Two Courses Starting in the Fall:

The Four Foundations: Fundamental of Spiritual Development and Personal Empowerment

This course is a nine-month transformational process in how to access and develop the Four Foundations: Integrity, Grace, Love, and Wisdom.  It will teach you practices for expansion of consciousness through shamanic journey, sound, movement, and simple awareness techniques, and cover aspects of energy body protection and management.  For more information visit the Classes and Workshops page. 

Energy Medicine Training for Healers

This nine-month training covers intuitive development and discernment, establishing sacred space, accessing the spiritual realities for healing information and energy, generating altered states of consciousness to induce healing plasticity, energetic protection and self-care, boundaries, resonance, flow, and energy clearing for those in the healing professions. These techniques enhance all kinds of therapeutic practices whether or not there is an overtly spiritual/energetic component.   We will discuss how the energetic environment can lead to health problems and what methods are best used for different conditions.

Seattle Seidr

Seidr (pronounced "sigh-th") is a Northern European shamanic and mystical tradition.  Seattle Seidr is a community of practitioners and participants interested in exploring this tradition and integrating the ancient wisdom of Seidr with the present day reality.  We are providing monthly oracular and healing High Seat Ceremonies for the public, and initiation classes for those with training in shamanic work. To be on the mailing list for Seidr events please e-mail seattleseidr@gmail.com. 

My Philosophy of Healing

We all have the capacity to lead remarkable lives.  Often, this involves "unlearning" all the ways of being that are not authentic to you.  It involves discovering and developing your inherent gifts and talents and finding which arenas of life are yours to explore.  It involves taking care of your mind, body, and spirit so that you maximize the potential in any given moment. 

Health care in general is like tending to a garden.  It is a process of realignment, strengthening, nourishing, and clearing so that you can have the best experience of life possible. 

I ascribe to Angeles Arrien's Eight Concepts of Healing.  Healing is not only about help during illness, but is a broader life process that includes the following:

1.  A lifelong journey toward [realizing] wholeness
2.  Remembering what has been forgotten about connection, unity, and interdependence among all things
3.  Embracing what is most feared
4.  Opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction
5.  Entering into transcendent, timeless moments
6.  [Accessing and expressing] creativity, passion, and love.
7.  Seeking and expressing self in its fullness
8.  Learning to trust life

Healing is a journey, I am honored to be a part of that process.  I look forward to meeting you!

Melissa