I offer spiritual guidance and teaching in private and public settings with individuals or groups. This guidance/teaching is given through conversation, messages, channeling, question and answer times, writings and videos.

What is a Spiritual Teacher?

A spiritual teacher is a person who helps you navigate your spiritual path. They can be shamans, leaders, guides and mentors, and could also be looked at like a coach or instructor for those who want to deepen their spiritual walk. A person who is a spiritual teacher has had direct experience of mastering many areas in the art of spirituality and often has disciples, students or initiates that follow and learn from them.

What Does a Spiritual Teacher Do?

Depending on the setting, a spiritual guide may teach in front of a group of people or have one-on-one sessions with an individual. They will answer questions from experiential wisdom and deep knowing. They may use stories or metaphors or parables to point to a certain truth. They may give insight and perspective to those who are experiencing challenging emotions, sensations or circumstances. A spiritual teacher's main objective is to help you realize and actualize yourself as a spiritual being experiencing this reality in human form so that suffering is reduced or eliminated.

How is a Spiritual Teacher Different from a Therapist or Counselor?

While a therapist or counselor is trained and licensed to help people with mental health issues, a spiritual teacher is not necessarily a person who has had any formal training. Instead, they offer their wisdom, knowledge and insight from a place of lived experience and expanded states of consciousness rather than gathered intellectual information.

Therapy, psychiatry and counseling primarily use various methods to focus on mental and emotional wellness, but don’t usually get into spirituality as they are more learned in research and science. Alternatively, spiritual teachers help people to grow spiritually, know themselves, master the mind, access higher levels of awareness or consciousness, and help to find greater meaning in life.

What are the Benefits of Having a Spiritual Teacher?

Spiritual teachers may provide support, accountability and encouragement, a new perspective, wisdom, and assistance as you begin to uncover layers of truth and reality. Many people report finding more balance, peace and coherence from working with a spiritual teacher as they feel less alone in the process. For those who are not sure where to start or what to do, teachers can help answer questions and provide help when the path becomes uncertain or intense.

By law I need to add: If you have a serious physical issue or mental illness, please seek out a licensed medical or mental health professional.

Do I Need a Spiritual Teacher?

No one “needs” a spiritual guide, teacher or shaman. Everything you are looking for is already there inside of you. However, some people have a difficult time knowing how to access the wisdom and knowing that is within and so look to someone who can lead them in this way.

If you feel that you need support or accountability, feel lost or do not have the discipline needed to go within on your own, perhaps a teacher would be the right step for you.

Conversely, if you have the discipline, devotion and desire to allow the Life Force to bring you what you need when you need it on your path without any external guidance then you probably do not need one.

Ultimately, it is up to you whether you want a guide or not.

What should I look for in a Spiritual Teacher?

A good spiritual teacher will be one who does not infringe on your free-will, offers their guidance from a place of compassion and grace and seeks to train their students to listen to their own internal navigation so that eventually, the student will no longer need them. This teacher will not take the hard “work” from the student but direct the student to take responsibility for their path.

A good spiritual teacher should be a model of what you are trying to achieve for yourself. And this may look different for everyone, which is why not every student resonates with every teacher. A good spiritual teacher will not placate to the student, knowing that is takes discipline and devotion to change one's life. Often, teachers may come off sounding harsh, or firm at time and the student must not take this an offense. Love must always be balanced with wisdom, just as a parent rears a child.

A good spiritual teacher must be someone you can trust. If you don’t feel like you can trust them, it will be impossible for you to be open and learn from them in any meaningful way. And as a note, just because you don’t trust someone doesn’t mean they are bad, it may just mean that you and them are not meant to work together. At least not at this time.

A good spiritual teacher does not tell you what your truth is, only you can know that. And you should NEVER give your power over to any shaman, guide or teacher. You are the creator of your life, so if something does feel right to you, either it is not meant for you – OR – you do not fully understand it yet.

How Do I Find A Spiritual Teacher?

These days you can find a teacher in many ways; you don’t have to travel to the east! There are many great teachers online and you can watch videos, read blogs and see testimonials from others as you do your research to find someone who aligns with you. Your guide doesn’t need to interact with you in person in order for you to get benefit from listening to them.

If you do prefer to meet with someone face to face and not on a digital device, you may have to be a little more patient. If you put your intention to seek a teacher out there, Source/The Divine/God hears you and your teacher will appear for you when you are ready. And then, be on the lookout.

Remember: Your teacher or guide may not come to you in a way or in a form you are expecting or may not have the label “spiritual teacher”.

Can I have More Than One Spiritual Guide or Teacher?

Of Course! There is no rule or universal law that states that you have to pick just one person to learn and gather wisdom from. If you feel that it’s too confusing to have many voices speaking into your life, then choose the one that feels the best for you and stick with them for awhile.

If learning from many is your thing, over time you will notice that you are pulling things that feel in alignment with you from many different sources as you begin to stabilize your foundation and build your proverbial temple.

Should Spiritual Guides Charge Money for Their Service?

There is no such thing as “should” or a “right” way with this. Spiritual guides and teachers are human too, and unless a guide has completed perfect ascension, they still drink, eat, need shelter and clothing. We are in the process of creating a New Earth together where money as a symbol of energy will not be a “thing”, but for now, the majority the planet still operates this way.

Often, because a guide or teacher feels drawn to dedicate their life to spiritual practices and services, they may ask for financial compensation or donations so that they do not have to work a “regular job” but instead put all their focus into their mission and purpose. If one feels called to the path or naturally falls into the role of a guide or teacher, having “real job” can become cumbersome and take away from the amount of spiritual service they can provide to others.

In my opinion, a spiritual guide or teacher is no different than other people who provide needs and benefits in life.

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