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Shamanic Practitioners

Elise Cummiskey is an experienced spiritual healer, whose practice includes Rieki, animal communication. and Shamanic healing. She also creates rituals for rites of passage, including weddings, funerals, house blessings, namings, and ceremonies to honor other peak events of life. She has been trained by Sandra Ingerman to do Soul Retrieval, and to teach "Medicine for the Earth" gatherings. Elise also offers regular monthly drumming circles for personal expansion and group healing work. Elise is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Three-Year Program, as well as an ordained minister, writer, poet, and artist. Formerly a high schoool teacher, now a full time seeker, Elise finds great joy introducing others to the brilliance of their own inner knowing.

Like Elise, Julie Lange Groth has been teaching shamanism for about seven years and is an experienced practitioner. She is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3-year program as well as Sandra Ingerman’s 2-year teacher training and is authorized by Sandra to lead "Medicine for the Earth" gatherings. She has studied with other shamans from a variety of traditions.   Julie thinks of her life as a collaboration with the creative forces of the Universe, surrounding her with abundance and joy--from her teaching and healing practice to her work as a freelance writer, journalist and environmentalist. She was delighted to discover that her shamanic work tapped into new sources of inspiration and constantly leads her to a more creative and fulfilling life. As a grandmother, she finds that children are natural shamans as well as uninhibited artists and she hopes to help others connect with the forgotten child/shaman within themselves.  Julie is also a Reiki practitioner and ordained minister, and delights in performing weddings, memorial services, baby blessings and other ceremonies.