SONQO classes and
events are located on
our 17 acre living arts sanctuary.

Testimonials

I first met Alleson as a teacher. She is a beautiful person who listens completely and helps the student really understand what is being taught. So when I felt I needed help, I came to her.  Her compassion, gentleness, strength, and wisdom have helped me recover who I am, heal my heart, and clear my path forward. She has an ability to be 100% present for others and to see what needs to be done for that person at that time. To me, the most impressive thing is that she works with me, not on me. I am walking a shamanic path for myself and am very sensitive to energy work, and when I leave Alleson I always feel clean and renewed – no matter my state when I arrived. I have taken my adult children to her and sent friends and she has worked wonders for us all. Words are insufficient, but I trust her totally and recommend her unconditionally.
Cindy – Woodinville

Thank you so very much for a beautiful distance healing and soul retrieval session today – it was all that I hoped it would be and more! Throughout the process I felt safe and comfortable with what was being done.  The distance healing and soul retrieval has left me with a feeling of deep peace, joy and lightness that I have not known before.  I feel much more comfortable in my own skin, and I know that this is just the beginning.
Y. F. – Trinidad, West Indies
Skype Session

Not too long after moving into my newly built home I became aware there was a problem with the energy there. I was seeing and experiencing things going on in the house that did not make sense to me. I was frightened and concerned. My dog Chloe was anxious as well and she frequently stood to stare upstairs with her tail between her legs. My sister came to stay a few times in my upstairs guest room and eventually shared she was experiencing an upsetting energy that was scaring her and making it very difficult for her to rest.

I contacted Alleson to explain my situation. She understood the discomfort I was experiencing and my sense of urgency. She quickly fit me in and did a house clearing over the phone. Since the session we have not had any further problems. My sister stayed at my house last weekend for several nights and I am happy to report that she no longer saw or felt the negative energy. As I was really uncomfortable in my house, I am thankful she made time to do this quickly.
Ms. C – Kirkland, WA
Distance Home Clearing client

My experience of The Living Arts Introductory Series as a student has been enriching and fully satisfying. Alleson is a compassionate and unconditionally loving person, taking time to get to know each of her students heart-to-heart. She is a passionate and outstanding teacher of Shamanism, providing excellent instruction and ensuring every question is answered. She is intuitive and down-to-Earth, and makes learning and experiencing the Series fun and playful. She even had the strength and courage to be present as a teacher after her husband had just undergone a risky surgery and was healing. I loved how the Series was spread out over a year, and was taught during the different seasons. Her home where she teaches is quite incredible during the summer with the many birds and vast array of flowers growing all-around!

I found The Living Arts Introductory Series very beneficial to my overall well-being. The energies of Shamanism are truly magical as they work beneath the mind, past explanation and in full bloom of imagination. I used to think that I had to understand the medicine I sought for healing to ensure I knew I chose the right method. Most methods of healing out there are based off of very strict structural instruction, which I once thought was truth; I thought everyone but myself had the answer, which made me cautious and question it all. Shamanism has taught me that it is not the ideas and dogmas of the mind that holds the key to well being—It is by fully embracing one’s own truth that one starts to let go of limitations and bask in the light of freedom. I have become deeply connected with the Earth, feel unconditional love for my self, and have learned to stop piling thoughts and conflict upon those once subtle voices that were my intuition and originality, and start listening.
C. K. W. – Bellingham, WA USA
First Year Graduate Student

My husband and I were referred to Alleson by a trusted friend for a dismemberment ceremony. Neither one of us, especially me had much experience with Shamanism. However, from the first meeting with Alleson she was extremely welcoming and explained everything in great detail. She was very patient with all of our questions and let us ask anything until our hearts content. In our second meeting Alleson performed a dismemberment ceremony on my husband and myself, it was a very powerful experience. She is a fantastic guide and one of the most fascinating, warm and inviting people I have ever met. Both my husband and myself highly recommend her.
Ceremony Clients – Seattle, WA

When I first moved to my new house in Minnesota, the energy here affected everyone in my family. It was as if everyone was boiling over at all time. This is a brand new house, so I was confused how a new home could already have such negative and aggressive energy. My son was agitated, and aggressive, my husband was the same. My Irish setter was bouncing off the walls. My daughter would not even sleep in her room. Both my girls were seeing unwelcome shadows, and spirits. I too was seeing them, but mostly feeling them.

I cleared my home myself, and afterwards my Irish setter did not even want to come into my home, or stay on my property. She was constantly trying to run away, she was terrified of something. At this point I was concerned and reached out to Alleson for help. I had a phone appointment with her and although I cannot go into the healing process, I will tell you what she found on my land, and the healing work she did, changed our lives completely.

She is wonderful to work with; she is clear, precise, professional, understanding, and able to fit your needs as well as the needs of your family into the healing process. I followed her instructions after she did her healing work, and our lives immediately got better, my home, land, family and animals felt an immediate shift.

I could not be more grateful for her or the work she has done with my family. I would definitely work with her again, and recommend to anyone with my highest regard.
L.G.
Distance Home and Land Clearing client

My recent shamanic session with Alleson created major energy shifts that are still lightening burdens that I hadn’t even recognized as burdens. The weeks that followed deepened my connections with the earth, and a series of pocket stones joined me for varied periods of time, creating fascinating interactions with the Potomac River and its surroundings. I feel grateful to feel so liberated. As Alleson has said, it is beautiful work.

Thanks again for your wonderful session.
Alison Miller – Anacortes, WA/ Washington D.C.
Session Client

This workshop with Alleson was presented in a clear and easy to follow format. There was a wonderful balance between the learning for the left brain and the experience for the right brain. Although I have done similar work in the past, Alleson’s integrity and full heart carried us through this beautiful, artful experience, and I came out with a deeper understanding and sweeter medicine. Her respect for her teachers and lineage is very evident and I would highly recommend her work.
Angela Prider – Vancouver B.C. 
SCGMSS Workshop Student

Alleson is a consummate professional, savvy practitioner, and a gentle, loving, playful, wise healer. The work we have undertaken together has been profoundly empowering, enlightening, and transformational. I highly recommend Alleson’s services as a Shamanic healing practitioner, mentor, and instructor.         
Connie – Vancouver B.C. 
1st Year Graduate Student & Healing Session Client

The work she did on me was simply profound. Western medicine should be the “alternative” to the amazing work she does, and not the other way around! What Alleson did in a few hours, Western medicine failed to do in nearly 25 years. I have more flexibility and range-of-motion, less pain, and more enthusiasm to do physical things.

I would absolutely, 100 per cent, be willing to recommend her services! I spent years and dollars trying to find a Western solution to a problem their high tech scanners just could not see and their pills could not alleviate or cure. Today I live in a new world of hope. My body is not yet pain free but is improving. I look forward with great optimism to my next session with Alleson.
Devin Rice – Snohomish, WA
Healing Session Client

It may seem strange to some that shamanism could be the very thing we need in this 21st century, but having experienced for myself the incredible benefits of this ancient way, it no longer seems so to me. My visits with Alleson have affected my life and outlook in deep, profound ways, and I find myself feeling thankful every day for engaging in these sessions.”   
“O” – CA
1st Year Student & Healing Session Client

I think this woman was born to heal. She first chose nursing as a career and found she had a sixth sense that drove her work; saving lives in critical care. When she stepped onto the shaman’s path, she pursued that study with the same rigor and intensity that she brought to nursing, but with a new impetus: to follow the sixth sense, past all the old rules.

She is firmly connected to this life and this earth, but walks between here and the Unseen World as a shaman does. She watches, she listens, she returns. She helped me when no doctor could.

I trust her. I can’t see what she has seen, but I use the images and messages she brings back. Over the years, my trust in her has only grown. Few people in this world have such integrity.
“P” – WA
Healing Session Client

Watching Alleson doing her teaching, I have a new appreciation of her strength and integrity. Some people in her position would be all about their own power and knowledge. But Alleson walks so softly with it; she is so low key and holds out the learning of her tradition – just offering it, like “…here is this amazing cool thing that was offered to me, now I offer it to you…”
“P” Monroe 
1st Year Graduate Student

Thank you for the weekend and the work; it was magnificent. Thanks to your gentle, loving, and open approach I was able to take in much more than expected. Much is clear now that was obscure and I feel free; free to explore and free to discover what is mine and what is not mine. This is a gift in my life, as you are.
Monroe, WA
1st Year Student

Alleson is a gentle, wise soul who so generously serves us. I felt instantly calm and relaxed after our session. Her willingness to share openly about aspects of her own life that were similar to mine and to the issues at hand was of significant benefit to me personally. I would definitely recommend her services.
Thundereye – Seattle, WA
Healing Session Client

I feel confident highly recommending these classes. In our logical linear left brain culture we have allowed vital parts of ourselves to atrophy. A trust in life has been restored to me. Bitterness has been lifted from my heart. The desire to explore life and seek new discoveries has been rekindled, and a belief in my ability to create new possibilities for myself has returned.

The other reason I highly recommend these classes is because the learning they have introduced me to arises out of me, through who I am and what I need in order to grow as a person, not in isolation, but in connection to the ever evolving world and Universe in which I am situated. The learning becomes a lifelong practice, with new discoveries all the time, rather than something that ends when the weekend is over and the information has become static and dead.

Thank you for being so real about your own path, your own struggles, your transparency with and honesty about your own “humanness”. Thank you for your reminders about the importance of being kind to oneself. Although it drives you crazy, thank you for letting me write and doodle the information into my brain so it can swirl around all the little gray neurons and resurface when vitalized by living breathing experience. Thank you for tailoring what you have to offer to my unique situation. 
“CB” Edmonds 
1st Year Graduate Student