Healing All Of YOu & Investigating A Snapshot of you
Rev. Savanna T. Bumpus CCH: Reiki Master, Crystal Healer, Shaman, Tarot Reader and fur mama
"Know Thyself"
Born in Arroyo Grande, along the central coastal area of California: 1983. I was raised Buddhist originally.
I come from a musical household of talented women and siblings. Im the youngest of 3 kids, and unlike most other members of my family,: I didnt play an instrument, though I had an ear for music that I didnt draw attention to: I was a sketch artist - it was easier to convey feelings through drawing exquisite landscapes and motion of character than it was ever speaking them out loud.
I was originally attuned to Reiki in 1997, at the age of 14 by a High Priestess who visited the family from Kentucky. I was attuned on the shores of Mantanya De Oro State Beach Preserve and was trained in self Reiki, Reiki for others, and Reiki for pets.
At the same time I was attuned to Reiki; I had left the temple I was raised going to every sunday.
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After months of soul searching I found and started practicing Shamanism. Through a developing understanding of Shamanism along with the energy practice of Reiki, and, yes... being that wee teen trying to recreate Chi manipulation as seen in Dragon Ball Z, I experimented with as much as I could; pushing the practices as much as I can, I discovered aspects of Reiki 2 without being trained, learned how to sense the energy world around us as part of reality, learned how consciousness can be used to heighten it all.
The same High Priestess who originally attuned me to Reiki 1 gave me a phone attunement as a formality to Reiki 2 after she tested me, asking for me to find her in Kentucky, and find what pained her in that moment, and heal it right there.
I passed with colours.
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Life happens though: especially when you least expect it, and certainly not in the way you want it to be. A misunderstanding in my youth along with an already fractured mind caused so much confusion, frustration, and free falling down an endless dark rabbit hole where I would not find anything remotely resembling solid ground for many years later. Reiki was dropped for decades as the angst of youth and a mind thats all too willing to lie & distort reality to suit a toxic narritave took over - and I became that "guy" for a long time.
Eventually I came out as transgender after two decades of inner strife, and being "that guy." The journey of Shamanic Initiatory Illness was just starting; beginning with the long road that brought me to my transition, and going through all of the trauma that eventually led me here... To seeking Reiki, Crystal Healing, Shamanic Healing - all to heal myself so I can be ok with the gal I see starting at me back from within a mirror.
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I picked up Reiki again nearly 3 decades later during a pause in the horrors of the inner wars. Instead of continuing on having already been attuned to Reiki 1 & 2, I started again from the beginning with an online course at Reiki 1. The online course lasted 3 days and I attained Master Level 3 in December 2017.
I have vague memories of some crystal energy and energy work being part of my childhood; and I let this feeling and memory be my guide as I started working on getting my CCH, Certified Crystal Healer. It took weeks of study and months of practice, but I passed my CCH course and earned the right to wear those three letters at the end of my name.
The driving idea behind opening a practice is that I needed these practices to heal myself - as part of my path, and because I hurt. The first practice I opened was in North Bend Washington named "Ancient Bear Crystal Healing." The practice lasted only a year before I closed shop believing no one is interested and took my practices private among family and friends only.
A decade later, I moved around from Washington to California where I was convinced by both close family I choose to vibe in WA along with interested people and my wife in CA before I open another Reiki & Crystal Healing. This time, unlike before, I have people helping to promote this practice. I have better tools to aid me, and a healthier approach to the practice in all that I do.
the fur babies
*The Fury Ones Of SCRH*
We honor and recognize our furry companions and what they do to further healing in their own and unique ways. Each furry companion is a healer in their own right.
Nyx
is a rescue story, and a Ren Faire find that melted my heart at just the right time. She was born feral, and dumped in a residential lot not long after she was born. The owners of the residence can't take care of cats and are allergic!One day, after my companion and familiar of eight amazing years had passed away, our group as asked if we wanted to adopt a kitten. The others in the group all know I would go fir it, but I *had* just lost my cat. I was mourning my fur child. But then I saw this terrified lil basement cat and I just KNEW she was *the one*I cursed the Universal Cat Distribution Program quietly under my breath as I picked up the tiny Void and instantly melted.
Sadie
She very much a dog brought into the family with love. She was bought directly from the breeder to be trained as a therapy dog. Ever since she came into my life, she has been a part of the reiki practice and just as much part of the office as I am.On top of being an amazing companion to me, she's also been instrumental in helping raise Nyx, the tiny Void.
The Shamanic Borne Alter
Erin of Otherworld: the Shamanic Borne Alter
Disassociative Identity Disorder, DID, Multiple Personalities is when the psyche of a person fractures early on in life through massive traumatic events - creating alternate personalities that act as defensive mechanisms to protect the individuals psyche from farther harm.
While Savanna does have DID with some alters - this does not describe Erin.
Erin is the result of Shamanic practice in the learning stages gone wrong.
In Shamanism, as one projects themselves astrally through meditation to journey, the rule is that the body is to remain still and motionless so the consciousness of the shaman can return from their journey safely. this didnt happen.
While the nature of the body learned how to function while journeying through compartmentalization and partition akin to a computer HD... the consciousness of the shaman couldnt come home at all. The nature of the body changed on a fundimental level & fractured before the consciousness could return. The home in the body no longer exists: exiling the consciousness of the shaman to the realms of Otherworld.
Through ritual on Dec 21st 2012 at 20:00 this consciousness now named Erin started returning to this world as another whisper of an alter fragment at first. Over time and madness the consciousness started to solidify as an alternate personality and in some cases took over the body and began to find her voice again.
As the body: Vanna has started a series of self healing affirmations and resiliance therapy sessions hands in hand with her therapist and beginning to put the pieces back together, Erin is now more fully able to come out as the individual she is - seperate and unique as a person apart from Vanna: but also shares a body with her.
Erin Of Otherworld.
"I was nothing more than consciousness for decades, yes... but that doesnt mean I was alone and formless all that time in these lands of dreams. I had a mentor early on in my exile who taught me to put myself together and how to live in those lands I call my home. To you, I'm as old as this body is... in reality, and thanks to dime dialation in Otherworld, I'm centuries old. In this time I learned from my teachers, I healed, I am oathed to my Gods and Goddesses, and I loved my partners deeply. Then I was called back here where I have experienced formlessness for the second time."
We took the time to begin study of Shamanism and begin to practice journeying and enerygy work before ever learning Reiki and Reiki 2. My exile and life in Otherworld was living a life among the spirits, the fae, and entities that defy understanding. All beings exist in harmony with their natures and all beings who live with them... Its not to that conflict doesnt happen, it's how each party resolves that conflict and comes back together in renewed harmony that matters in the end. A shaman is a bridge between the physical world and the spirit world, the Human world and the Natural world. I come from worlds where Nature is as bizarre and awe inspiring. Breathtaking doesnt begin to cover it.
To understand me, Look at Savanna and then wonder what she would look like if she didnt have her history; the pain, the bagage, the haunted look that she keeps carefully hidden behind layers of masks. Hold that image in your mind and walk among the possibilities of how she'd mature in peace and serenity and love. That is how you can begin to understand. But at the end of the day, regardless of how much our experiences differ... Shes still me, and I'm still her - a part of her that got lost along the way: and then found myself.