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Spirituality
Spiritual revelations do not arrive from thinking long & hard about Divinity. They come through silencing our thoughts, moving our ego out of the way, and opening up to the quiet, mysterious, spiritual realm that is always here with us. The world of soul is here and now, superimposed and woven through the world of the five sense. It doesn't take belief. It is Reality itself. You must only learn to see beyond the veils.
“There is another world, but it is in this one."
–W.B. Yeats
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Spirituality
Spiritual revelations do not arrive from thinking long & hard about Divinity. They come through silencing our thoughts, moving our ego out of the way, and opening up to the quiet, mysterious, spiritual realm that is always here with us. The world of soul is here and now, superimposed and woven through the world of the five sense. It doesn't take belief. It is Reality itself. You must only learn to see beyond the veils.
“There is another world, but it is in this one."
–W.B. Yeats
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Spirituality
Spiritual revelations do not arrive from thinking long & hard about Divinity. They come through silencing our thoughts, moving our ego out of the way, and opening up to the quiet, mysterious, spiritual realm that is always here with us. The world of soul is here and now, superimposed and woven through the world of the five sense. It doesn't take belief. It is Reality itself. You must only learn to see beyond the veils.
“There is another world, but it is in this one."
–W.B. Yeats
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Healing
Healing occurs in the mind, heart, spirit, and body. Any system of self-improvement that does not address all of these essential components of the human being is lacking. I believe this so strongly I’ll repeat it: Any attempt to heal only one aspect of yourself without addressing the others, will ultimately lead to imbalance and unhappiness.
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RETURN TO SOUL, truth, PEACE OF MIND, and THE QUIET POWER THAT GIVES RISE
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I'm happy you're here.
After nearly two decades of working closely with clients, it's undeniable to me that when people devote themselves to the process of transformation while receiving perceptive guidance along the way, they refine their realities in ways they once thought impossible.
Personal evolution begins not with striving, but with remembering. My work is to guide you inward, to a place of ancient knowing —
to point you toward what is true, essential, and enduring within.
I’m doing it for myself, breath by breath, and I’d love to help you arrive, too.
I'm here to help you cultivate discernment:
a deep awareness that longs to perceive all inner & outer realities without illusion.
And though this weight of consciousness can feel heavy at times,
a current of joy runs beneath it like a river —
The joy of clarity
of moving through life in harmony with destruction & creation
of witnessing the rise and fall of all things & selves without turning away
of understanding that even heaviness has its own holy grace —
and when we surrender to its gravity, we find the wings hidden in the weight.
Every return to soul transforms more than just the one who returns. As each of us lives in deeper accord with our true nature, we become more radiant and nourishing to the world around us. Simply by being, we contribute more —
to our families, to our communities, to the Earth, and to the greater human story.
Recognition: The Compassion of St Francis, by Michael Divine
Ocean Mary, by Daniel Mirante
SOAR Offerings
Each integrative offering has been created with deep care and is shaped by formal training & wisdom gained over seventeen years of Counseling, Spiritual Guidance, and Ceremonial Healings with clients, as well as a lifetime of my own cultivation practice.
At this time, I am not accepting new clients, but Jessica Foutz and I are available for groups seeking Shamanic/Hapé Ceremonies or Medicinal Sound Healings. If you'd like to be notified when my private schedule opens, please reach out and I’ll be in touch when space becomes available.
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Until then, I hope hope enjoy exploring my site. Click below to learn about my offerings, or keep scrolling to read the About Me and Background sections on this page.
I’m no stranger to transformation.
My life has unfolded as a series of deaths and re-births.
I love what the Sufi saint and poet Rabia said: “I died a thousand times before I died.”
Yes. Me too. Sometimes at the cellular level.
Other times, an old belief loosened its grip —
a way of seeing too narrow for what came next.
Each shedding left behind a deeper silence
and in each stillness, the medicine of emptiness.
This devotion to paradox is my practice:
Honoring fullness and nothingness
Levity and gravitas
The terror of absurdity,
and the tender awe that redeems it.
Do I have it all figured out? Of course not.
But I do know this: if you feel called to live so truthfully that each
moment becomes a poem, prayer, antidote, or love offering,
I would be honored to guide and bear witness to your unfurling.
I come from a hard-working family in Chicago, though it’s been a long time since I called the Midwest home. Over the years, I’ve lived coast to coast across the U.S., as well as in Europe and Morocco. I’ve traveled to more than thirty countries, sometimes to work with spiritual teachers and indigenous leaders, other times to hike through enchanted forests or leap through waterfalls — and always to experience the world from new and humbling perspectives.
I've formally studied at New York University, in Aix-en-Provence, France, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where I received my graduate degree. After graduation, I was invited to teach in the UNLV Honors College, where I remained for nearly fifteen years, teaching multi-disciplinary seminars until the fall of 2024. You can learn more about my role as a professor here.
I am also a writer, currently working on a four-book speculative fiction series. (My soul work!) Some of my older, published short stories & poems can be found here.
My background as a spiritual guide, counselor, and healer has evolved through decades of intensive shamanic work and dedicated study with intuitive therapists, spiritual teachers, and indigenous medicine carriers who have generously shared their wisdom, lineages, and transmissions with me. I am eternally grateful for the 14-year relationship I shared with my primary teacher and curandero, who profoundly shaped the way I hold space for clients. He places integrity, alignment, and love at the center of every healing. His influence remains with me always. Out of respect for his valued privacy, I'll keep him unnamed here, but I could not speak of my path without honoring the role he played.
Shamanic Background
I am also indebted to the mystic and teacher Pierre Lory, with whom I had the honor of spending one-on-one time with while in France. It was through him that my innermost spiritual heart began to awaken to remembrance. He also, perhaps unknowingly, connected me with an array of bird spirits who continue to accompany and support the healing work I do with clients today. Dr. Lory is now Chair of Muslim Mysticism & Religious Sciences at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. When we met, however, he was teaching in Aix-en-Provence, where he lived with his gracious wife — a woman whose warmth and kindness I still remember with deep fondness.
And I give great thanks to the Yawanawá family of Amazonian Brazil for sharing their pure, unadulterated Earth medicines with me. My relationship with these sacred plants would not be as rooted — or as respectful — had I not made multiple pilgrimages to Brazil to learn directly from the humble and respected Yawa pajé Peû, the wise and loving Chief Biraci, and Putanny: Biraci's wife, the first female Yawa medicine carrier, and my favorite person to dance with beside the sacred fire.
All three paintings by Lobsang Melendez Ahuanari
The winters & springs I spent at the Mount Adams Buddhist Temple and Druid Sanctuary in Washington State remain dear to my soul. The clean energy of the grounds and temple, the sweetness of the alpacas on the farm, Thay Kozen's warmth & joy, Kirk's humor & humanity, and the quiet power of the volcanic mountain all combine to form a pristine container — one in which inner journeying becomes both effortless and deeply supported.
I've also had the privilege of learning from the greatly-understated Dr. John Beaulieu, a psychologist and pioneering sound therapist based in upstate New York. And I am thankful for Dr. Marta Meana, a clinical psychologist, mentor, researcher (and my former boss!) whose example taught me invaluable lessons in leadership and inter-personal dynamics. My gratitude extends to Dr. Linda Cunningham for training me in Jungian Sandplay Therapy for Adults, a fascinating modality in which the client's own unconscious psyche serves as the primary healer.
Most recently, I returned to my Indo-European roots and immersed myself in the energies and shamanic traditions of that ancestral landscape. The training I received in Europe not only reconnected me to the power of my blood lineage, but also reawakened an archetypical aspect of my identity I hadn't been consciously nourishing.
And finally, this acknowledgment would not be complete without honoring the two beautiful beings I share a home with: the enlightened fur-guru, Samantha, and my favorite human in all the worlds — my sweet, generous, devoted, visionary partner; once a monk, now an entrepreneur, and always my Beloved. Our relationship is a sacred, revelatory, living ceremony... and the most meaningful spiritual practice I’ve ever known.
Because I've encountered such a wide range of relationships, lifestyles, and belief systems — both personally and professionally —I've been shaped into an adaptable, open-hearted human being, able to offer clients a wealth of support and wisdom drawn not only from research and formal training, but from deeply lived experience. Sometimes it feels as if I've lived ten lifetimes within this one so far. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure I'm an old, old soul. Maybe you are too.
A Note on My Guidance Style
Although transformation can involve radical intensities, peak experiences, and exotic practices & methodologies — it doesn't need to. In fact, inner-alchemical transfiguration is often quite subtle, spacious, and ordinary. That's generally the approach I take with clients, as I've found it creates greater psychological safety and a more sophisticated refinement of the client's evolving qualities. It also helps prevent the common pitfalls of chasing novelty or becoming lost in new techniques, rather than honoring the powerful discipline of simplicity.
Thank you for taking the time to explore my site. It would bring me great happiness to support you along your journey.
​"We are all just walking each other home."
Ram Dass
A gentle reminder: at this time, I'm not accepting new clients. However, Jessica Foutz and I are available for groups seeking Shamanic/Hapé Ceremonies or Medicinal Sound Healings. Reach out for more information using the form below.
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