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Soul’s lighthouse

A beacon for healing and transformation

Inspired by a deeply personal journey, Soul’s Lighthouse serves as a compassionate sanctuary for those navigating grief, pain, or life's transitions. Whether helping clients find peace in their lives or guiding them toward a serene passing, the work is rooted in authenticity, love, and spiritual connection. Through offerings like Grief Yoga®, Soul Midwifery, Workshops, and Retreats, Soul’s Lighthouse fosters safe spaces for healing, where pain is gently transformed into opportunities for more light, love, and joy.

HI! I’m Charity

Hello.  My name is Charity and, to be honest, I’ve been struggling on what to share with you about myself.  I thought about doing the “normal” thing of sharing my education, experience, accomplishments, etc, but when I am grieving, I know none of that truly matters to me.  (You can find that info below 😊.)  When I am grieving, I seem to have no idea what I want or what I need, so how do I write to YOU as a soul that I would like to walk with on your grief journey?  I’ll share 3 things about me:

1. I know grief.  Yes, grief and I have a history and it has swiftly entered into my life in numerous ways.  I have been cheated on in relationships, divorced, lived apart from my children, lost my father, stepdad, grandparents, mentors, friends, and my sweet pups.  I retired from the U.S. Navy and closed my first business.  I am an overcomer of childhood sexual trauma and traumatic events in my adulthood.  I have chronic pain/mobility issues and am a long-time grateful recovering codependent, perfectionist, and I think I was the president of the not-good-enough club for many years of my life.  Like everyone in the world, I went through the loss of time during the early COVID years: the heart-wrenching numbness, the shock and heaviness, the indescribable pain and ache.  I felt like I was stuck in a clouded jar watching the world continue as if nothing was wrong.  For me though, nothing sounded, looked, smelled, or ever felt exactly the same again. 

2. I know my grief but I don’t understand or know YOUR pain. I may have had a similar experience or be able to relate to your pain in some way.  However, I honor that I have not lived the experience you are living or walked life in your shoes.  I have not felt your pain like you are feeling it at this moment.  Whatever the circumstance of your pain, it is the most significant pain and loss in this moment.

3. I am grief and love; dark and light.  As my teacher, David Kessler, says “Grief is love with nowhere to go.”  I made a tough decision to witness my grief and pain.  It wasn’t easy.  Society tells us to stuff it down and to push it away, but after years of doing this, all it brought me was resistance, tension, sadness, and pain.  Through witnessing and getting to know my pain, I have experienced more love and light and less heaviness and darkness.  I have found ways to honor my loved ones, my experiences lost, and my aging and to walk through life with grief as my “partner” rather than someone who came to ruin my life.  After offering space for my grief to connect with my life, I actually see things clearer and have more joy than I have ever felt.  I didn’t ask for grief to come into my life but it did and now it is a part of me that I am choosing to grow around. 

She is co-founder of the Jacksonville Flute Duo, has a Bachelor’s of Music Education from James Madison University, a Master’s in Human Resource Development from Webster University, and is a 21-year, retired Senior Chief Musician from the U.S. Navy.  She is a wife, a mom, a musician, and a consistent practitioner of processing her own grief…a love that never ends.

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Learn more about Charity’s Yoga Journey!

A journey back to my life

I had taken a short online workshop with a woman named Jen Aks in 2023. She was partnering with someone I met through my Grief Yoga® training and afterward, I signed up to receive Jen’s emails. I then received numerous emails that I didn’t even open. One day I was having an exceptionally low day and up popped an email from Jen with a meditation. It was like a gift getting delivered to me and I hoped it would shift my perspective. It did! I became curious so scrolled through her website, and immediately signed up to chat with her, and after 15 minutes I was on this journey of closing doors in my past that had just been sitting ajar and causing me to feel stuck.  In Spring 2024, she produced this raw video of parts of my life story and I spent the rest of the year working 1 on 1 with her. Working with her brought me healing, shifts in my thinking, strength, joy, resilience, and courage through feeling and moving freely. 

You don’t need a clear picture to begin working with someone on YOU. Sometimes all you need is to make that 1st call and let the rest happen.

  • “Charity Haney is a powerful Grief Yoga teacher who offers immense compassion, heart and sweetness to her workshops and retreats.  Her mission is deeply inspiring and a blend of many of her strengths to a powerful purpose within the Soul's Lighthouse.  I highly recommend her classes and work.”

    Paul Denniston - Founder of Grief Yoga® and Author of Healing Through Yoga: Transform Loss into Empowerment

  • "Though Charity and I have been friends for a long time, it has only been in the last couple of years that I have interacted with her in her capacity as a spiritual guide and teacher. I can attest, with complete sincerity and zero reservations, that THIS is the work she was born to do. I have worked with her as both a seasoned yoga instructor and also as a grief counselor. In every instance, I was able to completely 'let go' of and lay down my burdens. It was transformative each time. If you allow her into your circle, I guarantee she will do the same for you."

    Mark C

  • “Charity has been an incredible presence on my healing journey, profoundly impacting my life. She hasn’t just walked beside me she has been a true mentor, teacher, friend offering wisdom, compassion, and unwavering support. Her classes have helped me emerge from very dark places and reconnect with myself, even in moments when I struggled to believe in my own strength. No matter how I felt going in, I’ve never left a session without feeling lighter, more grounded, and deeply supported. Her knowledge, empathy, and the safe, healing space she creates through her words and classes are truly transformative. Anyone would be lucky to have her as a teacher and guide along their journey! I genuinely do not know where I would be or if I would’ve ever got out of my dark space and back on the right path without her support. She is incredible.”

    Julie M.

  • “Most of our team has experienced some kind of trauma personally and/or vicarious trauma from the populations that we serve. We know that the holidays can be challenging, so we asked Charity to lead a virtual grief yoga workshop in early November, hoping that it would provide everyone with new tools to manage what might come up for them. Charity does a beautiful job of providing education, holding space, and demonstrating compassion. Our team did in fact come away with new tools, and they also felt seen and heard. As someone who has experienced an immense amount of grief myself, this might’ve been the first time around the holidays that I’ve felt so much release (and even laughed).”

    -       Kim S.

  • “I was lucky enough to be a musical colleague of Charity’s for many years. She has a very uncommon ability to access the more metaphysical aspects of music and truly make it a healing force."

    Greg D.

  • “I've known Charity for more than 10 years. During that time, I've experienced so much love and healing through her passion for yoga, connection and desire to help everyone that surrounds her. Charity consistently uses her passion for healing to build her knowledge and create an environment of love and support. It's through this deep and boundless well of experience that she applies knowledge, compassion and strength to the challenges life presents to all of us. If you are looking for this level of connection and healing, make the decision to work with Charity. It's truly life changing.”

    -       Katie B.

  • “Charity isn’t just my ‘Spiritual Soul Sista’, she’s one of my ‘Earth Angels’! I’m truly blessed to walk this spiritual path alongside such a beautiful, pure spirit and call her my friend. With her gentle, caring, and compassionate nature, combined with a playful, joyful spirit, Charity has a unique gift for illuminating the healing path of others. Her presence radiates pure light and love, making every step of the journey brighter.”

    Maria K.

  • “I was lucky to take Charity’s classes at a time that I was going through a hard time and I didn’t know how to handle these crises. When I had grief classes with her, I learned how to handle these crises. My favorite was Yoga Nidra where she took me away from this world to somewhere so wonderful and it was there that I found solutions to my problems. I am having tears in my eyes writing these words now. My sorrows started melting away and I saw the light in the end of the tunnel shining so bright. I can’t find the words to thank Charity for her authentic kindness and love that she gave me during my hard time.”

    -       Maryam T.

  • What strikes me most about Charity is how she embodies the very healing she offers. There's no separation between her work and her life—she walks her talk in a way that inspires me to believe that true transformation is possible. If you're looking for someone to help you not just move through grief but find its hidden gifts, Charity is that rare guide who can actually show you the way because she's traveled it herself.

    - Jen Aks Embodiment Coach, Speaker, Dancer, and Founder of "The Power of Gesture".   

  • Charity has been a genuinely grounding presence in my yoga journey. As an instructor, she brings a kind, gentle, and calming energy to every class, creating a safe and welcoming space. She has an incredible ability to meet people exactly where they are—physically, emotionally, and spiritually—making her sessions accessible and deeply restorative. The various workshops I’ve participated in with her have deepened my practice and nurtured a greater sense of self-awareness and inner peace.

    - Bailey S.

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about soul’s lighthouse

“My deepest belief from experiencing many forms of grief is that if you want to heal, feel joy, true happiness, calm, peace, and experience light again then you MUST be open to witnessing and getting to know the dark spaces of your heart.  Yes, sometimes it can hurt to do this work but doesn’t it hurt now?  Yes, sometimes it can feel heavy to do this work but don’t you carry the enormous weight already?   Learn how to make friends with your grief, carry it efficiently instead of allowing it to engulf you, and experience more joy and love than you ever have before!!!” 

Charity is fiercely led by the fire in her heart to bring more joy, love, and light to the living while encouraging those dying to practice acceptance, release, and ease as they create their perfect plan for a peaceful death.

start your path to peace today!