BACKGROUND, TRAINING, AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Graduate
Pacific Institute for Human Growth, Tacoma Washington 1976
Graduate
Mind Development Incorporated
Alex Merklinger, trainer (eventually became Life Spring) Seattle Washington
1977 and Bellevue Washington 1978
Graduate
Gary Peacock personal growth seminars, Seattle Washington 1977
Graduate
One year training in Bon (Inner Essence)
practice for Western practitioners of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Bellingham Washington 1978-79
Under the direction of Chenlepo also known as Li Po
Chen.
"This practice (Bodhicitta) had an aspiration to "liberate the
Mind" for the benefit of others, and an application to provide healing,
teaching, and liberation of creative energies for all beings. The
knowledge system learned was Laya (Kundalini) Yoga, which involved work
with energy centers (chakras) and energy channels (chen); dream work;
spiritual reading and healing; and visualization and path working. The
method system used was the inner teachings of Pa Kua and Hsing-i Gung-Fu,
which worked with Awareness training; Body, Voice, Mind unification
training; mind development training; dual (Subject / Object)
meditation training (Anu); and non-dual (Essence) meditation training
(Ati)."
Completed
Individual and group instruction in NLP and hypnosis, with Bob Shue
though a Fairhaven College independent study 1977-1979
Dianic (Wiccan) introduction craft training
Bellingham Washington 1981
Washington Psychic Institute (Church of Divine Man) Intensive training:
Completed 1981-82
Healing I&II
Meditation I&II
Body Magic
Women’s class I&II
Other workshops/classes completed through CDM
Astral Body workshop
Male/female energy balancing workshop
Clearing Pain Pictures workshop
Community Healing class
Kundalini Class
Continuing education and certifications through CDM
Completed
Seminary Clairvoyant /Ministerial Training 1982
Ordained
Minister Nov 2nd 1982 .
Completed
Counseling program 1983
Teacher Training program 1984
Additional teacher training 1987
Certified
Meditation and Healing Teacher 1984, 1987
MINISTERIAL AND TEACHING FOR CDM
Staff Minister/Teacher; presented healing classes in Bellingham,
Everett
and Seattle.
Assisted in organization and presentation of annual staff conferences.
Co-taught Kundalini class Rose Hill CDM and Everett CDM
1992-1993
Program Director of Meditation Program at Seattle CDM: Developed
program goals, coordinated volunteer committees, worked with Board of
Trustees. Procured and enrolled students, tracked program finances,
directed outreach and publicity, taught 8 week classes in meditation, ran
weekly meditation hour, presented Sunday talks. Offered spiritual
counseling, reading, and
healing, to students and community members.
OTHER TRAINING
Completed
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Degree 1986
Western Washington
University - Fairhaven College
Completed
Body Electric for Women workshops 1994 and 1999
Body Electric School
Received
Herbal folkcrafter certificate 1994
Graduate
Foundations course 1995, 1996, CSL member, Choir of Light Member.
Center for Spiritual
Living, Seattle WA
Practitioner
Paramukta Yoga
"Yoga of Emergence"
Completed
8 hours of Teacher Certification in the practice of Paramukta Yoga 1999
Presented by Dr. William Mitchell and Jille'Gleason Feb 5,6&7 1999
Completed
Sylvan Grove outer Grove class 1996
Pagan/ritual craftwork
Member
Gosedd of Bards of Caer Pugetia,
a Gorsedd of the British Druid Order on Turtle Island
Founded April 20 1997 by
http://www.britishdruidorder.co.uk/gorsedd_bards.htm
Dedicated into Sylvan Grove
1996
Initiated 1st Degree Sylvan Grove 2000
Received 2nd Degree Initiation
Sylvan Grove 2007
Completed
DNA1 and DNA2
Theta Healing™ Class, March 23rd 2008
Received Basic
Theta Healing™ Certification
FOUNDER
Inspiration is the Inbreath of Spirit 1994, Seattle
Washington
http://www.inbreath.com
A private practice that draws from a variety of energetic and
healing traditions to provide spiritual guidance to any spiritual
seeker, regardless of religious background, sexual orientation,
ethnicity and/or gender.
Erika offers classes, lectures, workshops, readings, healing work,
spiritual counseling, weddings, and individual training in the spiritual
arts.
Partial Class and Workshop List
- Meditation/Body Wisdom Class 1st and 2nd level
- Energetic Healing 1st and 2nd level
- Beginning the Inner Journey
- Very beginning Astrology
- Kundalini Classes and Workshops
- Tapping into the Power of Pre-menopause workshops series
- Spiritual Leadership
- Rose and Aura reading Intensives
Erika Ginnis can be contacted by phone at (206)
669-5881 (cell), or (253) 759-8468 (msg)
The new main
location for Inspiration is the Inbreath of Spirit
is now
2501 East D street, Tacoma WA
98421
Suite 205
in the office suites of
Freighthouse
Square
all services available by
appointment
Or see her in Seattle, at
Columbia City Healing Arts 3728 S. Angeline, Seattle WA
98118
Appointments avail.
Mon/Wed afternoon & evening
She can also be reached through her web site at which contains copies of and/or
references
to
her writings, some of which will be featured in her
recently completed book "Essential Mysteries; A User's Guide for the 21st Century Mystic".
PUBLICATIONS: (partial list)
On a Cold Morning in the Spring (poem) (Widdershins vol1iss1)
Sacrifice (poem) (Widdershins vol1iss2)
On healing and
personal power (article)
Illumination
from Within (article) (Widdershins vol1iss5)
She Moves in
Mysterious Ways, My relationship with Yemayá (under the pen Name Iris
waterStar) (article) (Widdershins vol2iss2)
Solstice
Transformation (under the pen Name Iris waterStar) (article)
(Widdershins vol2iss3)
Truth
Without Love Can be a Hammer (under the pen Name Iris waterStar) (article)
(Widdershins vol2iss5)
Mercury in
Vegas (under the pen Name Iris waterStar)(article) (Widdershins vol2iss7)
Feeling the
Earth (article) (Widdershins vol3iss1)
She radiates like the Sun, Interview with Erika Ginnis (Widdershins vol3iss3)
Body-Wisdom:
Grounding (article) (Widdershins vol3iss6)
Centering for
Clarity of Vision (article) (vol3iss7)
Creating and
Destroying (article) (Widdershins vol3iss8)
Between Earth
and Sky (article) (Widdershins vol4iss1)
Chakras: The
Wealth Within Us(article) (Widdershins vol4iss2)
Protection
Roses (article) (Widdershins vol4iss3)
Letting Go To
Have (article) (Widdershins vol4iss4)
When a Dream is Real (article) (Widdershins vol4iss5)
Grab Bag for the Holiday Season (article) (Widdershins vol4iss6)
Reclaiming Commitment as a Magickal Tool (article)
(Widdershins vol6iss2)
Divination: Telling the Future or Telling the
Present (article) (Widdershins vol6iss5)
How a July Astral Experience Speaks to Us Now or "when All is
One, the is no Other" (article) (Widdershins vol7iss5)
Kundalini: Touch of Divine Fire
This Imbolc (article) (Widdershins vol7iss7)"
Altars and Shrines:
A personal celebration of Divinity (article) (Widdershins vol9iss3)
A Choir Witch Finds
Spiritual Haven in Song (article) (Widdershins vol9iss6)
Gold Energy vs.
White Light: My Perspective (article) (Widdershins vol10iss6)