Bio

Healer and Teacher of Contemplative Shamanism, Meditation, and Buddhism.

Skills and talents

It is my purpose to help people awaken and heal. I lead shamanic ceremonies for healing and celebration and conduct classes and private healing sessions at my institute in Providence, RI. The work we do at PI helps people remember who and what they truly are: interdependent, interrelated, part of the living natural world, and fundamentally pure beyond time and space. We help people have transcendent experiences through a variety of practice and study methods that have a contemplative, shamanic basis. There is an emphasis on community support and integration of the work so that it is relevant and grounded.

What I'm Reading

Nick Flynn, David Sedaris, Alan Watts, Caitlin Matthews, Shinzen young, Karen Armstrong,

What I'm Listening To

Krishna Das, Mozart, Handel, de LaLande, Snatam Kaur, MaMuse, Tennis, Eddie Wata, Leonard Cohen, Reema Datta

Movies I've Seen Recently

Quantum Activist, The Atheist Tapes, Winter's Bone, The King's Speech, Dirt: The Movie, The Wackness, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Education

High school

The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY

College

Bennington College, Roger Williams Universtiy

Graduate school

Naropa University (MA Buddhist Studies 2003)

Additional study

Hanna Kroeger School of Natural Health, Apprenticeships and Shamanic study w/ Oscar Miro-Quesada, Joe Monkman, Victor Estrada, Julia Calderon, Jorge Calderon, Alejandro Seguro, Buddhist study with Reggie Ray and the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Shinzen Young, on and on and on more and more...