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Love Heals You.
Your Love Heals Us All.
Awaken the power of Love-Light within you.
Through shamanic healing, spiritual training, and sacred community, you will discover the medicine for your soul
— and the world — that has been waiting to be birthed in you.
Begin this powerful, transformational journey now.
Book a free Soul Visioning Session with me.
Work with me 1-1
For over two decades, I have guided thousands of clients worldwide through the deep medicine of shamanic healing. In 1-1 sessions and mentorship, you will release wounds of trauma, restore soul wholeness, awaken spiritual gifts, and receive transformational guidance for your life’s path, mission and purpose.
Walk a Radiant, Heart-Centered Spiritual Path
of Love-Light
Courses & Programs
at the Awakened Heart Institute
Step into your luminous intuitive and healing gifts. Heal yourself and others with heart and courage. Develop a deeply nourishing spiritual way of being. At the Awakened Heart Institute, you are invited to remember your radiant potential, to live as love in action, to anchor into spiritual mastery, and to wield your gifts of intuition and wisdom as a force of healing and transformation for yourself and others.
Your medicine is ripening. Trust its timing.
Trust the call of Mother Earth.
The sacred Mountains and Spirit will speak to you
like long-lost parents.
It is so beautiful!
Awakened Heart Shamanism is a sacred way of healing and awakening for our times of challenge and change. Rooted in wisdom lineages of Native American spirituality, the sweet cosmovision of the Q'ero medicine people of the Andes, Buddhism and modern trauma healing,
It opens the luminous doorway of the loving heart
into compassion, resilience, and peace.
It is a path for those called to transform suffering into purpose, to embody love, and to become healers and world-changers.
Learn more about how to live life in a luminous space of Love-Light.
I Teach a Shamanism of Love
Why & What Now?
In times of turmoil, fear, and division, the world needs awakened hearts. Through healing, training, and mentorship, you can become a beacon of compassion, peace, and radiant service.
To get a taste of this way of being, join
The Uplifted Heart Path,
a 5-Week Journey of Healing, Protection,
Purpose, and Planetary & Personal Peace.
Rise into Radiant Courage & Love-Light in Troubled Times
You feel the world’s pain and want to transform empathy into empowered compassion. You’ve done inner healing work and are ready to embody your soul’s purpose. You long to serve the planet with love and courage.
Over 5 weekly, 90-minute Zoom sessions,
you will awaken your soul's higher purpose, cultivate a space of radiant pace, embody courageous compassion and contribute to healing the world.
What I do is not just Shamanic Healing or Shamanism.
This is just the form.
I midwife new consciousness through storytelling, ceremony and energy medicine.
I give you courage to enter the shadow in service of healing.
I help you heal personal and generational fractures through vibrational integrity.
I anchor ancient wisdom lineages into modern forms.
I channel the voices of the ancestors through grounded language that bridges academic insight and spiritual truth.
I teach you how to restore wholeness by reconciling history, healing the body and remembering the soul.
I serve as a ceremonial bridge for awakening humanity.
I anchor your spiritual journey into the resonant vibration of compassion and enlightenment.
It is the harmonizing of individual healing with collective liberation.
It is sacred activism for peacemaking.
"There are so many ways I have changed, as a result of working with Rachel. If I were to sum it up, I would say that she has awakened my spirituality in a way that has deepened profoundly my connection with living in spirit. Rachel walks her talk. She gave me examples of things going on in her life as parables so you learned how to apply them to your life. She is a great teacher."
- Laura Joy
Rachel has helped me bring power to my own medicine. She gave me a deeper understanding of the power of the Medicine Wheel. As a result of my work with her in the 1-1 Mentoring Program, I stepped with confidence into my role as a shamanic healer and teacher. "
- Salem Wolf Heart, author of Benty Moon: Racing with the Medicine Wheel
Rachel's work has changed the way I look at things. The healing sessions have been extremely helpful in helping me find my way to a new and different way of looking at everything in my life. It is not just another modality—it is a whole different way at looking at everything in my life. Rachel's classes changed my center. It has been huge for me. Because of them, when I talk to my students, I’m more earth-based. I still have the medical model. I was trained as a medical assistant before I became a massage therapist. But for my personal way of looking at things, it’s more about energies moving, nature, the seasons...With my students, I talk about shamanic energy healing, plant medicine. Now it’s more holistic. It empowered me to bring out more on the forefront that side of me.
- Yvonne Lovejoy
Rachel is deeply interested in helping people understand where they are and how they can use the tools of the medicine wheel to help with their personal healing and the healing of their communities (like family and work). There would be no way that I would have the awareness that I have now if Rachel was not truly open with what she knows and how it can help me. Gratitude overflowing. I feel like I have a totally different life than what I had 2 years ago.
-Jessica
I did not know Rachel. I was lost in my loss. The healing ways of a Shaman as foreign to me. I came into her home. A welcoming room. We spoke about several issues. Then we began with an energy reading. I was led through a very relaxing hour of chanting, singing, praying & rattling and drumming. Then we spoke about what she saw in her journey. Her insight was remarkable. I trusted Rachel. I thanked her and left. The next few days were the same and different! My spirit felt better and lighter. You've tried the rest...now try the best person. who has your best interests at the center of her motivation and intentions.
- Julie
Transformational. Healing. Magical. Powerful. Empowering. Community. Fun. Uplifting. Rachel's class takes people to another level in their life. I‘m not stuck anymore, there’s a brand new world and I get to have fun the next 45 years. There are only two things in life that did this for me—a recovery treatment center for alcoholics—and Rachel's. It is transformational. There is a before and after. With your class, it was similar. I deeply want to go to the next level of my life. But left to my own devices, I’m helpless. There’s this cliff. Your class put me over the cliff. I’m not helpless any more. I have territory. I have done so many workshops that are supposed to be transformational. There are only 2. Rachel's classes changed my perception of life. OK, there are still lions, but there’s no longer a wall.
-Helene
I began working with Rachel several years ago and completed the 3-Month Mentoring Program along with the Awakened Heart Shamanism classes. During that time, we were given opportunities and experiences to connect with shamanic ceremony and teachings--and most importantly myself. As a mentor, Rachel, is very intuitive, insightful and competent in assessing strengths and identifying challenging areas in the most supportive manner. I thoroughly enjoyed working with her and have reaped numerous benefits both personally and professionally. She is a very gifted healer, mentor and shaman!!
-Laura McFern
I truly struggled to write anything to do justice to the work I've been able to do with Rachel. Through divine synchronicity, I booked a phone session one rainy mid-spring Saturday afternoon as I was browsing a New Age shop in Alexandria. My life, my soul, and my being have been transformed spectacularly since our time together. Rachel is one of those rare people blessed with a brilliant, wise mind coupled with a depth of soul and being. She is both expansive and playful while being grounded and firmly anchored in the material world. I knew from the first words we exchanged that I had encountered a profound teacher and healer that was meant to be a part of my life path and ultimate destiny. Each session, phone call, and email has been deeply transformative. She helped me to gaze deeply into the shadow, mirror, and beyond into the infinite cosmos to take hold of my highest destiny and highest whole self. My career has advanced in ways I didn’t think imaginable, my art has once again flowed and flourished, and my life is the most poignant and exquisite piece of music punctuated with a profound peaceful acceptance of the dissonances and harmonies interweaving themselves moment to moment. What is more, I feel more connected to other people than I ever have. My being overflows with love and a desire to help everyone around me laugh a bit more, love a bit deeper, and feel a bit more fully the miraculous experience of being an embodied singularity: a note in the grand score of divine design. All of this achieved like a cosmic gestation across 9 months. For the first time in my life, I feel deeply centered in my being, rooted to the earth, yet stretching towards the stars. Give yourself and the world around you the gift of Rachel’s wise and kind touch. You will laugh, you will cry, you will gasp in wonder as you come face to face with the truth of who you are and what you actually mean, what each of us means.
- David Drockton
Rachel has given me the tools to keep the sacred in everyday life. When I burn sage, light my candles, play my drum, chant, pray, I feel connected to Spirit, connected to Creator. I feel the divine flame in my heart. Even when I commune with my plants. You can do it without this work, but you have a much richer experience when you have an understanding of it when you feel in your mind, heart, body and soul you know that it is right. I like to have reasons why. If I’m going to be doing something, I like to know why. When I experience something, if I don’t understand, I like to know why. This is another reason why people benefit from learning from Rachel. I needed to figure out how to heal the wounds of my past. Rachel offered that.
-Beth Ward, PhD, D. Div, Owner, SoulFire Alchemy
Here is what people are saying about my work!
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