Doro was born in 1958 in Germany. Since 1997 she lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1988 she was initiated into the shamanic path in a classical way through a transforming rebirth experience. She studied Brazilian Shamanism with Ruth Fischer in Munich and graduated from the three year training with the Institute of Visualization Research in the Personal Totem Pole Process© with Eligio Stephen Gallegos, PhD. who developed this therapeutic-shamanic healing work in the chakra system. Among others she studied crystal healing with DaEl Walker,energy work after Barbara Ann Brennan,the vertical worldview by Rüdiger Dahlke, PhD, dream work with Günther Feyler, Traumwirkstatt, ritual with Malidoma Patrice Some, Celtic shamanism with Tom Cowan, and overtone singing with Christian Bollmann.