Betsy Bergstrom - Heart Centered Shamanic Healing - Seattle WA

[Epiphany]

http://www.betsybergstrom.com/

She's all about core shamanism, along with "compassionate depossession" and "curse unraveling". Also "seidr".

Seidr is a shamanic and spiritual practice that has it's origins in antiquity. It was practiced by Norse and Germanic peoples as well as the indigenous Saami people.

I was introduced to Seidr in England where it has been offered and embraced as a root part of western shamanism. My teachers, Karen Kelly and Shenoah Taylor were in turn taught by Annette Host who has been studying, practicing and teaching Seidr for more than 2 decades.

http://www.betsybergstrom.com/seidr/

From her bio:

She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and Scottish ancestry.

http://www.betsybergstrom.com/about/

Interesting note about that heritage claim - her website can be looked over via the Wayback Machine, there are captures since 2006. But it isn't until April 2011 that her site has this claim, the prior capture in March 2011 does not have it, nor do the years prior.

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures, including Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner.

She has been trained by a number of indigenous shamans and healers in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the United Kingdom

Students: http://www.betsybergstrom.com/referrals/

[educatedindian]

From her bio:

She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and Scottish ancestry.

http://www.betsybergstrom.com/about/

Interesting note about that heritage claim - her website can be looked over via the Wayback Machine, there are captures since 2006. But it isn't until April 2011 that her site has this claim, the prior capture in March 2011 does not have it, nor do the years prior.

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures, including Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner.

She has been trained by a number of indigenous shamans and healers in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the United Kingdom

Students: http://www.betsybergstrom.com/referrals/

Outside of the core shame-ons, no other specific names.

I did find an older link  from 2005 where Ingerman claims Bergstrom was Salish, and that her being a medium supposedly came straight from Salish tradition.
http://www.sandraingerman.com/tnjuly2005.html At bottom.

Doing searches for Salish medium traditions doesn't turn up anything.

I wonder how likely is it one of her parents was both Sami and Salish? Sami and Swedish, etc, is more likely, but that's not Bergstrom's claim. Instead it's all European ancestry from one parent and all indigenous from the other.

[debbieredbear]

There is a Saami population in and around Poulsbo, Wa. My mother-in-law talked fondly of one member who she picked berries with during the depression. I don't know if any of these people intermarried with either of the two tribes here. Could be. As for a trad medium thing for Coastal Salish? That would be a stretch.

[Epiphany]

As well as extensive training with both indigenous shamans and in classical shamanism, Betsy is a lineage holder and dharma protector in the Tibetan Shije tradition of Chöd in the lineage of Machik Lapdron and Padampa Sangye dedicated to sharing Dakini Wisdom.

http://www.sacredtrust.org/betsy-bergstrom.php Upcoming workshops in UK

Chöd is an ancient initiatic and ritual practice that dates from the early 10th century, tracing its origins to the great yogini-dakini Machig Labdrön of Tibet and the tantric adept Padampa Sangye of India.

This is the first time that Betsy Bergstrom will be sharing this body work in Europe and it offers a rare opportunity to be tutored by an authorized lineage holder and carrier of an authorized lineage transmission.

Betsey says her specific teacher is Lama Wangdu

http://www.sacredtrust.org/betsy-bergstrom.php

Please Note: Participants should have extensive experience with shamanic journeying to attend either of these trainings. These residential trainings are running back to back and priority will be given to those people who wish to undertake both the Basic and the Advanced components.

http://www.betsybergstrom.com/about/depossession.php

[Sandy S]

Bergstrom is still active:

For over 30 years, Betsy Bergstrom has taught spirit-based mystery traditions and healing. Raised by her animist mother of Coastal Salish tradition, Betsy focuses on remembering that the world is alive and much of what we encounter in nature has a consciousness of its own.

 Her heritage also reaches back in to Viking Scandinavia and Clan Macdonald in Scotland and in more contemporary times into the Forest Finn or Skogfinnene tradition in Sweden. She has been lovingly encouraged by her teachers in Nordic, Swedish, Scottish, Finnish, Nepali and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, to share her insight, techniques and experiences. This is the foundation from which Spirit-Wise was launched.

In later years, following ancestral threads, she has become one of the premier teachers of Norse Seidr in the United States, bringing the practice from England and Denmark.

Mind-Rooms, from Swedish folkloric tradition, are adapted to modern life and support our dreams to become reality.

https://www.spirit-wise.com/betsy-bergstrom

Many paid classes including:

Sovereignty for Self

Join Betsy Bergstrom in an exploration of Sovereignty for the Self with guided imagery and  journey. Dive into this 4.5 hour pre-recorded workshop and look at the contemporary meaning of Sovereignty as the right to be self governing and look farther back into the past to its more ancient origins. What does sovereignty entail?  Who are the Guardians of Sovereignty?

https://www.spirit-wise.com/recorded-courses

"seider hoods" https://www.spirit-wise.com/seidr-hoods

24 students listed here: https://www.spirit-wise.com/referrals