Hello and Welcome
My name is Nikiah {Pronounced Nik-eye-ah}
My ancestors made their way here to Canada via Romania, Ireland and Scotland four generations ago, and it is a gift for myself and my family to live on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
My calling lays in deep shadow work, and the liminal space between this world and the spirit world, and part of my calling my goal is to support women who are called to walk into these spaces with me. These tend to be strong women who are committed to picking up their own ancestral medicine and diving into their own healing journeys, no matter how shadowy those spaces are.
I am deeply inspired by the strength and wisdom of the women who come to work with me, and it is within this almost devotional inspiration that I hold space for them as they follow their own inner wisdom, essentially I am a space holder in every sense of the word.
My ability to hold strong space for others comes from years of working with woman and their families in the most tender of times during childbirth, death, marriage, and from the creation of hundreds of ceremonies for all sorts of transitions, from births and deaths to weddings and rites of passages of all kinds. My gifts lay in the support of crossing thresholds and in the required transitions that life brings us.
A deeper look:
For the past 20 years I have been following my soul song down many different holistic pathways, each one of them leading me to my soul's purpose and calling. For many of these years I worked in the realm of women’s spirituality, dedicated to the world of sacred birthing as a birth doula, and educator where I was able to pull in my various trainings in herbalism, nutrition and sacred ceremony into what I offered the couples I worked with. Much of that work however, has now just become a small piece of the pathway that lead me to what I am today.
I am an initiated Ceann-lul of the Sagh'ic Tire Dhream, working as a spirit/animist healer and priestess in my community as well as a drum maker, Aoghair/ animist Minister, and am co-author of the book Moon Mysteries. I am also a sacred beekeeper, and Death Doula, but not all on the same day I promise!
I currently live on the west coast of Canada on unceded Indigenous land belinging to the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, with my husband, two children, several thousand honey bees and a cat named Solstice.
Over the years I have been privileged to have worked with many teachers, and found a deep discipline and spiritual practise in the process of becoming an elder priestess, and shamanic healer.
My shamanic animist training/apprenticeship/journey started in 2006 and comes from many different teachers over the years, including, John-Luke Edwards, Angela Prider, Yvonne Owens, Simon Buxton, Christina Pratt and Alison Skelton and many others.
However I am eternally grateful for the continuous support and mentorship in my shamanic pathway by my spiritual elders John-Luke Edwards, Christina Pratt, and Yvonne Owens, who all have given me much guidance and support over the years.
My spiritual home place and community sits with my initiation and eldership in the Northern Animist Shamanic tradition known as the Sagh’ic-Tire Dhream, and the extended part of my shamanic community in the Sacred Circle of the Great Mystery Society who each year hosts a shamanic conference here in B.C. The SCGMS brings shamans from around the world to offer their wisdom teachings and creates profound ceremony each year.
As an ordained Aghoair Minister and life cycle Celebrant, I love crafting ceremonies for life's sacred transitions, and I currently offer the creation of unique weddings, ceremonies, rites of passage, and sacred ceremony for those in their death journey, or who have already passed.
These days I often can also be found in my bee yard as a sacred beekeeper, and teaching at the Collage of the Melissae-Center for Sacred Beekeeping.
If you are interested in understanding more of how my spiritual journey has led me to the creation of this Mystery School, I have written a longer version "Here."
It is my sincere belief that all women are the keepers of Red Moon Wisdom, and so in the spirit of this wisdom all offerings here are dedicated to the awakening of the wild divine feminine mysteries.
My ancestors made their way here to Canada via Romania, Ireland and Scotland four generations ago, and it is a gift for myself and my family to live on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
My calling lays in deep shadow work, and the liminal space between this world and the spirit world, and part of my calling my goal is to support women who are called to walk into these spaces with me. These tend to be strong women who are committed to picking up their own ancestral medicine and diving into their own healing journeys, no matter how shadowy those spaces are.
I am deeply inspired by the strength and wisdom of the women who come to work with me, and it is within this almost devotional inspiration that I hold space for them as they follow their own inner wisdom, essentially I am a space holder in every sense of the word.
My ability to hold strong space for others comes from years of working with woman and their families in the most tender of times during childbirth, death, marriage, and from the creation of hundreds of ceremonies for all sorts of transitions, from births and deaths to weddings and rites of passages of all kinds. My gifts lay in the support of crossing thresholds and in the required transitions that life brings us.
A deeper look:
For the past 20 years I have been following my soul song down many different holistic pathways, each one of them leading me to my soul's purpose and calling. For many of these years I worked in the realm of women’s spirituality, dedicated to the world of sacred birthing as a birth doula, and educator where I was able to pull in my various trainings in herbalism, nutrition and sacred ceremony into what I offered the couples I worked with. Much of that work however, has now just become a small piece of the pathway that lead me to what I am today.
I am an initiated Ceann-lul of the Sagh'ic Tire Dhream, working as a spirit/animist healer and priestess in my community as well as a drum maker, Aoghair/ animist Minister, and am co-author of the book Moon Mysteries. I am also a sacred beekeeper, and Death Doula, but not all on the same day I promise!
I currently live on the west coast of Canada on unceded Indigenous land belinging to the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, with my husband, two children, several thousand honey bees and a cat named Solstice.
Over the years I have been privileged to have worked with many teachers, and found a deep discipline and spiritual practise in the process of becoming an elder priestess, and shamanic healer.
My shamanic animist training/apprenticeship/journey started in 2006 and comes from many different teachers over the years, including, John-Luke Edwards, Angela Prider, Yvonne Owens, Simon Buxton, Christina Pratt and Alison Skelton and many others.
However I am eternally grateful for the continuous support and mentorship in my shamanic pathway by my spiritual elders John-Luke Edwards, Christina Pratt, and Yvonne Owens, who all have given me much guidance and support over the years.
My spiritual home place and community sits with my initiation and eldership in the Northern Animist Shamanic tradition known as the Sagh’ic-Tire Dhream, and the extended part of my shamanic community in the Sacred Circle of the Great Mystery Society who each year hosts a shamanic conference here in B.C. The SCGMS brings shamans from around the world to offer their wisdom teachings and creates profound ceremony each year.
As an ordained Aghoair Minister and life cycle Celebrant, I love crafting ceremonies for life's sacred transitions, and I currently offer the creation of unique weddings, ceremonies, rites of passage, and sacred ceremony for those in their death journey, or who have already passed.
These days I often can also be found in my bee yard as a sacred beekeeper, and teaching at the Collage of the Melissae-Center for Sacred Beekeeping.
If you are interested in understanding more of how my spiritual journey has led me to the creation of this Mystery School, I have written a longer version "Here."
It is my sincere belief that all women are the keepers of Red Moon Wisdom, and so in the spirit of this wisdom all offerings here are dedicated to the awakening of the wild divine feminine mysteries.