About me
I’m a certified sylvotherapist (SP), as well as a shamanic practitioner and teacher. My shamanic lineages include studying extensively with Sandra Ingerman in the USA, as well as Jonathan Horwitz and Zara Waldebäck at the Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies in Sweden. I have recently been invited and accepted as an executive contributor to Brainz Magazine on all things shamanism and shamanic healing, and I am a self-published author of the book The Answer to Everything: Earth Wisdom & Beauty (see my published works on my Resources page). I hold dual graduate degrees in music performance (Eastern Michigan University, 2010) and the science of animal (canine | feline | equine) behavior & wellness (Unity Environmental University, 2023), as well as dual bachelor's degrees in music and education (Eastern Michigan University, 2008).
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-Ash Miner, SP, MS, MM, Shamanic Practitioner & Teacher
My Offerings
Sylvotherapy Sessions
I am certified to offer 1-1 and group sylvotherapy sessions, where we focus on reconnecting to our inner nature through the beauty, generosity, medicine, and wisdom of outer nature, especially the trees and plants in a forest.
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Shamanic Sessions
I am trained to offer shamanic counseling sessions, as well as the following healing techniques: all-around Shamanic Healing, Soul Retrieval after trauma, Extraction of energetic intrusions, Transfiguration and Healing with Spiritual Light, Medicine for the Earth, Psychopomp for the dead or dying, Healing Song and/or Story, Cleansing of self and home, and much more spirit-based work.
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Healing Training
I am qualified to teach others how to perform shamanic journeys, meet their helping Spirits, do power animal retrievals for themselves and others, offer soul retrieval healing, design and perform many sacred rituals and ceremonies, offer medicine walks, how to use a drum and rattle, diagnose and treat stuck inner power, and more.
Affiliations & Certification
My Story
I began my own explorations into shamanic healing in 2016 when traditional psychotherapy plateaued. After listening to several podcasts, reading a multitude of articles, watching lots of YouTube videos, and studying online with a variety of folks who weren’t the right fit, I ultimately found myself under the care of someone on Sandra Ingerman’s Practitioner’s List for my first soul retrieval healing in April of 2017. By 2018, it was recommended I begin taking Sandra’s live, online courses on Shift Network to learn how to journey and work with Nature formally. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Jonathan and Zara began offering their courses online for the first time, and my practice truly blossomed. This truly is a calling. Once I’d been introduced to such a deep, rich spiritual practice that positively impacted every aspect of my life, there was no going back.
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I have traveled to study with Jonathan & Zara in southern Sweden for their residential trainings, as well as with Sandra Ingerman in her 2024 Advanced Shamanic Practitioner Training in Galisteo, NM, as well as being accepted to her 2025-2026 Shamanic Teacher Training, also in Galisteo, NM. My long-term dream is to open a healing sanctuary where I can marry my loves of spirit work, music and animals, while helping all species heal and overcome trauma. I am sought after for my work with animals, having extensive training on a practical level working with horses and dogs, and having a particular gift for relating to them on a soul level.
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My first job at 13 was helping with the horseback riding summer camp and lessons, eventually becoming a trainer/counselor myself, competing and winning in hunter jumper shows. My next job was teaching music lessons and conducting youth orchestras, my primary instrument being violin. I then added in dog walking and ultimately training, including service dogs for inviduals with disabilities, culminating in becoming an animal psychologist, focusing on dogs with fear-aggression and reactivity.
When science fell short of treating both my own mental health struggles and those of my clients, I found the answers I was looking for in Nature and my shamanic practice. I am devoted to being a lifelong student of shamanism, and sharing any and all wisdom I receive with those I work with of any species. I am determined to be available to those who ask all over the world via Zoom, or in-person near Santa Fe, NM.