About

Founder of Shamanka

Eliana Harvey (20/05/1930 -18/09/2024)  

Eliana was a gifted Shamanka, Medicine Woman and Healer. She was considered to be the leading teacher of women's Shamanism and the recovering of the Feminine Principle. She founded her training school in the early Nineties, beginning with the Mystical Journey and followed by the Wise Woman workshops for six years. The Shamanka School of Women's Shamanism was established in 1990.

Eliana had a Celtic inheritance, she was steeped in Celtic lore from childhood. Her father was a noted pioneer of osteopathy in the UK, and was also a medical 'psychic', her mother was a healer and early Bach Flower practitioner.

The personal quest for Eliana began with Yoga which she has practiced and taught all her adult life. Apart from her original training in Acupressure and Chinese Medicine, she is also an initiate of the Western Sufi Healing Order with Hazrat Inayat Khan. However in the eraly nineties the Shamanic Path then became her major quest, beginning with Harley Swiftdeer of the Deer Tribe. Brooke Medicine Eagle, the Crow Blackfoot Medicine Woman, gave her permission to pass on some of her ceremonies. Her other significant teachers were Arwen Dreamwalker, Victor Sanchez from the Toltec tradition, Marilyn Tunneshende, from the Castaneda and Curendera path, and O'Shinnah the Cherokee crystal healing medicine woman. Eliana was honoured by John Twobirds, a Native Elder medicine man, who initiated her as a ceremonial pipe carrier and sweat lodge leader.

More recently Eliana had explored the Inka Traditions where she found a number of teachers including Inti Cesar Malasquz and Dr Alberto Villoldo of the Four Winds Society. She  found this Andean cosmology to be a deeply feminine way of life and spirit. Recently she trained with the Andean Master Shaman Kurak Akulleq and Mystic Don Juan Nunez Del Prado and was initiated 4th level Paquo (Shaman).

 

Shamanka staff

The energy which is emerging for these times is one of enthusiastic group cooperation and support, so Shamanka has formed a team of wise, gifted and dedicated teachers of Shamanka who have fully trained with Eliana and explored other spiritual paths.
They have their own practices, shamanic healers and teachers. They have a passionate commitment to helping other women to discover their true essence by reclaiming the beauty and potency of their deep feminine.
They will be fully supporting each other and in turn know that each student deserves personal care on their journey, so are at the end of a phone or email.
The Training offers enriching and transformative processes, ceremonies and authentic initiations. All the processes are for personal growth and healing, then form part of the repertoire of the full range of shamanic healing practices for those who are called to become shamanic healers.

This Training is certificated and officially recognized for insurance purposes.

Staff Personel:

Aimee Smith
Samantha Flounders


Rowena Hillier

 

Rowena started her training at Shamanka in 2005 and has gained a Master's certificate in Shamanism and the Shamanic Arts. In 2013 she went to Peru where she spent six months working at Kiya Survivors Projects. This gave her the experience of working and living alongside the Peruvian people, at the end of her stay she went on a sacred tour with Maria Moonstar the Shamanka trail.

On her return for the past ten years she has worked and taught alongside Eliana. Her new role now is as a mentor to the students on the teacher training program and to support the 1st and 2nd year students on their personal journeys at Shamanka. She has my own practice in Okehampton where she does one to one sessions, puts on workshops, and runs a monthly drumming circle. She also presents a workshop at the UK Shamanic Gathering. She has worked online with Puma Fredy Quispe Singona and his teaching of the Peruvian Shaman, and attended the Way of the Buzzard retreats.