When you walk through a place, the land will reveal its secrets to you by actively engaging all your senses. In the high Andes of Peru, each step climbing Mount Salcantay felt like a conversation with the earth. The thin, frost-covered air challenged my lungs, until...
A traditional role of shamans is to preside at or contribute to (bring the Spirits to) rituals that mark important transition in the lives of members of their communities. In shamanic cultures, the rites for honoring the death of a loved one have been practiced for...
This ceremony was enacted for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Alamosa, Colorado and the article appeared on the blog, "Postcards from Shamans", January 2019. The word “ceremony” in its original Latin form is “awe”. Repeated behaviors related to...
When you walk through a place, the land will reveal its secrets to you by actively engaging all your senses. In the high Andes of Peru, each step climbing Mount Salcantay felt like a conversation with the earth. The thin, frost-covered air challenged my lungs, until...
A traditional role of shamans is to preside at or contribute to (bring the Spirits to) rituals that mark important transition in the lives of members of their communities. In shamanic cultures, the rites for honoring the death of a loved one have been practiced for...
This ceremony was enacted for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Alamosa, Colorado and the article appeared on the blog, "Postcards from Shamans", January 2019. The word “ceremony” in its original Latin form is “awe”. Repeated behaviors related to...
Here we are, together, in the dark time. The dark is physical, as in the long winter nights in the northern hemisphere. And it’s metaphorical, as in all the dark energies washing through the daily world. On the Celtic Medicine Wheel that I work with, we are now in the...
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