A successful healer experiences and lives infinite teachings of Love. Love of self, love of one’s god - whatever that might be - and love of others. And our task, above all else, is to expand our client’s capabilities for love. To help them open their hearts to themselves so they can experience how beautiful and special they are. How can we accomplish this? By asking others to help facilitate this very knowing within us. By being open and vulnerable, and allowing another to midwife us into our...

We recently completed the Spiritual Healing and the Human Soul Class, and I wish to honor my students. These women are exceptional people who are willing to go beyond self perceived limitations and boundaries and walk what I call a “two footed walk.” I believe much of the power of a spiritual healer comes from our commitment and willingness to do this. Imagine that one foot is your personal foot and the other, your healer foot. Focusing on the personal foot involves confronting our wounds and...

Before I became re-infatuated with Peru, my dear friend, Emily and I co-led spiritual travel groups to the powerful ruins of Teotihuacan, Mexico. One trip was called "The Journey of the Four Petaled Flower.” I wrote a blog about it in 2012. It's timely and important for us to revisit the four petaled flower, so I decided to edit a bit and post for the New Year. The City of Teotihuacan was built over two thousand years ago. Around 800 A.D. the Teotihuacanos vacated it, although no one really...

A woman asked me to do a distant healing for her son, a young man I’m going to call Bob. She said he’s not the type of person who believes in my work and asked if I could do a healing anyway. I checked in with Bob’s higher self and got the ok. At every Healing Ceremony, I spend a good amount of time helping a client come to a core intention. What is the state of being they wish they were in? For example, a person who is depressed might want to feel joy. I’ve learned that intention is magnetic....

When a woman becomes pregnant, transformational energy from the Source of Life creates a path for a spirit to enter her body and grow into a human being. This spirit is alive, conscious, and incarnates with purpose and intention. From the moment of conception and even before, it is able and willing to communicate. Many of us know a growing fetus can hear sounds and words, but only a few realize it might have something to say. Communication is possible both ways, from mother to child and child...

I traveled in Peru for 10 weeks this summer with my dear friend, Salita. We were based in the Sacred Valley and spent time in many places including Machu Picchu, Cusco, Puno, Lake Titicaca, and the Q’ero village of Charkapata. If you read my last blog, Big Love and Health, you already know a little bit about the trip. For the most part, I stayed very healthy. I never had a problem with altitude (we have the best homeopathic remedies for this!) and high-potency garlic supplements took care of...

I'm off to Peru for ten weeks on July 1. How lucky can I get? This trip was conceived in January by myself and my friend, Salita. Over the course of the months between then and now, I've had various thoughts about going and have actually re-chosen it a few times. I've even been to Peru and back once. Last June when I was there with a group, I was asked to be the Madrina for the wedding of a Q'ero couple. Jorge and Aleja are getting married in mid-July in their village, Charkapata, which is in...

We open a ceremony in front of the Pachamama stone, and I give them blessings for their journeys. They're ready to leave. I stand at the gateway of the caves and Huaynu Picchu (the tallest mountain at Machu Picchu) and watch them hike away on the old, Inka path. The rain is gently coming down, and I walk over to sit in one of the little huts. I have a plan............. A young guard is there. I ask him if he knows Efraen, a guard I met here about two years ago, a deeply spiritual man who...

I’ve been in Gold Beach, Oregon for the past ten days. My friends have a condo and offered it to me for a writing retreat. I love it here. The kitchen table sits opposite a long, rectangular expanse of window. At the center is a sliding glass door that opens on to a deck. And beyond the deck, alive in all her glory, is Mama Cocha, Mother Ocean. I’ve been sitting at this table writing on my computer every day, sometimes for more hours at a time than I can believe. Talking out loud and staring...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain Dear Friends, I wish you a wondrous New Year, full of Love, Happiness and Good Health. Let's each explore and dream as if for the very first time. Here we are, in another present moment. Let's LIVE our lives. Awake and full-hearted. And offer our...