Artist and naturalist, Emily Christenson grew up in northernwestern IL with Black Hawk State Park Historic Site as her backyard. Born a natural medium, Emily was able to sense spirits and unseen energy around her. She spent her childhood exploring the forests outdoors and experimenting with a variety of art materials in her mother’s art studio. She graduated with a double major BFA in 2002 with completion of both drawing and painting majors from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, MN. She has exhibited her paintings, drawings, and photographs nationally and internationally in numerous galleries, art centers and museums in Washington, DC, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Ireland. She has received two merit award grants and her work is in many public and private collections including Delucchi +, Washington, DC, Bellcomb Technologies, Minneapolis, MN, and the Dubuque Museum of Art. She was co-owner and gallery director of renee grae gallery, as well as an ongoing instructor of both adults and children at the Figge Art Museum.

In 2014, starting with a series of traumatic initiation experiences she was called away from the contemporary art and gallery scene, and began to focus on strengthening her spiritual gifts and how to use them to help others. In 2016, she started her Shamanic Spiritual Healing Practice and began to see clients in service to the Spirit World. In 2020, after moving to northern Minnesota, she was involved in a severe high impact car accident where she had (her second) powerful NDE, and that experience continues to shape her ideas of trauma and mediumship.

Her evidential mediumship development path has taken her to develop under internationally known demonstrating medium Andy Byng in a five year Advanced Progressive Mentorship Program. She has also studied with mediums Colin Bates, Suzanne Giesemann, Darren Brittain, Mavis Pittilla, and various other mediums and tutors from the Arthur Findlay College in Stansted, England. In her shamanic studies she has taken advanced workshops from The Foundation of Shamanic Studies, advanced courses from Sandra Ingerman and Carole Meade among others.

She teaches mediumship and shamanic creative power workshops, and taught workshops for Living Proof Exhibit and Gilda’s Club, working with art and healing with those whose life has been affected by cancer. She works as a shamanic practitioner and evidential medium to clients all over the country and abroad, also combining her artwork with spiritual teachings and soul-to-soul work. She also does custom painting on drums, and creates handmade natural hide drums, and has created an oracle deck.

She is married, a mom of two teenage boys and a husky. She lives in the boreal forests along the North Shore of Lake Superior in northern Minnesota where she maintains her painting studio incorporating her healing energy practice into her artwork. She enjoys demonstrating her mediumship and working in-person with her readings and sessions, but because of her remote location she does a lot of work as distance readings through Zoom. Through these spiritual healing sessions and evidential mediumship readings she is blessed to be in constant connection with the Spirit World, understanding energy and vibration, and how to incorporate it into our lives.