Through A Different Lens – Ancient Practices for Healing

Pam Hale Trachta, founder of Through A Different Lens, offers ancient practices and contemporary creative tools for healing and transformation. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, Pam has created a unique body of work woven together from her varied experiences as a teacher, life coach and spiritual counselor, photographer, fundraiser, consultant to non-profits, and shamanic practitioner.

Her original products and processes help people shift the way they see, so they can become artists of their own lives. Pam offers workshops, retreats, private and organizational consultations, shamanic coaching circles and leadership seminars for women. She is the creator of the Sand Spirit Insight Cards and workbook, author of numerous articles on personal growth, and is a popular speaker.

In 2000 Pam discovered the images on the beach that became the Sand Spirit Insight Cards and went through treatment for breast cancer. Initially for her own healing, she took a two-year training in shamanic energy healing with The Four Winds Society, studying with shamans in Peru and later adding studies in other indigenous traditions. In 2002 she published the Sand Spirits, following with a workbook in 2006. In the meantime she had published many articles on personal and organizational development and the spiritual journey.

Pam shifted the focus of her practice to combine ancient and contemporary tools for healing and transformation. She offered classes and private consultations at Miraval Resort and Spa in Tucson for seven years, and traveled to give workshops and presentations throughout the West.

Pam has created Sand Spirits Insight Cards, which are photographs along the sea shoreline, that activate inner wisdom, creativity, healing, and transformation.