“Did you know that your heart is a planet? It rests at the center of the Wheel of Mother Life–your life.  Dance in its medicine of...

When I was a child, I knew I had lived in other bodies, in other lifetimes.  It was as if this knowledge came with me out of the womb. It...

In the past two weeks, all of us in the United States and even around the world have been feeling the impact of our new president’s...

As our country has been thrown into division and conflict in the wake of November’s election, I am moved to write about the importance of...

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...

One day, I was cleaning my house and listening to a radio program on the problem of post-partum depression in women.  The researcher...

In my blog entitled “Dreaming Violence into Peace, Part 1″, I shared that I had recently had a series of violent dreams which seemed to...

Some people love the ocean.  I love mountains.  I have lived in and near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for the past 30 some years....

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...

The Sandy Hook shooting and the deaths of 20 children and 7 adults strikes at the very heart of our belief in goodness in the world and...

Almost 17 years ago, I met the Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo at her Peace Village in Bristol, Vermont. I have told the story before about how I...

On August 18, 1991, the day after my wedding to my now ex-husband, I woke up in a honeymoon hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia to be...

The Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, as it reads on her website, is an international spiritual teacher, author, and spiritual catalyst for peace....

I am here to invite you to participate in creating a vision of our future in which we embrace the truism that peace is the human way. ...

This past spring, the media was ablaze with a story about a Christian radio broadcaster, Harold Egbert Camping who predicted that on May...

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...

Your Life is a Trip, January, 2010.  I tell the story of how I became a shamanic healer quite reluctantly and yet inexorably.