Ep #1: Margery Detring - Your Heart Knows Your Path

I am happy to start this podcast with a new and very dear friend of mine and colleague, Margery Detring. 

Margery is an inspiration and a presence living IN the heart that I have joy listening to and learning from.  More about her: https://margerydetring.com/

Events we organize together: https://andreapetrut.ca/event-directory/

“We learn with Heart Imagery that we really are connected and we actually are all connected. We just need to settle down and breathe, and let it all come to us and stop letting other people tell us who and what we are.” (Margery Detring)

Topics discussed in the interview:

• Connection to nature since childhood and how she got to teaching in Indigenous community
• Experiences with the Hopi and the Zuni Pueblo
• Simultaneous timeliness and the difference between a waking dream
• Traditions that maintain and hold together that old relationship
• Drunvalo Melchizedek, the Tibetan Monks and the relationship with the Hopi
• Keeping the Origin
• Learning from Drunvalo on site and unique ceremonies, some of which happen only once every 500 years
• An extraordinary life experience where she was drummed backed into this world
• Personal experiences, realization, and wisdom from using Heart Imagery in life

Margery Detring is a Certified Teacher in Journeys into the Heart: The Inner Path and Heart Imagery: Cleaning the Past and Self Renewal as well as Awakening the Illuminated Heart. She is also trained in Extra Ocular Vision (brain reconnection working with children), a Reiki master, jewelry maker, energy worker,  and a nutritional educator.

She first studied with Drunvalo Melchizedek in 1999, becoming a teacher in Awakening the Illuminated Heart in 2013. Margery began studying with Daniel Mitel in 2013, beginning Kriya Yoga  in 2015, and Cleaning the Past and Heart Imagery in 2018.

She has lived in some of the most beautiful wild places in the US with her Park Ranger husband and children, taught University level classes in history, geography, and geology,and is a geologist.

She has been the proprietor of Ancient Way Trader since 1994, and a jewelry maker using semiprecious stones and sterling silver since 1997. After earning her first Masters degree, she and her husband began working and hiking in National Parks, often living in the backcountry, where bears, moose, deer, beaver, coyotes, and more, were as common as raccoons and turtles are in in most of the US. The family lived in or near several Indian Reservations in the West, and it was while there that Margery learned that her lineage included at least two Native American tribes.

After moving to the Florida Keys when her husband became Chief Ranger of Everglades National Park , Margery opened Ancient Way Trader, named after the east-west road between pueblos across Northern New Mexico, which in translation to English is “The Ancient Way.” 

Since her family lived on this road and many Native craftspeople lived near this road, the name Ancient Way was chosen for the store to showplace their authentic crafts, art, and music.

She was active in the Pow Wow circuit through Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida from 1997 to 2008 until moving to Ozark National Scenic Riverways, where she stayed closer to home with parents and grandchildren.

Since moving to Missouri,  Margery has focused on teaching and weaving baskets of hand gathered local materials and creating jewelry from semiprecious stones and sterling silver.

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