Welcome kindred soul,
As we journey through life,
blessed be your walk in this wild and beautiful living universe.
May these offerings support you and your journeys.
Offerings and Upcoming Events
Becoming Sovereign
1 Year Course Journey through the Qi Nodes: 2025
Beginning January 31st, 2025
The boundless, limitless, pristine power of the mother source is moving through each of us, each of her children.
Transform Your Life Through Ancient Wisdom
Made Practical for Modern Times
Ishadai means the Divine Feminine Awakening.
Time-tested teachings made practical and accessible for contemporary life.
Discover a natural, direct path to:
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
Join us in our pilgrimage through the inner and outer seasons of our lives.
Remember, cultivate, and embody your sovereign nature in a natural, direct, and practical way through the inner and outer seasons of life. One complete year cycle to find the treasures, medicines, and hidden gifts within.
We re-member who we are as sovereign beings: we reclaim what is forgotten, gather ourselves into our wholeness, heal what we thought we can not, confess our shadows, release our contrivance and pretense, face our fears to transform into wisdom, and unfold into the our sovereignty, naturally.
We meet Fridays 2x a month, according to the Qi Nodes.
Becoming sovereign in practical terms mean to navigate with skill, wisdom, and compassion 5 main aspects of our lives that we live to master: Health, Relations, Timing, Energy, and Resources.
We look at the macro and micro patterns and cycles of our lives to better understand these aspects. However, each aspect manifests specific to you, according to your lessons and experiences, to potentiate you. The Living universe you are living as reality is not personal, however intimate. We explore each cycle through the lens and protocols of sovereignty: compassion, wisdom, and skill to support you to navigate through these patterns and cycles, and cultivate your personal sovereignty, rather than habitually going through the cycles by reaction and unconscious habituation and programming. We are not victims of our lives and circumstance. We bring awareness to the cycles and seasons of our lives to see that we are the opportunity in the moment, the light, the healing, arising to into the mystery we are moving towards to realize our potential, our sovereign nature becoming.
Be in community whose dedicated action is to realize our sovereignty together. We are not meant to do this work alone. We support each other, for we can only be truly sovereign together.
Schedule Circle Meetups via Zoom
Fridays 2x monthly, (10AM-11:30AM pdt)
Spring Season, Air/Wood: Creativity January 31st February 14th March 7th March 21st April 4th April 18th
Summer Season, Fire: Maturity May 2nd May 23rd June 6th June 20th July 4th July 25th
Autumn Season, Metal/Space: Integrity August 8th August 22nd September 5th September 19th October 3rd October 17th
Winter Season, Water: Nobility November 7th November 21st December 5th December 19th January 9th January 23rd
Learn About…
ONE YEAR. ONE JOURNEY. LASTING TRANSFORMATION.
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.
WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE:
Bi-monthly live guided sessions with clear accessible instruction
Practical and effective tools for daily life
Seasonal Diet and Lifestyle suggestions and recommendations
Wisdom teachings and effective practices specific to Season and Qi Node
Community support
Direct, natural methods to cultivate and harness your inner gifts and wholeness.
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
Different Payment Options
Monthly: $50
3 Payments of $200
1 Payment $600
Know the energies and opportunities available this year to cultivate your abilities
Learn about the power and medicine the snake brings this year.
Explore medical qigong practices to support you through the year
Learn some herbal and natural medicines for support.
Consultations
Ishadai offers individual, couples, and team consultations with 5 Element and Polestar Chart Readings.
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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.
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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.