About US

It all started when…

Hi there! I am Nicole Oman. I always have a hard time explaining exactly what I do. The reason is because it’s complex, because the human being is so complex. Do I describe my work as therapy, shamanism, coaching, healing, health support, communication teacher, leader or an artist? Well, I am all those things. I also have an extensive education and the experience to back them all up. What I can describe to you is that I am an alternative to standard therapy. I can’t technically call myself a therapist (nor would I want to, that’s not a complete expression of who I am), I began college thinking that’s where my path would end up. As my standard education through the mainstream system of learning continued, I realized that this wasn’t going to fulfill me and the deep knowing of what true healing and a therapeutic modality could be. Talk therapy has it’s beautiful place in the world, but it had too much red tape. It wasn’t creative enough. It wasn’t going to sustain the healing ability I knew I was capable of. It felt like I was teaching people how to cope, not to heal. I decided to reverently rebel, and move on into a different path. I began to take my artistic endeavors more seriously, and began taking acting classes. One imparticular: Miesner. I ended up moving to Los Angeles, and has moderate and very quick success, yet I hated the industry, auditioning, being on set, and anything to do with the smoozing and the politics. I was NOT meant to be an actor. But yet I was in LOVE with the craft and my amazing acting class and teacher Fran Montano. My now husband and I use to always say “This is the best and most intense therapy that you can experience” after ever class. It was real, visceral, raw, exposing, cathartic, honest, and unapologetic. I studied for over 7 years, and began to assist and to teach. I loved working with non-actors, it wasn’t just a acting technique, it was teaching life, listening, communication, and truth. I had massive, soul revealing experiences, which shattered my life as I knew it. I connected more with my spirituality. I began studying at “The Modern Mystery School”, I became and Adapt, a Teacher and a Ritual Master (Warrior work). I studied the Kabballah, healing, ancient works from “The Golden Dawn”. But eventually, that felt too restrictive and dogmatic, and after 2 years I left, with a massive amount of foundational knowledge. After all of my studies and initiations, my old self and life began to crumble. My relationships shattered, my identity shattered, and I found myself living in my best friend’s bed, not knowing who I was or what I would do. I received a divine calling to pack up everything and move to India. In a synchronistic turn of events, I ended up in Kerala, India in an ashram with the most beautiful and selfless soul on the planet: Amma. She is known as a Saint, a Guru, the Divine Mother. To me she was my bootcamp bad ass, who made me take responsibility for myself, and grow up. She never coddled me, she never pulled back punches, and she never enabled me. She would never allow me to hide behind her skirt. She told me after my 3 month stay, and my intense experience with a ayavedic healing process called pachakarma, that I was to leave because I had my own work to do in the world. She completely helped me heal every part of my being. When I was at the ashram, I was shown and taught what true and deep healing really was. I was also shown that what I had thought, years before, that true healing and not just coping, was truly possible. If this was possible for me, then it was possible for others as well. I moved back to Los Angeles, and after a year of putting myself back together I received 2 new teachers. One was a woman names Kelly Morgan who was teaching “The Artist’s Way” that was written by Julia Cameron. I had received this book when I was 12, so it was a part of my very foundation. I studied, assisted and also taught the Artist’s Way for about 5 years after meeting Kelly. The Artist’s way taught me that you can truly heal and connect to your spiritual nature through creativity and art. (Something I very much use in my practice). I also met Russell Feingold, who became a mentor in my coaching practice. I consider this to be my 2 year internship for my personal therapy license. He taught me how to “be” with a client, trust my intuition, feel into a person’s field, so I knew how tho navigate their subconscious. He considered himself to be a “modern day shaman”, and he taught me my gifts of shamanism. And after he came back from Peru with his Shipibo Ayahausca training, I also began to apprentice with him again. He taught me how to navigate the subtle (and not so subtle) aspects of the spirit realms. He is a profound healer and I owe a lot of my personal healing with my relationship to my Father to his stewardship. I also owe the spirit of Ayahausca the credit for my miraculous healing, and initiation to my Guideship, healing work, and my personal Wisdom teaching. When I fully forgave my Father, I began to learn what true Wisdom was. At this time, I began my own coaching practice. I learned so much over the next decade by putting my education into practice. I began teaching inner child healing and tarot on a spiritual online community called “Soul Garden”. We made video content and taught classes to those who were eager to learn (I was making online content before it was cool and before the invention of smart phones!). They taught me how to read astrology and I became very proficient on camera. I then helped create an online community “Gaia Blooming” with 2 other women from Soul Garden. I eventually went out on my own to create “Daily Guidances”, I created a video everyday based off astrology and cards that I would choose and interpret with my own teachings and experiences. These Daily Guidance videos provided me a platform, and I created a small and beautiful following. I then created an online ashram called “The Golden Collective”, I provided a safe place for inner work and healing. I continued to provide Daily Guidances and I held quarterly in person workshops. I really taught myself how to be the leader I wanted to be. I tried my best to lead by example and create the right boundaries that it took to hold a community together. It was very difficult at times, but I enjoyed the work and friendships it provided. After a few failed attempts to scale the community with other practitioners, I closed is on it’s 3rd anniversary in 2020. Now I continue to teach classes, take personal clients, and paint. This year called for a reinvention of who I am now, in this new world that is also being reinvented. I dedicate myself to my work in the world, in the highest integrity possible. I always honor my personal life experiences as much as my knowledge. I think both are equally important as an education. I believe that knowledge + experience leads to a deep understanding. That understanding applied and put into action is Wisdom. To create a world we enjoy living, requires this wisdom. Please take all your experiences, and understand their beauty. That will make you a compassionate and humble human on this beautiful planet. The more we connect to and cultivate our deep personal wisdoms, then we may actually be worthy enough to keep incarnating to this magnificent creation experience called life.