Transformation in meditation For many years, I thought healing meant understanding. I began psychotherapy in my early twenties and eventually spent years in Jungian analysis. That work changed me profoundly. I learned to recognize the dynamics of my family, understand the ways I had adapted to an unpredictable childhood, and see patterns in myself that had once been invisible to me. I mined my dreams for images of transformation and meaning. I became deeply self-reflective an

The Golden Love-Light of Healing There are experiences that do more than hurt us. They can alter our relationship with ourselves, with other people, with the Sacred, and with life itself. Trauma, violence, betrayal, abandonment, oppression, grief, and other forms of suffering can leave us feeling profoundly alone, even when we are surrounded by people who love us. We may feel disconnected from ourselves, unable to trust what we once trusted, or spiritually disconnected from a

A Shamanic Healing People come to shamanic healing for many reasons. Some are carrying the effects of trauma, loss, betrayal, or difficult relationships. Others feel stuck in patterns they understand intellectually but have been unable to change. Some describe feeling disconnected from themselves, their bodies, their spiritual lives, or a sense of meaning and direction. Still others have already done considerable healing and arrive with a different kind of question: There is

2025 brought to me a very intense late-life reintegration and spiritual upleveling as I entered my mid-60s. Sometimes it has felt pretty harrowing with... .....the arising of intense emotions and both positive and difficult memories from the past ....reexperiencing layers of grief from what has not yet been accomplished or reached (life partnership), past trauma, losses of loved ones and opportunities unexplored ...reevaluating shedding of an old trauma-based personal, profes

Shamanic healing is a profound and ancient practice that has been used for thousands of years across many cultures. It involves connecting with the spiritual world to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This ancient art is rooted in the belief that everything in the universe is interconnected, and healing comes from restoring balance within oneself and with nature. Understanding the origins and methods of shamanic healing can offer valuable insights into ho

What does it mean to say that a human being has a Light Body? Across many spiritual and healing traditions, human beings have been understood as more than physical organisms. We are embodied, certainly. We think and feel. We carry histories in our bodies and psyches. But spiritual traditions have also described dimensions of human existence that extend beyond what can ordinarily be perceived through the five senses. In my own spiritual practice and nearly two decades of work

My trauma-body awakened in February 1993. Ice poured down as if from the heavens. The season had already been brutally cold. It was February 1993. My husband’s and my small, cinderblock rental cottage stood on a 3000-acre horse farm in Albemarle County, 15 miles south of Charlottesville, Virginia, at least a mile from any major road. By the time the storm passed 2 days later, we could not open the front door. There was an unnerving stillness in the air and the sky remaine

Our world is currently an extremely violent place. There are ongoing conflicts in up to 40 regions. Russia has been pummeling Ukraine for almost 3 years. Israel and Hamas are at war with too many innocent civilians murdered in both wars. In the United States, mass shootings have been on the rise, particularly in schools where innocent children have been killed and injured. Western commentators have logged only 268 years of peace in a span of 3400 years. It is estimated that a

“Beloved, beloved Pachamama, mamakita, la Tierra Madre, Mat’ Zemlya, our great cosmic Earth Mother, oh, how much we love you!” -A multicultural prayer to Mother Earth I love to pray to Mother Earth in many languages when I do shamanic energy healings and as part of the mystical teachings and ceremony I offer as part of Awakened Heart Shamanism The fact that many peoples around the world use the word “mama” or “Mother” for the Earth is a testament to what human communities

If you have ever had a sense that you are launching onto a new and more promising path in your life after being blocked or burdened for years with multiple challenges that always seem to get in the way of thriving, you are experiencing a shift in your destiny lines. If you have awakened out of the chaos of being buffeted about by internal and external conditions seemingly out of control and are experiencing a sense of empowerment, meaning and purpose, you have activated on an

There are experiences in life after which we may say, “I have never been quite the same.” Sometimes the change follows an obvious trauma: violence, abuse, the death of someone we love, war, betrayal, abandonment, or another experience that overwhelms our capacity to absorb what has happened. At other times, the loss is quieter. A child learns that a particular gift is unacceptable. Someone repeatedly suppresses an essential part of themselves to remain connected to a family o

In today’s intense and busy world, it is very important to have special places where we can recharge, come back into balance, and even heal. While we may find this in nature, we can also create sacred space with a shamanic altar or shrine. Shamanism acknowledges that everything is energy and that the divine Love-Light out of which all is created is everywhere and in everything. But at the same time, it can be accessed or felt even more easily in and around sacred places. For

My client, Lisa, the executive director of an NGO in Washington, D.C. is lying on the massage table, fully clothed, as I use my stones, rattles, breathwork, and feathers to encourage her energy body (that bubble of light surrounding and interpenetrating the physical body) to open. I then spin the most blocked chakras clockwise, so they release. After about 10 minutes, I journey into her subconscious to extract an unhealed trauma wound that is causing symptoms of anxiety and d

I am a carrier of a mesa, a beautiful, multicolored medicine bundle containing various crystals and stones used for creating a vibrational frequency of healing, harmony, balance, and abundance for myself and others. The tradition of this portable altar goes back to the ancient Inca and can be found today among the medicine people of the Andes, in particular the Q’ero, their descendants. In the past 20 years, many paqos, or medicine people, have been called by the spirits to o

There are times in life when the spiritual practices, insights, and understandings that have carried us for years are no longer enough. This does not necessarily mean that something has gone wrong. Sometimes the opposite is true. We have reached a threshold. A death, betrayal, illness, relationship ending, career change, or other upheaval may unsettle the structure of a life we thought we understood. We may find ourselves repeating patterns despite years of inner work. A spir

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“ Beloved Condor Spirit and Spirit of Macchu Pichu, I am feeling stuck around manifesting the next step in my mission and purpose in life. Please give me guidance!” I was sitting in front of my mesa—the word used by the Q’ero people of the Andes in Peru for a power-packed medicine bundle. I said more—about what I had done so far, about my ideas and thoughts, wishes and dreams. But I knew once I opened Sacred Space by praying to the 6 directions—East-West, North-South—Mother

When Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his powerful and inspiring speech to the United States joint chambers of Congress on December 21, 202, noted that Russians must “defeat the Kremlin in their minds,” I resonated deeply with it. I felt its truth going far beyond the way the Russian government continues to manipulate and oppress its own people and deceive them about the invasion of Ukraine. The “Kremlin in the mind” is arises out of a wounded ego sickness that a

Healing Frequencies About two 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 violence and war. I did not experience this vision as a prediction. I experienced it as a revelation of something possible in the human heart: a longing for another way of living together. That vision has stayed with me for more than twenty years. So has the question beneath it: What would have to change in us—and between