Bethanee Wright is a shamanic practitioner and organic vegetable farmer at Winterfell Acres in Brooklyn, WI. She offers shamanic healing sessions for those who feel called to become more whole and live more authentically.

Bethanee runs her organic farm, facilitates healing work for others and enjoys rural life with her husband, two young daughters, three big white fluffy dogs and one tiny farm cat.

Bethanee’s Journey

My journey and initiation onto the shamanic path came as a slow awakening process by Spirit. I did not choose this path but over time, I have surrendered to it, embraced it and it now fills my life with joy, vitality and a sense of wholeness. I was born to a paternal line that hadn’t seen a female child born in over 90 years and I was the first female of my father’s line to give birth to a child in over 150 years. My mother is a retired minister and I grew up as a rebel pastor’s kid. Both of my parents chose to live differently and heal from ancestral traumas and I was a surprise girl born to them with a sense of purpose and drive to heal myself and others.

Spirit came to me from a very young age which I now recognize as interactions with my power animals and unknown interactions with the spirit world. In my preteens, I went through what many would call the “long, dark night of the soul” with intense depression that psychiatric evaluation and medications didn’t fix. I believe now that the Spirits were asking me to step forward onto my healing path and I came through it at age 15 with a deep call to live a intentional and thoughtful life.

When I went to off to college, I completed a life-changing yoga teacher training program in which my skills to connect with the non-physical world exploded (rather uncomfortably at times). I was led by Spirit to learn how to shamanic journey to connect with my Spirit Allies and I learned how to ground to the Earth, which eased the process for me. Then I was called to really dive into and forward on my personal healing path. In summer of 2011, several key things happened: I went to the Sacred Mountains of Peru and met three of my teachers all at once. After that I went to the Inyo Mountains in California to complete my first vision fast. Lastly, I began my first shamanic healing apprenticeship and started building my Hampi “Healers” khipuh (mesa), which is now the anchor for all of my healing work. It was a huge amount of healing within four months and processing that took years to integrate. It was a life-changing time and I was just starting to learn to grasp what Spirit had in store for me. Shamanic work was calling to me and I dove in headfirst for my own personal healing.

A huge part of my calling to this work started as environmental activism in high school and feeling an intense desire to shift how I live on the Earth and to live in balance and reciprocity with the natural world. In college, I fell in love with organic farming and the CSA movement (community supported agriculture) and have been running my own small farm and CSA since 2013. At that time, farming felt like the most tangible way for me to life more in reciprocity with the Earth and also help others by feeding them nutritious, well-cared-for veggies. The work of a farmer is incredibly interconnected with the Land and I am so grateful for our land, Pachamama Winterfell Acres, for all that she gives me as she houses my family, gives me good, meaningful work and feeds us and our farm community so abundantly.

When my eldest daughter turned two years old, Spirit guided me to begin offering healing sessions for others (hence this website!). What originally started as just my personal healing work has evolved into helping others meaningfully connect with their own healing paths. In the fifteen years since starting on this path, I have completed hundreds of hours of personal healing work, several apprenticeships, countless workshops and continue to assist one of my teachers in her 2-year-long shamanic healing apprenticeship and mentorship programs. I am incredible honored and blessed to have been able to learn from many amazing teachers including Pamela Bliss, Ana Larramendi and Don Tupaq T’ito Condori and the benevolent allies of my Spirit Team.