Linda Star Wolf

Founding Director of Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts
and Creator of the Shamanic Breathwork ™ Process

     Star Wolf's most important teachings are the concept that "The Shaman Lives Within", and the map of Shamanic Consciousness which supports us in learning how to "stay awake" as we spiral through the Five Cycles of Change.

  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.

Star Wolf has an extensive background both personally and professionally in the spirituality and mental health/addictions arena, with experience ranging from work in the field of addictions and 25 years of personal 12-step recovery. She is a gifted ritualist and ceremonial facilitator and was initiated by Seneca Wolf Clan Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, who gave her the name "Star Wolf." Star Wolf has the ability to weave together the threads of ancient and contemporary healing methods to reflect current needs. It is her particular passion to facilitate those who are ready to embody "Shamanic Consciousness in Everyday Life." She has led powerful transformational workshops in the U.S. and abroad for the last 17 years and has taught thousands of participants.

In her written, experiential and channeled work, Star Wolf encourages others to see the challenges of today's world as a creative birth process in which humanity has the opportunity to truly understand the eternal cycles of Birth/Death/Rebirth. It is through understanding the cyclic nature of reality that we become free to move from ego agenda to the true purpose of the soul. Star Wolf recently coined the phrase "Shamanic Psycho Spiritual Process" as a description of how shamanism, psychology and spirituality are synthesized in her work.

Star Wolf is the co-author of a book written with Nicki Scully, "Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt: Awakening the Healing Power of the Heart" which was published by Bear & Co. in May, 2007. She is also the author of "30 Shamanic Questions for Humanity: Transforming From Ego Agenda to Soul Purpose", and is completing "The Five Cycles and the Nature of How People Change" and "Awakening the Inner Shaman Through Shamanic Breathwork ™." With the musicians of Soulfood, she created "The Spiral" CD on the theme of "The Five Cycles of Change."

Star Wolf is currently in a co creative process with Nicki Scully to produce a cd version of the initiations from "Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt", and a deck of divination cards on the same theme. Star Wolf will be co leading a trip to Egypt in the late fall of 2008 to further explore the Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt.Star Wolf and her husband Brad Collins , a Shamanic Minister and Co-Director of Venus Rising, founded the Isis Cove spiritual community in 2003 where they reside with an assortment of two and four legged kindred spirits. She and Brad and the Venus Rising team offer numerous healing & training workshops and Shamanic Breathwork ™ experiential retreats both at Isis Cove and across the country. See: Breathwork Certification to learn how to become a certified Shamanic Breathwork ™ Facilitator and how to obtain ceus for professionals.

Each year, on the first weekend in April, Star Wolf sends out a big wolf howl to call together the Wise Wolf Women's Council at Isis Cove. This is a free gathering for women of all ages who hear the call of the Wolf, the visionary pathfinder and teacher, and who come together to envision a new way to live in peace, harmony and love upon the earth. As Star Wolf steps more fully into her role as an Aquarian Wolf Clan Grandmother, she sings her mantra and wolf song "It's Not Too Late!"
     
Star Wolf seeks to live from her own heart/mind while sharing her vision of what our world can truly become. She casts a magic spell of hope upon the world.

To contact Star Wolf, email venus@shamanicbreathwork.org or
phone: 828-631-2305.

 

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Brad Collins has been a pioneer in planetary transformation for more than three decades. 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 Healing 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.

His spiritual journey has led him through many personal as well as transpersonal experiences. He has studied with a variety of spiritual teachers including several indigenous elders, receiving training from them in leading rituals and facilitating sacred lodge ceremonies. Brad has worked with various Jungian psychoanalysts and, as a result, has developed an effective method of personal dream analysis. He has participated in men's workshops for more than 20 years, he owned and personally managed natural food stores, he has been involved with 12 step recovery programs for more than 23 years, and he has successfully raised four children, all of whom are now adults following their own hearts' path.

Brad's passion is to assist others in releasing self-defeating behavior patterns. His most recent creation is the Shamanic Initiatory Priest Process (SIPP). SIPP is a highly experiential and transformative men's initiatory process that was born out of a powerful vision he received during a life changing breathwork journey in 1994. It took 12 years of integration, reflection and refinement before Brad was ready to share these mystery teachings with others.

Brad provides a safe and sacred space for those seeking his counsel. He offers everyone he works with - both men and women - loving kindness and acceptance. Brad believes the shaman lives within each of us and lovingly holds that vision for those he serves.

To contact Brad, email brad@shamanicbreathwork.org or
phone: 828-631-2305.

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