About Shannon
Animist | Ritualist | Oracular Medium
Shannon Willis, M.ED
Shannon is an animist and ritualist who tends the thresholds where dreams speak, the dead draw near, and the living remember their place within the great weave of relations. Her work unfolds at the meeting ground of dream midwifery, psychopomp practice, ancestral reverence, and oracular mediumship.
Through heart-centered ritual and careful listening, she helps restore balance and personal sovereignty while deepening the living threads of connection between people, land, and lineage. She guides others into clarity and belonging by walking with them through the liminal landscapes where the visible and invisible meet.
For more than thirty years, she has devoted her life to companionship in the healing of trauma and cultural wounding carried by both the living and the dead.
Her path joins formal training and sacred vocation. She holds a Master’s degree in Professional Leadership and Counseling with focus in Jungian and Gestalt modalities and is the founder of Red Earth Healing, a home for earth-rooted ritual and relational repair.
Across a decade in senior teaching and ritual leadership within a large ancestral healing training network, she trained practitioners and guided intensive lineage healing programs. Over many years of practice she has held thousands of sessions, convened long-standing monthly circles, and led numerous ancestral lineage intensives. Her present offerings grow from this deep well of experience while reflecting an independent and evolving devotion to ancestral veneration and intergenerational healing.
Across a decade in senior teaching and ritual leadership within a large ancestral healing training network, she trained practitioners and guided intensive lineage healing programs. Over many years of practice she has held thousands of sessions, convened long-standing monthly circles, and led numerous ancestral lineage intensives. Her present offerings grow from this deep well of experience while reflecting an independent and evolving devotion to ancestral veneration and intergenerational healing.
Naming the lineage elders with who continues to be mentored by, she is a devotee of Yoruba culture as an initiate of Ọbàtálá and Ọ̀ṣun in the lineage of Olúwo Fálolú Adésànyà Awoyadé of Òdè Rẹ́mọ, having made pilgrimage to sit with elders in West Africa. She is also a devotee of Nepali shamanic practice under the guidance of Bhola Nath Banstola, alongside study within other indigenous and ancestral paths connected to her bloodlines and spirits of affinity.
Shannon was born in Central Louisiana and raised between Louisiana and Sudan, Africa. She and her people are Louisiana Creole and Cajun, with ancestral roots extending through the complex histories of Central Louisiana and the peoples who have made their lives there. Her blood and bone lineages include French, Belgian, Canadian, English, Scottish, Irish, as well as the freed peoples of West Africa and Indigenous peoples of Eastern North Carolina and the Kaskaskia/Illini peoples of Illinois.
She carries these lineages as living relationship rather than simply genealogy. The histories of migration, cultural survival, displacement, colonization, racial mixing, language, land, loss, and belonging are part of the ancestral landscape through which she understands her own incarnation.
Her work with ancestral relationship is therefore deeply personal. She comes to this work not only through formal study and spiritual practice, but through her own ongoing inquiry into the lineages through which she has arrived here.
She now lives and practices in Washington State with her adult son and their beloved animals, on the historic lands of the Skokomish people.
About Shannon
Animist | Ritualist | Oracular Medium
