Raised as a Buddhist in the small town mountains of New Mexico nestled in with the pinon and cactus was a small home built of love. Chickens ran with the dogs and the cats with the birds, nature was my first friend. Acquiring a liking for the tribal influence in food, art, and customs, I requested to be sent to school with Shamans. Shortly after receiving my first initial sessions, I was told I could learn to dream walk. After a year of nightly meditations, I was able to control my dreams. During this time I met spirits that taught me along the way. I was initiated into hands-on healing at the age of nine.
Taken to the woods to learn survival skills the shamanic way – listen to the animals, talk to the trees, know the plants, watch the sky. I learned numerology, brujeria, herbal remedies, and challenging intuitive development body control. Skills like walking in the snow with no shoes on to control the reaction my body had to the cold. Becoming more powerful than the surroundings was a lesson in empowerment. I learned that you must be stronger than what you believe, for the spirit realm is vast and has many tests, none of which are fast, each test is lengthy and devastating if failed. At fifteen I traveled to find new teachers.
An apprenticeship with a Kabbala instructor in ceremonial magic for a year started my journey in hermetics. An In-depth curriculum with Native American medicine women in Navaho medicine wheel gave me an ancient perspective on balance and health. She had learned from her grandmother. As a teenager, I would take the bus every week across Oakland California to visit my teachers. In the old times, they taught me in their kitchens and I would garden for them, we would sit and cook together after magic and ceremony. One day I gave a reading to a friend who had two macaw feathers for me. Later that year I was gifted a two-year apprentices to become a psychic who could read physical ailments and guide others in becoming healthy again. The apprenticeship included anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and herbal preparations.
After my certification as a healer, I deepened my education in the healing arts. I graduated from Southwest School of Botanical Medicine’s six-hundred-hour program in Professional Herbology. This was a comprehensive education in Anatomy and Physiology, Botanical Materia Medica, Herbal Pharmacy, Constitutional Medicine, Herbal Therapeutics, Botany, Clinicals, Wildcrafting, and Herbal Formulating. In 2003 I obtained my clinical herbalist certification. As a psychic and healer with an influence from Hermetic and Kabbala, Buddhism, and Native American Shamanic knowledge, it was starting to get real.
To support this wealth of knowledge I became a certified world religion mythology Reverend focusing on Goddess cosmology. I started my practice in my dance studio and combined my healing work into a Sacred Feminine curriculum. Somehow during this time I gained a 1600-hour life coaching certification, was awarded by a member of Congress, and started traveling leading workshops nationally. One day I wanted to know more about some of the visions the spirits were showing me. I had channeled a significant amount of work and I became a keeper of secret knowledge no one could understand. I then was guided to study Vodou. Not just any Vodou, but I was guided specifically to a person who was born and raised in a shamanic tradition that was very similar to my childhood teachings.
My spiritual journey has continued to evolve to the present. I have opened Temple de la Luna, a mystical healing and training center, where I help others to heal and to find their spiritual journey.
