Carla Meeske

Carla is a shamanic practitioner in Glendale, Arizona, who has worked with the spirits for over 16 years to help people and animals become well and whole. As a graduate of the 3 year advanced training program offered by Michael Harner and Foundation of Shamanic Studies (see www.shamanism.org), she practices core shamanism, using healing techniques that are common to many cultures and compatible with our modern world. These techniques include soul retrival, power animal retrieval, psycho pomp, divination and various healing activities.

Carla's teachers are spirits who have deep compassion for the pain and suffering that we incarnate beings undergo. Shamanic knowledge is a gift from the spirits and the shaman's healing power is really the power of the compassionate spirits who offer their loving help in response to our requests.

The focus of Carla's work is with animals as she is an animal person ("part horse" her mother always said - how right she was!). Cats, dogs, horses, goats, chickens, birds and ferrets have been recipients of her spirit allies' gracious healing power. She also has many human clients and is able to help people along their healing paths.

The Shamanic journey is an ideal state of mind for interspecies communication. When Carla works with animal clients she can speak with them, receive images and impressions from them, and feel their pain in her body. These are "normal" activities in shamanic work, so the shamanic method applies wonderfully to animal communication. The helping spirits enhance the communication, as they have a deeper understanding of the issues the animal is facing, often deeper than the animals own awareness, and they can offer healing for the problems we find.

Carla offers workshops, teaching the techniques of Shamanic Animal Communication and Healing. Carla is author of The Calico Shaman, True Tales of Animal Communication, and the DVD Speak to My Heart: Carla Person's Step by Step Method for Animal Communication, both by Coccora Press. Also see www.spirithealer.com.