Cecile Carson, MD is a clinical associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. An internist and counselor, she has focused her work over the past several decades on the mind-body-spirit interface in teaching and clinical care. She respects the endless variety of forms the healing process can take, and has explored and integrated a number of them: spiritual healing, hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, therapeutic recreation, psychodrama, and dreamwork. Her extensive shamanic training with the FSS began in 1986 and included the Basic Workshop, 2-Week Intensive, Shamanic Counseling, Soul Retrieval, and the 3-Year East Coast Program. She also trained with a Romani choviano.

Tom Cowan, PhD is a shamanic practitioner specializing in Celtic visionary and healing techniques. He combines universal core shamanism with traditional European spirit lore to create spiritual practices that can heal and enrich one's own life and the lives of others. He is an internationally respected teacher, author, lecturer, and tour leader.   He has taught training programs in England, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia and Italy. Tom received a doctorate in history from St. Louis University.   He has studied extensively with and taught for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

Tom is the author of Yearning For The Wind: Celtic Reflections on Nature and the Soul, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit, Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life, The Pocket Guide to Shamanism, The Book of Seance, The Way of the Saints: Prayers, Practices, and Meditations and Wending Your Way: A New Version of the Old English Rune Poem.

Website: www.riverdrum.com

Alan Davis, MD, PhD is an associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Salt Lake City, and the medical director for Quinney Rehabilitation Institute at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center. His medical practice focuses on inpatient medical rehabilitation. He completed his physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. He then completed his neuroscience PhD investigating how yoga-like breathing exercises produce a relaxation response. He has been apprenticing with Sarah Sifers, PhD, a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS) 3-Year program, and pursuing FSS coursework, including the 2-Week Intensive in advanced shamanism and Shamanic Healing, directed and taught by Sandra Ingerman.

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is the author of eight books including Soul Retrieval; Medicine for the Earth; Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide; How to Heal Toxic Thoughts; How to Thrive in Changing Times; and Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation.  She also has 5 audio programs including    “Shamanic Meditations: Guided Journeys for Insight, Vision, and Healing” and “Soul Journeys: Music for Shamanic Practice”.

Sandra teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods.  She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers.  Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.
Sandra is devoted to teaching people how we can work together as a global community to bring about positive change for the planet.

Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management.
           
To read articles written by Sandra, to listen to interviews, and to get more information on Sandra’s work you can visit her website at www.sandraingerman.com. This is also the site to read Sandra’s monthly column “The Transmutation News”. The Transmutation News is now translated into 10 languages. To find a local shamanic practitioner or teacher in your area please visit www.shamanicteachers.com. 

Websites: www.sandraingerman.com and www.shamanicteachers.com

Martha Lucier is a shamanic practitioner and teacher of shamanism.  Along with her husband Todd Lucier, she has co-founded Northern Edge Algonquin Retreat Centre (www.northernedgealgonquin.com), who's mission is providing experiences in nature that enable us to rediscover ourselves, empower each other and heal our connection to the Earth. As a graduate of the FSS 3-year program and shamanic teacher training with Sandra Ingerman, Martha has evolved her shamanic practice through creating Shamanism Canada, an organization which fosters leaders while growing shamanic community. Martha has hosted Medicine People from all over the world, and has traveled extensively connecting with indigenous healers as a means of rekindling the indigenous Spirit within herself.   As a living prayer, Martha is both the weaver and the web and invites others to join her in re-igniting and connecting the sacred flame within us all.

Website: www.shamanismcanada.com and
www.northernedgealgonquin.com

Robert Moss, MA is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of modern dreamwork and ancient shamanic techniques for healing and journeying. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and a lively online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. His eight books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Three "Only" Things, The Secret History of Dreaming, Dreamgates and Active Dreaming (New World Library, April, 2011).

Website: www.mossdreams.com

Carol Proudfoot-Edgar has been studying and teaching shamanism for 20 years; prior to that she was a Psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Twelve years ago she helped found the nonprofit organization, Shamanic Circles. She is currently co-coordinating SSP's project called "Shamanism without Borders".

She has worked with a group of women physicians for 11 years to integrate shamanism and contemporary medical practice. Carol continues her work with a Clan of BearWomen that came into formal existence 16 years ago, and she has been teaching in the University of San Francisco Medical School's Integrative Medical Program.

In the early 90's, she joined with Paul Rebillot to develop a paradigm regarding the evolution of the self that would integrate shamanism and Gestalt psychology. Out of this collaboration, Carol developed a Medicine Wheel Handbook that guides one through interrelationship between the personal and the transpersonal.

Carol and her shamanic work are featured in Beverly Engel's book, “Women Encircling the Earth” while her poetry and stories appear in a number of books and magazines. There are two CDs containing healing songs that came to her from the spirits. Her writings and videos of her work with National Geographic and two PhDs that were done in mixed media by graduate students interested in her teachings are available at her website: www.shamanicvisions.com

José Luis Stevens PhD, is the president and co-founder (with wife Lena) of Power Path Seminars, an international school and consulting firm dedicated to the study and application of shamanism and indigenous wisdom to business and everyday life. José completed a ten-year apprenticeship with a Huichol Maracame (shaman) in the Sierras of Central Mexico. In addition, he is studying intensively with Shipibo (shamans) in the Peruvian Amazon and with Pacos (shamans) in the Andes in Peru.

In 1983 he completed his doctoral dissertation at the California Institute of Integral Studies focusing on the interface between shamanism and western psychological counseling. Since then he has studied cross-cultural shamanism around the world to distill the core elements of shamanic healing and practice. He is the author of ten books and numerous articles including The Power Path; Secrets of Shamanism: How to Tap the Spirit Power Within; Transforming Your Dragons; and Praying with Power.

Website: www.thepowerpath.com