ABOUT Susanna McCan

Susanna created the Riding the Tiger women's empowerment coaching program to help women more deeply connect with their Life Force Energy, including their sexuality--so they can integrate this holy, Cosmic source of POWER into their paths of personal and spiritual development.  This builds on her earlier Radiant Embodied Woman program to help women cultivate radiant beauty, life-long sexual vitality, and magnetism--at any age.

 Susanna draws on the following training and experience to support women in their self-healing and self-empowerment: 

• Formal education (Harvard University degree in cultural anthropology and Jungian psychology)–yielded insights into how culture affects women’s presumed roles and how archetypal energies in the psyche can be harnassed for deep transformation.  See About Riding the Tiger for insights into the archetypal energies supporting the new Riding the Tiger programs!
  
  
• Two decades as a professional meditation teacher and practitioner in the Vedic tradition, including three years of full-time practice in a reclusive women’s community.  Having grown up as a Southern Baptist minister's daughter, she is deeply grounded in both Eastern and Western spiritual and religious traditions.
    
• Training and experience as a coach specializing in coaching visionaries and creative professionals–with coaching skills and experience useful to out-of-the-box clients!  
  
  
• A long career as an architectural designer and consultant in an ancient Vedic system of sacred architecture—Vastu.  In addition to the design considerations used in conventional Western architecture, this system incorporates several additional levels of design consideration based on deep archetypal patterns of creation found throughtout Nature--in the human body, plants and animals, stars and planets.  This deepened her appreciation of the human body as a Temple, the Cosmic nature of the human body made in the “image of God,” and the female body in particular as the sacred Original Home of every human being born on Earth.  Your human “Body as a Temple” is WAY MORE than just a metaphor to Susanna!
  
  
• Study and engagement with a variety of approaches aspiring to “sacred sexuality”–so lots of knowledge to share with you!
  
  
• 12+ years of intensive Ch’i Gong training, including women’s sexual Ch’i Gong—oriented toward strengthening health and maintaining lifelong vitality–qualified to guide you to cultivate your sexual vitality!  
  
  
• Long life experience both as a single woman and as a wife and mother, able to empathize with a very wide range of women’s experience and challenges.

Susanna lives in Fairfield, Iowa in her beautiful lakeside ecological Vastu home surrounded by Nature, just down the road from her husband's place! 

Fairfield is a town of about 10,000 people, about 25% of whom moved here to be part of an intentional peace-building community, originally founded by the Transcendental Meditation movement.  Fairfield has since evolved into a very rich, culturally creative town of people with a variety of spiritual and personal development orientations and modalities.  Many of those who have moved here have founded successful businesses, so Fairfield is more economically vibrant than most midwestern towns of similar size.

Susanna enjoys hanging out with her husband, other long-time and recently met friends, and participating in deeper community-building explorations with a motley crew of Fairfield old-timers and new residents.

She also enjoys opportunity for pilgrimage travel to very special places in the world.