Eliot Cowan

Eliot's journey as a healer began in the 1960s with the study and practice

of herbalism. He then became a master practitioner of five-element

acupuncture. Determined to find a way to access more deeply the

healing potential of plants, he rediscovered a millennial practice that

he named Plant Spirit Medicine (PSM). His book of the same title was

unprecedented in the Western world. Eliot then undertook a 12-year

apprenticeship with Don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, a shaman of the

indigenous Huichol people of Mexico. Rios initiated him as a shaman

in 1997 and upon his retirement in 2000 recognized Eliot as a guide to

shamanic apprentices in the Huichol tradition.

Eliot and his staff have been teaching PSM worldwide for more than 25

years and have trained more than 500 plant healers. He is the founder of

the Blue Deer Center(www.bluedeer.org) a nonprofit healing retreat center, whose

primary mission is to connect indigenous traditions with our modern cultures.