About
Shamanic Connection
Gary
Gent and Debbie Gent a.k.a. Shamanic Connection are Shamanic Facilitators
from Central Point, Oregon. Their mission to help people to reconnect
with themselves, Spirit and Mother Earth through Shamanic and other
healing practices. They view their role as two fold -- to assist
our clients in reacquiring the tools for their growth and then to
hold a safe space for them to do their work. It is by using these
new tools that growth and healing happen.
Gary
and Debbie came together as life partners over three decades ago,
neither seeing the journey on which they had embarked. Gary Gent
is a traditionally trained Shaman of Cherokee/Irish descent. Gary
began his shamanic training at the age of six. His father was
one-quarter Eastern Cherokee of the Wolf Clan and what Gary calls
a "Closet Shaman". As is typical with traditional training,
Gary's training began without explanation spending many hours
on focus and concentration exercises, as well learning to work
with Spirit, animals, and nature. After experiencing "life"
for a time, Gary was called to finish his training.
As
Gary returned to his shamanic studies, Debbie began refining the
psychic and healing abilities whose use were forbidden throughout
her childhood. Her close connection with Mother Earth and the
Elemental realm assisted her in the teachings of their two children
and raising them in a shamanic household, as well as taught her
much about plants and animals. She has also relearned a number
of body/mind/soul healing
modalities including shamanic training, hypnosis,
flower essences, Reiki,
aromatherapy, and energy balancing.
Together,
they began walking the shamanic
path and helping others regain their connections with Spirit
and Mother Earth. Their journeys have taken them many places in
the US, Canada and Europe. They currently reside in rural Central
Point, Oregon walking a shamanic path in their daily lives.
Gary
Gent works full-time as a Shamanic Practitioner and Coach, doing
journeys or shamanic
healings, both in-person or by phone consultations. He conducts
workshops (or "playshops"
as Gary and Debbie call them) on
soul retrieval, energy work and connecting with self, spirit
and nature -- walking a shamanic
path.
Debbie
Gent also works as a Shamanic Practitioner incorporating both
the Native American and Celtic shamanic practices in her work.
She has studied a number of body/mind/soul therapies and draws
on these many skills and blends these disciplines into her nurturing
style. She also conducts self-empowerment workshops
such as Reclaiming the Goddess Within, Shadow Process and Past
Life Regression, as well as facilitating group hypnosis programs
and performing Comedy Hypnosis shows (Laughter is the best
medicine!).
Gary
and Debbie co-create workshops
and conduct ceremonies
such as sweat lodges, naming ceremonies and weddings. Both are
Ministers and Diplomats of Earth Stewardship of The International
Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards.
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