JEFF MILLER AKA "LUCAS"
Eighteen years ago, after climbing the corporate ladder to the top, I sustained several severe injuries in a nearly fatal "accident". I lost my life savings, my marriage, my company and so many things I was deeply attached to. I was forced to lay down for quite a while and take a good long look at my life and what I had created, and why. I needed help, and was finally able to ask for it. I dove deep into every healing modality and spiritual practice I could find to help heal the intense and chronic physical and emotional pain I was in. This period of deep suffering was a gift, a game changer, and a catalyst for healing and the deeply fulfilling life I've been living, and now help others attain.
After the accident, I traveled all over the world, literally guided by my dreams to meet and learn from various teachers, shaman, and indigenous elders who generously spent time helping and teaching me. After many years practicing yoga and meditation, numerous retreats, workshops, ceremonies, sweat lodge, and vision quests, the pain in my physical and emotional body has disappeared.
Many journeys into altered states of consciousness with Ayahuasca, meditation, and the practice of dreamwork showed me repressed memories, how I felt about things that happened in the past, and patterns of thought and feeling which were negatively influencing my life and inviting my attention, love, and transformation. My coach helped me understand the language and meaning of my visions and dreams, and how to work with them outside of ceremonies to know myself, heal my body, and transform my life. During the years working with plant medicines and my dreamwork coach, I learned that I could do most of this life changing work for myself and others with no medicine, shaman, or expensive retreats required, and I began to teach others how to do it.
I practiced Dzogchen dream yoga and dream informed coaching under the guidance of my primary coach and teacher Malcolm Smith for five years. I received his encouragement in 2019 to begin sharing the practice with others. In 2020 I received my CPC professional coach certification from IPEC life coaching school after completing an 18-month long certification program for professional coaching. I worked with three primary shamans in the Shipibo lineage and participated in more than 100 Ayahuasca ceremonies and 20 dietas over the course of 9 years before I began co-facilitating ceremonies in 2019. Over 1,000 books and 25 years studying psychology, trauma, somatic therapy, metaphysics, yoga, shamanism and spirituality also inform my life and work.
The support and teaching I offer is not about me. It's focused on helping those I interact with awaken, and cultivate an intimate connection with their Heart, Soul, and the Source of everything.