IZZY SWANSON
Energetic Safety and Trauma Specialist
Izzy is a healer, teacher, and mentor specializing in the intersection of addiction, trauma recovery, and spiritual practice. Izzy focuses on the healing of emotional wounds caused by trauma, PTSD, and addiction and frequently works with clients who have autoimmune disorders, adrenal fatigue, and other stress-related health issues. Working with Reiki energy and the Feileacan Trauma Release Technique™, Izzy guides and mentors clients as they begin to rediscover lost or broken pieces of their souls. By creating calm, comfortable, and restful spaces, Izzy helps people feel safe as they engage in the deeper work of healing past wounds and considers it a sacred task to guard and protect individuals while helping them work toward becoming whole again.
Izzy has been practicing Earth-based spirituality for more than 30 years. Izzy is certified in the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method, Medical Reiki, Traditional Usui Reiki, and Usui Holy Fire Reiki. Izzy created the Feileacan Trauma Release Technique™ and is also a co-founder of The Order of the Crows, a priesthood tradition honoring the Morrigan.
As a Reiki practitioner and teacher, Izzy believes it is essential to empower others to heal themselves, providing clients and students with the necessary tools and techniques to build a daily practice of spiritual self-care.
Driven by a desire to be of service to others, Izzy offers courses in Energetic Safety, Reiki, and Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care. Izzy also provides consultation and mentorship along with guided meditations and additional resources. Izzy believes that with time, love, and support, our capacity for healing and transformation is truly limitless.
My Story
The classes, tools, and services I provide were created because I know shame and I know insanity. I also know healing, happiness and serenity. I was raised in an extremely religious family. I experienced physical and mental abuse at the hands of those who were supposed to love and care for me. At the age of 14, I turned to drugs for comfort and quickly became addicted. I did not find my way to recovery until I was almost 30 years old. At the time of this writing, I have marked a milestone of 15 years clean from all mind-and-mood altering substances. I share this part of my story because I know that I am not alone. Many of you have a similar story. I share this because I believe that we can recover, that we can heal, and that we can be happy.
I didn’t just arrive at happiness though. It didn’t simply happen just because I wanted it to. Even when I found serenity and balance, the journey wasn’t over. I had to work for it. I had to stay committed to discipline. I had to remain dedicated and determined. When I did heal and find happiness, I had to maintain it.
We have to work for change and embrace the work that precedes growth. We can’t just wish to feel better and then feel better. If we could, we wouldn’t be here, right? If we don’t nurture and cultivate happiness and healing, we won’t be able to maintain it. We could achieve the happiest state of being today and experience something intense and painful again tomorrow. We have to be sure that the foundation we build will hold us as life happens to us and all around us. Enlightenment and growth does not stop the world from spinning.
I believe in systems, routines, and processes. I am not here to make guarantees you’ll be “healed”, never experiencing hardship or pain again. I am here to give you step-by-step methods and practices for building and maintaining a solid foundation. I am here to help you find that center stable point within yourself, a center point that you can return to any time that you need it.
PUBLIC SPEAKING, Events, & Courses:
Harvard Divinity School
Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spirituality
Presenter, April 2023
- The Mirror Within: Abuse and Hope in Devotional Spirituality
Center for Reiki Research
Presenter, August 2024
Trauma-Informed Reiki: An Online Workshop
Center for Reiki Research
Presenter, July 2024
Trauma-Informed Reiki: Research and Practice
Austin Witchfest
Presenter, April 2024
The Bonds Between Us: Animism and Accountability in Magical Practice
In the Roundhouse of the Ancestors:
Death Work and Death Care in Celtic Polytheism
Presenter, October 2021
- In the Mossy Margins: The Role of the Psychopomp in Celtic Polytheism
Reiki Intensive Training Course
Facilitator and Teacher, 2013 – Present
Feileacan Trauma Release Training Course
Facilitator and Teacher, 2019 – Present
The Psychopomp’s Journey Intensive Training Course
Facilitator and Teacher, 2021 - Present
A Year with Our Gods: Land Sea Sky Polytheist Conference Series
Workshop Presenter and Panelist, 2018—Present
- Psychopomp: Guarding Transitions in Service to the Morrigan, April 2018
- Rhiannon: Riding Through the Darkness, September 2018
- Ceridwen and the Cauldron of Transformation, December 2018
- Feats of War: The Skills and Gifts of Cú Chulainn, April 2019
- Arianhrod: Sovereignty and the Wheel of Change, May 2019
- Bloduwedd: The Path of Transformation, September 2019
- Myth and Mastery: Evaluating the Relationship Between the Ríastrad
and Martial Feats in Cú Chulainn’s Story, August 2020
- Combat and Challenge: Bravery and Courage in the Táin Bó Cúailnge,
August 2021
Reiki I, II, and III Intensive Training Weekends
Leader and Teacher, 2016 – 2019
Reset Workshop with Valerie Bachman Sound Therapy
Meditation Guide and Presenter, May 2019
The Morrigan’s Call Retreat
Volunteer Staff, Ritual Facilitation, and Presenter, 2017-2018
- Guardian Magic
- The Dark Path: Healing Trauma with the Morrigan
A Hosting at the Morrigan’s Hearth
Presenter, August 2019 & 2020
- Recovery Awareness in Spiritual Community
- Walking the Boundaries with Cú Chulainn
- Initiation and Shadow: Following in the Footsteps of Cú Chulainn
Experience:
Reiki Master and Teacher since 2013
Creator: Feileacan Trauma Release Technique
Creator: Guardian Method Training Program
Creator: Sacred Keys Herbal Support Products
Host/Guide of Weekend Reiki Training Retreats
Founder: The Order of the Crows Priesthood
Member: Pride Interfaith Partnership Committee
Certifications:
Trauma Conscious Yoga Method(TM)
Shamanic Reiki Master
Holy Fire II/Usui Reiki Master
Medical Reiki Master (TM)
Ordained Minister - Universal Life Church
Mental Health First Aid
Military Outdoor Leadership Training
Education and Training:
Bachelor's in Science, Biology
Texas State University
Meeting the Morrigan
6-month intensive training with Lora O'Brien
Ogham Journeys
6-month intensive training with Lora O'Brien
Seeking Avalon Within
Intensive training - the Sisterhood of Avalon
Realm of Sea
Intensive training - the Sisterhood of Avalon
Dying Consciously
Training through the Austin Shamanic Center
Healing the Energy Body
13-hour training course with Anodea Judith
Celtic Sorcery
Intensive training course with Morpheus Ravenna
Death Priestxing: Tending the Threshold of Transition
Way of the Weaver
Trauma Conscious Yoga Method
The Trauma Conscious Yoga Institute
