Rowena Conahan
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Rowena Conahan has woven the theme of healing through many chapters of her life. As a massage therapist and energy worker, she looks below the surface to bless the being within. As a parent, in the words of her ever-patient husband, she "took no shortcuts." As a communitarian, she’s poured her energy into projects that mend aches and weave connection. As the long-time caretaker of a forest, she sprinkles native seeds across the landscape like fairy dust. As an herbalist, she makes no medicine without the consent of the plants. In the field of education, she’s striven to immerse staff and students in a space of safety and wonder, and to call forth their essential intuitive nature. And as a poet and storyteller, she evokes magic.
Now, she turns her energy toward spiritual healing, of ourselves, of the land, and of the physical spaces we inhabit. Beyond the containers we can see – human bodies, and our homes, forests, meadows, and waters - are many layers of history, energy, and feeling that condition how we live in this world, and how the world itself exists. Together, through patience, stillness, and effort we can access these deeper aspects, and strengthen the web of life. |
Influences
No healer, no matter how gifted, emerges spontaneously with developed potential and a full toolkit. We are all trained or mentored one way or another. Mine has been a winding path, involving a variety of influences that have gradually awakened me and shaped my skillset over years. Here, I wish to honor the highlights.
Merri Walters
I have been blessed to be a client and student of Merri Walters for more than 20 years. Merri is a powerful intuitive healer, who works with herbs, homeopathics, and other modalities. She is also well known as a maker of flower essences. Her company, Great Lakes Sacred Essences, offers hundreds of single essences, and a variety of combination blends that are, quite simply, transformative. These essences are one of my primary tools in space healing. I have found her Sacred Home spray to be more effective for space clearing than anything else I've tried.
Learning from Merri has been a unique and profound experience. Long, slow mentorships are unusual in our modern world, but their ability to build one's capacity is unrivaled by any other form of education. (Consider the difference between a half-hour deluge and a day-long pattering rain. Now journey, in your imagination, into the earth following each of these events. One quickly swells creeks, ponds and ditches with runoff. The other deeply saturates the soil, building a hidden reservoir.)
Understanding has come to me, during this mentorship, not only through the many things Merri has taught me directly, but also through observation. Merri practices out of her home, which is a wonderland. She is a master space healer, and her home and gardens reflect this. On the surface, they are beautiful, gracious and welcoming. Below the surface, they radiate safety, comfort and spiritual nourishment to all who are fortunate enough to enter. The opportunity to spend many hours inside this sacred space has taught me more than anything else I've done to learn about space healing.
I have been blessed to be a client and student of Merri Walters for more than 20 years. Merri is a powerful intuitive healer, who works with herbs, homeopathics, and other modalities. She is also well known as a maker of flower essences. Her company, Great Lakes Sacred Essences, offers hundreds of single essences, and a variety of combination blends that are, quite simply, transformative. These essences are one of my primary tools in space healing. I have found her Sacred Home spray to be more effective for space clearing than anything else I've tried.
Learning from Merri has been a unique and profound experience. Long, slow mentorships are unusual in our modern world, but their ability to build one's capacity is unrivaled by any other form of education. (Consider the difference between a half-hour deluge and a day-long pattering rain. Now journey, in your imagination, into the earth following each of these events. One quickly swells creeks, ponds and ditches with runoff. The other deeply saturates the soil, building a hidden reservoir.)
Understanding has come to me, during this mentorship, not only through the many things Merri has taught me directly, but also through observation. Merri practices out of her home, which is a wonderland. She is a master space healer, and her home and gardens reflect this. On the surface, they are beautiful, gracious and welcoming. Below the surface, they radiate safety, comfort and spiritual nourishment to all who are fortunate enough to enter. The opportunity to spend many hours inside this sacred space has taught me more than anything else I've done to learn about space healing.
Mary Light
Years ago, I felt a strong call to learn massage therapy. I was mothering two preschoolers, and the hours required by local training programs were out of reach for me. Then one day I responded to an add for half-priced massage by a therapist who'd just moved to town and was seeking to establish a clientele. On the table, I told her I hoped to train for massage, but couldn't figure out how. She shared that she was hoping to open a school in the area, and was seeking students. An internship was born.
This was in Michigan's wild west, when massage therapy wasn't yet under licensure requirements. We were free to design a program to suit my needs. Mary was a wonder! She skillfully and flexibly helped me develop not only my capacities with touch, but my ability to sense and work with the human energy field. By the grace of this training, I've spent more than twelve years in practice as a bodyworker, constantly refining my awareness of energy, and my ability to support its evolution toward its desired state. This skill is a foundational layer of my work with the energy of earth, and of buildings.
Mary is now the director of the Ann Arbor School of Massage, Herbal & Natural Medicine. She is a master bodyworker and herbalist with decades of experience mentoring new practitioners. If you're called to explore these realms of healing, I can't recommend her enough!
Years ago, I felt a strong call to learn massage therapy. I was mothering two preschoolers, and the hours required by local training programs were out of reach for me. Then one day I responded to an add for half-priced massage by a therapist who'd just moved to town and was seeking to establish a clientele. On the table, I told her I hoped to train for massage, but couldn't figure out how. She shared that she was hoping to open a school in the area, and was seeking students. An internship was born.
This was in Michigan's wild west, when massage therapy wasn't yet under licensure requirements. We were free to design a program to suit my needs. Mary was a wonder! She skillfully and flexibly helped me develop not only my capacities with touch, but my ability to sense and work with the human energy field. By the grace of this training, I've spent more than twelve years in practice as a bodyworker, constantly refining my awareness of energy, and my ability to support its evolution toward its desired state. This skill is a foundational layer of my work with the energy of earth, and of buildings.
Mary is now the director of the Ann Arbor School of Massage, Herbal & Natural Medicine. She is a master bodyworker and herbalist with decades of experience mentoring new practitioners. If you're called to explore these realms of healing, I can't recommend her enough!
Mother Earth
Once I heard something interesting: Long ago, people used to request permission to harvest plants and animals for personal use, and they would not gather unless permission was granted.
This idea prickled in my imagination for a long time with a teasing question: How did they know when permission was granted? A question like that is powerful enough to fuel a long, impassioned journey, and this one did just that.
It happened a long time ago, and I'm sorry to say I cannot remember exactly how I found the answer. But once I learned how to listen with the heart (which is another way of saying: to communicate with other aspects of creation through intuition), it became my preferred form of presence.
And so it is that Mother Earth herself has taught me how to heal land, and how to understand the process. There is so much more to learn. I will never stop learning!
Once I heard something interesting: Long ago, people used to request permission to harvest plants and animals for personal use, and they would not gather unless permission was granted.
This idea prickled in my imagination for a long time with a teasing question: How did they know when permission was granted? A question like that is powerful enough to fuel a long, impassioned journey, and this one did just that.
It happened a long time ago, and I'm sorry to say I cannot remember exactly how I found the answer. But once I learned how to listen with the heart (which is another way of saying: to communicate with other aspects of creation through intuition), it became my preferred form of presence.
And so it is that Mother Earth herself has taught me how to heal land, and how to understand the process. There is so much more to learn. I will never stop learning!
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