SARA SALAM
SHAMAN. HEALER. COACH.
We live in a time of great change. While we may at times feel as though the issues in the world are too large for us to tackle alone, these issues are powerfully linked and affected by the daily intentions we set, the emotions we cultivate, the words we speak, and the actions we take. What we see happening in the world is a reflection ~at least on some level~ of our own inner world.
Creating a world that is balanced and healthy is intricately linked to our own health and balance. If we desire peace, we must cultivate peace inside. If we value inclusiveness, we must be inclusive in our hearts, words and actions. If we desire understanding, meaning and joy, we must find ways to flow through various experiences in life with a sense of joy, meaning and understanding.
This is where true power exists and where we can shift our experience in life: within ourselves.
Over the years, I have lived many walks of life. I have been a family member, student, competitive athlete, business consultant, self defense instructor, entrepreneur, business owner, executive coach, leadership team facilitator, rape crisis counselor, shamanic healer and soul coach. These experiences have given me many opportunities to apply subtler -unseen yet sensed- energies practically into our lives so that their effects can be felt, experienced, lived, and seen eventually.
There is a field of energy that runs through all living matter. In fact, most matter is mainly energy. The energetic dimension is what connects us all. The physical is an extension of the the energetic. This dimension has been utilized by ancient medicine men and women to modern quantum physicists.
So how do we apply energetic principles to our lives?
Each person is unique and we each come with an inherent potential and a specific purpose. This purpose is supported by an infrastructure ~which includes our brain, body, senses, and intuition~ and the ability to choose which actions to take moment by moment. These aspects form our individual navigation system. However, a navigation system cannot function properly unless it has been loaded with helpful, easy to navigate, and healthy maps.
Helping individuals discover their own energetic map to life, activating their inherent healthy potential, initiating the next part of their soul’s journey, and harmonizing the way they walk on this Earth, are the areas that I care about.
It has been my experience that when we activate our true and healthy potential, know what our gifts and talents are, offer our gifts to the world in meaningful ways, and utilize our navigation system cleanly and safely for all living beings involved, we are able to live a life that is personally meaningful, elevates those we touch, and offers solutions for whatever challenges we face in our current time.
Each person completes a particular facet in the cosmos. For a healed and peaceful world, we need each facet -each living being- to be whole and healed, expressing their natural gifts and talents meaningfully, with a sense of joy in the heart. It is in this ever refined expression of our natural, healthy and healed selves that we elevate ourselves, our loved ones, our communities, and bring harmony to the world.
I feel passionate about assisting others to walk their authentic journey in meaningful and valuable ways, embodying and expressing their true potential in order to live into a world that is natural, healthy, harmonious and balaced.
I offer my gifts to those who find their way to me. If you decide to work with me, please know that it is my intention that you will live consciously and increasingly aligned with your heart and your healthy vision for our world.
I send you blessings of Joy, Beauty and Wellbeing on the journey ahead,
~Sara
The Path of Power
Embody your spirit. Walk your own path. Become a healing presence for all you touch.
Vision ~ A Healed State
A world in which people, organizations, cultures and countries live in harmony with nature and find healthy and peaceful solutions that allow ecosystems and communities to thrive symbiotically.
Mission ~ What I Do
Create a space in which individuals activate their healthy human potential, embody their spirit, live in alignment with their purpose, and heal all they touch.
Purpose ~ Why I Do What I Do
Create communities in which each individual is valued for who they are, feels grounded, safe, and supported on their path, and joyfully offers their natural talents and gifts.
Intention ~ How I Manifest
Align my actions with my vision, mission, and purpose, and to live joyfully as part of nature.
Approach
Before offering a service or program, I do my utmost to ensure that my offerings are:
~Safe~
~Grounded~
~Healthy~
~Balanced~
~Pragmatic~
~Embodied~
~Effective~
~Experiential~
~Individually Aligned~
The Map
The Path of Power (POP) helps you create your own authentic map to life. It includes a comprehensive set of personal aspects and relationships we must tend to in order to create a healthy, harmonious, peaceful and meaningful human existence. I describe and utilize the POP Map in the Path of Power Mentorship and Self Defense Journey, as well as in my programs for veterans and couples:
Foundational Principles
Foundational Principles are intended for personal mastery and embodiment in daily life.
~The descriptions below are my own definitions for the purposes of what I offer~
Integrity ~ Being aligned in our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Authenticity ~ Expressing and living our truth within ourselves and with others.
Power ~ Knowing that we are responsible for our own state of being, taking ownership for what we think, feel and do, and behaving in accordance with our intricate and interwoven connection to nature.
Service ~ Meaningfully, purposefully, cleanly and safely utilizing our gifts and talents to help other sentient beings on our planet to learn, heal, grow and flourish.
Impeccability ~ Staying unwaveringly committed in our actions to one’s truth and healed vision for the world, even if it requires change, a letting go of learned beliefs or material things, or a reorganizing of relationships, and even if oneself does not seem to benefit immediately from this pursuit of staying aligned with one’s inner truth so long as there is learning, healing and healthy growth involved.
Responsibility ~ Consciously and proactively responding to situations, and choosing to make healthy changes in ourselves in order to live into a healed and healthy reality that benefits all life on earth for seven generations to come.
Community Values
Community Values are intended to be applied and utilized when coming together with other living beings.
~The descriptions below are my own definitions for the purposes of what I offer~
Diversity ~ Valuing the wisdom and experiences brought to the community by having individuals of various backgrounds, viewpoints, cultures, races, genders, experiences, and ways of living present.
Open Mindedness, Open Heartedness ~ Being available and open to new knowledge, feelings and sensations, and utilizing that information cooperatively and creatively to enhance life for the ecosystem.
Listening ~ Giving one’s attention to and staying present, aware and available with all our senses when others are speaking or expressing themselves.
Kindness ~ Exercising goodwill, and being friendly, caring and considerate toward others.
Cooperation ~ Working pragmatically and effectively with others in order to come up with healthy and sustainable solutions for all lifeforms on earth.
Acceptance ~ Being free of judgement with the way people or circumstances are, and being willing to work creatively and collaboratively with current circumstances or human expressions to create healthy outcomes for all involved.
Living Principles
The principles below are “living,” meaning, they are ever-changing, alive and aspirational. Living Principles are something to live up to, or practice at all times, with no particular endpoint in mind.
~The descriptions below are my own definitions for the purposes of what I offer~
Love ~ Living in deep appreciation of, and exercising compassion, care, kindness and goodwill toward all living beings.
Truth ~ Operating with honesty, sincerity and that which is in accordance with current observable facts, and working toward manifesting a healed outcome in that reality.
Joy ~ Cultivating a state of connection, appreciation, purpose, and worthiness in ourselves and others.
Harmony ~ Living in a harmonious, sacred and reciprocal relationship with all of Life.
Beauty ~ Nurturing ourselves into our full, healthy and vibrant expression, and choosing to see others in theirs.
Balance ~ Actively supporting a state of homeostasis so that one’s own body, mind and spirit can survive and function healthily.
Peace ~ Cultivating and nurturing a state of tranquility and calm inside ourselves, our communities, and the world.
My Journey
In 2009, a friend and client asked me about my journey. This 10-minute video is the result of that conversation.
Resources & Support
eBooks
If you want to learn more about my story, or learn ways to create Sacred Space for yourself, take a look at my eBooks.
Online Courses
If you are interested an online course about Sacred Space Creation and Shamanic Journeying, visit my page at Sacred Stories Media. There I use my spirit name Sarah Hawk.
Videos
There are many instructional videos I have made available for purchase or rent on my Vimeo Channel. They range from Shamanic Healing, intuition, and energetic hygiene to self defense and are a great way to support your learning and healing journey. If you are interested in these videos, please email me.
Live Support
I offer 1-on-1 Sessions to help you with your soul’s growth and transformation. If you’d like to book a session, please email me.
My Writings, Blogs & Articles
The Blog page has many helpful articles and writings on topics related to the Path of Power, healing etc. Take a look and browse, perhaps there is something that serves your path.
Sacred Reciprocity
I want my service to be available to those who truly benefit from it and who come with a sincere desire and commitment to learn, heal and grow, regardless of their momentary financial abundance situation. We need people who are alive, aware, awake, and who are willing to change themselves in order to embody and express increasingly healed aspects of themselves so that they can serve our human family as well as other life on earth with loving care, lasting joy and deep sincerity. It’s the reason I make as much as possible available for free. However, if you are in position to offer a financial gift, regardless of whether we work together or not, I welcome it. You can do so via the PayPal Friends & Family Option. Thank you. To read more about Ayni -Sacred Reciprocity- please click here.
Clients
Individuals and organizations I have supported over the years:
Organizations
Global Journalist Security
Witness
United States Institute of Peace
Amnesty International
Georgetown University
Polaris Project
DC Rape Crisis Center
Collective Action for Safe Spaces
DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Trinity College
Population Services International
CommunityRed
Yui Company
The Foodie Alchemist
Teal Center for Healing
Smith Center for Healing
DC Time Bank
USAID
Executive Offices of the President
The Nation’s Mosque in Washginton DC
Individuals
Government Workers
Team Leaders
Executive Teams
Massage Therapists
Counselors
Psychologists
Human Rights Defenders
Journalists
Police Officers
Veterans
Active Military Personnel
Artists
Self Defense Instructors
Krav Maga students
Parents
Teachers
Ministers
Film Producers
Writers and Novelists
Security Specialists
Healers
Acupuncturists
Chiropractors
A Note on Endorsements
For many years I have refrained from posting testimonials or endorsements on my website because each person’s experience is completely unique. One person’s experience of working with me will be entirely different from the next person’s experience. Yet, I have been asked many times to open up and list endorsements or testimonials on my website, so I am following that guidance. I hope that listing them is of service to you.
For a list of endorsements, please click here.
Next Step
Each person and group is unique. Therefore, I tailor the content of my offerings specifically to those who work with me. My group sizes are small, and my private sessions are limited to 1-2 individuals. I stay away from social media as much as I can so I can be fully present with those I serve.
If you’d like to begin your work, please contact me.
Please keep in mind that I do not send out newsletters. I offer my services to those who ask.