### Meet Our Cave Shamans Faculty [](https://caveshamans.com/gary-mills-niteshad/)##### [Gary Mills](https://caveshamans.com/gary-mills-niteshad/) ###### **Founder of Shamans Cave** Gary Mills created Shamans Cave in 1993 and began the current series of classes in 2005 [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=90)##### [Jean Dengerink](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=90) ###### **Senior Faculty and Advisor** ShamansCave found me in the year 1999 as personal and health issues climaxed and the unknown intruded on a higher level. The year my brain simply said, "enough." [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=92)##### [Lucy Vincze](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=92) ###### **Senior Faculty, Student Mentor, OG** My fascination with the Recapitulation and all things Maker began n 1997. I'd finally found the "how." [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=96)##### [Belle Lantin](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=96) ###### **Faculty** I was born in a small village in a remote town where livelihood is mostly farming. Raised in a tight knit village where people were content and seemed nobody tried to dream. I had no one to emulate or look up to, no television to watch, no newspapers or books to read, I knew little about the outside world. [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=84)##### [Karl Mueller](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=84) ###### **Co-founder, Senior Faculty, and Advisor** Growing up, Karl could never explain why he would just know things and why he would see things that others could not [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=87)##### [Christian Bonvin](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=87) ###### **Senior Faculty** Cyfnos started working with Shamans Cave in 2005 after finding Niteshad's website and reading it all during one rainy day while living in Washington D.C. [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=91)##### [Nick Geery](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=91) ###### **Senior Faculty** I started taking classes at the cave in the winter of 2010. I remember that because, for me, life has been divided into two parts: Before Shamanscave/After Shamanscave [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=94)##### [Elizabeth Atwood](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=94) ###### **Senior Faculty** Beth Atwood began studying at Shamans Cave in 2005 after a desperate Google search for "depression and shamanism." She has been teaching the Maker tradition since late 2010. [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=89)##### [Holly Emmer](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=89) ###### **Faculty and Roustabout** In the fall of 2014, Holly had a vision that involved seeing a circle of shamans from all over the world sitting still and quiet, together, but in a space that doesn't exist, for the purpose of doing healings. [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=85)##### [Lorrie Adams](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=85) ###### **Senior Faculty, Advisor, and Student Wrangler** Lorrie Adams joined Shamans Cave in 2007 and has been teaching since 2012 [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=88)##### [Steve Legersky](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=88) ###### **Faculty** Steve lives on the side of a mountain in western Colorado with his wife Jan and a cat named Moella [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=93)##### [Jan Legersky](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=93) ###### **Faculty** From a very early age, Jan knew there were doors to be opened, but frustratingly could never find the keys [](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=95)##### [Mark Hanson](https://caveshamans.com/index.php?option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=95) ###### **Senior Faculty** In 1990, I had a dream that shook me to my core. I dreamed death was stalking me. In fact, it had caught me, and although I tried to fend it off by grabbing it by the throat, it was relentless and kept on coming. I awoke screaming and didn't sleep well for the next three or four nights. #### Start your journey here Click on the button below to start discovering the worlds inside and outside of yourself [Classes offered this session](https://caveshamans.com/shop)