Shamanic Trance Dance

 I absolutely love  Shamanic Trance Dance.  So much so that I wrote a book called Heal and Recharge Your Body, Mind, and Spirit with Shamanic Trance Dance – A Quick Start Guide for the Beginner.  Click on “Book” located at the top right of this website to check it out.   I first experienced it in Spain with my teacher Zelia Pye.  She is the founder of Shamanic Trance Dance, and her website is www.shamanictrancedance.global.

  • Shamanic Trance Dance is a modern twist on an ancient practice.  The practice of trance dancing by individual Shamans and communities for healing and insight has been ongoing for thousands of years around the world.  They dance to get answers from deep within to questions like, “Who am I?”, “What is my purpose?”, “How can I heal?” and much more.  Our bodies come from Mother Earth and hold all of her wisdom. Shamanic Trance Dance is a method for accessing that great wisdom within us.
  • Who should be dancing?
  • Individuals seeking physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual expansion and/or healing in a safe, fun way.
  • Everyone who longs to break out of the old routine.  Are you feeling green and growing or ripe and rotting?
  • Anyone who wants to give themselves the gift of simple and compassionate self-care. Dancing is so natural and fun. Children do it with ease!
  • Individuals who seek to transform difficulties in their lives into opportunities for personal growth and development. This dance will take you deep into the center of your knowing heart, where you will find answers and guidance.

Do you need to have any dance experience? None whatsoever! You will be naturally moving in your own way to the rhythm of the music.

What makes this dance unique?  Participants are all blindfolded while they dance! This allows for a deeply inward experience by turning off outer distractions.  In my book, I present peer-reviewed scientific evidence of how the various elements of the dance come together to create a profound experience unlike any other!  The great thing about the book is that it can be read in just a couple of hours, and it includes a QR code and URL at the end that will take you directly to a guided dance experience that you can enjoy in the privacy of your own home!

While listening to rhythms from around the world your body will begin to move and wake up to an ancient wisdom long pushed out and forgotten by everyday thinking and distractions.   Are you feeling stuck or bored in your life?  Are you feeling like there must be something more to life, and you just haven’t found it? Give Shamanic Trance Dance a try.  It will help to move you forward from these energetic spaces.

Guided Meditation

This is such a wonderful modality!  Using music, the sound of my voice, breathing techniques and imagery I will help your body and mind to relax.  As we deepen into the session we will work on specific goals.  Some examples of meditation goals are:

  • Physical healing
  • Emotional healing from loss or trauma
  • Soul purpose connecting
  • Grounding to Mother Earth

There are many possibilities.  Guided meditation is a restful and restorative offering that will empower you to move through whatever you are facing in your everyday moments. 

Shamanic Journey Drumming

In Shamanism there is a concept involving 3 worlds.  There is Upper World, Middle World and Lower World.  Alberto Villoldo describes their essence well as the following:

  • Lower World holds the hidden treasures of humanity.  It is a place where we can find the disowned parts of ourselves and the abandoned aspects of our psyches.  The lower world is the place of our ancestors, where we discover the gifts and lessons from the past; it is the realm of the collective unconscious.  Here we can meet our demons and transform them into pure energy, our source of personal power. 
  • Middle World is the realm of day-to-day reality, and the playground of the living.  It is the present moment, where everything is happening.  Yet the middle world is created by the future, not only the past, and it is a mirror of the invisible realms.  When things are right in the middle world, heaven and Earth support everything.  When they are not right, heaven and Earth must be brought into order as well.
  • Angels, divine helpers, the Ancient Ones, and all varieties of luminous beings populate the Upper World.  It is the place where you go to retrieve your destiny and find out who you will become, discover your great potentials and undreamt-of possibilities.  It is also the place where the spirits of the dead arrive when they complete their journey to the light. 

Riding on the rhythms of the Shamans drum you will be able to journey into these worlds for answers.  First, we will create an intention for our journey.  For example, we decide we want to find our personal power animal.  For this journey I will give you instructions.  Then a gentle breathing technique followed by a guided meditation to get you prepared for the journey. 

Then I will begin drumming.  The rhythms of the Shamans drum are the “horse” that you will ride into the various worlds.  Once you have had ample time to journey you will be gently brought back to your day-to-day thinking mind to process and integrate the journey.   

Shamanic Breath-work with Sound Medicine

In this class I combine powerful breathing techniques with intentional music/sound healing to move and improve energy in the body.  Think of a wave building energy until it rises to a peak before coming back down again.  This is how the class moves.  Slowly building energy, bringing it to a peak, then letting it come back down again. You will come away feeling energized, clear and relaxed.  

Private Sacred Passage End of Life Doula Sessions

I received my training through The Conscious Dying Institute.  My mission is to support individuals and their families practically, emotionally, and spiritually when a terminal diagnosis is given.  This is an intensely personal process. As an End-of-Life Doula, my job is to offer healing versus curative care to families and patients during critical illness and the dying process.

I am currently a hospice volunteer but I am happy to work with individuals who are seeking private guidance during this most sacred time of life.

Yoga

I have over 500 hours of certified Yoga teacher training and have been teaching for over 25 years.  I like to blend many styles into the practice that I share.  You will experience, restorative yoga, vinyasa flow and kundalini yoga to name a few.  I always include breathing techniques, encourage an intention for your practice and end with a brief guided meditation or sound healing and quiet time to integrate the work. 

Transformation and Soul Life Coaching

Are you feeling alone or confused even though you have people in your life that love you?  

Could you be missing a sense of deep meaning for your life?

Do you feel stuck?  Are you bored?  Do you sometimes think, “Is this it?”

Are thoughts of wanting more or wishing you did things differently taking up your energy?

 Do you question your choices and wonder how you got to where you are in life now?

Would you like support to move forward with a fresh mindset for making changes?

Have you held onto guilt, anger, resentment, shame, confusion and other “heavy” emotions for too long?  Do these emotions influence how you think about life more than your “lighter” emotions?

This is how I can support you as a Transformation and Soul Guide and Guardian: *

  • You will be given expert tools and proven self-care techniques and practices to help you improve your emotional health, confidence, and focus.
  • I will remind you of how to connect with your highest wisdom and authentic self.
  • Ill give guidance on how to identify, acknowledge, process, and honor your life losses and changes.
  • I will share with you daily easy and essential techniques to grow your relationship with the highest version of yourself
  • You will learn how to get UNSTUCK by identifying your true needs and potential roadblocks. We will create a simple action plan to help you take positive steps towards healing every day.
  • You will be given the tools to develop a GROWTH MINDSET so that you never doubt your ability to accomplish your goals again
  • You will be given step-by-step processes and tools to help your BREAKTHROUGH old patterns and habits and create lasting change
  • Get CLARITY about what you REALLY want, as well as who you TRULY are so you can live an AUTHENTIC life
  • UNSTOPPABLE by overcoming fear of change, rejection and any presenting obstacles along the way

I have 2 Master Life Coaching Certifications and decades of healing experience to support you.  That said, *I am not trained as a clinical counselor, or therapist.*  If you are experiencing PTSD, lasting depression, harmful thoughts towards yourself or others, or substance addictions, I recommend you seek a professional licensed therapist first.

Private Soul and Energy Healing Session

A private soul and energy healing session is a profoundly powerful ritual with energetic components that create the conditions for participants to heal and move through shock and trauma.  Most people, to a greater or lesser degree, have experienced some form of trauma.  Dr. Gabor Mate is a world-renowned speaker and author who is widely sought after for his expertise in trauma, addiction, child development, and the consequences of stress on health across various cultures.  He explains that “trauma is not what happened to you, it’s what you carry inside of you because of what happened to you.”

When someone experiences trauma such as illness, accident, death of a loved one, divorce (and the list goes on), the traumatic event that occurred causes us to lose a piece of our soul.  Often, people who have suffered trauma report feeling as if a part of them is missing.  

“Talking about trauma can be helpful; however, when we are dealing with conditions of the soul, other methods are required.  In order to successfully heal and find the soul parts that have been lost, it is necessary to work at the level of the energetic”. – Zelia Pye Shamanic Healer

In the soul and energy healing session, the participant is invited to actively participate in their own healing.  This willingness to participate makes the experience extremely powerful.  When the work is personally achieved, understanding and integration of the returned soul pieces happen at a deeper level. It is not self-serving for someone else to do all of the work for us because this act puts our personal power in the hands of another, which ties into how we lost our soul in the first place. Ultimately, true, long-lasting healing happens when we take personal responsibility. By finding the lost pieces of our soul, we can consciously begin creating a reality that is purposeful and in alignment with our heart’s desires.  

Soul and energy healing work requires one full day and a follow-up session the next morning of a couple of hours.

These are some of the benefits received from a private healing session:

  • Lasting feelings of peace
  • Reduced physical and emotional pain levels
  • Deep relaxation
  • Detoxification
  • Clarity of Connection and Alignment with your Higher Self
  • Understanding