About Ross
I am sometimes asked why I became a healer. I don't know many
people who set out to do this kind of work. Actually, I think that the work
picks you out and draws you in, often in spite of your better judgment. The
work is damned hard. Itās tough day after day to deal with peopleās emotional
pain, with their resistance to change and with the dramas they create around
themselves in the process. It is also immensely satisfying to watch someone
begin to bloom and emerge into real life after years of living in the darkness
of pain, denial and repression.
I became a healer as an outgrowth of my need for healing. My pain and dissatisfaction
with my life brought me to leave the corporate world and begin a journey to
find and root out the sources of the considerable pain I carried within myself.
I found western psychology to be woefully inadequate to help me and so I set
out to find more meaningful answers.
My teachers all encouraged me after working on my own stuff to go outside
myself and help others to heal, not as a humanitarian service but as a way
to deepen my own healing process. I found that I had a gift for the work and
that my teachers were absolutely right. Serving others is a remarkable learning
process. My clients over the last 25 years have taken me to places I could
not have gone on my own. I am deeply grateful for the gifts of personal growth
that our work together has given me.
One other reason I do this work is the incredible success I have had with
people over the years. People make real, honest to God life altering changes
when they work with this stuff! It's great!
What Others have to say about Ross
"I've known Ross for over 15 years, and I must say, I've met few people as dedicated to the inner work as he is, nor as willing to share the depth of his genuine wisdom as freely. He is a generous, wise, and compassionate teacher, and gifted with the talent of a psychic surgeon of the soul for going to the heart of the matter quickly." -Jay, TX
Vita
There are two kinds of Shaman. Some people have a gift and study for years
to develop that gift into a healing art. Ross Bishop is what is called a natural
Shaman, someone who seems to have been born blessed with a gift for healing.
Ross has brought the core of the ancient traditions of Shamanism into a form
and practices that can be easily used and understood by the Western mind.
In a former life, Ross was president of an advertising agency and a communications
executive for Northern States Power Company (NSP) in Minneapolis. After leaving
NSP, with a colleague he founded Creative Power Workshops and traveled the
country teaching creative thinking to advertising writers and art directors.
Seeing the limitations fear placed on people's creative passion led Ross to
undertake a spiritual journey in search of answers. That journey covered many
miles, years and brought him to many teachers. Finding some answers, Ross
also found his natural Shamanic gift for healing. He returned to this country
and conducted vision quests for spiritual pilgrims throughout the Southwestern
United States. Today he concentrates his energies on writing, raising birds
and on an active healing, teaching and counseling practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"Ross is a wonderful blend of human, humor and a roll-the-sleeves-up joy of getting to the heart of a person. His experience and wealth of tools create a confidence in healing that encourages one to make the leap to greater wholeness. He is a warm and steady hand across the abyss. -M. Spencer, CA