Meet the Founders of Dimensions to Healing | Shamanic Practitioners in Southend-on-Sea, Essex

About Gary Langford

Co-Founder of Dimensions to Healing | Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher | Andean Mesa Carrier | Firekeeper | Drumming and Journey Facilitator

Gary is a Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher with a deep connection to ancient traditions, the natural world, sacred ceremony, and experiential learning. His approach is grounded and practical, creating a steady and supportive space for people to explore shamanic practice, healing, and their own connection with spirit.

His shamanic path developed through years of involvement with drum circles, spiritual communities, ceremony, and earth-based practices. After meeting Crystal during a sweat lodge ceremony in 2011, their paths began to unfold together, leading to many years of shared practice, ceremony, learning, and teaching.

Gary’s shamanic development has been shaped through training with Crystal Atlantis, as well as other teachers and mentors encountered throughout his path. He is a full Mesa Carrier within the Andean Medicine Wheel, having undertaken extensive training, practice, and initiation within this tradition.

Gary later travelled with Crystal to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to undertake further training directly with the late Lee Hilficker of Sacred Way. Lee’s own path was shaped through study with respected Indigenous teachers, including Don Manuel Quispe and Don Alberto Taxo, bringing connections to the Andean teachings and traditions she shared with her students. Through his training with Lee, Gary was initiated to teach the Medicine Wheel and pass these teachings on to others.

Gary and Crystal’s shared path has also taken them to Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon, where they experienced the Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous traditions and ceremonial practices, deepening their connection with the natural world and their understanding of earth-based spiritual traditions. Their journey of learning continues, with future study in the Andes of Peru forming part of their ongoing commitment to deepening their knowledge, experience, and relationship with the traditions they practise and teach.

Gary is also initiated into the Munay-Ki Rites and trained as a Firekeeper. Sacred fire, drumming, shamanic journeying, and working with the land are important aspects of his practice. Within his healing work, he facilitates Illumination and other shamanic processes, supporting people to release energetic imprints and repeating patterns, restore balance, and reconnect with greater clarity and direction.

Drumming has been an important thread throughout Gary’s path. He previously led the Earth Keepers Shamanic Drum Circle and now facilitates drum journeys, workshops, ceremonies, and community gatherings alongside Crystal. His work with the drum helps create a strong and grounded space for journeying, connection, ceremony, and transformation.

Beyond his shamanic practice, Gary has a longstanding fascination with ancient cultures, sacred landscapes, traditional skills, and the ways our ancestors lived in relationship with the land. He brings extensive experience as a group facilitator and educator, delivering immersive history workshops for schools exploring prehistoric beliefs, Ancient Greece, Saxon culture, Vikings, and Romans.

Gary has also held leadership roles with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and The Prince’s Trust. He offers bushcraft and survival experiences and occasionally guides visits to prehistoric and sacred sites across the UK, bringing together landscape, history, ancient knowledge, and spiritual awareness.

At the heart of Gary’s work is a desire to make shamanic practice grounded, experiential, and accessible, helping people reconnect with the natural world, ancient wisdom, community, and their own inner guidance.