LightSong ASSOCIATE TEACHERS

The associate teachers and healers listed below are all original graduates from LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine.

All of these teachers and healers have spent significant time assisting with the core course, apprenticing with Jan, and facilitating LightSong ceremonies. They all teach courses for LightSong, actively work with clients, and sit on the council that guides the school.

Colleen, Karen, Lauri, Pamela and Terry all bring the power of the school’s teachings into the lives of students, clients, interlaced communities and the Earth with their own special approaches to healing.

Pamela Rico

Pamela Rico is a shamanic and energy medicine teacher and practitioner, a social activist, word shaman, and cultural researcher living in Portland, Oregon. She has studied a variety of indigenous wisdom traditions and spiritual technologies for over twenty years, including core shamanism, yoga, meditation, Tibetan Buddhism, Reiki, and energy alchemy.

You may contact Pamela at [email protected] or go to her website, www.sacredskytemple.com

Karen Hefner

Karen has dedicated herself full-time to being in service as a catalyst for personal growth, expansion and healing. She is an Associate Teacher of the LightSong School of Shamanic Studies, a Usui/Tibetan and Karuna Reiki Master, holds Master’s degrees in Science and the Arts, a Doctoral degree in Shamanism, is certified as a Life Coach, an Angelic Guidance Counselor® and a F.I.R.E.walk Facilitator. Karen has a strong teaching and ceremony background that dates back to the mid 1980s. She is also a minister, cancer survivor, mother, and grandmother.

Deeply invested in the areas of healing and personal growth, Karen gently guides people toward their own innate health and happiness through education, ceremony, soul retrieval, extraction work, and Reiki. Karen’s intention is to assist clients and students in finding their soul’s path, their true self, their source of power and freedom. She offers this with deep gratitude to her teachers, spirit guides, and the native healers and communities who have been so generous with their teaching, healing, and ceremonies.

You may contact Karen at [email protected] or go to her website, www.ignitingspirit.com

Colleen Benelli

Colleen teaches Reiki as a lifestyle. Her unique style of healing and teaching blends shamanic techniques with her Mastery of Usui/ Tibetan, and Karuna® Reiki. She has achieved excellence in training in shamanism and Reiki through her apprenticeship with LightSong founder Jan Engels-Smith, and her Reiki mentor-teacher, William Lee Rand. In addition to being an Associate Teacher and Healer of LightSong, Colleen is a licensed Reiki Master Teacher for the International Center for Reiki Training. Colleen’s passion and commitment is in bringing Reiki into the lives of others to help them create their lives with joy and a Light-heart. During her personal Reiki treatments, Colleen “channels” information and healing, offering her clients a rare purity of insight direct from the spirit realms, and an awakened consciousness to enhance her clients’ healing process.

You may contact Colleen at [email protected], or go to her website, www.reikilifestyle.com

TERRY KEM

Terry’s passion and skills lie in the rhythms and spirits of nature. An accomplished outdoorsman and naturalist, Terry’s path into the deeper understanding and mysteries of the natural world began on his thirtieth birthday. Terry has studied with many gifted naturalists and healers over the last thirty years. His unique gift is weaving his shamanic experience with ancient nature awareness skills to help us remember and develop our relationship with the Earth and the “spirit that flows through all things”. Associate teacher with LightSong School of Shamanic Studies.

Terry Kem [email protected]