Colleen Deatsman is the co-author of Seeing in the Dark: Claim you Own Shamanic Power Now and in the Coming Age (Red Wheel Weiser, 2009), author of three books, Energy for Life: Connect with the Source (Llewellyn, 2006), Inner Power: Six Techniques for Increased Energy and Self-Healing (Llewellyn, 2005), Naked To My Soul: How I Beat Chronic Illness, and numerous articles. She is a frequent contributor to several local and statewide publications on health and wellness, self-healing, Reiki, spiritual enlightenment, and shamanism. Colleen is a healer. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Shamanic Practitioner, Licensed Social Worker, Reiki Master, Certified Hypnotherapist, and Certified Alternative Healing Consultant. She has a Master's Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Michigan State University and is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3 year intensive program with Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman, soul retrieval intensive with Sandra Ingerman, 2 year intensive shamanic teacher training with Sandra Ingerman, and numerous concentrated intensives and on-going shamanic trainings with various well-known and unknown teachers. Colleen has been exploring health and wellness, spiritual development and personal growth, and incorporating these learnings into therapy and workshop trainings since 1981. She is the owner and sole practitioner of the private practice Circle of Life in Mason, MI and Bloomsburg, PA offering alternative healing and counseling services. Colleen is a teacher of the healing arts. Techniques from Seeing in the Dark, Energy for Life and Inner Power are the foundation of "The Deatsman Program", a comprehensive training program of energizing, self-healing, self-discovery, spirit-connecting, and self-actualization currently being offered through the internet and numerous hospitals, bookstores, churches, and health and wellness centers nationally. In these dynamic experiential weekend trainings, students learn step-by-step techniques that they can easily apply to their everyday lives to uncover and reverse the causal factors of imbalances such as energy loss, fatigue, depression, anxiety, addiction, and illness. - www.redwheelweiser.com