joyful, energetic website to reimagine what healing feels like
“Healing was learning no one has ever laid a fingerprint on the part of me that’s infinite.”
Sacred Mountain Healing is a bodywork studio that uses a variety of ancient healing modalities to help women embrace the practice of healing over the possibilities of being healed.
Heather Whitehouse, who founded Sacred Mountain, is an energy healer, shaman, Akashic Records practitioner, and so much more.
And she is on a mission to help women reframe healing as a lifelong practice, instead of a status to be achieved.
After seeing what a constant practice of healing can do for someone struggling with their physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual imbalances, she created Sacred Mountain Healing to help other people do the same.
Heather’s goal with her website was to show that life can be fun and joyful - even as we deal constantly with trauma, grief, and overwhelm.
Using the calming pale peach color as the primary backdrop, gives the overall website a sense of calm - kind of like a big deep breath out.
Accenting this with the bright pops of orange - through headers and buttons, as well as some of the images - brings in the joyful energy that really sets Heather apart in the world of energy healing.
And the dark brown overlays and footer ground everything - much the way Heather uses traditional healing tools like meditation, chakra balancing, and cord cutting to ground her more esoteric tools like the Akashic Records and Herbal Astrology.
Her website is the perfect epitome of what life feels like to acknowledge the stories we have been told, reject the ones that are harming us, and create a holistic wellness plan - using ancient tools for modern problems.
TIPS ON CHOOSING YOUR COLOR PALETTE:
When choosing your color palette, think about how you want people to feel when they come to your site. Use one of the many color tools available online to play with different combinations. When you have 2-3 you like, send them to colleagues, clients and/or friends and ask them to tell you the first thing that comes to mind when they see those colors.
One of my favorite tools for this is COOLORS. Once on the site, you can put in colors you like and hit the space bar to see other possible combinations. To do this, put in 3 colors and “lock” them. Then hit the space bar and see what other colors the program throws at you!
PRO TIP: Be sure to ask the opinions of people who represent your ideal client/customer. This is not about what’s trendy or even what you like.
ADHD TIP: COOLORS is another site that is ripe with rabbit hole potential. Give yourself the grace to spend some time here and really play with different combinations. Sometimes I find a photo that really captures the energy I’m looking for and then pull the colors out of it as my starting point on COOLORS.
The quote at the start of this post is Andrea Gibson, spoken word poet-activist and the current poet laureate of Colorado. You can follow Andrea on Substack at Things That Don’t Suck.
