Juniper Stokes

I’m a certified coach, shamanic teacher, and plant healer.

I’m an author, artist, and alchemist.

And I’m devoted to helping you come back to the heart of who you are and why you’re here.

I invite you to…

  • Step into your fullness and worth.

  • Connect with your intuition.

  • Embody the spiritual power that is your birthright.

  • Feel a sense of true belonging—within the web of life, the earth, and the cosmos.

  • Reconnect with your own magic, and the magic all around you.

My approach

I’ve been studying, practicing, and teaching spiritual healing, Earth medicine, and botanical alchemy for over two decades, including:

  • A year-long coaching certification training with the Institute for Applied Depths

  • Ongoing personal mentorship in Taoist alchemical healing and anointing practices

  • A 610-hour clinical aromatherapy certification and two-year herbalism training

  • Advanced astrology and Hermetic magic practices with The School of Heaven and Earth

  • In-depth study in Egyptian mysticism and aromatics with a leading Egyptologist

  • Formal mentorship with the preeminent natural perfumer’s today

  • Teacher trainings in yoga, pranayama, meditation, and shamanism

  • And a whole lot more, which you can see below

bio

Juniper Stokes, MA, is an animist, alchemist, and artist who offers an integrative pathway for awakening to your true essence through spiritual rewilding and wild alchemy.

A lifelong student of consciousness and spirituality, Juniper has trained with energy healers, spiritual guides, and diverse spirit workers worldwide. She is a certified coach with the Institute of Sacred Depths and has completed professional teacher trainings in shamanism, yoga, and pranayama. Juniper also has extensive and ongoing training in meditation, alchemy, astrology, and magic.

As a botanical alchemist, Juniper has been a practicing aromatherapist for nearly two decades, completing a 610-hour clinical certification. She enjoys formal mentorship with the preeminent natural perfumer’s today and is currently enrolled in a two-year herbalism program. For the past several years, Juniper has also studied plant communication, wildcrafting, and flower essences, apprenticing with both humans and the plants themselves. Her specialty, however, is the sacred art of anointing for healing and transformation.

Creativity and offerings of beauty are important elements of Juniper’s spiritual practice. She has a bachelor’s degree in studio art, and her mixed media paintings have been featured and sold in galleries both locally and internationally. By bringing together the art, aroma, and artistry of classical perfumery with spiritual alchemy, Juniper creates perfumes that offer transcendent fragrances and act as catalysts for the soul’s awakening. Read her artist statement here.

Juniper’s lineage is strongly influenced by personal study with Betsy Bergstrom, Jessika Siroi, Merlin Kenney, Anya McCoy, Roxanna Villa, Richard Miller, and many more. Her primary teachers, however, are the spirits themselves: her ancestors, the spirits of plants and fungi, and the myriad beings who support our journeys from beyond the veil.

Juniper has a strong commitment to maintaining integrity and ethics in plant medicine and spiritual trainings. She is a standing member of United Plant Savers and has committed to the code of ethics put forth by the Association for Spiritual Integrity.

Experience

Teaching Experience

Juniper has been teaching in one form or another for nearly 30 years (starting with swimming lessons at a public pool!), including several years as university lecturer (5 years at a university in Tokyo; 6 years at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and 2 years at Eastern Washington University).

For the past decade, Juniper has focused her teaching on alchemical and animist arts. Find a list of current classes and offerings here.

Professional & In-Depth Trainings in Spiritual Study & Practice

  • Private mentorship with Bob Falconer, leading IFS instructor and specialist in unattached burdens (2025)

  • Priestess of Avalon three-year training with Jhenah Telyndru (2024 - 2026)

  • Personal mentorship in Taoist Shamanic Healing with Jessika Siroi (2019-present)

  • Praxis: Astrology for Purpose and Prosperity with Merlin of Ancient Astrology (2024)

  • Theosis: Advanced Ritual Magick & Astrology with Merlin of Ancient Astrology (2023-2024)

  • Sacred Depths Coaching Certification with Joanna Lindenbaum (2023)

  • Gnosis: A Course in Hermetic Astrology & Ritual Magick with Merlin of Ancient Astrology (2023)

  • Völva, Vala, Norn: 9 month training in Norse shamanism with Betsy Bergstrom (2021-2022)

  • Psychic Protection & Energy Hygiene with Betsy Bergstrom (2022)

  • Advanced Curse & Thought-form Unraveling with Betsy Bergstrom (2021)

  • Compassionate Depossession Training with Betsy Bergstrom (2021)

  • Two-Year Shamanic Teacher Training with Sandra Ingerman (2018-2020)

  • Mediumship & Seidr with Betsy Bergstrom (2019)

  • Three-Year Shamanic Practitioner Training (2017-2019)

  • Maya Healing Intensive, herbal gatherings, and Ix Chel ceremonies with Ann Drucker (2014-2018)

  • Medicine for the Earth & Healing with Spiritual Light with Katherine Wood (2018)

  • Extraction Training with Sylvia Edwards (2018)

  • Five-year study with Amanda Fougler and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS), including: Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature; Shamanism, Dying and Beyond; Power Soul Retrieval; and Extraction (2012-2017)

  • Three-years study with Pixie Lighthorse's SoulLodge (2012-2015)

  • Visual Quest Shamanic Art Training with Pixie Lighthorse (2012)

  • Core Shamanism Basic Workshop (FSS) with Kim and Sean Leyland (2005)

  • Psychic Training and Tarot Mentorship with Cindy Gardner (Washington, 1997-1998)

  • Usui Reiki (Washington, 1996)

Additional Consciousness Study & Practice

  • The Healing Trauma Program with Jeffrey Rutstein (2022)

  • The Royal Science of Angels with Damien Echols (2021)

  • The Subtle Body Online Training with Cyndi Dale ( 2019)

  • The Power of Awareness mindfulness meditation training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach (2018)

  • The Shadow Course with Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey (2017)

  • Six years work as an editorial writer for Sounds True (Through this job, I read and listened to hundreds of books and audio programs on spiritual practice and personal growth—it was basically an unofficial doctorate in spiritual wellness!)

Botanical Studies & Certifications

  • Depth study in Egyptian Aromatics with Egyptologist Dora Goldsmith (2021 - present)

  • Healing Oil Collective & Aroma Point Therapy with Tiffany Carole (2022)

  • The Herbal Academy’s Intermediate Herbalism Course (2022)

  • The Art of Botanical Perfume in-person and online training with Roxanna Villa (2019)

  • Jade Purity Tradition essential oil anointing, personal mentorship (2019-present)

  • 610-hour Clinical Aromatherapy Certification with Beverly Hawkins at the West Coast Institute of Aromatherapy (2018)

  • One-year professional training with Anya McCoy at the Natural Perfumery Institute (2012)

  • Foundations of Aromatic Medicine (the internal use of essential oils) with the Franklin Institute of Wellness (2014)

  • National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy Conference (NAHA, 2013)

  • Herbal training and workshops with Ann Drucker, Brigitte Mars, Mindy Green, and the women at Rebecca’s Apothecary (2012 - 2017)

Yoga & Pranayama

  • iRest Yoga Nidra Intensive with Richard Miller in Boulder, CO (2018)

  • One-month Ashtanga Intensive at The Yoga Workshop in Boulder, CO (2013)

  • One-month Yoga Teacher Training (RYT 200) in Ubud, Bali (2011)

  • Three-week Pranayama teacher training at Samahita, Thailand (2011)

  • 20+ years overall experience with intensive training at Sun & Moon Yoga, Tokyo; at Samahita, Thailand; and throughout Bali, Greece, and the United States