Sarah Salter-Kelly

Sarah Salter Kelly is a talented healer, teacher and speaker utilizing the raw compounded teachings of her life experience, to uplift, empower and guide others. Her wisdom is authentic, embodied and hard won – generated through years of integrating the tragic homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator – alongside thirty years of studying personal growth, mysticism, restorative justice, and earth-based healing traditions. Over the past fifteen years she has run her own private healing practice, facilitated retreats – both in Canada and in Peru – taught trauma focused and shamanic healing workshops, and presented at conferences/public events.

Her primary background is in energy healing – Shamanism, Reiki and Ceremony to be precise. She has been initiated into the highest order of the Andean Shamanic path on her eight journeys to Peru, being gifted rites of passage at over five of their sacred Apu’s, (mountains) through the lineage of the Q’ero tradition. Five of those excursions included delving deeply into the teachings of Ayahuasca in the Amazon at the Kapitari center between 2008 -2015, rekindling her love affair with psychedelics which began in her early teens. 

She has worked extensively in creating and facilitating shamanic healing programs that integrate these teachings in relationship with the land, culture and spirit of the West, in particular as means for healing trauma. Most recently Sarah has authored her first book – Trauma as Medicine. 

She is a mother, wife, and lover of organic gardening, as well as an avid out-door enthusiast, seeking the edges of the wild for solace, connection, and the challenge of physical endurance. At present she resides in Grand Forks B.C. with her husband, pets, and last child at home.