Get To Know Us
We are a team of NIASZIIH practitioners committed in our vision to offer healing for ourselves, for people, and for the earth. With our passion, we offer a donation based healing clinic for our community and those in need, in order to create an accessible, open, and compassionate environment for you on your healing journey. Each clinic two or more of our healers below will work with you to guide you in your healing journey. If you wish to get in touch with any of our healers personally, we have contact information linked in our bios, or send us an email NIASZIIH.contactcollective@gmail.com
Carleigh Fairchild
Healing 7 NIASZIIH Practitioner
Carleigh Fairchild is an adventurer and a seeker of wisdom. Beginning as a teenager she learned and loved the skills of the land; gardening, foraging, starting fires, building shelters, processing animal hides, and weaving baskets. Living in western North Carolina, Carleigh is a NIASZIIH practitioner, an earth skills mentor, and an inspirational speaker. Having spent a lot of time living solo on the land Carleigh brings to her healing work a passion for connecting to the earth, and the ability to hold and ask questions from many perspectives.
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Ruth Manning
7 Year Graduate - NIASZIIH Practitioner
I have been playing in the woods and painting my entire life. In the mid- 1970s I studied Art at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY.
In the mid-1990s I began attending classes at Tom Brown, Jr’s Tracker School where my appreciation of the natural world began to deepen. Through the Tracker School classes I became interested in energy healing work and also started studying herbalism, both at the Tracker School and with Patricia Chichon of Lambertville, NJ.
In the summer of 2012, I learned about Wilderness Fusion and that autumn, right after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast and caught up in the whirlwind, I began my studies there. This last December, I finished my 7th year of Niasziih training.
Three years ago I began to hold Niasziih Healing Clinics in my home as a way to help wildernessFusion students come together and do the work. I am very happy that we will be able to continue this work in a different format for the time being. I currently reside in Central New York State, north of Utica. I am working remotely with clients and am also available to do distanced landscape healings in person for those interested.
Email:
ruthwmanning@comcast.net
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Emily Shaw
7 year Graduate - NIASZIIH Practitioner
Emily infuses earth centered medicine and physical awareness to provide a container to meet you, your inner earth and inner guidance.
She has spent over a decade mentoring children and adults through coyote teaching and ancestral based skills, alongside almost a decade of body-centered/somatic healing and massage.
She bridges this experience and passion with the ancestral skills, plant spirit medicine, herbalism/foraging, body awareness, movement therapy, and earth centered teaching to provide a container that meets the client in various healing perspectives; so we can discover the capacity of who you truly are and desire to be.
Her interests and expertise also include movement/fascial based therapy, relationship dynamics/dating, mental health, sexuality, womb/feminine centered wisdom, grief, song/theatre, and timelessness.
Email: Emily.jshaw@gmail.com
Website: www.earthembodiedhealing.com
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Nancye Good
7 year graduate- NIASZIIH practitioner
A passion for learning and sharing ancestral skills with children, families and teens finds Nancye on this journey towards Niasziih healing work. Former work as an interpreter and journalist for Japanese television helped hone Nancye's curiosity about the mystery of the world, and wonder about the different perspectives that can exist.
Email: nancyelgood@gmail.com
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Ivan Matsumoto
NIASZIIH Healing Year 7
Working as a hairstylist for over 20+ years, I’ve learned that we all are here dealing with our own life struggles and lessons... to survive and thrive with love, joy and happiness. Gaining different perspectives from different individuals, I have learned to love all aspects of life. I walk the path of a NIAISZIIH practitioner’s healing journey. Inspired by people, nature and the serendipity of life. I want to work together to create a World of healing. Let the healing begin...
Email: Ivanmhawaii@yahoo.com
Sarah Sheppard
NIASZIIH Healing Year 7
As a hairstylist and empath, Sarah has been helping her clients see themselves from a new perspective for the past 15 years. She combines her love of beauty, self care, and shadow work to help others explore their external and internal landscapes. Her personal struggle with addiction opened the door to her own Healing Journey years ago. As a NAISZIIH practitioner, she uses her sensitivity as her gift, wandering through the wild places that exist within each one of us.
Email:
sarahsheppard647@gmail.com
Taryn FitzGerald
NIASZIIH Healing Year 7
Living in NYC, Taryn has always found refuge and inspiration in nature, which has allowed her to slow down and tune in to herself as well as to the wonders of Earth, its creatures, and the Cosmos. Inspired by her own healing journey, Taryn knits this deep nature connection with her work as an artist & writer to help clients visualize more space around the choices they are making in their lives. She holds a certificate in Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy as well as experience in many healing modalities, culminating now in her work as a Niasziih practitioner.
Email: taryn@rur.com
Krista Bowman
NIASZIIH Healing Year 4
Krista is a mama, intuitive healer, and an environmental educator. Through her personal journey with trauma, chronic illness and recovery work, she has developed a natural and compassionate ability to hold space for others as they navigate their individual healing paths. As a 500-hour certified yoga teacher, a Reiki Master, a third-year student of NiasziiHealing, and a teacher for the past 15 years, Krista facilitates private sessions, custom circles, workshops, rituals, ceremonies, and soulcraft experiences for those who seek to deepen their connection to their authentic selves. Krista offers her clients a safe, tender, nurturing, and creative soul work experience in order to identify and remove the obstacles that may be preventing the client from existing in personal freedom. Her passion for awakening her clients’ consciousness and connection opens the doorway to experience unconditional love, radical acceptance, inner peace, universal alignment, individual empowerment, and deep healing with the intention of being able to move forward on the path to creating the life they authentically want and deserve. Krista’s deepest desire and true calling is to guide others back home to themselves, to each other, and to nature through love, connection, and empowerment for the healing benefit of the individual, as well as the collective. In addition to being a healer, Krista also has a Master's Degree in Elementary Education and a certificate in the Education for Sustainability.
E-mail: awaikinwithkrista@gmail.com
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Kealey Viglielmo
Healing 2 NIASZIIH Practitioner
A lifelong fascination and ever-deepening Love for this Earth has brought me to the threshold of healing and beyond. I am grateful for the re-ignition of Purpose that naturalist studies as a conservation biologist, and student of Tom Brown Jr. - and thereby a deeply empowered lineage of healers, protectors & children of the Earth, has afforded me. My journey has taken me to many far-flung places in search of Truth: the Silence of the Catskill & Adirondack forests, the Simplicity of the St. Lawrence river valley, the Sacred Temples of the Pine Barrens, the crisp, enlivening Potential of a Maine spring, the tropical communal Joy of St. Croix, the Stillness of Utah’s arid shale dessert, and now, finally North Carolina’s Appalachias in honor of becoming.
I’ve been graced to learn from many excellent teachers while among many inspiring students. I have been fortunate to lay on many tables being witnessed by many masterful healers. What a great gift it is to now be among them learning to witness. To honor but a few: Jon Young, Malcolm Ringwalt, Karl Direske & Patricia Miller, Cathy Shrady, Jed Schwartz, Joseph Tieri, Arthur Haines, all my brothers and sisters embodying Niasziih, the Tracker Keepers & Vision Quest Protectors. — Towards living a Vision worth dying for!