What is Shamanic Healing?

Shamanic Healing is an energy medicine practice based on ancient wisdom.

It’s been developed and fine-tuned over thousands of years by indigenous cultures around the world. The form of Shamanic Healing that I offer is based on the traditions of the Americas, specifically the practices cultivated by the medicine men and women of the Amazon and Andes.

My teacher, Alberto Villoldo, began studying with Native American shamans in the early 1970s. He was the first North American anthropologist to have extensive contact with the Q’ero—the legendary “last Incas.” At the time of the conquest, the Q’ero retreated to the highest peaks of the Andes to protect the spiritual wisdom and practices of their ancestors. They remained there for 500 years, until an ancient prophecy said it was time to come down from the mountain top and share their teachings with the world.

Alberto was there to receive the teachings. He apprenticed under Don Antonio Morales, a native Peruvian who was a seventh-level kurak akuyek, the highest level a shaman-healer can attain in Andean shamanism. After years of apprenticeship and rigorous initiations, Don Antonio tasked Alberto with bringing the sacred shamanic teachings to the Western world. Based on his interpretation of ancient prophecies, he believed the time had come to spread Shamanic Healing as widely as possible.

As a result, Alberto founded the Four Winds Society and the Light Body School, where I studied Shamanic Energy Medicine and received my teachers’ blessing to offer Shamanic Healing sessions. The Light Body School’s curriculum blends ancient wisdom with cutting edge neuroscience and has been recognized as “the Harvard of Neo-Shamanism” (Harper’s Bazaar).

I was drawn to the study of Shamanic Healing through deeply transformative personal experiences. Western medicine failed to give me the relief I sought for chronic depression, but Shamanic Healing far exceeded my expectations. Through this beautiful healing modality, I’ve not only completed my healing around depression, but also found lasting peace and joy, as well as my life’s purpose.

I’m honored to be a part of this sacred lineage and respectfully offer the practice as it’s been taught to me, with full respect for its cultural origins.