spiritual learning – you want to know who you’re working with. I hope you will find something about me or my spiritual path that speaks to your own soul.

I won’t start at the very beginning and bore you! Where I’d like to start is when my life changed dramatically after a big, unexpected spiritual event snuck up and came crashing in on me. There was no explaining this experience away – and so began my multi-layered, many-faceted spiritual path of self-discovery, exploration, and transformation that continues to unfold to this day.

 

Thankfully, I have an unceasing love of learning, expanding, and growing. If it piques my interest, I go on a journey of research and exploration to uncover my own personal truths and then take those truths and live by them – developing, molding, and enhancing my personal spiritual path, beliefs, and understanding. After my unexpected spiritual event, I began a journey to try to understand what had happened to me. I came across the work of Michael Harner, his first book, The Way of the Shaman, and soon thereafter took his introductory shamanism workshop with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. I made amazing discoveries and, after this experience, knew I had been blessed with tools that would guide me to understanding and direction in my life.

 

Around the same time, I also began reading Robert Monroe’s first book, Journeys Out of the Body. His experiences and findings inspired me to take the next leap forward by attending the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Voyage program which introduced me to Hemi-Sync technology to enter a theta brain wave state of altered consciousness. I found both the theta states used in the drumming of shamanism and the binaural beats of Hemi-Sync helped me to find answers and receive guidance. Both programs were absolutely life changing for me.

 

Michael and Robert’s work brought me synchronistically to the resources I needed to make sense of all that happened to me that one day – and all of the seemingly inexplicable incidents that have happened since. There have been many! Their work let me know I was not alone, that strange and wonderful things happen to many of us that help draw us closer to what we are here in this world to accomplish.

 

I spent years studying with the FSS gaining understanding and experience in core shamanic practices, personal power retrieval, counseling, and healing methods. At the same time, I continued taking advanced programs with Monroe – exploring consciousness, further shaping and developing my perception, and learning to better understand my reality. Fast forward a bit – I became a teacher for the FSS for five years. I am currently an Outreach Trainer and Community Leader with Monroe teaching students how to use the same tools that changed my own life. ​

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In addition to FSS and Monroe, I have also studied the Pachakuti mesa traditions and sacred living teachings offered by Peruvian shaman, don Oscar Miro-Quesada. I traveled to Nepal for a student immersion into Nepalese shamanic culture guided by teacher and shaman, Bhola Banstola. I am a dedicated student of learning and understanding the mystical paths and traditions of our ancestors as you can see by my coursework and fieldwork HERE. I am also very involved in searching out meaningful spiritual tools and practices that can help us move deep within ourselves, find answers to our questions, solutions to our problems, and profoundly connect us with our spiritual path – giving us the anchor we need especially during turbulent and difficult times in our lives.