A Bit About Me: Isabella

 

A Bit About Me...

Isabella Emma Moon Eagle McClellan

This page and my self description are always evolving...

I have been formally studying Goddess Shamanism since the late 1990's, while my practice started in childhood (the early 80's!). I spent my formative years running through the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, the Carolina's deep auburn fall leaves, upstate New York's Bear Mountain filled with blue slate stone, our own beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountain Range where the humming bird roams free, and the awe-inspiring Redwood Forests of California/Oregon. I was a day-dreamer who whispered with the flowers, spoke to the trees, and sent messages on the wind. 

One of my favorite childhood stories is how I grew up "hippy-style" in my dad's little brown Toyota Corolla traveling the USA. We spent a lot of time living on our family farm in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska when my brother and I were just toddlers with Grandma, Grandpa, cousins, aunts and uncles. Oh! The Stories! 

In the back of that Corolla we travelled to almost every one of the 50 states, until we needed a more permanent lodging for me to attend school. This is when we settled into Upper Nyack, New York living in my grandparent's basement, until we eventually found our way to the shores of SW Florida. This is where my relationship with the ocean and all her creatures began. Sitting out under the new and full moons on the ocean beaches in my early 20's listening to the whales sing; back when you could still hear such a thing from the shore. All that beautiful healthy White Sand and Seashells under foot, with salt and ocean spray, listening to windchimes all year long.

As a budding young woman in 1997, before having children took over, I found a beautiful group of women to learn within: The Circle of the Goddess based in San Francisco, California (a spiritual hub back in those days). Such a beautiful group of women led by one named Astarte who understood what we needed as both individuals and a group; it is here that I began my formal spiritual training including journeys into the Mystical Kabbalah. My initiation as a Priestess of the Goddess in all HER forms and 1000 faces was held in Ithica, NY in a remote cabin area when the world was still covered in a blanket of white snow. It was a momentous occasion, and one of the most beautiful moments of my life. That is when the real work began.

In the decades that followed I continued my education in Goddess Pathways and Shamanism, my ancestral shamanic lineages and healing methods, as well as additional traditions/ pathways, and leading healing ceremonies. Following a health crisis and surgical intervention in 2012, I obtained my formal status as a ULC Clergy Member as part of my own healing process, and to help bring healing to my community in a more complete capacity. 

I could write a book with all of my experiences and everything that I have learned. Maybe one day. For right now, I am teaching and sharing what I have learned, as well as, practicing the more mainstream methods of healing: Massage, Yoga, and Usui Reiki.

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Isabella Emma Moon Eagle McClellan, owner/founder of: The Mountain Goddess LLC, Three Sisters' Grove and Three Sisters Publishing. My Technical Online Bio and Credentials can be found at: 

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