Aaron Michael Pyne

Aaron Michael Pyne, who teaches as the Elven Wizard, is a meditation guide, energy worker and visionary artist living in the Pacific Northwest. His interest in spiritual life began at seventeen, and over more than twenty years he has studied with a range of teachers in energy work, intuition and shamanic practice. He is a Reiki Master and an ordained minister. Earlier he set up iTemple community spaces in Bend, Oregon, and San Diego, which hosted monthly meditations, healing circles and ecstatic dance, and he has spoken at TEDxSkyforest in California about what trees can teach us.

His teaching mixes meditation with myth, fantasy and play. Inner Realms Journey, the system he created, turns guided meditation into an audio adventure in which the listener becomes the hero, backed by a guidebook and journal and a version for schools. He works with people one to one, in person or over Zoom, and leads custom half-day to weekend retreats among the forests and beaches of the Olympic Peninsula. He also holds mead ceremonies and officiates nature-themed and fantasy weddings. His End of Life Legacy Quest uses guided journeys and creative tasks to help people picture what may lie beyond death and leave something for their families. On Insight Timer he shares guided journeys and a course on meeting fears about death.