Show Notes Courtni Hale is a spiritual coach and custom design artist. She’s also a traditionally- trained medicine person with a federally-recognized ministerial degree and dual bachelor’s from American University. Courtni is the author of “Urban Shaman: Learning.” Courtni’s background comes from a spiritual First Nations’ perspective, as her grandmother was Native American. She was always sensitive and having strange dreams. When Courtni became a mother, she sought out the advice of a medicine man in New Mexico and he put her to work building a sweat lodge in his backyard. He told her that she could never become a shaman because she was culturally white. This man did tell her to learn to live from the Earth, because the common language would be one of nature. She spent the next four years learning how to farm and when she returned to visit, he agreed to train her. Ever since then, Courtni has had the opportunity to learn from the best people in the world about shamanic activism. Courtni has written a novel on consciousness, and she has a painting that goes along with each chapter. The people she painted for actually helped her interpret each message. “Interpreting a dream is like tying a shoe; you need two hands to do it” She says she always dreamed that there were these magical themes and she’s always seen the world in a different way from her family, often feeling isolate and alone growing up. “They expected me grow up to be a lawyer because that’s what (you’re supposed) to do” After 10 years of studying under traditional medicine men, she was allowed to administer plant medicine to others. Courtni also uses drumming, the sweat lodge and discussions about nutrition in her work with others. She now teaches people to use the mind, which she says is a connector, and can accessed through techniques like yoga. This will help with things like PTSD and with environmental toxins. Now that Courtni lives out East, she tends to do more one-on-one coaching with private clients, working on the body, spirit and mind. “The way you experience spirituality is only going to be as good as your neurology” She also does tarot readings and more of the traditional native readings. “I really use whatever I can to help people to get a sense of where they’re at and where they want to go” Courtni envisions a state where dream time and awake time are two of the same, and she shares that she is getting closer to achieving this. Essentially every particle of her body is made up of the sacred lands from New Mexico that she experienced from the 7 years she lived there. Even though she is physically no longer living there, she has brought her paintings and flowers to her new home. “I think I’ll never feel completely at home anywhere but the mountains of New Mexico. In my heart, I’m always there….” She says that it’s very powerful when she can help someone that doesn’t come from shamanism learn to understand it. To listen on Itunes & subscribe to The Wellness Show
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