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About Jonathan Hammond

Jonathan is an Energy Healer, Shamanic Practitioner, and Spiritual Counselor with over 15 years of training and experience.

He is a certified Master Teacher in Shamanic Reiki (training with Llyn Roberts and now co-faculty for her Shamanic Reiki programs), and a certified Reiki Master Teacher in both Usui and Karuna Reiki from the International Center for Reiki Training.

In addition to his background in energy healing, Jonathan has had four years of training in Inter-Spirituality and Spiritual Counseling at the One Spirit Learning Alliance in New York City, and was ordained as an Interfaith Minister in 2008. He now teaches at One Spirit.

Jonathan runs spiritual retreats around the world through The Living Project

He has been a frequent guest on Huffington Post Live speaking about spirituality, energy healing and meditation.

He has completed all core curriculum through the Foundation For Shamanic Studies, and holds a certification in Cherokee Bodywork.

He has privately studied Shamanism, meditation, and the chakras with some of the most prominent teachers in North and South America; as well as an apprenticeship with some of the shamans of the Chapada Diamantina in Brazil.

He is a graduate of Harvard University’s ART Institute, and holds a BFA from The University of Michigan. In addition to his work in holistic health, is an award-winning actor who has appeared on Broadway and Television.

Entries by Jonathan Hammond

Trauma and the creation of the false self

January 18, 2013/in -/by Jonathan Hammond

Trauma is an event (or series of events) which threatens life. Classic examples of trauma include physical and sexual abuse, incest, sudden lose of a loved one, an accident, fighting in war, being the victim of violent crime, and surgery – the body under anesthesia still knows on some level that it’s being cut open. When […]

Om Namah Shivaya

March 17, 2012/in -/by Jonathan Hammond

I’ve been wondering if I should edit myself or just honestly share an experience. I decided I would. It may mean something to someone reading this; so here it is: Babji’s presence became known, ok, appeared to me last night during work with the Santo Daime in New York. I only vaguely knew of him, […]

You’re more ‘cloud’ than you are ‘you’.

February 28, 2012/in -/by Jonathan Hammond

Taoism, in my opinion, is essentially the Chinese version of Shamanism. It’s a philosophy and way of being that has been referred to as ‘the wisdom of nature’. There is a concept that underlies Taoist philosophy, and this idea is key to personal healing and transformation. In Chinese, it is called tzu-jan — that which […]

THE CHAKRAS – what they do, and why you might need to know about them

February 11, 2012/in -/by Jonathan Hammond

THE CHAKRAS IN RELATION TO THE PHYSICAL BODY, MIND AND EMOTIONS. The seven major chakras are energy centers that are located along the spine. While they are invisible, we know from Chinese acupuncture (and other eastern systems of healing) that there is a vast and complex system of meridians and nadis that are energetic pathways […]

So Glad I Waited…..

February 10, 2012/in -/by Jonathan Hammond

When I launched this new website a few months ago, I knew that I wanted to include a blog page. This ‘healing’ stuff, with it’s talk of energy bodies, chakras, and soul retrieval can seem a little ‘out there’, for sure. So the idea of including a blog I thought, would be a good way […]