Jeff Nixa, J.D., M.Div., is the founder of Great Plains Guide Company (aka Great Plains Shamanic Programs), Jeff’s healing career has spanned thirty-plus years as a university campus minister, board-certified hospital chaplain, pastoral counselor, massage therapist, and shamanic teacher and practitioner. Jeff earned his law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. He has studied shamanic healing with C. Michael Smith, the Michael Harner Foundation, traditional Quechua healers in the Peruvian Amazon jungle and the Andes mountains, Oglala Lakota elders on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Cree elders in Alberta, Canada, and aspects of the Mexican Toltec and Cherokee healing systems.