Meet Raika Tie­nert  

Rai­ka is a ca­cao fa­cil­i­ta­tor, kun­dali­ni en­er­gy fa­cil­i­ta­tor, pet be­reave­ment counsel­lor and artist. She be­gan cre­at­ing feath­er fan smudges this year. Read her sto­ry  be­low:  

“It all start­ed dur­ing our ca­cao fa­cil­i­ta­tor train­ing in May and June. That train­ing  re­al­ly changed my life in so many ways I nev­er even dreamed of. I would like to  pref­ace that I m still learn­ing so much about spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and all that goes with it, but  one ma­jor thing I learned dur­ing our train­ing was that there are no rules. One follows her own heart and what the spir­its and uni­verse guide you to­wards. No more  fight­ing against it , but ac­cept it and don’t doubt it, just sur­ren­der and em­brace  what will be.  

So dur­ing our fi­nal part of our train­ing there was one ses­sion where we had to  cre­ate our own col­lage of vis­ual stuff that we are con­nect­ed with. Well I dread­ed  that part! It was the only ses­sion dur­ing that amaz­ing 5 days of train­ing that I re­al­ly  felt sick to my stom­ach be­cause I felt I had no cre­ativ­i­ty and I didn’t see how “playing child” would help me in my growth. Boy was I wrong!!! I was so so wrong. With in few min­utes start­ing the task, sur­round­ed by the oth­er amaz­ing par­tic­i­pants, I  was ful­ly in­volved and it was like my in­ner child, my in­ner cre­ativ­i­ty was fi­nal­ly let  free and be al­lowed to sur­face and that was it! Af­ter that ses­sion, the only one I was  so skep­tic about, I felt a dif­fer­ent per­son. That in­ner child that had been re­pressed  all my life was fi­nal­ly al­lowed to let me be who I want­ed to be. Is like Mama Ca­cao  

dur­ing that ses­sion took hold of my hand and told me I am ca­pa­ble and wor­thy.  Once home I start­ed to try out my “artis­tic“ side but since I saw a beau­ti­ful  feath­er fan smudge at the train­ing , be­long­ing to the amaz­ing Vivi­enne, and know ing it came from Peru, and was al­lowed to hold it and felt the in­cred­i­ble en­er­gy it  holds, I start­ed to search for one too. Sad­ly they are very hard to come by, and they  are very pricey. So , as Vivi­enne told me , why not mak­ing my own? 

I start­ed sit­ting with my en­er­gy and hold­ing space and start­ed search­ing for  feath­ers (I found crow’s feath­ers, doves, chick­ens and even a buz­zard) and then  turned on the han­dles. All nat­u­ral­ly fall­en type of dif­fer­ent trees, oak, el­der, hazel,  sycamore, cher­ry, ash and so forth. And then I thought that al­though there are  some, very pricey feath­ers smudge on the in­ter­net, they are not made keep­ing in  mind the per­son us­ing it mind. I ful­ly be­lieve this won­der­ful tool should be made  based on what the per­son en­er­gy type is, what trees they con­nect most, stones or  crys­tals they bond with, and so forth.

So I made one, then an­oth­er one and soon  enough peo­ple want­ed one made too. Most of my cre­ations are cus­tom made for  that per­son that is go­ing to use it be­cause those won­der­ful tools need to con­nect  with the per­son hold­ing it. I pour my heart, en­er­gy and love in every sin­gle piece I  make, and they are all sage and blessed too. This is my sto­ry on how I found my­self  mak­ing heal­ing artis­tic pieces and how my spir­i­tu­al­i­ty has evolved too. I don’t  choose how every piece is made of and what it will look like, I let Mama Ca­cao and  Pachama­ma guide me.”  

Contact Rai­ka

You can email Raika on: tie­nert@gmail.­com  you will also find here listed on our Saoró practitioner directory here Raika Tie­nert