About Still Origin
Mission and Vision
To inspire your ability to live from your truest, most authentic self and offer your unique gifts to the world—that is my wish and my work’s intention.
Through connection with Universal energies, including the Earth, the elements, the senses, and Spirit, I facilitate a gentle process of transformation for clients ready to accept a shift in their lives. I especially enjoy working with those who identify as creators, teachers, seekers, parents, daughters, sons, and anyone who feels called to come back into alignment with their True Self—something that many of us have lost through generations of trauma, neglect, and forgetting. As each of us comes into alignment, again, we support humanity, Nature, and the planet.
My current areas of deeper study are engaged with understanding the power our bodies have to guide us to healing, the layers of trauma that can be released when we heal and integrate our ancestral lineages, our capacity to remember our alignment with the Taoist principle of wu-wei, and the power of human creativity and collaboration.
About Kathryn B.
Kathryn has been connecting with transcendent energies since she was a child growing up as a musician, dancer, and explorer of the mysteries of history. While living in Italy and exploring the historical spaces of Europe as a young adult, she began asking more questions about the Universe, our purpose, and her Truth, while developing her interests in writing and photography. Poetry soon became her main mode of artistic expression, and a source of solace in times of confusion and darkness. This connection further opened her awareness of unseen energies, such as the spirits of nature and the elements.
In the human realm, Kathryn has participated in advanced initiations in shamanic healing and divination with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and with Betsy Bergstrom. With Betsy, she has also been initiated in Oracular Mediumship, Seiðr, the Norse Mystery Traditions, Curse Unraveling, and Compassionate Depossession. Kathryn has also trained with Betsy as a teacher of practitioners of Compassionate Depossession. Many other teachers, including Mary Mueller Shutan, Sandra Ingerman, and Daniel Foor, have taught or initiated Kathryn in shamanic practice, ancestral spirit connection, spiritual navigation, and energy healing.
In addition, Kathryn is a (WA state certification-ready) Usui Reiki Master Teacher (in the lineage of Eileen Dey) and a YA-S trained Adaptive Hatha Yoga teacher. She has also studied with Mindful Schools to teach mindfulness to children (K-12). During her Yoga teacher training at Phinney Ridge Yoga, Kathryn developed an interest in supporting neuro-developmental movement patterns in children and adults. She continued her study in courses with Erika Berland and Brain Highways.
Kathryn holds a BA in Anthropology/Archeology from Northwestern University, an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and an MFA in Creative Writing from The Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She is a member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals, the Energy Medicine Professional Association, the Society for Shamanic Practice, and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. She is also a mom.
Kathryn founded Still Origin Holistic Arts in 2016.
“Among the three domains—individual, society, nature—it is the individual who begins to effect change. But in order to effect change, the individual must be whole.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
