Windwalker

Hi, I’m Wes Gietz.

I am a teacher/mentor/guide. A teacher of spirituality and awakening, a guide of spiritual growth, a mentor of elderhood in a challenging society, and a guide to wellness through working as a healer.

I will always also be a student, learning about this amazing universe and my place in it. My path has taken me into shamanic journeys, past lives, channeling, studies of Consciousness, and experiences of vast and beautiful realms far beyond ordinary states of being and perception.

In my academic life I earned Bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and English Literature and Master’s degrees in Biochemistry and Public Administration. As a professional and a consultant, I have nearly 30 years of experience in training, strategic planning, and human resource management. I have taught at the University of Victoria and North Island College. I am qualified as an Integral Associate Coach®.

I have studied and practiced natural skills and beliefs for over sixty years, with pauses as required by the necessities of love and life.

My teachers include Tom Brown Jr. and Native teachers, with whom I learned and practiced the skills of survival and living, spiritual awareness and philosophy, the rituals of daily life, and the ceremonies and responsibilities of the sweatlodge. I honour these ways by teaching and keeping them for the generations yet to be born.

I am acknowledged as a storyteller, a leader of ceremony, an elder, and as a man who demonstrates the qualities of patience, wisdom, compassion, and understanding.

I have applied and taught Emotional Freedom Techniques for over twenty years. EFT has been a powerful part of my own healing journey as well as something I am privileged to offer to the world. My personal healing has included several years in 12-step programs as well as sweatlodges and many other ceremonies.

I studied Coyote Mentoring and the 8 Shields with Jon Young and Wilderness Awareness School. I have also studied the teachings of David R. Hawkins, Michael Newton, and Ken Wilber, and those of the Law of One, and I incorporate their truths into my own work.

I have done my own Vision Quests nine times, and guided Rites of Passage for individuals and groups for 20 years, including the 24-hour Intentional Solo and the four-day Vision Quest. I have taught a nature-based path of spiritual awakening and power since 1994. In 1999 I initiated the Firemaker Primitive Skills Gathering, an annual week-long learning and celebration of ancient skills and community held on Vancouver Island.

I have published numerous articles in journals, newsletters, and social media on topics such as edible and medicinal plants, spirituality, healing, tracking, and Coyote Mentoring, and am contributing author of Peak States of Consciousness, Volume 2: Acquiring Extraordinary Spiritual and Shamanic States (Grant McFetridge with Wes Gietz).

I am bilingual (English and slightly rusty French), and am learning Spanish. I have two children and three grandboys.