Rachel Mann, PhD founded MettaKnowledge for Peace to heal the effects of trauma, violence, and conflict on our bodies, minds and spirits in both individuals and communities in order to foster a lasting worldwide peace with the best tools from the western sciences, social sciences, psychology, Buddhism and the new shamanism in the West. She offers private shamanic healing sessions, a complete curriculum on contemporary shamanism, and consulting to organizations working with problems of our collective suffering.  She is also director of Peace is the Human Way project, a digital archive of the teachings of peace of living and deceased Native Americans.  More»

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Rachel is available to give one-hour shamanic healing sessions at Sacred Circle Books in Alexandria, Virginia once a month: the next dates are Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4.  To make an appointment, call 703-299-9309.

Rachel offers a rich and complete curriculum on shamanism applicable for contemporary times in the Great Medicine Wheel of the New Earth.   We work with a Great Earth Wheel as we build a healing bundle, or mesa, in the South American tradition. Check out the Spiritual and Personal Transformation program and/or the Integrated Shamanic Healing program.    Sign up for the next  workshop: North Lodge: Archetypal Realms at Bridge Between the Worlds Retreat Center.  Limited space available. For information about rates and payment options, click here.  To register, click here.

Featured Native American Peacekeeper: Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo

Every season, I feature a Native American who has been offering teachings on how to foster peace and live in harmony with the Earth.  The Venerable Dhyani is a rare and almost undiscovered jewel in a world where the names of Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hahn and the Dalai Lama are well know.....click here for more. Find out more about her new book, Learning Cherokee Ways: The Ywahoo Path.

Events of Interest

Peacekeeper Mission Teachings with Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, click here.

About Rachel

I am an educator, scholar, writer and shamanic healer working to bring understanding about the causes and consequences of violence and conflict and in so doing, to help us all heal the world and foster peace.  My work is directly influenced by my lifelong spiritual practice in Buddhism and in new forms adapted into the West from Native American spirituality, sometimes called shamanism.  I am actively involved in educating westerners about the power, truth and efficacy of the spiritual and healing practices of both indigenous peoples and their new forms in the West.  I seek to put these wisdom traditions on the same footing as Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, and the Muslim faiths.  Indigenous and shamanic spiritual traditions offer all of us something very unique in service of healing our world in these critical times. We need not let go of our own belief systems, religions, or cultures in order to benefit from their power. To this end, I also link the words and works of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other renowned peacemakers to the teachings of peace, healing and compassion found in shamanism and other indigenous wisdom traditions. more

News and Journal

• When Destiny Calls

  During the late 80s and 1990s when I was in graduate school getting degrees in Soviet Studies and Slavic folklore and anthropology, I had a nagging sense that I wasn’t doing quite what I was meant to do.  While it was true that my focus on the former Soviet Union and Russian culture carried a lot of meaning for me due to growing up during the Cold War, there was still something missing.  I wanted my work to go deeper than the academic disciplines of the humanities and social sciences could take me.  I wanted to go deeper than even western psychology had taken me in my own healing journey and reading. I knew on some level that I wanted to be a force for healing, but I did not quite know how to do it given the years I had put into an academic career.

  Many clients in my private client healing practice come to me because they feel this same sense that what they are doing to make a living

• Love Will End Violence: 2013 and Beyond

  The Sandy Hook shooting and the deaths of 20 children and 7 adults strikes at the very heart of our belief in goodness in the world and at our sense of personal and collective safety.  Violence that is random, unpredictable, and targeted in a time of peace by a single individual against strangers and innocents–especially children–defies logic.  How do we make sense of this, particularly in the context of the many predictions among indigenous peoples of December, 2012 marking a great shift in human consciousness? What does it say about us and our world?  How can we understand how the great force of love–soul force–can be used to end the deep soul wound of violence we all carry? More»

• Odali Utugi–Hope Mountain: A Gathering of Elders

  I recently returned from the Elders Gathering at the Sunray Peace Village in Bristol, Vermont. As it says on the Sunray Meditation Society web site, the village “is modeled after places of sanctuary traditional to Cherokee and other Native American nations of the Southeast.  Inspired by the Tsalagi (Cherokee) tradition, the Village is called ‘Odali Utugi’, or Hope Mountain.”  Sunray Meditation Society is “an international society dedicated to planetary peace.”  Native elders have gathered there once a year for 24 years.  I attended this event once back in the mid-90s and was excited to be returning once again almost 20 years later. More»

Rachel Mann, PhD founded MettaKnowledge for Peace to heal the effects of trauma, violence, and conflict on our bodies, minds and spirits in both individuals and communities in order to foster a lasting worldwide peace with the best tools from the western sciences, social sciences, psychology, Buddhism and the new shamanism in the West. She offers private shamanic healing sessions, a complete curriculum on contemporary shamanism, and consulting to organizations working with problems of our collective suffering.  She is also director of Peace is the Human Way project, a digital archive of the teachings of peace of living and deceased Native Americans.  More»

Follow me on Twitter: Tweet

Rachel is available to give one-hour shamanic healing sessions at Sacred Circle Books in Alexandria, Virginia once a month: the next dates are Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4.  To make an appointment, call 703-299-9309.

Rachel offers a rich and complete curriculum on shamanism applicable for contemporary times in the Great Medicine Wheel of the New Earth.   We work with a Great Earth Wheel as we build a healing bundle, or mesa, in the South American tradition. Check out the Spiritual and Personal Transformation program and/or the Integrated Shamanic Healing program.    Sign up for the next  workshop: North Lodge: Archetypal Realms at Bridge Between the Worlds Retreat Center.  Limited space available. For information about rates and payment options, click here.  To register, click here.

Featured Native American Peacekeeper: Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo

Every season, I feature a Native American who has been offering teachings on how to foster peace and live in harmony with the Earth.  The Venerable Dhyani is a rare and almost undiscovered jewel in a world where the names of Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hahn and the Dalai Lama are well know.....click here for more. Find out more about her new book, Learning Cherokee Ways: The Ywahoo Path.

Events of Interest

Peacekeeper Mission Teachings with Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, click here.

About Rachel

I am an educator, scholar, writer and shamanic healer working to bring understanding about the causes and consequences of violence and conflict and in so doing, to help us all heal the world and foster peace.  My work is directly influenced by my lifelong spiritual practice in Buddhism and in new forms adapted into the West from Native American spirituality, sometimes called shamanism.  I am actively involved in educating westerners about the power, truth and efficacy of the spiritual and healing practices of both indigenous peoples and their new forms in the West.  I seek to put these wisdom traditions on the same footing as Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, and the Muslim faiths.  Indigenous and shamanic spiritual traditions offer all of us something very unique in service of healing our world in these critical times. We need not let go of our own belief systems, religions, or cultures in order to benefit from their power. To this end, I also link the words and works of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other renowned peacemakers to the teachings of peace, healing and compassion found in shamanism and other indigenous wisdom traditions. more

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News and Journal

• When Destiny Calls

  During the late 80s and 1990s when I was in graduate school getting degrees in Soviet Studies and Slavic folklore and anthropology, I had a nagging sense that I wasn’t doing quite what I was meant to do.  While it was true that my focus on the former Soviet Union and Russian culture carried a lot of meaning for me due to growing up during the Cold War, there was still something missing.  I wanted my work to go deeper than the academic disciplines of the humanities and social sciences could take me.  I wanted to go deeper than even western psychology had taken me in my own healing journey and reading. I knew on some level that I wanted to be a force for healing, but I did not quite know how to do it given the years I had put into an academic career.

  Many clients in my private client healing practice come to me because they feel this same sense that what they are doing to make a living

• Love Will End Violence: 2013 and Beyond

  The Sandy Hook shooting and the deaths of 20 children and 7 adults strikes at the very heart of our belief in goodness in the world and at our sense of personal and collective safety.  Violence that is random, unpredictable, and targeted in a time of peace by a single individual against strangers and innocents–especially children–defies logic.  How do we make sense of this, particularly in the context of the many predictions among indigenous peoples of December, 2012 marking a great shift in human consciousness? What does it say about us and our world?  How can we understand how the great force of love–soul force–can be used to end the deep soul wound of violence we all carry? More»

• Odali Utugi–Hope Mountain: A Gathering of Elders

  I recently returned from the Elders Gathering at the Sunray Peace Village in Bristol, Vermont. As it says on the Sunray Meditation Society web site, the village “is modeled after places of sanctuary traditional to Cherokee and other Native American nations of the Southeast.  Inspired by the Tsalagi (Cherokee) tradition, the Village is called ‘Odali Utugi’, or Hope Mountain.”  Sunray Meditation Society is “an international society dedicated to planetary peace.”  Native elders have gathered there once a year for 24 years.  I attended this event once back in the mid-90s and was excited to be returning once again almost 20 years later. More»