Rachel Mann PhD

About Rachel

Dr. Mann is a shamanic healer, spiritual teacher, mentor, coach, and social scientist. She has innovatively integrated the deep wisdom of her Native American and shamanic teachers in working with the energy body, soul, and spirit to heal trauma and release heavy processes with her training in psychodramatic, somatic, and transpersonal methods. She is the creator of Shamanic Somatic-Emotional-Energy Transformation, a holistic modality working with our whole self: the energy-physical body, mind-heart-emotions, and soul-spirit. Rachel helps people from all over the world reach for their highest destiny, enabling them to be emotionally balanced, financially abundant, and fulfilled in relationships, all informed by an understanding of the interconnection between trauma, soul, and spirituality.

She is also a powerful guide for individuals who are experiencing profound spiritual awakenings and want to understand them, as well as those who wish to integrate their creative, spiritual, and intuitive gifts and spiritual study into courageous and confident offerings to others. Many clients work with her as they transition from career into retirement, divorce into single life, religious affiliation into spiritual exploration, deepening, and freedom.

Over the past 35 years, Rachel has integrated her academic, interdisciplinary research and training in violence studies, trauma, and peacemaking with decades of study with spiritual masters and leading-edge practitioners. She has engaged in Peacekeeper Training with Cherokee teacher Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo of the Sunray Meditation Society, and has embraced the sweet and powerful mesa tradition and cosmovision of the Q'ero medicine people of Peru, ancestors of the ancient Inka. Her shamanic energy healing and ceremony work includes training with Alberto Villoldo of the Four Winds Society and others. She has also studied the teachings of compassion, mindfulness, and loving kindness of Vipassana Buddhism; psychodrama for healing individual and collective trauma; Healing Historical Harms with the Eastern Mennonite Center for Peacebuilding; and Action against Trauma with the Center on Violence and Community.

From 1996-2014, as a faculty member at the University of Virginia, Rachel developed transformational and innovative courses on the topics of ending violence and peacemaking. She received several grants and an award for a project co-sponsored with the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Action Alliance for The Art of Surviving, a digital and traveling exhibit of art, personal narratives, and poetry by survivors of sexual assault.

Rachel is a faculty member in the MA programs for Transpersonal Psychology and Mindfulness Studies at Atlantic University, affiliated with the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment. She has provided training, consultation, and program development for organizations working on the frontlines of violence and seeking to foster peace. Her clients have included Search for Common Ground, The Garrison Institute Contemplative-Based Resilience Program, the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, and Naropa University’s BA in Contemplative Psychology.

Rachel is the host of the podcast, Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking & Ending Violence. A sample of her teachings can be found on her YouTube Channel and in her blogs.