Char Sundust is a shamanic practitioner who mentors, guides, and teaches those who wish to experience meaning, integrity, and spirituality in their daily lives – connecting others to their authentic connection to the Divine, which heals all things. She is a spiritual mentor training those who are dedicated to finding, and living, their passion in a way that serves the well-being and highest good of self, community, and other.

Her work is to assist people that they may access their wisdom voice - their own internal teacher, healer, and visionary – in a way that makes a difference. That makes a difference.

Char has a thriving shamanic mentorship and leadership practice. She provides spiritual guidance for Bastyr University, and she practices, lectures, and teaches internationally.

She has released 3 CD’s of healing music for body, mind, and soul, and she has recently completed a book of poems called Sacred Intention. The sacred territory between the body and spirit must be honored for the world to return to balance.

Char has been featured on KEXP - Angelique Kidjo, King5 - The Jeff Renner Show, King5 - The Bob Rivers Show, and Evening Magazine. Her music – the collaborative efforts with Charles and Cindy Jefferson and Barbara Means Adams: Iyaye and Windows in Time’s "Hollow Bone" – have been heard on NPR, and California stations KZSU and KALW. Her work has been published in Shapeshifting Urban Shamanism and Galrilla Webzine. She is also a contributor to EBook Altar Making – A Spiritual Practice to Deepen Your Connection to the Sacred. Char’s newest release, with Sonny Mishra, is entitled SOL – Poems, Prayers and Songs for Spirit.

Background:

Char Sundust is a shamanic practitioner with strong ancestral lineage of medicine work and experiential training. Her love of Spirit and medicine began at her beginning - her work truly is to bring herself into the right relationship with the divine; and her work is to guide and mentor others in discovering the invisible in their own personal culture.

Char's mother encouraged her visions by asking if the ghosts Char began seeing at the age of five were friendly or not. Her mother explained that if the ghosts were friendly they were good allies. If they were not, they were invited to exit. People need to know how to set boundaries, and how to exit a spirit if they need to exit it. One of the things that Char has noticed is that people need support when they are seeing, hearing, or feeling the spirits around them. She had the gift of understanding people around her, and innately knew who was willing to support her, and to help her focus and hone her skills.

At the age of fourteen, Char began her training where she started learning medicine work in the Cheyenne tradition taught by her stepfather. As medicine work has been the focus on Char's life since childhood, she has performed psychic readings for nearly twenty years. In addition, Char is currently a practitioner of shamanic healing art and teaches classes and workshops at the Sundust Oracle Institute, a center for healing and teaching, founded in 2002. Char travels worldwide performing soul retrievals, house blessings, spirit readings, and leading student apprentices on shamanic journeys. She guides others to discover the ability of each person to connect clearly, to develop all of his/her senses, to accept the challenge that is rich with contentment of healing and giving and receiving guidance. This discovery heals, loves and teaches in a way that makes a difference in both realities.

Barbara Means-Adams, a Lakota author and story teller was Char's mentor for five years. She later completed her two year apprenticeship with Sheila Belanger, a shamanic practitioner and astrologer.

Sundust is the medicine name given to Char by her first teacher at sixteen years of age after two years of intense training. It is an Apache family name.