I met John Norseman in July 2012, introduced via a marina manager to provide yacht maintenance and crew services aboard John’s fifty- five-foot motor yacht, Izafel.
While working on Izafel, I began to get to know John. He would cook lunch onboard and we’d sit down and talk. He soon told me that he was a shaman and asked if I knew what that was.
On Sunday, 19th July, my wife, Leigh, and I were honored to meet an amazing Native American woman of the Haida Nation of Alaska who was to have a profound effect on us. Her name is Saand laanaay, meaning ‘beautiful dawn’, and we found her to be indeed a beautiful soul, who shared her belief system with us and taught us much.