trained in botany and practice folk herbalism. Holistic Health means that I value Western, Eastern, and Indigenous medicine practices equally and understand when specific modalities are more appropriate within a developmental life span approach. My personal herstory shifted in 2014 when I met my partner and became a mama of 2. Gardening and homesteading have been our lifestyle since 2017. In 2021 we experienced a loss of home and community. Since then we have been working to regenerate health and well being on a personal-family level. I launched Hara Healing LLC in 2022 and feel capable to extend my work back into a community level. I identify as a Holistic Health Practitioner, Artist, Garden Ecologist and doula of change. I am open to sliding scale payments and forms of trade related to products and services. I am seeking new markets for products and creating community ritual space, reach in if you are interested in combining our disciplines.
Ramsey Harvey (she/her/we)
Credentials and Work Experience
Staff at Sierra Nevada Field Campus 2010-2013
Intern with Native American Academy 2011-2013
Student Staff at Holistic Health Learning Center San Francisco State University 2011-2012
BA in Holistic and Ecological Wellness from San Francisco State University 2013
Traveler around the Pacific and Shift into Mama Ramsey
Operations Admin for Sierra Institute 2016-2018
Garden Manager/ Teacher at Indian Valley Elementary 2017-2020
Head Cook and Family Wellness Advocate at FRC Child Development Center 2019-2021
Substance Abuse Counselor at Rethink Industries 2017-2021
Owner of Hara Healing 2022-Present
Intake Coordinator/ Referral Specialist at Compass Counseling Services 2022-2023
Currently pursuing Master’s of Science in Clinical Counseling at MSU 2023-Present
Graduate Assistant Counselor at MSU Counseling Center 2024-Present