. . . : : : ||| : : : . . .		My name is Wahkeena Sitka Tidepool Ripple. Please feel free to call me Sitka for short. I am 28 years old and live in Portland, OR. I am a gifted polyrhythmic and overtone / throat singing vocalist, a trance channel, clairvoyant, an ecstatic dancer, and mystic artisan. I was born in Ohio within a deeply traditional fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and spent the majority of my childhood and adolescence suicidally depressed. So I have first hand experience of the power of transformation. Since age 18, I have been deeply driven by the quest for healing, mysticism, shamanism, spiritual ecstasy, and being guided in the flow of grace. I have spent time as a travelling gypsy travelling around the United States, and living in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, travelling through Yucatan & Chiapas Mexico and connecting to the Inkan and Amazonian shamanic medicinas in Peru ~ But I love my community and home here in Portland. My home and practice space is a gorgeous golden Temple sanctuary, located in SE Portland near Hawthorne. I have learned & practiced a wide range of alternative energy-based healing modalities ::       Thai Massage with D'vorah Swarzmann       Trance Dance Facilitation with Wilbert Alix       Bio-Dynamic Cranial Sacral with Todd Jackson       Ayahuasca Ceremonies with Peruvian Shamans       5 Years of Tantric Practice       7 Years of practicing Reiki       I have learned & practiced Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi, Iyengar Yoga, Chi Gung, & Zen Meditation.       I have a regular practice of internal self-cultivation with QiGong, Kundalini Kriyas, Meditation, Yogic Movement & Stretches, Ecstatic Dance and Weight Lifting.       I have devoted lots of work to examine and explore all the layers of my unconsciousness, my higher consciousness, my dream consciousness, my body and my relationships. Offering this work is my attempt to be in integrity with my soul's purpose, doing the work I was put here on the planet to do. Doing this work fills me with tremendous joy and gratitude.       If you would like to learn more about me :: Please Visit My Personal Website :: IlluminEscens