Shamanic Teaching and Healing Practice

In my role as a shamanic teacher and healer, I seek to help people find their deepest truths and to practice their own shamanic skills in a good way. I come from a place of personal integrity and remember that the healing journey is unique for each of us. I honor the power animals and teachers that I work with and those that work with others. My teaching gives people a way to access their own spiritual power. It is often life changing.

The shamanic path is not a religion in itself, but a spiritual practice. It is closely aligned with the principles of animism, closely associated with Native American or indigenous beliefs that spirit exists in all created things.

The workshops I have taught are outlined on Shamanic Workshops Content on this website. See Current Offerings for a list of workshops offered.

In my shamanic healing practice, I work with people who are familiar with energetic and natural healing practices. I understand that energetic or spiritual healing precedes physical healing, so often the shamanic healing work I do opens the way for the body to respond positively or to heal itself. Much of the shamanic healing work I do is preventive healing in that it prevents more serious illnesses from erupting within the body at a later time. I often combine Reiki healing with shamanic healing, moving energetically within the visions that arise during the hands-on Reiki healing session, healing the past life or soul part that has shown itself to me.

Other types of shamanic healing include extractions, removing energetic blockages to healing or complete health that may exist within the body or soul retrievals, where I retrieve soul parts that may have split off from the body during earlier traumas. I can also combine shamanic work with counseling to increase intellectual understanding of the healing that has been done or further healing that may be needed.

Reference: See the website for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies founded by Michael Harner, for a description of the type of shamanism I have studied and a listing of the workshops and topics offered by this shamanic teaching organization: www.shamanism.org.

Every indigenous culture practiced a form of shamanism. Elders of the community who were trained or been chosen went into a trance to contact the Spirits to get information about how to help their community make choices to survive: where to fish, where to hunt, where to live, what to eat, how to use plants to heal the people, etc. My own indigenous heritage goes back to the Sami People of Northern Norway. These are the people who are Native to Norway, who were there when the German/Celtic people settled there centuries ago. In May 2008 my sister and I had an opportunity to travel to northern Norway. We participated in a tour that visited a Sami lavu (tent dwelling), learned about their customs, saw Reindeer and tasted Reindeer broth. I even practiced using a lasso to lasso a fence post…luckily it was not moving!