Kate Powell

Shamanic Practitioner * Rememberer of Ancient Human and Earth Wisdom * Storyteller * Guide * Ceremonialist

“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”   ― Wendell Berry

For many years, I tried to be a machine - tried to fit in and play by society’s rules. And it left me feeling numb, broken, disconnected, and caught in cycles of burnout. Turns out that someone frequently called an “old soul” and a “witchy-healer-person-thing”; whose presence reminds people of being near standing stones or a community holy well, is probably going to thrive more on “Team Creature”. 

So guided by teachers and mentors (both human and beyond-human) and with plenty of trial and error, I found myself on an initiatory journey towards something like what Martín Prechtel calls the “indigenous soul of the world”. 

And while the journey never ends, I now has a rough map and an ability to guide you, if you know or suspect you’re also a failed machine; if you yearn for meaningful connection and a juicy life (even if you’re secretly afraid your creature self might be gone forever and won’t come back). 

Using an approach that weaves together:

  • animist and ancestral traditions,

  • shamanic wisdom,

  • movement,

  • storytelling,

  • and deep nature connection;

and with over a decade and thousands of hours of trainings and experience; I’ve become known as a wise, potent, and compassionate guide. One who is perfect for when you’re on your own initiatory journey to recover your spark, ground your spirituality in everyday life and relationships, and become the beauty you're yearning to see in the world.

 

A brief overview of Kate’s trainings and experience:

Since graduating from The Power Yoga Tribe’s 200hr yoga teacher training in 2013, I’ve logged over 1,000 hours of teaching experience with yoga group classes, privates, workshops, and retreats.

In addition to my original yoga vinyasa certification, I have background and continuing education in Nidra, Restorative, Yin, Gentle Flow, Yoga Personal Training, meditation, and other techniques and approaches to energy-based healing modalities.

In November of 2017, after completing about 500hrs of training in Integrative Energetic Medicine and Coaching through WhiteWinds (Dr. Fernand Poulin)/FeatherStone (Tammy LaDrew) Institutes, I opened my private practice to clients seeking deeper heart connection, and more soulful living.

In 2019 I completed Level 1 and 2 training in the Pranashakthi Mahavidya lineage of energy healing under Guruji Sri Yogacharya Arun Kumarji and received the initial transmission to become a master healer and teacher within that lineage, although that path is not yet complete and life seems to be drawing me in other directions. I also embarked on the first of several rounds of Kimberly Johnson’s Jaguar programs (somatic experiencing tools for nervous system repair and rewilding), even assisting her in several of her Jaguar Foundations programs in 2022 and 2023.

Since 2020, I have been answering a call deep in my bones to seek, study, and reweave ancestral rememberings from my European lineage back into my being and my personal practice. This is an ongoing exploration of song lines, myths, culture, and crafts. In 2023, I answered the lands of Alba (Scotland) and Éire (Ireland) who had begun appearing in my dreams. I spent four months there traveling on a pilgrimage of sorts and returned in 2024 for another eleven months, adding in a brief stint beginning to connect with the ancient lands of Cymru (Wales). I can now say these lands called me there to initiate me and I and my work continue to be profoundly changed by the experience. As I enter the portal of middle age, there is a ripening happening, a clicking into place of things that feel more essential in nature.

I feel a deep gratitude for the ancient wisdom lineages that have offered me so much. And I do my work with the deepest respect for the strength, courage, and resiliency of indigenous healers around the world who struggled (and sometimes died) to keep their varied traditions alive and moving forward. Where I weave animist and ancestral threads into my work, I make no claims to speak for any people or to claim “purity” of any lineage. I do commit, however, to practicing integrity as best I can; letting the work come through me not from hunger and grasping, but in service to Love, Responsibility, and Aliveness.