Maud Séjournant inherited an interesting name. In French “séjourner” means to stay, to live somewhere. Yet, there is also in that name “journey” and travel; Maud, in more respects than one, did live up to that dual aspect of her name. She has traveled far and wide, in inner and outer lands – sailing across the Atlantic twice was just one feat of her traveler’s spirit of adventure – and she is also very much anchored in this world, a mother of two children and a “practitioner,” in the literal meaning of the word, someone with a practical common sense who likes tangible results.

As a spiritual artist, she has chosen her tools from a wide palette: thoughts and techniques offered by pioneers and scientists of our modern world as well as those offered by old traditional shamans and past “magic” beliefs. Those two sources are actually not so far apart as was once believed and, at our point in history, the “two worlds” are finally merging into one.

Maud Séjournant’s affinity and personal life journey led her to explore shamanism in Southwest America and the Native American traditional wisdom of New Mexico. She listened, learned, founds guides and dreamed. She accepted all of her visions and took the tools along in her “bundle” of knowledge.

In her years of studies at Southwest College, she explored her own inner space of light and shadows, was introduced to many paradigms of thought and took those tools along as well. Her own inner journey of self-healing led her on the path of the shaman, someone who, in all traditions, has forever been the archetype of the “wounded healer.”

As a modern therapist and healer, what she is offering the reader is a unique combination of shamanism – journeys into lands of dream and old magic delving deep into the self beyond time and space constraints – and a strong reassuring common sense, inherited, possibly, from her French Cartesian background. She leads her readers with a firm hand and solid grasp on the reality of our world. Shamanism is not escapism, she takes care to reiterate, constantly reminding her readers that they need to stay solidly grounded.

The “Tree of Life” is undoubtedly the best symbol to summarize her vision of health: deep roots into the flesh of earth from which springs the movement upward toward light and open sky. Only within this fundamental dual and complementary unity of humanness can we truly become the acting “magicians of our own life.”

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