The People of Shemaya


Shaman Wolf, Founder
Shaman Wolf founded Shemaya and is a practicing shaman. Her long background in spiritual practices and theology gives her a grounded base to assist others in spiritual matters. Shaman Wolf has been an apprentice to the traditional Chinook shamanic way, as well as to the Hungarian Basci tradition of sound shamanism. Shaman Wolf is a member of the Shamans and Spirit Warriors Society, and offers personal sessions to individuals or groups. She loves to backpack in the outdoors, create soul collage cards, and cook cultural cuisine.


Lisa Burnell
Lisa is a certified expressive art therapist and a certified drug and alcohol counselor. She founded and directs Inner Journey Healing Arts in Scappoose, OR. Lisa incorporates her love of singing, and for creating beautiful sounds with singing bowls, tuning forks, and other modalities, into her client recovery work. She also trains other therapists, teachers and counselors to use the healing power of expressive arts to help people embrace their life's purpose and do their soul's work. Visit the Inner Journey website.


Barbara Hughes
Barbara is a budding sound healer, and is certified by the state of Washington as a Spiritual Healer. Continuously and deeply involved with music throughout her childhood, she is now "getting back to where she once belonged." Having worked mostly in technical, computer-based fields (she created and maintains this website), she is now an apprentice to Shaman Wolf. Her greatest joy is being a co-creator of dynamic, moving music and sound, primarily with drum and voice.


Mark Moerman
Mark was named Music Director at the Abundant Life Center in Vancouver, Washington in the summer of 2006. A guitarist since childhood, his love of singing and performing music has been reignited in recent years. He is a passionate fan of music of many styles and a serious record collector, and is a firm believer in the power of music as a healing force in the world. Check out Mark's Charisma website.


Jay Nelson
Jay is currently Operations Manager and Men's Program Counselor for Inner Journey Healing Arts. Jay first learned guitar at age twelve and was involved with theater and choirs throughout his school years. Along with drumming, voice, and playing the flute, he has now picked up his guitar again and is embracing the power of healing sound through collaboration and expression with the other members of Shemaya. Send an email to Jay if you would like to arrange a therapeutic healing massage.


Liliana Penaherrera
Liliana is a singer-songwriter who has performed in the theater. She is a classical musician and folksinger/guitarist. Sound healing has been a natural gift that has come from living and celebrating with nature in her rustic Ohio woods and in Ecuador, beside its singing rivers and sacred Andes mountains. The shamanic sounds that come through Shemaya's healing sessions are one way that her abilities find expression.


Shama Strong
Shama is a singer, songwriter, chant leader and Reiki/sound healer. She awakens Spirit through sound with the voice and other instruments (keyboard, harmonium, piano, Native American drum, djembe, tambura, ocean harp, native american flute and didjeridoo). She honors all paths to Spirit in her music and embraces chants from many different spiritual traditions.




Guests
From time to time, Shemaya invites guest musicians/sound healers to participate in specific events.


Jane Latimer (SnakeHair)
Jane is a spiritual teacher and expressive arts shaman, with training in dance, art, and heart-centered models of transformation. As an artist, author and somatic psychotherapist specializing in embodied spiritual fulfillment, she is founder of Sacred Hunger and The HeART of You™ in Portland, OR, dedicated to providing experiences that foster discovery, healing and celebration of the authentic Self. She has been training psychotherapists and coaches in body-mind methods of healing and recovery for over eight years. For more information on her work, visit her websites, HeART of You and EmotionalEating.com.




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