I am happy to announce the opening of my new office in the Montclair district of Oakland. This beautiful sacred space is to be used for private Shamanic Healing, Ceremony, Spiritual Counseling, Consultation, One-0n-One training and transmitting the Nine Rites of the Munay-Ki.
You may think that Shamanic Journeying is a woo-woo
New Age nightmare? Anthropologist and teacher Michael Harner is fond to point
out that Shamanism isn’t "New Age"... it is Stone Age.
Shamanism is the oldest spiritual practice known to humankind. We know from the
archaeological evidence that shamanism has been practiced in parts of Asia,
Siberia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Greenland and native North and South
America for at least 40,000 years.
I am a shamanic practitioner and teacher. I
was one of two American members of the Foundation For Shamanic Studies 2003
Expedition to Tuva. We traveled to the Russian Republic of Tuva to
participate in the International Symposium on Shamanism in August 2003. The
Tuvan government, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Foundation for
Shamanic Studies, sponsored this gathering where we worked alongside of 80
Shamans from all over the world collectively performing healings for over 500
clients. This was both a scientific symposium with over 200 world scholars
including anthropologists, ethnologists, ethnobotonists and psychologists as
well as a gathering of practicing shamans.
Shamanism is for skeptics! It is 100%
experiential. You are not asked to believe anything or to take anything on
faith. Only your own direct experience will guide you. There is no dogma or
need for spiritual middlemen. I began as a skeptic, disinclined to allow the
existence of anything but a material rationalist world. I was wrong. Dr. Michael
Harner, anthropologist, founder and director of the Foundation For Shamanic
Studies, and author of The Way of The Shaman, introduced me to the practice of
the shamanic journey. I directly experienced worlds outside my conception of a
materialist universe. This is a practical, results based method. If you do
this, then you experience these results. My beliefs had nothing to do with my
outcomes. It didn’t matter if I believed in the shamanic model or not. It
works. I have seen people receive information and healings that defy logic
again and again.
Through this practice I have developed a deep connection to
spirit based on my own experiences of direct engagement. I have trained with
the Foundation for Shamanic Studies under Dr. Michael Harner, Sandra Ingerman
and Alicia Legunas Gates and have completed the FSS three-year advanced
program. I am a graduate of Sandra Ingerman’s Two-year teacher training
program, which focuses solely on how to teach shamanism in our diverse western
culture. I have continued advanced studies with
Betsy Bergstrom, Lama Wangdu Rinpoche, Q'ero elders and the Iranian Master
Healer, Behrooz Danadoost. I am a founding member of The Society of Shamanic
Practitioners and the Center For Shamanic Healing.
I am an Ordained
Minister with The Circle of the Sacred Earth, a church of animism fostering
shamanic principles and practices, and am available
for officiating sacred ceremonies, life passages, spiritual healing and counseling.