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Heal What Remains.
Awaken Your Purpose.
Rise Up in Courage.
Step Up into the Work You Are Meant to Do.
Spiritual teaching, shamanic healing and mentoring and spiritual teachings for people who have already done deep inner work--
and are now called to move beyond what still blocks them,
step into their deeper purpose, and serve a world in need.
Guided by 40 years of spiritual practice, trauma-informed work, and academic depth--and trusted by thousands of clients and students worldwide, including recognition by Iyanla Vanzant, best-selling author, spiritual teacher and Emmy Award-winning host of Iyanla: Fix My Life.
When Healing Becomes the Soul's Call to Serve
You may have done therapy. You may have walked a spiritual way for years. You may understand your patterns, your history, your wounds.
And yet--something remains unresolved.
Not because you are broken. But because something deeper is asking to emerge.
A deep truth.
A deeper purpose.
A deeper level of service aligned with your soul's true calling.
My work supports you in moving through what still holds you back--so you can step into the life and service in spiritual leadership that is truly yours.
This Work is For You If...
You have already done meaningful inner work--and know there is more.
You feel a clear or emerging call toward purpose, leadership or service using all your accumulated wisdom and intuitive gifts.
You are not looking for endless processing--but for movement and clarity.
You sense that unresolved inner dynamics and ancestral patterns are still limiting your path.
You want grounded, spiritually deep and mature support--not surface-level coaching.
What I offer is more than shamanic healing or a spiritual technique.
Shamanism is just the form that carries eternal teachings and practices
of healing, compassion, love, and transformation.
My work is trauma-informed, rooted in spiritual depth, offering guidance and support for those who feel called to serve a world in need.
Ways to Work & Study with Rachel
Rachel's work is endorsed by Iyanla Vanzant, best-selling author, spiritual teacher, and Emmy-Award Winning Host on the OWN Network of
Iyanla: Fix My Life
Shamanic Healing
From healing to groundedness & vitality.
These sessions help restore balance at the level of soul and energy. Through shamanic practices and trauma-informed care, you are supported in releasing what no longer serves and reclaiming the vitality needed to walk your true path. Heal yourself and your ancestors.
Soul-Led Mentoring
From healing to integration to calling into service with your gifts & wisdom.
Soul-Led Spiritual Mentoring is for those who feel called to live with deeper purpose, clarity, and spiritual integrity. Through one-on-one guidance, trauma-informed shamanic energy healing, personal and ancestral, and spiritually grounded practices, deepen your connection with your soul, move beyond old patterns, and align your life with your true calling.
This work supports you in times of spiritual upleveling, crisis and life transition in stepping forward with greater courage, compassion, and spiritual leadership in service to love and life.
Sign up for a 30-minute complimentary Soul Discovery Call with Rachel for clarity about the deeper meaning of the transition you are in and the meaning of your calling.
Spiritual Teachings & Trainings
This work is not only about healing or personal growth. It is rooted in spiritual teaching--supporting those called to deepen, embody, and live with they are here to bring to the world.
About Rachel
I am a spiritual teacher whose work integrates shamanic healing and mentoring to support people who have already done deep inner work.
In my early 30s, I met my first Native American teacher, discovered energy medicine for healing trauma, and was well into developing and teaching university courses on collective trauma. At the age of 46, I left my tenured academic position at the University of Virginia to do this work. Part of it was the calling to teach a spiritual path that I call Awakened Heart Shamanism integrating my ongoing study with spiritual masters of the Q'ero in Peru and others.
Read more about my work....
Free, Live Event on April 4
It is a time when many of us feel uncertain, afraid, and losing hope. Yet, at the same time, we feel called to serve others and the world.
Join me in my free Masterclass, Rise Up in Radiant Courage.
Regain hope.
Learn the power of compassion to transform the world.
Discover how deep soul healing and spiritual courage can help you step forward with clarity, compassion, and purpose.
Let's go! There's no time to lose!
The Awakened Heart Institute for Shamanic Studies
On Demand Courses
A ceremonial path of crystal medicine for protection, healing, and peace. In this on-demand course, Rachel shares sacred crystalline shamanic ceremonies that help you clear energetic disturbances, strengthen your spiritual field, and cultivate a steady presence of peace during turbulent times.
Programs & Retreats
Step up to be initiated into an ancient and contemporary shamanic tradition. Illuminate your spiritual & healing gifts. Serve others & the world with love.
Awakened Heart Shamanism
Walk a Mystical, Spiritual Path of
Love-Light, Healing & Peace
Program Starts June, 2026
Program Starts October, 2026
Study to Be a Shamanic Healer & Ceremonial Leader
You feel the calling to be a healer. You feel it in your bones. Learn Shamanic Somatic-Emotional Energy Transformation--Rachel's signature method incorporating Light Body and Chakra clearing, sacred drama, wound extraction, soul retrieval, somatic processing, and integral self-awareness techniques.
Next session: Wednesday, March 18
The Love-Light Circle for Heart Upliftment
Twice a month, in this monthly membership gathering, Rachel leads live session with wisdom teachings on how to live with compassion and love in this turbulent world, meditations for grounding, centering and protection, guided journeys to remove fear and inspire, and ceremonies of Love-Light for our families, communities, humanity, and Mother Earth.
Learn more about the Programs, Trainings, Certifications and workshops offered by the Awakened Heart Institute.
"There are so many ways I have changed, as a result of working with Rachel. She has awakened my spirituality in a way that has deepened profoundly my connection with living in spirit. Rachel walks her talk. She is a great teacher."
- Laura Joy
Rachel has helped me bring power to my own medicine. She gave me a deeper understanding of the power of the Medicine Wheel. As a result of my work with her in the 1-1 Mentoring Program, I stepped with confidence into my role as a shamanic healer and teacher. "
- Salem Wolf Heart, author of Benty Moon: Racing with the Medicine Wheel
Rachel's insight was remarkable. My spirit felt better and lighter. You've tried the rest...now try the best person. who has your best interests at the center of her motivation and intentions.
- Julie Marks
Transformational. Healing. Magical. Powerful. Empowering. Community. Fun. Uplifting. Rachel's class takes people to another level in their life. Rachel's classes changed my perception of life. OK, there are still lions, but there’s no longer a wall.
-Helene Poirot
Rachel has given me the tools to keep the sacred in everyday life. I needed to figure out how to heal the wounds of my past. Rachel offered that.
-Beth Ward, PhD, D. Div, Owner, SoulFire Alchemy
Rachel is one of those rare people blessed with a brilliant, wise mind coupled with a depth of soul and being. She is both expansive and playful while being grounded and firmly anchored in the material world. I knew from the first words we exchanged that I had encountered a profound teacher and healer that was meant to be a part of my life path and ultimate destiny. Give yourself and the world around you the gift of Rachel’s wise and kind touch. You will laugh, you will cry, you will gasp in wonder as you come face to face with the truth of who you are and what you actually mean, what each of us means.
- David Drockton
Here is what people are saying.
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