Practitioners

Ernesto Olmos, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been active in the community arts in Northern California since 1998. He has developed a wide range of programs, curriculum, presentations, art exhibits and musical performance based in traditions of Native Mexico. He travels to support sacred ceremonies and cultural exchanges throughout the Americas. Ernesto combines ancient forms of art that have been passed down through oral and ceremonial traditions. He works to keep sacred arts thriving with the intention of remembering indigenous roots as we walk in the path set out by our ancestors.

In 2014, Ernesto began developing the Central American Jaguar Shaman Network in partnership with the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network (WISN), directed by Apela Colorado, throughout Central Mexico and South America. This network aims to conserve the Jaguar as a sacred being across cultural, environmental, and spiritual landscapes by connecting indigenous elders, conservationists, artists, and healers who support jaguar conservation.

The Raven & Wolf's journey of spiritual healing is about your own personal enlightenment and awakening. Taking one day at a time. Dedicated to spiritual growth to create a happier self, working out your issues, understanding yourself, your path and your journey.

Holly Stokes, aka "Waya" speaks about sorrow, pain, happiness, fulfillment, over-coming obstacles, self empowerment, healing, angels, signs, meditations, dreams and anything else that one may need in order to grow, heal and progress on this spiritual journey. She also channels Spirit to bring messages from the Spirit world.

A little about Waya: 
Waya = (wolf) , She comes from a Heinz 57 of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Scandanavian and Italian descendants. She doesn't place herself in one category or belief. Labels just aren't necessary. She is a universal soul who has experienced many paths and has found truth in many forms. She states that she is simply a messenger with a goal to help as many as she can with the stories she has lived and those yet to come.She shares her struggles, her heartache and her joys and triumphs as she too heals her own spirit. 

Awards
Toast of Music City - Best Blog 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Toast of Music City - Best Visual Artist 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015  

Travis Lacey is a self-taught musician who has been working with sound since he was a child. His passion for music and sound has allowed him to grow into someone that could reach people in times of emotional physical and spiritual transitions. 

Travis has been introducing organic sound based meditations since 2010. Gongs, Didgeridoos, Tibetan singing bows, Futujara, and various percussion instruments are ideal tools for stress reduction, stimulation of the glandular system, and as a facilitator to break up emotional blockages. 

Sound & music are nutrients for the nervous system. The auditory mechanism is a ‘mega-portal’ to the brain and sonic tools, such as sound, empower health, learning, and productivity.

Joanne Muir’s life work in healing/bodywork / energy medicine encompasses 20+ years of experience in Fascial release, Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Neural Manipulation, Somato-emotional release, Verbal Process, and Sound Therapy. She has also trained in many facets of Shamanic healing and energetic transformation.

Joanne holds a license in massage therapy and has a degree in Human Development from Eckerd College.
As her trainings brought her deeper perception and palpation skills, Joanne found the greatest teacher to be the physical and energetic bodies themselves and the wisdom they hold.  Through years of intensive training and experience, she has mastered the ability to tune into and work with the structural and subtle energy realms and the body’s cellular memory.

Joanne blends her trainings and skill sets in a method she calls ‘Integrative Bodywork’.  She perceives herself as a ‘systems analyst’, deciphering critical points and patterns of restrictions and imbalances, applying techniques needed to initiate the release process.

Joanne feels most passionate about facilitating a person’s path to freedom.  She works with all ages and conditions, including elite professional athletes in all sports and areas of injury, with a focus on concussion symptoms. Joanne has traveled nationally and internationally to study and teach in the field. She has given classes and lectures in bodywork and energy medicine related topics.

Selva has a passion for the healing arts, inspired by her love of nature. She has a love for learning and expanding her mind and knowledge, and she is passionate about assisting others on their healing journey! She is also inspired by her own continual personal healing through indigenous ceremonies and plant medicines.

Her passion in healing has led her to study many different modalities over the last 20 years, such as Reiki, Herbology, Aromatherapy, Vibrational Flower and Crystal Essences, and Tuning Fork Sound Therapy. However, her main focus is now in Therapeutic Touch.

In 2009 Selva graduated from Touchstone Healing Arts as a Certified Massage Therapist. In 2013 she graduated from the Kutenai Institute of Integral Therapies as a Registered Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapist. She feels so passionate about this deep transformative work that she is currently studying  to become a Certified Biodynamic CranioSacral Teacher (2014-2019) at l’Institut Biodynamique Craniosacre de Montréal.

As a Registered Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapist, she has helped clients release chronic stress, balance nervous systems , release fear and trauma and return to a sense of well-being and vibrant health!

As a professional Certified Massage Therapist, Selva has been helping clients with a wide range of ailments, including specializing in massage for cancer patients and supporting them through their treatments.She uses a variety of techniques such as Deep Tissue, Medical, Swedish, and Relaxation massage, as well as Trigger Point Therapy, Lymphatic drainage, Hot Stones, and TMJ/ Migraine Release. Each massage is tailored to focus on client specific needs.

Selva has a grounding comforting presence that enables clients to feel at ease. She is highly intuitive, compassionate  and sensitive to the clients’ physical, emotional and spiritual needs as they relate to their symptoms.

“I truly love my work, and I strongly believe therapeutic touch with presence is one of the most powerful forms of healing. I have witnessed how it positively supports and impacts peoples lives”

Honoring the Traditional Indigenous Medicine Wisdom of Her Ancestors, Inez is an intuitive energy medicine practitioner, certified sound healer, ayurvedic and healing touch therapist. She is a trained herbal medicine-woman as well as a mindfulness meditation and hypnotherapy guide. She integrates ancient healing techniques through touch, music, sounds, chants, songs and tuning vibrations from various indigenous and modern instruments. She specializes in women’s health, offering the sacred traditional Mayan abdominal healing massage, abhyanga therapeutic detox bodywork, aromatherapy (essential oils & plants), mindfulness living, acupressure, chi gong and reflexology. Alternative medicine played an important role in Inez’s childhood through healing from asthma and allergies, which inspired her vegetarian way of life for over the past 25 years. She found her calling as a healer as a young single mother needing to find natural low-cost medicinal treatments to heal her three sons, herself and her community. In addition, she cared for her mother battling with Alzheimer’s and cancer by alleviating her pain and anxiety through sound healing, and herbal medicines. Inez has a passion for social justice, especially as it relates to the elders and children as well as issues related to autism, cancer, mental health disparities, trauma and substance abuse. She particularly motivated to find answers through various holistic modalities. As an apprentice to a Mayan medicine-woman/midwife/shaman, Beatrice Waight from Belize, Inez learned to refine her natural energy healing techniques. She found solace in the power of sacred healing prayers, validation of her intuitive abilities and practices, and a greater love for the plants and an understanding of our ultimate need for their medicine. In addition, she was received and encouraged by the Curanderos of New Mexico to continue to solidify her indigenous work. Currently Inez has a private healing practice, leads a weekly sound healing meditation group, supports a woman’s healing circle, and teaches self-love, forgiveness, mindfulness living and grief healing workshops incorporating sound therapy, and energy medicine. She volunteers as an Elder for The Stepping Stones Project working with youth and rites of passage and The Cancer Support Community. “Facilitating peace and wellbeing for a Sacred Life Journey.” 

Caity Flanagan bridges the worlds of love and alchemy together through her practices as a modern day medicine woman. Her combination of Tantra, somatic, and shamanic practices allows her to move seamlessly between the physical and mystic worlds in service of heart, mind, and body. She fully believes that everyone can live a fully embodied and purpose driven life.

Her personal written works have been feature in numerous international channels. In private practice she offers tantric and somatic coaching devoted bridging the divide between the feminine and the masculine. In addition to her work in private practice, she also runs a shamanic herbalism school focused around to helping you heal with the knowledge that you are already the medicine you need.

Her forthcoming experiential offering: "The Shakti Series" will be the public unveiling of six years of study and private practice. It will be the first synthesis of healing work that exist at the intersection of tantric practices, trauma informed somatic healing, and shamanic plant medicine.

More websites from Caity: 

www.serpentandrose.com

www.loveandalchemyshop.com

www.thewildcalling.com 

LAURIE A. BAUM, MSW, is a psychotherapist, professional astrologer, 

and psychic counselor in private practice in Encinitas, California. 

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Laurie has more than 20 years of counseling experience. She blends the ancient wisdom of astrology with traditional psychotherapeutic techniques to help you see the patterns at work in your life. An astrological consultation with Laurie will show you the most positive direction to take. It will guide you to 

your next step.

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Laurie will talk to you about your personal identity, marriage, health, finances, real estate, relationships, career, children, family, and more! Laurie also will answer your questions about your life purpose and the reason your soul has incarnated. She can help you find the best place to live to bring the most fortunate experiences to your life!

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 Laurie also has extensive experience making global and personal predictions in light

of astrological alignments.

Laurie offers:

5 Questions, Answered From Laurie

Describe yourself in three words:


Compassionate, clairvoyant, healing

 

What is the greatest challenge you have overcome/are overcoming


I had the dream of becoming a writer from the time I was 10 years old. Soon after graduating college, I got a job writing for The Washington Star (a major metropolitan newspaper in Washington, D.C.). I loved working there and assumed that since the newspaper had been in operation for 128 years, it would go on for another 128 years. But after only one year of writing there, the newspaper suddenly gave notice that due to the economy, it was going to close its doors forever. As one of the youngest staff members, I found myself in competition with more than 100 older, seasoned reporters, all of whom were looking for jobs at the other major newspaper in town, The Washington Post. “Cub reporters” such as myself had to search for jobs in other cities (this was pre-internet days). I ended up in the Deep South, at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As a born-and-bred New Englander, I didn’t know the difference between a hush puppy and grits. And I had barely stepped foot below the Mason-Dixon line (except to visit grandparents in Florida:-)--until that time.

 

 I arrived in Atlanta, and quickly learned that the American Civil War, which had been fought from 1861 to1865 and was the furthest thing from my mind, was still being fought in the minds of many Southerners.  I learned for the first time that I was a “Yankee,” and that Southerners feared liberal-minded Northerners like myself. I was assigned to be a police reporter, and was sent out to cover murders and fires in the at-the-time deeply racially segregated city (1980s).

 

After covering congressional hearings and federal agencies at my previous job, I was a bit out of my element. Yet, I saw that healing was needed in the deeply divided the city. Soon after my arrival, I noticed a pattern of black women being strangled by their bras and left in parking lots in the poorer neighborhoods of Atlanta. The police didn’t feel these cases were connected or worthy of investigation, despite my protests.

 

So, I decided to solve the murders myself.

 

Through various public records and visits to rundown Atlanta neighborhoods, I tracked down the mothers of the murdered women. After knocking at their doors and not knowing what to expect, I was warmly greeted by each mother. Each grieving parent invited me into her home, offered me tea and cake or cookies (good Southern hospitality), and shared stories of her daughter’s life. Before urging me to leave the racially segregated neighborhood as quickly as possible, each gave me a photo of  her deceased daughter and a crucial piece of information—that all had visited the same bar on the night of their deaths. The mothers warned me not visit the bar for my own safety. But, undeterred, I headed straight to the bar nonetheless.

 

Unlike the warm reception I received from the grieving mothers, at the bar I was met with a hissing sound from the all-male, all-black patrons. They clearly didn’t like a blond-haired, blue-eyed femaie on their turf. The bartender ran interference for me as I explained the fate of the series of female bar-goers and showed the bartender photos of the women. He immediately recognized the women in the photos, and gave me a description of the same man with whom each had left the bar on their last night on earth.

 

I rushed back to the newsroom, wrote the story about the man who apparently had escorted each woman to her death. It was a front-page story that police could not ignore. The police department quickly sent a plainclothes detective to the bar. It was not long before the murderer entered the bar and sidled up to his next would-be victim. He was quickly apprehended and DNA samples proved his guilt. The murders stopped.

 

This was just one of the many challenging circumstances I encountered as a young, white, female, crime reporter in the pre-millenium Deep South. I also found myself working to prove the guilt-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt of the Atlanta child murderer (22 black boys killed; many bodies found floating in the Chattahoochee River) by convincing the jurors in his murder trial, who had taken an oath of silence, to share with the public how and why they reached the guilty verdict. Members of the black community began rioting after his conviction was handed down, because they said the convicted black man had been “framed.” Had he? I wondered myself.

 

So, with the help of the jurors, I went through copious notes they had taken during their 9 days in jury deliberations. The manner in which they connected the dots went beyond what was revealed in the courtroom, and in fact, proved the convicted man’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt (having to do with matching carpet fibers and DNA samples on the bodies of the victims and the murderer).

 

The revelations were front-page news. Within hours of the moment the newspaper “hit the streets,” the rioting stopped.

 

The Atlanta crime reporting job proved to be continuously grisly and challenging. On one cold, snowy winter night, I was sent late at night from Atlanta  (Georgia) to a collapsed coal mine in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. My job was to find out if anyone would come out alive from the collapsed mine (they didn’t). It was then my job to speak to grieving widows and children. The challenge of bringing comfort to people while also sharing their deepest moments of grief and sorrow prepared me well for my future career as a healer and psychotherapist, and sharpened my writing skills--but did little to promote much restful, peaceful sleep.

 

After proving my mettle as a Yankee with grit (as opposed to grits), my Atlanta reportorial journey next took me to the “business desk” of the newspaper, where I covered less gritty stories on the financial markets. That assignment then took me to The Miami Herald to write a business column, before I moved on to become an editor at Business Week Magazine in New York City.

 

I eventually translated my love of authentically talking with people and discovering the truth into the healing arts. I went back to graduate school to become a psychotherapist, and also studied Astrology in London before securing my first book contract for “Astrological Secrets for the New Millennium” in 1996. I moved to California to write this book, the 1st of 5, and to pursue a more meditative and creative lifestyle while continuing my psychotherapy and astrological counseling practices. These experiences taught me the importance of resilience and resourcefulness, even in the face of the challenges and curve balls life sends our way. These are characteristics I enthusiastically promote in my clients and help them to cultivate in their dalily lives!

 

 

What is unique to you about your work?

As a psychotherapist and astrologer, I combine deep insights about the human heart and soul and integrate the ancient, occult wisdom of astrology.. My rich and active meditation practice enables me to infuse greater peace, harmony, and a calming influence into my work with my clients.

 

 

How do you guide clients into their own healing/inner freedom?

I support the positive strengths, gifts, and talents of my clients while also pointing out any obstacles they may face along the way, with a focus on options and potential solutions.

Astrology has an uncanny ability to bring understanding to the past and to foretell transitions upcoming in the future. Having the awareness an astrological reading provides is  an invaluable tool in directing and determining your next step—in the best way for yourself and others!

 

 

What tools have you found least/most effective in your work?

The most effective tools are: clear insights, compassion, unconditional positive regard for all people and problems, and creating a loving, warm, and accepting healing environment. I also use EMDR, Brainspotting, and other proven psychotherapy techniques to help people release old patterns and create new, more effective  and adaptive patterns for the future.

Basmati.com sits down with Laurie Baum.  She shares with us her journey from skeptic to believer and practitioner of Astrology!  Enjoy! 

Nita was born and raised in England. Over the years she's her life lessons are to find balance between the two worlds, of East and West. Nita is a powerful Medium and healer. From an early age, she knew she was different and definitely not from Planet Earth. She recalls one of her earliest childhood memories. 

“I felt like the mothership had dropped me off when I was 2-3 years old. I have been waiting for them to pick me back up my whole life. I never seem to fit in anywhere except with other misfits.”

Nita holds loving space for deep healing, transformations to transpire during and after reading sessions. She helps to shift our perception of self and others by shedding light on the lessons at hand. Staying out of self judgement and reflecting blame onto others can be a great source of empowerment!  

She primarily channels people, places, and situations to bring forth the most objective and accurate information. Additionally, palmistry and Tarot cards or her own 12 Sound Healing Oracle cards are used. Many clients feel uplifted after her readings, and are amazed at the accuracy of her readings as unfoldment begins. 

Nita has evolved and expanded her intuitive muscles from past lives, present life experiences and her training’s. Her co-creative partners are wonderful cosmic beings she continuously communicate's with! Nita only works within the spectrum of love and light! Her specialty is working with Star Seeds, assisting them with their awakening and ascension. Additionally, helping one find their individual life purpose.

Every modality she offers is one she has personal used in her own holistic path. They have all been significant tools to help shift her own DNA and ancestral patterning. Whether it is soul work or body work, Nita has been a receiver of the modality first. She uses her various skills to aid in shifts.

Basmati.com sits down with Nita as she she shares with us part of her powerful transformative journey, overcoming severe childhood trauma and how she met herself along the way.  She dives into shifting our own DNA and Ancestral Patterning allowing ourselves to truly heal.

Basmati.com sits down with Nita as she’s does a personal reading for Jen and discusses the role of the divine Feminine and Masculine in modern times.

Born in Santa Cruz, California to peace loving parents that honored and nurtured her natural musical abilities, she has been singing since before she could even talk. She began piano lessons at 7, with classical training in the Suzuki Method. At 8 she began singing in schools and at large public events around Santa Cruz as part of the Peace Child Choir ensemble. At twelve her family uprooted and relocated to the Big Island of Hawaii. Motivated by her fascination and love of the natural world she attended University of Hawaii at Hilo and received a BA in Natural Science and Biology, and then began serving in the Education field for over ten years. Thriving in the Puna Community, close to the living and growing earth, her creativity flourished and was nourished by the beauty of the wild and powerful nature around her, especially the ocean. In 2006, after returning from living in Boston for a year, she began producing her own music. For a very detailed account of Mary's Musical Journey from the very beginning you can read more HERE on her BLOG.

Mary Isis is currently based in Northern California where she produces music, offers sound healing sessions, creates visual art, grows plant medicines, crafts healing botanicals, co-facilitates healing/transformative ceremonies and musical events and continues to mentor young adults.  
   
Other awesome music artists she has shared the stage and/or collaborated with include: Nahko and Medicine for the People, Hope Medford, Tubby Love, Amber Lily, Diane Patterson, Sara Tone, Dustin Thomas, Max Ribner, Mikey Pauker, The Hanuman Project, IEMANJO, Alexa Sunshine Rose, Sarah Beth (of the Bethany Trio), Mikey Pauker, Soulgood Family, Sita Devi,  Prema Love, Gigi Love, John Dumas, Kate Wild, Krista Herring, Murray Kyle, Aea Luz,  Shakina Ma, Shylah Ray Sunshine, Jivan and ALOHA KIRTAN and Van Gordon Martin.

*Find Mary Isis Music on Spotify & Soundcloud

Basmati.com sits down with Mary Isis as she shares with us part of her journey, the gifts of sound healing and using your voice.

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