Shamanic
Healing and Teaching
About
Nancy MacPhee
I have been on a path to a deeper spiritual connection for most of my life. My immersion into shamanism was literally sparked by a ceremonial fire and a subsequent search for a drum. I left that fire ceremony knowing that I wanted a drum. My search led me to Dory Cote who pointed me to a drum maker in Northern Maine. He journeyed for guidance from spirit about the drum that he would make for me. He created a gorgeous moose hide drum with an intricate carving of a tree as the crosspiece.
I meditated, playing this beautiful and sacred drum, for a year before I became curious about shamanism. Truly, that drum led me to shamanism and my first introductory workshop.
Dory Cote has been my teacher and mentor since my first workshop. My studies include a shamanic apprenticeship, a two-year advanced training called Becoming the Hollow Bone, soul retrieval, ancestral healing, Medicine for the Earth and a two-year shamanic teacher training. In addition to my shamanic studies, I have completed the Heart Lotus Evolution training with Marsha Stultz.
I had the honor of being an assistant in all of Dory's teaching programs for 5 years. I consider this time working alongside Dory as a gift and a powerful apprenticeship, with my teacher and mentor.
In 2017, I participated in a vision quest in New Mexico with Sparrow Hart and Circles of Air and Stone. For four days and nights, alone in the desert wilderness, my teachers were the trees, sage bushes and lightning. This experience deepened my connection with spirit and opened me up to this work, partnering with others on their healing and expansion path. This vision quest also affirmed my commitment to working with spirit and life force energy.
Prior to my current explorations, I collaborated with preschoolers and early elementary aged children in a program called Adventure Play. This program was about celebrating and nourishing children’s playful, creative and imaginative spirits. Peace, compassion and wonder were at the heart of this experiential program.
I am a mother to two daughters, a son and a daughter-law and a grandchild on the way. I come from a large family, with 7 siblings and 2 amazing parents. So many of life’s blessings have come from family.