Shamanism is one of humanity’s most ancient spiritual practices, rooted in the deep remembrance that all of life is interconnected. Far from a religion or belief system, it is a path of direct revelation—a sacred way of seeing and engaging with the world through the heart, soul, and spirit. Shamans are individuals—regardless of gender—who journey beyond the veil of ordinary reality into hidden realms to access healing, wisdom, and guidance. They work in partnership with compassionate helping spirits to restore balance, retrieve lost soul parts, remove energetic blockages, and support both individual and collective well-being.

Restoring our roots and soul through shamanic practice is a deep, sacred journey that reconnects us to our ancestry, spirit, and earth-based wisdom. Through rituals, offerings, and ancestral altars, we begin to build a relationship with those who came before us. Shamanic journeying can reveal unresolved wounds passed down through generations (abandonment, war, shame, oppression). We become the ones to transform this pain into wisdom. By witnessing and healing ancestral patterns, we reweave the soul-thread of our family line, often bringing peace to generations past and future.

Central to shamanic practice is the understanding that everything—plants, animals, stones, winds, and stars—has spirit. We live within a vast web of life, and the illusion of separation is the root of much suffering. The shaman serves as a bridge between human consciousness and the forces of nature, tending to harmony between seen and unseen worlds.

One of the primary tools of the shaman is the shamanic journey, often entered through rhythmic drumming or rattling. These repetitive sounds shift brainwave patterns from active beta to meditative alpha and visionary theta states, allowing the soul to travel into non-ordinary reality—known as Dreamtime, the Otherworld, or parallel dimensions in various traditions.

Each shaman’s journey is unique, yet all are held by the same sacred truth: the Earth is alive, the spirits are near, and healing is available. Shamanism reminds us of our sacred place within the great web of life—and invites us to remember who we truly are.

a little about me

Carmen is a bilingual native Peruvian born to a Peruvian mother and a Mexican father with a mixture of Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, and indigenous lineage. Since infancy, Carmen has been on the move, traveling throughout South, North, and Central America, Africa, and Europe. These experiences led to a curiosity about the complexity of the human mind and the diverse ways cultures adapt to the game of life.

Carmen's exposures to personal and global crises, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Malvinas War in the '80s, and the Contra War in the '80s, inspired another way of perceiving conflict. These crises unveiled resources and tools that lie hidden and unseen, yet are always available. This path is an alternative to what appears concrete and obvious at first glance, bringing a creative spin and a source of empowerment and resilience that culminates in inner transformation.
Carmen is passionate about traveling to sacred power places in faraway lands and exploring events in the past as inspiration for living in harmony with nature and one another. Along the way, she has met natives and modern tenders of the land who share marvelous fables and mythologies of creation. She loves learning how people find hope and strength, order in chaos, and celebrate life's good fortunes. 

Carmen is a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling. In her counseling work, she aims to work through the existential humanism lens and partner with clients to discover the power of emotional intelligence and empathy and strengthen their internal locus of purpose and resilience. 

Her exploration of spirit through shamanism, forest bathing, stone medicine, and humanistic counseling theories guides her work in assisting with life struggles.

She has settled in a magical land in the quiet Northwest corner of Massachusetts, surrounded by rivers, streams, birch, oak, hemlock, and white pine.

Studies and Certifications

My healing and divination work weaves in my own direct shamanic experiences taught to me in the inner world by my guides and power animals as well as what I learned in ordinary life from shamanic elders.

MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Merrimack College (2026)

Family Constellation Training at International Family Systemic Constellation (2026)

Certified Forest Therapy Guide at Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Program (2024)

Art as a Path of Inner Schooling Jungian at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies (ongoing)

Making Stone Elixirs and Formulas, Temple of Stone and Emotional Flow with Stones at the Upper Clarity School of Stone Medicine

Crystal Wisdom by Marcel Vogel

Biogeometry science pioneered by Dr. Ibrahim Karim which deals with the Energy of Shape; using shapes, colours, motion, orientation, and sound to produce a vibrational quality that balances energy fields

Spiritwalker and Hawaiian Shamanism with Hank Wesselman

Core Shamanism with Sandra Ingerman and Dory Cote

Andean Qero Medicine with Joan Wilcox. Trained as a Paqo in the Waskar and Inkari Lineages from the Q'ero and the Kallawaya line of the Titicaca Lake.

Sergio Magana 5,000-year-old Toltec lineage of Nahualism in Mexico.

Natural Facial Rejuvenation by Lange and Muller which blends acupressure and biodynamic craniosacral based on Stephen Porges Polyvogal Theory

Reiki Master, Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki with Maya Cointreau. Completed Levels 1, 2 and 3.

Animal Communication with Joan Ranquet

Quantum Touch with Richard Gordon

Original Voice workshop with Jungian Curandera Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Finding the Middle Point with Are Thoresen

Egyptian Akashic Reading and Dreamwork, with Normandi Ellis

Akashic Records Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner, The Linda Howe Online Center for Akashic Studies.

Vibrational Testing and Healing, Crystals and Gemstones, The Vesica Institute

Family Constellation with Suzi Tucker

Family Constellation Training with Leslie Nipps at Convivium Constellations (currently pursuing)

Biodynamic Cranialsacral with The Polarity Center (currently pursuing)