Aloha! My name is Chandra Sun Eagle. I am very grateful for the opportunity to share some of my story and some of the indigenous teachings of “Walking in Beauty”, that have been passed down and shared by spirits and ancestors of the dreamtime, the forces of nature, and by the medicine men and medicine women of North and South America.

If you were to see me on the street, at first glance you would most likely see a light skin, green-eyed, surfer girl in baggy shorts and slippers. If we had a moment or two to stand in each other’s presence, you would most likely see a light-hearted individual who loves to laugh. And if we were to sit side by side while in ceremony, you would most likely experience a passionate and intense woman, with wings like Eagle and Jaguar eyes, a woman who has come to be a carrier of the the ancient ways and protector of the Earth, and a trail guide for others through the vast domains of the seen and unseen worlds. I am one of many who have come to bridge the worlds, the past, present and future, and to pave a way of unity of love for a new era. Tinorangatiratanga! “To gather the people, to walk one path, forever.” And so it is.

I grew up in a small mountain town in Colorado, with two older brothers and one younger brother, a mom and a dad. Nature and sports were my passion, and the term “tomboy” was often used by others to describe me. I was a tomboy, if that’s what you call a strong, athletic girl who preferred hiking and skiing over shopping and makeup. I didn’t really have a problem with being a tomboy until I realized that that was a prominent way in which I was viewing myself and was viewed by others. It came to feel like a box that I wanted to break free from. As a young girl and into my late teens, boys would often slug me on the shoulder to say “hi”, failing to see that inside there was a young girl who was just as sensitive as she was tough, and wanted to be treated as such. It was in my late 20’s that I felt a strong desire and urgent need, to step out of some old shoes, (on many levels). This inner desire became an exploration of my femininity, my goddess self and what it meant to live more aligned with the wild, native soul within. In the beginning I wasn’t sure who or what I was growing into, and to be honest I was nervous to find out. Awkward with myself through all of the changes, I realized over the years that an essential component to riding the winds of change, was having people in my life that truly saw me and could see my potential, when I was not able to. Thank goodness for dear friends and teachers who could see what I couldn’t at the time, a young woman who had many different faces, all of which were ok to express, and an old power that was just waiting to be reborn.

I now reside on the Island of Kauai where my spirit sisters and I tend our land in Kahuna Valley, offer shamanic trainings and workshops, retreats, shamanic energy healing, sound healing circles and ceremony for transformation. I work with individuals and groups.

What Toni has asked me to share with you over the next 12 months is my experience as it relates to becoming a Shaman, the vision that was gifted me, and how I have come to the place where I am today. As I share with you pieces of my journey, I want to thank you for hearing and honoring my story and I hope that I have the opportunity to hear of some your story someday. My wish for theses writings is that they are a source of inspiration, laughter, guidance for your journey, and that they serve as way to give back all that I have been blessed to receive.

So, I would like to invite you along for an adventure. A journey that may in the beginning seem personal to me, but is really the same journey you are on. Our encounters and experiences along the way are perhaps different, but at the core, the essence of what we seek is the same. Peace. Joy. Love. Meaning. Acceptance. Courage to live freely and to express our creative voice. One could call this journey we are on a return HOME. Or perhaps a soul’s journey to Unity with the collective heart. For me it has been a return to living in communion with the sacred nature of my soul and with all my relations. This journey is a process of remembering. Remembering our original essence, our divinity, our interconnectedness with all life and our purpose as it relates to the Whole and the creation of Beauty. It is a process of recovering and healing our past, while uncovering and releasing the inner restrictions that bind us to stagnation, fear, self doubt and to repeating the same unhealthy patterns over and over. This is a great adventure we are all on, one that requires the balance between discipline and spontaneity, the courage to change and the acceptance to surrender. The success of this momentous adventure commands the ability to find stillness and the ability to flow. And learning the undeniable art of self-mastery and self-love.

In the activation of past memories of being a medicine woman, warrior and star child, and once again being able to let the force of creation live through me, I have come to know a raw power that is wild and full of primal, un-potentiated essence. This essence is capable of moving mountains and shifting the forms of the physical world. And it lies at the very essence and core of who I/We are. This fertile and fluid life force that moves through each of us is neither feminine nor masculine. It is both. And it is neither. It is the unnamable life force and flame of creation that makes stars, gives birth to babies, creates tornadoes and the Mystery Intelligence that brings people and places together through, awesomely, synchronistic events, that at times seem “to magical to be true”. We are each a thread that is woven into this blanket of Oneness. And we are the weavers and the patterns being woven. We are the weavers. And we are the woven.

The path we travel is not always clear, nor is it always comfortable. Moments of challenge can be seen as roadblocks or they can be seen as stepping-stones. The choice is ours in very moment.

Stay tuned.

With munay

Chandra Sun Eagle