Shamanism Without Borders

Community Leaders

Joan Levergood, LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR

Joan Levergood is a Shamanic Practitioner located in Chicago, Illinois. Joan is a longtime member of the Shamanism Without Borders Leadership Team and a Board Member of the Society for Shamanic Practice. 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.
Website: helpingspirits.net

Nancy Lankston, LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR

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: https://www.nancylankston.com/

Vicki Snyder-Young, Leadership Coordinator

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 it’s 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.

Learn more by visiting www.vickisnyder.com

 

Mary Olivar

Mary Olivar is a Shamanism Without Borders Community Leader and a shamanic practitioner in Austin, Texas. A graduate of the Power Path School of Shamanism Shamanic Studies program, Mary has completed their advanced practitioner training, and has studied in Mexico with the Wixarika (Huichol) and in Peru with the Shipibo. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange, whose work perpetuates the shamanic wisdom, culture, practice, and traditional ways of life of Indigenous people worldwide.

Deeply rooted in the nurturing vibration of Pacha Mama, Mary primarily uses her voice to offer healing and tending, and she loves to help others connect with their own voice and vocal expressions. Mary also specializes in supporting people and businesses in harmoniously aligning with their true purpose, potential, and power. To learn about her classes as well as her other offerings visit https://www.theawokenchild.com

 

Tekla Drakfrende

Tekla 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.

 

Rev. Cindy Pincus, M.Div.

Cindy is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and student of the Franciscan mystical tradition.  She’s served as a Hospice Chaplain in the Denver/Boulder area.  Services and trainings include End of Life Workshops for individuals and groups, Death Doula work, Altar work for the dead and living, individual spiritual consultation, and Nature-Based Journey Integration.  

Her professional training is as an wetlands ecologist, marine biologist, and finally on to theologian.  She weaves these subjects together with Buddhist psychology, trauma-based healing theory, and the practice of offering blessing and prayer to support her clients, peers, and colleagues.  She has completed to One-year and Basic Training programs with The Power Path School of Shamanism and folds all those tools into her practice as a UU minister

Specializations and focus areas include:

  • Enneagram
  • Interfaith Spiritual practices including Earth-based/Pagan traditions, humanism/atheism/agnosticism, and ancient Judaeo-Christian ritual
  • 12-Step, addiction, codependency
  • Tarot and Spiritual Symbolism
  • LGBTQ and Queer Spirituality Certification
  • Terminal Diagnoses, End of Life spirituality, and Hospice 
  • Officiating Weddings, Funerals, Baby Blessings, and Land Blessings
  • Personal Shamanic Healing
Her greatest teacher is, of course, the Earth herself and you will often find her in the Colorado Rockies snowshoeing and skiing during the winter, or walking the alpine tundra in the summer.

About Shamanism Without Borders

Shamanism Without Borders is a global response network of shamanic practitioners who tend to traumatic events and natural disasters. Each of the practitioners listed on this page is available to support individuals or communities who would like help tending to a recent event. Many of them also host ongoing community events, which you can learn more about by contacting them directly. Please visit our Shamanism Without Borders page if you would like to learn more about participating in this meaningful work.