Dawn Dancing Otter began her journey on a healing path as a young child. Dawn’s early experiences of clairvoyance, dream work, empathic healing, and interconnection with nature and spirituality are her spiritual foundation.
Dawn studied Ecstatic Dance and healing movement with several teachers including Gabrielle Roth. She has a grounded and committed foundation of yoga practice since 1990 including Ashtanga Vinyasa, Hatha, and Kundalini Yoga, and is a certified teacher of these practices. She has a BFA in Dance, and a Master’s Degree in Leadership, she is certified in Somatic Therapy, Remedial Massage, Myofascial, and Ayurvedic Massage
In 1999, suffering from a life-threatening illness, Dawn experienced a complete healing through Soul Retrieval and Extraction Medicine with Manfred Lukas, who would eventually become her Teacher and Mentor.
Over the last two decades, Dawn has had intensive mentorships in Alchemical Healing Facilitation, Amazonian Plant Medicine, Irish Ancestral Ceremony, Storytelling, Earth Alchemical Medicine, Women’s Leadership, Ceremony, Tantra and Spirituality. She continues to invest her time and energy into continuing education to expand her capacity to bridge understanding and to bring this expansion to her teachings.
Dawn is the founder and principal teacher for The Weave Work School of Soul Recovery™️, The Wildwood Witch School with apprenticeships and programs offered in Canada, The US, Central and South America, Europe, and Australia and online.
Dawn acknowledges that she is an immigrant/settler, of Irish and Scottish descent, in the traditional, unceded territories of the Lkwungen peoples. an area shared with the neighbouring relations of Schian’exw (Beecher Bay), Ts’ouke (Sooke), Elwa Klallam and Makah.
Lkwungen’athun refers to the language of the land. Lkwungen traditionally unites the Esquimalt and Songhees peoples as one family.
Dawn and her family acknowledge and thank the Lkwungen People, also known as the Songhees, Esquimalt, and Beecher Bay First Nations communities, for the privilege to live and share in community on their traditional lands, to learn to be in active atonement with all that has come before, all that is with us now, and to do the work to create healthier ways forward..