About John Davidson

For over twenty five years, John has engaged a variety of ways of exploring consciousness and cultivating the emergence of soul, including meditation, nutrition, yoga, qigong, Native American ceremonial practice, intensive nature meditations (sometimes called vision questing), trainings in working with death and the dying, and years of study of indigenous shamanism in both the Amazonian plant medicine and southern mountain energy healing traditions with a variety of teachers. He has worked with individual clients in these ways for over ten years, and has taught meditation since the mid-1990's, along with a variety of workshops related to shamanic journeying and heart-centered attention.

The overriding theme that has emerged in this work is the centrality of the heart’s central role in supporting human health and in igniting a passion of purpose in our lives. In particular, John emphasizes the need to learn the skill of heart centered attention as a foundation for all effective efforts at bringing about positive and long term change in our lives, including the development of a true soul perspective.

John is . . .

• a practitioner of indigenous shamanic healing methods significantly adapted to respond to the needs of postmodern American culture
• an experienced teacher of heart centered meditation and qigong
• an integrative health coach trained in Duke University’s Integrative Medicine program
• a licensed provider/coach for HeartMath Institute’s emWave System for stress management and development of heart centered attention skills
• a certified provider of Advanced Brain Technologies’ Listening Program (TLP) used in remediation of a variety of learning and autism spectrum disorders
• a cranial/sacral practitioner certified by The Santa Fe Academy for the Healing Arts
• a group drumming facilitator,
• and‘ the author of The Stress Manager and The Integrative Health Coach newspaper columns ‘
• a retired attorney

While traveling in Nepal, India, and Peru, John has taken a particular interest in observing how children in relatively poor and remote agricultural areas have often seemed to be healthier than children of similar age in America. This simple observation led to an investigation of autism spectrum and learning disorders. That study led to John’s belief that our children are increasingly suffering from early onset health dysfunctions and disease that arise from the singular event of Americans leaving an agrarian connection with the earth. All of the unintended consequences of that catastrophic event have been accelerated by the similarly unintended consequences of an unconscious approach to nutrition, technology and science. These are issues of great soul consequence – including our relationship with the earth soul – that affect all of us.