Holistic Healer Profile: Iris Michael

Education / Experience:

Iris Michael has been working as a healer since 1996. Her background includes six years of training in the healing arts. She is a graduate of an intensive three-year certificate program in shamanic healing with the Wiracocha Institute which focused on Inka healing traditions.

Michael is also a Certified Spiritual Healer, Diplomat of Earth Stewardship, and an Ordained Minister with the International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards (SHES). She chose to be ordained because this healing path is about being a bridge between the world of Spirit and the physical world. Michael's training also includes several years of study and experience as a Healing Touch Practitioner with Healing Touch Canada.

Her formal education is a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Queen's University. In addition, she holds a certificate from a three-year part-time program in counselling psychology from Vancouver Community College (VCC).

Other training includes: "Coaching Skills for Mental Health Professionals" at VCC, "Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress" at the Justice Institute, workshops in group facilitation through the Self Help Resource Association of BC, "Instructor Training" with the Vancouver School Board, and a course in "Harmonic Overtoning."

Healing Modalities:

• Shamanic healing sessions
• Energy work
• Counselling
• Sound and crystal healing
• Integrated healing sessions
• Sacred healing ceremonies

Web Site:

Rainbow Sun Healing Centre

Location:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Healer's Purpose/Goal:

My mission is to do the work of healing for all peoples and for our beautiful Earth. I offer shamanic healing sessions blended with energy work, counselling, sound and crystal healing to gently assist you to:

• Permanently clear and transform trauma, pain, fear, blockages and old patterns
• Restore lost power, vital energy and balance
• Reconnect with your inner healer and the wisdom within
• Experience deep relaxation and rejuvenation

Additional Comments from Iris:

I also enjoy facilitating workshops on self-healing because each of us has a healer within. I believe in making ancient knowledge accessible and easy to understand. We are all divine beings and this knowledge is our birthright.

In addition, I have served people from all walks of life in a variety of settings:

• providing healing sessions on a volunteer basis to clients with life-threatening illness (e.g. HIV/AIDS, cancer, hepatitis) at Friends For Life Society, a non-profit organization
• running a semi-monthly Healing Touch drop-in event for the
• community counselling clients at a community centre
• visiting patients as a ward volunteer at local hospitals
• working as a front-line employee at a mental health centre.