About

Trishuwa works with the ceremonial forms of communicating with the invisibles of the world-Sweat Lodge, Sacred Pipe, Vision Quest and the Medicine Wheel.  She is Ceremonial Director of the Church of Gaia and founding member of Foundation for Gaian Studies.  As a young child she lived near San Juan Pueblo in New Mexico, along the Rio Grande.  While living there she had her first visions that have guided her throughout her life and are the foundation of her work.  She is of mixed blood; Irish, Cherokee, African American and English.  Her genetic mixture and spiritual visions influenced her to advocate the inclusion of people of all races in indigenous ceremony.

She has taught Earth-centered ceremony and spiritual practice at such places as the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanic Studies in Boulder, Colorado; Dry Creek Herb Farm in California; Brietenbush Herb Conference in Oregon, the International Herb Symposium outside Boston, MA, Green Nations Gathering and The New England Women’s Herbal Conference.  She continues to travel and teach nationally each year.

Working many of her later years as a psychotherapist with those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder or schizophrenia, she utilized Nuero Linguistic Programming, Milton Erickson hypnosis and regressive treatment to help her clients.  Her skills as a psychotherapist create a mature, elegant approach to spiritual mentoring and healing sessions with people throughout North America.

Trishuwa’s apprenticeship with Sun Bear, the Ojibway holy man who founded The Bear Tribe Medicine Society included working with Vision Quest, Sacred Pipe, Sweat Lodge, the Medicine Wheel, and the indigenous heart language for communicating with all species, the elementals, and the invisible world of Spirit.  Her teaching partnership with Stephen Buhner expanded these ceremonies to include inner-council work focusing on individual awareness which is intuitive and feeling based as well as analytical.

The astrological combination of The Medicine Wheel and the Zodiac is unique.  Trishuwa brings the two ancient Wheels together in her Earth Astrology chart readings.  Her studies in western mysticism led to her discovery of Tarot which she includes in her consultations. 

As a political activist she worked as a lobbyist for the Equal Rights Amendment, migrant worker rights and low-income housing.   Her public education papers on the mass transportation and low-income housing influenced popular opinion and new legislation was passed in spite of the Nixon freeze on public spending.

She co-published The Mining Record, the oldest newspaper in Colorado, with Don Howell in the 1970s and early eighties.   During this time the Mining Record was revitalized and a new editorial policy and insight brought it recognition in the Mining industry with comprehensive coverage bringing the newspaper to international attention. The Mining Record continues to be published by Don Howell and their son, Dale Howell.  

Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, on “Good Morning America,” and on “CNN.”  She now lives in New Mexico with her partners, Julie McIntyre and Stephen Buhner, author of The Fasting Path, Lost Language of Plants., and The Secret Teaching of Plants

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What other teachers have to say about Trishuwa:

"Trishuwa's teachings are grounded in ancient traditions which allow her to teach us time-honored methods toward self-realization. Hers are the way of the heart, honoring spirit and nature, knowing all life is sacred. She understands the role of a teacher, and brings into the process the all-important tools of humor, humility, and experience. I highly recommend any of her classes to those with a desire to discover themselves through Earth Wisdom."

-Shatoiya de La Tour – herbalist, educator and author

"Trishuwa offers us holistic healing at its deepest level — through a melding of Earth and human spirit. She is truly a 'Wise Woman.' She brings to us the most needed gift of all – hope."

-Gregory L. Tilford, herbalist and author of "From Earth to Herbalist"