• Linda Star Wolf - Co-Director and Facilitator
• Brad Collins - Co-Director and Facilitator
• Ruby Falconer - Student Supervisor and Facilitatorr
• Judy Red Hawk - Transformation House Program Manager and Adjunct Facilitator
• Jeff Berger - Adjunct Facilitator
• Sarah Jane Fridy - Adjunct Facilitator
• Nita Gage - Adjunct Facilitator
• Sundance - Adjunct Facilitator
• Windraven - Adjunct Facilitator
• Laura Wolf - Adjunct Facilitator

Linda Star Wolf

Founding Director of Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts and Creator of the Shamanic Breathwork™ Process.Star Wolf holds a Doctorate of Ministry from University of Integrative Learning,a BA with honors in Human Services from St. Leo College,and is a nationally certified Addictions Counselor. As a Shamanic Pastoral Counselor, spiritual midwife and guide for souls in the transformational process, Star Wolf has facilitated groups and worked with individuals from every walk of life. For more than 30 years she has served as a guide to individuals moving through the full spectrum of spiritual initiations, including addiction, mental illness, shamanic life changes and spiritual transformation.more.....

Contact Star Wolf at:venus@shamanicbreathwork.org or Phone: 828-631-2305

Brad Collins

is the Co-Director of Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts and Co-Founder of Isis Cove Community Retreat Center in western North Carolina. A pioneer in planetary transformation for more than three decades, Brad is a certified Shamanic Minister, a Shamanic Breathwork™ Teacher, Trainer and Facilitator and the Co-Founder of the Shamanic Healing Initiatory Process (SHIP). Brad created the Shamanic Initiatory Priest Process (SIPP), a highly experiential and transformative men's initiatory process. Brad has a degree in Environmental Science and Education, and part of his mission encompasses land-stewardship. more....

Contact Brad at:brad@shamanicbreathwork.org or Phone: 828-631-2305

Ruby Falconer

Business Manager, Student Supervisor and Staff Astrologer for Venus Rising Institute of Shamanic Healing Arts, Shamanic Breathwork™Master Practitioner and Workshop Facilitator. Ruby has been a professional astrologer since 1977 and holistically integrates her extensive knowledge of astrology, psychology, philosophy and metaphysics with a comprehensive understanding of shamanism and considerable talent as a story teller.Ruby is also a Shamanic Minister ordained through Venus Rising, a Shamanic High Priestess and a Third Degree Shamanic Breathwork™ Reiki Initiate. She completed a BA in Comparative Literature in Southern California and holds a certificate in Holistic Healing Studies from San Francisco State University. Ruby lives at Isis Cove in western North Carolina with Tess the dog, the cats Mattie, Luke and Luna, and Peter - a green wing macaw.

Visit Ruby's web site at www.astrologyinsights.com.Contact Ruby at: ruby@shamanicbreathwork.org or phone: (828) 631-2305

Judy Red Hawk Ph.D

in collaboration with author and Venus Rising Co-Director, Star Wolf, is the creator of the Shamanic Shakti Art Process.  She is the Program Manager for Transformation House and Process, a Shamanic Breathwork™ Master Practitioner, a Shamanic Minister ordained through Venus Rising, and a Shamanic Breathwork™ Reiki Level 3 Initiate.  Judy Red Hawk is available for private Shamanic Shakti Art Process sessions as well as Shamanic Breathwork™ personal intensives.
Contact Judy at: judyamerritt@hotmail.com or 828-507-9597

Jeff Berger

Once Jeff Berger finished his psychiatric residency in 1988, he took an unexpected turn to the left and has kept going. He now brings his medical experience and twenty years of therapeutic practice along with twenty years as a mindfulness meditator and poet to his facilitation of the Shamanic Breathwork™ Process.He particularly loves how the enlightened mind of pristine awareness allows for unimpeded wonder and power of the psychic transformations people experience during the SBW. He currently lives 60 miles north of Seattle with his priestess wife and ten year old homeschooling son. He is the medical director of the Senior Behavioral Health Unit at United General Hospital and facilitates breathworks in western Washington and Oregon as well as returns to Isis Cove to teach with Brad and Star Wolf.

Contact Jeff at: 360-766-6151 or jmandg@msn.com

Sarah Jane"Water Bear" Fridy

Shamanic Breathwork™ Master Practitioner and the Shamanic Body Work Teacher for Venus Rising. She is also the resident "Kundalini" Caterer and Aquarian Purification Lodge Ritualist at Isis Cove. Through heart centered rituals, earth based teachings and the creative art process, Sarah Jane serves as an inspiration to others. She is available for private bodywork, breathwork and purification lodge sessions. Sarah Jane lives at Isis Cove in western North Carolina.

Sarah can be reached at: sjfridy01@peoplepc.com

Nita Gage

Nita holda an M.A. in clinical psychology, is a Venus Rising Consultant and Facilitator and Certified Pastoral Counselor and Shamanic Breathwork™ Master Practitioner. Nita has over 25 years experience and training in health care, bodywork, and spiritual healing. She has been trained in shamanic journeying, Shamanic Breathwork™, psychodrama, rebirthing, psychoanalysis, and cognitive-behavioral counseling. In addition, she has been initiated into the Wolf Clan of the Seneca Nation, and utilizes traditional as well as modern healing methods in her private practice. She has also worked extensively in residential and inpatient settings with addiction, mental illness and with people in states of extreme spiritual emergency. She is a heart warrior, able to traverse the territory of the soul and the shadow. Nita currently lives and works in Maui, Hawaii. She is the Clinical Director of Aloha House, an addiction treatment organization and also maintains a limited private practice. She brings a well developed ability to hold loving sacred space for the healer within each person to emerge for positive change and psycho-spiritual transformation. Nita also works with physicians and other healthcare professionals. For more information see: www.healthyselfprograms.com.

Contact Nita at: nita@shamanicbreathwork.org

Sundance

Shamanic Breathwork™ Master Practitioner, certified Massage Therapist and currently the Isis Cove Retreat House Resident Assistant, Venus Rising Office Assistant and the 30 Shamanic Questions Coordinator. With 13 years of recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, Sundance is a grounded and compassionate source for others struggling with their own addictive processes. As a loving and caring healer, she weaves together a unique blend of techniques designed to assist clients in restoring balance and in unlocking their own "healer within." Sundance lives at Isis Cove in the mountains of western North Carolina.

Contact Sundance at: sundance@shamanicbreathwork.org

Windraven

Shamanic Breathwork™ Master Practitioner, a Shamanic High Priestess, a Third Degree Shamanic Breathwork™ Initiate and a Shamanic Energy Body Work Practitioner. She is also an Adjunct Facilitator at Venus Rising. As a result of 38 years of experience as a registered nurse, Windraven intuitively understands the art of holding space for individuals moving through transformation. Those who have experienced her Shamanic Energy Body Work report that they are often transported through portals into other realms. Her grounded, caring technique assists clients in opening to an altered state through which they can access their own capacity to heal. Windraven lives at Isis Cove in western North Carolina. She is available for private sessions.

Contact Windraven at: 828-399-1294.

Laura Wolf

Laura Wolf is the Publicity Assistant for Venus Rising and personal assistant to Linda Star Wolf. A Persephone Priestess who journeys from Earth to the Underworld and back again on a routine basis, Laura walks the daily spiral path of gratitude, surrender, recovery, the cycles of change, soul return and the Blue Star Mysteries. As a Shamanic Minister and Shamanic Breathwork™ Facilitator, Laura holds very present and safe space for people to explore their soul's longing. A professional actress and performance artist, acting coach, yoga instructor, and mother, Laura brings together all her gifts in Sacred Shamanic Theatre, exploring and embracing the many facets of her Inner Child, Maiden, Mother, and Wise Wolf Woman, as they come together in embodied wholeness. Laura’s mission is to assist others in accessing, expressing and integrating more of their authentic selves, their power, and their passion. As a mother, Laura holds a strong commitment to protecting her son from the harmful chemicals found in most commercial body care products. In her search for chemical-free products for her self and her child, Laura discovered a fantastic line of certified organic skin and body care products. She was so impressed with the quality and purity of the ingredients of this product line, she started her own business to promote these 100% chemical free products. If you are interested in eliminating chemicals from your personal care and household cleaning products, please visit Laura’s website: www.oneorganicway.com.

Contact Laura at: laurawolf888@gmail.com