Jamie Meyer

• Since 2014: José and Lena Stevens of The Power Path

Their background is grounded in Huichol (Mexico) and Shipibo (South America) practice as well as cross-cultural indigenous practice, esoteric study, psychology, and other energy healing practices. I've taken many workshops of varying lenght, graduated from their year-long training program,  and have also gone through their Shamanic Practitioners' Training. 

• Since 2015: Twelve trips to Peru to study with a family with Shipibo healers in the Amazon jungle 

The core of my study in Peru has been a series of plant dietas - a seven-day process of fasting from food and water for most of the day and ingesting a single plant with properties that build power, strength, and other abilities. From this stream of study, I'll bring you the potent tradition of singing healing prayers into the body (icaros), working with plant teachers, and practices such as using rattles, bones, and feathers as tools for prayer and healing. 

• Also in Peru, Don Fernando Silva in Cusco 

He is a respected ​Hampicamayoc (plant master) with over 30 years of experience, specializing in Peruvian plant medicine and healing ceremonies. As an Altamasayok (a high order of mystic), he has a special direct connection with the Apus (mountain spirits) of the beloved Andean mountains and its sacred places. He has taught me a great deal about working with the mountains and the web of energy in the land. I've also learned from him about making offrendas - a beautiful way to make prayers for healing and power. 

• A two-year Celtic shamanism training program with Tom Cowan and many other workshops and conversations with him over 15 years augmented by 25 years of reading and practice. 

My teaching often includes working with Celtic stories and healing techniques, such as the Old Bone Mother/Cailleach (the spirit of autumn-winter and dark transformations), Brigid (the Goddess of Springtime, healing, and poetry), the Faery realm and the three cauldrons of the body (energy work), Celtic wisdom sayings and poetry, and Gaelic prayers and healing songs. I try to ground as much of myself as I can in my own ethnic indigenous tradition. 

• Several teachers from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies

This study has included Soul Retrieval with Sandra Ingerman and working with the Reindeer Spirit with Ailo Gaup (Sami/Norwegian). I am also well-schooled in the shamanic journey, which I frequently use in teaching and other work.

• Seminary training from United Seminary of the Twin Cities.

This provided rigorous academic training that honed my powers of discernment and gave me a valuable understanding the underlying theological influences on each and every person born in the western world. This stream brings rational, academic, philosophical, theological, and historical substance to my work.

• Many years as a writer (printed book, PDF book, Blog & Healing with Shamanism) and playwright taught me to be boldly imaginative, take risks, and trust in uncertainty, process, doubt, and difficulty—to revel in imagination as a sacred and blessed force and to get past the negative voices and "just do the work." 

• 20+ years conducting monthly drumming circles, and each one has been a training ground for me with whatever skills my helping spirits are cajoling me to learn at the time.