School of Goddess Shamanism Leadership: Meet Our Co-Founders, Visionaries, and Healing Guides

Miriam Katz

Miriam feels blessed to spend her days invoking Goddess on behalf of her beautiful clients.

Professionally, Miriam works as a Shamanic Healer. She is co-founder of our sister school, the School of Hebrew Shamanism, together with Rabbi Aaron Philmus. Miriam apprenticed with shamanic teachers for four years, primarily with the luminous Tracey Forest whose sanctuary Spirit Hollow in Shaftsbury, VT links all three co-founders of the School of Goddess Shamanism. She has apprenticed with the ancestral Wisdom Keepers of Hebrew Shamanism, including Miriam the Prophet, for many years. Miriam is honored to sit in sacred community with circles of sisters including the Shaman Collective and Sisters of Vision.

Miriam is grateful to her ancestors, Ashkenazi Jews who lived for hundreds of years in European lands including modern-day Poland, Austria and Lithuania. The Opsprecherin healing lineage flows through her maternal grandmother's line, shaping her healing work. By merit of those who came before her, Miriam uses her words and intentions to direct healing energies to elevate individuals and communities. Miriam’s family is woven with priestly lineage through her maternal and paternal grandmothers. She is descended from the ancient Hebrews in the biblical land of Israel. The teachings and magic of the ancient ones continue to inspire her life, spiritual practice and studies.

Miriam is a daughter of the deep, in apprenticeship with the Hebrew Goddess Tehom. She understands us all to be sparks of the divine who are in the process of uncovering ever greater access to our essential selves and gifts. Her primary work is centered around the Well, through which she sources, aligns, and channels energies. Miriam co-authored The Other Baby Book and is currently writing a memoir about her encounters with the Goddess.

Kimberly Wattendorf (Northstar)

Northstar serves as a soul guide who is devoted to helping young ones, women, and all those lost in the darkness of our times to find their path and orient back to their own True North. Her matrilineal line hails from Eastern Europe, while her patrilineal line has Irish and Germanic roots, weaving a rich yet frayed tapestry of ancestral traditions. It is part of her life’s work to excavate the broken shards of her lost lineages to reassemble a living mythos and devotional practice that both looks to the past with honor and reverence, while yet being born anew to speak to these times of Great Turning.

She holds profound gratitude for the teachers and guides who shaped and supported her along her long and winding soul journey. Deepest thanks to Durga Om of Lemon Tree Yoga in Glens Falls, NY who trained her as a yoga teacher in a path of Raja Yoga that serves as a foundation of her spiritual practice; to her mentor, Tracey Forest, who led her through a 3 year Shamanic Apprenticeship called Seeing with the Heart at Spirit Hollow in VT where Northstar continues to collaborate and co-guide ongoing programs in service of regenerating eco & soul-centric culture; and to Jonah Roberts and Una Gallagher who initiated her into the Priestesshood of Earth and Sky through the path of 13 Moons, in NH.

Northstar has pledged herself in service to the Red Goddess- the Goddess of Love and the Goddess of War who has been called by a million names and reveals Herself in infinite faces as She who reconciles polarities in the endless and divine interplay of light and shadow. She is a student of the Blood Mysteries of birth/death/and rebirth, destruction and regeneration- honoring the fullness of the cycles that govern the turning of the cosmos, the great wheel of nature, and are expressed in microcosm in the body of the feminine through the menstrual cycle, governed by the ever changing phases of the Moon.

She lives in the Mohawk Valley of central New York, on the ancestral homeland of the Mohawk people. There, she is re-wilding and re-membering the ways of living on the Earth in reciprocity and symbiosis through the study and practice of permaculture. Northstar is rooting down deeply into the sacred mountain she calls home- apprenticing to Mama Gaia and the Crystal Beings she is honored to co-habitate with, as keepers of both the ancient wisdom of this planet, as well as vehicles of attunement to the divine patterning of the whole universe.

Sarah Irwin

Sarah is an intuitive Shamanic Healer from Ontario, Canada whose work transcends the ordinary, guiding individuals into extraordinary realms of altered consciousness to facilitate profound healing of the body, mind, soul, and spirit. With a diverse background in holistic healing modalities, Sarah offers a unique and powerful approach to personal transformation.

Her journey into Shamanism began with an intensive apprenticeship, immersing herself in the ancient wisdom and teachings of Peruvian Shamanism. This sacred knowledge is the cornerstone of her practice, allowing her to channel and work with the energies of nature and spirit in a deeply intuitive and transformative way.

From a young age, Sarah experienced spirit communications, astral travel, and a deep connection to nature's wisdom. Today, she is a certified yoga teacher, integrating the balance and harmony of yoga into her healing sessions. Her expertise also includes Reiki, a gentle yet powerful energy healing technique that promotes nervous system regulation and mental coherence.

Additionally, Sarah is skilled in craniosacral therapy, a subtle and profound form of healing that releases deep body tension, alleviating pain and dysfunction while improving overall health and performance. Her studies in psychic sciences further enhance her ability to connect with unseen realms, providing clients with deep insights and guidance. Furthermore, she brings over ten years of experience as a Developmental Services Worker and Nurse.

Dedicated to helping women connect with their hearts and bodies, Sarah empowers you to live in alignment and embrace your inner most authentic Goddess. Her compassionate and intuitive approach creates a safe, nurturing space for women to remove the masks bestowed by society and circumstances to explore their inner landscapes, and awakening their true potential.

Sarah's sessions are soulful journeys that blend shamanic rituals, intuitive guidance, and energetic healing to harmonize the body, mind, soul, and spirit. Through her work, she inspires women to reconnect with their inner wisdom and divine feminine energy, fostering empowered femininity of the Goddess and profound self-love.

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