While shamanic healing methods are ancient and cross cultural, our present day & complex life situations are an easy match.  Shamanic healing is a very efficient & effective method of getting to the heart of the matter.

Shaman is the Siberian word for spiritual healer.  Historically, communities across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North and South America looked to shamans for healing and guidance in their individual lives and for the greater good of the community.  Today, there is a revival of interest in the modern world for this type of healing and guidance.

Here in the USA, it is relatively new notion that in addition to the physical aspect of traumatic and complex life experiences we need something or somebody to address the spiritual and emotional aspects that we are left with after the ‘dust settles’.  Shamanic healing includes a variety of methods that by themselves and in combination have the potential of unwinding and deconstructing life patterns that keep us from being fully present to our life experiences.  My personal experience, as well as what I observe in clients, is that there is more room and less interference, more of ourselves, and more choices that can actually be seen and made.  People can live bigger lives.

Glossary

Soul Retrieval: Ordinary and extraordinary life experiences can leave us feeling like “I have never been the same since”… this “loss” occurs through a traumatic experience such as an accident, loss of a loved one, a physical assault, or lifethreatening illness. In Shamanism this is called “soul loss”. Soul retrieval is the process for restoring this lost soul essence.

Extraction: Have you had the experience of someone yelling at you, or a driver on the road who “threw” some words or gestures at you in a way that it feels like you have been hit with a dart? That is an example of “negative thought forms”. I love the way it was described in the film, “Ghost busters”: “I’ve been slimed”. When the feeling does not go away the energy of it has the sensation of staying with us. The word “extraction” here refers to the traditional shamanic method of removing these “intrusions”.

Psycho-Pomp: A complicated looking word that means helping the spirit of someone who has died cross over.

Energy Clearing: The words “energy clearing” describe what is done with the various sorts of energy we experience throughout our lives that we feel affected by and seem to “stick”. The house that feels odd or creepy…the sense that someone or something is near us but we can’t see it and it doesn’t go away. This is very similar to extraction.

Healing With Spiritual Light: This is a practice of remembering who and what we really are. We are Light and Love in a physical body. By remembering, connecting and aligning with who and what we really are, we affect everything that is near us, and in fact anything we put our attention to no matter the distance. Entrainment means that whatever is the higher frequency, the lower frequency will raise itself to meet that higher frequency. This is a principle of spiritual healing. While not exclusive to Shamanic healing, it is a method used by many contemporary shamanic practitioners to promote healing in individuals as well as on behalf of all life.