Joan Forest Mage is proud to serve as a shamanic artist, teacher and healer in her hometown of Chicago. She is the founder and Executive Director of Life Force Arts Center.

Joan earned a Master of Arts Degree from  School for New Learning, De Paul University, Chicago, with the focus area "Creating Healing Ritual Through the Arts." She has studied shamanism, energy work and healing ritual with numerous teachers. She is the co-author of Healing with Art and Soul: Engaging Ones Self Through Art Modalities, a book on Expressive Arts Therapy.

First awakened to energy work through her life-long profession of music and dance, Joan has been doing shamanic healing since 1995 and has performed more than 500 Soul Retrievals.

Joan offers the following Individual Sessions:

• Soul Retrieval

• Divination & Healing Sessions
  

• Shamanic Chakra Drumming
  

• 3 Dimensional Body Movement for Healing & Self-Care
  

Joan also teaches a year-long Shamanic Training Program at Life Force Arts Center, as well as giving shamanic music and dance performances.

In 2010, Joan celebrated her 40th year of teaching dance and movement. She taught aerobics, fitness, yoga and folk dance for students of all ages, with all levels of physical and mental ability.

Certified as a Laban Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, Joan continues to teach movement for self-healing through her classes and individual sessions in 3 Dimensional Body Movement, based in the Bartenieff Fundamentals system of movement education.

For more information and to schedule an appointment, please contact Joan at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 773-327-7224.