Soul Retrieval

Soul Retrieval is an ancient and powerful ceremony for personal healing and wholeness. In this ceremony pieces of the soul that may have broken off due to a trauma, illness or accident, or that were taken without permission, are found in the Spirit World and returned to you so that you are once again a complete, whole being. We don't know for sure if there is soul loss until we go and look and that's not done until we're in the Ceremony.

Some of the feelings expressed by people who have had soul loss - that something is missing inside; searching for something their whole life but not really knowing what it is they are searching for; feelings that there is something for them to do this lifetime but they can't quite grasp what it is; or they know what their purpose or mission is but don't know how to do it. Sometimes there are pervasive feelings of sadness, hopelessness, grief or anger that cannot be pinpointed to any certain event but never go completely away no matter how well life is going at the moment. Many people have a sense that something is missing but don't know that these pieces can be retrieved and returned.

It's somewhat like a committee coming together to plan and execute a big event but the people who have the most knowledge and experience don't show up. The rest of the committee muddles through and does the best they can, eventually getting it done. But think how much easier and richer the event would be if the parts that knew how to do it were there to fully participate.

A piece of the soul may leave due to trauma - either a physical accident or illness or an emotional trauma involving fear, hurt, guilt, and/or shame. Or a piece can be missing if you were spiritually unprotected, vulnerable to soul loss. Sometimes a person can unwittingly give a piece of themselves away, thinking that this form of self-sacrifice will heal someone else or that it proves how much they love someone. But this is not the case. You only hurt yourself and the one to whom you have given a piece of yourself because it never fits correctly.

During the Soul Retrieval, the more "nothing" you do the better! I go into the Invisible World or Spirit World to see if you have pieces missing, traveling on the beat of the drum. Your responsibility during the ceremony is to stay in your body, opening yourself to create a space for the missing pieces to return home. After the pieces are returned and blown back into you, you will talk with each piece to gain a clear understanding of what they want you to do in your life so they can stay with you.

The Soul Retrieval Ceremony is a life-changing healing with ongoing integration work. To be whole once again after learning to adapt to a handicap, and be handicapped no more, is truly the greatest gift you can give yourself. After the Soul Retrieval Ceremony, your work begins by keeping your word with the pieces that have come back. Often the pieces of yourself that have return asked for a commitment on your part to be true to yourself, to live with love and joy, to drop the limitations of fear, guilt and suffering. These pieces have not be embodied for a long time, sometimes from the time you were in utero! So they are more purely spirit, just like a newborn or toddler. They have incredible amounts of energy, clarity, wisdom and spiritual understanding of who you are and what you are here to do.

Your old language, the way you have always thought and talked about yourself may need to change because you have other abilities, skills and viewpoints available to you now. Once you are reunited with these pieces of your soul, you are standing in such a powerful place - one that you haven't felt for a very long time. For some people, their pieces integrate quickly and they can, feel that power immediately. They walk out of the ceremony knowing and feeling in the depths of their being that they are a different being than when they came in. Others take a bit longer to integrate the retrieved pieces, gradually experiencing a deepening in their life, adding an array of possibilities and return to clarity that wasn't there before.

Remember, this ceremony isn't a magic pill to "fix" your life or problems, rather it returns you to the whole and complete being that is the real you. Now all of you can do the healing work you need to do on yourself with greater ease, joy and understanding. This ceremony is dangerous work - you could end up happy!

Twin Heart Dreaming

The Twin Heart Dreaming is a ceremony gifted by the 13 Original Clan Mothers to help those who wish to heal their hearts of old pain, hurts, fears of intimacy, emotional numbness, and/or grief. These unhealed wounds still fester, releasing pain and toxins into our bodies and lives, crippling our desire for intimate, authentic relationships with ourselves and others. Sometimes, the heart isn't even really there - given away through fear of losing someone and longing for union, or stolen in moments of betrayal and revenge. If this is the case, then when you are ready to reclaim your heart, it is retrieved and brought back to you, ready for further healing if need be.

The Heart Chakra is the connection between the physical and spiritual planes, the conscious and unconscious, the three lower and the three higher chakras. The Heart Chakra holds the true essence of who we are, without our social programming or fears and limitations. Opening and healing this Chakra gives your life and relationships a depth and intensity of joy that is the source of personal power and healing abilities. The healed healer is possible for us all.

During the Ceremony, the healing powers of the 13 Original Clan Mothers in the Turtle Council House are invoked to assist in your healing request. This is an opportunity to experience a deep and powerful healing to reclaim your heart - healed, whole and filled with light, joy and the courage to give and receive true love in your life.

Cutting Ceremony

There are two types of Cutting Ceremony. One requires an experienced shamanic healer to discern and cut the energetic chords between you and another person. The other involves your active participation to cut cords that bind you that originated with you.

In the first type of Cutting Ceremony, we identify and sever any attachments or energy cords between you and another being, whether in a physical body or in the spirit world, in place for the purpose of draining energy from you. Like a straw in a glass of water, the energy cord is in place so that whenever an attached being wants some energy, it can do so easily.

Some symptoms of energy attachments are increased fatigue, persistent soreness or pain in a localized place on your body, overall poor health, a feeling of being drained of life force, depression, little or no energy for creative or self-nurturing pursuits. Attachments may result from loved ones who feel they are loving you by restricting your energy levels so you can't do what they don't want you to do; loved ones or others who have a sense of entitlement to some of your energy because you love them or owe them for some reason; galactic bullies who will take energy from you when you are vulnerable, weak or unprotected, or they take energy from people who are helpful and nice to everyone - who can't say no easily; or someone from this life or another life who has a grudge against you or wants revenge or retaliation for some real or imagined hurt.

Sometimes the attachment is from a past relationship, especially if the relationship involved physical intimacy, and the other person has had a hard time letting go of the relationship once it ended. When we have sexual relations with a partner it creates an energetic connection that can become an attachment due to yearning, jealousy, revenge or unrequited love.

When these attachments are cut, it opens up an opportunity for a new way of being in relationship with yourself and others. After the Cutting Ceremony, people have reported feeling released from bondage, forgiveness, increased energy levels, more personal power, feelings of renewed hope, joy, lightness - like a burden has been removed.

The second type of Cutting Ceremony involves habits; feelings or agreements that you are ready to let go of, that you want to release or cut from your life because they are no longer serving you. You may be ready to let go of fear, hurt, anger, guilt, shame, etc. or break an old habit, addictive behavior or agreement so you can truly make a new one. Your active participation is necessary to make the cutting effective. You then choose a specific intention, action, thought or feeling to replace what you have just cut from your life. During a shamanic drumming, the drum helps you hold the new energetic resonance in your energy field so true change can occur with grace and ease. It doesn't have to be hard - unless you want it to be! The universe doesn't support a vacuum so once something is let go, it will be replaced immediately. It's up to you whether you replace it with a conscious choice of well-being, balance, and healing or passively accept whatever may be floating by at the time. These types of cuttings may be repeated as needed as you go deeper in your healing and uncover more cords or threads that are keeping you tied in knots.

Calling Ceremony

Who do you want to call into your life as a soul companion, partner, lover, friend, spouse? This ceremony requires preparation and clarification of who you perceive yourself to be, who you are calling, how to recognize each other, what you are willing to do, and what you are willing to give up in order to create the space in your heart and life for the person you are calling to physically enter into relationship with you.

This is a Sacred Request that you make of Great Spirit, God, the Mother Goddess, to assist you in bringing forth into physical reality the relationship that you have always known was possible but couldn't quite realize. This is a ceremony of such clarity and union of thought, word and action, that you magnetize yourself to draw you and your soul companion together. It's never too late to experience a relationship whose foundation is one of deep respect, honesty and trust.

Soul companions are connected at the heart level, transcending social mores and common stereotypes. Your programmed likes and dislikes then take a back seat to the spiritual compatibility you experience together. The purpose of any relationship is to heal each other. When you are in relationship with your Soul Companion, you each help the other to be more than what you are when by yourself. Your Soul Companion reflects the positive, good, loving and expanding aspects of the real You so you can see yourself more clearly. This is the healing you can do for each other - showing each other who you truly are, full of the wonder, joy, laughter and challenge of being a spiritual being in a physical body, learning and growing in consciousness, while loving each other.

After the preparation is completed, when both you and I know that you are ready, we work with the Fire to call your soul companion to you. You meet together in the Flames of Clarity so you can energetically recognize each other on the physical plane. Once you know each other, you surrender to Great Spirit to help you both be in the right place at the right time to come together. When meeting your soul companion for the first time or the 50th, Divine Plan has already been activated to assist you through any hurdles or circumstances that need to be taken care of so you can come together. It's a magical, sacred trust, trust in yourself, in your Soul Companion and in Spirit. This is called dreaming your life into being - consciously choosing the life you want.

Intentional Healing

Intentional Healing is a clear-channel healing process where divine healing energy is directed for a specific physical, emotional, mental and/or spiritual healing request. The more specific and clear the request for healing, the deeper the healing. Often the very act of becoming clear about your request is half the healing. As the healing progresses, you will be asked to talk with your body or the part of you that is experiencing pain or dis-ease, to listen to what the message is all about. Pain and dis-ease manifest in the physical body to get your attention! It's your wake-up call that there is an imbalance physically, emotionally or spiritually, and usually all three at the same time. What is the message your body is trying to tell you? What do you need to do or stop doing in order to restore balance, harmony and well-being to your physical body, mental processes and spiritual life? What is the teaching? How is this imbalance an answer to your prayer so that you can experience and learn what you need to in order to transcend and transform yourself and your life?

With the assistance of Sacred Feathers, Healing Stone Beings, the Singing Bowl and/or Shamanic Drumming, you receive the insight and guidance needed to fully hear and understand how to re-balance and harmonize your energetic auric field to bring about true healing. Illness, fear, anger and other devastating feelings carry a low and heavy vibration or resonance. Through Intentional Healing, your energetic body is cleared, transforming the resonance to a higher, clearer vibration, full of lightness, sheer joy and at-one-ment. This sense of well-being and harmony will continue to shift the physical effects of the imbalance as you continue to heal yourself and others.

Intuitive Reading

As a trained Seer, able to travel in the Spirit World with my Spirit Guides and Totems, I can look and see what is really going on with any given situation that you are experiencing in your life. What we normally see manifested is just the tip of the iceberg, while the rest is mostly hidden from view in the Spirit World. With a specific request and permission to enter your spiritual life, I look to see the true reality of the situation, sharing with you a greater understanding and clarity pertaining to your request. Some areas frequently asked about are spiritual contracts between yourself and another, past life influences, relationship issues, spiritual purpose, current challenges with work or money, spiritual lessons connected to illness or disease, etc.

The more clear and specific your request, the deeper I can go to obtain the needed information and guidance. I am a firm believer and teacher in unfolding your own psychic perceptions and ability to go within for your own answers. But we all benefit from help sometimes when we are too emotionally involved or so blocked by what is happening in our life that we cannot get the full picture or details we need. Then I will go and look for you, working with you so that you become clearer and more detached, releasing the confusion and mental fatigue that has clouded your own innate ability. With renewed understanding, you can then move forward in your life, with wisdom and inner security that you are aligned and balanced.

Animal Totem Discovery

Discover who your animal totems are, how they assist you and the medicine or teachings they carry. In Native traditions, all the creature beings - the four-legged, the winged ones, the finned ones, and the creepy-crawlers - are our older brothers and sisters because they were here before us. As such, they have a responsibility to help and teach us - their younger brothers and sisters. As a child we may have been aware of a special animal that helped, protected or kept us company.

When you have a special affinity for a particular animal or creature, ask that being to come close around you to assist you and give you messages about situations in your life. Each totem carries a certain medicine or teaching, skill or talent. They can share their wisdom with us if we open our hearts and minds to them and listen for the messages and signs they give to us. Whether they appear in the physical or in dreams, these animal totems are here to help us if we will listen.

In this ceremony, you will identify the animal totems and the direction is which they sit that are your helpers, teachers and protectors. Then experience a shamanic drumming so you can journey in the dreamtime with them, inviting them into your life and honoring the medicine and assistance they can give you. Working with your animal totems on a daily basis, you form a deep and abiding relationship with them so they become an integral part of your spiritual growth and healing.

In my own experience, I have always received assistance from the Creature Beings when I ask for assistance. In 1990, I asked Spirit to lead me to a new spiritual path - one that would be more earth-based and honoring of the Divine Feminine. Dragonfly then unexpectedly appeared in my life. As I was leaving my office one day, something glittering on the pavement caught my eye. Someone leaving the card shop next door had dropped a multi-colored, shimmering sticker of a dragonfly. When I bent down to pick it up, the exact same shape was in shadow on the pavement. I looked up and saw a real dragonfly hovering there above me. I was working with my dreams and knew this was an important dream symbol for me even though it came to me while awake! I couldn't find it in any of the dream symbol books so I meditated on it and got the answer that somehow this dragonfly was going to help me with the trance healing training I was offering for the first time, but I sensed there was more information I needed. In my pursuit to find out the full meaning of dragonfly for me, I went to one more metaphysical bookstore. I saw two blue boxes on a bottom shelf with a bear on the front but it meant nothing to me. I was pacing around - I knew there was something there for me, I just couldn't find it. When I was ready to give up and leave, a women came into the shop, picked up one of the blue boxes and stood in line to pay. I asked her what it was. She replied that her daughter asked her to get if for her - it was a book and cards about animal totems. I ask if there was anything about dragonflies in it. She handed the book to me so I could look myself. The book opened right to the chapter on Dragonfly -one of the Guardians of the Dreamtime and Keeper of Illusion and Reality. The blue box held the Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams and David Carson. This was my first taste of Native American spirituality and I loved it! I never dreamed that my path would embrace Native American teachings. Dragonfly came in response to my request for a new path - leading me down the Red Road. I am grateful that Dragonfly still guides me in my healing work today.

Blessings

Typically, a Blessing is of a house or workplace and involves smudging the entire space, inside and out, with white sage, cedar and/or copal for purification and clearing. Sometimes rattles are employed for further discernment and clearing of unwanted energies or entities. The blessing is done with "Beautiful Water" made especially for the Blessing. Shamanic drumming or a Singing Bowl is then used to bring peace, harmony, balance and a feeling of lightness and healing to the space. This ceremony can also be used on individuals or families during Rites of Passage, changes and transformations, healing, new endeavors, and/or trips.