I was called into the work as a shamanic practitioner because of my ability to work with spirits that have crossed over. Ten years ago, I was at a friend’s house doing a “guided meditation” that forever changed the course of my life. A woman guided me to a safe place in nature where I was supposed to receive a vision about my life’s purpose. What I saw was the goddess Isis standing at the edge of the ocean while the sun set. She gave me the message that my purpose in life was to “help spirits cross over.” This was the gateway for me into learning the shamanic arts.
Read moreYES, DEATH IS A NATURAL PART OF LIFE
Before hospitals, nursing homes and modern medicine death, aging and illness was a more normal part of life. In our culture we are terrified of death. We avoid pain at all costs. We change the subject or expect people going through the pain of death to move on and be fine. Often when somebody dies, we don’t even know what to say or how to be. It is awkward to just be present with another’s pain.
Read moreWHAT TO EXPECT DURING A SHAMANIC HEALING
The best thing you can do to prepare for a shamanic healing is to get lots of rest, and drink plenty of water and prepare to give yourself time afterwards to sit by a tree, take a bath, journal and practice self-care. The most important thing you can do to prepare for a shamanic healing is to practice letting go, and imagining letting yourself receive. Often times using visualizations can help.
Read moreSHAMANISM AND THE POWER OF THOUGHTS AND WORDS
Shamanic cultures understand the power of thoughts and words in creating our realities, and understand that we can create illness, pollution and war with our intentions. I knew someone who was told by a doctor that she would never walk again. But she believed she would and she ultimately did.
These beliefs that have been planted all throughout our lives since early childhood can be firmly ingrained in our psyche. Like a gardener, the shamanic practitioner learns to excavate the soil of the psyche. We must be careful with the words we say; each word is a seed that can grow into a flower.
Read moreMY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
When I was a young girl, I could see energy and was often lost in the clouds of my imagination. My parents were research-scientists, and grounded in a worldview that meant if you couldn’t prove it, it didn’t exist! Later in life I have learned to see science only more as something that points to the great mystery of life. As a young girl, I did not know how to make sense of my experience of the unseen worlds.When I was 18, I traveled to India to begin my spiritual journey. Later, I took a leave of absence from college to trek through Europe with nothing but a toothbrush, and a change of clothes.
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