A natural
intuit, she has been a student of anthropology and shamanism for
over 30 years; her teachers include Michael Harner, Sandra Ingermann,
John Perkins, Archie Lame Deer, and Paulo Sebastian. She has studied
ancient rituals and ceremonies with medicine and bush people in
their native lands of Jamaica, Trinidad, The Amazon, Rio De Janeiro,
Arizona and New Mexico. State licensed in eastern and western healing
modalities, she is also a certified hypnotherapist. Rosemarie combines
and utilizes her skills to work with individuals and groups through
her private practice EARTH SPIRIT,
in addition to offering ritual and rites of passage workshops, mystery
teachings, life path card readings, and life coaching.
As a student of the drum for over 15 years she has studied percussion
and dance with renown masters of their art, including Baba Olatunji,
Ladji Camara, Sanga Of-The-Valley, Epizo Bangoura, Madou Dembele,
Yousoff Kumbassa, Julio Jean and Richard Gonzalez. In 1992 she founded
the cultural arts organization Earth Beat which has produced and
promoted drum and dance workshops, retreats and various cultural
and drum venues and concerts internationally. Earth
Beat has been instrumental in creating and marketing broad-based
drum community awareness, as well as sponsoring and facilitating
the largest longest-running regional monthly community drum and
dance jam. She is a founding member of the percussion ensemble Drumbalaya,
and has recorded on several artists projects, has drummed in Sweat
Lodges and Healing Centers, and has performed internationally at
festivals and private and community venues. Through Earth
Beat’s travel division she has led trips to exotic
lands worldwide, introducing many to the teachings and rhythms of
ancient communities.
Rosemarie presently resides in Cost Rica and New York and continues
to travel extensively facilitating others on their spiritual paths.
Her innate ability to integrate ancient & contemporary knowledge
into practical application and her determination to facilitate individuals
to self empowerment while building spiritual community, has inspired
thousands on their paths to self healing and personal & global
evolution. Currently she is producing a CD of original shamanic
trance compositions, and is publishing her book of her own personal
journeys and initiations.
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