About Malcolm

Malcolm Groome is a shamanic practitioner based in Topanga, California, and teaches shamanic workshops and retreats in the United States and Europe. Malcolm is also an Authorized Continuum Teacher, and teaches ongoing classes at the Continuum Studio in Santa Monica, California.

Malcolm has been a student of yoga, meditation, and the healing arts for the last forty years. Originally from North Carolina, he has traveled the world to visit power spots and sacred sites, studying Advaita Vedanta and Raja Yoga in India, Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal, and Umbanda and Spiritism in Brazil. A practitioner of Vipassana, Tantra, and Dzogchen, he is also trained in various modalities of bodywork, is a third-degree Reiki master, and was on the healing staff of the School of Actualism for ten years.

Malcolm has studied with shamans in the Native American, Celtic, and South American traditions for the past eighteen years, has trained with Peruvian ayahuasqueros, and has made annual pilgrimages to the Peruvian Amazon for the last six years to participate in dietas and assist in healing ceremonies.

Malcolm went on peace missions to Ireland in 1994 and to the former Yugoslavia in 1995, where he also worked with the Global Children's Organization to provide summer camps for Bosnian refugee children, teaching creative dramatics and yoga.

Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has worked professionally as an actor, singer, and dancer in New York, Los Angeles, and regionally, and currently works as a voice actor in Hollywood.

Malcolm’s teaching and healing practice incorporates Continuum, ecstatic dance, energy work, bodywork, shamanic traditions, and the teachings of non-dualism, that is, Oneness. Malcolm seeks to bring to others a sense of the Great Mystery, a greater degree of Presence in their lives and in their bodies, and participation in a global community of reciprocity and love.

Otorongo's Lair © 2008 Malcolm Groome