About
Jill Kuykendall RPT
Biography
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Jill Kuykendall, a former physical therapist, was of service within the standard Western medical paradigm for over 30 years, often in an advisory role to bring transpersonal medicine and its practices into the healthcare community, practitioners and patients alike. She is co-founder and primary overseer of SharedWisdom LLC, an educational and consultation service established to foster shamanic principles, practices, and circles. Her motto “Keep it simple, Keep it ethical” defines her approach to being of service to others and living her life fully.
Along with co-teaching with Hank for several years, Jill’s specialty shamanic work was soul retrieval, a healing modality to achieve the restoration and reunion of dissociated aspects of a person’s life essence. For the indigenous peoples of the world, it is generally understood that traumatic life experiences can result in the fragmentation of our inner, vital essence or soul. The subsequent loss or disassociation of these parts of the self often results in a phenomenon generally known as ‘soul loss’.
Among the traditional peoples, those transpersonal healers who specialize in soul retrieval work are considered treasured community members. The practitioner is aided and assisted by their spirit allies, tracking the lost soul parts, finding them, and returning them to the person who has lost them, restoring the individual’s soul to its original, undistorted state. In the process, the person’s vital essence returns as well, an experience that they frequently experience as life-changing. This is ultimately accomplished with the willing participation of the client in creating a sincere call for this work, as well as the integration of their soul parts back into their overall vital essence.
Jill is the co-author of SPIRIT MEDICINE: HEALING IN THE SACRED REALMS with Hank Wesselman (Hay House, 2004). She is a proponent and prior facilitator of women’s drumming circles for personal growth, empowerment, and community development.
Jill is currently living and maintaining a homestead farm in South Kona, Hawaii Island in alignment with The Trees That Feed Foundation. She is often up to greet the dawn and make a blessing for her day ahead.
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Shaman Visionary Circle was an online program that took place from May 2020 to February 2021. It includes 9 months of teachings by Hank Wesselman with guest appearances by Jill Kuykendall and a closing ceremony with Sandra Ingerman. After Hank's passing, there's been a request to access his final teachings and 33 journeys. Find out more about the program and how to access the teachings by clicking below.