Valerie Hausmann is a Reiki Master, Medium & Healer. She shares her loving heart with many others as an assistant to The Stargate Mystery School, Silent Retreat and Manager of the the Center for Sacred Studies Guerneville Center in Northern California. Mission is to facilitate and connect and unite Traditional Healers…
White Buffalo Stands is a full-blooded Northern Cheyenne tribal member, hereditary chief from both his mother and father’s lineage, and a 6th generation singer. From the time he was a child spirit, White Buffalo Stands was taught the importance of song in life, in healing, and the important responsibility of keeping the songs for…
Dr. Benyshek is an artist, a mental health counselor, and a scholar on contemporary artists as shamans. Her creative presentations integrate research with the arts, providing the audience with an authentic experience of shamanistic art. She earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in psychology from Saybrook University, an M.F.A. in…
Joyce Anastasia serves as a transformational leadership consultant, disarming people with hopeful solutions and guidance to lead their lives with the greatest wisdom possible, helping them to create a powerful difference on this planet. With 20+ years of experience in multidisciplinary psychology, creative arts, business and leadership, she has traveled…
Sara and Audrya have been facilitating Breath and Sound Journeys for the past two years. Through mediation and deep spiritual practice they open to the guidance of their Ancestors to co-facilitate this experience. Sara has studied Therapeutic Breathwork through The School of Spiritual Psychology, Transformations USA. This Breathwork allows for…
Stanley Chagala comes from the Maragoli people of Western Kenya, and is currently a graduate student of Divinity at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, where he is training as a clinical chaplain at Marin General Hospital. He was raised as a 4th generation Quaker in combination with traditional Maragoli cultural…
Initiated as a shaman in 2004, Delia Chilgren studied with more experienced shamans and began her shamanic practice in 2014. While Delia has worked remotely with adults, her presentation focuses on her first remote work with a young person.
Meg Beeler, Shamanic Guide, author, teacher, and healer weaves animist principles, Shamanic Meditations, and Energy Alchemy™ to guideseekers into harmonious connection with nature and the cosmos. A lifelong explorer of wholeness and consciousness, Meg has traveled the world in search of traditional indigenous and shamanic wisdom. She’s been to the high mountains of the Andes and…
Sarah Dole is a shamanic practitioner and teacher with over 48 years of spiritual practice in meditation and shamanism. She is passionate about helping people connect with their compassionate helping spirits for connection, empowerment and joy. Sarah offers soul retrieval, shamanic healing and instruction. Sarah’s shamanic training began in 1999 with…
Lyla June Johnston is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet. Lyla June ultimately attributes any achievements to Creator who gave her the tools and resources she uses to serve humanity. — She was raised in Taos, New Mexico and is a descendent of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her personal…
PJ Hirabayashi is a San Francisco Bay Area native, taiko artist, and founding member of San Jose Taiko in 1973. She helped guide SJT’s organizational development, holistic philosophy, and creative energy in movement, dance, and drumming. She is a pioneer of North American taiko and known for her distinctive performance and teaching style. She…
Sacheen Littlefeather is a Native American Indian Elder (Apache/Yaqui, AZ), born and raised in the Bay Area, child of a Caucasian mother and a Native American father. I have metastasized lung cancer and I am going through a transformation dealing with my journey here on Earth and my proposed life…
Jana Din’s preparation as a shamanic healer included a six year apprenticeship with a North American shaman, studies with Native American, and Tibetan shamans, and extensive training and initiations in Nepal with shaman, Aama Bombo, one of the International Council of 13 Grandmothers. In 2003, Jana co-founded the Tao Center…
Helena Soholm is a psychotherapist practicing in Seattle, WA. Helena’s research interests are in the areas of contemporary forms of shamanism, cultural identity, spirituality, and the arts. Helena graduated from Smith College with a BA in Psychology and Religion in 2000. She also holds master’s degrees in Theological Studies from…
Flordemayo was born and grew up in the highlands of Central America in a family of Mayan healers and raised by her mother, a midwife. She travels the globe to share her healings and to foster a more spiritual understanding among humanity. She has been a founding member of the Church of…
Ronald L. Boyer is a scholar, teacher, and award-winning poet. Ron completed his MA in Depth Psychology at Sonoma State University and is currently a doctoral student in Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union and UC Berkeley. He has presented papers at the first Symposium for the Study of…
Paul Callaghan is a Worimi man who was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and grew up in the small coastal town of Karuah where he has many special memories. Paul has had many years of experience as an Executive and Chief Executive but now runs his own small business where…
Meredith Sabini, PhD, is the author of The Earth Has a Soul: C. G. Jung on Nature, Technology, and Modern Life, from which material for this performance comes, and now in its ninth printing. Jung’s model of living a natural life and her own Amish heritage have formed the foundation…
Leny Strobel, Kapampangan, is one of the founding directors of the Center for Babaylan Studies (www.babaylan.net) and Professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She has published and edited books on the process of decolonization and indigenization for Filipinos in the diaspora.
Julia Weaver, LMFT, BFA, CMT, is a licensed psychotherapist, artist, and the founder of Art and Soul, a California-based resource center for sacred and healing arts. She has 30 years of experience incorporating embodied psychotherapy, sound healing and movement traditions, cross-cultural spiritual practice, and Irest. She also offers Awakening the…
David Cumes, M.D. was born in South Africa and is a practicing sangoma and surgeon, He received his medical training in Johannesburg and has taught at Stanford Medical Center. After spending extended periods with the San hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari and publishing on the healing power of nature, “wilderness rapture”…
Dr. Maria D. Michael is an internationally known healer who combines a unique blend of Eastern, Western and Native American healing practices. For over 40 years, Dr. Michael has been respected as a medical intuitive, channel, empath, healer, psychic and teacher. She is a Lakota/Navajo traditional elder and healer. She…
Kim Jung Hee is a Korean shaman or “Mudang” who creates unity and understanding between people, and finds ways to help them. She has traveled and presented in Germany, Mongolia and at the international festival, “13 shaman’s call”, in 2014 at Tuva. She works for the Association for the Development…
Jan Ogren is a Medicine Woman, storyteller, international author and licensed psychotherapist. She has apprenticed with Native American Medicine teachers since 1981. For over 30 years, she has worked in the psychotherapy field helping people change their neurological programming and recover from trauma. She works with the Institute of Noetic…
Glenn Aparicio Parry, Author of Original Thinking, A Radical ReVisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature, will work with a process of Dialogue which maps a path to reconnect us with Nature which is the source and our ground of being. It is through the examination of the movement of thought that we…
May Yang was born in Laos. She immigrated to the United States in 1996. May is 45 years old and she’s married with 6 children. In 2010, May became a shaman in the Hmong community and currently a master shaman for 2 new shamans in Merced. May is an experienced…
A refund for each participant’s conference tuition, less a $50 processing fee, is available if the Conference for Shamanism, Healing and Transformation is notified in writing of your cancellation by July 15, 2017 A refund, less a $100 processing fee, is available if the Conference for Shamanism, Healing and Transformation…
Natem Anank is a Shuar Uwishin (Traditional Healer) from the Ecuadorian rain forest. He believes we must create a human bridge that unites all tribes, all people. Together we must rescue the key to the immense knowledge of the Great Wise Ones, now on the verge of being lost.
Erdenebaatar Radnaabazar is an inherited shaman, shaman master and shaman smith. Since his shamanhood with a vow for 12 years, he planted 1188 trees with his students and performed offerings to 8 mountains promoting the conservation of nature. He received an award from the Cultural missionary for his contribution to…
Sukhbaatar Ragchaabazar – Is an inherited shaman in Mongolia. He inherited ancestral spirit and skills since 2006 by vowing shamanic oath worshiping 55 white direction Gods, developing shamanic culture of Mongolian ancient steppe shamans as one of the cultural missions of Mongolia. He engages with shamanic spirits, is an invocation…
Ganchimeg Ganbat inherited the power of shamanic magic, inner meditation, spirit enchantment of Mongolian traditional medicine for treatment, by which she developed shamanic healing method. She considers shaman should have following insight. This includes eyewashing, mind changing and enchantment.