S. Kelley Harrell, C.Ht.

an intertribal shamanic practice for Multiversal wellbeing...
I'm an author, columnist, and neoshaman living in North Carolina. My memoir, Gift of the Dreamtime: Awakening to the Divinity of Trauma chronicles my pivotal step into the role of shaman. I've been on a shamanic path for twenty-two years. Twelve years of that I have spent working with others. I am an Ascension and Usui Ryoho Reiki and Master, am Ordained as Priestess by Global Goddess, and I honor the path of the modern Druid. I incorporate the use of flower essences into my healing work, and am pursuing a Masters of Divinity. My shamanic practice is Soul Intent Arts, LLC, and I am vigorously involved with the worlds in and around me.

I write the syndicated column Intentional Insights - Questions and Answers from Within, am a contributing writer for The Huffington Post, and am a contributing book reviewer for SageWoman and The Beltane Pages. For 20 years I have worked as a technical writer of software and systems manuals. I am a proud founder of The Saferoom Project, a non-profit support network for sexual assault survivors, and their partners, family and friends. I had the pleasure of being included in The Oprah Winfrey Show's tribute to late author and survivor, Truddi Chase, whose powerful story changed the way I view myself and my experience as a survivor of child sexual assault.

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Natural Empath
I was visited by souls of the dead as far back as when I slept in a crib. As I grew older, the dead gave me their death experiences, and lingered for me to help them move on. Not understanding their need, I pulled the covers over my head, terrified, and waited for the sun to come up. Apart from visits with the dead, I was also fully aware of sending away soul aspects of myself and bringing them back at a very young age. I often saw the souls of the living apart from their bodies, which was most disconcerting. I thought if I could see the soul of a living person, that must mean they're near death. Sometimes those living souls did die around the time that I saw them. Most of the time they didn't. My belief system just didn't allow me to understand the nature of souls, their ability to travel from the body and return, or the capacity of a departed soul to reach out to one of the living. I didn't know how significant those youthful experiences were, that there were names for them, or that other people had them, as well.

When I learned of shamanism at the age of seventeen, I began independently studying various cultures of shamanic technique and following an animistic path. I harassed my guides a great deal. At twenty-six I had a strong need for soul work in my own life and healing, and began working with a shaman. Shortly into that work, I realized my spirit teachers were leading me to work with others.

Celestial NeoShaman
I am a North Carolina native, though my intuitive path and practice is one of intertribal shamanism, with many cultural, ancestral, and personal influences. Blessing these dear predecessors, my path of shamanism is original and claims no culture other than the one of my creation. Though I describe my personal path as 'celestial shamanism,’ I do not seek to teach a branded path of shamanism, but to present the map for you to create your own. My practice may be Earth-based but it is Star-centric. Along with the beautiful earthly devas and elemental allies, I work with the Light Choir/Council, as it has revealed itself to me, to co-create connecting with Multiversal forces, and the True Self. I honor life from all of the stars and feel a keen connection to a bigger stellar home, having worked extensively with issues that arise for clients who identify as not being from Earth. I have worked quite a bit with Star Seeds, Indigo and Crystal children, who often are labeled as ADD/ADHD, and with adults who have experienced interactions with life forms and histories spanning other planets and dimensions. To that end, my studies continue and I am engaged in learning various ways to raise and hold awareness on our planet.

I am an incest survivor, so much of my shamanic healing and practice stems from working with traumatic pasts, releasing the karmic patterns of trauma, and manifesting Dreaming into Being. I do a great deal of work with survivors of sexual assault, and am continuously working with my guides to find better ways of bringing light to the community of survivor healing. In my experience as a survivor and co-creator of my own Life, and in working with other survivors for almost fourteen years, I've learned that the Dream can be Life, moreover, it already is. Allow it. Know it.

Working with the suffering spirits of land that has hosted recurrent trauma has been a focus of my Druidic practice. It is a blessing to experience All Things through the practice of supporting Nature.

I have worked extensively with women experiencing concerns around fertility, miscarriage and pregnancy, facilitating communication with the spirits coming into this realm, and healing in the mother's etheric field.

I also focus a great deal of work and studies in finding ways to honor the path of those I call The Tribe of the Modern Mystic. These are people who, like myself, have had intuitive experiences since childhood but were unsupported (and often demonized) in their path to manifest their gifts. I'm here to create a new tribe of support for children and adults whose lives are blessed with an uncontainable inner knowing.

My shamanic work is quite diverse, and my clients are all over the world, from many cultures. Private sessions help them restore their power with soul retrieval, extraction, and chakra and etheric field balancing. I teach classes in person and through Distance Mystery School.

All of that said, I am a healer only of myself. Of Life, I'm an enthusiastic student. Of the souls around me, I'm an observer, and good listener. Talk to me about what's going on in your life, and I will help you find a way for you to make your life better.

My soul work is a celebration of intertribal shamanic approaches to Universal wellbeing. I do distance work, including Soul Readings and energy balancing, though I only do soul retrievals in person. Reiki treatments, as well as spiritual hypnotherapy, and Reconnective Healing sessions supplement my shamanic work. Contact me for rate information. I will travel for personal sessions or to teach classes; however, the client is responsible for travel and living expenses. My class focuses are basic ecstatic journeying and other specific shamanic and energetic healing techniques, as well as honoring Divine Polarity and connecting with the spirit of food. As a Global Goddess Priestess, I am available to perform handfastings, death rites, and other life transition rituals of Spirit.
If you are interested in shamanism, hosting a workshop or class, or in private shamanic or energy work with me, please contact me.