Amy has studied nature awareness & Native American shamanism extensively with To
m Brown Jr.; Celtic shamanism & mythology with Tom Cowan; eco-therapy, vision quest guiding & soulcraft with Bill Plotkin & the guides at Animas Valley Institute; rites of passage with Emerald North & Angelo LaZenka of The School of Lost Borders. Other teachers include his Holiness the Dali Lama, "Council Mystic" Gigi Coyle, Kabalistic Rabbi Godaliah of Tsfat, medical intuitive Caroline Myss, and Alaska's own Kundalini/White Tantra master Nirvair Singh, and Shifu Pei (Warren Pretlow), master of Taoism & Oriental Healing. She is an active member of the Wilderness Guides Council.