Mikaya Heart grew up in Scotland and now lives in northern California when she is not in Hawaii. Her specialty is teaching the art of being fully alive, which is about learning to operate from a place of trust and embracing life, instead of being motivated by fear and trying to avoid what makes us afraid. She has been speaking and teaching for more than thirty years, and has written ten books, six of which are in print.

She received a Golden Crown Literary Award for her memoir, My Sweet Wild Dance, which is a very radical read, as it tells the truth about her nightmarish childhood and her healing process in raw detail. Visit the Bookshop to see more of Mikaya’s books, read reviews, and watch movie trailers.

She studied biology at York University in 1970, in the days when no ordinary person had heard the word "ecology." Her studies taught her that we are endangering the future of our planet with our so-called "progress" and at the same time she learned about apartheid in South Africa, which was still going strong. Appalled that such things could be condoned in the twentieth century, she abandoned academia and became a political activist. Over the next few years, she was arrested several times when she stood up for her beliefs, and her experiences with so-called justice systems around the world only increased her commitment to creating change. There came a time when she stopped fighting against what she didn't want, because it makes more sense to put energy into creating what she does want, and what she wants most is to live in a peaceful world. Fighting for peace just doesn't work. It is by our presence that we can create peace.

Mikaya is a powerful speaker and is available for speaking engagements on line as well as in person. After a hiatus of ten years, she is once again offering individual counseling sessions online, with the intention of helping people to get through hard times and empowering individuals to utilize their creative power so that we can all manifest a kinder and gentler world. Email Mikaya for more information.


Mikaya has written many articles and has been a guest on a number of radio shows, including Bonnie Coleen’s Seeing Beyond and Close Up Radio. She has frequently been called "an inspirational speaker," and always enjoys sharing her powerful stories with large or small audiences. A couple of movie companies have expressed interest in making three of her books into movies, and there is also talk of a documentary on her very diverse and adventurous life.