Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth - Sandra Ingerman, Llyn Roberts 2015

About the Authors

SANDRA INGERMAN

Sandra Ingerman, M.A., is the author of ten books and seven audio programs. She has been teaching workshops internationally for more than thirty years on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods.

Sandra is devoted to teaching people how we can work together as a global community to bring about positive change for the planet. To that end she founded an international alliance of shamanic teachers and practitioners (see “Finding a Shamanic Practitioner”). She is passionate about helping people to reconnect with nature and is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture to address the needs of our times.

Through her monthly column Sandra inspires the spiritual global community to keep working with spiritual practices even if we do not see immediate results from the work we are doing. She has been writing her “Transmutation News” column since 1998, and it is translated by volunteers into thirteen languages and available on her website www.sandraingerman.com. Column readers are invited to engage in a variety of spiritual practices and ceremonies such as a full moon ceremony, “Creating a Human Web of Light.”

A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor, Sandra is also a board-certified expert on traumatic stress and certified in acute traumatic stress management. She was awarded the 2007 Peace Award from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine and chosen as one of the Top Ten Spiritual Leaders of 2013 in the November/December issue of Spirituality and Health.

To read more about Sandra’s work, read articles and blogs written by her—including her “Transmutation News” column—listen to interviews, and purchase selected books and CDs, please visit www.sandraingerman.com.

Books by Sandra Ingerman

Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self (HarperOne, 1991)

Welcome Home: Following Your Soul’s Journey Home (HarperOne, 1993)

A Fall to Grace, fiction (Moon Tree Rising Productions, 1997)

Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins (Three Rivers Press, 2001)

Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide, book and drumming CD (Sounds True, 2004)

How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation (Sterling, 2007)

Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, book and drumming CD cowritten with Hank Wesselman, winner of the Independent Publishers Award in 2011 and a COVR award (Sounds True, 2010)

The Shaman’s Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In (Weiser, 2010)

Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life (Sounds True, 2014)

Audio Programs

The Soul Retrieval Journey (Sounds True, 1997)

The Beginner’s Guide to Shamanic Journeying (Sounds True, 2003)

Miracles for the Earth (Sounds True, 2004)

Shamanic Meditations: Guided Journeys for Insight, Vision, and Healing (Sounds True, 2010)

Soul Journeys: Music for Shamanic Practice (Sounds True, 2010)

Shamanic Visioning: Connecting with Spirit to Transform Your Inner and Outer Worlds, 6-CD audio program (Sounds True, 2013)

Shamanic Visioning Music: Taiko Drum Journeys (Sounds True, 2014)

“Transmutation” App

Visit the App Store on your mobile device to purchase the “Transmutation” app Sandra created. Designed to help you shift negative thoughts to those that lead to your desired outcome, the mobile app allows you to set an alert that asks you to reflect on what you are thinking about throughout the day and inspires you to shift your thoughts by viewing words, phrases, blessings, and photos that are provided in the app library.

Finding a Shamanic Practitioner

To find a local shamanic practitioner and/or shamanic teacher, please also visit www.shamanicteachers.com. This website includes an international alliance of dedicated shamanic teachers trained by Sandra Ingerman and based on the feminine principle of cooperation and collaboration. These teachers offer workshops on shamanic journeying and healing, planetary healing, and how we can live our lives in a more creative and conscious way. The site also lists hundreds of shamanic practitioners from around the world.

LLYN ROBERTS

Llyn Roberts, M.A., is an award-winning author and prominent teacher of healing and shamanism. Her teaching and writing incorporates her diverse back ground in contemplative psychotherapy, Tibetan Buddhism, work in remote locations with diverse indigenous shamanic groups, Shamanic Reiki, and Western body-mind approaches to healing.

Llyn holds a Master of Arts degree in Tibetan Buddhist and Western Psychology from Naropa University and was initiated by shamans in South America and Siberia. She has trained extensively with Ecuadorian Quechua healers and facilitated sacred journeys to indigenous peoples living in remote regions of the Amazon, the Asian steppes, high Andes, and on ancient Mayan lands. She translates ancient techniques into modern-day practices to transform personal imbalances, help us open to our higher purpose, deepen our relationship to spirit and nature, and reclaim our power to make a positive difference in the world.

Former director of the nonprofit organization Dream Change, founded by John Perkins, Llyn is the cofounder and president of the Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle (OMEC), dedicated to inspiring a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth. She serves as adjunct faculty for Union Graduate School and the Graduate Institute, and was consultant to the University of Massachusetts Sustainability Institute and the Panama-based nonprofit organization Earth Train. For twenty years she has taught at the Omega Institute, the largest holistic educational institute in the world.

Llyn lived for two years at the edge of the wilderness in the Hoh Rain Forest, Pacific Northwest, while writing her portion of Speaking with Nature. In conjunction with OMEC she facilitated the relationship between National Geographic and Mick Dodge for the prime-time television series The Legend of Mick Dodge.

A modern-day mystic and spiritual ecologist, Llyn inspires through her work a deep sense of belonging with the natural world.

To find out more about Llyn Roberts and her work, visit