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About Althea – Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer and Spiritual Leader

Althea is a Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer and spiritual leader devoted to guiding Black people through natural healing, wellness, and spiritual awakening. Her work is rooted in ancestral wisdom, intuitive guidance, and culturally aligned healing practices that honor the lived experiences of Black communities.

As a Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer, Althea creates sacred and transformative spaces where individuals can experience emotional release, spiritual grounding, and inner clarity. Her approach blends energy awareness, intuitive healing, mindfulness, and holistic wellness to support deep personal transformation.

Althea’s healing work supports those seeking balance, emotional healing, and reconnection with their authentic self. She guides participants toward self-trust, resilience, and spiritual alignment through grounded and compassionate leadership.

Her teachings integrate meditation, breathwork, energy alignment, and natural healing tools. These practices help individuals release stress, regulate emotions, and restore harmony within the body and spirit.

Those wishing to explore supportive healing practices alongside her work may visit the
Holistic Wellness page.

Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer Supporting Community Healing

As a Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer & Leader, Althea leads healing retreats, wellness gatherings, and sacred circles designed to support collective and individual healing. Her work focuses on restoring connection to ancestral wisdom and inner truth.

Through retreats and group experiences, Althea helps participants release emotional burdens, reconnect with purpose, and cultivate spiritual clarity. Her guidance combines intuitive insight, grounding practices, breathwork, and ceremonial awareness.

Each gathering is designed to feel safe, intentional, and spiritually supportive. Participants are encouraged to explore healing at their own pace while being held within a grounded and respectful space.

Those interested in upcoming retreats, workshops, and healing events may explore the
Events page.

For ongoing teachings, reflections, and spiritual messages, you may follow
Althea on Instagram.

Private healing sessions and spiritual consultations can be scheduled through
Calendly.

Transformational Healing Guided by a Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer

Althea’s work as a Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer is guided by compassion, intuition, and ancestral knowledge. She supports individuals in releasing emotional blockages and reconnecting with their inner power.

Through grounding rituals, mindfulness practices, and energy alignment, participants are guided toward emotional clarity and spiritual balance. These tools support healing on mental, emotional, and energetic levels.

Many individuals leave Althea’s sessions feeling lighter, more centered, and deeply aligned with their purpose. Her presence offers both spiritual depth and practical guidance.

For those seeking immersive healing experiences, Althea also facilitates travel-based retreats rooted in spiritual exploration and renewal. These journeys can be explored on the
Travel page.

Althea remains committed to uplifting Black people through natural healing, spiritual education, and culturally rooted wellness practices. Her work encourages individuals to honor their healing journey, trust their intuition, and step forward with confidence and clarity.

As a Black Shaman Medicine Woman Healer & Leader, Althea offers more than guidance. She offers a pathway to remembrance, restoration, and empowered spiritual living.

Althea Lawton-Thompson is many things: a psychic intuitive, medium & channel; a curative medicine woman; a teaching Reiki Master; a yogi; an international educator & guide; a daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, & friend to many; a nature enthusiast; an element of the wind, water, fire, and earth; a shape-shifting wise woman. Althea blends her experiences, natural gifts, training and education together to create powerful training courses and certification programs for her students to be positively impactful on the world around us.

Althea has dedicated her life and work to mind-body wellness. After leaving a career in corporate finance and human resources in 1996, she started her fitness company by creating corporate wellness programs for Fortune 50 companies and hospital systems like Verizon Wireless, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Kaiser Permanente. She was a popular tv personality as the fitness reporter for the NBC news, the host of her own daily fitness show, and a health professional on various radio talk shows, including the Tom Joyner Morning Show. After opening a yoga studio in the metro Atlanta area, Althea authored a popular fiction novel and a self-help book before producing a best-selling meditation album.

In 2011, Althea started hosting wellness retreats. Since then, she’s led more than 50 retreats in 12 different countries. Bilingual in English & Spanish, she began working with indigenous healers in central and south America to start offering entheogen-healing ceremonies. In 2025, she was initiated in the Missoko Bwiti Village in Gabon Central Africa further expanding her experiences and knowledge of indigenous healing.

Working with indigenous healers around the world, Althea created the Plant Medicine Facilitator Training (PMFT). Started in 2023, the program brings program participants to various communities in Central & South America, Africa, and the Caribbean to learn a combination of clinical and indigenous healing techniques for psychedelic plants. In addition to the PMFT, Althea has trained and certified 100s of teachers in yoga, Pilates, meditation, Reiki energy healing, Tuning Forks sound healing, essential oil therapy, and crystal healing.

With more than three decades as a spiritual healing guide, Althea has been highlighted in magazines and on sites including Mantra Yoga + Health, YogaPose.com, BlackBoysOM, Thrive Global, Essence Magazine, Elephant Journal, and more.

Married for 30 years, Althea and her husband are the parents of two grown sons. Based in Atlanta, Althea spends a portion of the year practicing indigenous healing modalities in Central & South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Follow Althea at @AltheaLawtonThompson on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Visit AltheaLawtonThompson.com or LLLUniversity.com to see upcoming events and online learning content.