Tina FireWolf Helps People Speak and Live With Ease
Photo Credit: Brooke Parker Photography
By Meg Hale Brunton
“People are far more powerful than they may realize,” says Tina FireWolf, Master of Voice as Medicine. Through her unique transformational immersions, FireWolf helps people reconnect with nature, and learn to be still and quiet so that they can hear their wisdom. “It honors me to take people out into nature and help them awaken to their senses.”
As a kid in Pennsylvania, FireWolf refers to her childhood as largely feral, exploring the 100 acres of property that surrounded her family’s farm. “I spent all my time outside in complete silence, sleeping in hayfields, spending the night in the barn, wandering in the woods,” she recalls. “I became a Naturalist as a kid, growing up knowing all the weeds, and identifying birds by sound.” While FireWolf admits that her acquired skill sets did not readily lend themselves to her education, she got her degree in Marine Science and Biology from Millersville University.
From there, FireWolf embarked on a variety of daring adventures, scuba diving with sharks, climbing to Mount Everest Base Camp, and doing research and aquaculture at zoos and aquariums. “I have a very strong outdoor adventure background,” she says, after which she took a job teaching middle school science in California. FireWolf loved working with the students, especially taking them on field trips to the beach to see the ocean, and the mountains to see the snow - for the first time. Her students loved her because she was so different from their other teachers. “I am definitely my own person. I’m at peace with who I am.” Her students also encouraged FireWolf to write a book, which she did years later in 2015 when she published a collection of her contemplative photography, entitled Beneath the Chatter: The Wise Self Awaits, which then led her to give a TEDX talk on this process. Her TEDX talk is entitled Communicating from Chaos to Love.
One day in 2001, FireWolf was driving home from work and says she accidentally became an otherworldly intuitive vocalist. “Sounds just started pouring out of me. It was so loud and strong,” she recalls. “I pulled over and sobbed, and I knew that I could sing myself whole. The voice is the medicine.” From that experience, she says, her process of profoundly shifting people into peace through transformational work was born, though it took her another ten years to learn to stop being afraid of her own powerful voice.
FireWolf began taking courses in Leadership, Spiritual Direction, Compassion Key, Public Speaking, and Energy Medicine to qualify herself as Master of Voice is Medicine. In 2011, she created Tina FireWolf Inc. She combined her vocalizations and various skills to create her revolutionary six-week program, Pent Up to Powerful and her Transformational Nature Immersions- two of the most influential healing components in her own life.
FireWolf uniquely-tailors her process to each client she works with. “It is the foundation of your life, it has to be built by you. Otherwise, it’s not yours,” she explains, adding that she works at everyone’s unique pace and to accommodate their individual goals. “It’s a magical journey for every person and it’s tailored to the person’s physical needs and what their vision is for themselves. My clients are the guru; I am the guide,” she says of her work. “A lot of what I do is help people get reconnected to their own wise voice. They tap into their own wisdom to provide the next steps. You create a map but it comes from inside the person. I just say, let’s bring you home to yourself and teach you to build a path within yourself. Then, you get to walk the path in any way you want.”
FireWolf’s program begins with helping her clients find the profound silence within themselves. Then, she uses her vocalizations to calm their mind so they are peacefully productive and not driven by fear, striving, or need. Once there, they are able to embrace their true selves and generate self-directed compassion. From that place of safety, they can learn to navigate their inner world, embrace their emotions, excavate their pain, and use their voice to find clarity and forward movement. Through this, they can create their own rhythm of discipline and consistency, ending the cycle of seeking outside themselves for strength. “I help them excavate the pain of the past and turn it into power and perseverance,” FireWolf says. “I turn pain into power and teach people to bring their voice out into the world. You’re just driven by peace and a desire to express the love that you are.”
“This master was once a disaster. I do this work on myself every week; it’s like dusting. I have plenty to walk through, I just know how to walk through it,” FireWolf says, admitting her own imperfection and acknowledging that she has had to work her own program on a daily basis in order to live her fullest expression and sustain forward movement. She says that a great deal of her clients have pain and trauma from their past that they don’t know how to move through with ease. One of FireWolf’s greatest joys comes from helping them discover what they truly ache to be, learn how to achieve it, and let go of the frustration that they have felt for years of not being true to themselves. “It’s just a moment where I know I’m doing exactly as I’m meant to be doing. There is just no better feeling, not even cheesecake.”
For more information on Tina FireWolf, visit her website: https://tinafirewolfinc.com/
