I'm a ritual healing practitioner, ceremonialist, teacher and founder of Heart Path Studio, a non-profit organization in Athens, GA which aims to create a new folk culture of relating with the unseen world through the convergence of animistic and shamanic principles. My ancestors hail from the British Isles, France, and Cherokee, Ilini, and Choctaw nations. Committed to collective healing, I hold grounded, empathic, heart-centered ritual space which supports presence, trust, and community rooted in the ancient ways of healing as service to the Earth.

I have 25 + years of professional experience addressing the deep wounding of the feminine through social justice advocacy related to intimate partner violence, diversity, and the oppression of marginalized populations. I have a Masters degree in Professional Leadership and Counseling with a focus in Jungian and Gestalt modalities and use this training to support folks in honing their inner capabilities through connection with intuitive and spiritual resources as a means to shift through imbalances, embody deeper wisdom and earth-honoring purpose.

My life's work is grounded in animistic reverence studied in depth, specifically within the teaching lineages of mentors whose backgrounds are in West African Diaspora, Eastern Mysticism, Nepali shamanism, as well as various other diverse indigenous paths, and northern European cultures. Having made a pilgrimage to Nigeria, I am a committed student and initiate of Ọbàtálá, and Ọ̀ṣun, in the Ifa/Orisa tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa, in the lineage of Olúwo Fálolú Adésànyà Awoyadé from Òdè Rẹ́mọ, Ogun state, Nigeria. Along with Olúwo Fálolú Adésànyà Awoyadé and Dr. Daniel Foor, my other teachers and mentors include Robinette Kennedy, Ph.D., Bhola Nath Banstola, Gail Gulick, Robert Moss, Sandra Ingerman, and Linda Fitch.

As a certified practitioner of the Ancestral Lineage Healing method created by Dr. Daniel Foor, I provide individual sessions, online and in person training specifically addressing the cultural wounding of the feminine through the Mother Wound, and assist in training new ancestral lineage healing practitioners. I also hold certification as a Usui Shiki Ryoho and Karuna Reiki® Master/Teacher

 I dream and practice joy daily in Athens, Ga along with my son and a treasure trove of 4 legged fur babies.

Connect with Shannon:

Website: https://redearthhealing.org/

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Irene Ammar is a ritualist and herbalist whose work focuses on bringing people into direct relationships with the healthy roots of their ancestors. She especially loves working with lineage repair around babies and parenting, and bringing the ancestors on board as a source of insight and support for us as we become parents. Her people are from Old Europe, and she takes seriously the need to safely engage with collective harms so that the tides can turn toward health in all of our families and communities. To find out more, please visit her website at www.ireneammar.com

Connect with Irene:

Website: www.ireneammar.com

Find her on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/irene.ammar.5 Irene is now offering a four-part online program for integrating the ancestral healing work with parenthood initiation. To find out more: https://ireneammar.teachable.com/p/ancestral-healing-for-conception-fertility/

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Larisa Noonan is an Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner who has specialized for nearly two decades in trauma healing, embodiment skills, and supporting healthy boundaries. She weaves ritual and nature connection into all of her offerings and is passionate about supporting grief and loss, recovery from religious fundamentalism, and those with chronic pain/illness.

She lives with her husband and son in Oregon on the ancestral homelands of the Kalapuya people.

Her ancestors are from France, the Netherlands via Ukraine, Germany, and Switzerland and her work/life is rooted in earth-honoring ritual, embodying ancestral gifts, and reclaiming animist values. 

Connect with Larisa:

Website: http://larisanoonan.com/

Find peace and perspective (ebook): Dissolving Overwhelm with Owl

Virtual ancestral healing circle: www.larisanoonan.com/ancestral-healing-circle

Relevant blog post: Walking the Knife's Edge - A Message of Celebration

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Seyta Selter is a certified practitioner of ancestral lineage healing, and also practices depth psychology (embodied dreamwork and hypnotherapy) and spiritual counseling in Olympia, WA and online.

has an MA in East-West Psychology, is an adjunct faculty of dream psychology and consciousness studies at the Evergreen State College, and is also Dr. Daniel Foor's assistant, managing Ancestral Medicine development. 

Her ancestors hail from New York, Illinois, and Tennessee, the Jewish diaspora, continental Europe, and the British Isles. 

She enjoys working with folks new to trance modalities and believes that relating with the unseen is a natural, enriching aspect of human experience.

She is currently focusing on teaching, supporting Ancestral Medicine, and developing NORD (the Non-Ordinary Reality Database), a public science website serving as the Google for the collective unconscious with journaling, indexing, analysis, and community features around subjective experiences with the inner senses.

For more info see: www.innerlands.org and www.nordcommons.org.

Connect with Seyta:

Website: www.innerlands.org

NORD website: www.nordcommons.org

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Lindsay Sudeikis is an educator-activist in the practice of wonder and is based in New York. She is also a former Catholic nun, a current lover of humanity and all that is, and an aspiring mystic and improvisor.

You can find her current work as a ritualist at omniasancta.org

Connect with Lindsay:

Website: https://omniasancta.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lindsay.sudeikis

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Shauna is dedicated to bringing the sacred and the community back to healing. 

She embodies the archetypal gifts of healer, teacher and priestess, with a commitment to reclaiming healthy grief-tending and holistic and ritual practices for well-being. She believes everyone has the birthright and ability to connect with their own ancestral wisdom, and that both grief healing and ancestral connection are pathways into deepening our sense of belonging, within ourselves, between each other, and with the more-than-human world. 

Shauna provides healing support to individuals and families navigating loss/change, facilitates trauma-informed training and group process, leads community grief rituals, and guides ancestral repair and connection work. She is also an award nominated singer-songwriter who finds music a soulful expression of her ancestral inheritance.  

Website: www.shaunajanz.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/shaunajanzconsulting

Music Website: www.shaunajanzmusic.com

Free Gift - "Healing Conversations" E-Book, outlining 5 practical and meaningful intentions to support someone who is grieving. Download here: www.shaunajanz.com/free-resources.html

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Jenn Bradshaw Almond is the Modern Woman's Guide to Sacred Wisdom who supports women at a crossroad in their business to create healthy energetic boundaries in their life so they can be seen and heard in their brilliance.  

As a Astrologer and Energy Healing  Coach, her passion for understanding and balancing the physical, emotional and spiritual bodies, was derived from her own journey.  She has a vast resume of healing modalities to include: Certified Flower Essence Practitioner from the school of Woman Rising, Certified Wholistic Kinesiologist (TM),  Certified Holistic Health Coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and more.  

Social Media:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/modernguidetosacredwisdom/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/jennbradshaw09/

2018 Astro Summer Grand Slam of Events:  http://jennbradshaw.com/astro-grand-slam/

The Moon Adventures Society:  http://jennbradshaw.com/moon-adventures-society/

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I'm a NO to Shame.

At first glance my response is DUH! who the fuck is a yes to shame? Of course I'm a NO to shame. I would bet you are too.

Here's the thing…

While I am intellectually a No to shame I have some places in my life where I have allowed shame to continue to dwell. Where I have not lived into being a NO to shame.

Let me share some of the places where is has become clear that I not living my NO to shame. It is messy…I don't know where all this is going…I am surrendering to co-creation to end my Shame Game.

Join me on the journey of the Shame Game Series!

Today, Maria Kurylo joins me to talk about the Shame Of Being A Woman.

Connect with Maria at www.mariakurylo.com

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I'm a NO to Shame.

At first glance my response is DUH! who the fuck is a yes to shame? Of course I'm a NO to shame. I would bet you are too.

Here's the thing…

While I am intellectually a No to shame I have some places in my life where I have allowed shame to continue to dwell. Where I have not lived into being a NO to shame.

Let me share some of the places where is has become clear that I not living my NO to shame. It is messy…I don't know where all this is going…I am surrendering to co-creation to end my Shame Game.

Join me on the journey of the Shame Game Series!

Visit www.honorthefeminine.com

Email ~ [email protected]           

Contact Shannon Ledford

Visit www.honorthefeminine.com

I'm a NO to Shame.

At first glance my response is DUH! who the fuck is a yes to shame? Of course I'm a NO to shame. I would bet you are too.

Here's the thing…

While I am intellectually a No to shame I have some places in my life where I have allowed shame to continue to dwell. Where I have not lived into being a NO to shame.

Let me share some of the places where is has become clear that I not living my NO to shame. It is messy…I don't know where all this is going…I am surrendering to co-creation to end my Shame Game.

Join me on the journey of the Shame Game Series!

Visit www.honorthefeminine.com

Email ~ [email protected]           

Contact Shannon Ledford