‍ About Mother Earth Healing Center

Mother Earth Healing Center is a heart-centered healing sanctuary devoted to nervous system restoration, emotional and physical healing, spiritual reconnection, and compassionate care for all beings — including the Earth itself. Founded in Idyllwild, California by Christina Lee Mushin Nordella in honor of her twin sister Kathleen, the center has served the community and clients worldwide since 2002 through both its healing practice and nonprofit mission.

At the center of this work is Kokoro Healing™ — a gentle, integrative healing approach created by Christina after more than 30 years of experience in energy healing, spiritual practice, and holistic support.

“Kokoro” is a Japanese word often associated with the heart, spirit, and the deeper emotional essence of self.

Kokoro Healing was created as a space for people to soften, reconnect, and return to themselves.

In a world that often leaves people overwhelmed, disconnected, emotionally exhausted, or stuck in survival mode, these sessions offer a calm and supportive environment where the body, mind, and spirit can begin to restore balance naturally.

Through a blend of Jin Shin Jyutsu, Reiki, and shamanic healing practices, each session gently supports the release of energetic and emotional blockages while inviting greater clarity, grounding, self-love, and inner peace.

This work is rooted in the belief that healing does not need to be forced. When the nervous system feels safe, the body and spirit often remember how to heal.

Whether in-person or through distance healing, Kokoro Healing sessions are designed to support:

• emotional overwhelm and stress

• energetic exhaustion

• spiritual disconnection

• anxiety and nervous system imbalance

• grief and emotional healing

• self-connection and inner clarity

• physical, emotional, and energetic balance

The Healing Modalities

Jin Shin Jyutsu

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient Japanese healing art that works with the body’s natural energy pathways through 26 “Safety Energy Locks” located throughout the body. Stress, emotional strain, trauma, and illness may contribute to energetic stagnation within these pathways. Through gentle hand placements, Jin Shin Jyutsu helps support energetic harmony, relaxation, and overall well-being while encouraging the body’s innate healing intelligence.

Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice that supports relaxation, energetic balance, and restoration. During a Reiki session, universal life energy is gently channeled through light touch or hands held just above the body. Many people experience a deep sense of calm, emotional release, grounding, and inner peace during sessions.

Shamanic Healing

Shamanic healing is an ancient spiritual practice rooted in connection with nature, spirit, and energetic balance. Through ceremony, intention, intuitive guidance, and traditional healing practices, shamanic work supports emotional clearing, spiritual reconnection, and restoration between the physical and energetic aspects of self.

Our Mission

Mother Earth Healing Center exists to create a gentle space for healing, compassion, reconnection, and remembrance — for individuals, community, and the Earth itself.

This is not simply a place for healing sessions.

It is a space devoted to:

• emotional safety

• nervous system restoration

• spiritual reconnection

• self-love and compassion

• community healing

• harmony with nature

• returning home to yourself

From survival mode to self-connection.
From overwhelm to softness.
From disconnection to return.

About Christina Lee Mushin Nordella

Christina Lee Mushin Nordella is a healing practitioner, educator, artist, and founder of Mother Earth Healing Center, bringing more than 30 years of experience in spiritual practice, energy healing, compassionate service, and community care. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing begins with safety, presence, compassion, and reconnection — to oneself, to others, and to the natural world. Christina is the creator of Kokoro Healing™, a heart-centered healing practice that gently supports emotional, physical, energetic, and spiritual restoration through the integration of Jin Shin Jyutsu, Reiki, and shamanic healing traditions. Her sessions are designed to help individuals move from overwhelm and disconnection toward balance, softness, self-love, and inner peace.

Her spiritual path has been shaped by decades of study, service, and immersive practice. Christina received the Munay-Ki — the Nine Great Rites of Shamanic Initiation — passed down through the lineage of the Incan shamans of Peru by Dr. Alberto Villoldo. She also spent eight years living and practicing at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, where she immersed herself in contemplative spiritual practice and mindful living. In addition to her healing work, Christina served for three years as a trained hospice volunteer at Desert Regional Medical Center, offering compassionate support to individuals and families during the sacred transition at the end of life. This experience deepened her understanding of grief, presence, tenderness, and the profound emotional and spiritual needs of the human heart.

Creativity, nature, and community healing have also remained central throughout her life. Christina spent 18 years as an art educator and founding member of the smARTS program at Idyllwild Elementary School, where she encouraged creativity, imagination, and emotional expression through the arts. She also served as Founding Director of the Earthwitness Foundation for eight years, leading outdoor education programs focused on environmental stewardship, connection to nature, and respect for Native American cultural teachings throughout Riverside County. A devoted mother, aunt, artist, and lifelong student of healing, Christina’s life continues to be nourished by poetry, dance, creativity, spirituality, service, and deep connection with the natural world. Her work today reflects a lifetime devoted to helping others gently return to themselves.

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