With Gratitude
My Mentors & Teachers
Spiritual and shamanic teachers, mentors, advisers and counsellors who have been instrumental in my life.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to a few of the many gifted teachers, mentors, advisers and counsellors who have been instrumental in my life. They have very generously shared their time, energy, wisdom and the expertise gained through their lived experiences. From them, I received the comfort that comes with knowing I was not alone in my experiences. Mentors accepted my knock on their door, welcoming me in. They trusted their Spirit and my own when we were called to work together. Through the sharing of my experiences and their storytelling, we built a framework so I could better understand my lifetime of spiritual and shamanic experiences. When I felt most alone, their guidance became the next step in the evolution of my own gifts.
Often, I was guided to them as if out of the blue, just as a major shift in my consciousness was awakening. These were energetic doors that were opening for me because I was ready. Mentors gave me hope by demonstrating that they had not only survived their own initiations but truly thrived through their spiritual experiences. They walked me through luminous doors to the other side, and then set me free to experience them on my own terms and in my own timing.
I realise now that the awakenings I experienced often came just prior to someone else seeking answers from me to their own spiritual experiences. That is how Spirit works: as it awakens one soul willing to explore its depths, it guides them to another, willing to become a mentor. When we are ready, the soul awakens and the teacher appears.
Mentors from the spiritual realms
Throughout my lifetime, there were also many mentors from spiritual realms that illuminated my way. From childhood, they spoke gently to me, leading me by the hand, step by step. They stood beside me, watched over me and protected me while opening pathways to shamanic knowledge that was held within my subconscious from past lifetimes.
I have explored luminous realms through trances while awake, and protected others through receiving precognitive dreams while I slept. Often Spirit demonstrated through dreams and visions that I was loved and that I was not alone. They offered me encouragement to go on while I was experiencing complex spiritual experiences that were difficult to navigate and hard to understand. These proved to be the most deeply rewarding spiritual experiences of my lifetime.
This helped me lean into the peace that comes from trusting my soul, knowing it is on purpose and in exactly the right timing. Helping others explore and understand their own spiritual allies is the gift I share.
When I felt lost and alone, Spirit soothed my soul with dreams of unconditional love. When I was wading through feelings awakening within me of foreboding landscapes that I did not understand, Spirit parented me, protected me and helped me understand that these sacred aspects of life and knowing were not just from this lifetime but from many in the past. Spirit allies have always known my path from its very beginnings, and they have faithfully fulfilled their promises of leading me forward into remembering my true self, who I truly am and where I came from. For this I owe them my deepest gratitude.

These guides and many more have been blessings in my life. I honour them by naming them here.
Psychic mentorship
- Heather H.: Psychic readings and advisor.
- Leslie M.: Tarot reading and mentor.
- Jennifer A.: Crystal communication, reading chakras and auras, awakening to the Archangel, signs: numbers, colours, invocations.
- Sandra C.: Offered me grandmother-like mentoring at times of spiritual awakening, tea leaf reading, psychic readings through face cards, psychic processes and ceremonies, guided meditations, goddess empowerment, spiritual council.
- Neil Z.: Munay-Ki Laika Wisdom Keepers channeling, past life viewing, remote viewing of past events, remote viewing of clients’ experiences or memories, direct person to person psychic communication. Mentor and spiritual council.
Psychic healing
- Maia T.: Munay-Ki Healers 9 Rites of Passage (2008), crystal bowl sound therapy, Bruno Groening Circle of Friends healing circle, tapping, universal etheric grid healing, aura and chakra healing. Adviser on contemporary Reiki, Adam Dream Healer, German New Medicine, and mentor.
- Neil Z.: Past life healing, psychic weapon removal, universal etheric grid healing. Mentor and advisor.
- Adam H.: Healing conferences, courses and sessions.
- Rosanna S.: Past life regression therapy sessions.
- Margaret D.: Mediumship mentor.
Reiki
- Cheli G. (Reiki, Angels IJK): Modern Reiki Level 1 (2005), origins India and Tibet: sacred symbols, attunements, healing auras, chakras and the hara line, kundalini, energy channel meditation, karma, life’s purpose, crystals and crystal grids, past life, hand positions, distance healing symbols, emotional sources of dis-ease, healing with colour, food as medicine, cleansing and manifesting, group healings, self-treatments, Archangels and spiritual guides, affirmations, music therapy. Lineage partly unknown.
- Leslie M.: Contemporary Reiki: Level 1, Level 2, Advanced Reiki, Master Degree teachers training (2007/2008). Lineage partly unknown.
- Inger D.: Teacher, mentor and adviser in Japanese traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki: First Degree, Second Degree and Masters Degree teachers training (2009–2012), tutelage in all aspects of Japanese Reiki. Lineage: Mikao Usui, Chujiro Hayashi, Hawayo Takata, Wanja Twan, Inger Droog, and myself. I am sixth in the lineage of our Masters.
- Wanja T.: Traditional Japanese Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki conference teacher and mentor.
- Annali T.: Traditional Japanese Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki conference mentor.
Shamanic training, advisors and mentors
- Maia T.: Munay-Ki 9 Healers Rites and teachers certification (Andean mountains and Amazonian rainforest shamans, the Q’ero Nation, descendants of the Inca), communion with the Laika Earth-keepers and ancient Wisdom Keepers. Transmission of the 9 Rites and the 13th Rite: Healers Rites, Bands of Power, Harmony Rites, Seer Rites, Daykeeper Rites, Wisdomkeeper Rites, Earthkeeper Rites, Starkeeper Rites, Creator Rites, Rite of the Womb, and Fire Ceremony holder. Mentor and advisor for a multitude of spiritual and healing practices too numerous to mention.
- Neil Z.: Munay-Ki 9 Healers Rites and teachers certification. Mentor and advisor.
- Sandy Day: Shamanic studies (2008): permission to perform soul retrieval and certification, journeying through the drum, drumming for spirit animal guide, drumming in search of lost soul fragments, energetic removal of unhealthy energy, healing to merge with spirit animal guardian, healing to return lost soul fragments, healing using the rattle, merging with animals and nature. Mentor and advisor.
- Yvonne J.: Drum building. Thank you for sewing me a dress for ceremony. Advisor.
- Elder S.: Spiritual council, sweat lodge, dream interpretation. Advisor.
- S.B. (Texas): Numerous teachings in Cherokee shamanism: merging with animals, stones and plants, journeying through crystals, sacred healing and teachings of the Medicine Wheel, building of sweat lodge, and multiple healing sessions. Mentor and advisor.
- Ruby E. (Blackfoot Medicine Woman): Spiritual council, Beaver Bundle opening, tobacco energy cleansing, and numerous other teachings. Mentor and advisor.
- Doreen S.: Traditional Native teachings, sweat lodge, healing sessions. Mentor and advisor.
- Don B. (Vancouver Island): Personalised traditional Indigenous teachings, sweat lodge and personal counsellor. Mentor and advisor.
- Julian A. (Blood Tribe): Sharing of wisdom and providing elk skin drums and rattles for myself and my students. Advisor.
- Manfred L.: Soul retrieval healing session, connecting me with my spirit animal guide, and for all of the psychic guidance. Advisor.
Spiritual guides
Much respect is given to my many spiritual guides, animal and human, ancestors, grandfathers and grandmothers, medicine people, and wisdom keepers who continue to guide me and are near and dear to my heart. These allies have taken me under their wings as one of their own and awakened lifetimes of knowledge within me. They taught me wondrous processes and helped lead me back through lifetimes of adventures and inner knowing. Thank you for standing beside me, for sharing your wisdom, for healing me and for your protection. Aho, this is my truth.
My heartfelt thanks to all those who have guided me through my lifetime.