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Artist and adventurer…

I am a quintessential Sagittarius: easy to get along with, love to travel, spiritual, hyper-creative, a healer, enthusiastic, happy-go-lucky, loyal, but also perfectionistic, and I suffer from occasional bouts of foot-in-mouth-itis.

I knew I wanted to work in glass since I was 11 years old. One magical day I had gone to the county fair and my father gave me the gigantic sum of 20 dollars and the instruction that we would all meet back, at the first booth, the glass sculpture booth.

This is exactly where he found me four hours later, with the 20 dollars still in hand, watching wide eyed as the artist was turning molten rods into unicorns, swans and fairies.

I told my mom that I knew what I wanted to do with my life, and we sat down and wrote to the only glass place we could think of, Stuben Glass, to see if they needed any 11 year old apprentices, but they didn’t.

So I went on with my life, lived in New York, San Francisco, London, having a wonderful time with other adventuring artists, musicians and beautiful people.

When I moved to Boulder Colorado, I lived with a collective of artists who also loved glass, and we all learned together, soon I was making hand blown miniature aromatherapy bottles, and learning to practice healing with natural oils and herbs.

I did not know it at the time, but I was being prepared for my other calling in this life — becoming a shaman.

Once in my training, I experienced “a dark night of the soul”. This is where a shaman in training faces his or her demons. It can last for days, months or even years. My teacher, Snake Woman, came to me one night and said, “One day, Amy, you will awaken the wolf within you and you will know what to do”.

Not only did I receieve my name that night, but I also received something far more valuable, the understainding that all dreams are possible.