Healer, Educator, and Guide: Rooted in Earth and Experience
Healer, Educator, and Guide: Rooted in Earth and Experience
As an educator and healer, my life's work is fostering mind-body-spirit-soul wellness rooted in a deep connection to the Earth. After decades in higher education, I now focus on bringing people together to explore and deepen their relationships with nature, themselves, and others.
My practice is grounded in the belief that potential is unlocked by moving past verbal explanations and into the wisdom of the body. My sessions invite you to journey inward to go outward, experiencing change in your body, not just in words. I invite you to experience our sessions physically, allowing your body to be the guide for an inward journey that takes you outward.
My Approach to Healing
I am a Niasziih (nī-'ə-zē-ī/) practitioner, using a heart-centered approach to spark awareness that shifts long-held patterns of health and behavior.
In our sessions, we work together to:
Track Internal Landscapes: I use reflective questions like "What happened here?" and "What does this mean?" to explore your inner self.
Discover Potential: We work collaboratively to uncover deeply rooted purpose and create movement toward peace, love, joy, and a more fulfilling daily life.
Create Shifts: By gaining awareness of the infinite choices available in any moment, we allow new perspectives to act as a powerful catalyst for your well-being.
I also integrate techniques from my training as a certified hypnotist, an Apprentice Tracker, a Vision Quest protector, and a certified practitioner of the Tellington TTouch Method for both humans and companion animals. I bring my own medicine to every session, collaborating with other amazing healers to create a powerful place for healing and potential.
My Journey & Roots
My path has been one of deep exploration—spiraling inward and flowing outward. I’ve studied the indigenous ways of the Huichol, Mazatec, Nahuatl, and various Mayan-speaking peoples. As a young woman in Central America, I tried my hand at backstrap weaving and pottery, learning firsthand the wisdom embedded in these ancestral crafts.
This exploration led me to my earlier career as an archaeologist in Texas and New Mexico. My discovery of a Great Kiva in the New Mexico wilderness—a powerful, sacred place—profoundly changed me and solidified my reverence for the Earth and the presence of the past.
Now settled in the Texas Hill Country (a landscape reminiscent of my early life in upstate New York), I draw on all these experiences—from crawling through caves as a caver in Austin to surveying ancient pueblo sites—to inform my practice.
Ready to Begin?
I offer online (Zoom), phone, or email sessions to explore possibilities for your growth and health. I may guide you through balancing the left, right, and primal brain, or explore other ways to settle your nervous system into your body.
I also offer in-person sessions outside of Austin.
How can I help you move toward your potential and purpose?
Gratitude, Purpose, Awareness and Rooting in the Earth are the threads woven together to create Heartfelt Touch.
~ Martha Note: I am not a medical professional. I do not provide medical or any psychological treatments.
We will explore tools togeher that empower awareness and transformation.
I offer experiences with the potential for transformation through deep contact with Nature, Self and Others. With the intention to create a place of awareness, an awakened state, together we can explore questions and allow intuition to guide choices that can be catalysts towards well-being.
The choice is yours, through awareness and embracing multiple perspectives to move from fixed points in your life that may be holding you back. The place of departure for this journey begins in an internal dialogue with your body and understanding that everything is movement with changing contexts at every moment.
What does all this mean? What has led me to here today?
A myriad of adventures and explorations have led me to my mission: teaching ways to make deep contact with our Natural World, Self and with each Other to bring about change for the highest purpose.
I hold a Ph. D. in Education and have years of experience at the Tracker School and with Linda Tellington-Jones. My experience as a certified hypnotist has prepared me to help clients access deep levels of consciousness.
wildernessFusion, a school near Asheville, North Carolina teaches people from all walks of life simple tools to make choices about well being. The wildernessFusion school began 10 years ago so now there are many of us familiar with this practice of deep contact, asking questions and listening. The Tracker School was established over 40 yrs ago. Tom Brown, Jr. asked Karl Direske to establish this healing school. I've been practicing Niasziih for 6 years now. In my 7th year, I will have completed the training at the school.
After Tom Brown, Jr's crossing over in 2024, his son, River Brown, and many other instructors carry on the teachings around the globe.