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...

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 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...

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...

I came to the healing practices adapted from indigenous cultures through the path of trauma.  I suffered for many years with symptoms of...

It takes a fair amount of hubris and courage to write about peace.  I say this with a good dose of humor and humility because I am keenly...

I am a carrier of a mesa, a beautiful, multicolored bundle containing various power objects and stones used for moving energy in service...

What is healing? Healing is the dynamic process of finding our wholeness even in the midst of the inevitable challenges of living in a...