KEN GLOWACKI, DACM, LAc

Guest Faculty

My path to shamanism began many years ago. As a child, I would travel at night to other dimensions. Most in my family, a religious household, did not understand what I was experiencing. But one of my female elders began to teach me about other spiritual realms, about how we inhabit both material and spiritual realities. Over the years, this training has always been an important investigation for me. I understand today how these experiences prepared me to travel to the spirit worlds known to shamans.

The quest into shamanism continued for me through one of my long-time teachers, a Daoist priest. He taught me not only the fundamentals of Chinese medicine, but how to contact other spirit levels, which led me to greater questions.

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies has given me the tools to help me find my own answers to these questions. Through the FSS, I found a community where I can explore and discover for myself the nature and reality of the compassionate helping spirits, who have provided me with powerful support for my healing work. I am grateful to share the Foundation’s profound healing and knowledge workshops with others. I have completed the Foundation’s Two Week Healing Intensive with Robbie Staufer and the Three Year Program of Advanced Initiations in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing with Susan Mokelke.

In addition to my active shamanic healing practice, I am a professor in the Classical Chinese Medicine Program at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, where I teach a wide variety of classes in the Chinese medicine program and see patients in my private practice. I have a MATESOL in education from the Monterey Institute and a DACM from Pacific College of Health and Science.