Robyn Bridges

My life did not turn out at all the way I’d planned.

And everything that followed became a litany of letting go.

I’d always loved nature. But I never actually needed it as much as when, in my early thirties, my young dreams were unexpectedly dashed. Unrelenting sorrow and varied forms of soul loss set in. (You can read my books for the specifics.)

Yet poultices exist everywhere. To recover, I began alternating visits to various healers with long forays into the sentient mountains of Montana. Having what some might call “supernatural” and synchronistic encounters, I became enchanted with the vivid relationship I was forming with trees, stones, animals, plants, and even weather patterns. Thus began a journey leading toward wisdom and solace, both within and without. The quiet mountain ranges that had first witnessed my sudden decline now began to assist with my profound recovery. And I began to realize that this type of radical healing was available to everyone. All my resulting work, from becoming a body-mind-spirit psychotherapist, to writing books, creating CDs, podcasts, and conducting Ceremony in Nature, has been born out of the loving, conscious awareness so fully offered throughout the natural world. It is my pleasure to continue to illuminate this way of healing for others.

EDUCATIONAL/EXPERIENTIAL BACKGROUND:

B.S. EDUCATION

M. ED. EDUCATIONAL COUNSELING

Therapist: 25 Years in Private Practice (15 as LCPC—Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor) also offering in-home healing intensives, Internship Mentoring, creation of State-wide Regenesis Certification Healing Program, Ceremony in Nature, and over 100 national and international workshop presentations.

Certifications: Eupsychia Breathwork, Shamanic Breathwork, Voice Dialogue, EMDR, Hakomi, Transpersonal Pastoral Counselor Training, Advanced Transpersonal Hypnotherapy.

Additional Trainings/Honors: Honorary member of the Wolf Teaching Clan of the Seneca Nation (Grandmother Twylah), given the name, “She Who Knows the Way”, Medicine Wheel Teachings (Linda Star Wolf); Sacred Drumming, Gestalt, Jungian, Somatics and Sound Healing, Meditative, and Quantum Physics approaches to wholeness, Expressive Dance (Gabrielle Roth), Equine Psychotherapy, JFK University courses in Transpersonal Psychology, Naropa University courses, and Feldenkrais Movement (Esalen).

Gratitudes: Small Group work either with or inspired by: Angeles Arrien, David Whyte, John O’Donahue, Stan Grof, Marion Woodman, Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, Matthew Fox, Vicki Molinar-Sanz, Joanne Shenandoah, Bill Plotkin, David Abram, Jean Shinoda- Bolen, Tara Brach, Sofia Dragon Tribe teachings, Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, Depak Chopra/Oprah Winfrey, Marianne Williamson, Carolynn Myss, Robert O’Hotto, Danny Akaka, Donna Eden, 9 Energies Center, Robert Johnson, Kenneth Ring, Jeff Foster, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Abraham-Hicks, Lisa Featherstone (LCSW), Jo Flagg’s Madronna Teachings, Dr. Kim D’Eramo, Kyle Cease, and numerous others, including my colleagues and co-authors of Nature Portals, Rebecca Hartka and Collette Brooks-Hops.*

* If we are known by the company we keep, I couldn’t be more honored to have been inspired

through the work and presence of all of these fine authors, teachers, and healers.