Heloisa da Silva Porto has been on a healing and spiritual path since her adolescence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her commitment to serve as healer/therapist became clear in 1995, when she had a spiritual awakening in a sweat lodge.

Throughout her healing journey Heloisa has developed a broad understanding of the body-mind-spirit interconnection and a depth of empathy, compassion and intuition for other people's emotional and spiritual processes.

Her work evolved from a combination of approaches based on various traditions and supported by her natural healing gifts. She has also been heavily influenced by her life experiences as a mother of five, a farmer, a teacher and an artist. Some of her gifts are: a strong intuition, an ability to communicate with the unconscious, a keen perception of energies in the physical /emotional / spiritual bodies, healing hands, a sharp clarity on relationships dynamics and her ability to be a safe container for people's inner growth.

Heloisa established her private practice in Toronto in 1995. She had also worked as an Expressive Arts Therapist with special needs children at Muki Baum Association 1999 -2001. She co-founded the Institute for Shamanic Psychotherapy (1996- 2001). And she is the founder and director of and The Shamanic Psychotherapy School -2005.

She holds several certifications: Shamanic Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, Spirit Releasement Therapy TM , Past life Regression Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, Reconnective Healing TM , Therapeutic Touch, Holodynamics, Soul Retrieval, Kundalini Yoga Teacher among others; and yet her main gift is to be in the moment, fully present to the other person 's process, creating a safe, strong and loving container; surrendering to the deep knowing and trusting the mystery of healing.

To find out more about Heloisa vist her the website for her private practice.

Catherine Stone M.S.W. R.S.W   is in private practice as a Shamanic psychotherapist. She is passionate about the heart's desire to heal and evolve. Tools to assist transformation include insight therapy, mindfulness, breath work, shamanic journeys, movement, bodywork, and expressive arts and ritual. She is certified in Holodynamic Energy Healing and has explored a personal practice of integrating mind and body spirit for 30 years.

Catherine leads ongoing woman's groups. She has lead empowerment and healing, workshops over the years at U.of T., Riverstone Centre in New Brunswick and in various locations in. She has lead Vision Quests at the Petroglyphs in Peterborough, and continues to seek out connection with the wisdom of nature through travel. She brings a background in working with adolescent offenders. This work which spanned over a 20 period involved crisis intervention, individual counseling and liaison with the community.

Christopher McDonald is an Internationally accredited Bioenergetic Therapist. With a focus to working with the personality and the body in terms of energetic expression he tends to look at healing in terms of flow and the individual’s capacity to experience the full range of affect states. A unique and varied observational and participatory relationship with the wilderness has given Chris an ability to look at the relationship between the self, the self and community and community and the biosphere from a relational and sustainable perspective. Chris has studied shock trauma with Peter Levine. More recent areas of study include the impulse to initiate and the sustainability of spiritual community and an unrelated theme of psychotic state experiences outside of the medical model.

Jeannette McCullough: is a Registered Nurse, Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher who has experience in many diverse health care settings, and as an educator at a community college. She is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies’ Three-Year Program in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing. Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman are her teachers. Jeannette is a founding member and served for three years on the executive of the Complementary Therapies Nurses’ Interest Group, a special interest group of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. She is also a founding member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners. Jeannette offers health teaching, supportive counseling and shamanic approaches to health and healing for individuals and groups at her independent practice in Toronto. www.shamansong.ca

Maria Iosue , MSW/RSW, MA - CAST/ISST Certified Sandplay Therapist - is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist serving families, adults, children and teens - both in hospital mental health and in her private practice. Her multi-faceted background interweaves threads of study, research, clinical practice, reflection, spirituality, and creative processes.

For nearly thirty years, Maria has studied the psychology of Carl Jung and his insights into the universal language of symbols. As part of her personal journey, Maria analyzed with Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman; and attended her series of psyche-soma workshops. Maria furthered her Jungian training through her studies in Sandplay Therapy as developed by Jung’s student Dora Kalff.

Maria has recently studied intensively with Dr. Violet Oaklander, Gestalt psychotherapist and author of the classic book on child psychotherapy, Windows to Our Children.

Since 2005, Maria developed and teaches a course on the use of Creativity in direct practice for Ryerson University and the First Nations Technical Institute. She has also presented at various Sandplay conferences in North America.

Maria has Masters Degrees in Social Work with a clinical emphasis, and in Sociology. She is registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She is also a certified member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy, and is currently President of the Canadian Association for Sandplay Therapy.

Robin Noya: is a Shamanic Psychotherapist in private practice for more than 20 years. He leads ongoing groups and workshops for men and women. His unique awareness of subtle energy dynamics enhances his body/mind work in sacred space. Some of the healing practices Robin employs are Mapping the Psyche, Grounding Spirituality, Breathwork, Sweat Lodges, accessing the resources of the Spirit World, and Psychotherapy.

Robin also teaches the integration of shamanism with psychotherapy to therapists and supervises students in the expressive arts.

He enjoys teaching movement meditation classes to people of all ages and has taught classes at University of Toronto.

Robin is a co-founder of the Institute for Shamanic Psychotherapy (1996- 2001). Working intimately and passionately with his colleagues to bring the best of teaching and the experiential... together, towards the deepening of self-knowledge and our relationship to the Mystery.

In the past 2 years Robin has given body/mind awareness workshops for the United Church.
What makes Robin unique is his strong ability to adapt his working style to the needs of the individual within a compassionate, practical and grounded approach