Karyn the Teacher

Karyn spent many years surviving in corporate America, working in such companies as Clinique and Christian Dior Perfumes, as well as the fast-paced high-tech communications industry of MCI Worldcom and AT&T. After watching her 401k and stock options tumble in the downfall of MCI Worldcom and the telecom industry in general, and her health tumble at about the same speed, she resigned her job and left the corporate culture to explore a more heart-centered life and career. As she watched her health improve through holistic healing practices, and the laughter return to her life, Karyn knew she had made the correct decision and Harmonic Visions was born.

Karyn’s shamanic journey began in 1998 with a trip to Peru. Since then she has studied at the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, founded by Michael Harner, and is a graduate of Sandra Ingerman’s Teacher Training in Advanced Shamanic Healing Practices. Karyn continues to expand her studies by apprenticing with indigenous shaman and medicine people in the United States, Peru, Bali, Egypt, and Canada.

Karyn was one of the shamanic practitioners in a clinical trial of shamanic healing funded by the National Institute of Health’s research grant and carried out by researchers at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon (a copy of that study is available by request). Additionally, Karyn has been doing Initiations into Women’s Mysteries since 1996. She has mastered her ability to work in the “other worlds” with the support of her spirit helpers, bringing through the Divine light of Christ Consciousness, which is the state of awareness of our true nature. Through the partnerships she builds with her clients, her work spans the globe; and she offers a variety of personally developed modalities, specific to the needs of each client.

For close to two decades, Karyn’s ongoing education in the alternative esoteric healing arts has included: Reiki, Healing Touch, Sound Healing, Flower Essences, Aromatherapy, Expressive Movement, Creative Arts, Shamanic Healing, Drum and Rattle making, Yoga, Voice Expression, and Ancient Tantra practices.

Karyn’s integrative approach to teaching is rooted in her own unique and disciplined daily spiritual practice. It is from this heart-centered space that she works with others in their journey of healing the past, expanding the present, and joyfully moving into the future.

Karyn has developed Harmonic Visions Institute to provide a Faculty of leading holistic Spiritual Teachers whom she sponsors in workshops and retreats in Oregon and other locations.

Karyn teaches internationally and is recognized for her ability to bridge the world of spirit, bringing it into the daily lives of clients and students. She maintains an active and busy private practice, both in person as well as long-distance work. She teaches a series of workshops on Shamanism and is developing a new course in Relationships through Divine Union as well as a series of Couples courses which offer a fun, playful way to bring the creative sacred arts back into one’s life.

Karyn offers a variety of Shamanic healing practices, including Soul Retrieval, Soul Recovery, Intuitive Coaching, and Intuitive Counseling.  She also offers mentoring sessions for those who are called to the Shamanic way of life.  Her greatest gift is her offering of intuitive recommendations for personal spiritual progress.  She is compassionate, sincere, forthright, and candid about what she sees.  Karyn has been called a “Sovereign Revolutionary Alchemist”.

Karyn the Seeker

Karyn journeyed to Peru in 1998, to explore the “Land of the Children of the Sun.” On that amazing trip she was able to spend a night in the ancient city of Machu Picchu, welcomed to this sacred place after making an offering to the Gods, rising the following morning bathed in the healing waters from the dew and was out of her body the entire night doing spiritual work.

Another trip took, in 1999 took her to Egypt, where she explored the great Egyptian Mysteries and meditated under a full moon at the temple of Horus and was initiated in the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid. She was gifted with the most amazing piece of Alabaster while at the temple of Hathor and has a profound connection to what she represents.

In 2000 she submerged herself in the culture of Bali and was initiated by a High Priest in one of the nine holiest temples in Bali, located in the remote, mist-shrouded temple of Pure Luwur Bakuku.

During the summer of 2008 Karyn spent time in the Kalahari Desert basking in the raw land and culturally delinquent form of any civilization other then communing with the last surviving Bushman of the Kalahari. This was a tragic yet eye opening experience for this is where she learned a different type of integrity must be brought to Western Spiritual Communities and Money, Property nor Prestige should be the end goal and spiritual healing should be open to all.

She ended the first decade of the 21st Century in sacred Maui, Hawaii, spending three weeks doing personal healing, introspective contemplation and meditation in the loving arms of the nurturing, heart filled Goddess energies, writing and collaborating with a kindred spirits heart-storming on ways to bring spiritual-sexual integration into others lives focusing on working with committed couples who want to bring more depth, understanding and love into their sacred marriage. The entire community is healed and benefits from the pure and authentic between two people. Karyn every year on the beautiful island of Maui for a sabbatical and to commune with Mother Ocean.

Karyn teaches courses on Spiritual-Sexual Integration® focusing on bringing individuals to develop a practice of personal spiritual awakening. Additionally she teaches courses in Medicine for the Earth, Dancing your Shadow through Mask Making, Soul Retrieval, Soul Recovery, Ancestral Healing, and Extraction of Spiritual Intrusions as well as bringing more love to the planet by supporting couples to learn the ancient mysteries of Tantra Communion for transcendental love making. When two people are blessed by a “Divine Union” created by conscious loving together they can manifest what ever their hearts desire. It’s a practice and like any practice it takes dedication and commitment to the practice but the reward is a “Mystical Union” much like an initiation you would have during the practice of shamanism except you merge two energies to become a third entity.

May you be bathed in the straight forward humor and raw honesty Karyn brings to her work. Karyn’s biggest mantras is get out of your head and start expressing, stop talking and start writing. Listen more and keep your heart smiling through the expression of your lips. Sometimes all you need is an open heart and mountains will move between relationships. She brings what she most wants to learn.

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