Cultivating Pleasure and Joy
Joy is different from happiness in that it is deeper and larger somehow. It is closer in its essence to contentment, but instead of coming forth after an achievement, joy…
Energetic Armour: The Body Types
*The following is an excerpt from the book “Dreaming of Cupcakes: A Food Addict’s Shamanic Journey into Healing:” In her book, “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human…
Buddhist Personality Types
*The following is an excerpt from the book “Dreaming of Cupcakes: A Food Addict’s Shamanic Journey into Healing:” In Buddhism, there are three personality types, which Jack Kornfield goes over in…
Cutting Karmic Ties in Relationship with Others
This shamanic technique is employed when someone is really stuck on an issue in life and has been unable to find resolution on their own. There are often past life…
Honing Our Emotional Intelligence with Shamanic Medicine
*The following is an excerpt from the book “Dreaming of Cupcakes: A Food Addict’s Shamanic Journey into Healing:” We humans spend so much time stuffing, denying, spewing, and avoiding our feelings…
How Shamans Re-assemble Reality
Assemblage refers to the way we create our interpretation of “reality” in the Toltec tradition. We “assemble” our realities in our minds, bodies, and energy bodies. These correspond to actual…
Ho’oponopono: A Hawaiian Forgiveness Practice
Forgiveness is the end result of a deeply emotive process of coming back from the devastation of trauma and betrayal and into strength once again. You’ll understand anger’s profound connection…
Discovering and Working with Animal Spirit Guides
*The following is an excerpt from the book “Dreaming of Cupcakes: A Food Addict’s Shamanic Journey into Healing:” Throughout this book, I’ve already spoken a lot about how I’ve utilized my…
Animal Totems: Masters of Sensitivity
*This article first appeared in The Empath Magazine in Autumn 2017. The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual…What we…
Shamanic Dreaming Practices
*The following is an excerpt from the book “Dreaming of Cupcakes: A Food Addict’s Shamanic Journey into Healing:” It was by practicing and studying shamanism that I learned to hear and…
Shamanic Healing Work with Crystals
Throughout the history of humankind crystals…have been highly valued by spiritual leaders, healers, and scientists…Crystals can help activate and facilitate… transformation [in human consciousness] through their ability to amplify and…
Dance as Catharsis
Do you know what I’ve learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while…