C. Allie Knowlton, MSW, LCSW, DCSW, Psychotherapist, Teacher of Shamanism and Shamanic Healer Evelyn C. Rysdyk, Teacher of Shamanism, Shamanic Healer, Sacred Artist and author of Modern Shamanic Living.

Allie and Evie have a joint healing practice, Spirit Passages.

The purpose of Spirit Passages is to give individuals the tools to become conscious participants in their own healing, health and spiritual evolution.

Since 1991, Allie and Evelyn have taught workshops on the shamanic journeypractice and advanced shamanism across the United States and into Canada. They have trained with practitioners from many traditional lineages around the world. Their main influence is the cross-cultural Core Shamanism work of Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman.

 

Dameron is a practising Rolfer and Martial Artist with a long and varied background in movement, health and embodied perception. He will be sharing his experience with Russian health and movement practices on Asia night and joining the Cross-cultural perspectives discussion. He is the organizer of the Patterns of Health Conferences.

 

David is in practice as Caritas Traditionalis.

David Russell has lived in Denmark since 1969 and has worked in the health field since 1974. He holds an M.F.A., D.Sc. and Ph.D. For the last thirty years, David has taught Classical Health disciplines and Spiritual Psychology in Europe, Nepal, and the USA, as well as teaching wholistic health and Ayurveda in schools in Denmark and Norway. He has studied and practiced with classical masters in Europe, Nepal, and the Middle East in Chinese, Tibetan, Ayurvedic, and Islamic medicine. He is a member of the Secular Franciscan Order and has taught ecumenical spirituality in Europe and Nepal as well as working in the chaplaincy programs at Wilmot Federal Prison and at the Tucson Medical Center.