Tracey Forest

Co-founding Director and Steward of Spirit Hollow

Tracey (KeyTurner), MA, CYT

is a fearless and compassionate facilitator who has “been to the mountain” and descended into the abyss to lament for the earth, to celebrate the beauty and pain and who knows the rich gifts that lie in the dark to be mined.

KeyTurner is particularly called to help women and young adults to move from the outworn worlds, across thresholds into yet-too-be-revealed worlds that are coming. She is a deep listener of Earth's dreaming, of the "in-betweens," in communion with the sacred land that is Spirit Hollow and a devotee of the soul stream.

With a Master’s Degree in English History and Language, Tracey has been a college English professor for over 30 years, having taught a huge variety of writing, literature courses, with a particular focus on self-inquiry and environmental issues. She has taught both full and part-time at Ohio University, in the University of Kentucky system, at Southern Vermont College and the Community College of Vermont, in traditional, online, and hybrid classrooms.

Co-founding Director of Spirit Hollow, Tracey is a shamanic healer and teacher, yoga teacher and singer of soul-stirring songs. She is graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Three-Year Program (1998) in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing under the direct teaching of Dr. Michael Harner, also, she is a Certified Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level, having studied with transformational teacher, Shiva Rea.

With 30 years of experience guiding others, she has been studying with Bill Plotkin for the last seven years.  She is a Certified Level 1 Wild Mind Nature-Based Underworld Guide with the Animas Valley Institute.  Currently, she is in the final phases of the multi-year Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) with Plotkin learning the nuances of Soul Initiation Guide and cultivating more tools to assist in the Wholing and Healing of this broken, beautiful world.