Heyoka merrifield biography channel

Heyoka Merrifield
Awakening to Global Community
By Donna Strong

In talking to Heyoka Merrifield for this piece, I felt a deep sense of his own heartfelt sincerity to pass on the accumulated wisdom from his elders and share the harvest.

Heyoka merrifield biography channel

There is richness in his perception and a pristine clarity that most of us would like to experience in daily life. Growing up in California, Heyoka was drawn to study art in college and graduated with a degree in sculpture.

After college though, it was the spirit in nature that called him and he lived in the Northwest wilderness for twenty years.

It was his own way to regain a deeper sense of connection with his Native American ‘genetic memory’ as he so aptly phrases it, and open to a more transcendent experience of mysticism. It is now imbued in the forms of creative shamanism he practices, as he works with the potent power of spirit as an ally in his art making, storytelling and writing.

Although he was born with Cherokee blood,