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Creator and Founder
Llyn Cedar Roberts, MA
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Llyn "Cedar" Roberts is an award-winning author and a renowned teacher of healing and shamanism. She received her traditional Reiki training in 1988 from John Harvey Gray, one of Hawayo Takata's 22 original students. She received her non-traditional Reiki training in 1993 and has taught Shamanic Reiki since that time. She is the developer of REIKI Secrets(c), the author of Shamanic Reiki (Roberts & Levy), Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness and The Good Remembering. She is the coauthor with Sandra Ingerman of Walking Through Darkness and of Speaking with Nature ~ a Nautilus Gold Medal award winner. She served as adjunct faculty for the Union Graduate School and the Graduate Institute. Her dynamic teaching and writing styles incorporate backgrounds in contemplative psychotherapy, Tibetan Buddhism, work with diverse indigenous groups, wilderness living, Reiki, and body-centered approaches to healing. Roberts was a student of the late Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche in the 1980's. She attended Trungpa, Rinpoche's final 3-month Vajrayana Seminary at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center in Colorado. She obtained a master’s degree in Buddhist and Western Psychology from Naropa University in 1985. She completed her internship for Naropa at a Mexican-American community mental health center, whose staff included a curandera. Prior to this, as a student at the School for International Training, she completed her internship working with mentally handicapped children in India. While in India, she studied yoga with BKS Iyengar. Llyn has undergone initiations and intensive training with Andean Quechua healers. She has brought people to learn from indigenous peoples since 1998, facilitating sacred journeys in Siberia, remote regions of the Amazon rainforest, in the Ecuadorian Andes, and in Guatemala. She facilitated sacred journeys to work with Maya spiritual guides in Guatemala, incepting numerous projects to preserve ancient Maya wisdom. She is a member of the "Evolutionary Leaders Circle", founded by Barbara Marx Hubbard and Deepak Chopra. Working in the nonprofit sector since 1998 she was the director of Dream Change, founded by John Perkins, with whom she facilitated transformational programs, and sacred journeys for over 15 years. Llyn founded the nonprofit organization Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle, "OMEC" in 2012 when she lived in the Hoh River Valley on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, USA. She created and facilitated weeklong wilderness retreats in the Hoh valley and rainforest for many years.
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Core Faculty Team
Christopher Franza, RN
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Christopher has been a Core Faculty member for Shamanic Reiki Worldwide apprenticeship programs for many years. He co-facilitates Shamanic Reiki programs at the Omega Institute with Llyn Roberts, co-hosts EV1 Tele-Gatherings, is a facilitator for EV2 and a faculty contributor for the Entry Year Apprenticeship program. Christopher has been a Registered Nurse since 1994 and a Traditional Reiki Master since 1998. He has completed the Heart of Warriorship, The Sacred Path, and Shambhala School of Buddhist studies programs and attended Warriors Assembly. He studied Wilderness and Primitive skills at The Jack Mountain Bushcraft school, Mountain Scout school, and WildEarth where he completed the yearlong apprenticeship/ intern program focusing on nature awareness for children. Christopher completed the yearlong Ancient Art of Awareness program under Michael Ridolfo at New Paltz Wilderness Mind. An avid outdoors person, he enjoys exploring the Catskill, Shawangunk, and Adirondack mountain areas. He is a member of the OMEC board of directors.
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Lis Traphagen, MSW, LCSW
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Lis has worked as Core Faculty for all three of SRW's year long apprenticeship programs for many years; as a mentor, circle facilitator and teacher. She is licensed as a clinical social worker and has practiced as a psychotherapist for over 30 years. She holds a BA from Brandeis University and a masters degree from the Wurzweiller School of social work at Yeshiva University. She is the supervisor for SRW Mentor Facilitators and faculty for the Evolving Shamanic Reiki Master Teacher EV2 program. Lis is an End of Life Doula and certified as an SBEM empowerment coach and therapist. She is the Vice President of the Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle OMEC, the Project Director for its Maya Women Weavers Project, and was Sacred Travel Team Director for Maya sacred journeys with Llyn Cedar Roberts.
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Sue Bellamy
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Sue Bellamy is a professional energy healer and a visual artist. As a Shamanic Reiki Worldwide Core Faculty member she facilitates the 'Foundational Practices' sessions for the entry year-long Shamanic Reiki Master Healer and Teacher program. Sue maintains a private healing practice in the beautiful Catskill mountains of New York where she co-owns an independent bookstore, Diamond Hollow Books & Healing. As a board member for OMEC she hosts a quarterly in-person HEARTH circle for her community, that is devoted to inspiring interest and raising funds for the Olympic Mountain Earth Wisdom Circle and its indigenous projects. Sue is currently a student at the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture in Gainesville, Florida. Sue is inspired by all the ways of Nature.
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Michael Lauze
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Core Faculty member, Michael Lauze, is an Ordained Ceremonialist and Certified Addiction Recovery Coach. He is a co-host with Llyn Roberts for monthly EV1 Tele-Gatherings and has mentored EV1 apprentices for many years. Michael has served his local community of Concord, New Hampshire in various leadership roles within the mental health and addiction treatment communities for over a decade. Through his private practice he has created and facilitates earth honoring, nature-based healing workshops for addiction treatment and mental health facilities. Michael has traveled extensively in the Maya Highlands of Guatemala. He supports the Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle by donating his time to facilitate HEARTH Circles. He also assists Shamanic Reiki programs at the Omega Institute.
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Karen Franza, BSN
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Karen Franza is a Licensed Clinical Laboratory Technologist who holds a BSN in nursing, working in Hospice care and a Laboratory setting. She is the clan facilitator, a faculty presenter and has also mentored for the EV2 third year program apprentices. She has been an invaluable contributor to support the visioning of SRW into the future. Karen lives with her husband Christopher Franza in the Catskill mountains in the State of New York where her family has lived and befriended the land for six generations. An avid hiker, Karen finds every footstep on these lands to be a blessing. Karen is trained in the Shambhala School of Buddhist Studies, is a Certified Forest Therapy guide, and is trained through the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy - helping people remember their relationship with the natural world. Karen assists at Shamanic Reiki programs held at the Omega Institute. She is also a board member for OMEC.
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Nadine Majano, M.Ed
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Core Faculty member Nadine Majano teaches, mentors and facilitates monthly clan gatherings for the Entry Year Apprenticeship program. She is also a faculty presenter for the third yearlong Shamanic Reiki Worldwide Apprenticeship program, EV2. She teaches Shamanic Reiki at the Omega Institute with Llyn Roberts. As a member of the board of directors for OMEC, Nadine works with its Mayan Women Weavers project and facilitates annual journeys to Guatemala to work with Maya spiritual guides. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Rhode Island and an M.Ed. from the University of Georgia. Her calling as a healer was initiated after participating in sacred Mayan fire ceremonies while living in Guatemala in 2012. She has a private healing practice in NJ.
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Gaby Winqvist
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Core Faculty member Gaby Winqvist is a Shamanic Reiki Master Teacher EV2 graduate. She teaches and practices the Shamanic Reiki healing approaches in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania and loves mentoring and guiding apprentices through the Evolving Master Shamanic Reiki Worldwide year-long programs. Gaby has taught yoga and meditation to college students for 20 years. She loves nature and is passionate about helping people of all ages to embody their innate wisdom and healing powers, in joyful collaboration and co-creation with the natural world. Gaby is an EV1 facilitator and mentor, an EV2 Gathering co-host and co-facilitator of monthly gatherings offering support to those who mentor SRW's year-long apprentices.
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Lea Falkenhagen
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Core Faculty member, Lea Falkenhagen is a Shamanic Reiki Master Teacher (EV2). She facilitates Shamanic Reiki certifications on the Olympic Peninsula (Chimacum and Jamestown S’Klallam ancestral lands). In her private practice, Lea weaves Shamanic Reiki with Ecopsychology, Intuitive Rebirth, and Wilderness Initiatory Rites. Inspired by a decade of community service with local inmates and women in addiction-recovery, Lea co-founded the Olympic Mountain Women’s Vision Fast, supporting women’s access to wilderness initiatory rites, and rites and ceremonies for community integration. Lea is an EV1 facilitator and mentor, EV2 Gathering co-host and co-facilitator for SRW mentor gatherings.
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Adjunct Faculty Team
Paige Sturgeon
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Adjunct Faculty member Paige Sturgeon is a Shamanic Reiki Master Teacher EV2 graduate. She is a Clan Facilitator and mentor for the Entry Year Apprenticeship program. Paige has incorporated natural and alternative healing methods for over 10 years, and has worked with clients since 2019. She teaches and practices the Shamanic Reiki healing and other healing modalities in northern New Hampshire, where she also has a photography business. She has a diverse background steeped in traditional allopathic as well as alternative medicine practices and is a certified Medical Reiki practitioner. Paige loves her time connecting with nature and being her dogs and her family.
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Amanda Malskaitis
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Adjunct Faculty member Amanda Malskaitis is a truth seeker and adventurer who has journeyed across the world in search of deeper meaning and healing. She has embraced natural and alternative healing practices and integrated them into her life and work since 2017. Living and working on ancestral land in Wedderburn, NSW Australia, Amanda teaches and practices Shamanic Reiki as well as other holistic modalities, guiding others to connect with their inner wisdom and to restore balance. She also owns a Gut Health Clinic and facilitates retreats and workshops that nurture mind, body, and soul. Amanda loves nature—bushwalking and water exploration by boat.
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Chief Strategist
Eben Herrick
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Eben Herrick, is an award-winning artist. As a graphic designer, he obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Eben created SRW's logo, integrating the Shamanic Reiki Worldwide archetypal symbol. He created the OMEC logo and its banner, and has designed and produced postcards, signage and media products for projects and events for both organizations. Eben created and manages the online format and registration processes for Shamanic Reiki trainings. As co-owner with Llyn Roberts of SRW, LLC he overviews all strategic, financial and administrative aspects of the organization, also maintaining the website, graphic design and SRW's social media presence. Eben grew up on a mountain in New Hampshire, and also among abundant forests of western Massachusetts. He has been exposed to Shamanic Reiki healing and nature-based ceremonies since his early childhood. He enjoyed friendships with indigenous shamanic peoples from the high Andes of Ecuador and from Guatemala on their visits to his New Hampshire and western Massachusetts home. Eben was also the managing director for many years of the Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle, OMEC.
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