You are not only on the path, you are the path. You are time. You are the change. You are moving towards the unknown, the mystery, to realize your true nature and potential.
Ishadai: Divine Feminine Awakening
The Mother is here, Love is here,
The Divine Feminine is rising through each of us, riding in our blood,
Awakening our Sovereign nature,
Reminding us of our true refuge,
Freeing our wild beauty of boundless potential.
Welcome Kindred Soul
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Educator & Mentor
Dr. Ishadai, DCEM, MsTCM, educates and leads Qigong, Meditation, and Mysticism courses and retreats . She has been an educator in the Healing field for 18 years She offers private classes to individuals and group retreats. She leads Silent Meditation Retreats. As a Spiritual Mentor, she also guides and supports others in their calling.
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Consultations
5 Element Personal Reading: Awareness is key to healing at the source. Learn about your unique body type, energetic patterns, and inner gifts and the specific suggestions: personalized diet, exercise, qigong, to support wholeness, healing.
Relationship Compatibility Reading: Learn how the 5 Elements influence your relationships and ways of support with tools, perspective, practices to build healthy and resilient relationsships
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Ministerial Healing Work
Ishadai is unique in her healing services. She serves at the Sacred Portals of as Birth and Death Doula and Sacred Union, where places of much transformation and transmutational work is processed and healed. Receive healing energies through a combination of Medical Qigong/Chinese Energetic Medicine, Shamanic, and Intuitive Healing. This work combines different healing modalities based on your 5 Element Constitution. Please schedule a 5 Element Reading before booking a Healing Session.
sacred pilgrimages
We are the Conduit of Heaven and Earth
Our Living Mother Gaia, intelligence of Earth is moving through great shifts and changes, a great cycle of Awakening. The waves of changes that are happening, are happening through us, as her living vessels and children of the Light. We are the change: To heal what we thought we could not, to face the fears we thought we couldn’t, to confess our hidden faults to free the shadows that bound us, to transform the past into wisdom, and to live in celebration, and awaken the grat potential.
We pilgrimage to sacred sites to heal and reconnect our severed ties with Mother Earth, and our Divine nature directly. Through these sacred pilgrimages of the mystic path, the way of the heart, we offer our gifs through sacred rituals, prayers, and practices, with the Devas of the Land, collaborating with Wisdom Keepers and Holders of the Sacred Sites. We support the healing and activation of sacred sites found through the earth chakra system and earth grids. We share our humanity’s gifts, embracing and reclaiming our true nature, our sovereignty and awakening with Mama Gaia, our integral wholeness as a multi-dimensional Earthly Divine being.
As Above So Below,
As Within So Without,
As the Universe, So the Soul.
13 Awakened Women Masters
Sacred Portals
Gatherings of Portals: Birthing and Dying. Grief Circles, Trans-gerational Healings, Birth Support.
Monthly Sovereign Salons
Healing With the Seasons.
Qi Node Dinners
Becoming Sovereign Fridays 10-11:30AM PDT
California Qigong Saturdays 8:30-9:30AM
Podcast: Sovereign. Coming Janaury 2026
Shamanic Reiki Workshops
December 2025 & January 2026
Let’s bring in the Lunar New Year together and get ready to ride the Fire Horse energy into our All Accomplishing Action!
Learn…
About the primary energies of the year according to Chinese 5 Element Astrology, Polestar, Bai zi.
Western Astrology Highlights for the year
Feng Shui Tips to navigate the year with success
How to work with rising fire with Qigong Practices, tapping into its gifts without getting burned.
How to create.a talisman to enhance the energies of the year.
And Enjoy Teas, Local Artisans, and Fun Music
Venues:
San Francisco
Oakland
Berkeley
Santa Cruz
Online: Zoom
Lunar New Year Talk 2026 All Accomplishing Action
Year of the
Fire Horse
January & February 2026
Now Available:
Solunar Qi Node Calendar
2025: Year of Yin Wood Snake
Becoming Sovereign
Ongoing Qi Node online course
Discover a natural, direct path to:
Seasonal foods
Qigong practices according to the seasons
Qi Ndoes (15 day energetic terms) and their medicine
Learn Essential Wisdom Teachings
Reclaim your vital life force energy
Access deep inner wisdom
Transform fears into strength
Release what no longer serves you
Live with authentic freedom and joy
Transform Your Life Through Ancient Wisdom
We meet Fridays 2x a month, according to the Qi Nodes to work with them directly
Zoom online 10AM-11:30AM PDT
Recordings of classes available if not able to attend
Community Support Group
Join us in our pilgrimage through the inner and outer seasons of our lives.
Who are you becoming? Sovereignty is the mastery of one’s life within the All of life. True to its original meaning, sovereignty is not authority over another; what we can have true authority over is none other than ourselves. We remember and reclaim our nature as a sovereign being.
Sovereignty is a process not a goal. We navigate through the Qi Nodes of the year, the seasonal cycles to remember, cultivate, and embody our sovereign nature.
In these fast-changing times, information overwhelm has caused confusion, delusion, and distraction. Join us, together let’s cultivate wisdom teachings and practices, old and new. Apply practical tools to nourish ourselves at the soul level and ride the waves of change in our daily lives. Let’s cultivate our sovereign nature, naturally, right here, right now.
Weekly live sessions blend time-tested wisdom from Daoist and Buddhist traditions into practical, accessible teachings for contemporary life. No religious framework – just pure, essential guidance for sovereign living.
Consultations
Ishadai offers individual, couples, and team consultations with 5 Element and Polestar Chart Readings.
5 Element Personal Readings
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We each have our lives uniquely unfolding, unveiling gifts to uncover, our medicine uniquely ours to discover.
What is your personal medicine?
It is time to honor the unique expression of who we are
and to embrace our wholeness, our power and our capacity to heal ourselves.
The 5 Element Reading supports your awareness and understanding of how the elements affect your unique spiritual, energetic, and physical makeup. This can help you to bring your awareness to your life’s lessons, virtues, and innate gifts, and what potentialities to cultivate. With this knowledge and awareness, along with dietary recommendations, tools, and practical methods, we hope to better support you to heal your life naturally and empower you to awaken into your true potential.
When we understand the elements’ inner workings, we can directly observe the imbalances that express themselves at emotional, mental, and physical levels. In recognizing patterns, we can better resolve them directly and at the root. Rather than focusing on symptoms, which often does not heal the source of the issue, we endeavor to support healing at the core. During the reading we will provide recommendations for healthy diet, movement practices, healing protocols and tools for integral health.
The reading is rooted in Traditional 5 Element System, Korean Sa Sang Body Constitution principles, and shamanism. The readings are likened to astrology readings except we use the elements that create all of life—Earth, Metal (space), Water, Wood (air), and Fire—rather than the stars and planets.
5 ELEMENT READING INCLUDES
𖦹 90 minute live session
𖦹 12 page 5 Element Chart Reading Document
𖦹 Supporting Docs: Food Categories Document. Diet Guidelines Document.
𖦹 Recording of Session
5 Element Relationship Compatibility Reading
For centuries, the natal chart reading was used to understand personalities and the suitability of relationships.
Traditionally, no parent would permit their child to marry without first having a mutual compatibility reading done to assure the success of the marriage.
In marriage or familial relationships such as between husband and wife, between parents and children, brothers and sisters, or in-laws etc., a clear picture of an individual’s energy patterns can help to understand and resolve otherwise confusing and difficult situations and conflicts that may arise. Understanding why someone is the way he/she is can help us better accept them and ourselves. Such acceptance in turn can open doors to avenues of change, both within our own attitudes and those of the other person.
In weighing the choice of a business partner, for example, the compatibility of both charts, and the inherent aptitude for business of either one can show whether the likely outcome of the partnership is financial success or internal strife.
The Relationship Compatibility is beneficial for all sorts of configurations: romantic partners, familial, friendships, business partners or teams, and even arch-nemeses.
5 ELEMENT RELATIONSHIP COMPATIBILITY INCLUDES
𖦹 2 hour live session
𖦹 Supporting Docs for Healthy Relating
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Beloved Teachers
With honoring and gratitude for my kind teachers: Nature, Helping Spirits, Benevolent Ancestors (seen and unseen), and Spiritual Community. Deeply grateful to those who personally trained, pruned, and guided me in cultivating the medicines that I now offer as service into the world.
Ishadai with Master Hyunoong Sunim and Jaguang Sunim
Ishadai is a lineage holder of the Five Element system of Astrology and Practice, trained by Master Hyunoong Sunim and Jaguang Sunim, while completing her Masters degree at ACTCM Acupuncture college, and living at the Zen Center for 3 years.
Master Hyunoong is an abbott of two monasteries in Korea and is recognized as an awakened teacher and master.
Ishadai gratefully continues to receive mentorship from them, as she carries the lineage of 5 Elements Reading and Relationship Compatibility as they’ve granted her blessings to do.
Liu Ming (Charles Balyea) (1947-2015)Liu Ming, kind and beloved adept and teacher. Ishadai studied and trained with Liu Ming for a decade in Daoism, Tantric Buddhism, Polestar Astrology, and Daoist Cosmology. He transmitted wisdom of life, kindness, and skillful means.
Sifu Jane Yao (Yao Pei Ching) (19xx-2018)
Ishadai’s beloved life-long teacher. Sifu Yao was her first taiji teacher beginning at age 19. Along with her husband, Sifu Albert Liu, they embraced Ishadai like a daughter. Sifu Yao trained Ishadai in the subtle forms of the healing arts, neigong (inner skill cultivation), and taiji (Wu Style, Yin style), to harness Ishadai’s natural healing abilities.
Lama Lar Short
Trained, studied, and mentored by Lama Lar in the esoteric wisdom teachings and mystic practices of Grace Essence Mandala for more than a decade.
Pema Khandro Rinpoche
Ishadai lived in the MahaSiddha Gompa (Non-monastic Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center) for 6 years. She studied under the direct guidance of Pema Khandro Rinpoche for more than 15 years. Ishadai also studied with Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Pema Khandro’s dzogchen teacher, for several years. Trained in the Tantric Arts, Bon and Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana Lineage, Ishadai leads a combination of Hatha Yoga and Meditation.
Ishadai with Simu Erika, Sifu Johnson & Sifu Will
Ishadai has trained with Sifu Jerry Alan Johnson for more than 15 years at the Temple of Change and Transformation, where she received the Doctoral Degree of Chinese Energetic Medicine/ Medical Qigong in 2024. She is also ordained as a Gnostic Mystic Priest and Buddhist Teacher by Sifu Johnson. She receives ongoing mentorship and guidance from Sifu Will and Simu Erika.
Session Reflections
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Deeply grateful for our work together on this journey of life, healing, and transfiguration. Honoring and celebrating each of you and our work together.
“My daughter had not been able to sleep for almost two years. There were unfriendly spirits always around her room and the worst nightmares. We even moved! I prayed for her many times asking for protection. She had the worst bags under her eyes (she is only 16)! Long story short: I met with Grace, she gave me a blue bottle full of special ingredients inside to spray in her room –I did not need to know what was in it, in fact I did not even ask. I trust Grace therefore; I did not need to ask.
I got home, waited for her to get arrive from school (excited to tell her) and before she went to sleep she sprayed her room. IT WORKED! She finally slept all night through!!! She has been sleeping well since then -thanks to Grace!!! Now I have a fully altered, well rested teenager –now I am exhausted.”
— M.S.
“Grace's session utilize her incredible intelligence regarding chinese energetic medicine, herbs, and food, as well as her insightful intuitions communicated with a depth of kindness and care. She encouraged me to change my eating patterns to better suit my constitution and to give it 3 months.
After 3 months of eating in her suggested way as well as taking her prescribed herbs, I remember waking up one morning for the first time in my life feeling calmness in my heart. I had no idea that I had been living with chronic anxiousness until feeling the difference that morning. Her suggestions about lifestyle changes were accurate assessments of imbalances that needed to be addressed in my life. I am grateful for her wise counsel that still informs my lifestyle choices to this day.”
— R.S.W.
“For many years I’ve suffered from debilitating PMDD during my luteal phase that manifested as unpredictable episodes of rage, interspersed with anxiety and depression. On a walk one day with Grace she mentioned she had healed her own PMDD and offered to help me with my own healing journey. After an in-depth consultation with Grace on which elements were strong and weak in my constitution, I started on my healing journey to try to eradicate my PMDD. This included a list of foods to emphasize and eliminate, Qi Gong, herbs, and using castor oil and bentonite clay each night to further detox. I was committed to try this new way, and was ecstatic that the first month my PMS was barely there. Now on my second month of using the practices, there is also barely a trace of PMS. I’ve been told many things over the years to try to cure my PMS, but nothing that addressed not only the physical, but the spiritual and psychic healing that was necessary to turn a corner with this affliction. I’m so grateful to Grace for offering this beautiful way to me at this midpoint of my life so that I can feel free of the old PMS prison, and closer to my true nature!”
— J.M.
“Having received dozens of chart readings over the past 10 years, never have I had one so detailed and accurate such as what Grace has provided. Its been four months since the reading and even aspects I couldn't imagine coming into fruition indeed manifested.
I can truly say that Grace intuitive and practical suggestions to handle destined circumstances have been critical for my personal development and the development of my relationship. I still hear her guidance swimming in my consciousness just from that one session.
She certainly embodies her name and passes on this "grace" to clients" so each may embrace their unique journey with as much ease possible. Thank you so much Grace.