Personal Spirit Journeys
Personal Spirit Journeys
Enter the breath of your roots…
…Roots that are interconnected to your ancestors, to all life, to the core of Earth, to the center of our Mother Tree.
You are a seed, a sapling, a tender reed of this infinite ecosystem.
An experience of truly knowing this, in your bones, can offer you the rarefied remembrance of who you truly are, returning you back to wholeness—a wholeness that, in fact, has never left you.
…There is no “one way;”
but there is “a” way:
Your path,
carried in your blood.
Trust & express your wild sensitivity.
Since you’re reading this, I imagine you yearn to connect authentically with all life—the life that drums within yourself, with others, with the land.
This is beautiful because it can become a pathway to trusting and expressing your raw, generous sensitivity as an innate, wild gift … instead of feeling as though it’s only a challenge.
My wish for you is to feel safe enough within yourself to return to this natural state where you know who you really are and honor your worth.
When you have a somatic (body) experience of this, you’ll truly know that you’re part of an eternal network of belonging.
Your sensitive nature can fuel & regenerate you.
In fact, it can be your greatest source of power.
…And this lives within you.
I know that you’ve probably heard, or felt, that your sensitivity can be “too much” or that your unique way of self-expressing (especially if you’re neurodivergent), must be dulled in order to fit into a make-believe “box” of social mores.
It’s easy to get so hung up on this myth, that you forget you belong to the Mother Tree of All Life. That you are her child.
Instead, you can feel disconnected and cut-off and may not realize there is a reason you feel everything with such intensity.
And while this intensity can feel isolating and challenging, it is this very intensity that so extraordinarily allows you to access an embodied experience of being part of the web of life … of belonging.
The Sensitive Ones were always the healers, the intuitives.
They were respected by the community and often taken care of by its members.
They carried the mark of Journeyer or Keeper of the Ways because the life-death-rebirth cycle intensely initiated them.
Because the Sensitive Ones faced, head-on, the cusp death/rebirth, they inherently understood the Medicine Ways and could exquisitely connect with the powerful energy (väki) of life.
It’s actually your beautiful, wild sensitivity that allows you to feel interconnectedness and aliveness in a profound—even extra-sensory—way.
Love Notes From Clients
I’m a Journeyer. This is something that has always been innate within me.
As a guide and a Sensitive One, I’m deeply rooted in the indigenous ways of my Finno-Ugric and Nordic ancestors.
My intimate initiations have been life itself: abuse, near-death, international moves (uprooted-ness), divorce, single parenthood, fire.
The lessons taught through these experiences are priceless.
Humbly, I’m still learning, growing, and continually receiving support on my journey … because … we all need support.
We’re not meant to be mutually independent; we’re meant to be interdependent (which we are, whether we want to acknowledge it or not).
If you want to learn more about my diverse training—from being an initiated priestess to a certified tantric practitioner/bodyworker—and discover who my teachers are, you can go here.
Experience intimate, healing journeys.
What is a journey?
With reverence, I’ll describe a journey simply as:
A shamanic practice where an experienced and initiated guide enters the borders of the otherworld(s), via trance (in my Finno-Ugric & Nordic lineages, via ecstatic trance through singing/drumming), to retrieve wisdom and return it to the seeker, who then can integrate and embody it in their present life.
This becomes a gift for the past, the present, and the future.
Most—if not all—cultures, at some point, within their roots, had a pre-Christian, animist, nature-based belief system. Through incessant colonization, many of these ways have been decimated.
Despite this erosion, there are indigenous cultures who continue, reclaim, and regenerate the Wisdom Ways which honor all nature and treat all living things as sacred.
Guides conducting the journeys held/hold a societal role.
Throughout time, globally, the priestess, shaman, noita, noaidi, völva, medicine woman—there are many different words for the role of guide—provided this oracular service publicly, for the community, and privately, for individuals and kin.
This role requires great integrity and skill to “spirit travel” to other realms— interpreting symbols and information and “moving” in multi-sensory directions at once, including in the chthonic netherworld—all while steadfastly listening for deep truth—the wisdom that can offer healing and/or advice.
Why journeys?
Journeying is a way to collect memories, wisdom, and soul medicine that’s relevant to your life, now, bringing back a sense of interconnectedness and balance.
The person who requests the journey not only receives specific advice and healing, but also a preservation of the story, the song, the myth of their ancestors in all forms—human, animal, land, sky, and elemental.
Together, we create sacred trust.
Journeys can bring…
- Clarity
- Growth
- Renewal
- Strength, fortitude (sisu)
- Healing
This is the Wisdom Way of all our ancestors—yours, mine.
Your journey can be virtual or in-person for any of the following reasons:
“Tantric” experience of your full, sacred, erotic expression
Activate, merge, and balance the sacred erotic union of the masculine/feminine energies within you
Clear energetic barriers & realign your power (these I may do privately, then report back to you on what I saw/found in the journey; sometimes, we do them together—it depends on Spirit’s guidance)
Receive shamanic guidance on a very specific challenge/initiation in your life
Retrieve information that will help bring you back to your inherent wholeness
How this works...
We will connect in person, on Zoom, or via phone.
Healing journeys are 1:1.
You can expect to spend approximately 2hr together.
Before the journey begins, we’ll set very clear intentions—that are aligned with the spirit of love—and ask a wisdom question.
I will begin to journey to the wisdom question.
There are many different ways to journey and I rely on my ancestral and spiritual guidance.
Once the journey begins, you can be sure that spirit singing/singing/sound and drumming will be involved.
A thread is followed and I’ll sing my way to the Knowing Place, the Retrieval Place to recover a truth: a truth that illuminates what is hidden so that healing can begin or closure can occur.
This will be shared with and/or experienced by you.
“Structurally,” a journey can look one of two ways (or a combination of both):
1. We journey together—me, as your guide (along with guides that show up for you)—to deeply personal spaces where you may receive an imprint and embodiment of your full, sensitive, wild wholeness. In this instance, you’re an active participant.
2. I journey with my guides upon the landscape of song, as you observe (or not), receiving information that supports a return to wholeness. In this instance, you’re the receiver and simply rest/relax.
Each experience is unique.
Payment
Journeys begin at $222.
If it’s feasible and resonant for you to provide an additional financial gift, then I’ll receive that with an open heart.
The journeying amount of $222 is based upon the guidance of my ancestors, who asked that I honor this service to you as a gift that has been passed onto me.
A note on financial exchanges for spiritual services, to honor my ancestors:
We no longer live in a gift economy where oracles, seers, healers, shamans, edgewalkers, and medicine people are taken care of by their communities; so financial currency is the most practical (and usually beneficial) way to pay respect in our modern times.