Pilar Chandler

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My Dharma…  

I am here to support you in your life-healing journey; to listen, hold, touch, care, reflect and see you as the divine embodiment of pure consciousness that you are. Using the wisdom streams that I have been gifted and privileged to learn, I aim to guide and support you to your highest potential, in Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit. To help you RE-member those parts and pieces that have become disconnected, lost or forgotten and keep you from living your best life.

My Prayer to You…

It is my wish that you feel grounded and safe in your body so that the shining beautiful spirit housed within can share the gifts you have for us all. That your digestive fire can discern what is nourishment from toxin and release what no longer serves you. That the light of your intellect also be clear to determine truth. May your vitality serve you in all its creative possibilities, for joy, for pleasure, for children or pure creativity. May your breath be full, to inspire and enliven your spirit and may it be without hesitation or fear. May your blood and heart be strong and capable of loving all that you encounter with compassion. 

My Practice, My Mission…

I am here to help heal the planet, via the wombs and bodies of women. I see an inseparable connection between the Earth and Woman. Equally there is domination, separation and abuse of of both bodies around the world. Across class, race and socio-economic demographics we see misogyny and how when a culture de-centers women and mothers, everyone suffers. My clinical practice focuses on the healing and sovereignty of Women. Teaching Her to know Her body’s infradian rhythm and how to live and love by Her natural cycles, the need for medical and pharmaceutical intervention lessens greatly. She has control over Her own fertility without suppressing her vital ovulation and intuitive cycles. She births wholly, intact, uncut and empowered, understanding the world altering shift it is to bring a life on to this planet. I help to show Her how to slow down to heal, bond and connect with Her child postpartum. I help Her to understand the demands of our current over-culture are NOT life affirming and that it may be hard, but it is more important to take this time to heal and go slow. I teach Her to have a loving connection with Her breasts, the branches of Her heart. Learning, touching and knowing Her terrain gives Her the advantage and connection. Teaching and holding space for Her to move into the Queen stage of life as a wise woman in Menopause. She’ll learn the gifts and beauty of Her life and will not hold back in offering Her wisdom.

My clinical practice focuses on the holistic healing of women, at all stages of life and growth from menarche to menopause with everything in-between. I use the modalities of Herbal Healing, Massage and Bodywork, Ayurveda, Coaching, Counseling and Ritual with my years of experience in feminine embodied spaces as a Priestess and Medicine Woman.

Official Bio:

Pilar is the founder and lead practitioner of Pilar’s Wellness Collective. She is a board certified doctor of Ayurveda with the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. As a cultural midwife, artist and activist, throughout her career she has brought innovative healing strategies and integrating modalities while serving as a practitioner and teacher throughout Southern California for over two decades. She founded Indigo Healing in 2001, infusing therapeutic bodywork with shamanic healing where she developed a subtle body / energy work technique, Shri Prana. In 2004 she formed Gaia Girls, a Goddess / Earth Based Spirituality after-school program for girls that connected childhood creativity with ritual, mystery and the turning of the seasons. Integrating her love and knowledge of Ayurveda with herbal healing and massage therapy, she founded Shri Veda Wellness in 2009. She has been a speaker and presenter around the US and internationally and has developed courses in various topics such as Natural Fertility, Vaginal Steaming, Breast Care, Yoni Egg practices, and Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula trainings. A desire to share herbal formulas beyond in-person consultations came in 2017, when she created Shri Alchemy, an organic herbal line of teas, elixirs and body care products. Wanting to offer more to the community the idea of The Collective was born and a new home in 2020 was created; a place where other gifted practitioners could practice in a collaborative setting and share their healing knowledge, housed within Orange County’s only organic herbal apothecary. In 2023 she was awarded board certified Doctor of Ayurveda by the National Ayurvedic Medical Association for her years of clinical practice, research and study.

Certifications and Awards:

Immense gratitude for every teacher who has guided and supported me on this path. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and light with me. My promise is to uphold these teachings with the highest integrity, to give credit where credit is due, name my teachers, lineages and to carry the wisdom bestowed upon me with each step, breath and heartbeat for as long as this body will allow.

*All appointments with Pilar require an Initial Wellness appointment.