The Team of Ceremonial Leaders for The Journey of The Waters....   Oh Shinnáh Fastwolf Oh Shinnáh Fastwolf is an Earth Warrior of the Shishindi, the people called Apache. She was born in a crystal ceremony and immediately given by her parents to the Creator to be a warrior for the People of the Earth Mother. Oh Shinnáh is a published poet, writer and Interfaith Minister. She holds a BA in music theory, MA in voice from Denver University, A BA, MS in Clinical Psychology, Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the U. of Chicago.

With the permission on her many teachers from North and South America and across the Great Sea she has been of service to the Earth for over 30 years. Her work was acknowledged in 2001 when she was awarded The International Helen (Caldicott) Prize for Women in the category of Humanitarianism. Her name was also placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Wall of Tolerance in Alabama. Oh Shinnáh's most prestigious credit lies in her long history teaching rainbow people the medicine ways of her people and in her own unique healing perspective based on years of living in two worlds.

It took 15 years for Oh Shinnáh to get permission from her Apache teachers and elders to take non-native people on the ancient path of her people known to us as The Journey of the Waters. Every year Oh Shinnáh and two of her accomplices, Deep Arrow Woman and Bright Owl, take groups of native and non-native people into Sacred Waters in New Mexico and Colorado to be purified and transformed in a series of powerful and secret ceremonies. They are then initiated onto the Healing Path of Changing Woman.

Deep Arrow Woman and Bright Owl are long-time accomplices of Oh Shinnáh's who have been living her teachings for themselves in the dominant culture. In a spirit dream, Oh Shinnáh was directed to select these two women from amongst her many accomplices to train them so that they will continue the ceremony of the Journey of the Waters when she is ready to lay down this work.

The three women work together as a team to assist each participant in experiencing their lives coming more directly from Spirit and making choices to help and to heal to make the world a better place for everyone.

To learn more about Oh Shinnáh's life and work read Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elder Speak About the Earth by Steven Mc Fadden, and Five Great Healers Speak Here by N.E. Gardener & others books. For more information on her nation wide workshop calendar and to schedule a one-on-one consultation please contact Moonfire Meeting House at 631-287-9000.

Deep Arrow Woman Deep Arrow Woman is a successful business woman from the Big Apple. She now lives at the beach and dedicates her life to creating community in Spirit. In 1990 she founded Moonfire Meeting House, a spiritual community dedicated to the earth, and later opened The School of Women's Ways, dedicated to the Goddess . She's an ordained minister, with graduate degrees in Education and Environmental Science, as well as credentials in counseling and communication technologies. Through community, ceremony and ritual work she is transforming countless lives.

Bright Owl Bright Owl, Warrior Woman in the tradition of the Apache and Grandmother of the Naraya, is an RN from the Seattle area. For many years has been conducting sacred sweat, pipe, and moon ceremony for the community called Chaneeg Chaneesch. She is teaching now what she knows with great clarity and integrity. She is also an ordained minister and brings an MA in psychology to the Journey of the Waters. For more information about Bright Owl's Sweat Lodge schedule on Long Island please contact Moonfire Meeting House at 631-287-9000.