Jez Hughes

I have studied intensively the ancient art of Shamanism for eighteen years, yet my healing journey began nearly thirty years ago when as a teenager, through illness, I found myself in an altered state of consciousness that knocked me into a reality far more powerful, yet intrinsically linked to the one that surrounded me.

It took a long time to integrate that experience and find healing for the physical and mental disturbances it initated into me which included convulsive fits, extreme anxiety, pyschological breakdowns and psychotic episodes.

This journey, I now understand as a 'Shamanic Illness', took me through various healing and spiritual traditions and all across the earth, until I first I discovered astrology as a map, then finally came home to shamanism and found practical methods to cure myself.

I have studied in Britain with a teacher from this land and in the desert in Mexico with human and plant teachers. I have also travelled widely visiting and undertaking many ceremonies with indigenous elders. This training is ongoing and for the past five years I have worked closely with senior Marakames (shamans) from the Wixarika (Huichol) tribe in northern Mexico. This has involved hosting them as they have shared their ceremonies and medicine with Europeans for the first time in their history. I have also travelled to Mexico and received the enormous privilege of staying in the communities and undergoing ceremony in their sacred sites, some that have never hosted westerners before. The Wixarika have remained very pure in the traditions and the friendship and teaching from this alliance has influenced and moved my work forward in many profound ways.

Leah is a practising Shamanic healer. She completed her intensive training with Second Sight Healing and now assists on Initiation and Practitioner Training workshops which she has done for the past 7 years. She has been priviledged to sit in sacred ceremony and learn from indigenous shamans from the Shuar and Wixarika tribes. She has also travelled to Mexico to work closely with the Wixarika in their communities and sacred sites/

Leah brings a passion for integrating the spirit with the body and assisting people to ground their visions. She is a certified yoga teacher. She has released 2 bestselling DVDs 'Yoga and You' and 'Yoga for Life', has presented workshops at The Yoga Show and the Mind Body Spirit Festival and has written for Yoga Magazine and OM Magazine. Her work has been featured widely in the media: BBC, This Morning, Spirit and Destiny, Natural Health and Living, Woman and Home, Yoga Magazine, OM Magazine, TV Times and in the national press.

Leah runs workshops and retreats around the country. She is one of the few teachers in the UK pioneering the teaching of shamanic yoga.

Donna deals with the administration and bookings for Second Sight Healing. She has been through everything Second Sight Healing offers and can, therefore, speak with knowledge, experience and empathy when dealing with enquiries. Having completed the practitioner course in 2014, she now practises as a Shamanic Healer.

Donna became interested in Shamanism after being given a pack of medicine cards while going through an extremely difficult period in her life. These gave her the insight and focus to start thinking differently and make changes in her life. She then attended Shamanic workshops at Gaunts House, Dorset, and established a very strong connection with an animal spirit guide. This had a profound effect on her. She then travelled to the Amazon Rainforest in Peru where she worked with one of the Teacher Plants and sat in ceremony with the healers (Onanya) from the Shipibo Tribe. This was life changing. On her return, she met Jez through the monthly dreaming circles run by Second Sight Healing, and started her training with him.

Donna feels extremely privileged to have recently travelled around Mexico with Marakames of the Huicholes Tribe, visiting their sacred land Wirikuta, learning about their plant medicine and sitting in ceremony with them.