Heartwork Spiritual Services
About
Rev. Natalie
I am an ordained Interspiritual Minister, and a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant. While I draw from many spiritual traditions, my work is most closely aligned with earth-based spirituality and mysticism. Spiritual, but not religious.
I am passionate about creating ceremonies that feel meaningful and true for the individuals receiving them. There are many ways to honor the movement of our lives. From major moments like births, weddings, and deaths to the milestones in between, new homes, breakups, diagnoses, job changes, graduations, decisions, and shifts in season, I believe all moments are worthy of ceremony.
Ceremony invites us out of the everyday and into the sacred. It creates a liminal space that marks transition and opens the doorway to a new chapter. Ceremony helps us ground in love, connecting us more deeply to our hearts and to one another. It allows our communities to witness our ongoing transformation and to hold us with care during times of change.
I look forward to working with you to create ceremonies that resonate deeply with your beliefs, values, and practices.
I am based in Silver Spring, Maryland, and am available to officiate in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
Professional Accreditations
Interspiritual/Interfaith Seminary
2025, The One Spirit Learning Alliance
Wedding Celebrant Training
2025, The Natural Transitions Institute
Ceremonies for Healing & Transitions Training
2023, The Natural Transitions Institute
Certification in Spiritual Companioning
2022, The One Spirit Learning Alliance
Values
-
Liberation- Justice and liberation are at the core of all I do. As a celebrant, one of my highest priorities is ensuring that my ceremonies are ethical and non-appropriative. I participate in ongoing work to ensure I stay aware of my biases and to deconstruct colonialism and white supremacy that lives within me.
-
Inclusivity- Everyone deserves ceremony. Ceremonies are primal. They are part of our makeup as human beings. As a celebrant, I proudly serve and honor all identities, and work to ensure that all people can access meaningful ceremonies.
-
Humility- I don’t know what I don’t know. I strive to remain curious, ask questions, and always take the opportunity to learn.
-
Restoration- We all cause harm- intentionally or unintentionally. If I do something harmful, I strive to take accountability, make amends, and take steps to ensure I don’t make the same mistake again.
-
Love- I am grounded in my love for people, creation, and spirit. I aim to let my heart guide me in all things.
-
Creativity- Our ability to create is one of our greatest gifts as humans. I believe we all have this gift and that it connects us with something greater than ourselves. As a celebrant, I strive to remain creative and to encourage creativity in others. I believe nothing can replace our creativity and am committed to not using generative AI in any of my work.
What is Interspirituality?
Interspirituality recognizes and affirms all spiritual paths. It is a heart-centered approach to the sacred. Interspirituality asks “what is most sacred to you?” “What makes you feel most connected to the divine, spirit, the Creator, God, love, life, the universe, oneness, etc?” It is a million paths, all leading to the same place.
Interspiritual ministers are trained to support individuals on their unique spiritual journey, perform a range of non-religious ceremonies, and to be a bridge between the sacred and the secular. We are committed to honoring all spiritual traditions and to seeing the common threads between them,
I believe that, at its best, interspirituality helps us root in the traditions of our past, while imagining new futures that recognize our interconnectedness with all things. I believe most of us have an interspiritual approach to our spirituality- even if that’s not the language we would use.
This quote sums interspirituality up: “There is a desperate need for spirituality in our time … We require a spirituality that promotes the unity of the human family, not one that further divides us or maintains old antagonisms. At the same time, this interspiritual approach must not submerge our differences … The truth itself is big enough to include our diversity of views. They are all based on authentic inner experience, and so all are valid.” Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart