S1E7 IFYS: LORI THAYER, Ph.D. - Director of Stargate Garden Healing Center

Lori Thayer - StargateGarden.com
Introspective Hypnosis and Interdimensional Energy Healing Practitioner Lori began studying energy healing and reiki in the  mid-1990s.   She received her initiation as a Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Master from the Shekinah Center in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 2001; followed by her initiation in 4th degree Shambhala Multidimensional Healing and Seraphic Energy Healing.  Lori then spent many years honing her reiki skills, first apprenticing as a reiki practitioner at the Shekinah Center and then serving as a volunteer reiki practitioner at the Cancer Connection in Florence, Mass. 
Lori began her formal shamanic healing training in 2003 with Michael Harner, the founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and later completed a two-year shamanic healing apprenticeship with Allie Knowlton and Evelyn Rysdyk of Spirit Passages in Yarmouth, Maine.  She has also studied with other well-known shamanic practitioners, including Sandra Ingerman; energy healers, including Dawn Clark -- and attended numerous training workshops to continue to deepen her practice.  In 2009, Lori received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, following the completion of her dissertation, entitled The Adoption of Shamanic Healing into the Biomedical Health Care System in the United States. 
Lori then went on to explore and train in hypnosis therapy and studied Introspective Hypnosis with Antonio Sangio and Alba Weinman.