Meet Mona Rain

In 1998, Mona was plunged into a “healing crisis” from vaccine poisoning, and experienced her initiatory “shamanic death.” The experience propelled Mona to seek shamanic connection and guidance to access profound healing within herself. She was led to the Yachak fire shamans in Ecuador and was initiated into the Path of Light and Fire Tradition in the high Andean mountains. From that moment, the energies and traditions of the Andes became her passion and life’s work. The story of the beginning of her shamanic path has been published in Shamanic Transformations – True Stories of the Moment of Awakening, edited by Itzhak Beery (published by Inner Traditions, 2015). You can also read about it in this blog post.

As Mona’s fascination in the shamanic realms grew and her experiences in personal healing continued, her journeys and training brought her to the indigenous cultures of North and South America. She has been blessed with powerful ceremonial interactions, teachings, practices, and initiations from don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, John Perkins, anthropologists and archeologists of Peru, the Yatiri Elders of Bolivia, the Grandmothers of the Global Sacred Water Tribe, as well as other tribal medicine keepers of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Mona has spent extensive time traveling throughout Peru and Ecuador, with direct initiations, experiences and training.