About Me

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I have been a leader in the tech industry for more than 30 years with experience in financial services, IT consulting, and game development. I've had an incredible career as a business and people leader working in start-ups and Fortune 500 organizations. 

While I have a passion for the gaming and tech industries, I know I also want to contribute to the collective healing of our communities using alternative healing methods. 

I began studying metaphysics in 2004. At that time, I began working closely with two Reiki Masters to learn how to integrate the healing effects of energy medicine into my life. In 2005, I became a Reiki Master and started a small at-home practice in my Northern California community. However, the demands of tech and raising a family left little time for me to devote to my practice. Instead, I chose to focus on my full-time career and offer energy healing to friends and family on an ad-hoc basis.

By 2016, my life had significantly changed. I was divorced, living in a new state, and in a new relationship with someone who suffered from addiction. 

After 4 years of trying to manage someone else's trauma, I knew it was time for me to focus on my own healing journey. In 2020, I began working with a Native Alaskan shaman and his wife at The White Raven Healing Center in Anchorage, Alaska. I also learned that year, through DNA testing, that I was 50% Native American. 

During my weekend trips to Alaska,  I would experience deep emotional release and healing of my childhood trauma. I also had my spiritual gifts open to me in such profound ways. I experienced past-lives, shape-shifting, and moving energy (my own and others') through my physical and energetic body. It was a huge awakening!

I invested more time and energy in alternative healing modalities, including 1:1 healing circles, sacred medicine journeys, and breathwork.

I was so grateful for all of the healers who helped me to learn, grow, heal, and spiritually evolve throughout the following 2 years. 

In 2023, I was unexpectedly laid-off at Microsoft. I decided to re-evaluate where I wanted to invest my time and energy.

 In May,  I received the Shamanic call. I began studying with The Four Winds Society founded by Alberto Villoldo to become a certified Master Practitioner of Energy Medicine, or a Shaman. 

Today, I am a Shamanic energy healer, wellness coach, and technology leader. I'm learning to balance my two worlds (tech & shamanic), merge my Indigenous Medicine (South American from Peru and Native American from my Muwekma Ohlone and Apache ancestors), and be of service to clients who are looking to step into their own healing journeys and spiritual evolution. 

I believe in creating a safe space for clients  offering them energy healing, coaching to develop their own spiritual practices, and guiding them on their path of healing. 

My goal is to teach you how to develop a healing framework that leads you on your path of self-discovery and spiritual evolution with love, kindness, and compassion for yourself and others--just as others did for me. 

I would be honored to work with and support you on your Hero's journey!

In Munay (love), 

Crystal