about our teachers

Teachers:
Light Feather AKA Deborah Kanani:
Ron Nadeau: Sacred Ceremony, Shamanic healing
Toni Bernbaum: Tarot

Tom Boylan: Astrology


Light Feather AKA Deborah Kanani:
Light Feather       Light Feather

We are all each others teachers and students.

Light Feather has been the owner and caretaker of the Harmony Ranch since 1985. She has developed the land with great consideration for the natural beauty and the Native American ancestors that once lived in the area. She has been gifted with a deep understanding of the native traditions that were celebrated by the family of Compache who was the chief of the local Pomo clan in the mid 1800’s.

Light Feather is a recent newcomer to the world of Shamanism. She has been studying philosophy, metaphysics and psychic phenomenon since the age of 13. She has a passion for personal growth and has been blessed with teachings from many wonderful healers and Shaman in both North and South America, New Zealand and Hawaii. She accompanied Dr. John Broomfield on a journey to visit the camp of the Dreamtime people in Australia, in May of 2009.

In early 1999 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and began her journey of self-healing. She met a teacher of Voice Dialog (the psychology of the “selves”) and began a three year apprenticeship. In the spring of 2002, Light Feather completed a level II training with voice dialog founders, Hal and Sidra Stone.

Also in 2002, she remembered some potent dreams that she had in 1986 in which she was given a Native American initiation and another that took her to the location of the (locally disputed) grave of Compache. One afternoon in August 2002, she was urged by an inner voice to hike to the grave of Compache. During this journey she was given the first of several visions and experienced a voice from the spirit of Compache. This profound experience gave her encouragement to explore her relationship to the land and nature.

In John Broomfield’s book, “Other Ways of Knowing” he speaks about talking with the Devas in nature. “Every religious tradition has accounts of spirit voices heard by humans giving reassurance, warning, and guidance. Despite the fact that our own contemporary culture severely discourages any acknowledgment of disembodied voices, many people do hear them, as they will attest to any sympathetic inquirer. For some people the voices are a regular source of counsel, and there are those who have been thus guided into new ways of life.”

“The experience and cellular memory of a past life opened a path to healing that has enabled me to do deep personal work. It has also given me insights to assist others on a healing path.

This healing experience is based on replacing fear with love. It is also a process of developing awareness and experience of the equal and opposite energies that we all carry within. Learning to observe and balance these energies and use them appropriately in my life has been a great gift.”

“We all have the power to heal, to BEGIN WITHIN and to make significant changes in our attitudes”

Vicki Noble speaks to this change in her book “Shakti Woman”;
“For any one of us to experience this crisis of ingrained dependency, and the urge to overcome it in favor of our own self-empowerment, is to awaken to healing. This Shamanic healing crisis is frequently accompanied by illness, depression, or injury that causes us to face death as a real possibility and therefore to encounter life as a potential choice. When many thousands…are having this critical awakening at the same time, we can assume this is a Shamanic awakening of global proportions.”

Light Feather has traveled extensively to explore Shamanism and the role that a relationship with nature can play in the healing process. “Many indigenous cultures do not have the dis-ease we experience in our western world because they are in tune with nature.”

By networking with many healers and various methodologies, Light Feather facilitates mutual and self-healing practices for individuals and small groups.

The healers and teachers referred by the Harmony Ranch work with many forms of healing including: Herbal baths, Voice Dialog, Tarot, Astrology, Shamanic healing and sacred ceremony, stone and crystal healings, Accutonics (sound healing), and massage.

Light Feather also offers personal relationship and herbal consulting.

We do not prescribe or offer advice as a substitute for the care your medical professional.

All our work is done by permission only and is based on developing self healing through replacing fear with love.


Ron Nadeau, Sacred Ceremony, Shamanic healing:
Ron Nadeau

Ron Nadeau's primary interest has been "making-a-difference" through conscious business practices by emphasizing spiritual and business growth as inseparable values. His interest in humanitarian projects and environmental healing as involved him in global projects through an international business (Shaman's International est. 1991). Giving back and cause related marketing are his business essentials for conscious and spiritual development with authentic livelihood.

Ron founded a start-up enterprise that is worldwide. He is recognized as one of the Founders of The Conservation Alliance, Founding board member of Medicines Global/Nepal, Chairman of the Outdoor Products Council (Sporting Goods Mfg. Assoc.) and other business and professional organizations. In addition, his involvement with lobbying, testifier to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, relief efforts with AmeriCares, participation with Business for Social Responsibility and Habitat for Humanity has sharpened his sense of urgency for conscious business reform and a closer examination of the healing process.

Ron's in-depth exploration sustainability, right-relationship and proactive visioning with a business perspective and healing intention has become his life path. In turning to nature herself to explore and unravel the language of Nature, Ron has been a student of indigenous knowledge for many years, learning to apply shamanic healing traditions to develop long-term, win-win wisdom teachings. Ron founded Spirit House (2005), a retreat center for educational workshops and healing ceremonies.


Toni Bernbaum, Tarot:
Toni Bernbaum

Toni Bernbaum initiated her spiritual quest at a Gurdjieff school in 1975. Her journey was further shaped by studies in Buddhism, psychology, shamanism and metaphysics. In 1984 she began her work with Tarot mentor Angeles Arrien. Toni's diligent practice and commitment to awakening has given her a profound intuitive and practical command of the Tarot. Toni is a Tarot teacher, workshop facilitator, ritualist, collage artist, poet and meditator. She lives with her partner on the Mendocino Coast which features an in-ground circular structure known as "Spirit House" used for community ceremonies and healing rituals as well as, a variety of Attitudinal Healing Workshops and other educational offerings.


Tom Boylan, Astrology:
Tom Boylan

Tom Boylan has been an Astrologer in Mendocino for 25 years. Tom has been a glass blower and avid gardener for many years but Astrology is his first love and passion. It is his practice, his dharma, and his guidance along the path of life. Tom has great reverence for the Spiritual underpinnings of life and it is Astrology, more than any other of the "Healing Arts" that shows us how closely connected and interwoven our lives are with the total energy system we live in.

Tom introduces his clients to the basic concepts of Astrology and attempts to de-mystify the subject. Astrology is both a logic and an art. It is both a left brain and a right brain activity woven together by the skilled astrologer into an interpretation of the most important information of your life... your natal horoscope, or birthchart. Astrology is not a parlor game. It is a deep psychological and metaphysical inquiry into the structure and purpose of one's life.

"Through an understanding of this vital subject we come to see graphically how connected we are to the ground of Being, and how every issue of our lives is contained in and expressed by the planets and the ever changing geometries of our solar system.
Everything that we have been and done in the past makes us who we are today. We are then, in any given moment, a standing text of our past and a self composed tabloid of our probable future.

We are not born into the flesh until the planetary positions in the sky reflect the combinations of psychological and spiritual traits that describe us, define us, and delineate for us our paths of development in this life."

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