Healer Bios
BIOS FOR TRADITIONAL HEALERS and WEATHER WORKERS ADAM LAUFER & ERIN EVERETT
Although husband-and-wife team Adam and Erin have not been reared in and lived their whole lives within a native village, they have been recognized and initiated by their elder, one of those original people.
In these strange times, in these new generations, traditional elders sometimes receive guidance to open their traditions and lineages to people outside their indigenous societies. Even in communities and cultures whose ancestors suffered death and destruction at the hands of Western people of the past, forgiveness, reciprocation, and the mysterious ways of Divine open up these ancient paths to people of today.
“Perhaps we may find our way to what is fundamental about being human and what is necessary to, once again, live good and fulfilling human lives that benefit our families and society...and build beneficial futures.” —Adam and Erin
Adam Laufer
Adam Laufer is an artist, a maker and a healer. His past experience includes teaching Iyengar yoga full-time and being a certified Polarity Therapist. Mysterious forces led him to be initiated with his wife, Erin, into an ancient Central Mexico lineage in 2003. His life is devoted to joyful (and only occasionally grumpy) service.
Adam's divine calling to heal has been recognized by multiple tradition-holders. He opens his doors to provide healing sessions in the Asheville, NC area at his healing retreat north of Asheville. And, together with his wife and colleagues, he offers ceremonies to help our community realign ourselves with the living world around us.
He helps us both to give thanks for the gifts of balanced rains, winds and temperatures and to align with the human cycles and the cycles of these times.
Adam is a quiapaquiz (which means weather worker), also known as granicero or tiempero in Spanish. He is responsible for being a liaison between the Weather Beings - rain, clouds, wind, lightning and sun - and the people in his community. As a healer in this lineage, he is known as tepahtiani.
Erin Everett
When Erin was a child, she felt a strong calling to work with God. Amidst a number of strange illnesses in childhood and youth, she also experienced many communications and interactions with spiritual beings, including Sun, Clouds, Wind, Lightning Beings, and Rain, among others.
In her youth, she had several experiences with lightning. When she was a teenager, lightning struck her bedroom, resulting in her entire childhood home on a mountainside burning to the ground. After this disaster for her family, she experienced the blessings of community support from the people in her small Appalachian mountain town.
The lightning interaction is a calling to a specific ancient lineage of working with Weather and Healing, so she and Adam were called to Mexico in 2003. Here’s some of that story:
Because of her ongoing mysterious illness and the lightning strike in her past, when she was in her 20s, a trusted elder and friend advised her that she could be healed by a venerable shaman in an ancient lineage there. She and her husband traveled to visit esteemed weather worker and quiaclazques healer don Lucio Campos Elizade in a village in Central Mexico, who immediately recognized and initiated Erin and Adam as tradition-holders in his ancient weather and healing lineage. He was their teacher until his death. They both devote their lives to the work of the Nahua/Mexica lineages based in Central Mexico.
Erin began hearing the voice of God in 1997. The voice became stronger around the time of her initiation in 2003. Through the mystical understandings and legacy of her Nahua and Mesoamerican teachers, including don Lucio and her living elders, she continues to deepen her relationship with the sublime Unseen Beings of Wind, Cloud and Weather, as well as the Virgin of Guadalupe, San Miguel (Saint Michael) Archangel, and Mary Magdalene, among other spiritual helpers.
Don Lucio passed his legacy on to Erin and Adam upon his death. Today, they continue a profound engagement with their living tradition under the wing of yet another highly regarded Nahua curer who embodies an ancient healing lineage, and with a growing network of Nahua traditional quiaclazques ritualists rooted in ancient ways.
Erin and Adam are honored by the respect and guidance of their human elders and guides. They return to their spiritual home in the Central Mexico highlands multiple times per year to deepen their learning, perform and attend ceremonies on the slopes, ancient springs, and caves of the sacred volcanoes there, and spend time growing their work with their elders and colleagues.
In addition to her traditional work, Erin is a life coach trained by multiple teachers including Newfield Network. She is a Plant Spirit Medicine graduate, certified in the Integrative Body Systems method, and has apprenticed to a number of alternative medicine healers, including Eliot Cowan.
With her husband, Adam Laufer, she is the founder of the spiritual-social movement called Way of the Dove, a blossoming ministry informed by decades of learning from the trainings, teachers, and elders within her spiritual lineage.