About Nathan

Nathan Whiteside has been working with individuals and small groups as an energy healer for over 20 years, and now he feels a deep calling to work with a larger audience, using his unique capabilities and talents as a coach and Truth teller. Always with a touch of humor, Nathan enjoys engaging with and helping those who genuinely seek better for themselves.

Nathan grew up in an atheist family and identified as an atheist himself during his early life, when he also developed an affinity for the physical sciences. Always curious about the physical workings of the universe, at age 16 he began investigating his own psyche, trying to understand why he acted in ways that did not serve him. This investigation was the genesis of what turned into a spiritual journey, which accelerated three years later when he studied Taoism and Eastern mysticism.

After getting a BA in philosophy, he wanted to be of service to humanity while also testing his beliefs about the world against the reality that most people live in — utter poverty. So he joined the Peace Corps and taught math, in French, for two years in the West African country of Guinea. This experience affected him profoundly, teaching him the limits of philosophies borne out of privilege that are largely disconnected from the physical and emotional reality in which we actually live.

After completing his service, Nathan relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where he worked as a project manager while pursuing his spiritual path via the Taoist internal arts of tai chi, chi gung, and nei gung. Still quite skeptical of anything outside the scientific mainstream, this practice gave him an undeniable, somatic experience of subtle energy running through his body, plus a strong foundation in understanding how subtle energy works. Over the years he also received training in Life Coaching, Reiki, and Divine Energy Healing, and soon began a long and successful career as an energy healer and spiritual coach.

With his one of his spiritual teachers as a guide, in 2006 Nathan experienced what his teacher calls “Basic Awakening” — a permanent shift in consciousness in which the sense of an individual, personal self is no longer experienced as real. Through ongoing meditation and training, Nathan continues to explore and embody freedom from the illusions that ensnare human consciousness.

Nathan currently lives in Bellingham, WA with his life partner. She thinks he’s pretty cool. Or at least that’s what she tells him.