About Chloë
Ceremonial Guide
& Spiritual Direction
Rooted in Living Earth Traditions
Chloë Rain is a Spiritual Guide whose work is grounded in long-term apprenticeship within living earth traditions.
For more than fifteen years, she has trained in ceremonial practices from two living traditional medicine paths, one in North America and one in South America. She has a Master’s degree in Indigenous Studies from the Arctic University of Norway and is a certified Native American Healing Arts Practitioner.
Her work bridges lived apprenticeship and academic research, grounded in integrity and daily practice. She offers grounded containers for individuals navigating profound life transitions, spiritual maturation, and periods of deep personal change.
A Life Reoriented
When a near 15 year career in executive management and real-estate development lead to a crushing medical diagnoses of a severe autoimmune disease, Chloë started asking questions about the purpose of her life.
She dove deep into the cutting edge of energy medicine and learned to heal herself of the crippling autoimmune disease, ending an almost 30 year battle with depression, without medication. Chloë sought to integrate her passion for life with her experience of the profound and founded Explore Deeply in 2010.
What began as a search for meaning became a long apprenticeship in ceremonial practices and traditional earth-based frameworks for emotional wellbeing.
Her unique approach to teaching mental and emotional wellness, encompasses studies in traditional knowledge, shamanism, energy medicine, plant medicine, and entheogenic therapy in traditional or ceremonial treatment settings.
The Long Path of Initiation
Her search led her to sacred landscapes — the high Andes of Peru, the Amazon Jungle, the ancient stone circles of Western Europe — and eventually to live in the Arctic Circle of Northern Norway.
While living above the Arctic Circle for four years, she completed a Master of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies at The Arctic University of Norway.
Her graduate research, The Concept of Sacred in Sápmi, about people’s relationship to landscape and living above the Arctic Circle reinforced a deep humility and responsibility for walking in integrity, living in relationship to the natural world, and protection for our shared environmental and spiritual resources.
From the Arctic Mountains to the Aegean Sea
Through her work she hopes to inspire more people to listen to their soul’s calling, and cause them to look a little closer at themselves, at the natural environment that surrounds us, and at other people and our beliefs of separation, race, and religion.
Chloë’s now lives in the heart of the Aegean Sea on the island of Tinos in Greece, where mythic wind, ancient landscape, and abundant sun shape the current season of her work.
If the North taught endurance and heightened perception, the Aegean has refined her work through presence and integration — discerning and deeply intentional.
Her Work Today
Chloë works with those standing at a threshold — endings, transitions, spiritual maturation, or the undeniable feeling that life is inviting you into deeper alignment with your spiritual self.
She offers one-on-one spiritual direction, private immersive retreats, and long-term mentorship for those navigating profound life questions.
Her work bridges ancestral wisdom with contemporary life through spiritual direction, ceremonial mentorship, and spiritually intimate retreat experiences.
Writing
Chloë has completed her memoir Reindeer Belong to the Wind, a story about following an inexplicable call until it becomes a way of life. It is an initiation narrative told through lived experience.
Her writing reflects the same grounded inquiry that informs her spiritual direction.
Academic Foundation
Chloë holds a Master of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies from The Arctic University of Norway.
Her research on sacred worldview in Sápmi continues to inform the philosophical and ethical depth of her work.
An Invitation
If you feel called toward mature spiritual work — as participation in your own becoming — you are welcome to explore her private mentorship or seasonal retreat offerings.
I’d always had a nagging sensation that there was more to life than what I was experiencing.
In most external ways, I had accomplished everything I had set out to achieve, but it had not brought me the satisfaction I had hoped and still I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin.
I had “made it” so to speak. Except, I couldn’t shake the overwhelming sense of emptiness in my life that felt more real than any of my personal and professional accomplishments. Going through the daily motions, I wondered what was wrong with me? Why couldn't I ever seem to be happy?
When I witnessed a fatal accident on New Year's Eve, my very tightly bound life began to unravel. Watching the first drops of blood fall onto the pavement I was spun into a memory of my own near fatal accident several years before this incident.
In that moment I knew I had not been truly living. In the weeks that ensued, I was broken open into a personal inquiry that ultimately landed me on top of a mountain contemplating throwing myself off the cliff.
There was something else lurking in the shadows, an unidentified illness that was beginning to take its physical toll. My hair began to fall out, I was eternally exhausted, and I was exhibiting the precursors of MS. When my right arm became partially paralyzed, I was diagnosed with a severe autoimmune disease, though the doctors didn’t understand its cause.
I felt I had to change my life, or die.
When I resigned from my corporate executive career of nearly 15 years, I thought it was to save my life and to get healthy, I thought it was temporary. I hoped I was going to fall in love and get married. What life had in store for me, however, was something much greater than I could imagine.
My desire to heal took me to powerful places around the world. I went to the Arctic Circle of Northern Norway, the Stone Circles of Ireland and Western Europe, then to the high mountains of Peru, and the Amazon jungle, as well as other places in the seen and unseen realms. I immersed myself in the ancient wisdom teachings, and learned shamanic & energy medicine practices, as well as earth based therapies and indigenous medicines.
In 2010, I founded Explore Deeply and began to share these mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness techniques to others.
For the past thirteen years, I have worked with an indigenous Healer from the Shipibo tribe in Peru, to help facilitate entheogenic plant medicine ceremonies, and have received initiations and teachings from the wisdom keepers of the Q’ero people.
After a series of visions in 2017, I felt called to move to the Arctic Circle to learn about the traditions of the people of the North.
What had once seemed like a crazy idea became a reality because the person I had become through my own process of healing had transformed into a person ready to participate in something larger than my own healing. I intended to research the sacred landscape in Sápmi, but I discovered that the questions that brought me to the north could not be answered through academic inquiry alone.
When we find ourselves seeking the meaning of our lives, chances are we are seeking the answer somewhere out there. If we allow ourselves space to be ourselves, be truthful, and feel our emotions, we make energy available to us to engage in our soul’s pursuits. And this internal awakening opens the door to a truly unimaginable possibility.
