Meet Nicole
Thank you so much for taking a moment to get to know me better! I'm Nicole. I am a trained opera singer, singer-songwriter, and shamanic practitioner with over 25 years of experience in the music world and 15 years experience traversing the world of healing through sound. I began my shamanic training in 2017. As a healing facilitator, I work with you on any topics you bring forward, with a special focus on people wishing to empower their vocal expression. As a creative soul, I offer various forms of divine creative expression in the form of music and art.
My Path to The Voice Shaman
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A WINDING PATH
As a young person needing to 'decide' her future, I stood at a crossroads - do I follow the music path or do I follow the healing path? At 18, I chose the music path and, after a few years of milling around, I pursued a degree in vocal performance with the aim to become a professional opera singer. But the deep call within my soul to Walk the Beauty Path never left me. |
Over the years, with full focus on music, my shamanic voice became but a whisper. My spirit guides waited patiently in the wings while I stood on the stage as a performer in various capacities. While I was focused on music, my interests in the healing arts never wained. I spend the better part of 15 years working on my own healing using different modalities rooted in everything from metaphysical exploration to shamanic healing. Even when the view was obscured by the trees or a large hill, the healing path was almost always visible from the music path - I just had to make my way down my chosen path until the two paths converged.
My spirit guides were patient. They knew I would come around in time. In their wisdom, they knew that for me "all roads lead to Rome"... or, rather, all roads lead me back to my soul. They knew I had to experience certain things along the music path before I could open to my role as The Voice Shaman.
My spirit guides were patient. They knew I would come around in time. In their wisdom, they knew that for me "all roads lead to Rome"... or, rather, all roads lead me back to my soul. They knew I had to experience certain things along the music path before I could open to my role as The Voice Shaman.
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DIVINE TRAUMAS
Along the way as a singer, largely working without 'conscious intent' other than 'success,' I experienced a number of traumas that ultimately lead me to the work I am now doing. Though I went to music school and studied voice, even performing at a professional level, singing was also the source of most of my suffering and pain in life. My self worth was entangled with my ‘success’ as a singer, to a point where I could not enjoy it at all. I have a beautiful instrument. I really do. But I was disconnected from my voice - I treated it like a thing to control instead of a divine instrument expressing my Singing Soul... my Shamanic Soul... and I had the most crippling, abusive inner dialogue... |
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THE WAY BACK (AND FORWARD)
As fate (or divine design) would have it - my voice ended up being the vehicle for my greatest healing. I stepped away. I quit music. But I soon I realized the very thing which was causing me the most pain was also the *only* thing able to bring me back into my full, expressive humanity. As it turns out, I could not simply reject my voice and do something else - that was making me sick. The only way to healing my voice and connecting to myself was through my voice with myself. It worked. I returned to my voice as a transformed person and that connection has gotten stronger every day.
ADDING ANCIENT WISDOM TO THE MIX
Along the path back to my own voice, shamanism entered my life again as a force of good. I am currently walking The Beauty Path rooted in Celtic Shamanism. This ancient way has provided me with a divine focus of heart-connected nature wisdom through which I now align my intentions and actions.
As fate (or divine design) would have it - my voice ended up being the vehicle for my greatest healing. I stepped away. I quit music. But I soon I realized the very thing which was causing me the most pain was also the *only* thing able to bring me back into my full, expressive humanity. As it turns out, I could not simply reject my voice and do something else - that was making me sick. The only way to healing my voice and connecting to myself was through my voice with myself. It worked. I returned to my voice as a transformed person and that connection has gotten stronger every day.
ADDING ANCIENT WISDOM TO THE MIX
Along the path back to my own voice, shamanism entered my life again as a force of good. I am currently walking The Beauty Path rooted in Celtic Shamanism. This ancient way has provided me with a divine focus of heart-connected nature wisdom through which I now align my intentions and actions.
Formal Education2009 | Master of Music in Voice
College-Conservatory of Music at the University ofCincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA 2007 | Bachelor of Music in Voice San Jose State University San Jose, CA, USA 
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Training and CertificationsCERTIFICATES
2022 (in progress) - Certified Shamanic Energy Medicine Therapist Slí An Chroí - Dublin, Ireland/Online 2013 - Certification as Breath Course Facilitator Kairos - Berlin, Germany TRAINING 2021-2022 | Mastery Spiral + Healer's Spiral (Energy Medicine Module) Celtic Shamanism at Slí An Chroí with John Cantwell Dublin, Ireland/Online 2021-present | Moon Mna Facilitator Training (in progress) Moon Mna with Dr. Karen Ward Dublin, Ireland/Online 2020-2021 | The Medicine Spiral Celtic Shamanism at Slí An Chroí with John Cantwell and Dr. Karen Ward Dublin, Ireland/Online 2017 | Opening Inner Doorways Post-tribal Shamanism under the guidance of Kenn Day Cincinnati, OH, USA/Online 2017 | Trans-Traditional Initiation Energetic trans-traditional process and initiation with Andreas Teichrib Berlin, Germany 2013 | Breath Course Teacher Breath Course at Kairos with Margitta Kunert Berlin, Germany All Time | Collected Healer's Experience Experience and knowledge as a healer and shaman carried over from other lifetimes and realms. Earth and Other Realms in the Universe(s) |
Selected Milestones
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Path convergence as The Voice Shaman 2019-present Singer and Composer at IOKOKANOA Album - Fire - Released 2019 Single - Hero - Released 2020 2017 Conscious beginning of my path in Celtic Shamanism 2010-present Member of the ExtraChor at Deutsche Oper Berlin |
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