And So The Puma Dances: A Journey Through Time

And So The Puma Dances is the story of a life shaped by seeking, and awakening. Born and raised in apartheid South Africa, the author leaves her homeland at a young age, stepping into a journey that becomes both an outward adventure and an inward pilgrimage.

Across six decades and many continents, she encounters spiritual teachers, healers, and wisdom traditions that reshape her understanding of herself and the sacred. Years of study with an Indian guru are followed by marriage to a Native American medicine man, opening the door to an earth-centered, animistic path rooted in ceremony and relationship with the natural world.

From Native American rituals to plant medicine journeys in the Peruvian Amazon, from time with the Q'eros in the high Andes to healing ceremonies in Bali, her path unfolds through direct experience. Each encounter becomes part of a deeper inner transformation.

More than a travelogue, this memoir traces the evolution of a woman's spirit-her healing, her devotion, and her awakening-culminating in her profound work with the visionary plant medicine Ayahuasca. A story of courage, surrender, and the dance between worlds.