“I believe we are already what we seek. It is waiting for us like a seed to be loved into blossom.” — Mark Nepo
About Flora Schanda
I am a descendant of diverse Celtic, Germanic, Norse and Slavic peoples, and my recent ancestors are from Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy and Germany.
My people are people of the oak and the white deer, of mountains, clouds and the northern lights, of the ocean, rivers and the yew, people of stone circles, grains and the sun, of wildflowers and bees, of birch, owl and elder, larch, juniper and falcon.
Through my own journey to overcome profound challenges caused by intergenerational and energetic burdens, I have learned to partner with helpful ancestors and other wise and compassionate powers to change poison into medicine, turn the tides, and reweave the threads of my fate.
With 30 years of experience in ritual and nature connection, I hold space for witchy tree-huggers, gentle old souls, sensitive spoonies, anti-fascist mystics, spiritual activists, starry-eyed faeries, nerdy scholars, animist queers, and the weird and wild at heart.
By accessing the immense support available in the seen and unseen, I help my clients to find clarity and new resources, strengthen energetic boundaries, transform blockages, connect with their guiding star, remember their place in the web of the living world, and embody their gifts and magic for the benefit of all beings and the sacred Earth in this time of the Great Turning.
I got involved in ritual arts and Earth-honouring modern Pagan spirituality as a teenager, and have been on these paths for 30 years now. My ever-curious mind and heart have likewise guided me to explore meditation, mindfulness, somatics, oracular mediumship, trance and ecstasy practices, as well as body and energy work.
With an academic background in German and English literary studies, I have spent many years doing library and archive work, and am currently pursuing a master’s degree in comparative religious studies with a focus on ancient history, mythology and gender studies.
I have also long been involved in activism, art and community organising, especially for queer-feminist and sex-positive spaces and projects, and I cherish these connections and experiences.
Following ancestral guidance and the threads of my unfolding destiny, I have taken various practitioner trainings to extend that support and light the way for others, and I started seeing clients in 2020. I have also stepped further into embodying some of my lineage gifts as dedicated Priestess of Freyja in the Way of the Völva, a contemporary Norse Pagan tradition, and am currently deepening my training as Priestess and Oracle of the Goddess.
This also calls for reclaiming and disentagling what remains of some of these older wisdom ways from legacies of colonialism, erasure, or romanticised misrepresentations, as well as from abuse by supremacist, fascist and nationalist ideologies.
If you are interested in working together, you are warmly invited to book a free 20-30 minute consultation to ask initial questions, clarify what you are looking for, and find out whether we are a good fit. There will be no pushy capitalist sales tactics, strings attached, or witchy spells cast on you.
May we all remember that we are blessings, and may we know home, and belonging, and that we are loved.
Teachers, Mentors & Wisdom Lineages
Some of my trainings, teachers and mentors previous or ongoing include:
Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner ~ Dr. Daniel Foor / Ancestral Medicine, USA
The Way of the Oracle Priestess (in training) ~ Sally Pullinger / Glastonbury Goddess Temple, UK
Priesterin der Göttin / Priestess of the Goddess (in training) ~ Hildegard Kirchweger / Noreiatempel, AT
The Way of the Völva - Priestess of Freyja ~ Zindra Andersson / Glastonbury Goddess Temple, UK & Noreiatempel, AT
Awakening to the Runes ~ Maggie Cunningham / Magin Rose, UK
This Land Magical Training ~ Al Head / Moving Energy, UK
Advanced Ritual Healing Practitioner ~ Maris Bergrune / Living Voice Medicine, USA
Gather at the Well - Norse Ritual Animism ~ Maris Bergrune / Living Voice Medicine, USA
Oracular Seiðr & The High Seat ~ Maris Bergrune / Living Voice Medicine, USA
Transformational Mediumship ~ Maris Bergrune / Living Voice Medicine, USA
Foundations of Psychopomp ~ Shannon Willis / Red Earth Healing, USA
Ancestral Dreamwork ~ Shannon Willis / Red Earth Healing, USA
Waldbaden-Trainerin / Forest Bathing Trainer ~ Ulli Felber / waldwelt, AT
Nature and Forest Therapy Guide (in practicum phase) ~ ANFT, Slovenia/USA
Naturmentorin / Nature Mentoring and Wilderness Skills (in training) ~ Wildniscamps, AT
Forest Pedagogy Seminars e.g. Wilderness Herbalism, Fungi Adventures, Animal Tracking ~ Forstliche Ausbildungsstätte Traunkirchen, AT
Energy Work ~ Robert Henderson, AT
Energy Body Mastery & Energy Body Clearing ~ Langston Kahn / Last Mask Center, USA
Urban Tantra Professional Training ~ Barbara Carrellas / Urban Tantra, Sweden/USA
Lomi Ke Ala Hoku Master Practitioner ~ Margareta Kappl, DE / lineage of Kahu Abraham of Kawai’i
Bowen Technique Basic Training (in training) ~ Bowen Academy Europe, AT
Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork ~ Andrea Clusen, DE
“Flora and I met in 2019 at an Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive in Berlin and at another she hosted that summer in her home city of Vienna. She then joined Cohort Four of the Practitioner Training, and over the past five years, I’ve come to know Flora as kind, funny, empathic, and deeply committed to the long-term work of cultural healing.
In a moment of competition for the spotlight, she’s more likely to be found out feeding the crows, tending to an abandoned gravestone, or otherwise caring for those human and other-than-human kin who inhabit and fall through the cracks of the dominant culture. Flora is caring, reliable, and skillful and I can easefully and fully recommend her offerings.”
– Dr. Daniel Foor, Author of “Ancestral Medicine - Rituals for Personal and Family Healing”