Hi, I'm Mark Shuya

lead guide at Truself

This is my Story 

Before answering my call to Soul, I was stuck in patterns of distraction, self-doubt and self-criticism, yet knowing I was being called to more meaningfully inhabit my work, social, and natural environments. I was avoiding healing, wholing, and acceptance of myself.

I chose to trust my instincts, showing up with an open-heart and open-mind, committing to a period of self-care. Reflecting back over key moments in my ongoing journey, I have been humbled and healed. I have deepened my connection with Mystery and nature, and am empowered with self-love, compassion and vulnerability. I have a strong sense of belonging in my inner and outer landscapes.

Through countless solo time in the mountains wandering and listening, performing self-designed ceremony, enacting vision quests and other rites of passage, I continue to reveal new layers of my own story. Dreams and synchronicity continue to be powerful teachers that reinforce why I’m here.

I offer myself and my gifts to others because that is what I have been called to do. I’m here to courageously guide and protect others to walk the edges of their inner wounds and outer wildness. To let my light and Wild Mountain Heart illuminate the soulful truths and gifts in the sacred wounds of others so that they can find healing, wholing and acceptance using the natural world as wild medicine.

The mountains are both my muse and where I innately belong. In my personal time you’ll find me backpacking, scrambling, downhill biking, snowboarding, and snowmobiling. I continue to advance my technical knowledge through training such as advanced navigation and hold a Wilderness First Responder 80-hr first aid certification.