Where Art Meets Healing Workshop 4/13

Hi Ross,
What an amazing day we had with you last week. Back home in St. Louis now and reflecting on the adventure in trusting the healing journey. Thank you again for sharing your light and inspiration with all of us.
Let me know if you can open this email attachment with photos from our day.
With love,
Jayne

Hi Ross,
CC here to say "askwall" for today's creative work & play!
It was awesome, enlightening, & raw!
Unangwa❤
C

Dear friend,

Yes, I have seen it, Wow. And your artwork make me happy...you are making such a big contribution to a better way of living.

I am happy to know you and I love you.

greetings ailo

Hi Ross,
it's been about 20 years since our amazing shamanic journey together.
Its time for me to go on another, if you are around Santa Fe!
plus, I'd love to show you how my art work has developed out of that one journey!Let me know if you are still practicing, if you are, or are planning to be in town.

I hope you are doing well,

V - 2013

Hi Ross,

I was part of this group session with Sandi, Patti and Margaret that you held in September. I am Laura. The animal guide I received at the time was the Hawk. I have my totem and wrote a poem inspired by the Hawk that I would like to share with you. It’s very basic and felt good to write.

Thank you for the day we spent with you last September. It was very enlightening. Hope your all is well in your world.

Laura - St. Louis, MO

HAWK

I am the messenger, soaring so high,

Hop on my back we’ll take to the sky

And change your perception of the world going by.

Dreams and illusions that felt so real

Are entirely different and nothing to fear.

As we soar even higher, calmness prevails

Divine order and love are seen through the veil.

All is right with the world from above,

On land it seems rough and all out of love.

But the truth has been shown from the view on high,

So when you are down, call on me and we’ll take to the sky.

Ross,

Next Tuesday I plan on doing a ritual with my group members in which I will utilize the “calling cards” you helped me design and develop. I anticipate passing out my University Business cards (with all the stuffy degrees listed) which bear the University name and logo, and expressing my desire to “let go” of my attachment to my former life (represented by the business cards), so that I can make room for the new life emerging within me represented by the “new Cards.” I will then pass out the NEW CARDS, and with some ritual ceremony ask the members of my group to tear the old cards, and bring the new ones to their hearts in honor of the journey I did when Tigress and I built a staircase from the “library” of my mind to the center of my heart.

Thank you for giving so generously of your time. Thank you for the passion you hold for the spiritual work you do; for your sincerity and caring. For the love you bring to the world and the light you shine into the lives of those like myself and the many others who know you Ross – thank you! – I am so grateful and fortunate to gain by your wisdom and mentoring.
Daniel Oct 2011

Dear Ross,
Thank you for this message and thank you so much for sharing your light and love with us. The picture attached is my stick with ribbons of things I let go of floating down the river. It was such a great ceremony with symbolic meaning that it has stayed with me and become more powerful as I've shared it with family and friends.

I could relate many many moments of healing since we left you,(both individually and with Britt) but that would take up too much space here. I just wanted you to know especially, that I have felt a deeper connection to the Holy Spirit than ever before. In fact, I had an encounter during the night after our morning with you. I had been experiencing a pain in the body. It was coming up for healing throughout the day and toward night, it began to get more intense. I went to lay down and in my heart I continued to let go (to some degree) of egotism, personality, earthly desires and accept that the Holy Spirit is infinite, All, -- without which nothing was created; and that I needed nothing but this Spirit as my life. As the pain intensified, I surrendered to this Presence, - and the pain transmuted into what felt like an "adjustment" in the body. I fell asleep. And woke refreshed and healed.

Also, I have had since then, a feeling of being cared for, watched over, guided, and led by this Presence of the Holy Spirit.

I will be always grateful for you sharing your heart and healing energy with us.

Also, it was such a joy to meet your daughter at the store in Santa Fe. She is radiant with love and light also.

Peace and blessings,
Jean  July 2011

Facing Change Workshop - Oct 2010

Thanks you so, so much for what has been the most extraordinary weekend and
experience that I can remember. Really, no words can describe what the transformation
workshop has meant to me. In so many ways, on so many levels of ordinary and
non ordinary reality. Your kindness and sense of fun, your knowledge and compassion
are wonderful to be around.

I'm so excited to continue this work....and I loved the big circle of amazing women!
What a gift it all was (and is).

With an open heart,

Carola

 Ross,
I wanted to share that I can feel the medicine of the women from Australia quite strongly. My dreams have been vivid and memorable and my core feels stronger than it has in a very long time. I see a symbol that is like a spiral maze within a tree, either on the bark or in the trunk. I feel like the "sap" within myself is very strong and that it helps me be in my power.
I will paint this!
Blessings,
Leslie

 Dear Ross,
Thank you so much for the amazing work on Thursday. I made my drawings, found my wolf fetish (which I love very much), had an incredible afternoon at Aho Caliente, and have manifested a new friend who will let me stay at his house for no cost when I return :).

Came home, realized I did indeed have "Deep Sleep" in my medicine cabinet. Took some last night.

I would like to continue my work with you and would like to know what you recommend as next steps. Is it possible to do some work via phone and email? Perhaps I could continue with some "projects" or readings? I will also plan on making another trip out there before you leave during January/February. At some point, I would like my son Nicholas to experience your work as well. As I was reading the new book by Sandra and Hank, I realized that the time is right for his involvement as well.

Unfortunately, I made it to LewAllen and LewAllen right at the minute it closed on Thursday at 5 p.m.; I'll be sure to get there earlier next time I'm in Santa Fe, as well as to visit the gallery to see your art.

With great gratitude,
Leslie

Hi Ross and Hanne,

This is the first time I have turned on my computer since the beautiful initiation for John. I apologize for not being in touch sooner. Thank you Ross for your inspired and joyful leadership and Hanne you bring so much dignity and grace to the ceremony. The evening was very powerful and moving for John and for all of us. It will become one of our most treasured memories.

Thank you.

love
Rachel and Christopher   8/10

Good morning Ross

A note to thank you for your warm hospitality and for guiding me on my first Shamanic Journey on Monday.

I am left with the wonderful image of the moon casting its light over your property on emerging from the yurt. What a magnificent night it was.

Thank you again for holding the space for me and for so generously transporting me to and fro.

May you stay well and happy. To that end I whisper the suggestion of yoga classes in your ear once more .

My best wishes to Hannah.

Love Mary.  8/10

 Dear Ross,

Try as I might to find the right words to thank you for all the gifts you have brought me to and have shared with me they all sound flat as compare to what I feel in my heart. SO since there are no right or wrong words I will just say from my heart to yours my deepest gratitude for all your Blessings and energy directed to me for my well being. I wish you a long and joyous road ahead and may this present rite of passage be filled with much abundance and a radiance of love. Bless You, Jan
Spring 2010
Note:
I cannot tell you how much this time spent with you has meant to me. I feel like I have a brand new beginning and the future, for the first time, holds unlimited possibilities. I am excited; Ross and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your work with me. I will wait for word from you as to the shaman in California you think might be a good next step. There is so much to let settle. I look forward to my continuing study with you as well.

In light and love,
Jan

"My First Ride" by Lin   Cient's paintings I have permission to share 4/10

Dear Ross,
When my father died, my mother (with the best of intentions) tried to hide everything away. She had a small box that contained a few of the remaining passions that were his. As children, we knew where everything was hidden and we would find the box and search through it looking for my father. When I was 16, my mother gave me his ring and there was nothing left in the box. I used to think that the ring was all that was left of my fathers. You showed me that I was wrong.
Raven gave me very explicit instructions (5 years ago) and said that9 I would know when I was ready. I am to give you this ring. He also said that you would know what to do with it. I no longer need it, it is now yours.
I have built a special shipping box that has elements of all of us. These are my gifts to you from my heart.
Thanks for all that you have given to me.
Love and Blessings,
Rob 2010

 Hi Ross - I certainly had a powerful time in Santa Fe, and coming back is/was hard. I went to the Santa Clara pueblo, which was pretty deserted, and after knocking on a few doors (that said OPEN), I finally spoke with a nice man named Eloy, and bought a small piece of his pottery. He knew Merton and said he was in Santa Fe that day. After chatting, when I asked him if there was anything I should know that would help me move to Santa Fe, and he responded by saying that there are around 17 pueblos in the Rio Grande valley and started naming alot of them. We talked about other things, and before I left, I asked him if he thought I should move to Santa Fe, and he said yes. He may have thought I was pretty strange - I was the first person to knock on his door in a couple weeks.
Later that aft. I did my ritual by the river - a small flock of bluebirds appeared near me just as a was about to throw the stick into the river.
Other very positive things happened, but I'll spare you the details for now.
Thank you so much for your empowering work - Mia 09

Dear Ross,

I write to you today to thank you for helping my father and I to develop a new relationship and heal some of the past hurts. I also want to thank you for helping me realize how lucky i am to have a father who cares and loves me so much. I look around me and many people don't have a relationship with their parents, whether it's because their simply not there, their too busy with their lives, or their on drugs or drinking too much. I am privileged to have a father that does every thing he can to help and support my happiness, because he loves me, and I don't think i've said enough thanks to convey that message to him.

Our final ceremony made that apparent to me, and without that i would still be focused on how crappy my childhood was, when it really wasn't, at least my mom or dad didn't die when i was 9 years old. I'm also lucky to have someone who is so spiritually inclined, and who has opened up a world of options for my own spiritual growth. Others are not so fortunate, and they only see one path to enlightment or none at all, whereas i have many paths to choose from.

By the way, i very much enjoyed your stories, even though i might have said something different at the time. And i'm really looking forward to experiencing my own journey in australia, when the time is right, again thanks to your stories about your trip there.

All in all, my dad has yet again provided me with one of those unforgettable out of the ordinary experiences (i've had many in my youth), thanks to your wisdom and guidance, and i wanted to express my gratitude for giving us that.

By the way, what do we do with the medicine bags? I've set up that very special aboriginal painted piece of bark that you gave me with all those other gifts on my mantelpiece on my wall reminding me of my experience down in santa fe, and was wondering whether i could take the gifts out of the bags... Also, if you get a chance please thank those who were there that night as i was very touched by them and they really did give some thoughtful gifts, even though they didn't know me whatsoever.

With that, I leave you with a warm, heart-felt hug,

Nick     09

"Ross is an amazing person - sincere, heartfelt and gifted. I have experienced profound results from the shamanic journeys I've done with him and enjoyed his energy, stories and teaching."

Beth, Santa Fe, NM.

Hi, Ross,
 
I'll bet you thought I curled up and blew away!  Well, I almost did.  I've been very, very, sick for almost a year.  It sure has cleaned me out.  Paid me with a lot of inner growth, though.  I know what I'm made of now, and all the journeys I took with you pointed me there.  It all is coming together.
 
Finally, I feel that I'm strong enough to make the trip back to SF.  I'll arrive on April 14th, leave on April 22nd.  I'd love to see you and Hanne while I'm there.  What are the chances of that?
 
Love and light,
Judith

Dear ross,

He seems to be doing much better. I think he is still struggling, but more confident in himself that he'll be able move forward. I can't begin to tell you how wonderful it was for him to get to spend time with you. He has never had a strong male influence in his intimate life. He feels his father abandoned him, for the most part didn't  have grandfathers while growing up, and didn't have uncles close to him. He has been (unconsciously) searching for this intimate connection, and you provided that for him. Thank you. He has decided to go back to school for Advertising Design, a more marketable degree than marketing. He has already registered and starts on April 6th. He should be able to finish in about a year. I think he's still struggling a bit, but has more confidence in himself that he'll figure it out. It's going to be a challenge for him to try and hold on to the energy he experienced in Santa Fe. We have many resources for him in Chicago, but none that are as comfortable and natural as in Santa Fe. He keeps saying that he has to write to you. I think he doesn't know where to start, but he will.

Vicky

Ross,

I am deeply grateful for the warm welcome you have given me on this stage of my journey. I experienced a real peace that touched me deeply.
The journeying last night will be with me always and I look for signs of my power animal that will remind me that magic is present and I am being guided.

It is an honor to have met you and I hope to meet again.

Your brother,
Dave

Dear Ross,

I just want to let you know how much we enjoyed being with you last Saturday and just how meaningful we felt the morning had been for us. It was wonderful for Peter and me to be able to take part in our own journeying and then be able to share this together. And I know you will be interested to know about a postscript to Peters journey. He had seen his mother in the meditation when told to find someone in his family that needed healing. When we returned to Houston on Sunday, he got a call from his sister saying that his mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Needless to say, he was in awe of what he had seen and he’s already been of great help to his mother. So we are both grateful for your wonderful work and grateful for the "coincidences" that bring us all together. Spirit works in awesome ways. We will be back in Santa Fe after Christmas and hope we have a chance to see you again. Until then -

Love.
Carol

Dear Ross

Hope the past year has been good for you. Marc loves his digital studio, continues to do men’s work, and painting still makes my heart sing. I thought you might like to see a photo of the painting I did right after our soul retrieval work. One of the ages I met was an 11 year old who had been discouraged by my mother around my painting. Amazingly the flower is similar to the flowers I painted that she hated, and images came out of spirit guides, animal totems, etc in the flower. It also has an island look, I think. I thought it might give you a smile –

Blessed Be,
Virginia

Dear Ross,

This night finds me at home with no power in our little trailer house, the frogs singing outside after the storm that hit our area last night. It also finds me very very thankful to have endured the greatest trial of my life and to have come out the other end a changed woman, a woman who has gained in wisdom and beauty. So this comes to thank you for the support you so generously offered me during this time in need. The journey you led me into was a turning point on my path, and because of it I went into surgery totally confident that I had made all the right choices. Surgery went well and I am recovering very quickly. My surgeon feels I will never see a recurrence of my sarcoma. Soon I will hold a ceremony for the few close friends to honor the importance of this journey, my ally the owl, and all those who have been so supportive. Greeting and blessings to your friends on the healing network who knew about my situation. And big hugs to you, Ross, and looking forward to seeing you again.

Love,
Susanne

Dear Ross,

I find it difficult to describe what happened to me on this last trip to Santa Fe. The magic of the country has always affected me but never as so profound as this time. I realize with the passing of the last two mornings that the significance of the experience only increases. Remember I told you I was a bit apprehensive about knowing the journey would cause me to seriously question my path? It has started. For years I have realized I was in “limbo” about work and relationship, never finding what I was seeking, yet knowing I was coming closer to the truth and peace within. Thank you for providing the doorway. I knew after our brief visit in the gallery on Thursday that a major change was going to take place. Not only was the journey profound but also the pleasure of talking with someone on the level we did, without pretense or judgment, also meant a great deal to me. Thank you for sharing. I feel I have found a new friend. I know you meet hundreds – thousands of people and they react similarly. But I would like to think we made a connection that hopefully may continue, and I want to return for more work.

Thank you again for giving of yourself and starting me on a wonderful new path. I wish you every happiness of the season, much love and enjoyment with your family, and continued success with your work.

Fondly,
Suzanne –Dallas, Texas

Hi Ross,

We are home now and the air is humid, leaves have yet to turn although they are yellowing and today it is raining like the dickens. Thank you for the guided journey last week. I am working on various projects last week.

I’m reading Soul Retrieval now and it speaks quite clearly as you suggested it would. I’ll be in touch later to perhaps gather names for some Hawaiian connections – there was an item in Talk of the Town (New Yorker) this week about a Kahuna blessing a house in NYC. Thanks again for making a safe space for me to continue the journey and wake up.

Best.
Polly

Greetings Brother Ross,

I am a sister to you from being in Antelopes "family". I live in Northern Minnesota. Gray Antelope and Gray Rabbit came here many times and held gatherings and taught us many things. He was a Loving caring sharing wetlips man of love. We too truly miss him and were honored to have known him. He would truly like your site. I did. I will pass it on to others from the family.

Thanks so much! Blessings to you my friend!

Cathyg

Ross-

I don’t know how to begin to thank you. I feel like I’m on the verge of a brand new journey. I have a powerful feeling inside and it’s all because of the special gifts that you have shared with me. Thank you.

All I can say is neat!

Thank you always,
Kristine

Greetings Brother Ross,

I am a sister to you from being in Antelopes "family". I live in Northern Minnesota. Gray Antelope and Gray Rabbit came here many times and held gatherings and taught us many things. He was a Loving caring sharing wetlips man of love. We too truly miss him and were honored to have known him. He would truly like your site. I did. I will pass it on to others from the family.

Thanks so much! Blessings to you my friend!

Cathy

Hello Ross,  This is your shaman friend again from Norway. I think your healing ceremony last winter did the trick for my brother, Dale. He recovered well from the surgery and has not developed any new cancer. The old cancer has been taken or disappeared. His weight has gone way down and he feels much better. He still likes to eat but that is physically limited now.
 
Thank you again for your spiritaul help to me and my brother. I have not been active as a shaman, but have become more active as an artist. I am working on a sculpture garden for a nursury school now. I have not seen Ailo this last year, but I do plan to contact him soon.
 
Best wishes to you and Hanne for an active 2009. I think it is wonderful that she has started her sound healing practice so close to you. Keep in touch- you never know when we might meet again. I will be in Greece in Feb. 2009 to finish up my house. Greetings from,

Gerald



Cindy Bellenger’s story in The Santa Fe New Mexican:

LewAllen Jewelry

Take a quick stroll through this small downtown shop and see for yourself. Something is different. Something about this jewelry can't be found anywhere in town, and probably nowhere else on earth.

"I dream them. I touch things and take the feelings into silver and gold," said Ross LewAllen. "Once I woke at four in the morning and thought 'What would happen if I made an earring that slipped on the ear.'"

He made six that morning and that day at lunch ran into Judy Margolis, the owner of Origins, and showed them to her. "She said 'This doesn't exist anywhere.'"

And in 1978 the Earcuff was born. It attaches to the rim of the outer ear and some come with dangling feathers and droplets of gems. He started an intensive marketing program and the Earcuff was a world-wide phenomenon, garnering him 650 accounts.

When it comes to jewelry, LewAllen is an innovator. His daughter Laura also designs jewelry and being a rock climber came up with what she calls "the next Earcuff."

"I took a piece of climbing rope and designed silver beads for it," she said. "Now people can design their own and use as many beads as they want." She calls her bracelets Ascents.

Charla Lee of Texas is a great fan of the Ascent bracelets and dog collars. "My husband and I just stumbled into their store in the mid '80s and just feel in love with the Climbing Rope jewelry. It's so clever," she said. "Everywhere we go people comment on them and they make perfect presents."

The store, LewAllen and LewAllen Jewelry is located on East Palace and teems with distinctive pieces, each one solid and with a substantial feel. No matter if it's a ring, earring, bracelet or necklace, LewAllen jewelry comes close to wearable sculpture.

Ross LewAllen opened his store 26 years ago. For 19 of those years it's been in the same location.

He began his art career in Chicago when he attended the art institute, majoring in painting and jewelry. While standing in the lunch line one day, he met a woman named Arlene. They eventually married and embarked on a life of art and travel. When Ross wanted to attend graduate school, he applied to three and Highlands University accepted him.

"In those days it was a great school. All the great working artists today went there," he said, citing Jerry West as one of many.

While living in Las Vegas, N.M., Arlene LewAllen taught school and when they finally moved to Santa Fe, they both taught. Then Ross opened his shop, and Arlene LewAllen became one of best-known art dealers and gallery owners. She died not long ago, and in a few week, Ross plans to display nine pieces of jewelry to commemorate her passing.

"I want people to know you can get divorced still loving each other," said LewAllen, who spends much of his time in San Diego on a sailboat named Friendship. "It's where I design and write."

LewAllen can remember opening shop with "300 bucks, a MA degree and a pair of pliers." He says it's never felt like a business, and doesn't see "bottom line" as being all that important.

"As Joseph Campbell says, just follow your bliss," LewAllen said, "and the money has followed."

Then 13 years ago he had what he calls a mid-life "evaluation" and began studying healing practices. He and Laura traveled and taught all over the world, including Africa, Egypt, Russia, Peru and the Galapagos Islands.

Ross LewAllen says he doesn't take vacations, he takes journeys and can now say he's studied core shamanism with indigenous healers all over the world.

"Those experiences are now in my jewelry," he said, showing a medallion of two whales. It had always been a childhood fantasy of his to touch a whale; and one time while following the gray whales from San Diego to the San Ignacio lagoon in Baja California, he actually got to touch one.

"It was like touching an ancestor, who millions of years ago chose the sea over the land and is now waiting for me to see how I might communicate that moment," he said.

One of his innovative jewelry designs is what he calls "Rule Changers." Each piece has some moveable part and is connected to an idea from the Huna-or Hawaiian shamanism-that says: To change some behavior, some kind of action needs to accompany the decision to imprint it in the mind.

Pendants of power animals such as whales, eagles, owls, horses and buffalo all have some kind of mechanism that slides or flips to help change inner rules.
Matt Davis, another customer from Texas says a friend took him over the store about three years ago. "I love the Rule Changers. I buy them for all my friends and family. The LewAllen work is the best I've ever seen. If you can't get it there, there's no use looking anywhere else," he said.

Another item Davis likes is the Ewop. Similar to the Climbing Rope bracelets, the Ewops are on thinner cordage with smaller beads. Ewop, coined by Ross LewAllen, is an acronym for "every thing's working out perfectly."

"There's no other way things can work out but perfectly," he said. And it looks like this is holding true on the business side of things, too.