Riverdreamer products began with a desire and need to make my own shamanic tools. The journey, which is still ongoing, to learn the skills to make high quality and ethical items, has involved lots of 'self taught' techniques as well as studentship under experienced crafters. I made my own rawhide, drums, rattles, prayer and dance sticks, bags and pouches, smudge fans, and began to grow my own smudging herbs. Others liked my work and I began to trade and barter with them leading onto selling more widely.

The route to living a Shamanic life came with a visions from the spirit world, my first during illness as a child, followed by another visit from the same spirit creature years later during a sleeping dream. The meanings were in interpreted for me by a lakota medicine teacher.

My life path has taken me from soldier to academic. I hold first class honours degrees in Sociology and History, and I am a qualified adult and further education teacher.

As well as tools and materials, I offer my workshops, I have taught a whole range of people a whole range of things, from survival skills and weapons to soldiers, to meditation techniques to those with physical and mental illness, craftwork to people with learning disibilities and socially marginalised young people, as well as those who want to widen their knowledge of shamanism and be guided through their own tool building. I have presented lectures and papers to academic institutions on my area of special interest, 'gender roles in pre-industrial societies' .

The workshops listings gives an outline of what I do, put I can be very felexible to meet your needs, please talk to me about what you would like.