Shamanic Healer Sacred Shadow Work and Energy Healing Ottawa

About Jennifer

Shamanic healer, intuitive guide, and practitioner of Sacred Shadow Work

There was a time when I believed my sensitivity was something I needed to overcome.

I felt deeply.
I noticed everything.
I longed for connection — and at the same time, I guarded myself carefully.

I understood what it meant to want to be seen and to hesitate at the threshold.

That inner tension — between protection and longing — is not theoretical to me.

It is lived.

Over time, I stopped trying to override my protection.
I began listening to it.

That listening changed everything.

My Path Into This Work

My path into shamanic healing did not begin as a profession.

It began as devotion.

Devotion to understanding the parts of myself that felt fragmented.
Devotion to the quiet language of symbol and spirit.
Devotion to the ancestral threads that shaped me long before I understood them.

Through years of study and practice, I trained in:

  • Shamanic journey work
  • Energy healing and Reiki
  • Sacred Shadow Work
  • Soul remembrance and retrieval
  • Ancestral and lineage healing
  • Yoga and Meditation

But the deepest training came from my own inner landscape.

From meeting my own Protector.
From listening to my own Dreamer.
From learning that healing unfolds slowly — when the nervous system feels safe.

The Lineage Beneath My Work

Shamanism is one of the oldest spiritual traditions across cultures.

It recognizes that healing is relational — between body, psyche, spirit, and ancestry.

I approach this work with humility.

I do not claim to represent a single cultural lineage.
I honor the earth-based traditions that have informed modern shamanic practice.
I hold reverence for the unseen helpers who guide this work.

When I journey, I enter sacred space.
When I guide, I do so with respect for spirit and sovereignty.

Mysticism, for me, is not spectacle.

It is quiet relationship with what cannot always be seen.

How I Hold Space

I am not an intense practitioner.

I do not chase breakthrough.
I do not believe in forcing transformation.
I do not treat protection as a problem to fix.

I believe protection is intelligent.
Withdrawal is often wise.
Hesitation can be discernment.

When you sit with me, you are met slowly.

Sessions are:

  • Spiritually grounded
  • Consent-centered
  • Regulated
  • Relational
  • Spacious

There is room for silence.
Room for uncertainty.
Room for both strength and vulnerability.

I move at the pace of your system — not the pace of an agenda.

Ottawa Grounding Work for your Nervous System

Who I Work With

My work resonates most with those who:

  • Are sensitive and intuitive
  • Feel deeply but guard carefully
  • Struggle with avoidance or hesitation
  • Feel tension between safety and expansion
  • Long for spiritual depth without overwhelm

If you have ever felt both protective and longing at the same time — I understand that terrain.

A Personal Reflection

I do not believe healing requires you to become fearless.

I believe healing invites you to become coherent.

To bring protection and dreaming into dialogue.
To strengthen your inner threshold.
To trust your pace.

This work is sacred to me.

Not because it is dramatic.
But because it is honest.

If you feel called to sit at your Inner Gate — gently, respectfully — I would be honored to accompany you.

Ways to work with Jennifer

You are invited to meet this work in the way that feels supportive.

Soul Listening Sessions (1:1)

A gentle, one-on-one shamanic healing session rooted in Sacred Shadow Work.

Begin with a Soul Listening Session

The Sacred Pause — A Midday Reset

A gentle midday reset to pause, ground, and return to yourself.

Join The Pause

The Inner Gate — Soul Listening Session Series

A three- or six-session container for deeper continuity and trust.

Explore The Inner Gate Series

Professional Development Courses:

I continue to learn and expand my skills and training. It’s one of the things I enjoy doing.

Pete Bernard through the 8th Fire School

  • The Prosperity & Abundance Course (2024)
  • Healing the Spirit: The Power of Trauma-Informed Spiritual Healing (2023)
  • Healing Self-Sabotage (2023)
  • Quantum Shamanic Reiki – Master Level (2023)
  • Self-Hypnosis – Mastering Your Mind Workshop (2022)
  • Earning the Light – In recognition of receiving the Medicine Rites and 320 hours of Training for a Professional 2-Year Shamanism (Medicine Work) Training Program (2015 – 2017)

Meri Fowler through the Sacred Cauldron Center

I’m a 2nd-degree Initiate of the Greenwood Celtic Shamanic Wiccan Tradition.

  • 2nd Degree Study Group: Priest/ess Path (2025)
  • Advanced Wicca for Initiates (2024)
  • Celtic Tree Magick: The Study of the Ogham (2023)
  • Wicca Year-and-a-day (2023)
  • Spirit Tarot (2022)
  • Celtic Seership and Shape Shifting (2022)
  • Wiccan Meditation (2021)
  • Shamanic Support for Depression and Anxiety (2021)
  • Way of the Warrior Witch (2021)
  • Celtic Shamanic Healer & Wiccan training (since 2021)
  • Creating a Solitary Pathworking (2021)
  • Elements of Wicca (2021)
  • Magickal Herbology (2021)
  • Introduction to Celtic Shamanism (2021)

528 Rapid Trauma Release™ technique

Other Training Schools and Teachers

  • Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training (2016) with Brendon Abram, Dr Bob King, and Kellie Dearman through the Get Yoga, Trauma Sensitive Yoga studio
  • Certified Life Coach (2015) with Patrick Mathieu through the Certified Coaches Federation
  • Sat Nam Rasayan® Healing Method (2014) Level 2 practitioner
  • Yin Yoga Workshop (2011) with Biff Mithoefer
  • Restorative Yoga & Healthy Menstrual Cycle Teacher Training (2008) with Kelly McGrath
  • Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training (2007) with Gurmukh Kaur
  • 140-hour Certified Master Reiki Certificate (2007 – 2009) with Ramya Memmi
  • Focusing Therapy (2007) with Chiara Borrello and Ian Liversuch
  • 200-Hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training (2006) with Shabad Saroop Singh through the Equilbrium Yoga Center