Society for Shamanic Practitioners: shamansociety.org
How I came to be a healer
In Jr. High School my best friend and I were doing "field research" for a report on Psychic Phenomena. We went to a metaphysical bookstore
and the shop keeper read our palms. All these years the one thing I remembered was that she said I had hands of a healer. Back then, a nurse was
the only kind of healer that came to mind and I quickly discarded that notion because I was terrified of needles.
It turns out that healing and intuitive arts have become my passion and the palm reading, it provided a road-sign. I was living in New England after graduating
with an MFA in the 1980's when I developed a curiosity about natural foods, healing, and personal growth. It wasn't entirely voluntary. It was
precipitated by a wake up call in the form of a minor back injury, and feeling a bit lost about my life direction. It led to five years of intensive
learning and discovery in personal growth, intuitive arts, spiritual growth, and healing arts. Within a few years I rented a beautiful space on the
top floor of The Golden Sheaf natural food store and offered energy healing and Voice Dialogue sessions until moving back to Seattle.
After returning home, I spent the next decade in the business realm, developing an innovative natural food program for a chain of grocery stores
that became a leader in introducing organic and natural products to the mainstream. In the midst of this, I found my way back into the healing arts and to shamanism, or, it found me. After the death of my mom in 1996,
my MD (no kidding, my doctor) recommended I get a Soul Retrieval (a traditional shamanic healing method) because my heart was constantly
racing and nothing seemed to be medically wrong. I did, and it worked. My heart rate returned to normal within a week of the treatment.
It took my emotional heart a long time to recover from the loss, and it was the catalyst that demanded my attention to what I finally recognized
as my calling.
After taking local classes in shamanism though-out the late 1990's, in 1998 I embarked on what turned out to be a journey of extensive training
in shamanism and shamanic healing that includes The Foundation For Shamanic Studies Two-Week Intensive, and Three-Year Training in Advanced Shamanism
and Shamanic Healing with Michael Harner, Ph.D; followed by Sandra Ingerman, MFT's Two-Year Teacher Training; and lots of weekend workshops and trainings
in-between.
In 2004 I expanded my tool box and received Certification as a Transpersonal Hypnotist with Jack Elias. In 2006, Systemic Constellations captured
my attention, and I've been engaged in trainings, workshops, and facilitation since.
The healing and intuitive work I offer integrates insights distilled from life lessons, inspiration and wisdom from helping spirits and nature, skillful
intuition, and in-depth training in:
Shamanic Healing: engaging the spirit realm for healing and information, including soul retrieval, soul remembering, extraction, spirit releasement,
and support for the process of death and dying.
Energy Healing: also known as Reiki or hands-on healing. Channeling universal life force energy through the hands for physical and emotional
balancing, restoration and healing.
Hypnosis/NLP: accessing the vast memory held in our subconscious and engaging deeper learning states. Includes Past Life Regression.
Systemic Constellations: (also known as Family Constellations and Family Matrix) accessing the dynamic web of interconnectedness to which we
belong to reveal and find resolution for hidden dynamics and entanglements with family, ancestors, or any system we are apart of that impacts our lives and well being.
It is only through the process of my own healing and life challenges that I was introduced to, if not initiated into, these truly remarkable methods.
They have been transformational for me in many ways, and I continue to be in awe of the results I witness with my clients.
