Skinner
Initiated Wixárika Mara’akame, Nahua Granicera, and Sacred Fire Keeper. Devoted to helping individuals restore harmony within themselves and their lives through ancestral shamanic healing traditions and ceremonial practice.
Traditional healing is not magic – it is a deeply transformative spiritual medicine that helps release emotional blockages and trauma and the patterns that prevent us from living fully present lives.”
Healing & Service
From childhood, Susan has carried a deep sense of wonder about the natural world and the unseen dimensions of life. Her calling to healing service led her from emergency medicine to the deep roots of traditional and spiritual healing – an exploration that would shape her entire adult life.”
In 2003, Susan and her husband traveled to Mexico and were initiated into the Nahua weather working tradition. Through a visionary dream and guidance from Wixárika elders, she entered a nine-year apprenticeship, ultimately becoming an initiated Mara’akame under the guidance of Tsaurixika elder Don Jose Sandoval de la Cruz.
Susan serves on the Board of Trustees of Sacred Fire, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting people to lives of meaning and purpose by way of ceremony and learning through the gifts of Sacred Fire. She also serves on the Kawiterutsixi Council of Elders for Grupo Tatewari and has maintained her healing practice in middle Tennessee for over twenty years.
📍 The Farm, Summertown · Nashville, Tennessee · Annual ceremonies in Mexico
Traditional clearing practices that help remove spiritual burdens, emotional blocks, and imbalances.
Sessions begin with conversation and spiritual assessment to understand where healing support is most needed.
Monthly Sacred Fire gatherings open to all. Fire supports transformation, prayer, and authentic community healing.
Healing work guided through ancestral traditions, ceremony, prayer, and sacred relationship with nature.
Working in deep spiritual relationship with the healing intelligence of plants as living spiritual allies.
Available in person in Summertown or Nashville, or by phone or video conference. Healing transcends physical distance.
Traditions
Healing Tradition
Through nine years of apprenticeship, including pilgrimages, ceremony, sacred offerings, and initiation with Wixárika elders, Susan serves as a Mara’akame — a ceremonial healer and leader who works deeply with nature as a living spiritual world. This traditional healing restores balance to the spirit at the root of illness.
Weather Working
Initiated into the Nahua Granicero or Quialtzque tradition —ceremonial weather workers maintain sacred relationship and reciprosity with these forces of nature. Graniceros gather annually in the central highlands of Mexico to perform ceremonies calling the beneficial rains and renewing relationships with the natural forces of weather.
Keeping
An initiated Sacred Fire Keeper who has facilitated monthly Sacred Fires since 2003. Susan serves on the Board of Trustees of Sacred Fire, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting people to each other and spirit through the ancient gift of Fire and Firekeeping.
“This healing is dedicated to initiating transformation in the lives of people so they can better align with the natural cycles of life and face our inevitable challenges with balance and courage.”
— Susan Skinner, healing practice in Tennessee for 20+ years
Consultation
Healing begins with conversation. Whether you are seeking clarity, facing a life transition, or feeling called toward deeper alignment, Susan is available for sessions in person, by phone, or online.
📍In Person The Farm, Summertown TN & Nashville TN.
💻 Remote Sessions Available by phone or video — healing transcends location
🔥 Monthly Sacred Fire Circles Open community gatherings — open to all who come respectfully
Initiated Wixárika Mara’akame, Nahua Granicera, and Sacred Fire Keeper. Offering traditional healing, ceremony, and spiritual guidance in Tennessee and throughout the world.
Healing Practice
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Nashville, TN
Practiced with reverence for the traditions and communities that gave rise to this work.