I see life and death as Mysteries to be explored. I am part minister, part shaman, part healer, part yogi, part teacher. I love helping humans both alive and dead to navigate themselves towards freedom and peace.  I hold two master’s degrees, and I am also a Certified Shamanic Counselor, a Certified Mediator, and have a Public Leadership Credential from the Harvard Kennedy School.  I have studied with various spiritual teachers and shamans throughout my life.

I grew up as a working class person in Somerville, Massachusetts with protective uneducated parents.  At a very young age, I rejected the Greek Orthodox and Catholic religions I was born into.    I have explored many religions, theologies and spiritual practices in my life always returning to shamanism where I feel most at home.   My love of the earth and of the cosmos and the relationship between them has led me to experiences with star beings who I often connect with in my journey work.  

I am at a place in my personal and professional life where I am focusing more on vertical energies than horizontal energies.  This is taking me out of center stage in my work and my family life and drawing me inward.  Living as an extroverted charismatic leader most of my life has served me well, but I am shifting, morphing into no self, letting go of my strong identities as a mother, daughter, minister, activist, teacher, leader.   I am entering a more contemplative stage, more grounded and at the same time wide open to the energies of the cosmos coming in.

I have a Master’s in Divinity and a Masters in Psychology with a focus in Mind/Body Health. Before entering the ministry I worked as a body-oriented psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, yoga teacher, and facilitated women’s groups.  My focus during that time was sound healing, journeying, pranayama, and the chakra system.  I remember when deciding to enter the ministry that I was temporarily letting go of my call to move deeper into shamanic work.

As a Unitarian Universalist minister I served First Parish in Portland Maine for eleven years.  During my ministry, I grew professionally, personally, and spiritually.  As time went on, I became aware that the most fulfilling aspects of my ministry were shamanic in nature.  I chose to leave my ministry with the incredible community at First Parish to move deeper into shamanic work.  Currently I serve as a part time consulting minister and preach on Sundays allowing me more time for my shamanic work and teaching.

My passion and focus now is supporting individuals and groups to become more free and at ease with themselves, their communities, and the cosmos through community building, spiritual guidance and shamanic techniques.

 

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson