Areas of work: Balerno (South West of Edinburgh) and CFPH in Portobello

Claudia Goncalves holds a deep honour for the Sacred Healing tradition passed down to her from her indigenous grandmother and rich shamanic culture in Brazil. Cláudia works from a strong base of compassion, unconditional love, authenticity and sincerity.

She is committed to actively creating positive change and healing when and where it is needed. Her work is dedicated to the empowerment of individuals, community and those seeking vision and growth throughout their personal spiritual journey.

A mother of two teenagers, she is also passionate about working with young people. She was one of the catalysts in supporting and creating Youth Vision, a successfull Rites of Passage project supporting young people age 14 to 18 yrs in the transitional process into adulthood. She is the chairperson for Youth Vision charity.

She is also the visionary and creator of the Holistic Community Health Project, a volunteers based project offering a range of complementary therapies by contribution or at no cost to people with a health condition who find themselves in an economically disadvantaged position.

Her work also supportes children affected or infected by HIV AIDS in the poorest areas of her homeland Brazil.

To keep the inner balance, Claudia is also a yoga teacher, teaching 3 yoga classes a week in Balerno.

The work of Spirit, coming through Claudia as a channel, have been seen in many parts of the world in the documentary ‘The Edge of Dreaming’ (2009) by Scottish film director Amy Hardie.

A brief description of Claudia from the Book "What to look for in the Winter: A memoir in Blindness" (2010) by Scottish writer Candia McWilliam:

"Shaman-Claudia's personal tone was calm, amused, taken at a magnificently easy pace. It is unusual for the very small to be magnificent. Her own magnificence lay in this: That, like a creature, she was at once serious and weightless. She was one of those rare people from whom you get the strong sense of what the world is to them and how it would be to be loved by them. She was both unstrained and entertaining. It was hard to be defended or harsh near her."