Joanne Masters
M.Ed., C.A.S.
Intuitive Astrologer
Guide in Life's Transitions

She has been in private
practice for 25 years,
has an international
clientele, and conducts
sessions by phone, email,
and Skype, from Maui.

Joanne completed doctoral coursework in partial fulfillment
of a Ph.D. in East-West Psychology, at the California
Institute of Integral Studies. At CIIS she studied eastern spiritual traditions, western psychology, transpersonal psychology and archetypal astrology. Joanne furthered developed her intuitive ability through private work with internationally known transpersonal psychic Anne Armstrong, and taught workshops, classes, and conducted private intensive sessions together with Anne in the San Francisco Bay area.

Joanne received a Masters of Education and Certificate of Advanced Study in Psychophysical Movement, from Springfield College, MA, in 1987. This program included an in-depth study of and practicum in mind-body counseling, psychology, body psychotherapies, anatomy, physiology and physics. In fulfillment of this degree, Joanne completed an 8-month internship at Pathways to Well Being, Vermont's oldest and most comprehensive holistic health center at that time. There she studied counseling methods and principles of consciousness from contemplative psychotherapy, healing and spiritual development through altered states of consciousness induced through breathwork (Rebirthing and Holotropic Breathwork), as well as through voice, singing, and touch. While completing this internship she did an intensive study of intuition, astrology and healing with Dina Yellen, Psychic Astrologer and Developer of Completion/Integration Healing. Joanne also trained in Korean martial art Moo Gong Do with Founder Master Dae Yong Kim, earned a black belt, and participated in advanced studies.

Joanne is also a wilderness educator. She integrates earth-based and shamanic traditional knowledge and practices, into her readings, transformative work, and teaching. Joanne received a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education in 1982 from Lynchburg College, VA. She was Program Director of the Bedford YMCA in Beford Virginia from 1982-1984, and from 1981-86 was a wilderness trip leader, rock climber, and camp counselor at North Country Camps, a residential wilderness camp in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. She completed the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Outdoor Educators course in 1984 in the North Cascades Mountains of Washington. In 1988 & '89 Joanne went on Vision Fast in the Inyo Mountains of California and completed a Vision Fasting Leaders course, with Steven Foster and Meredith Little, Founders of the School of Lost Borders, internationally known, western pioneering leaders in the field. From 1995 to 2008 Joanne explored and trained in shamanic (earth based) healing traditions and spiritual practices, working with non-ordinary states of consciousness, and traveled into natural world of the Peruvian Amazon to experience and learn from one of the roots of these healing traditions.

Joanne continues ongoing exploration of the natural world, astrology, healing, spiritual wisdom and practice, in order to assist individuals in awakening to their essential nature and optimal well being.

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