Medicine Woman
Athena has been studying forms of traditional healing and shamanism for over 15 years. Her journey into alternative Healing opened during a major crisis in her life, which led her to work with a traditional Venezuelan healer who recognized her gifts of sight and introduced her to a language that explained life as an empath and seer. Back in Canada she was adopted by a beautiful medicine woman who grounded her into ceremonial teachings, sweat lodges, pipe ceremony and women’s mystery work.
She began a formal apprenticeship with the Shipibo Mahua Lineage in the Amazon of Peru studying a traditional form of healthcare. She has spent months at a time in retreat in the practice of dieta fasting from foods and water for periods of time and learning directly from the spirits of the plants. She travels extensively bringing medicine, ceremonies, retreats, plant dietas, and Integration work alongside her healing practice.
Athena has been recognized by the Grandmother Shipibo Maestras for her work with the gift of the Cup to serve medicine after only seven years of apprenticeship. Her primary aya teachers are Maestra Amelia Ronen, and Maestra Manuela Mahua with whom she has invested many years of learning from Elders, Wisdom Keepers, and Guardians of the traditions in North and South America. She has been blessed to sit with and share friendship with traditional grandmothers and grandfathers, who have helped keep her humble and in reverence for all life.
She is a mother, an artist, a Doula, and herbalist and tries not to take herself too seriously. She holds all who sit with her in circle in the love and the Great Mother’s heart. She currently lives in the mountains of British Columbia.