Hindsight is indeed 2020 and recapitulation is a powerful way to create healing, growth and understanding. I view Solstice as the beginning of the year, as we turn once again toward the light. I use this time to take down my mesa (altar) and clean the area that has been [...]
She prefers to open her flowers in the morning and evening when it's cooler I'm a creative gardener. That's what I call it anyway. I've got a live and let live mentality with most of the plants in my gardens, and I do my best to plant [...]
Welcome to the last month of the decade! Quite a journey it's been, yes? How far have you come since 2010? How much has changed in your life? I'm looking forward to the turning of the wheel at Winter Solstice, December 21st, when I will take down my mesa (altar) [...]
We had such a fun retreat weekend for the mentorship students! And starting in April, 2020, Retreats will be open to the public. I'm excited to announce that our next retreat is April 17 - 19, in the mountains of WNC, right near Asheville, NC. We'll spend 3 days at [...]
About 16 years ago people started asking me to train them in the shamanic practices that I was using in my daily life and with private clients, and to offer more than the semi-regular workshops that I was sharing. Up to that point, it hadn't occurred to me to train [...]
In our most recent online Shamanic Mentorship session, we explored our theme for the month: Freedom, while diving into the work of looking at our own death, and the freedom that comes from going back into the Oneness. It's not always an easy conversation to have, discussing our mortality and [...]
When I sit on top of a mountain, overlooking sweeping vistas and communing with pristine nature, I feel free. Making offerings and being in ritual expands my sense of internal freedom and my connection with Earth, and all beings. I’m deeply grateful that I have the freedom to drive up [...]
Lately I've been feeling what I would call news fatigue. I found myself utterly despondent one day, after reading the headlines that popped up on my laptop as I tried to check email. I hit a point where I just couldn't take any more bad news, any more horrific stories [...]
My first visit to the jungle of Peru and my first tree dieta, which was done in town. I learned quickly that this is not the best way to be in dieta, as it is important to truly be alone with the jungle and medicine trees. My relationship with the [...]
