Lena Swanson

Next year will be my 25th anniversary of working as a professional animal communicator and holistic healer. I'm still at it after all these years and haven't slowed down a bit! I fact, I always say I'll keep doing this until I'm no longer able. I love it more and more each year if that's even possible.

Thinking back to the beginning there were a few people who were instrumental in getting me started and helping me along the way. Mary Stoffel was my first animal communication teacher and the inspiration to dive into this realm whole heartedly. Her loving and compassionate teaching made it easy to have success in her classes. Jeri Ryan came to Minnesota from California to teach an animal communication weekend and was pivotal in helping our group gain confidence in our skills. Echo Bodine helped me add psychic work to my tool box with her psychic development classes and Aurapalooza mini-expo events in Minneapolis. Julia Ingram also came to Minneapolis and taught a five day workshop and a follow up advanced session in the art of past life regression work. I took the first workshop out of curiosity but when I realized what a healing tool it is I decided to add it to my practice.

There are also the shamanic teachers who assisted my development as a healer after I was called to the shamanic path shortly after the unexpected death of my sister in 2001. I was blessed to attend numerous in-person workshops with both Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner before online courses took over much of the teaching. Being in circle with both of those amazing shamanic practitioners was an incredible honor and changed my life completely. My shamanic practice is based on their work.

I love what I do and can't believe it's been almost 25 years of doing it! I hadn't given it much thought until this revamping of my website and realizing how old and inaccurate my 'branding' is these days. I don't look anything like that now! But I don't mind. I'm still healthy and happy and I'm quite sure my clients don't care how I look as long as I'm helping them heal and be happy. As always, thank you for trusting me with your animal friends and your healing paths. I'm truly honored to be able to work with so many people and their animal companions!