Women’s Wisdom Keeper & Facilitator

I am Xochi ~ my medicine name is Ancient Eagle Sights Medicine. I am a practitioner and facilitator walking the shaman’s path.

In the descent into the depths of Womanhood and Motherhood, I have woven my fragments back into wholeness across the physical, emotional and luminous body realms, and I work today as a shamanic practitioner, fusing ancient and modern feminine healing technologies.

From tender Maiden to devoted Mother, I have quested and come home - at last - to this vessel, this self, in unconditional love. I have stretched my edges, met my deepest shadows, melted my stagnation and come back a hundred thousand times to the presence of this earth, this breath, this body. I have transmuted repressive patriarchal dictates and fallen wildly in love with my body, my wombspace, my bleed, my milky femininity, and melted like honey in the loving arms of my sisters.

As a facilitator and practitioner, I work today in full devotion to the multiform beauty of our femininity, I hold the vision for a deep remembering of the circle, and of our right to ritual and to belong to earth as we walk our paths in courage and truth.

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MY intimacy IS with the deep waters.

Unlike so many staking superficial claims in the healing world today, I come to this path not to abandon the body and chase the light, but from an intimate knowledge of - and loving intimacy with - the exquisite depths of being a sensitive woman and human being. It is my experience that it is here that our Medicine resides.

This is important because it’s this depth itself that brings us together here, that ignites my soul, that catalyses this work into transformational alchemy. I bow at the altar of the unseen realms of the feminine, and it is my soul’s longing to meet you there too.

I have known what it is like to live in fear of my wholeness. To push the deeply feeling, tender (and often most intuitive) parts of myself far away for fear of what it would be to feel them, to expose them, to risk them being too sensitive, too wild, too desirous, too much.

But they hold the power. And in a society that chases the light and represses all else, reclaiming them is radical and deeply healing work. And it’s available to each of us.

The body is the instrument, the luminous field: the gateway.

Training + Accreditation

Shamanka Healing + The Shamanic Arts: Shamanic Practitioner Training
Shamanka Luminous Warrior: Advanced Shamanic Practitioner Training - 2026
Women’s Temple Facilitator Training - Awakening Women
Embodied Mythology Apprenticeship and ongoing study with Chameli Gad + Awakening Women
The Altar of Woman Apprenticeship with Adya - co-facilitator
Tantra & Relating - co-facilitation with Raaji Amankay
Diploma, Naturopathic Nutrition - College of Naturopathic Medicine
BA - Oxford University
Author - The Naturalista (Headline, 2016)