Llyn Roberts, MA is an award-winning author and respected teacher of healing and shamanism. She originated Shamanic Reiki, Reiki Secrets©, and founded Shamanic Reiki Worldwide, which offers a three-year home-based Shamanic Reiki apprenticeship and certification program. A leader in her field, she bridges shamanism with Reiki and ancient earth-honoring wisdom with contemporary healing approaches. Llyn is the author and coauthor of several books, including Shamanic Reiki (with Robert Levy), Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness, The Good Remembering, and two works cowritten with Sandra Ingerman: Walking Through Darkness and Speaking with Nature—the latter a Nautilus Gold Medal award winner.
She founded the nonprofit organization Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle (OMEC), which for 13 years preserved the wisdom of Indigenous peoples, sponsored land honoring projects, wilderness retreats, films, and nature-based courses that inspired a sacred and responsible relationship with the earth.
Known for creating an authentic and intimate space for transformation, Llyn’s work blends Tibetan Buddhism, contemplative psychotherapy, Reiki, shamanism, Indigenous wisdom, body-centered practices, and a profound relationship with the natural world.
She has guided thousands of people through experiential programs across the US, Canada, Europe, and South America, teaching at major holistic and educational centers such as Omega Institute, Esalen, Kripalu, Rowe Conference Center, the Prophets Conference, Graduate Institute, and the Union Graduate School. For 15 years, she cofacilitated programs and shamanic expeditions with John Perkins, also serving as the director of his nonprofit, Dream Change, Inc.
She studied at the School for International Training, interning at a center for developmentally disabled children in India while also studying with Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar during his final teaching phase.
A Reiki practitioner since 1988, Llyn trained with John Harvey Gray, one of Hawayo Takata’s original 22 students. She has undergone shamanic initiations with Andean Quechua healers and, for 27 years, facilitated sacred journeys to work with Indigenous peoples in Siberia, the Amazon basin, the Andes of Ecuador, and Guatemala.
She was a student of The Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, attending his final Vajrayana Seminary in the 80s. During this time, she received a master’s degree in Buddhist and Western psychology from Naropa University, where her clinical internship included work with a Mexican American community mental health center alongside a curandera.