Inez Stevens // KALUMA

Inez facilitates the Vision Quest in Southwest Portugal since 6 years and will introduce herself below:

Hi dear one,

I would love to share just a little bit about myself here so you get a sense of me. Having a good gut feeling is generally a truthful indicator for choosing a guide and journey that suits you. I'd love to share a little of me so you can check in with yourself.

''I never understood this place, this world. And I certainly never understood people nor myself. This was frustrating because I have always been "blessed" with a massive curiosity on getting to know the soul of the world and my very own.

Ten years ago, while working at a Forensic Intervention Team, I woke up one day feeling deeply tired. It was a tiredness that couldn’t be resolved with sleeping. Combined with an unsafeness and panic that couldn’t be softened in any way.

The ground beneath me, and inside of me, had gone. I was lost.


A few tough days later, when 'The Dark Night of the Soul' by St. John of the Cross showed up on my screen, my soul understood. This crisis was something that I needed more than anything. The mystery that I was always drawn to was ready to be experienced and embodied. This was the moment where magic made its entrance in my life. Because also, I decided to start opening up to my own deepest fears and pains. It was time for truth and waking up to myself.​

And so I took off on a personal adventure, my own quest, which had simultaneously
set off a long time ago.

On my website you see a picture that I took in a little town in Central India and if you look closely you can see a woman in the fields (between the leaves). She is dancing but at the same time she looks back.

I see my own process of liberation in her. Wanting to dance and live freely and at the same time feeling pulled back by my own created prison (of fear, doubt, uncertainty, past, present, future). To me, liberation is an ongoing birthing process due to the deliberate choice for a true life and a true self. And for that, we also need to be open to the falseness of ourself and life.


And the Vision Quest fully dances with this concept as well, of the full embrace of light and dark as one.
​Which is why I love it so so dearly and have decided 5 years ago to commit my life to doing this work.



To give you an impression of my background:



​ Professional history

​Master's degree, Criminology

Casemanager, Forensic Intervention Team (FIT)

Coordinator, Dutch Council for Refugees (VWN)



Spirituality

Tibetan Buddhism Training, India

Year Shamanic Training Quest to Self Remembrance, Netherlands

Vision Quest Training, Greece

Ayahuasca retreats/ceremonies, Portugal and the Netherlands

Priestess (sacred feminine) Training, England

Year Training (breath- & bodywork, soul retrieval etc.) Sacred Voyage, Netherlands

Awakening Dakini (feminine) Power Training, Spain

Vision Quest Teacher Training, School of Lost Borders, USA

Herbalism

3 year of guidance plantmedicine retreats, Netherlands and Portugal

Facilitator Nature Rituals and Vision Quests, Portugal

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I don't use Facebook anymore but if you want to read a few reviews go to my page below or to my website:

https://www.facebook.com/kalumaness
www.kalumaness.com
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