About

flyingcraneBRAIDED TRADITIONS is dedicated to the simple principle that “Everything is related”. Like most things in life, the simpler something seems, the more difficult it can be to achieve. Ultimately, each persons’ journey is trying to find balance within our lives and our interactions with Nature. Through the guidelines and protocols of the ancient teachings of the Renewable Wisdom Trails™ cosmology, we hope to pass on renewable wisdom to those willing to participate.

WHAT differentiates us? The ability and experience in that we bring in applying a three-cornerstone approach: science, craft, and art. The natural science of Oral Teachings for study, the craft of practice and experience that converts knowledge into awareness and understanding, and the art that integrates the knowledge into working systems and experiences.

WHY has this been our focus? We must take care of the Earth. Since our founding in 2007,  every conversation we take part in, whether visually, written, spoken, or on any number of active adventures, follows principals of assisting in the harmonious resolution between people and our planet for a sustainable future.

HOW do we accomplish this?  By sharing what we have researched and learned while maintaining a balanced whole perspective for the Earth. We do this in multiple mediums for seeding to those Spirits who seek the knowledge; books, videos, gatherings, collective teachings and educations, lodges, collaborating with businesses, non-profits and educational organizations of all shapes and sizes.  

Dreamweaver
Sue Spielman aka Dreamweaver continues discovering, evolving, researching, and co-creating the Renewable Wisdom Trails™ as an initiated Keeper of these ways. Her matrilineal and patrilineal descendants are from New York, Eastern European, Asia Minor, Mediterranean, and Mestizo. Her spirit’s name is Dreamweaver of the Crane’s Flight. Most all folks call her “Dreamweaver” and the ancestors can still find her by that name.  

Being of mixed blood provides a journey of finding a way to walk the in-between of various dualities. Being both a child of nature and a whole systems software architect in the technology world, presented and allowed for a path of study and healing from both ancient and contemporary times. Today, she continues weaving ancient indigenous knowledge with the ways of Nature to assist those asking the questions and addressing the struggles presented by the place of the in-between. She provides a lens and a bridge from the modern technology world to the teachings of Nature through practicing a lifestyle of the science, art, and craft of the Renewable Wisdom Trails.

Dreamweaver currently resides on a mesa within the Uncompahgre Valley of the nearby San Juan Mountain Range in Colorado. You can reach her directly at Dreamweaver at BraidedTraditions.com
Eagle

Renewable Wisdom Trails™ is a cooperative work of Guy Gilleshammer, a spiritual scientist originally from North Dakota and an initiated medicine man of Red River Valley Metis matrilineal descent. The spirit name given to him is Lone Eagle, and he goes by “Eagle” more often than not.

As a farmer in North Dakota, Guy learned about commerce and how the increasing greed and disrespect for the land would increasingly become a crisis of conscience in the future. As someone seeking relationship with his matrilineal roots, Eagle was intuitively guided in his search for oral traditions embodied by wisdom keepers who kept alive the deeper meaning of sustainable pathways encoded in the medicine ways of old. He has also received a lot of help from friends and colleagues aligned with First Nation values.

Eagle currently resides in New Mexico and travels frequently the four corner states practicing the craft of providing services.

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