Kate Croft – Shamanic Healer & Educator

 About Me

I am a full-time Spiritual Teacher, Practitioner and Healer, having learned with spiritual teachers and healers from many wisdom traditions around the world, both indigenous and contemporary. For the past two decades, I have studied many natural healing modalities as well as both core shamanic techniques, and earth based shamanic/animist techniques.

I often incorporate many aspects from my healing basket into treatments during sessions. My training, professional experiences, and my own healing through trauma and losses, have equipped me with a profound deepening and sense of connection, and disconnection, to others and to our planet. It has also made me aware of how much grief I was carrying that was inherited through unresolved hardships in my ancestral lineages. These experiences have deepened my insight and empathy for others in pain, and for inter-generational wounding and healing. I have always been very attuned to the suffering in our world, and at times have been overwhelmed by the global and ecological despair. My belief is that much of this collective pain and destruction (racism, sexism, colonialism, earth-as-commodity, to name a few) are in part a symptom of unresolved ancestral trauma, and by extension, a disconnection from a sense of belonging to our planet.

As our crumbling social, political and religious institutions continue to fail us, and as we watch the consequences of our actions deplete, pollute and choke the earth, so many of us are looking for answers to the ever-more urgent question of how we should live now.

Our roots are anchored in the land, and the land is our greatest teacher. We need to put our roots down deeply again into this ancient earth, and find our sense of the sacred once more. Although, the chain of our ancestral spiritual traditions has been broken, the land is still there as our teacher. The Celtic people were deep listeners and observers of the natural world. This required a state of living fully in the now, the present moment “Tei Sarna”.

I align myself with the Bean Feasa, A Gaelic term describing a wise woman whose roots stretch back past my Celtic ancestors to pre-Celtic and beyond. This tradition of healing goes back since the beginning of our time on The Great Mother. This is the tradition of the mothers, healers, midwives, herbalists and shaman.

“I have been afraid, I have doubted myself and have made mistakes over and over again, while learning that I am not special or different. What I have learned is how to quiet my mind and temper my ego, how to be present to the moment while keeping my heart open and allowing.

With tears in my eyes I remember all of the listeners who came before me. All those who have carried these sacred medicine traditions along the hands for so many generations.”