Michaela Ashaneya Baumgartner

“The only way to let go of grief is to lean in. You can’t control what happens in life, but you can control what you choose to do with it. Lean in to where you’re afraid to go. If you’ve ever tried to ride a motorcycle in a curve, you know that at first you’re afraid to go with the gravity forces. But the only way you can make it through the curve and come out of it intact is to lean in. It’s a physical law. And the same law applies to our biggest life challenges. If you lean in and allow life to initiate you, you love and live more fully than you could possibly imagine.”

It all started when…

I lost my nineteen year-old brother in a tragic car accident. The greatest heartbreak and peak of a series of losses, it also became the turning point of my life path. Within a year and a half, no stone had been left unturned when my nine-year, intimate relationship broke up and a heart disease left me three months incapacitated. I quit my journalist career and left my Austrian homelands to move to Canada where I lost my belongings in a van fire followed by my only sibling dying.

This loss upon loss was shocking and devastating, but eventually it unearthed my true calling to becoming a healer and assist others through their most difficult times of change. We have to remember that change, even the one we feel is unbearable, still holds a potential of dreams undreamt and trails untouched.

Michaela Ashaneya Baumgartner is a Certified Bowen Practitioner, Certified Master of Shamanic Arts and Certified CSM1 Practitioner. Born and raised in Austria, she now lives in Alaska and has worked since 2010 with the non-profit The Whirling Rainbow Foundation. Touring in 16 countries touching tens of thousands of people as a Cultural & Healing Arts Teacher, Tour Manager & Program Coordinator, Michaela was the Europe Peace Tour Manager in 2013 leading reconciliation ceremonies for Israeli descendants of the Holocaust at the Austrian concentration camps. She is an initiate of shamanic teachings by indigenous Elders from all around the world, serves as a Master Drum Maker, Photographer and Flute Teacher whose music was recorded for the "Holy Ground" CD.

Her coined "Loss 2 Love" Workshops, Lectures, Telecourses and Sessions focus on empowering ways to build a new relationship with yourself and your loved ones. She also assists as a Medium to bridge communication as she believes the dialog with our loved ones has not ended but ascended to new forms. Her memoir "Loss 2 Love" will be released in 2020 to inspire others through her own, long road from breakdown to breakthrough.

She holds a Master in Literature and Communications from the University of Vienna, graduated from a certified training of the Journalist Academy in Austria and has worked as a political journalist in Austria until she rerouted her life to becoming a healer. She has published her German thesis "Fulgura Frango. Thunderstorm Literature of the 1700’s" and self-published her German book "Rainbow Land."

Her greatest passion is to assist and inspire others to walk their own authentic path of healing and empowerment.

You can contact her at loss2love@gmail.com and read more about the global peace and earth sustainability work of The Whirling Rainbow Foundation.