
Ning Tendo
Spiritual Healer, Dream Guide, and Grief Specialist
Ning is a spiritual healer, dream guide, and grief specialist who helps people navigate profound life transitions through spiritual healing, family constellations and dreamwork.
Born and raised in Cameroon where she learned to communicate with spirits as a child, Ning brings a unique blend of African spiritual wisdom, formal academic training, and years of study across multiple healing traditions to her work.
She specializes in helping people understand that death ends a life but not a relationship, guiding them to reconnect with deceased loved ones through dreams and spiritual practices.
She holds a Master's degree in Psychology from Columbia University where she studied in the Spirituality Mind Body Institute with a focus on spiritual healing and transformative experiences. Ning has trained extensively in spiritual healing and constellation work under renowned teacher Ron Young since 2017 (Healing Wisdom).
My Story
My journey to spiritual healing began in the most unexpected way—floating on the ceiling of my Jersey City apartment in 2013, looking down at my sleeping body in complete bewilderment. That out-of-body experience shattered everything I thought I knew about life, death, and consciousness, launching me into a decade-long exploration across the globe.
Growing up in Cameroon, I was surrounded by a culture where the spirit world intersected naturally with daily life. As a child, I could communicate with spirits, though my Catholic upbringing didn't quite know what to make of this ability. After earning my mathematics degree from UCLA and working on Wall Street for 8+ years, I thought I had life figured out—until that morning when I found myself having an undeniable encounter with something beyond the physical realm.
That experience sent me traveling from Thailand to Peru, Poland, Assisi Italy studying everything I could find about consciousness, death, and healing. I learned Tibetan dream yoga, trained in shamanic breathwork, studied Reiki, took psychic development and mediumship classes, and explored plant medicine ceremonies. I was searching for answers, for teachers, for some way to understand what I'd experienced.
I found my spiritual home in the most unlikely place—a graduate psychology program at Columbia University, where I met Ron Young. Here was someone who could help me understand that my childhood experiences with spirits and that profound out-of-body experience weren't anomalies to be explained away, but doorways into deeper spiritual reality.
Ron became my teacher, guiding me home to my spirit within through the practice of spiritual healing and Advaita meditation—not passive mindfulness, but active investigation into the living reality of the "I Am" consciousness.
I've been training with Ron since 2017, accumulating thousands of hours in spiritual healing work and constellation trainings. But it was the death of my mother in 2018 that transformed my understanding of this work from academic study to lived wisdom. Two weeks after she died, she came to me in a dream so vivid and real that it changed everything I thought I knew about death and grief. That first dream visit initiated what has become over 200 encounters with my mother in the dream realm, teaching me that death ends a life but not a relationship.
This experience led me to specialize in grief work, particularly helping people understand that their loved ones survive death and can continue to communicate through dreams and spiritual connection. When the pandemic arrived and the world was drowning in collective grief, I was invited to join the board of the Healing of Wisdom School, where I now offer community meditation and healing circles as part of our outreach mission.
My approach integrates everything I've learned—from my mathematical background that helps make spiritual concepts practical, to my poetic sensitivity that honors the sacred nature of both healing and loss, to my extensive training in multiple wisdom traditions.
Whether someone is facing serious illness, struggling with addiction or depression, grieving a loss, or simply seeking deeper connection to their spiritual nature, I create space for people to discover their own capacity for healing and transformation.
I'm currently offering monthly Community Meditation and Spiritual Healing Circles at Yoga Together Lincoln, with plans to launch grief circles and dreamwork circles in the coming months.
Professional Bio:
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B.A. in Mathematics & Economics, UCLA
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M.A. in Psychology, Spirituality & Mind-Body Practice, Columbia University
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Board Member (Secretary), Wisdom of Healing School (2021-present)
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Published poet, "Death Song in Green: Poems on Grief"
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Spiritual healer and constellation facilitator (7+ years training under Ron Young)
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Advanced Spiritual Healing & Healing Constellations - 5 years
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Spiritual Healing Constellations: Family, Incarnational, Organizational, Spiritual (600 hours; 3-year training)
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Spiritual Healer, Columbia University. Healing Research Study: The Role of Mental Imagery Within the Practice of Spiritual Healing - 1 year
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Dream yoga practitioner (Jungian Dream Analysis,Tibetan Dream Yoga, the yoga of dreaming) 13+ years
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Shamanic breathwork facilitator (400 hours)
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Podcast Interviews - Through the Darkwoods of Grief Podcast, Breathing Wind Podcast
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Digital transformation & sustainability consultant (10 years)