Neva has been a wellness counselor and quantum energy healer since 1991. She is also a Reiki Master and is certified in foot reflexology and herbology. She maintains a health and wellness portal called Ask a Healer, dedicated to providing answers to health questions from an alternative health care and spiritual healing perspective.
Within the over 700 pages of holistic health and spiritual wellness articles in the wellness library at Ask a Healer, Neva offers several free programs including a metaphysical acting class, energetic healing class and dream interpretation diary
Since beginning her healing practice in 1991, Neva has gone through several life-changing shifts that have naturally began to inform her work in different ways. Most predominently were three direct energy transfers that allowed for massive paradigm shifts.
Neva is in the process of seeking soul community. As she walks through this journey of discovery and answering the call of her Spirit, she remains available to share with others the gifts of the spiritual activations she has received. In seeking community, what feels most significant is a sense of spiritual freedom, a dedication to holistic health and natural healing, and a creatively supportive environment.
Neva has always been a very creative soul and loves acting, singing, writing and painting. She believes acting can be a noble craft and that creative performance can be a spiritually transformative tool. Laughter can heal, in a different way, tears can heal. When someone watches a movie and identifies with a character, more transformative release may occur than that same person might be able to allow in a healing faciitation session. Sometimes, a film with a message and a powerful cast can make a person look at their lives differently.
From Neva about the power of Creative Artistry:
I remember a scene in American Beauty....the young man filming the paper bag being blown around in the wind...he thought it was the most beautiful thing and, seen through his eyes, it became beautiful to me as well. He said this old world had so much beauty in it that sometimes he could barely stand it. And I began to look at everything around me and to remember to find more beauty because of that moment.
I also remember the end of that movie because it was first time I really believed that death didn't have to be tragic. What a blessing to die at the very moment when you realize what life was really about, what mattered, and who you loved; to die with such clarity that you are smiling with joy at all of it - the struggles, the mistakes, the pain, the suffering and the blindness of mind that made clarity so challenging to maintain....to understand your life, it's meaning and what was of value in it in such a brilliant circle of light and then, to die with that smile of knowing on your human lips, could be magical and as far away from tragic as I can imagine.
I enjoy acting and it doesn't really matter to me whether my character is illuminating the light or the dark of our human experience. We must see both clearly to shift consciousness. Denying what we have named evil, does not make it go away. Bringing it to Light allows a consciousness shift where words like evil are not needed.
Neva was referenced in Brooke Medicine Eagle's book "The Last Ghost Dance, was published in Crone Chronicles in 1996, featured in You Gotta Read This Magazine by Don Lemmon and has articles published all over the internet.
She also has a wellness information blog so readers can subscribe and get the latest postings on health and spirit as soon as they are uploaded to the blog.
I've walked on the wild side of youth, parties, excess and insecurity; I've walked on the dark side on emotional scars, depression, unresolved anger and fear; I've walked in Light so pervasive that every cell was bathed; the important thing to me is that I've kept walking. Toward. Into. Oneness.
I don't know that I'd have much to talk about with a spiritual healing facilator or teacher who had not struggled. The density of the flesh and the immensity of being in human form are so juxtaposed on this experiment we call Earth that struggle seems as inevitable as it does for the seed under the soil, striving toward the sun.
One signficant between "human nature" and nature seems to be that nature doesn't resist the struggle required to be born. The seed wants to bloom and the bud wants to open, so it welcomes having to push. We know that when we are being born. In fact, it's an urgency.
Water doesn't struggle with having to flow, or with which direction it will go. It just knows it needs to flow. I've invested consciousness in this idea of flow. It feels as if there is a rhythm to the universe that can only be accessed if we are not attached to the next moment....if we are willing to let it unfold and to keep our consciousness steady on the present moment as it does. Being in the flow of life.....staying in the now.....
Growing into a Divine Being within flesh is a lot easier when I am able not to resist the struggle of growth, change, facing fear, resolving anger and embracing my own humanity.
My journey has limited value to me if I cannot share what I have learned with others who may be struggling against struggle.
The magical thing that begins to happen when we stop struggling with struggle is that the very nature and texture of "struggle" can transform to something more akin to fitness and the euphoric high that runners feel when they release their own endorphins.
Life is a fascinating ride. I had planned to offer private healing intensives in my home in northeast Alabama. These spiritual retreats were designed to provide the needed tools and energetic support for those who ready to do the work necessary to rapidly shift thinking, behaviors and beliefs that have proven limiting and that no longer serve. Sacred Space was established and reserved for those ready to make quantum leaps in consciousness.
I had also planned to begin offering etheric alchemy consciousness training emerging from my own spiritual journey and my years as a Reiki Master, wellness counselor, inner child healing faciliator and foot reflexologist.
Then, my next door neighbors built three huge chicken houses across the road. I stopped eating chicken that day. So, no retreat center. In a way, I began to see that Sacred Space was within. It is something I can carry as I walk and not so much about an external place of living. I released my house for sale a year before it actually sold. When it did sell, I walked away with nothing at all except freedom.
So, I'm learning how to walk away when it doesn't appear that I have the option. My finances did not suggest such a thing and yet I left. Even though the house had not sold, I left. I believe it was the leaving that shook loose the patterns of fear that had held me there. Then, when I came back again, I started having yardsales and clearing out everything. By the time I had cleared out all I did not need, someone walked in, walked up and down the hall and said "I will buy this".
Looking back, I realize I was attempting to reinvent the the wheel once more since there already exists all the components of any healing modality in any of the many modalities out there. In particular, once I heard about biodynamic cranio-sacral therapy, I thought, well, there's basically the same thing I've been doing and someone has created an entire class out of it, with certification and everything, so it's been done. It's out there. No need for me to bring it forth now. It's out there. Is my way different? Yeah, some. I have some kind of ancient breath thing that happens, some tones that are specific to the AA training, etc.
So, my life now consists of living as much as I am able in the space between things.
I focus on integrating the quantum healing energy of cranial flight and matrix energetics, the long ago and still stirring baptisms at Sundance and the Sunmoon Dance.
mostly of housesits and petsits in lovely places with sweet animal friends. It suits me for now. If you need a housesitter, I am doing it on short notice only. Don't plan very far ahead these days. My Housesitting and Petsitting Information.
Living the gypsy life....so, what now? Twiddle my thumbs now? What is my "outer purpose" now, as Tolle puts it? It seems to be finding my soul community, whatever that means. Housesitting in different areas helps me get a feel for different locations, and I'm hoping one of those will spark a smile in my heart and I'll want to stay for a while.