This year’s healer training 4 was amazing for me and life changing. It was a time for me to realize consciously that I can release what the past has represented and the way is clear for me to step fully into my present, and future.

At a Sedona retreat several years ago, while in my first sweat lodge, I started bawling uncontrollably: I felt a very palpable connection to a past life I had had as a plains Indian, and the aspect of my spirit who lived at that time. The woman’s name, it was shared with me, was Tatankh-wahe. My intuitive feeling was that Tatankh-wahe meant, “She who walks with buffalo.”

At HT4, while in the breathing meditation, Tatankh-wahe showed me the truth of this name. Her spirit merged energetically into a buffalo, and I felt myself, through her, running with the herd. I felt the wind on my face, in my fur, the gentle, supportive slope of the bare ground beneath my ‘feet’ as the herd traversed the countryside. In this way, I came to understand that Tatankh-wahe means “runs with buffalo.”

After I had run with the herd, I experienced the energy of White Buffalo Calf Woman place her hands on my 2nd and 4th chakras. She leaned her face over my right shoulder and blew - and with it came a very forceful wind, a dense fog-like wind, that swept the plains clear before me.

White Buffalo Calf Woman was clearing the path ahead for me to gently move forward with clarity and freedom.

Thank you, Tatankh-wahe and White Buffalo Calf Woman.