About Nikiah

Animist Spirit Worker ⊙ Ancestral Healing ⊙ Bone Oracle
Sacred Weaver ⊙ Teacher and Mentor

Greetings,

My name is Nikiah
{ pronounced Nik-Eye-Ah }.

I am a fourth generation Canadian settler currently living on the ceded lands of the Lenape, Munsee and Mohican first peoples. My ancestors came to Canada via Romania, Scotland,
Ireland and England.

I first came to this work during some of my own hardest initiations and am deeply grateful for those whose guidance and mentorship carried
me and supported me through.

With thousands of hours spent in ceremony and community, years and years of training and learning to navigate the unseen realms in many different ways, shamanically, as a medium, and hedge witch, and having been initiated as a spirit healer, my work has evolved and culminated into what you see here as my current offerings.

For over two decades, I have been holding ceremony, and supporting folks in their own healing journeys as well as teaching
those called to the path.

Where I come from:

For a decade, I ran the Red Moon Mystery School, which has now morphed into the Sacred Path School, which has helped me to open and expand beyond the priestess work
that I was offering.

In recent years, as guided by the hands of my ancestors, I have become a weaver and this journey has opened up some of the most potent portals in my path to date. I would say that at my core I am a traditional Animist Spirit worker, Healer and Artist.

I was trained and initiated into northern European animist tradition, and my work is informed by the many teachings and teachers I have been fortunate to have guide me over the past two decades.

I have raised two children with my husband/partner of 27 years and I am now at the midlife time where my focus is able to be more inward rather than outward, which allows me to see things with less of the ego I carried in my 20's and 30's.

In a world where "age wisdom" is not as honoured as it once was, I am interested in learning how to deepen, slow down and learn from my own elders so that when the time comes I too can become a good elder
and eventually ancestor.

"I believe everyone has within themselves a wellspring of wisdom that can be realized through weaving the art of ancestral connection, animist practices and working in the liminal spaces between. "

– Nikiah Seeds

The Land I Stand On

I would like to acknowledge the land that I live on as being Indigenous and that I am a guest here.

For the past 27 years I lived and raised my family on the stolen ancestral and traditional lands that were, and still are, the unceded territories of the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territories
in so-called British Columbia.

At the time of this writing I currently live on the ceded lands of the Lenape, Munsee and Mohican
first people in what is now known as New Rochelle New York.

And I split my time on the unceded lands of the Hul'qumi’num- and SENĆOŦEN-speaking peoples since time immemorial. These include but may not be limited to: Penálaxeth’ - Penelakut, Quw’utsun - Cowichan, Lyackson, Stz’uminus - Chemainus, Snuneymux, SȾÁUTW - Tsawout, W̱JOȽEȽP - Tsartlip, BOḰEĆEN - Pauquachin, W̱SIḴEM - Tseycum, MÁLEXEȽ - Malahat, and Halalt
on that is known as Salt Spring Island.

It has been and continues to be an honor to live on these beautiful lands.

The Medicine's that I carry:

The foundation of my work is rooted deeply in the wisdom teachings taught to me and the lineages that I carry.

I am an animist whose lineages are line strings that pull through all that I offer and do:

⊙ Spirit work:

I have been initiated in a Northern European Animist tradition where I spent twelve years in deep ceremony and community guided by my ancestors and held in place by the humans that formed me, for both better and worse. This is a tradition I have long since left and do not name for that reason. My initiation included understanding how I did not want to be as a space holder as much as it taught me how to hold space and teach.

I have also been extensively trained in mediumship, divination, psychopomp, curse unraveling, ancestral healing, soul theft and retrieval, and compassionate depossession and I use these practices in my spirit work. I would add that core shamanism is also at the root of my work and I have been classically trained in that modality.

⊙ Priestess work:

I am a priestess initiated in two different traditions, The order of the White Moon 2006, and the Thirteenth House Mystery School since 2011 where I am ordained as a Black cord High Priestess in both.

For well over a decade I created and ran The Red Moon Mystery School and that work has laid a deep foundation for much that I offer now.

⊙ Seidr

As a woman with Norse ancestry I have been learning and understanding his ancient Norse way of understanding the world and communicating with it for as long as I have been practising spirit work. More recently over the past six years I have been continuing this work with my teacher Betsy Bergstrom, but some of my foundations were laid out by Annette Host and Shenoah Taylor.

⊙ Plant Medicine

One of my first callings was as a young teenager to understand herbal medicine and how the plants worked on the body for healing.Over the past two decades I have done many trainings with various teachers from Dominion Herbal College, Rosemary Gladstar and Pam Montgomery to name a few. Over the years I have formulated many, many different herbal medicines for clients from pregnancy and birth to menopause.These days however I find that I prefer to work with one plant medicine at a time and have many developed deep relationships that I now share in my teachings and in my line Wild Forest Herbals that can be found in my online shop.

⊙ Ceremony:

At the core of who I am and the teachings I offer is the ceremony, this is the root of all my work as a ceremonialist.

I was ordained as a life cycle celebrant in 2009 and completed training as a full spectrum death doula shortly after.

Over the past 25 years I have been working in the realm from birth {trained in 1999 as a birth doula} to death honouring all the cycles and seasons between.

It has been a joy to work with hundreds of women over the years as they celebrate and mark important rites of passage.

⊙ Weaving

I started weaving almost a decade ago and it has been an important ancestral connection for me over the years. The loom has become an altar at which I have devoted myself to and come back to in deep reverence.

⊙ Drum Making

I made my first drum about 20 years ago and

Offerings

I offer self-guided courses, year-long group training,
in depth apprenticeships and one-on-one, intuitive ancestral journey work.
I am also a weaver and offer custom sacred pieces curated with intention and ceremony.

You can explore learning on your own, from your home, by taking my self-guided courses such as
The Magic and Folklore of Trees, or if you are a leader perhaps

Holders of Staff and Bone is calling…

Want to go deeper? Join Nikiah for Spiritual Mentorship, or sign up for Ancestral Healing Sessions, or have her throw the Bone Oracle for you to clarify your soul’s path.

Explore all offerings:

In Person
Workshops

Nine
Vessels

Work
with me

Bee Drum
Making

Red Drum
Making

Holders of
Staff & Bone

Magic &
Folklore of Trees

Ancestral
Altar Cloth
Weaving

I am here to hold sacred space, holding a safe and welcoming container for you as you dive into your own personal journey of reclamation and healing.

This is my soul work, and it is an honor to be able to offer it as I do.
If you are ready to answer the call of your own wild soul connecting to the ancient wisdom of your ancestors, and the animist nature of the forest
then you are in the right place.

Work with Me