Good work. I'll be in Vermont from July 20-24 if anyone wants to meet or interview me for their project. Also, I'm afraid I'm at a sundance and can't be available by dimdim or phone this week, but would come to Johnson next week if there is any interest in a face to face meeting.
Lewis On Jul 12, 4:34 pm, Diane Perrin <mdlorra...@comcast.net> wrote: > I went to a Reading of ‘Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth’ > written by Drew Hayden Taylor of Ojibway heritage with Tantoo Cardinal > (Cree/Metis), Gary Farmer (Cayuga Nation/Iroquois Confederacy), Sheila > Tousey (Menomineeand Stockbridge Munsee) and James Fall Shubinski > (Stockbridge/Munsee). It was a comedy/drama about two Ojibway sisters > coming together after their mother’s death after being separated when > the younger sister was taken away by the government as an infant; she > was raised by white people inLondonand was a lawyer. It was an > enjoyable show, and brought up issues which were mind provoking, such > as the lawyer sister's confusion about her identity. > > July 12, 2009 > I finally connected with Wendy Halley, the psychotherapist who does > shamanic healing. We had a long discussion and she told me how she > came to follow this path. Wendy has always been empathic and drawn to > healing, thus becoming a psychotherapist. However, she felt there had > to be something more; she felt that talk therapy wasn’t enough to > induce change for many people. As a child, she was fascinated with > the fact that her great-grandmother was Cherokee, but since she had > been raised by white people, had lost the connection to her heritage. > > In a short story, she had rented space for her workshop where there > was a woman offering shamanic healing and training. Intrigued, she > scheduled some healing sessions, and after experiencing some visions > where she was convinced she saw some past lives, started training. As > a child, Wendy had a strong connection with the invisible world, and > has found that her invisible friends are now her spirit helpers. > > We discussed her success with her clients, which she thinks is about > 80%. She doesn’t advertise and is busy, so thinks that means people > are happy with her services. Wendy described a healing session. She > works alone starting with burning sage to clear the air. She does an > opening ceremony, asking for the spirit helpers in the region, hers > and the client’s. She only uses spirits of a certain frequency so > there are no negative or dangerous ones. She then plays a recorded > drumming track, which is a common practice, and this brings hers into > an altered state, which happens quickly, and it brings her access to > her helping spirit. Her helping spirit is an ancestral spirit, which > was a past life and also an ancestor. Wendy talked about looking at > the landscape of the client’s soul – there were layers to deal with, > starting with whom you think you are and finally getting to whom you > really are. She discussed extracting negative energy that didn’t > serve the person any longer and repatterning to reflect who they > really were. She also mentioned power augmentation and working with > lightning medicine, and soul retrievals. > > When asked about knowing what to heal, she said that is where her > counseling experience comes in handy. The client tells her story and > what she feels needs healing. Most frequently it is emotional/ > psychological and sometimes physical, which she feels is often > connected. She reads the client’s energy and finds her intuition has > become sharper with experience. Wendy says it’s important to know > that healing doesn’t happen instantaneously, but trickles down from > the spiritual to the physical. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CulturalandTraditionalHealthandHealing" group. To post to this group, send email to culturalandtraditionalhealthandhealing@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to culturalandtraditionalhealthandhealing+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ca/group/culturalandtraditionalhealthandhealing?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
