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About Us
Earth Shamans is a gathering of like-minded beings who have responded to the call of Spirit. The foundation of our work is drawn from the words of Allen Ginsberg: “it is the quality of attention that makes things sacred.” This “quality of attention” sets the context for our work and our engagements around the world. We believe it is time for a global movement in which the quality of attention brings forth a shift in perception. We believe it is time for all people to learn to navigate other ways of knowing.
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A shaman acts as an intermediary between the manifest and un-manifest worlds. At Earth Shamans, we understand that all human beings were designed for this role and have the power to shape the world in alignment with Spirit. Each of us holds responsibility for consciously bringing spirit and matter together within us. Our job is to aid in the restoration of wholeness, beginning with ourselves and our relationships.
There is more to our world than meets the eye. Within nature lies the template for creation. A universal pattern defines the manifest world, linking it to un-manifest potential. It is time for a shift in perception that teaches us to navigate other ways of knowing. We all must become Earth Shamans. |
Our Founders
Laura Esculcas, co-founder of Earth Shamans, is a leadership and spiritual development coach, Veriditas Faculty Member, Veriditas Advanced Certified Labyrinth Facilitator, SoulCollage® Facilitator and sacred landscape guide in Portugal. A self-proclaimed “life adventurer”, Laura believes in bringing a sense of the sacred to everyday living. Originally from the US and having worked in Silicon Valley for over ten years in high tech operations and management, Laura now lives near Lisbon, Portugal. She is trained in Sacred Landscapes, Acoustic Feng Shui, and the Personessence™ System of Understanding People. Laura holds both an M.A. in Wisdom Studies and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. Informed by her research and immersion in the Portugal ecofield over eleven years of residence in Portugal, Laura also takes groups on pilgrimage in Portugal, into the imaginal realm of mythology and metaphor where a cast of Portuguese characters comes alive. Laura's website.
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Calen Rayne, co-founder of Earth Shamans, is a Unitarian Universalist Lay Community Minister and Spiritual Director in Bar Mills, Maine and international executive coach. A Buddhist for over 50 years, Calen has trained with alchemists of the first religion of the Himalayas (nameless religion), known as “patterns of heaven and earth” or “sacred conventions.” Rev. Dr. Rayne is currently Director of Organizational Architecture at Ubiquity University. A Veriditas Advanced Certified Labyrinth Facilitator, he builds labyrinths, designs and consults on sacred landscape and Shinrin-yoku installations, and produces energy mandalas and altars for healing. Scientific discovery is still catching up to ancient wisdom, and Calen stands at the crossroads of the two. Calen works with human internal mapping system in a method he learned in the Himalayas, called “genesis point vibrational radiesthesia”, which enables us to identify a particular point at a sacred site where we can connect with the energetics of the land. Calen's website.
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Energy Modalities
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Earth Energies Energy Mandalas Sound Healing Sacred Landscapes Genesis Point Vibrational Radiesthesia |
Who We Are
Paris Ackrill Paris Ackrill, Co-founder of Avalon Wellbeing (Yorkshire, UK), partner to Roger Tempest and mother of Aya. Paris is a Wellbeing Guide dedicated to the path of spiritual and personal growth through a holistic and embodied approach. Paris creates space helping people find freedom, alignment and lightness in their being through retreats and events at Avalon. Working using an alchemy of sound, energy work, meditation, movement meditation, breathing techniques and spiritual ceremony. She has studied with a wonderful family of teachers including Global Movement Activist Shiva Rea, Sound Master Yantara Jiro, the Modern Mystery School and Brazilian spiritual teachers Chandra and Surya Lacombe. Paris believes in creating peace within for a more harmonious world. Her mission is to share the joy, lightness, freedom, creativity and hunger to be of help that arise naturally from beginning to know who you really are. Avalon seeks to provide space for exploration into new fields of reality. Avalon website.
Catherine Anderson, MLA, is author of The Creative Photographer, Meeting Your Soul on the Labyrinth, and numerous other photography books. Her personal journey of self-discovery has taken her from a career as an attorney to photography-franchise owner to leading retreats and pilgrimages around the world. Catherine believes that we are all creative and loves guiding others to discover the deep joy that creative practice uncovers. Catherine is a Certified Spiritual Director, a SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainer, and is on the Faculty of Veriditas, an organization that trains Labyrinth Facilitators. Her website is www.creativepilgrimage.com
Sheila Armitage is a corporate learning consultant who partners with horses on her coaching team. She finds that this modality helps generate coherence between intellect and heart, as horses have a great capacity to sense what we do not, reflect back truth, show us if we are kidding ourselves, accelerate learning, and move us out of our mental justifications for staying stuck in a rut. Sheila has worked internationally as an organizational learning expert and coach with Fortune 10 to 500 companies, government, non-profits, educational institutions, small businesses, and individuals from C-level leaders to front-line staff. Sheila’s studies are at the intersection of health, business, and quantum science, and she has a Ph.D. in Wisdom Studies. Sheila´s Dissertation is on work-life integration - the mindset and behaviors it takes to fully bridge life between work and home in alignment with your values and who you really are. Sheila's website.
Lawrence Bloom's inquisitive nature has led him on a most amazing life's journey. He has taken the Bodhisattva Initiation direct from the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, and been on pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash with Sadhguru. He has spent seven days of intense initiation with both the Kogi at Santa Marta, Columbia, and with the Pygmies in Gabon. He also has had time to sit on the executive committee of a multinational company; developed a sustainability manual with HRH Prince Charles; Chaired a Global Agenda Council in Davos, and a UN Council on Green Cities. He is Secretary General of a UN Intergovernmental Organization, Co Founder of a hotel Joint Venture with the Universal Music Group, and was been twice voted as one of the worlds most conscious and inspiring leaders. He should have died in a train crash close to Machu Picchu in June 1991
.... but didn’t. Lawrence's website.
.... but didn’t. Lawrence's website.
Anna Brooke is an interdisciplinary healing arts practitioner. She is a Wu Tao Dance teacher, Rebirthing Breathworker, Empowerment Counselor, Essential Oil Advocate and Burlesque Performer and Teacher. She is author of Stripped Down: How Burlesque Led Me Home, about one woman’s journey into deeper levels of acceptance and love of herself through the powerful art form of burlesque. Anna's purpose is to help people reconnect to their own hearts in safety and love. By using breath, sound and movement, Anna helps clients to uncover deeper levels of healing possibility to help begin the life clients have always wanted to lead. Anna's website.
Ted Carter is an ornamental horticulturist, principal landscape designer, and co-author of Earth Calling: A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century, in which he and co-author Ellen Gunter explore where and how we have gone wrong in our relationship with the Earth and how we go about starting to heal. About his work, Ted says, "The art of landscaping has been with me since childhood. Land and landscape have been and continue to be a central part of my life. In more recent years I have discovered the subtle Earth energies that inform and direct me in this co-creative endeavor. It is a joy to work and share this journey with others through my life’s work." Ted's website.
Liz Dawes is a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. Originally from Lancashire, UK, Liz has travelled extensively, spending many years living in India, trekking the Himalaya, attending silent retreats and personal development courses, taking her on a fascinating journey of self knowledge and understanding. She lived in the Netherlands before returning to Lancashire to study Law and French. This took her to London where she practised law for 11 years. In 2012, Liz discovered mindfulness and developed her own mindfulness practice and trained to teach mindfulness courses. She taught mindfulness in India and the UK and had a private practice working with individuals and corporations.
Liz was drawn to find a practice that combined her extensive mindfulness practice with her love of nature, and is now trained and certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Liz’s website
Jean Fleury is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and is their first Tribal Peace Ambassador. She co-founded her tribe's first Kunsi/Unci Grandmothers Society and serves as their first Chairwoman. She received her Sacred Pipe [Chanupa] from Stanley Looking Horse in 1986. It was blessed at that time by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. A practitioner of meditation for 40+ years, Jean is a certified meditation teacher and spiritual counselor. She holds a BS in Nursing and MA in Counseling Psychology. She is co-founder of Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee and leads global ceremonies to heal the multi-generational and multi-lineal effects of massacre, holocaust, and war upon humanity, other species and our beloved planetary home. Jean's website.
Jain 108 is a teacher, author of 30 fascinating books, some beautifully hand-written in calligraphy, and creator of 10 dvds. Jain has always been drawn to the spiritual and mystical. He is fascinated by numbers and shapes. The main theme of his life's work is "The Translation Of Numbers Into Atomic Art". Jain is an international lecturer, having taught in the USA, Amsterdam, Italy, India, Singapore, Malaysia, France. He is current teaches seasonally in Singapore where he has set up a school called The Joy of Numbers Institute. Teaching the Beauty of Numbers, often to dyslexic or special needs children, Jain's math enrichment classes are in high demand. In between overseas travels, Jain teaches hundreds of children in Austrailia's Byron Bay a highly visual content of lessons called Mathemagics. Jain was one of the main speakers at the 2017 Chartres Cathedral Wisdom University on the topic Arithmetica, one of the 7 Liberal Arts. Jain's website.
Janel Joseph is a Business Consultant and Executive Coach in Austin, Texas with over 20 years of global experience working with leaders to get results. Janel completed Kundalini Yoga certification and is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation. Her exploration of yoga, labyrinths, feng shui, sacred geometry, and other meditative art forms provides her with unique insights in how to best address needs of her clients. Janel has collaborated and coached leaders on aligning talent to strategy, culture change, organization development, facilitating solutions through strategic sessions and targeted leadership development. Her straight forward approach to collaborating and finding solutions is thoughtful, innovative and helpful. Janel’s passion is helping leaders define individual success and build high-trust environments. Her work has evolved to include neuroscience based behavioral techniques and the use of breathing and yoga to create sustainable changes. Janel's website.
Peter Merry is Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University where he both applies and teaches energetics. He is a qualified ECOintention Practitioner having completed the 4-year vocational training with Center for ECOintention. ECOintention involves working with the energetic architecture of large-scale systems like organizations and areas of land. He is also experienced applying Perelandra’s co-creative science. Peter has immersed himself in geomancy, learning and teaching as he goes along. See his blog for some examples, including a google earth overlay of energetic features. Author of Evolutionary Leadership, Peter has just completed his PhD with Ubiquity’s Wisdom School on “volution," an integrative theory of the holographic and trans-linear dynamics of life. Peter's website.
Jini Rayne is a Master Teacher in every respect. She is a business and teaching professional, teacher of Feng Shui and Space Clearing and Blessing, an Independent Reiki Master in the Usui, Japanese, Tibetan, and Soul-Wind traditions, and a breathwork consultant. She is a student and disciple of the late Chinese-born Feng Shui master, His Holiness, Grand Master Thomas Lin Yun, Rinpoche. Jini also trained with Densie Linn in Interior Alignment™, which incorporates Instinctive Feng Shui™. Jini has completed Earth Activist Training and received her Permaculture Design Certification from Starhawk and other teachers. Permaculture is a way of thinking and planning that enables people to establish highly productive environments that provide food, shelter, and other material and non-material needs for human inhabitants while also caring for the Earth. Jini's website.
Banafsheh Sayyad The Founder of Dance of Oneness®, Banafsheh is a Persian sacred dancer,
choreographer, transformational teacher and practitioner of Chinese Medicine. Awarded for her innovative movement vocabulary, she is an innovator of Sufi dance previously only performed by men. Her Dance of Oneness® is dance as a spiritual path and science of embodiment. It fuses the art of dance: rigorous technique and selfexpression; wisdom teachings; and healing. Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their body and inspiring them to live the sacred in everyday life. With an MFA in Dance and an MA in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through conscious movement. Her dance film In the Fire of Grace traces Rumi's journey of the Soul in dance. Banafshesh's website.
choreographer, transformational teacher and practitioner of Chinese Medicine. Awarded for her innovative movement vocabulary, she is an innovator of Sufi dance previously only performed by men. Her Dance of Oneness® is dance as a spiritual path and science of embodiment. It fuses the art of dance: rigorous technique and selfexpression; wisdom teachings; and healing. Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their body and inspiring them to live the sacred in everyday life. With an MFA in Dance and an MA in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through conscious movement. Her dance film In the Fire of Grace traces Rumi's journey of the Soul in dance. Banafshesh's website.
John Saxon is a psychic pianist living in Franklin, Indiana. Trained in classical piano, John channels and plays the music that your soul constantly sings, music that aligns and balances your chakras, music that brings clarity and healing, music that prepares both you and the universe for your next spiritual steps. John holds both a B.S. and M.A. in mathematics, studied piano with noted pianist Yelena Balabanova at her International Conservatory Studio, speaks Japanese, and continues his energy healing and clairvoyance studies with healing teacher Michael Tamura. John's website.
Krista Stanley is guided by the philosophy that everything is animated with spirit, and consciousness persists as “spirit” when no longer embodied. Krista practices Progressive Mediumship and Active Dreamwork. Mediumship is grounded in the understanding that consciousness is primary and enduring. Her work encompasses evidence based communication with departed friends and family, Trance communication, Past lives, Spirit guides, Fellow travelers & helpers, Ascended masters, Etc. Mediums provide a channel between the material and the ethereal. Krista integrates the vibrant presence of spirit into each modality of her practice.
Krista's website.
Krista's website.
Malcolm Stern has worked as a group and individual psychotherapist for more than 30 years. He is the Co-founder of Alternatives at St James’ Church in London and runs groups internationally. His approach involves finding where the heart is and helping individuals access their truth. His London One Year Group is the centrepiece of his work and has been successfully operating since 1990. In it he creates an environment of trust, integrity and community, where participants can become skilled in relationships, communication and managing difficult conversations. The ultimate learning is to Slay your dragons with compassion. Malcolm’s new book Slay Your Dragons with Compassion (published in September 2020 by Watkins) describes 10 practices for thriving in an unstable world, all distilled from his thirty years of intense group work. The book is filled with practical exercises, which are combined with real and compelling stories from the therapy room. Malcolm co-presented the Channel 4 series on relationships Made for Each Other in 2003 and 2004. Malcolm's website.
Roger Tempest is the 32nd generation of Tempest family to be the custodian of the Broughton Hall Estate in Yorkshire, England. At the centre of this sanctuary is Avalon, a newly formed Wellbeing centre specialising in transformational work in terms of personal development of the mind, body, and spirit. This new retreat centre has hosted groups varying from from Hoffman Process, Path of Love, Diamond, Conscious Cafe to Mental Health Gatherings to Guatemalan Mayan Elders. Roger's past experience came from being in newspaper management (Today and The Observer) to owning and developing a Radio Station to publishing interests. He founded Rural Solutions - a UK rural regeneration company. He established a multi award winning rural business park and won UK Restoration of the Year Award for Aldourie Castle Estate. His entreprenerial activities range from being Executive Chairman of Rural Concepts Group with interests in major projects in Libya, Emirates, UK and Oman. He is a Trustee of three charities. His main sense of purpose is create projects which are a force for good and being of service to a new reshaped world. Father to Aya and partner of Paris. Broughton Hall Estate website
Carol Vaccariello, DMin, LPC, Obl. (Ecumenical Theological Seminary) follows a Braided Way and is an ordained United Church of Christ minister, Independent Catholic Bishop, Creation Spirituality Elder, and Founding Bishop of Ordo Hagia Sophia (Order of Holy Wisdom). As a Pilgrim, Carol wandered five months in Europe in NO TIME/SPACE. She is a mentor for those who feel out of control and perhaps fear-full, changing Fear to Free. Carol, a ritual artist, produced/directed Cosmic Masses; Co-directed the DMin program (University of Creation Spirituality), and mentored the design of the first Creation Spirituality ordination program. Member of Creation Spirituality Communities. Carol is an inspirational speaker, storyteller, sacred chant channeller, healer, spiritual coach, retreat facilitator, Zen Still Point practitioner and plant whisperer. Carol is author of The Lion of God: Archangel Ari'El ...Personal Encounters. Carol's website.
Where We've Worked
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Argentina
Australia Austria Belgium Belize Botswana Brazil Canada Chile China Costa Rica Crete Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador |
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Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Tibet Turkey United States Uruguay Vietnam |
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