What is Shamanic Work?
Shamanism is an earth-based spirituality. To the shaman, everything on the planet has a spirit and everything is interconnected—nothing is separate. By calling in the spirits and shifting states of consciousness, a shaman can affect healing both in individuals and the environment.
To accomplish healing, shamans access the realms of the spirit world by shifting their awareness. In doing so, they have direct access to the transpersonal in the form of spirit helpers such as animals, plants, stones, and deities. These compassionate spirits endeavor to help with guidance and healing power. Shamans work with these helpers to assist clients in their healing.
There are many healing modalities that transition the client from illness to health. The goal in shamanic work is to clear blockages or stuck energies, and remove the imbalance altogether. In shamanic healing, it is all about bringing the power back to the client so they can access their own self-healing abilities.
SERVICES:
Soul Retrieval
To the shaman, illness is a result of spiritual disharmony. Soul retrieval is a common and very effective means of shamanic healing. The soul represents our life force or essence. Traumas encountered throughout life result in a piece of the soul fleeing the body to survive the experience. The shaman understands that this soul piece retreats to a place in non-ordinary reality. It remains there until a healer shifts into an altered state, locates it, and brings it back to the client so they can be whole.
Symptoms of soul loss are everywhere around us in the form of depression, addiction, illness, indifference, etc. A soul retrieval healing brings the client back to a feeling of connection to the world and a sense of wholeness. The missing parts have been returned and can now be integrated, making it possible to heal the emotions around the trauma. The client is now free to move forward in life without the anchor of unresolved issues.
Journey Work
Journey work is a profoundly effective tool for engaging the deep psyche to shift out of imbalance on all levels. Using the monotonous sounds of the drum or rattle, the practitioner brings the client into an altered state where they have access to the transpersonal realms where the spirits reside. The client is safely and deftly guided to where they need to go to bring healing to the issue they are experiencing. This is extraordinary work and those who engage it are well served by its far-reaching effects.
Heart-Centered Compassionate Depossession(as taught by Betsy Bergstrom)
There are times in many people’s lives where they feel their path is being overshadowed or blocked energetically. Possession is more common than people realize and actually very natural as spirits are attracted to us for a host of different reasons. Historically, every culture had knowledge of this and they paid particular attention to how the dead were cared for. In our current culture, possession is rampant as people are assaulted with fear-based information and imagery on a daily basis through the media. This, and also drug and alcohol abuse will weaken the energy field, leaving one open to possession.
Demonic possession is not so common but can be severe. Most spirits that come in to a person are quite benign, yet this is energetically draining for the host. According to Betsy Bergstrom, “The average possession or overshadowing can result in illness, anger, fear, depression, mood swings, voices in the head, experiencing what seems like a past life, nightmares and sexual stimulation.”
Unlike the old paradigm of high-drama depossession, where both host and spirit are traumatized in the process, Compassionate Depossession is non-adversarial. The practitioner works with the Divine to assist the spirit to a place of comfort with no judgment. Both parties are restored to balance and harmony in an environment of safety, love and honor.
Curse and Thought-Form Unraveling
Throughout their lives, most people hear negative and potentially damaging criticisms about themselves. These imprint themselves within the psyche, creating a belief system that is out of alignment with the truth of who they are. Words are both powerful forms of expression and powerful energies. When words are combined with intense emotion, the energy carries the intention of the words right into the individual they are directed to.
Curses are ancient and have been used by every culture around the world. They have the power to knock an individual off balance and negatively affect them on a number of levels. Many people have some sort of curse or spell on them. People in this culture are less than careful with their words, with no awareness of the powerful energy that lives on. We curse ourselves and we curse others with words and emotions. Curses can bind a person energetically from creating the type of life they desire. This work helps unravel and undo both self-destructive thought patterns as well as any curses that have been directed to the individual.
