Llyn Roberts, MA, is the founder of Shamanic Reiki Worldwide. She is the author of Shamanic Reiki, Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness, and The Good Remembering. She coauthored with Sandra Ingerman the books, Walking Through Darkness and Speaking with Nature, a Nautilus Gold Medal award winner.
Llyn completed her Reiki One and Two training in 1989 with John Harvey Gray, one of Hawayo Takata's original students, became a Reiki master teacher in 1993, and has taught Shamanic Reiki since the 90s. She has undergone initiations and intensive healer trainings with Andean Quechua healers. She is a mentor and ally for the Transformational Travel Council and has facilitated sacred journeys to work with Indigenous people on their homelands in Siberia, the Amazon, and Andes of Ecuador, and in Guatemala.
Llyn is known for her authenticity and her dynamic teaching style, incorporating her background in Reiki, shamanic healing, contemplative psychotherapy, Tibetan Buddhism, work with diverse Indigenous groups, and body-centered approaches to healing. She has facilitated experiential programs for thousands of people at holistic venues and higher educational institutes in the US, Canada, Europe, and South America. She has served as adjunct faculty for the Union Graduate School and the Graduate Institute. Her Shamanic Reiki programs have been taught at the Omega Institute for many years.
She is a member of the "Evolutionary Leaders Circle," founded by Barbara Marx Hubbard and Deepak Chopra and the founder of the Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle, dedicated to inspiring a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth and to preserving the ancient wisdom of Indigenous people.
Llyn was a student of the late Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche and obtained a master’s degree in Buddhist and Western Psychology from Naropa University, completing her internship at a Mexican American community mental health center, whose staff included a curandera. She also studied at the School for International Training, completing an internship in India. While in India, she studied yoga with BKS Iyengar.