HOMEWATERS HEALING ARTS
Come home to yourself.
There's no wrong reason to start. We'll find out what's needed together.
Intro
My work draws on shamanic and Hawaiian healing traditions, held through years of formal training — and on a healing line in my own family that was nearly lost. What I offer isn't a technique I learned. It's a practice I carry, and share with people who are called to it.
Shamanic Healing
One-on-one work — journeying, extraction, soul retrieval, purification, forgiveness practice, Hawaiian energy healing, or other shamanic healing. You don't need to know what you need going in. That's part of what we find out together.
Threshold Work
Support for those facing death, for those who love them, and for souls finding their way onward. This work is offered thoughtfully, usually after a conversation first.
Ceremony Design
A ceremony built for your transition — yours to perform, or mine to lead. Alone, or with others you choose.
What to Expect
Every offering begins with a conversation, not a form. Sessions happen in person or remotely, and this work complements medical and mental health care — it isn't a substitute for it.
Shamanic Healing
You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what kind of session you need. Most people don't — and figuring that out together is often the first real part of the work.A session might include journeying, extraction to clear what doesn't belong, soul retrieval to reclaim parts of yourself, purification, forgiveness practice rooted in Ho'oponopono, Hawaiian energy healing, or other Shamnic Healing.This work complements medical and mental health care — it is not a substitute for either. If you're currently working with a therapist or doctor, this can support that care without replacing it.
Threshold Work
Some transitions ask for a different kind of presence. Threshold work is for those facing death — their own, or someone they love's — and for the grief that comes before and after.This includes psychopomp work, supporting someone in the dying process or supporting a soul's crossing; grief support for those left behind; and space for what doesn't have words yet.Given the weight of this work, I take on threshold clients thoughtfully rather than through open booking. A short conversation first helps us both know it's the right fit. If you work in hospice, palliative care, or as an end-of-life doula and think a client or family might benefit from this kind of support alongside your own, I'd welcome that conversation too.
Ceremony Design
Not every kind of healing needs me in the room. Sometimes what's needed is a ceremony — built specifically for your transition — that you carry out yourself, alone or with people you choose.Here's how it works: we talk, and you tell me what you're moving through — an ending, a beginning, a grief, a release, a threshold you're crossing. I design a ceremony specific to what you've shared, not a generic template. Then you choose delivery, take the ceremony and perform it entirely on your own, have me present for the first run to help hold the space, or have me lead it for you.This might mark the end of a long caregiving chapter, leaving a marriage, a loss not otherwise marked, or starting over after a major identity shift.
Investment
Every offering begins with a conversation before any commitment. All sessions are available in person or remotely, with a sliding scale offered across all three — no one is turned away for financial reasons. Reach out to discuss what works for you.
Shamanic Healing
$175 per session. Most sessions are about 60 min long.Threshold Work
$200 per hour.Ceremony Design
$300–600 per ceremony, quoted individually based on complexity and delivery mode.
About
My name is Mariana Tomas-Savage. My great-great-grandmother was a vidarica — a recognized healer — known well for her healing work in the Balkans.That knowledge didn't pass down through my family. I'm the one rebuilding it, through formal training and years of deliberate practice — not because it was handed to me, but because I heard the call and chose to pick it back up. Doing this work is how I keep choosing that, one person at a time.I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, with my roots firmly here, but stretching to Croatia and Serbia, and my branches reaching to the island of Hawai'i. Everything I offer here grows out of that ground.
Training
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies — two-week intensive, currently a student in FSS's three-year advanced training programFour years of study in Hawaiian healing traditions, including energy healing and Ho'oponopono-rooted forgiveness practiceACC-credentialed coach (International Coaching Federation)MA in Organizational Psychology
Approach
I hold training on both sides of this work: the shamanic and ceremonial traditions themselves, and the coaching and psychological training that keeps that work responsible and clear.No matter which offering brings you here — a session, threshold support, or a ceremony of your own — you're working with someone who holds both the ancestral thread and the structure to use it responsibly.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is shamanism?
The tradition of shamanism embodies one of humankind's oldest worldviews — practices for working with the unseen world to bring back what's needed for healing: guidance, lost parts of the self, or a clearing of what no longer belongs. It shows up across cultures worldwide, each with its own form. My training comes both through formal study — the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and Hawaiian healing traditions — and directly from ancestral spirits.Do I need to be trained in it to receive a session?
No. You don't need any background, belief system, or prior experience. Most people arrive with nothing more than a sense that something needs attention. The work happens through the practitioner — you're there to receive it, not to perform it.What is a "vidarica"?
A vidarica (vih-DAHR-ih-tsah) is a traditional healer in all South Slavic folk traditions, someone recognized in her community for her healing knowledge. My great-great-grandmother was one in the long line of women who did this work, and I am the continuation of that lineage.Is this a substitute for therapy or medical care?
No. This work can complement therapy, medical care, or psychiatric treatment, but it isn't a replacement for any of them. If you're in an acute mental health crisis, please contact a licensed professional or crisis line first.
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