We are now in the 28th year of our apprenticeship in this ancient tradition, and are entering our 17th year of teaching. Accordingly in our five-day Visionseeker shamanic workshops, we offer training in spirit medicine in varying levels of depth. In the Visionseeker...
The shamanic practice known as soul retrieval is perhaps the most important level of healing in spirit medicine because once the spiritual-energetic nature of an illness-causing intrusion has been addressed, the cause is still unresolved, namely the tears in the...
Among the indigenous peoples of the world, it is generally understood that traumatic life experiences, when they are serious enough, can result in the fragmentation of our inner, vital essence or soul. Often, these traumatized soul aspects dissociate, resulting in a...
As we pass through life on the physical plane, things happen. We contract flus and colds and viruses, and we sustain physical injuries, like falling off our bikes as children or experiencing sports injuries. As adults, we may throw our back out or experience a serious...
Adapted from Traveling between the Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans by Hillary S Webb, Hampton Roads, 2004. Anthropologist Hank Wesselman has been described by his peers as possessing “the sober objectivity of the trained scientist with the...
The shaman is a man or a woman who is able to intentionally ‘re-geography’ the focused concentration of their conscious awareness, transferring it into the normally invisible worlds of ‘things hidden’ that surround us everywhere and all the time. These are...
