Founding
Director of Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts
and Creator of the Shamanic Breathwork ™ Process.Star
Wolf holds a Doctorate of Ministry from University of Integrative
Learning,a BA with honors in Human Services from St. Leo College,and
is a nationally certified Addictions Counselor. As a Shamanic
Pastoral Counselor, spiritual midwife and guide for souls
in the transformational process, Star Wolf has facilitated
groups and worked with individuals from every walk of life.
For more than 30 years she has served as a guide to individuals
moving through the full spectrum of spiritual initiations,
including addiction, mental illness, shamanic life changes
and spiritual transformation.more.....
Contact
Star Wolf at:venus@shamanicbreathwork.org
or Phone: 828-631-2305
 Brad
Collins
He
is the Co Director of the Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic
Healing Arts and the Co Founder of the Isis Cove Retreat Center
and Shamanic Spiritual Community in the magical, blue mountains
of western North Carolina. He is the founder of the Shamanic
Priest Process, and the Co Founder of the Shamanic Inititatory
Process(SHIP), a certified Shamanic Minister/ Pastoral Counselor
and a Shamanic Breathwork ™ Teacher, Trainer and Facilitator.
Brad has a degree in Environmental Science and Education.more....
 Ruby
Falconer
Business
Manager, Student Supervisor and Staff Astrologer for Venus
Rising Institute of Shamanic Healing Arts, Shamanic Breathwork™Master
Practitioner and Workshop Facilitator. Ruby has been a professional
astrologer since 1977 and holistically integrates her extensive
knowledge of astrology, psychology, philosophy and metaphysics
with a comprehensive understanding of shamanism and considerable
talent as a story teller.Ruby is also a Shamanic Minister ordained through Venus Rising, a Shamanic High Priestess
and a Third Degree Shamanic Breathwork™
Reiki Initiate. She completed a BA in Comparative Literature
in Southern California and holds a certificate in Holistic
Healing Studies from San Francisco State University. Ruby lives at Isis Cove in western North Carolina with Tess the dog, the cats Mattie, Luke and Luna, and Peter - a green wing macaw.
Jeff Berger
Once
Jeff Berger finished his psychiatric residency in 1988, he took
an unexpected turn to the left and has kept going. He now brings
his medical experience and twenty years of therapeutic practice
along with twenty years as a mindfulness meditator and poet
to his facilitation of the Shamanic Breathwork ™ Process.He
particularly loves how the enlightened mind of pristine awareness
allows for unimpeded wonder and power of the psychic transformations
people experience during the SBW. He currently lives 60 miles
north of Seattle with his priestess wife and ten year old homeschooling
son. He is the medical director of the Senior Behavioral Health
Unit at United General Hospital and facilitates breathworks
in western Washington and Oregon as well as returns to Isis
Cove to teach with Brad and Star Wolf.
Contact
Jeff at: 360-766-6151 or jmandg@msn.com
 Sarah
Jane"Water Bear" Friday
Shamanic Breathwork ™ Master Practitioner and the Shamanic
Body Work Teacher for Venus Rising. She is also the resident
"Kundalini" Caterer and Aquarian Purification Lodge
Ritualist at Isis Cove. Through heart centered rituals, earth
based teachings and the creative art process, Sarah Jane serves
as an inspiration to others. She is available for private bodywork,
breathwork and purification lodge sessions. Sarah Jane lives
at Isis Cove in western North Carolina.
Contact Sarah Jane at: 270-978-1536.
 Nita
Gage
Nita
holda an M.A. in clinical psychology, is a Venus Rising Consultant
and Facilitator and Certified Pastoral Counselor and Shamanic
Breathwork™ Master Practitioner. Nita has over 25 years
experience and training in health care, bodywork, and spiritual
healing. She has been trained in shamanic journeying, Shamanic
Breathwork ™, psychodrama, rebirthing, psychoanalysis,
and cognitive-behavioral counseling. In addition, she has been
initiated into the Wolf Clan of the Seneca Nation, and utilizes
traditional as well as modern healing methods in her private
practice. She has also worked extensively in residential and
inpatient settings with addiction, mental illness and with people
in states of extreme spiritual emergency. She is a heart warrior,
able to traverse the territory of the soul and the shadow. Nita
currently lives and works in Maui, Hawaii. She is the Clinical
Director of Aloha House, an addiction treatment organization
and also maintains a limited private practice. She brings a
well developed ability to hold loving sacred space for the healer
within each person to emerge for positive change and psycho-spiritual
transformation. Nita also works with physicians and other healthcare
professionals.
For more information see:
www.healthyselfprograms.com.
Contact
Nita at: nita@shamanicbreathwork.org
Judy"Red Hawk" Merritt Ph.D
The
envisioner and fundraiser for the Art and Energy Body Work Temple,
erected 11-2-05 at Isis Cove, and co-creator of the Shamanic
Breathwork ™ Art Process. Red Hawk is also a Shamanic Breathwork
™ Master Practitioner, Shamanic Breathwork ™ Reiki
Second Level Initiate and ordained Pastoral Counselor, Teacher
and Minister with AIWP.When I am not at my home at Isis Cove,
I am in Pittsburgh, PA where I am a Ph.D. licensed psychologist
with a private practice working with the "wounded child"
in each child, adolescent, adult who finds his/her way to me.Through
my deep soul work and training with Venus Rising, I have come
to know my soul purpose is to hold the space for the "artist
within" each of us, that soul part/shaman within which
connects us to Spirit and our ego selves, which helps us shape
our lives here on Earth, come into Sacred Purpose and, helps
us to make sense of our wounds which are, ultimately, part of
our shamanic initiations. As Alice Miller says in The Drama
of the Gifted Child: "Our greatest wounds are our greatest
gifts."
Contact
Red Hawk at: judyamerritt@hotmail.com
or 412-654-5770
 Sundance
Shamanic Breathwork ™ Master Practitioner, certified Massage
Therapist and currently the Isis Cove Retreat House Resident
Assistant, Venus Rising Office Assistant and the 30 Shamanic
Questions Coordinator. With 13 years of recovery from alcohol
and substance abuse, Sundance is a grounded and compassionate
source for others struggling with their own addictive processes.
As a loving and caring healer, she weaves together a unique
blend of techniques designed to assist clients in restoring
balance and in unlocking their own "healer within."
Sundance lives at Isis Cove in the mountains of western North
Carolina.
Contact
Sundance at: sundance@shamanicbreathwork.org
 Windraven
Shamanic Breathwork ™ Master Practitioner, a Shamanic High
Priestess, a Third Degree Shamanic Breathwork ™ Initiate
and a Shamanic Energy Body Work Practitioner. She is also an
Adjunct Facilitator at Venus Rising. As a result of 38 years
of experience as a registered nurse, Windraven intuitively understands
the art of holding space for individuals moving through transformation.
Those who have experienced her Shamanic Energy Body Work report
that they are often transported through portals into other realms.
Her grounded, caring technique assists clients in opening to
an altered state through which they can access their own capacity
to heal. Windraven lives at Isis Cove in western North Carolina.
She is available for private sessions.
Contact
Windraven at: 828-399-1294.
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