About Us

Hey! Welcome to The Serpent Pharmakeia. I’m Vivian, I am a Plant Charmer, Sorceress, Strega, Oracle. I study and practice Italian Shamanism and Folk Magic. I connect with the Spirits of the Plant Realm using music, dance, and embodied breathe work to channel and heal. I work with the ancestors and lineage spirits. It is my passion to bring an understanding of what trauma and grief work is, sex magic and education, ancestral practices, for all people born of the world womb, art, and somatic embodied healing to all with the help of my guides. I channel messages from the other realm so I can share their messages with all. I have made it my life’s work to help heal the Feminine Power within us all. I believe in the power of nature, music, dance, and embodiment to help us take control of our lives, release our inner primal spirits and manifest what we want. I hope you find what you are looking for and if you are in need of anything don’t hesitate to ask!

What Exactly Do I Do?

1:1 Work & Coaching

As a certified body temple facilitator, certified womb worker, plant charmer, and Italian folk magic practitioner, I have felt it makes more sense to refer to myself as a somatic dance artist. I have used my life experience through trauma, grief, and addiction, as well as my training in singing, acting, performing arts, and especially dance, which I have studied almost my entire life. I have taken all these practices, and studies that I have dedicated so much of my time to, that meant so much to my life and my healing, and I decided to open up my practices, which have helped me truly work towards healing. I have opened up my practices as a way to see clients 1:1 as a personal coach and guide. I have created a format that fits each individual client, as well as their individual needs for personal healing, transformation, manifestation, and acknowledging each clients own personal trauma in their own way. I am not a therapist; I am an artist, a coach, a guide, a ritualist, and I help those of any color, shape, size, religion, gender, or age, connect with the deep parts of themselves, and the spirit realm, understand where the trauma within is being buried, build relations with the earth and plant realm, and bring themselves to a place of peace and their own form of healing.

If you are interested in working 1:1 with me, then get in touch through email or through contact us and schedule a time for a free zoom call, just to make sure we vibe! 

If you and I both feel that we will be a good fit for one another than we will discuss a “Time Plan”, this plan will be the beginning of our work together. For more information on 1:1 work, visit our sign-up page.

Mentorships

My mentorships have been a very big part of my work and what I have been planning for. As of now, I have 2 mentorships coming that are both between 6-8 months give or take, as well as a few smaller training programs. Each mentorship will include weekly/biweekly zoom call, weekly homework, and writings sent to your email, plant spirit readings, and so much more. For more information visit the Mentorships page.

“May the Primal Ancient Spirit within us all come out and Dance to the Wild Women’s tune as the Spider cackles at her bitten creation.” – Ode to the ancestral Tarantalla; Vivian Dickinson

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Vivian is a Certified Body Temple Dance Facilitator, Certified Womb Worker, Somatic Dance Artist, Plant Charmer, Artist, Medium, Janara/Strega, Devotee to Cybele & The Black Madonna.

As someone who has spent their entire life being fascinated with the mystic and magical world around us, I have spent so much of my life connecting and trying to fully understand what it was exactly that I was experiencing. From a young age I was very sensitive to spirits and energies around me. I would have prophetic dreams, and sometimes just know things that I was not supposed to know. I went on with my life as a sensitive teen with special interest that most did not understand, and became a teen with special problems, no one wanted to deal with. Then between addiction and an eating disorder, amongst other issues, I went from troubled teen to dysfunctional young adult. Things got way worse before they could get better. After multiple rehabs, trips to the emergency room, detoxes, psych wards, overdoses, and multiple teen pregnancies, I got to a point around the age of 22 years old, where I already knew I needed and wanted to be clean and move forward with my life, so I began to pray to my guides and ancestors, and I was shown the way. 

I was given the tools to get and stay clean, it was up to me to keep it up, but I was shown the way. Channeling and spirit work became my focus of my practice, I worked closely with my cultural practices and have since devoted my life to forms of Italian folk magic, and Italian shamanic practice. This involves forms of dance, channeling, trance, herbalism, and womb work. I work closely with my mother guides, Momma Cybele, Ekate (Hekate), and Diana, as well as La Madonna in her many forms like Madonna Della Stella, and Madonna Di Montevergine (Momma Schiavona), and The Black Madonna. I have a very close relationship with quite a few other spirits, as you will see in some of my writings.

I have been initiated into closed traditions over the years and could feel the overwhelmingly patriarchal way the tradition was laid out, and I realized very quickly that it was not a space for me. Now almost 10 years later, loads of study, schooling, practice and life experience has happened since then. I am aware now more than ever, who I am, what I am here to do, and how everything I have been taught my teachers and guides is able to be used as a way to coach and help others.