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Karen
Aberle
For over 20 years, Karen Aberle has been helping people in organizations
create partnerships of trust, effectiveness, and satisfaction.
Her initiation in the Huichol tradition has provided richness
and depth to her understanding of human relationships. She brings
people to the center of divine flow and gives them tools to
navigate the challenges of communication. In this country and
abroad, Karen's work is known as a powerful intervention delivered
with humor and gratitude to life. |
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Sherry
Boatright
Sherry Boatright is a licensed psychotherapist as well as a
healer and weatherworker in the Nahua tradition. She is manager
of the Sacred Fire Community Lifeway's Program and co-facilitates
the Lifeways Women's Program. As an initiated Firekeeper of
the Sacred Fire Community, she shares the fire with her community
in Carrollton, Georgia. She is available for healing and counseling
sessions and may be reached at 770-854-5551. |
Colin
Campbell |
Niall
Campbell |
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Colin
Campbell and Niall Campbell
Colin Campbell and Niall Campbell are traditional doctors and
Sangomas from Botswana, South Africa. Initially trained as traditional
doctors, Niall and Colin are skilled herbalists, diviners, and
general medical practitioners. In their Sangoma training, they
also work as spirit mediums, allowing the spirits to work through
them for the help and healing of others. Both highly gifted
in their healing practices, they also train traditional doctors
and Sangomas in their school in Botswana. They each maintain
a thriving private practice in Capetown, South Africa. |
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Joseph
Chilton-Pearce
Joseph Chilton-Pearce is a father of five, grandfather of twelve,
and great grandfather of one at last count. He taught college
humanities until mid-1960’s and hasn’t made an honest
living since – spending his time writing and lecturing
instead. He has published eight books to date, has essay inclusions
in several anthologies, and has a number of foreign translation
publications, most recently into Russian.
Mr. Chilton-Pearce has given 2,000 public addresses in the last
35 years, and is a guest lecturer in most major universities
here and in some twelve countries outside US. His major topics
of concern include the development of intelligence in children,
and the spiritual aspects of our species in general. His major
focus has been on the biological nature of the mind-heart connection.
He sits on several “advisory
boards” of organizations – wherein he has never
been asked for and/or have avoided ever giving advice or being
of any service whatsoever, which is standard procedure for advisory
boards. |
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College
of Plant Spirit Medicine
The College of Plant Spirit Medicine is a department of the
Blue Deer Seminary. The Blue Deer Seminary is a facility of
the Temple of Sacred Fire Healing, a church dedicated to spiritual
healing.
The College of Plant Spirit Medicine offers:
• Help finding a Plant Spirit Medicine (PSM) practitioner
near you
• Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner training courses
• Post-graduates courses in PSM
• Clinical Supervisor courses
• Teacher training courses
The faculty of the College of Plant Spirit Medicine includes
Eliot Cowan, Alison Gayek, and others. For more information
about Plant Spirit Medicine, see Plant Spirit
Medicine. |
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Eliot
Cowan
Eliot Cowan is the author of Plant Spirit Medicine, and a shaman
in the Huichol tradition. He is also the founder of the Blue
Deer Seminary and the Blue Deer Center. As a provider at the
Blue Deer Center, Eliot Cowan offer Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner
courses, continuing education for PSM practitioners, healing
camps based on traditional Huichol healing, and animal totem
courses. For more information about Eliot’s work, see
Eliot Cowan.
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Deanna
Jenné
Deanna Jennéis an initiated marakame (shaman) in the
Huichol tradition and weather worker in the Nahua tradition,
both rooted in Mexico. Deanna co-facilitates the Sacred Fire
Community's Lifeways Program for Women and the Initiation Into
Womanhood Program. As initiated Fire Keepers, she and her husband,
Gary are growing and maintaining a Fire Community in Grand Junction,
Colorado. Deanna is available for healing sessions and consultation.
Please contact her at 970-241-7256. |
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Michael
Kowalski
Michael Kowalski has practiced 5 Element acupuncture for 23
years (trained by J.R. Worsley) , and Plant Spirit Medicine
for 7 years (trained by Eliot Cowan). He has enjoyed teaching
about the Five Elements for 21 years. He was the Dean and President
of the Classical Acupuncture Institute for 7 years,
and currently serves on the faculty of the Academy of Five Element
Acupuncture. He has a busy practice in both acupuncture and
Plant Spirit Medicine, and has enjoyed giving workshops at all
three PSM Conferences. |
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Lei'ohu
Ryder
Lei'ohu Ryder is a Native of Hawaii, a keeper of the ancient
wisdom and protocols, a gifted teacher, singer, songwriter and
a powerful advocate for the indigenous peoples of the planet
as well as a powerful role model to our next generation. She
weaves the wisdom of the Pacific in channeling the voices of
the wind, rain, sea and sky.
As kahu/priestess of Kukuipuka Heiau, an ancient temple of healing
on the island of Maui, the wisdom of the breath of aloha and
the spirit of ohana/family is shared through prayer, protocols,
chants, music and activities that connect the heart with the
universe. |
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Prema
Sheerin
Prema Sheerin is a professional life coach and offers workshops
in the USA, Australia and New Zealand on various aspects of
life transition and intention. Prema is currently doing a 12-year
shamanic apprenticeship in the Huichol tradition of Mexico.
Her background includes 25 years of studying and teaching hatha
yoga and meditation as well as being the Wellness Director for
a retreat site for 10 years. Prema lives in Santa Barbara with
her husband Scott Sheerin. |
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Malidoma
Somé
Before his birth, in 1956, the elders of Malidoma’s
village knew that his purpose in coming into this world was
to carry the message of indigenous technology and spirituality
to the western world, a place where modernity was growing
increasingly hungry for a reconnection to ancient wisdom.
Little did he know, as a young child, stolen from his family
and village, that the years he would spend under the harsh
tutelage of the religious order would prepare the way for
the eventual challenge of integrating old and new, the sacred
and the mundane. For more than twenty years, Malidoma Somé
has shared the wisdom of his ancestors and tribal elders,
awakening a deep knowing in the hearts and bones of those
who have recognized in his name, his books, his voice, the
spirit world inviting the renewal of a deep and abiding relationship
with all beings on earth.
Malidoma is the author of several books, including Ritual:
Power, Healing and Community, , Of
Water and The Spirit, and The Healing
Wisdom of Africa. He is currently working on
two new books, one about the Ancestors (and our relationship
with them), and another, a sequel to his highly esteemed autobiography,
on the topic of Gatekeepers.
Dr. Somé is also an initiated elder in his village
in Dano, Burkina Faso, W. Africa. He travels throughout the
world bringing a message of hope, healing and reconciliation
through the powerful tools of ritual and community building. |
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Dan Sprinkles and Annie Eagen
Dan Sprinkles and Annie Eagan have both completed 6-year apprenticeships and are initiated Markames, or shamans, in the ancient, ancestral tradition of the Huichols of the Mexican Sierras. Additionally, they were initiated eight years ago in the Nahua shamanic tradition as Weather Workers. Through these two lineages they are able to offer deep shamanic healing for those in need. Dan has also been a life coach for many years and offers a unique program designed to enter a more appropriate relationship with the mind. It is called, “The Enemies of Learning.” For the last eleven years, Annie has been providing healing help to humans and animals with Plant Spirit Medicine. Through their Weather Working lineage and training, they are both able to offer healing sweat lodges called Temazcals, in the ancestral Nahua tradition. |
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David
Wiley
David Wiley, is a Marakame (Shaman) in the Huichol Indian tradition
ofthe northwestern Sierra Madre of Mexico and a Granicero, or
Tiempero (Weather Shaman), and healer in the Nahuatl Indian
tradition of the highlands of central Mexico. Born and raised
in the U.S., he lives in Tepoztlán, Mexico and serves
there as a village healer, counselor and ceremonial leader.
David is also recognized as being a spiritual conduit for the
elemental deity of fire known by the Huichols as Tatewarí
or Grandfather Fire (along with many other names in various
other cultures). David serves on the Board of Directors of the
Blue Deer Center, is an advisor to and Elder in the Sacred Fire
Community and is the Chairman and Founder of the Sacred Fire
Foundation. For more information please visit his website at
www.keepsthefire.org. |
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