More About Jeffrey
I am an animist healing practitioner specializing in compassionate depossession, curse unraveling, mindroom technology, and systemic and family constellations. I help people manage the energies of their spaces. As an educator, I teach people how to do all of these things and coach people who already do them.
I began my shamanic studies in 2005. I opened my shamanic healing practice in 2006. I attended a 2-week shamanic intensive in 2008 to begin deepening my understanding, and I began studying with Betsy Bergstrom in 2010. I began studying with my Andean teacher in 2012.
Before that, I had a technical career and then a massage therapy and massage instruction practice, which began in 1999. While living in Huntsville, AL, I founded and operated the Shining Mountain Healing Center, where I offered orthopedic massage, shamanic healing, and systemic and family constellations. In 2017, I moved back to the mountains of Western North Carolina and founded Living Energy Healing, my animist healing practice.
A brief history of my healing arts credentials
I graduated from Duke University in 1984 with a degree in Computer Science and a concentration in Electrical Engineering. My education in the healing arts began in 1998 when I enrolled to study massage and also took my first Reiki course in 1998. I became a licensed massage therapist in Alabama in 1999, and a licensed massage instructor in Alabama in 2001.
I took my first shamanic journeying training in 2005. In 2008, I studied in a two-week shamanic intensive, learning fundamental shamanic healing methods of Soul Retrieval, Extraction of Energetic Intrusions, Divination, Psychopomp, and Depossession.
In 2010, I began my studies with Betsy Bergstrom, learning Compassionate Depossession, Curse Unraveling, Mediumship, and the practice of Seiðr, the Norse system of magic, healing, and divination. This led to a study and apprenticeship in traditional Swedish Trolldom where I began studying Mindroom technology.
In 2011, I began my studies of Andean Cosmology, and have worked with an indigenous teacher from the Andes since 2012.
Since 2021, I have been honored to serve as one of Betsy's class assistants for all of her trainings.
In sum, I have 27+ years of experience in studying and teaching the healing arts, and 21+ years of experience studying and teaching the shamanic healing arts. My clients now number in the thousands.
I live and work in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where I was born.
My life and my work is beautifully buoyed up by many loving and skilled people who came before me.
I give thanks to my teachers and guides:
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Betsy Bergstrom in animism, the ways of Beings, energy and energetic landscapes, Compassionate Depossession, and Curse Unraveling
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Túpaq T'tito Kuntur in earth-centered Andean Mystic Cosmology and the rich understanding of our energetic anatomy
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Francesca Mason-Boring, who certified me to facilitate Systemic Family Constellations and Nature Constellations
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Johannes Gårdbäck, who taught me Swedish Trolldom
These beloved mentors teach me ancient and modern practices for clearing difficult energies of the natural world in beautiful and compassionate ways.
I keep looking and learning.
Warmly,
Jeffrey