From 2001 to 2007, Tobya Negash apprenticed with a Peruvian Shaman and is now a Mesa carrier.  Tobya has been baptized into the Native American Lakota Church, Pejuta Wakan Cancu' Charter #4272.  She has led and participated in a number of ceremonies of the Daime Church of Brazil.  Today she is a teacher, healer, light worker, channel and psychic/Intuitive who is attuned to the ancient ancestral wisdom.  Tobya's artworks act as a bridge bringing in the light of higher denominational energies, calling forth its unpatterned potential.  It is her wholehearted wish to raise the consciousness and the vibration of the planet via creating art in the form of sculpture and painting and by self empowering individuals to live in the ever-expanding Now from a place of truth, integrity and infinite joy.  "'Who is the Artist?" -- 'Who is breathing, seeing, feeling and being?'  These are some of the questions I ask myself when entering into the process of creating," Tobya says.  "When creating art, I enter into a meditative state where if all control is surrendered to the will of the universe, one can express the Essence of Being: the Dance.  My current artworks explore facets of Energy, the Force that pulsates through Mother Earth, the Kosmos and all sentient beings--activating the potency of the Dream-time Space."