Raven Medicine

~ My Story ~

When working with subtle energy, I feel at home.

For as long as I can remember, I have felt connected to something greater than myself. As a child, I was naturally sensitive to energy and had an instinct for healing, although I didn't understand what I was experiencing. For a great deal of my childhood I grew up in an environment where there was immense turmoil … but from this I acquired one of my greatest strengths – that of being a highly sensitive intuitive and empath. I see you. I feel you. And if I can, I will help you.

Years later, when I began formally studying energy healing, something clicked.

I had found a language for something that had always felt deeply familiar, but I hadn’t dared to embrace as real. It took me many years to get over myself and dance with the divine. And I cannot stress enough how much I love and feel honoured to do this work.

photograph by Brianna Goldie

photograph by Brianna Goldie

Before this, I have primarily been recognized as an award-winning actor and storyteller for over 33 years. I sing, dance, design, write, direct, produce and wrote an award-winning one woman show called 'Addicted'. You can see more info about it (including the powerful ancestral puppets I created for it)

I love being a storyteller. I work with/through my mind/body/spirit to connect to that of humanity and the human condition. I relay what our stories are, what makes us tick, what makes us laugh, what makes us cry. I think being a professional storyteller and energy medicine worker is the most beautiful thing in the world! They are deeply connected in many ways. They both intimately (and profoundly) work with spirit. Across cultures and generations, storytelling and healing have often lived side by side. They are ways of making meaning, carrying wisdom and helping us understand our place within something larger than ourselves.

Who knows how long we will be here for on this earth, or the adventures our lives will bring. Our journeys are vast and varied. Our experiences intimate. Sacred.

This path of energy medicine work that I am on, continually brings me to places of deep love, wonder and joy. I look forward to where this journey takes me.

And I hope to meet up with you along the way.

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The Journey

~ My Training ~

My formal journey into energy healing began in 2016 with Reiki and intuitive development. That same year, I travelled to Peru to begin an apprenticeship in Andean/Peruvian shamanic healing traditions — a path that would eventually lead me to become a Pampa Mesayoq in 2019.

Over the past ten years, my studies have taken me from my home in Canada to Peru, Scotland, Costa Rica, Brazil and more. Learning from gifted teachers and exploring healing traditions and practices that have continued to deepen and shape my own. I have certification in Reiki, Shamanism, Sundoor Firewalking and Motivational Coaching. Most recently, I completed the 2026 Energy Medicine Training through The Four Winds. The learning (and growing!) never ends.

I remain a student of this work and continue to expand my knowledge, skills and practice — not simply to collect techniques or certifications, but to become a more present, capable and compassionate practitioner for those who place their trust in me.

We are all teachers along the way...

And I cannot recommend the following people enough... they have profoundly shaped and changed my life for the better from the sharing of their wisdom, skill, expertise and hearts. Contact them and they will change your life too!

My studies have included training with: Chris Bale/Awakened Intent, Dany Lyne, Debra Lynne Katz PhD, Dr. d'bi.young anitafrika, Mandika Divya, Master Ou/Pangu Shengong, Stephanie Norwich, Stephen Mulhearn/Lendrick Lodge, Peggy Dylan/Sundoor, The Four Winds, The Peru Shamans, Transcendental Meditation and Vipassana.

Paco Initiation

Peru 2016

Pampa Mesayoq Graduation

Peru 2019

After my own near-death experience, I moved deeply into my spirituality, and to my healing and intuitive work. Engaging with many clients, I learned how energy flows and responds. I saw that human hearts are held open and closed, and felt how the world breathes its wisdom to us when we call it.

When I first met Raven, I met a sister. Her spirit was brilliant, and clean, potent energy poured into her and through her in ways that I didn’t often see. Life responds to the creative, to the brave, and to the artistic souls among us. The energies of the visible and unseen worlds will work with those who cultivate respect, work in integrity, and authentically care. Raven offers – not forces – the highest light for her clients. She has worked for a lifetime with creative energies and therefore they can communicate with her beyond the world of form and words.

I don’t usually invite other energy workers to heal me, but I welcome Raven. The energies of balance and vibrancy care for her and work with her. Many of her clients won’t know anything other than how loving her space feels. I know that there is a journey her body-heart-mind has intentionally walked and that the offerings she is able to make are potent and in service of Love.

- M.M.

Why I Created ZEMAYA

Life asks a great deal of us.

We are living through a time of extraordinary change, strife and uncertainty. Between the weight of world events and the everyday responsibilities of our own lives, there can be a lot to carry. With seemingly endless demands on our time, attention, bodies and hearts, it can become difficult to hear ourselves—to recognize what we need, what we are carrying, and what we are ready to release.

ZEMAYA is a space to come back to yourself.

Through energy medicine work, I help support the body's energetic systems in returning toward greater balance and alignment. Depending on the person and the work we are doing together, a session may focus on releasing what no longer serves, creating greater energetic ease, reconnecting with inner resources, or simply providing a quiet place to rest, receive and reset.

photograph by Brianna Goldie

I believe each of us carries an innate intelligence, strength and capacity for healing within.

My role is to listen deeply, work with the energetic patterns that present themselves, and create a safe and respectful space in which that inner wisdom can be supported.

The work can be subtle. It can also be intimate and powerful. Most importantly, we work together.

My purpose in this work is to support you in releasing what may be standing in the way of your own profound wisdom and strength — creating greater space for presence, connection, ease and joy.

This is why I created ZEMAYA.

And it would be an honour to support you on your healing journey.

— Raven

photograph by Brianna Goldie