ABOUT SHAMANIC HEALING
Shamanic healing has been practiced for many thousands of years by indigenous cultures across the Americas and the world. While the individual healing practices and traditions vary by culture and location, there are always certain universal themes. There is a deep connection and responsibility to the natural word, to living in right-relationship to Mother Earth and All creation, to Spirit, the invisible world and the cosmos. The shaman walks between the worlds of the visible and invisible, beyond time, working in sacred space, in service to healing and the greater good of all creation.
The shamanic approach to healing is holistic. Health is perceived and affected through four perceptual levels. The understanding being that the state of the physical body is informed by the other three levels, creating conditions for health or disease. The interventions and tools are specific to each level.
Photo credit: Melissa Seligman
The outermost level is the Luminous Energy Field which stores genetic information as well as unresolved trauma as imprints in the field. The LEF connects us to every other being and to the energy field of the earth itself. The interface between the LEF and the physical world are the chakras. Chakras are swirling wheels of energy positioned over organ centers and nerve bundles along the spine and central nervous system.
Shamanic healing can help with:
- Grief, Loss
- Heavy or Intrusive energy or entities
- Releasing limiting beliefs
- Generational Trauma/“curses”
- Unresolved childhood issues
- Preparation for death
- Stuck or stagnant energy/depression
- Life transitions
- Addictions
- Trauma, PTSD
- Certain chronic or acute health issues
- Energetic Cleansing of a physical space
ABOUT DEATH DOULAS
A death doula is a holistic guide who assists individuals and families as they navigate the end-of-life journey and dying process. We provide support and assist in addressing needs across the domains of life: practical, physical, emotional/mental, & spiritual.
It is an ancient profession and calling that is making a resurgence as more people are longing for increased meaning and comfort in the dying experience and more people are choosing to die at home.
Painting by Will Murray.
About Nora
Nora is a shamanic energy medicine practitioner, curandera & death doula. She holds a Bachelors’ of Science in Nursing, and previously worked as a RN for well over a decade, board-certified in both the specialties of mental health and hospice/palliative care. She has lengthy experience assisting people and their families navigate mental health issues, grief, trauma, death and the dying experience. She worked locally at the Asheville VAMC as well as the J.F. Keever Solace center. She also has personal and professional experience working with people with Down syndrome and other disabilities.
Nora trained as a death doula, receiving certification with the Conscious Dying Institute. She has trained in shamanic energy medicine, obtained certification with the Four Winds Society, receiving the initiatory Rites of the Munay Ki. Nora additionally integrates elements of curanderismo, the traditional healing practices of Meso-America, into her work as these traditions are part of her personal ancestral lineage. Nora revels in the intersection of science and spirit and brings a down-to-earth, soulful approach. Through her own personal journey, she has learned the powerful work of transforming and alchemizing the gifts and lessons of grief, trauma & PTSD. Nora loves working with all kinds of people- of all faiths and backgrounds. She is especially welcoming of military veterans and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Nora grew up in the Asheville, NC area; she continues to live there and raise her family.
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