Nita Renfrew is a multicultural shamanic healer, licensed massage therapist, artist, and writer. She is a Reiki Master in several lineages, and is the lineage holder of Shamanic Grail Reiki, which she has taught on three continents, and practiced regularly for a number of years in institutional medical settings as well as her private practice, on humans as well as other-than-humans. For three and half years Nita was an almost-daily energy healer in a rehabilitation clinic for wild birds.
She is also a Pipe Carrier, and she practices and teaches CranioSacral Bodywork in a Native American Way. Nita is an Interfaith/Interspiritual/Interspecies minister, tending primarily to her daily congregation of Sparrows, Pigeons, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Bluejays, Robins, Nuthatches, Titmice, Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, Redbelly Woodpeckers, Grackles, Starlings, Canada Geese, Squirrels and Raccoons in New York City’s Central Park. She can be reached at nitarenfrew@yahoo.com.
Nita Renfrew is a multicultural shamanic healer, licensed massage therapist, artist, and writer. She is a Reiki Master in several lineages, and is the lineage holder of Shamanic Grail Reiki, which she has taught on three continents, and practiced regularly for a number of years in institutional medical settings as well as her private practice, on humans as well as other-than-humans. For three and half years Nita was an almost-daily energy healer in a rehabilitation clinic for wild birds.
She is also a Pipe Carrier, and she practices and teaches CranioSacral Bodywork in a Native American Way. Nita is an Interfaith/Interspiritual/Interspecies minister, tending primarily to her daily congregation of Sparrows, Pigeons, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Bluejays, Robins, Nuthatches, Titmice, Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, Redbelly Woodpeckers, Grackles, Starlings, Canada Geese, Squirrels and Raccoons in New York City’s Central Park. She can be reached at nitarenfrew@yahoo.com.
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Beautiful, beautiful, Nita — thank you for these written seeds!
Cecile Carson
lovely, thank you so much
Nita, thanks so much for sharing your experience. It resonates strongly with my own here in Kingston, NY where I feed the chipping sparrows every morning in my back yard. There was even a ‘medicine sparrow’ here for a couple of years who emanated so much compassion for me one morning when I felt profound sadness. One day he looked at me for a long time with sadness in his own eyes, and I understood that he was saying ‘Good-bye.’ I never saw him again; he must have known that his time had come.
This morning there was a ruckus in the neighbors’ hedge trees that the sparrows love to hang out in; a larger bird flew out that looked like a hawk so I got up to look. It was a very young red-tail who stumbled a bit and then flew off. He must be just learning to hunt, and the sparrows apparently ganged up on him and drove him away. It was interesting to learn that they generally leave the sparrows alone.
I’ve lived here for 5-1/2 years and have gradually developed a relationship to the land here; all kinds of amazing animal encounters have been the result!
Thanks again… xo