I have a radically expanded view of the meaning and purpose of healing and creativity which speaks to something I call Creative...

How do you know when you should seek out a shamanic energy healing session? This is the million dollar question! Here is my answer: When...

In 2007, I was struggling to live without a dog. I had lost my beloved Lily, a Great Pyrenees mix, in July of 2006 (pictured here with...

About 2 years after 9/11, I had a vision of billions of people flooding the streets in every corner of the world demanding an end to...

In 2010, a move to a new home in the bucolic, historic village of Batesville, about 20 minutes south of Charlottesville, Virginia,...

I love the holiday lights festooning windows and yards and the Christmas trees shining from inside which can be seen as I drive along...

In the Northern Hemisphere, in late November, we have entered the time of the long dark nights.  At the same time, the world us filled...

Do you find yourself feeling pulled in unhelpful ways into the dramas and heavy energies of others? Or do they seem to evoke feelings of...

Do you feel as if you have lived your life conforming to the expectations of others? Are you caught in the role of the caregiver for...

Current events in 2017 bring me back to the day after 9/11 when I sat in a packed concert hall at the University of Virginia.  The...

Is your energy low? Do you feel drab despite the sun shining so brightly outside? All of this dis-ease, drabness, stuckness, tension, and...

Have you always dreamed of living in a world that is kind, caring and compassionate? Are you watching the violence, hatred, injustice,...

Is the healer in you?  This is an important question for some of you.    Do you feel healing energy in your hands? Do you feel called to...

Despite these desires, do you continue to feel stuck or that there is something missing or yet to be done in your life?  Is there a lot...

In this third blog of the series on Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, I go more deeply...

I have a mission to make contemporary western shamanic energy medicine relevant and understandable to practitioners in mainstream...

It is not uncommon for we spiritual seekers in the western world to want to leap to wholeness,  transcendence or enlightenment (whatever...

I woke up one night in 2014 from a terrifying dream in which I was trying to deter members of my community from allowing a nuclear bomb...