There will be on-going Supervision throughout the course, at the end of which you will be given a Student Practitioner Certificate. Once you have completed the necessary case studies and worked under supervision for further 6 months you will be awarded a full Shamanic Practitioners Certificate.

On this course you will learn:

How to develop and enhance your journeying skills

You will learn more about each area of Shamanic non-ordinary reality, seeking to find many different areas and levels in the realms of the Lower and Upper Worlds.

We will be familiarising ourselves with the many and varied areas of the Middle World. This is a place of duality. We will be looking deeply into the beauty of the world of plants, trees and minerals as well as the Fairy Kingdom. We shall also be looking equally deeply into the not so beautiful parts of the Middle World where there is much healing to be done. We use the beat of the drum and other methods of accessing these usually hidden realms.

You will journey to the many and varied areas in your own non-ordinary inner map to familiarise your selves with what sort of guidance you can expect from each. You will learn more about the guides and allies that help you get the guidance you seek, so that you can implicitly trust that information.

You will gain valuable experience and guidance for yourself and others.

You will also experience the wonder of your own inner map that will help you to understand more about who you are.

How to work Shamanically with the Natural World

You will be working with the five elements within yourself - the Air of your breath; the Fire of your passions; the Water of your emotions; the Earth of your physical body; and the Spirit of who you are.

You will also be working with the five elements around yourself and everyone else - the Air of the wind that blows around us; the Fire of the Sun that warms us and assists growing things; the Water that flows in the rivers and seas and that neither we nor the plant kingdom can live without; the Earth, our home, the place that gives us the opportunity to live and experience our physical bodies; and the Spirit in everything around us avidly shown by the way nature works to heal, survive, and grow.

You will experience a greater understanding of the world you live in and how the natural world interacts within everything we do, think and feel. We will spend time outdoors to attune ourselves to everything natural around us, particularly during our residential time together.

How to work with Soul Retrieval

When we experience a traumatic event, a part of our soul essence can separate from us as a means of survival. Shamanic Soul Retrieval is a healing technique to connect with and return that soul essence.

You will learn more about the many reasons why a soul part moves away from us and how everyone and everything is looked after, even those that appear to be behaving in a very unloving way. Until this complete healing of an event takes place, on some level the event is still happening.

You will learn about when it is appropriate to do a soul retrieval healing and when it is not.

You will be using a simple but effective technique to track the lost soul part that is ready to come back and that the owner is ready to receive, then return the essence to where it belongs. You will also learn how to support a client after the return.

You will experience your own soul retrieval healing, discovering what it feels like to have a soul part returned to you so that you will better understand what your clients are likely to experience. Soul retrieval will be a part of the case studies you will need to complete the course.

How to do a Past Life Healing

You will learn how to work with another to shamanically seek out a relevant past-life to heal any unresolved issues that are keeping us from the gifts that that life has given. During the past-life contact you will obtain as much information as you can, including the most relevant part of that life, the death, and the last thoughts. You will also learn how to release emotions that are still held within that body.

You will experience your own past-life healing. This will not only help you to understand what your clients will be experiencing, but will also help you to heal your own unresolved issues. Past-life healing will be a part of the case studies you will need to complete the course.

Tools and techniques for Shamanic Spiritual Healing

You will learn how to remove spiritual intrusions, which are an external essence that has found its way into our energy field causing a dis-harmony - this healing is often called ‘extraction medicine’.

You will experience your own extraction of any spiritual intrusions that are affecting you at this time, and the release that your clients will feel after this particular healing.

You will learn how to rescue the spirits of the deceased who are unable to move into the world of Spirit without help to cross over. This is called ‘psychopomp’, meaning conductor of souls.

You will experience being able to check on loved ones or friends that have died, to see if they have moved on to continue their journey into the Hereafter. If they need help to move into this place, you will be able to help them cross over. You will also experience the power of being part of a group psychopomp healing.

You will learn about possession and de-possession, looking at ways we can help those that are possessed and also the possessors. We will look after the possessed so that they are not vulnerable to be used in this way again and look after the possessors to help them to the place they need to go to continue their journey into the Hereafter.

You will experience how to check others to see if there is a spirit that is using their physical body to support them, rather than moving on after death.

You will experience a form of bodywork to release tensions and nurture your physical being each time we meet. You will learn how to use your breath and bodywork to bring healing, inspiration and a fuller understanding of your own creative powers.

You will learn about Shamanic rituals and ceremonies

You will learn many different ceremonies and rituals, including the Fire Ceremony, and the Sweat lodge Ceremony, the Sweat lodge being symbolic of our entry into the womb of Mother Earth.

You will experience the beauty and magic of doing ritual and ceremony together and working as a community to use these ancient ways for the good of all.

Together we will prepare the Sweat lodge, dedicating each rock as we build the fire that will later heat them. The hot rocks will be placed in the central pit in the Sweat lodge, then water will be splashed on them to create the steam that is essential to create the atmosphere we need. The whole day is spent on the ceremony to prepare the lodge site and ourselves for the exquisite experience of sitting in the Sweat lodge and expressing our feelings and gratitude for our Earth journey, bearing witness to each other. Sweat lodge is an ancient way of sitting in counsel.

The Shamanic Way has given us much joy, wise counsel and a passion for life.