I offer Peruvian-based shamanic healing at my home in the redwoods. I am also the shaman in residence at The Post Ranch Inn, located in Big Sur, California. Additionally, I work remotely with individuals who are unable to travel to this magical realm. Because shamanism is an energetic healing modality, both seeing me in person or remotely are equally powerful and effective.
As a shaman, I believe that we live in an animistic universe where everything contains consciousness. We are born with a blueprint of our Healed State encoded into our luminous energy field, much like the DNA that directs our physical body. This blueprint is a map to navigate our fulfillment in this lifetime. As a result of trauma, familial patterns, and cultural conditioning, this map can become lost or obscured.
Through shamanic processes, tested over thousands of years, I can help you recover the memory of your Healed State. Once your luminous body remembers this roadmap, you will naturally reset to your original pristine essence. Through ritual and ceremony, I call upon my benefactors from the land and the Spirit, and open the door so that these greater powers can assist in your healing.
With respect for cultural appropriation, I want to address how a white North American man became a Peruvian-trained shaman. My teacher’s teacher was named Don Manuel Quispe. He was part of an unbroken lineage of Peruvian medicine people that stretched back in time before the Inka. He descended from the high Andes in the early 1970s with a message that Pachamama (Mother Earth) was crying. Spirit instructed him to enlist the help of the northern cousins in the Western world. He began by sharing his wisdom with my teachers, Jose Luis Herrera and Albert Villoldo. Don Manuel assigned them the mission to teach these indigenous medicine traditions to modern Western people for the purpose of healing Pachamama and all her children. Through the grace of Spirit, this was the pathway by which a modern Western man was initiated as a shaman into the Peruvian healing traditions.
