“As you enter positions of trust andpower, dream a little before you think.” - Toni Morrison
We are luminous Gatekeepers. As Gatekeepers we nourish the flow of energy between the realms of spirit and the physical world. Gatekeepers keep the portals between the worlds healthy so that the Life throughout the cosmos continues to evolve. We are needed here. Our abilities are gifts. The worlds want to cherish us. We are meant to flourish. So, we journey the Path of the Shamanic Witch to embody the Gatekeepers we truly are.
We learn to transform ourselves. We join in healing each other. We re-enchant the world. This is at the heart of the Shamanic Witch training. Stepping out of being small, reclaiming our long-forgotten powers, and shining as spirit-workers. The Path of the Shamanic Witch is about unshackling us from fear, dis-ease, and oppression. We create joy and wellness as we alchemically transform our pain and stories using spiritual technologies. We fall deeper in Love with living Life as we weave energy medicine with spirit allies. We live in joy as we learn to manifest miraculous futures from the dreamworlds. We journey through this training with a circle of people and spirits who can support and Love us.
There are three things a healer needs to flourish in their craft…
Cutting edge spiritual technologies that build on ancestral wisdom traditions
Guidance and feedback from an accomplished teacher
An ongoing community of support and resonance
We offer you this and so much more.
We Welcome You
Welcome to the Path of the Shamanic Witch. We may come from different histories and experiences. Yet, that is what will make us a strong community. For 16 months we will embody a coven by cherishing our uniqueness and how we each stretch our capacities to facilitate healing and ignite alchemy. Our coven grows through a succession of vigorous practices, rituals, and sacred wisdom retrieval. We honor tears that quench the soul and laughter that fills the belly. Our magic reinvigorates our joys in life. For we also grow through pleasure activism. This path is not a series of weekend workshops. Rather, it is way to restructure how you move in the world. This path requires commitment to your personal growth and participating as best you can. Our commitments to this path are met with the reciprocity of the spirit world as they bestow their wisdoms, practices, and blessings. In this training, you’ll learn to build your own medicine bundle, work the crossroads of animistic ritual, meet and heal your ancestral lineages, safely go into spirit possession, practice shapeshifting, facilitate soul retrieval, make relationship with the local Fey, create spirit dolls and familiars, perform animistic divination, and facilitate healings like illumination, entity extractions, and much more.
16 GATES ALONG THE PATH
Initiatory paths often have gates. We have 16 as this training lasts 16 months. We journey through four months in each of the four directions; South-West-North-East. Each direction will offer training that prepares you for the next direction to come. We meet one full day a month as a group. Students will magically form affinity groups of 3-4 people. Practicing new spiritual technologies during the month with an affinity group is a wonderful way to become adept at your abilities and share insights.
Students are offered (included in tuition) an individual session with me during each direction so that I can support any additional healing or integration you might need.
To ensure that our time together is rich and sustainable, our coven will be no more than 16 people. Our coven moves through all the directions together as a flock. All students are committed to the entire 16 months of training. The only folks in our classes will be the folks you meet on the first day. This allows us to build trust and resiliency as the work progresses through each direction. Our supportive learning structure also includes suggested readings, magical take-home assignments, and guest teachers I love and trust. You will be held in a secure container with the additions of our private Google group, your affinity group and individual sessions with myself.
OUR GROVE: A CONTAINER OF HEALING JUSTICE WITH AN AWARENESS OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION This path is a unique blending of wisdom traditions. The word "Shaman" was taken first from Evenk indigenous cultures of North Asia by anthropologist and then blended into our western collective consciousness to describe our rising awareness and re-introduction to our human heritage. And while the term Shamanic Healer cannot fully describe the many worldwide spiritual practices of Energy Medicine it does provide a starting point. We are slowly replacing the word “shamanism” with “animism” to align with our social justice philosophy.
Our grove of animistic wisdom is rooted with ideas shared by the Q’ero, original descendants of the Inka priesthood, as well as practices from pagan traditions, contemporary spirit-workers, sorcery, traditions of the African Diaspora, and your own ancestral wisdom traditions that you will uncover in this Path. We are the mighty tree trunks connecting the realms of above, middle, and below. The branches of our grove will grow from additional traditions including the ancestral wisdom traditions offered by guest teachers. Our integrity forms the leaves that exchange the Love and Healing Justice that feed our grove. We uplift models of antioppression and decolonizing with compassion. Together, we do our best to acknowledge the origins of these wisdom-practices, affirm the resiliency of their respective cultures, respect cultural boundaries and find ways to give back to these communities.
I teach a range of different practices. The spiritual technologies that spring up from the ancestral traditions of BIPOC have been developed by long time community members who developed these practices for non-initiates in a "western" context. These folks received approval from their elders to offer these practices. Many of the spiritual technologies I teach were developed by me and other present-day spirit workers. When working with beings like Oshun, I do not teach from my Ifa practice. Instead, I received acknowledgement from the presiding priest of my Ile that Oshun has many roads and works in present-day people's lives outside of the Ifa ritual/temple community. Therefore, this is how we engage Oshun for non-initiates. In terms of Aset-Isis, we approach her as a being who came from cultures that sought to spread her worship to the ends of their empire and beyond. Our engagement with Aset-Isis is not through Khemtic ritual but through gnostic (direct personal) experience.
Throughout my career as a private practitioner and teacher I have tithed from tuitions to non-profit organizations designed to rejuvenate the communities and environments of the BIPOC people who contributed to the course syllabus or healing modality. This training's group will decide where my tithes go.
What you will learn...
SOUTH
SERPENT MOTHER AND THE ANCESTORS (REGENERATING FROM OUR PAST) Regenerate your past as Serpent Mother regenerates her skin and reinvigorate your ancestral magic. COVEN GOLDFINCH IN VALLEJO: $150 per month (or $500 in full for four months of the South) 2nd SATURDAYS OF THE MONTH, 11:30am-6: 30pm: South dates: Nov 16, 2019. Dec 14,2019. Jan 11,2020. Feb 8, 2020
We begin with out past. The stories we hold and the ancestral lineages that birthed us. The stories we have lived through might have shaped us but they need not bind us. In the South, we learn to stop living in the old stories. Instead we reclaim the power to rewrite our lives. We face the discomfort of our biological ancestral lineages to heal those wounds and elevate those spirits. We unhinge the secret vaults of our spiritual lineages. We reclaim the potency of our ancestral magics. Like the great serpent and our ancestors we lay our bellies to the ground and learn the vibrations of ritual magic. With the sacred stones of our greatest ancestor, Earth, we learn to remove the energetic imprints of trauma and dis-ease with the tool of Illumination. We begin making our medicine bundles. We forge allyship with Psychopomp spirits and trance through the lands of the ancestors. We learn to transform ancestral demons and lineage curses into familiar spirits and allies. In the South …
Meet our 16-month coven and create group agreements we can uphold with integrity.
Magically form an affinity group with classmates that will support your entire journey through this path.
Learn to open the crossroads of animistic ritual space.
Drum journeying to meet a power animal/spirit ally who can journey with you through the South.
Begin building your own medicine bundle for the powerful allies and tools you’ll acquire in this training.
Learn to cast divination with stones.
Learn to retrieve a spirit ally for a classmate
Identify and write the pattern of your life – the pattern you will alchemize over the 16 months
Begin performing Illumination healings to release imprints of trauma and dis-ease from the energy body.
Form allyship with a Psychopomp spirit (one who ferries people to the land of the ancestors).
Practice building and tending your ancestor altar with power objects from the lands of the ancestors.
Discover whom your witch clan is- a source of ancestral power.
Learn to oracle for the ancestors and discover where they need healing.
Begin transforming ancestral demons and lineage curses into familiar spirits for your lineage.
Learn to begin reconciling the lineages of colonizer and colonized that might run in your own veins.
Learn to release departed ones from their physical bodies and guide them across the veil.
Create your own spirit doll for doing healing work with Serpent Mother and the ancestors.
West
LADY JAGUAR AND THE GODDESS OSHUN* (WADING THROUGH DEEP WATERS) Wading with Lady Jaguar and Oshun in the waters that heal fragmentation. The second direction COVEN GOLDFINCH IN VALLEJO: $150 per month (or $500 in full for four months of the West) 2nd SATURDAYS OF THE MONTH, 11:30am-6: 30pm: West dates: March 14, 2020. April 11,2020. May 9,2020. June 13,2020.
As we journey through the West we wade through the waters of our hungry ghosts. We release the racialization (and good vs. bad) of light and “the shadow”. As Lady Jaguar cherishes the dark forests so we learn to cherish all our parts. We turn our fears into fuel, as the gates of the West can be the most cathartic and challenging to process. Lady Jaguar gifts us with the sight to see what obstructs our paths. We work with Oshun as the goddess of sweet waters and healing. *Careful not to infringe upon African and Diasporic traditions, we engage Oshun as she presents herself today to non-initiates. Oshun’s mirror shows us all the wondrous parts of ourselves. She fiercely pours life-force into us, like honey and sweet water, through healing. We will learn two different forms of soul retrieval. With Oshun and Lady Jaguar we learn the medicine of extracting energetic intrusions and entities from the body. We create new spaces for flourishing. We receive reiki attunements to fill these newly opened spaces with divine energies. This prepares us to unleash the beauty and grace of our hearts as powerful Gatekeepers.
In the West …
Co-create ritual space with your affinity group for the entire coven.
Journey into the mirror realm to make intentional relationships with your most hidden parts.
Become attuned as a Reiki practitioner to help ease integration in the West.
Learn recipes and methods for making spiritual baths of uncrossing, protection, and healing.
Illumine stuck energies of your core wound, and learn what alchemy is needed to continue healing it
Learn to sense energy rivers and obstructions in the body.
Become the hunter of your greatest fear, devour it, integrate it, and use it as fuel.
Learn to perform and receive two different types of soul retrieval with Oshun as your ally.
Perform soul retrievals for an ancestral witch who had an unwell death and guide them to peace.
Learn different methods to extract harmful entities and crystalline energy intrusions from the body.
Ritually melt a heart frozen by the fears of “what I never wanted to be”.
Create your Glamour spell and work from the outside in to build internal confidence with being seen as a luminary figure in the world.
Ritually work with four guardians within the heart to transform despair, pain and loneliness into desire, pleasure, and celebration
Create your own Un-locket of Self Love as a jeweled power piece that aides you on your journey of being brave, being seen, being cherished, and most of all being Yourself.
North
Hummingbird & ThE “FEY” SPIRITS OF THIS LAND (REVIVING ENCHANTMENT IN THE WORLD) Transcend time and space with Hummingbird and the Fey of this Land to drink the nectars of re-enchantment. The third direction. COVEN GOLDFINCH IN VALLEJO: $150 per month (or $500 in full for four months of the North) 2nd SATURDAYS OF THE MONTH, 11:30am-6: 30pm: North dates: July 11, 2020. Aug 8,2020. Sept 12,2020. Oct 10,2020.
North brings us to the sweetness of life. Having done the hard work we now soar into Eros. Hummingbird teaches us to move through space and linear time and drink the sweet nectars of life. Allyship with the “Fey”, transphysical beings interwoven with nature yet existing in the liminal world, bring a sense of re-enchantment with the world. We get to release the expectations of who we aught to be. We rediscover our blackberry stained fingers, chocolate smeared mouths and mussed hair; who we were before society tried to domesticate us. Engaging healthy fun and pleasure is how we heal ourselves and the world. Creating the pleasure-filled life we deserve is a radical act of activism. Especially since engaging our emotional desires and Eros leads to organizing against oppression. We will shapeshift and practice time magic. We will create wish-granting genii and thoughtform familiars. We will journey through the realms of the local Fey and meet allies amongst the hidden realms. We can heal our relationships with the land through deep listening and inspired action. We will learn to open gates to otherworlds and dance in spirit possession. We celebrate the sweetness of life in a Wild Rumpus and it is oh so healing. In the North …
Co-create ritual space with your affinity group for the entire coven.
Ritually uncage your feral nature, the playful creature, healing the child-like self.
Release expectations of who you aught to be.
Retrieve your animal skin and learn to shapeshift.
Learn the wisdom of the land through a Council of All Beings.
Learn the sorcery to create wish granting genii and living thoughtform familiars.
Practice moving forward and backward through time-space with planetary keys.
Create a Hummingbird barge to journey together to the lands of the Fey and paint an ephemeral map.
Meet and create allies amongst the Fey of this land by honoring how they appear, act, and live-dream in accordance with their own land-based Fey culture in Northern California.
Learn how to commune with Fey from the realms of the green bloods, red bloods, hidden caves and celestial skies.
Learn the seven-pointed Faery pentacle and how to run those transformational energies through your body.
Practice opening and closing Fey portals by building and activating stone gates.
Accept a Fey lover (if you choose that homework).
Learn and practice spirit possession to add power to your healing practices and magic.
Enjoy a Wild Rumpus together- an outdoor magical gathering with the wild things in celebration (and manifestation) of life’s sweetness.
Create a Ritual Mask that channels the hive-mind powers of a Fey clan
East
EAGLE AND THE GODDESS ASET-ISIS (DREAMING OUR DESTINIES INTO THE WAKENING WORLD) Fly with Eagle and Aset-Isis through the Great Dreaming to manifest your destinies. Completing our Journey. COVEN GOLDFINCH IN VALLEJO: $150 per month (or $500 in full for four months of the East) 2nd SATURDAYS OF THE MONTH, 11:30am-6: 30pm: East dates: Nov 14, 2020. Dec 12,2020. Jan 9,2021. Feb 13,2021. Blessed Be and Asè! The alchemical changes in your life patterns are now undeniable. We came to this world for reasons. To live this unique opportunity as humans. To learn, to grow, to evolve. To be the very Cosmos experiencing itself. To make the world a more equitable and flourishing place. To Love. To keep the worlds alive by weaving energy through the gates of spirit and matter. In the North, with Eagle, we soar through the astral and into the dreaming of all potential. We gather the destinies that call us and bring them back into manifestation. With the magic of Aset-Isis we reassemble the energetic patterns of our life to bring our destinies into fulfillment.We journey through past lives to uncover our Akashic cords. We work with the golden magic of Aset-Isis to infuse the tendrils that support our destinies. We use her doula’s knife to sever and clear what no longer serves. We rebirth ourselves anew. We taste the dragon flame of celestial creation. We learn to evoke angels and planetary intelligences to act on our behalf. We each create a new spiritual technology or practice to share with the coven. Together, we find a promising future for our descendants and impart a spiritual gravity on those futures so that they manifest. We are here. You have done it. And what a glorious journey it has been.
In the East …
Co-create ritual space with your affinity group for the entire coven.
Practice long distance healings on a wounded landscape or ecosystem.
Create amulets, talismans, and thunderstones that draw the spirits to aid your long-term goals.
Learn Hoodoo and Rootwork conjure to influence your career and business.
Evoke Angels, Planetary Intelligences and Elementals into magic mirrors to grant petitions or reveal arcane wisdoms.
Enter the Akashic Records to invigorate cords that are supportive and release those that are draining.
Rewrite your soul contracts, the energetic pattern of your life, and create your own Mythos.
Journey into the Great Dreaming and retrieve your destinies.
Meet the Celestial Dragons of pure energy and consciousness to receive the gift dragon fire.
Enter a ritual with Aset-Isis to death the old self and rebirth the new self.
Teach our coven a unique healing technique your and your spirits have created.
Develop a farewell ritual with the coven to honor your Divine Self and all we have experienced together.
If I MISS A CLASS?
Sometimes life surprises us. So, if you absolutely must miss a class please let me know. If you need support to attend a class please feel free to request it. Each student is still responsible for each month’s tuition. If you happen to miss a class know that you will be lovingly held by our coven.
Here are a few options to make up a missed class…
Ask another student in the coven to make an audio recording of the class lessons
Request the class outline and my notes via PDF and practice with classmates
Meet with your affinity group and ask that they share the class lessons with you
Book an individual in-person session with me. Please note that makeup sessions are different from support sessions and are not included with tuition
What if I need to step out of the 16-month training? We honor your process and your Divine self’s calling. We will find ways to support your continued participation in the training. However, if you must step out we will create a farewell ritual for you to step out in a healthy way. You will be invited to enroll in the next upcoming 16-month training with tuition waived for the directions you have completed.
Abundance Magic In lieu of offering scholarships I offer three students financial coaching and money magic to increase their financial net by $150 a month. (Perfect for tuition)
It is my intention to help our communities shed poverty patterns, claim right livelihood from their careers, and maintain long-term abundance. Spirit-workers deserve to flourish. Let’s make it so.