Trishuwa

Trishuwa is an Earth keeper and Metis of Irish and Cherokee
lineage. Born into a family of social activists involved in the first
efforts to unionize the railroads, she lived for many years as
young child near San Juan Pueblo in New Mexico. Her first ceremonial experiences were with the San Juan Pueblo people
who live 25 Miles north of Santa Fe on the Rio Grande.


	A former newspaper publisher and editor of The Mining Record, the oldest newspaper in Colorado, she received acclaim for revitalizing the newspaper with groundbreaking stories and brought the newspaper to international attention. She is currently the editor of the Journal for the Foundation for Gaian Studies. 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 spent many of her later years as a psychotherapist working for nearly two decades with
those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder or schizophrenia, later apprenticing with Sun Bear, the Ojibway holy man who founded The Bear Tribe Medicine Society. For the past two decades Trishuwa has been teaching Earth ceremony and relationship. Many communities throughout North American look forward to Trishuwa's return each year. These programs offer ancient ceremonies, circles of healing, ritual with The Medicine Wheel and the Sacred Pipe.

She teaches an Earth-centered spiritual meditation practice at these programs as well as through her correspondence course, Ceremony as a Way of Life. Once a year Trishuwa offers a Vision Quest program in a different wilderness location. Her astrological combination of The Medicine Wheel and the Zodiac is unique, bringing two ancient Wheels together in her Earth Astrology chart readings. She is currently director of ceremonial training programs for The Church of Gaia and lives with her husband Stephen Buhner.

She has taught the ceremonial uses of herbs and plant medicines for many years 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. Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, on "Good Morning American," and on "CNN."

"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"