About my spiritual path

I stumbled onto the Shamanic path in 1997 after a decade of study in other Earth-based spiritual practices. The majority of my training has been through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. The FSS teaches Core Shamanism, which draws from cultures all over the world, taking what is universal in Shamanic practices but leaving specific cultural traditions to their own peoples.

My human shamanic teachers: Janine Ellison, Tom Cowan, John Lawrence, Sandra Ingerman, Michael Harner, Isa Gucciardi, Leslie Conton, Miguel Kavlin, Anank Nunik Nunkai, Betsy Bergstrom.

My biggest healers have been those who have helped me along the way, changing me as a person through their unconditional love. I ask for the gift to help others in the same way.

My biggest teachers have been the Initiations of Hardship that life has presented me with and my dedication to following a path of healing. Now this has changed, as the love and light I receive from spirit and friends teaches me as profoundly as hardship has in the past.

What I have taken away from all this is:

Technique does not heal, only love does.
The spirits are alive and well; the depth of my relationship with them is up to me.
Compassion is a powerful and mysterious thing; it is the answer to most of my questions.
The same way of working loses its power.

My personal source of spiritual soul strengthening, energy clearing, me-stabilizing is found in Qigong at Embrace the Moon.

I am a Sacred Visual Artist. For more about that, see the'My Art' page.