Sep 27, 2023
#274 In this powerful
episode of the Let It In podcast, Guy is joined by white eagle
medicine woman, Suraj Holdsworth. The conversation takes an
unexpected turn as they explore the deepest traumas and the
potential for spiritual growth and development that comes from
them. Suraj shares her work as a medicine woman and discusses
various shamanic healing modalities. This thought-provoking episode
invites listeners to consider whether life is happening to us or
for us, and how pain can be a catalyst for transformation. Don't
miss this beautiful and enlightening conversation.
About
Suraj: White Eagle Medicine Woman (Suraj
Holzwarth) adventurous life began early, when at the age of 19
she moved to Alaska and became the youngest woman to climb Denali,
North America’s highest peak. With a deep love for the earth, she
spent most of her early years in the wilds, climbing the highest
peaks and guiding wilderness expeditions and retreats throughout
the world for over twenty five years. In the late 90’s she received
a vision in dreams with indigenous Grandmothers to create the
world’s largest healing drum and to travel promoting peace through
music. Beginning in 2000 and taking over a year to construct, White
Eagle and the multicultural Alaskan community built the seven-foot,
crystal inlaid GrandMother Drum.
In 2001, White Eagle and Grandmother Drum were launched on their
first of many World Peace Tours inspiring unity, peace and
“drumming up” awareness of earth sustainable projects with the
theme “ The Heartbeat of One Family, One Earth.
White Eagle is the founding director and Drum Keeper of the
GrandMother Drum International Peace Project and the 501c3
non-profit Whirling Rainbow Foundation based in Homer, Alaska. She
is internationally known as a shamanic healer, seer, trance-medium,
author, speaker, teacher, ceremonial and performance artist of
Native American and European ancestry. She has since traveled over
a million miles touching a million people in 20 countries with the
7 ft, crystal inlaid, thundering heartbeat of the world's largest
drum of its kind, Grandmother Drum, and promoting unity, peace,
tribal reconciliation, and earth sustainability. Her award winning
CDs include “Journey of the Heart”, “Songlines of the Soul”,
“Living Waters of Grace” and “Holy Ground”. She is the author of
“The Magic Bundle” children’s book, and “Songs of A New Earth”
songbook. White Eagle is also the director and co-producer of the
award winning documentary film “GrandMother Drum: Awakening the
Global Heart”, selected as the Top 20 Spiritual Films at the Tel
Aviv Spirit Film Festival. She is the founder and director of the
Rainbow Fire Mystery School (RFMS) operating in Alaska, Hawaii and
Peru and has led thousands of shamanic workshops, ceremonies and
training globally for over 35 years. Starting with the acclaimed
"Language of One" and "Heart of One" online spiritual programs,
White Eagle has now expanded the RFMS to over a dozen certified
online shamanic training programs. She is also the creator,
director and lead instructor of the certified shamanic methods of
Balancing the Shields© Community Mother DrumKeepers Training© and
The Crystal Skull Method©.In 2013, White Eagle
launched the Global Blue Flame Planetary Grid ceremony, activating
and renewing the earth’s grid in a one day ceremony annually with
62 trained groups worldwide.
Renamed by her tour staff, “Indiana Jane” for her utter
perseverance to fund and travel the 7ft thundering symbol of the
heartbeat of love globally, White Eagle has certainly “traveled to
the beat of a different drummer,” placing herself in the midst of
countless social, racial tribal and political conflicts,
environmental crisis’ and personal loss to sound the urgent call in
awakening the heart of humanity. She has been honored to be
initiated by many indigenous Elders and has been passed many of
their ancient medicine bundles and global responsibilities. As a
mother of two beautiful children and a total lover of humanity,
White Eagle feels passionate that humanity can only move forward
through positive prayerful activism focusing on the highest good of
all and has often been referred to as the “Mother of the Rainbow
Nation.”
As an internationally respected shamanic teacher and practitioner,
White Eagle has worked in private practice all across the world
with individuals, groups and organizations. She firmly believes
that shamanism offers the most holistic and comprehensive approach
to the human psyche and condition. She specializes in how the
ancient elemental wisdom teachings, methods, plant medicines and
initiation rites of indigenous peoples provide practical holistic
tools for contemporary ailments of humanity. Her methods address
the physical, emotional, sexual, mental and spiritual healing of
the soul. She specializes in assisting the individual and community
to heal trauma, transform the past and its karma, heal and
transform grief and loss, heal all kinds of personality disorders
by reclaiming one's personal power through what she calls the soul
driver's or Shields. This in turn promotes health, longevity and
expanded consciousness, accessing one's true spiritual power,
meaning and purpose. She brings to this sacred work a spiritual
curiosity, multidimensionality and a loving witness to each
person's "hero or heroine's journey" exploring the mystery with
them, their unique initiations designed to test their own
self-mastery. She honors each person's path to enlightenment,
allowing each soul to unfold a new hoop of learning and stabilize
present moment awareness as the core and source of lasting inner
peace.
She has recently gone through the most inconceivable and hardest
human initiation possible in losing her only daughter Sierra (age
33) in 2022 to alcoholism. White Eagle’s strength through this
ongoing breakdown to breakthrough, death and rebirth process
continues to melt our hearts and blast open our consciousness to a
much higher understanding of life beyond death.
Key Points Discussed:
- (00:00) - It's An INITIATION
- (05:12) - Purpose in Western culture.
- (10:32) - Losing a loved one.
- (16:54) - Enlightenment through plant medicine.
- (20:58) - Erased goals and purposes.
- (26:56) - Losing a child and purpose.
- (31:35) - How do we find meaning?
- (36:07) - Vertical Time Experience.
- (38:43) - Spiritual sensuality and ecstasy.
- (46:29) - Intense labor and purification.
- (49:26) - Initiations and intuition.
- (54:38) - The golden teacher is silence.
How to Contact Suraj Holzwarth:
www.whirlingrainbow.com
About me:
My Instagram:
www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en
Guy's websites:
www.guylawrence.com.au
www.liveinflow.co