About WholeSpirit and Whole Nature
WholeSpirit
Created by Mara Bishop, WholeSpirit provides space for personal healing through individual sessions and has been a gathering spot for shamanic drumming circles and classes for over 20 years. Those trained here have gone on to use their learning to create new ventures, add skills to existing careers, and better navigate their lives.
WholeSpirit is based on core principles of spiritual healing and personal evolution. We offer sessions for intuitive consultations, shamanic healing and counseling, and energetic healing. To support your spiritual practice, we also offer instruction in nature based healing, shamanic journeying, creating healthy energetic boundaries (Energy Ecosystem), and books and training to learn about shamanism, developing intuition, and other forms of emotional and spiritual wellness.
WholeSpirit sessions and trainings focus on direct revelation, recognizing the spirit in all things, and creating mutual relationships with nature, these are practices aligned with shamanic beliefs from around the world, but are not seated within a specific indigenous culture. We are careful not to appropriate traditions, ceremonies, or rituals, or to claim the title of shaman.
Resources
WholeSpirit blends a combination of resources:
Whole Nature Inc
Whole Nature Inc, a 501 (c3) nonprofit, was formed upon spiritual direction and with a sense of purpose that is unfolding. Fundamentally, it is about the preservation and protection of natural spaces, beings, and relationships; for deepening relationships between the land, animals, plants, elements, and humans within those spaces; and for reciprocal healing and learning. It is also about recognizing the spiritual aspect of our relationships within nature. As part of the larger family of existence, we are part of biological ecosystems, as well as energetic ecosystems. We thrive or fail in relationship to one another.
Whole Nature is open for partners and contributors to secure protection for places to foster and protect these relationships with the natural world. Specifically, land to be preserved primarily for the sake of the wildness of the places themselves, and the wildlife that relies upon them for life. Secondarily, for humans to create deeper relationships and understanding of the breadth and depth of possibility for healing and evolution when we cultivate relationships with our family members within the natural world. The Enatured™ method is a practical application of the mission of Whole Nature.
If you feel drawn to this mission and would like to talk further, contribute, consider donating a property to be preserved for this purpose, or otherwise connect. Please contact Mara here.
Land
WholeSpirit and Whole Nature are located in beautiful, eclectic Durham, North Carolina. A vibrant food scene, rich cultural and natural resources, many colleges and universities, Research Triangle Park (RTP), and creative small businesses, combine to make this a great place to live and work. Described affectionately as “a historical haven” and “a sanctuary for the spectacular,” Durham has been home for over 20 years. While this place has indeed been a sanctuary for us, acknowledging those who came before us is important, especially because this place was far from a sanctuary for those who where enslaved, or violently displaced, in this region. Our land acknowledgment says a little more.
Can you find our friend in this photo?
