WHO IS ROSS BISHOP?

There are two kinds of Shaman. Some people have a gift and study for years to develop that gift into a powerful healing art. Ross is what is called a natural Shaman, someone who was born blessed with a natural gift for healing. Ross has studied traditional shamanism and has brought the core of the ancient traditions into a form that can be used by people of our culture and time.

In a former life, Ross was president of an advertising agency and a communications executive. After that, he taught creative thinking. Seeing the limitations that fear placed on people’s creative passions and the limitations it brought in his own life brought Ross to undertake a spiritual journey in search of answers. That journey covered many miles and several continents.

Ross had a private healing practice in Santa Fe for 20 years and relocated several years ago to Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1998 Ross wrote his first book Healing The Shadow, which looks at the dark forces in our lives, their powerful role in affecting us and how we can deal with them. In 2004 Ross released his second book, Truth which offers a spiritual explanation of life and offers many healing techniques. In January of 2008 Ross released his third book, Journey to Enlightenment, which explores the barriers we put up to our spiritual development. Ross writes extensively about life and spirituality on his web site. His articles and books can be found at: http://www.rossbishop.com

IN HIS OWN WORDS:

I am sometimes asked why I became a healer. Primarily it came as an outgrowth of my own need to heal. My pain and dissatisfaction brought me to leave corporate management and journey to find and root out the sources of the considerable pain that I had carried for years. Psychology did not give me the answers I needed, so I set out to find other answers.

I don’t think that many people set out to do this kind of work. Actually, I think that the work picks you and draws you in, often in spite of your better judgment. My teachers all encouraged me after working on my own issues to help others to heal, not so much as a humanitarian service, but as a way to deepen my own healing process.

I found that I had a gift for the work and that my teachers were absolutely right. Serving others is a remarkable learning process. Over the last 20+ years, my clients have taken me to places I could not have gone on my own. I am deeply grateful for the gifts of personal growth that our work together has given me.

Regularly working in the realm of the shadow presents its own challenges and difficulties. It is also immensely satisfying to watch someone bloom and emerge into real life after years of living in the darkness of pain, denial and repression.