What would you do with your life if you could make the impossible possible?

**One of the first things we are taught is that “fire burns.”**

It’s generally accepted as a universal law. But what if that isn't true? And if that’s not true, what else in our lives and our world might not be true?

I’ve always had a fascination with fire. Having grown up in the backcountry and spent many days camping in the woods, I often felt that I was a steward of fire. There was some sort of relationship there that I could intrinsically feel, but didn’t consciously understand.

My mid-30s brought a complete revolution of my life: health issues, divorce, job loss, and the embarking of a spiritual journey into the field of mystery and unknown. Through this process, I began to examine my own fiery spirit and how it related to the powerful element of fire.

In setting out on this new path, I joined a workshop series called Journey to Ascension. During one of our classes, we got onto the topic of firewalking. I always vaguely knew of firewalking as a tribal ritual or ceremonial practice in far-off lands, but this was different. These were spiritual seekers in the United States practicing the art of firewalking. I had never heard of this before.

Lightning bolt moment: “I must walk on fire,” I thought. And I held that intention close to my heart. I didn’t know where or when or how, but one day, I was going to make it happen. That day came in September 2018.

I had mostly completed my Warrior Goddess Facilitator training with HeatherAsh Amara, but I needed to complete an in-person portion for my certification. Scrolling through the list of options, there it was, in Sedona, Arizona, complete with a firewalk. I booked my ticket, packed my bags, and off I went to the Sedona Mago Retreat Center.

My dream of walking on fire was finally coming to fruition. Leading up to that day, I was full of energy and had grand visions of dancing on that fire and owning it: fire meeting fire. Nut the experience was nothing I expected, and everything that I needed it to be. That fire taught me some big lessons.

What I didn’t realize at the time was that my warrior showed up at that fire — the inner masculine. And that fire ripped right through my warrior and shook up the goddess. It brought a deeper healing of my inner feminine, work I had been committed to since my marriage had come to an end.

The fire plunged me into my heart, my feminine energy, to heal it. I had to see, feel, experience, and believe in my own power, not just as a fierce warrior, but as a magical goddess. That fire wanted me to believe in myself, my gifts, my magic. It was showing me the power that I carry every day in all of my life.

You see, up until 2016 with the dissolution of my marriage, my life, and essentially my entire being, I lived in fight or flight. I was always in warrior/masculine energy, to my detriment. It was survival mode. It was protection. My heart was so soft and broken, my warrior would do whatever was needed to make sure no one touched it. This wasn’t a healthy way to live.

A huge part of my journey was learning how to lean into my softness and vulnerability as a superpower. Embracing my feminine, balancing my masculine, and allowing my tender heart to be open and serve as my guide. I had to allow myself to love and to feel, and to reclaim my energy, my being, all of me, and repair the energy leaks so they could no longer harm and hurt me.

I was initiated on that fire, and also knew that experience was just the beginning. It wasn’t until 2023 that the door reopened. I received an email from HeatherAsh Amara with an invitation to Teotihuacan, Mexico to become a Sundoor Certified Firewalk Instructor and Empowerment Coach.

Everything in my body screamed, “**you must go**!”

So I took the biggest leap of faith I’ve quite possibly ever taken and signed up. In June 2024, I took the trek to Teo, one of the most sacred sites in the world. I was to spend nine days at The Dreaming House walking on fire every night and who knew what else in between.

I went into that space in such a different way than in Sedona. I entered from deep within my feminine, with softness, openness, humility, and deep respect. I approached with caution, knowing that there was no owning or overpowering. There was only surrendering and accepting the invitation to dance with the fire, alchemizing, transforming, empowering, and expanding in whatever way she saw best. It was tender, beautiful, and intense. We had a different fire and walk all eight nights. I walked hundreds of times and I received my messages with ease and grace.

I had the honour and blessing to learn from both HeatherAsh Amara and Peggy Dylan, the mother of the western firewalking movement, who will also soon retire from teaching. Along with developing a deep and intimate relationship with the fire as my teacher and learning how to guide others across the flames, I expanded my edges, pushed my limits, and alchemized my own stories in ways I had never imagined.

I learned how to break arrows, bend rebar, and walk barefoot on broken glass. I learned how to make the impossible possible: how to hold my fear and my courage in my heart together with love, and how to guide other seekers to do the same.

Fire is the most potent and powerful medicine that anyone can work with, and I don’t say that lightly. I have yet to meet one single person who has firewalked and not experienced massive shifts and transformations in their lives afterwards. It is magical, illogical, and truly remarkable. People around the world have been carrying out ritual and ceremony with fire for centuries, and we are blessed here in the northwest to be able to welcome the sacred fire into our hearts.

We as humans are truly magical. Everything within us and surrounding us is energy, and our power and abilities are far greater than anything most of us can imagine, see, or understand beyond our self-limiting doubts, beliefs, fears, stories, and conditions. When we begin to break through those barriers, incredible things start to happen. I have personally experienced this over and over in my life, time and time again.

When we firewalk — and break arrows, bend rebar, and walk on broken glass — we not only come into relationship with the fire, we let go and come into relationship with the mystery. We get to safely explore the nature of our fears, limiting beliefs, and stories. We learn how to trust our bodies. We expand our consciousness, claim our power and gain a deeper understanding that there’s so much to the mystery that we simply don’t know, and that science cannot explain. Walking on fire allows us to recreate our reality, to challenge beliefs that are not true, and within that, we begin to get curious about the rest of our reality.

Playing with Fire

Kootenay Women

In Business

Playing with Fire

Dear Lynn: Navigating Employee Frustration

The Rise of Dance

Kootenay Women

In Business