A retired social worker/minister, Ruth Zwald makes her home on a farm in Michigan, starting every dawn with good coffee and the crow of the rooster.  Loving the cycles of the seasons, Ruth watches the moon and never misses a solstice or equinox turning. 

Ruth is a Mesa Carrier  on the Peruvian Medicine Path, and has completed her work to become a "Pampamesayog."  The training involves personal healing, transformational healing for others, and creating ceremony and ritual for ourselves and for the earth.  Ruth has also studied other indigenous belief systems.  In 2018, she had the opportunity to travel to Ecuador for a Shaman Summit with the Yachaks of the Andes.  There she experienced a powerful LaLimpia healing, and has since completed training to be able to offer that sacred method of healing.

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Here is Ruth's statement on faith:  "I have always strived to live as a person with faith.  After serving for several years as a Christian pastor, I took my leave of traditional patriarchal systems of belief.  My faith found its way to indigenous belief systems, and an honoring of the earth as sacred.  This interconnectedness is what nourishes my spirit."