flyingcraneBRAIDED TRADITIONS is dedicated to the simple principle that “Everything is related”. Like most things in life, the simpler something seems, the more difficult it can be to achieve. Ultimately, each persons’ journey is trying to find balance within our lives and our interactions with Nature. Through the guidelines and protocols of the ancient teachings of the Renewable Wisdom Trails™ cosmology, we hope to pass on renewable wisdom to those willing to participate.

Dreamweaver

Sue Spielman aka Dreamweaver continues discovering, evolving, researching, and co-creating the Renewable Wisdom Trails as an initiated Keeper of these ways. Her matrilineal and patrilineal descendants are from New York, Eastern European, Asia Minor, Mediterranean, and Mestizo. Her spirit’s name is Dreamweaver of the Crane’s Flight. Most all folks call her “Dreamweaver” and the ancestors can still find her by that name.  

She was born and raised on Long Island in New York. Her experience of growing up in New York included and allowed exposure to how the world seemly functions in the material world and the measurement of commerce as a metric of belonging. This was complimented with learning to swim before she could walk and having a deep relationship with the waters of the ocean.  This imprinting was one of her driving forces behind exploring the ways of nature to come back to connection. As a young child, she was always drawn to strong connection with the animal kingdom and that connection continues to be a lifelong joy.

She spent almost two decades of continuous study and apprenticeship under Lone Eagle, expanding and contributing to the Renewable Wisdom Trails. Together they authored ‘Coyote Goes Global’. The effort in gaining various advanced technical degrees from prestigious schools was nothing compared to the efforts in shedding and breaking down the imprinted constructs of social norms that plague our human interactions, and therefore our planet, so that the doorway could be opened once again.

Being of mixed blood provides a journey of finding a way to walk the in-between of various dualities. Being both a child of nature and a whole systems software architect in the technology world, presented and allowed for a path of study and healing from both ancient and contemporary times.
Dreamweaver has spent many years of intentional traveling around the world and exploring natural intelligence on all seven continents, both on land and as a scuba diver under the Sea. Today, she continues weaving ancient indigenous knowledge with the ways of Nature to assist those asking the questions and addressing the struggles presented by the place of the in-between. She provides a lens and a bridge from the modern technology world to the teachings of Nature through practicing a lifestyle of the science, art, and craft of the Renewable Wisdom Trails.

Dreamweaver currently resides on a mesa within the Uncompahgre Valley of the nearby San Juan Mountain Range, at 7000ft elevation in Ridgway, CO. You can reach her directly at [email protected]
Eagle

Renewable Wisdom Trails™ is a cooperative work of Guy Gilleshammer, a spiritual scientist originally from North Dakota and an initiated medicine man of Red River Valley Metis matrilineal descent. The spirit name given to him is Lone Eagle, and he goes by “Eagle” more often than not.

As a mixed blood, Eagle has often encountered the enormous disparities that many of his people have, no matter the tribal affiliation. To be half native and half European imposes a profound dilemma between the divergent world views of one culture and another, a kind of walking between worlds that often clash. The core distinctions between the two can often be found amidst what animates each of their cosmologies.

As a farmer in North Dakota, Guy learned about commerce and how the increasing greed and disrespect for the land would increasingly become a crisis of conscience in the future. As someone seeking relationship with his matrilineal roots, Eagle was intuitively guided in his search for oral traditions embodied by wisdom keepers who kept alive the deeper meaning of sustainable pathways encoded in the medicine ways of old. He has also received a lot of help from friends and colleagues aligned with First Nation values.


Eagle currently resides in New Mexico and travels frequently the four corner states practicing the craft of providing services.

WHAT differentiates us? The ability and experience in that we bring in applying a three-cornerstone approach: science, craft, and art. The natural science of Oral Teachings for study, the craft of practice and experience that converts knowledge into awareness and understanding, and the art that integrates the knowledge into working systems and experiences.

WHY has this been our focus? We must take care of the Earth. Since our founding in 2007,  every conversation we take part in, whether visually, written, spoken, or on any number of active adventures, follows principals of assisting in the harmonious resolution between people and our planet for a sustainable future.

HOW do we accomplish this?  By collaborating with businesses, non-profits and educational organizations of all shapes and sizes from small and mid-sized companies to leading Fortune 500 organizations,  we offer employee and student eco-based experiences,  interactive presentations, as well as outreach and educational programs. What they all have in common is the interest in excelling while maintaining a balanced whole perspective for the Earth.

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