This month we are republishing an article written by our editor Nita Renfrew that we published in our print journal in the fall of 2013. Her article, “The Shamanic Grail Cup – the Sangraal,” traces the origin of the Holy Grail to Mongolian and other Asiatic sources,...
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Nita Renfrew
Nita Renfrew
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.
THE LAND THAT KNOWS ME: MY SPARROW FRIENDS IN NEW YORK’S CENTRAL PARK
“Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit... in touch with the unseen powers.” ~ Charles Eastman, Ohiyesa It was after I became a Pipe carrier on the Red Road (Native American spirituality) a few years ago that I slowly began to understand that I must work with the...
FORUM ON APPROPRIATION: Appropriation by Whites of Indigenous Traditions
The subject of appropriation by “whites” of Indigenous spiritual and shamanic healing traditions and practices is a serious one, fraught with many unmarked pathways and crossroads that raise deep political issues, with many historical implications. There are at least...