Shamanism Without Borders
Earth Day Event
April 22, 2025
TENDING TO THE EARTH
Society for Shamanic Practice presents our Earth Day Event for 2025! Join our Shamanism Without Borders Community Leaders as they guide you through a day of tending to our Earth.
Shamanism Without Borders (SWB) is a global response network of shamanic practitioners who tend to traumatic events around the world. We do this through shamanic journey to energetically tend to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, war, pollution, and anything that causes disruption and suffering to humanity, to the animal and plant life, and to the earth’s delicate bio-system.
In doing so, we seek to alleviate suffering, to restore balance and harmony worldwide.
Each tending is done from a place of neutrality so that we can be open to whatever information is available for each of us, rather than assuming we know intellectually what the situation needs. Every tending also emphasizes the practice of asking for permission, to ensure that this particular issue is something that is available for us to tend to.
For this event, you will be led in a series of journeys to help our Mother Earth. What shamanic tools can we use to support our Earth? How can we help and heal Her? How can we connect more fully with our Earth and honor the sacred relationship that we humans have with all beings on Earth?
Join Shamanism Without Borders in this One-Day Event to explore these questions and how shamanic practices and principles can be applied to creating a better world for the benefit of all beings and our Mother Earth.
What to Expect
A ceremonial container to guide the entire experience
Inspiring and informative presentations
Strengthening your connection to the Earth
Connection to Earth and her creatures, waters and biosphere
Interactive journey circles
Sharing time with community after each tending
SHAMANISM WITHOUT BORDERS Presenters
Joan Levergood
Introduction and Tending to the Birds
Joan will begin with an introduction of Shamanism Without Borders and then a session on Birds –
The current wave of bird flu is challenging wild and domestic bird species. Wild raptors and water birds are particularly susceptible. In honor of Earth Day, we will tend to the suffering of the birds from the bird flu or any other challenge that they may have. Join Joan Levergood, Shamanism Without Borders Community Leader and SSP Board of Directors member, for this special Earth Day Shamanism Without Borders tending in support of our wild neighbors and the domestic feathered ones who give us so much.
Joan Levergood is a full-time Shamanic Practitioner located in Chicago, Illinois. Joan is a longtime member of the Society for Shamanic Practice’s Shamanism Without Borders Leadership Team and is on the Board of Directors of SSP. Being of service to her community as a shaman goes back to the very beginning of her shamanic training while she was working as a veterinary assistant at an animal shelter. Today Joan works with clients on a variety of life’s challenges. She specializes in unraveling and removing the unhelpful patterns of life, psychopomp or working with the dead, working with companion animals, soul retrieval, shamanic support of medical treatment and finding creative shamanic solutions to life’s sticky situations. She lives in Chicago, Illinois with her spouse, musician and composer Douglas Johnson, 5 unique felines and 2 dogs. Website: helpingspirits.net
Tekla Drakfrende
Tending for the Forests
The Forests are important for the World. They are the center of biodiversity of different kinds, a biodiversity that the Earth and All of Her Life Needs. The Trees produce oxygen and the Forest holds water and keeps the cycles balanced. Many animals and plants depend on the forests and people can get healing there.
The forests are threathened by deforestation, fires, the building of villages, agriculture, roads and other things. Let us join each other on Earth Day to do what we can. Let us ask the Spirit to show us how we can help and then do what they ask of us on a drum journey together. Let us make a difference!
Tekla Drakfrende is a Shamanism Without Borders Community Leader and has more than 25 years experience in Shamanism. She lives in Sweden surrounded by Animals on the edge of the Forest. Tekla is a Shamanic healer and teacher and as healer she works with People, Animals, Nature and Mother Earth and is the founder of Läkecirkeln, a circle of healers. At her place; Läkegården she holds classes, events, ceremonies and shamanic camps. She has studied cross-cultural shamanic healing from numerous traditions including those from Greenland, Siberia and old age Sweden. At the bid of the Spirit world she travels into the World – in Sweden and abroad to do healing Missions with intense shamanic work together with members of the circle. Tekla’s work is deeply rooted in connection of place, lives, history and the Spark of Life we all share and the Love that Nurtures it. Website: www.lakegarden.se
Vicki Snyder-Young
TENDING TO SOIL
Healthy soil is important for the environment. It puts food on our plates, feeds wildlife, purifies our waters, and protects against flooding or drought. Healthy soil is important for tackling climate change due to the amounts of carbon it captures and holds onto. Over the last 150 years we have had loss of soil due to intensive plowing and use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals. It takes longer than a human life for new soil to be created so it’s important we protect it. Let’s journey from a place of neutrality to see how we may help the soils become or maintain good health.
Vicki Snyder-Young is a Shamanic Practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher and Professional Psychic Medium, located in Rochester, NY. She is a Shamanism Without Borders Community Leader. Vicki is a graduate of the Four Winds Society where she studied Peruvian Shamanism. She has also had training in Core Shamanism, Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and the Rainbow Lineage of Puma Fredy. Vicki is an active member of Wind Daughters Bear Tribe Panther Lodge and the Medicine Wheel teachings. She is currently on a Journey Around The Wheel combining North and South American Traditions. Her mission is to be a bridge between the medicines and create continuity between them. Mitakuye Oyasin – we are all related.
Vicki’s passion is working with the land and all its children. She is interested in helping others to find Shamanism and to learn the healing and freedom it can bring through the connection to all that is. She offers various events, such as journey circles, drum circles, New Moon and Full Moon Ceremonies. She works with groups and individuals, assisting and supporting them on their healing journeys. Vicki works in person and remotely. Website: www.vickisnyder.com
Nancy Lankston
TENDING TO THE WATERS OF OUR WORLD
Water is so important to our planet and we honor and appreciate it greatly. Join Nancy Lankston as we connect and commune with the waters of our world. What do they want to share with us? How can we help them?
Nancy Lankston is a teacher, artist and tree-hugging healer..
As a child, Nancy spent hours playing in a beautiful oak forest near her home. By the time she turned 7, Nancy was head over heels in love with Mama Earth. Today she lives in the Colorado Rockies, and continues to look for any excuse to hang out with Mama Earth.
Nancy founded Sacred Earth Tribe in 2015 with the goal of inspiring others to connect with the wild Soul of Mama Earth.
Nancy is a leadership coordinator and tender for Shamanism Without Borders.
Website: www.nancylankston.com
SCHEDULE
All sessions can be attended live (recommend) and/or afterwards via On-Demand Recording.
Please see above for session descriptions and presenter bios
TENDING TO THE EARTH
earth day – TUESday, April 22nd
Welcome to Society for Shamanic Practice’s 2025 Earth Day Event: Tending to the Earth with Shamanism Without Borders (SWB)!
SWB Community Leader Joan Levergood will welcome us to the day and do an Intro of Shamanism Without Borders and the guiding principles. Then she will lead us in a session tending to Birds. We will then move into the sessions for the day and end with a closing from Nancy Lankston.
All times are in US Mountain Daylight Time.
9:00 – 10:15 AM MDT | Introduction and first session:
Tending to the Birds
With Joan Levergood
10:30 – 11:30 AM MDT | Tending for the Forests of the World
With Tekla Drakfrende
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM MDT | Tending to the Soil
With Vicki Snyder-Young
1:00 – 2:00 PM MDT | Tending to the Waters of our World
With Nancy Lankston
How It Works
The Earth Day Event consists of four virtual sessions by Shamanism Without Borders Community Leaders of diverse backgrounds. The entire event will be streamed live, and recordings will be available for playback. It is recommended to attend live as you will have the strongest community experience this way.
All sessions will include journey sessions, so some familiarity with journeying is recommended. There are many resources on the SSP Website and online generally. This is for the experienced shamanic practitioner as well as for those new to shamanism.
You will have the ability to stream the sessions live during the event and recordings will be available for 30 days after.
About SSP Membership
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