Beth Sturdevant

Visionary • Business Builder • Spiritual Healer • Cellist • Mother • Writer

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Beth Sturdevant is a visionary, business builder, and modern-day spiritual healer shaped by many worlds: cellist, mother, writer, modern-day Shaman, and energy medicine worker. At the heart of Beth’s work is a lifelong ability to see beyond what currently exists - to recognize human needs, imagine new possibilities, and bring people, ideas, and resources together in meaningful ways. Whether through healing, community building, entrepreneurship, storytelling, or the arts, she is driven by a simple question: How can we create something that helps people live, connect, heal, and thrive more fully?

 

Her work is devoted to helping people reconnect with their inner truth through awareness, reflection, inner strength, and community. She creates spaces where people feel seen, supported, and inspired to grow. At the same time, her visionary nature continually draws her toward new ways of addressing the challenges people face and creating solutions that bring people together.

 

Beth’s life journey has carried her across continents, into sacred ceremonies, onto world stages, into entrepreneurship and community-building, and deep into the conscious and unconscious aspects of the human spirit. Each chapter has shaped the compassionate, grounded, courageous, and entrepreneurial voice she shares today through her healing work, art, teachings, writing, and vision for what is possible.

 

A Life Built Around Connection

 

Beth’s early story began with the cello, an instrument that became both her anchor and her doorway. As a professional musician, she has performed and collaborated with artists including Harry Connick Jr., The Eagles, Il Divo, Train, Hoobastank, and Barbra Streisand. The cello carried her from Broadway pits to international concert halls, as well as ceremonies, celebrations, and intimate spaces where music became medicine.

 

For Beth, sound and vibration are a living language of the heart - one that resonates through the body beyond words, reconnecting us to ourselves and to one another.

 

Her path transformed again through full-time single motherhood, a calling that demanded strength she did not yet know she possessed. Motherhood became one of her greatest teachers, revealing the realities of resilience, devotion, sacrifice, and the warrior spirit required to protect and nurture what matters most. It shaped her understanding of love, endurance, and the courage required to rise again after profound trauma and loss.

 

These experiences became more than chapters in her personal story. They became the foundation from which Beth began to understand the deeper needs of individuals, families, women, and communities - and her desire to create spaces and solutions that could meet those needs.

 

Visionary and Business Builder

 

Beth is also a natural visionary and builder. She has an instinct for seeing the human problem beneath the surface, imagining what could be different, and bringing people together around a shared possibility.

 

In the fall of 2018, Beth founded Warriors of the Light Academy, creating a vision centered on personal growth, empowerment, connection, and the development of human potential. The Academy was ultimately forced to close during its early years as the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to continue in its original form.

 

Although that particular venture came to an end, the vision behind it did not.

 

Beth continues to carry the same entrepreneurial spirit into everything she creates. She sees possibilities where others may see limitations, identifies gaps between what people need and what currently exists, and is passionate about developing new approaches, building communities, and connecting people with the resources, ideas, and one another that can help create meaningful change.

 

Her business-building work is deeply connected to her healing work. She does not see entrepreneurship simply as creating businesses; she sees it as a way of responding to human needs, solving problems, creating connection, and bringing a vision into form. This ability to move between vision and action, intuition and structure, people and possibility is an essential part of who Beth is.

 

The Path of the Healer

 

For more than a decade, Beth has immersed herself in the study and practice of shamanism, spiritual healing, and energy medicine. She has been welcomed into sweat lodges with Lakota warriors, mentored by Indigenous healers, and guided through initiations that have reshaped how she listens, sees, and walks in this world.

 

Her healing work blends intuition, lived experience, and a deep understanding of the connection between body, mind, and spirit. She approaches shamanism as an ancient, living practice rooted in reverence, curiosity, and deep listening - one that has long served humanity as a way of healing, connection, and understanding of what is seen and unseen.

 

Beth has studied with teachers from around the world, including Pete Bernard, Shenoah Taylor, Annette Høst, Christine Mark, and Lisa Sture. Alongside her training in Spiritual Healing, Energy Medicine, and Core Shamanism, she continues to deepen her ancestral studies in Scandinavia, walking the sacred path of the Völva, the Norse seeress, and the ancient practice of Seiðr, a form of trance-based wisdom work that weaves together spirit, fate, and the exploration of non-ordinary worlds.

 

Beth has led countless healing circles for women and mixed groups, focusing on inner harmony, authentic connection, and emotional awareness. She has also designed and led empowerment workshops and classes for women and teenage girls, supporting them in reclaiming their voice, strength, and embodied knowing.

 

For the fifth consecutive summer, Beth led her women’s adventure and empowerment retreat in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. These immersive experiences weave together wilderness, adventure, and community, awakening the courageous and resilient spirit within each participant.

 

Beth is also honored to serve as a volunteer member of the Hoof Clan on the Kateri Native Ministry Healing Lodge Committee, supporting community relationships, gatherings, coordination, and connection-building through the gift of Love (Zaagidewin).

 

While Beth offers one-on-one sessions as an Energy Medicine Worker and Shaman, these sessions are available on an as-scheduled basis. She offers in-person sessions from her office in Nepean as well as interconnectedly online.

 

Storytelling as Medicine

 

As a blogger and writer, Beth shares lived experiences, reflections, and spiritual teachings through her writing.

 

She is currently completing her first fictional novel about a mother and her son and the long, courageous journey toward healing after the unimaginable. It is a story of grief and grace, of facing what cannot be undone, and of the quiet, redemptive power of compassion, reconciliation, and forgiveness to bring us home - to ourselves and to one another.

 

Beth believes storytelling is a form of medicine: one that gives language to the unspoken, carries wisdom across time, dissolves separation, and reconnects us with the deeper truths we carry within.

 

Education and Training

 

Beth attended the Interlochen Arts Academy for high school and holds two Bachelor’s degrees with honors: a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Ottawa.

 

She also studied for three years at the Eastman School of Music before transferring to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to complete her degree.

 

Her additional training and certifications include Earning the Light, AngelFire Spiritual Healing and Energy Medicine Work, Quantum Shamanic Master / Teacher Trainer, and The Way of the Medicine Keeper, all through The 8th Fire.

 

She is also a proud member of the Society for Shamanic Practice and the International Association of Reiki Professionals.

 

The Vision Continues

 

Beth Sturdevant’s life is a testament to transformation - and to the fire that refuses to be extinguished. She continues to walk the path of the warrior, meeting life and adversity with integrity, compassion, creativity, and an unwavering commitment to the evolution of the human spirit.

 

Whether she is healing, writing, creating, teaching, building, or bringing people together, Beth is guided by a deep belief in human possibility. She sees the places where people are disconnected, the needs that remain unmet, and the possibilities waiting to be brought into form.

 

Her vision is not simply to imagine a different world, but to help create it.

 

Through her healing, writing, connections, teachings, and ventures, she invites others to rise, to remember, and to reclaim the power of their own stories - returning to the truth of who they were always meant to be.