About Sandra’s Background
& Training

Sandra's work is grounded in 20 years of personal healing and spiritual practice and training in multiple lineages and modalities.

She also has more than 25 years of supporting people impacted by trauma, violence, and oppression in finding their own truth and living from it - for their own healing and our collective liberation.

For a more detailed understanding of her experience, please check out the list below.

Shamanic & Spiritual Training

  • 20 years of Zen Buddhist practice

  • Initiated Korean shaman-priestess (mudang 무당) apprentice in Korean shamanism/indigenous folk religion (Musok 무속)

  • Apprenticeship for Advanced Shamanic Studies with BJ Brown

  • Curse Unraveling and Compassionate Depossession Basic and Advanced trainings with Betsy Bergstrom

  • Healing the Ancestral Lines and Energy Body Mastery courses at Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing

  • Space Clearing and Land Healing training with Sue Holmes

  • Energetic Cord Cutting workshop with BJ Brown

  • Clairvoyance Training with the Clairvoyance Center of Hawaiʻi

⠀Energy Healing & Trauma Survivor Care

  • Integrated Energy Therapy trainings to the Master-Instructor level at Reiki Center of Greater Washington Area

  • Supported survivors of trauma and violence, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking

  • Supported people who have committed violence and harm in taking responsibility for their actions and finding a new path forward, including men who committed sexual assault and involved in gang violence

⠀Movement Chaplaincy & Coaching

  • Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy training at the Faith Matters Network

  • Co-Active Coach training at the Coaches Training Institute

⠀Teaching & Facilitation Experience

  • Created multiple online courses and in-person trainings, including Healing from Internalized Whiteness, Collective Care Pods, Compassionate Activism, and Everyday Self-Love

  • Created and facilitated multiple online community healing spaces, including Centering Practice, Caring Circles, Grounded Gatherings, and Tea Time with Sandra.

  • Founded Everyday Feminism, an online magazine that taught applied intersectional feminism to daily life and reached millions of readers monthly