Dr Joanna Gore

In 2018, noticing her life wasn’t quite in line with her true-self, Joanna moved away from the city, started following a new pathway and changed her life drastically.

As a child Joanna experienced other-world journeying and astral dreams, her childhood bed was pushed up against a white woodchipped wallpapered wall, lying facing this wall, she used to press her nose against the wall until, awake, she felt it dissolve and she fell through into a world of strange adventures, where flying was her mode of transport and castles and wild animals lived. Following her lifelong interest in esoteric research and practices ranging from Astral projection/out of body, Lucid dreaming, Spiritual healing, Reiki, Tantra, Quantum phenomena, Herbalism and Plant medicine, and after a soul searching trip to Peru, in 2015 she embarked upon training in shamanism. Joanna has worked with Shipibo and Quero Shamans in the Andes, Mayan Shamans in Guatemala, with John Perkins, Simon Buxton, The Isle of Avalon, the Northern Drum and undertook a sustained training in Contemporary and Cross Cultural shamanism with the ‘The Sacred Trust’ where she met and works closely with her shamanic clan. Joanna is on a lifelong pilgrimage to reconnect to aspects of her authentic traditional spiritual practices embedded within Celtic, Druid, Pagan and Irish ancestral roots.

Along with her partner Paul, Joanna peacefully settled into a new much more fulfilling sustainable way of living, running Roots to the Moon and the Shamanic Sanctuary on a mixed ten acre certified organic and biodynamic small-holding where Joanna sees clients for 1:1 healing and delivers workshops and ceremonies. She has also started working freelance for the Biodynamic Association, Land worker’s Alliance and Pasture for Life where she spends time with a diverse countryside community and absorbs a lively nature driven debate, and from this mix of spiritual healing and small-holder living ‘Roots to the Moon’ was born.

Previously to 2019 Joanna’s academic education includes a First Class hons BA in Fine Art (1994) an MSc in Social Anthropology (2000) a PhD; The Role of the Artist in the Institutional Dialectics of Power, Control and Resistance (2005). She is also author of “Leave me Alone- Power Control and Resistance in a South East London Primary School (2004) and ‘Mad, Child or Artist’ in Changing Anarchism; Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age (2004). Joanna was a lecturer in university and program leader for lifelong learning for many years and worked as artist in residence in schools and with Trust art project in ’Mental hospitals’ from where she did her PhD research.