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Timespirits and Shamanism...
Timespirits exist in the shared field and can motivate the actions of individuals in the collective. The more unaware you are of your self and…read more.
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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langsto...
What are the tangible ways we can engage shamanic skills to approach both systemic racism and our own internalized racism? They begin when we engage…read more.
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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langsto...
Can contemporary American’s transform their consciousness—and unconsciousness— in their engagement with systemic racism? Shamanic practice offers tangible ways we can approach the transformation of our…read more.
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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langsto...
The poison arrow of racism is a double wound. It is the arrow—the direct injustice inherent in the act that harms the heart and mind.…read more.
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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langsto...
The collusive, fearful, racist underbelly of the American culture has been exposed by the hate-filled rhetoric, violence, and lies of the current presidential race. The…read more.
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The Power of Blessing...
Blessings are the way to give life to that which you value, to give it strength and help it to survive and to thrive. Through…read more.
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The Power of Faith...
Faith does not require religion and is often stronger without it. Faith is the power to stand in the Unknown with uncertainty and discomfort and…read more.
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The Power of Gratitude...
Gratitude is a choice to see beyond the surface of instant gratification. Gratitude is not a luxury for people who get what they want, but…read more.
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The Root of Resiliency...
To bring our mature courageous hearts into action in the world we must be resilient. But resiliency is the first casualty in a culture that…read more.
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The Highly Skilled Wounded Child...
The highly skilled wounded child arises when an adult learns an assortment of excellent skills to move out of the pain caused today by their…read more.
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Cultivating Discernment with Mary Shutan...
Discernment, the ability to accurately tell one thing from another, is a necessary quality of wisdom, along with objectivity and clarity. Cultivating discernment is critical…read more.
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Chronic Illness and Shamanic Practice with Kelley Harre...
Living with chronic illness is a challenge, a challenge more and more people are being required to navigate daily in an already busy life. How…read more.
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Mythical Beasts and Weirdness: Working with Helping Spi...
A mythical beast is a beast that we believe never existed in physical form, like dragons, the basilisk, and the phoenix in the Harry Potter…read more.
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Plants and Elementals: Working with Helping Spirits wit...
Elemental Spirits are often ignored as we reach for helping spirits in the vast range of land spirits, from the smallest garden sprite to the…read more.
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Working with the Spirits of the Land with Ana Larramend...
“Nature communicates through energy, not words. It communicates with us through signs, symbols, omens, and feelings,” explains our guest Ana Larramendi of thehollowbone. Ana joins…read more.
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Deities and Archetypes: Working as Helping Spirits with...
Deities have a long history of engaging as helping spirits with people in shamanic altered states. What does it mean when a deity enters your…read more.
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Ancestors and Descendants: Working with Helping Spirits...
Why would I want a working relationship with my ancestors when I can’t stand my own relations? Fair question when so much addiction, depression, social…read more.
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Working with Helping Spirits in the Age of Entitlement...
Direct communication with our helping spirits is one of the greatest gifts in the reintroduction of shamanism into contemporary life. Yet in this age of…read more.
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What Does Shamanic Practice Look Like?...
Contemporary shamanic practice looks different depending on the tradition, cosmology, or beliefs that guide your practice. The variations in authentic shamanic practice are a rich…read more.
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Planting the Seed for Initiation...
We need initiation into adulthood desperately, as individuals and as a culture. At this time the lack of initiation is at the root of much…read more.
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Initiation Is Not Graduation...
Initiation is not graduation. Initiation is not the formal certification of the successful completion of a course of shamanic training, nor is it the ritual…read more.
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Nourishment for Your Spirit: The Elements...
Right relationship with the elements allows their energy to flow into our lives, creating well-being by balancing our own excesses and deficiencies. Learning to work…read more.
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Working with the Earth with Ana Larramendi...
What can we do to address climate change and other big challenges to the balance of life on earth? We can do a lot when…read more.
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Meeting Hatred and Shamanic Practice...
Hatred is a luxury we do not have. It costs too much, eventually destroying all that truly matters and leaving the soul lost as collateral…read more.
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Fear and Shamanic Practice...
Feeling fear—whether real or imagined— initiates a variety of chemical responses in the body that support the needed physical response, either fight, flight, freeze, or…read more.
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Shamanic Healing with Wisdom Bodies: Case Studies...
This week host and shaman, Christina Pratt, shares case studies of shamanic healing with people who found a path to health and freedom by engaging…read more.
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Refining the Mental Wisdom Body...
The Mental Wisdom Body is largely locked away in our inability to distinguish our self from our mind. We are more than our mind and…read more.
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Awakening the Spiritual Wisdom Body...
You have a vision that you love and the wisdom to live it, but where does the power come from to make it real? The…read more.
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Expressing the Emotional Wisdom Body...
The Emotional Wisdom Body is a world unto itself. It is every bit is vast, complex, and intricately interconnected as the mental wisdom body but…read more.
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Engaging the Physical Wisdom Body...
When we live far from our true nature the voice of our physical wisdom body becomes hard to hear. The guidance that could bring us…read more.
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Accessing Your Four Wisdom Bodies...
Shamanic skills allow us to engage with the world around us, each other, and ourselves in a nonordinary way that integrates intelligence and intimacy, vision…read more.
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Cultivating a Vital Energy Body...
Whose life do you want to be living? And how do you live the life that is an expression of your unique genius? To have…read more.
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What Are Healthy Boundaries?...
Conserving and protecting your energy resources are essential to live well. Healthy energetic boundaries are necessary to respond flexibly to what the day offers while…read more.
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What is Energy Grounding?...
Grounding is a choice. It isn’t something you heal, its something you do. Good healthy, daily grounding can change the patterns of both stagnant, depressed…read more.
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Energy Body Hygiene...
To live well in your human body you must think of it as an energy body and a physical body. The world looks physical and…read more.
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Why Do We Need Shamanism Now?...
We need shamanism now for the same reason we needed it in the beginning. The “first shaman” came in many forms to many different peoples…read more.
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Unmasking the False Self...
We are spirit incarnate. The first decision that we make in life, when we are very smart and still part of the Oneness, is to…read more.
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Peacemaking as a Spiritual Path with Stephan Beyer...
“We all suffer. We are all sacred. We are all bound together. We are all fallible. We are all capable of redemption.” And we are…read more.
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Solstice Fire, Fierce Love...
In this time of profound ignorance justified as American politics, escalating racial violence, homicidal cyber bullying, and ever-present aggression against women, it is easy to…read more.
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The Lost Art of Sleep with Dr. Rubin Naiman...
Sleep is profoundly peaceful. In this time of escalating racial violence, cyber bullying, and aggression against women, we have no frame of reference for the…read more.
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What is Appropriation in Shamanism with Mary Mueller Sh...
Appropriation is theft; it is to take something without the owner’s permission. Cultural appropriation almost always involves members of the dominant culture taking from cultures…read more.
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Releasing Fear, Letting Evil Go...
Everyday fear-based thinking is fertile soil for the seeds of evil to germinate and take root. Chronic fear and anxiety nourish the roots of the…read more.
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Shame and the Healing Heart...
We feel natural shame when we fall short of our own inner standards, especially when others get hurt. It is a natural response of the…read more.
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Grief and the Healing Heart...
Grief itself offers us great compassion. It comes and goes, tailoring itself to each heart that is experiencing loss and bereavement. It takes its time,…read more.
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Abandonment, Presence, and the Spiral Path: Part Two...
Abandonment by a caretaker breaks the heart of the child who is ignored, dismissed, or truly left behind. The desire to assuage this once-broken heart…read more.
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Abandonment, Presence, and the Spiral Path...
Fear of abandonment is often at the root of the poor quality decisions made by otherwise mentally healthy people. The cycle of abandonment, betrayal, and…read more.
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Clearing Cords with Mary Shutan...
Learning to cut and clear the energetic cords that are commonly created in relationships is a fundamental skill for living well. For the most part…read more.
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Cults and Shamanic Practice...
A cult is a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object. The practice of this devotion can be beneficial…read more.
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Claiming Your Power…and then what happens...
The shamanic healing form, soul retrieval, can result in the direct and immediate return of our personal power and our sense of purpose in life.…read more.
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Am I Really Talking to My Guides?...
Many questions arise as humans open their awareness to the possibility of a world larger than the here and now. “How do I know I’m…read more.
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What Does it Mean to Live in Your Body?...
The strength of the earth element is seen in our relationships with our selves, our intimate partners, and our community. It speaks to what it…read more.
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Community and the Trickster...
“God lives in the heart while trickster dwells in the mind,” is a teaching of the Kalahari Bushmen. When trickster is in the head it…read more.
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Way of the Bushman with Bradford and Hillary Keeney...
The teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen or San are the oldest spiritual, shamanic, and healing practices in our world. The San do not believe that…read more.
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Schizophrenia and Shamanism with Dick Russell...
There are many ways to look at the symptoms that the dominant, contemporary culture diagnoses as mental illness. Illnesses of the spirit or the soul…read more.
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Shamanism and the Mess of Love...
Humans are messy. And love is one of the messiest bits of human life. So what do we really mean when we strive to rise…read more.
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How to Manifest Your Calling: Myth Busting...
Rebuilding a new life from the rubble of your old one is at once an exciting and a scary prospect. Whether you tore your life…read more.
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The Spiritual Awakening Guide with Mary Shutan...
There are many different types of spiritual awakenings, from kundalini rising to shamanic initiations and everything in between. This often misunderstood range of human experience…read more.
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Rising Up When Life Falls Apart...
How do you rise up when you have lost more than you thought you had to lose? How do you avoid the contemporary pitfalls of…read more.
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Contemporary Gender Issues and Shamanism...
Gender is a charged issue in the contemporary world and will continue to be as long as we think we understand gender when we don’t…read more.
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Change and Transformation—Using Shamanic Skills...
Personal transformation efforts often fail because all that is really needed is change. And often our personal efforts to change fail because what is required…read more.
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Psychopomp—to Conduct the Souls of the Dead with Davi...
Not all who die leave the realm of the living easily and these souls need help. From the beginning of people the shaman has served…read more.
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Suicide and Shamanism...
How can we use our shamanic skills to respond to suicide? From a shamanic perspective there is tending needed for the soul of the dead…read more.
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The Art of Falling Apart...
There are times that we simply need to fall apart. …not having a bad day, call in sick, fall apart, but losing more than you…read more.
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What is Shamanic Possession?...
Shamanic possession is not actually possession at all, but the intentional embodiment of spirit help with whom the shaman has already developed a working relationship.…read more.
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Manifesting Your Calling–Summer Solstice...
Summer is the season of joy, enthusiasm, purpose, and radiance. Ancient peoples around the world have used the Summer Solstice Fire to focus this innate…read more.
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Joyful Manifestation, Summer and Shamanism...
Do you find yourself in mid-summer grumpy about the weather, bored, and facing a life empty of joy, purpose, and the radiance of your true…read more.
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Shadow, Sex, and Shamanism with Marsha Scarbrough...
Where people gather in community there is Shadow, even in spiritual communities. Where there is unacknowledged Shadow there is sex, often good and exciting, and…read more.
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How the Trickster Teaches Us...
In shamanic cultures around the world it is the Trickster who made the world as we actually find it; not a perfect Eden, but complex,…read more.
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How to Receive Shamanic Healing...
What are the ethics for receiving shamanic healing? Much is written about ethics for practitioners, but is it really ethical to drop all the issues…read more.
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The Gift of Shamanism with Itzhak Beery...
Every human has the ability to imagine, to learn from dreams, to feel insight and intuition, and to “see” at a distance. “These many forms…read more.
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Dying Well: Shamanic Wisdom...
Dying is part of life; it is that simple. When death is accepted as a natural part of our journey, an extraordinary amount of energy…read more.
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Shamanic Skills for the New World: Part Two...
Shamans are made by spirit, through initiation and training, to become the answer to the prayers of the people. What could the world community of…read more.
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Shamanic Skills for the New World: Part One...
What are the next steps that the world community of shamanic practitioners and healers needs to take in order effect cultural transformation on the global…read more.
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Chemistry of Creativity with Kate Smith...
What do you do when the Muse calls and the path to your creative life requires the sacrifice of all that makes you feel safe,…read more.
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Why We Fear the Creative Self...
If you want to live a creative life, look at the quality of your relationship with Creativity as a spirit, not a process. For most,…read more.
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Painting the Landscape of Your Soul...
Pablo Picasso said“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” The practice of art allows our soul’s to talk…read more.
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Sovereignty and Your Calling...
Sovereignty is the supreme power to self govern and it is the core of a life lived well. What does sovereignty mean in a time…read more.
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Awakening Your Creativity...
Truly new and creative ideas arise from the wellspring of our indomitable spirit. That spirit is either cultivated or crushed in our day to day…read more.
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Spring: Dreaming and Manifesting...
Each season has its own spirit and they all have profound influence on us, regardless of our ignorance to their presence. Modern people who live…read more.
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Ethics in Shamanic Practice: Hard Choices...
“Healing into death” sounds reasonable until the terminal diagnosis has been handed to someone we love, especially when that someone is young with a whole…read more.
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The Elemental Heart...
At the core of initiatory illness are the spirits who are looking for a pure heart. They can teach you all you need to know…read more.
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Co-Creating With Your Shadow: Part Two...
When we co-create our lives with Spirit and our Shadow together, we end up following the path of crazy logic. If you can use your…read more.
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Resources for Shamanic Living with Sandra Ingerman...
The everyday empowerment of shamanic life is available to all who choose to step into direct relationship with their own helping spirits. This act of…read more.
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Co-Creating With Your Shadow: Part One...
What if our Shadow is actually trying to save us from a successful and safe but un-soul-satisfying life? What if our Shadow was actually trying,…read more.
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Co-Creating Your World with Other People...
Co-creation is an art that must be practiced consciously. Without conscious engagement our ability to manifest a life that is more joyful for us can…read more.
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Co-Creating Your Future with the Dead...
There are some basic principles needed to co-create your reality, to orient your energy and your vision, and then manifesting a better world should be…read more.
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The Co-Creation Handbook with Alida Birch...
Each of us has the ability to manifest a life that is more joyful for us and transformative for the world. Humans are manifesting all…read more.
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The Challenge of Love...
Self-love is fundamental, but remains a Sisyphusian task for many. What would it take for you to respect, honor, and deeply value yourself? This is…read more.
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Clarifying Your True Calling: The Visionary...
“Follow your bliss” is really not enough to go on when we need to clarify a vision of our true calling and engage that path…read more.
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Your True Calling and Power: The Teacher...
To live your true calling requires you to maintain right relationship with power—your power and the power of others. Like the captain of a ship…read more.
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Discerning Your True Calling: The Warrior...
Shamanic skills can help us to turn the fears that stop us in life into the ability to discern the deeper truth that resonates with…read more.
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Your Calling and Shamanism: The Healer...
When we embark on finding our true calling we are first faced with all we must sacrifice, release, and let die in our current life.…read more.
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Giving Gratitude for the Hard Stuff...
We are not actually entitled to anything, not the water we drink or the air we breathe. Everything is a gift. For the gifts to…read more.
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What is PTSD?...
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is an issue of the soul, not the mind. To define PTSD as a psychiatric disorder is to miss the…read more.
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Creating a Crucible of Transformation...
Humans have an amazing capacity for change if they choose to access it. Even transformation, which is change we cannot go back from, is accessible…read more.
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The Heart of Fear...
Everything has a heart, even fear. In our chronic, cultural avoidance of fear we miss the heart of the matter and in that miss the…read more.
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Grace in Transition...
Grace in transition does not come easily to modern people who live in the climate controlled illusion that they have mastered nature, wilderness, and the…read more.
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Hoodoo Rootwork with Khi Armand...
Hoodoo, a wellness modality and system of folk magic draws from many sources. It “is not New Orleans Voodoo, Haitian Vodou, nor Santeria, Palo, or…read more.
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Creating Sacred Life: Shamanic Practice 6...
The sacred is inherent in all things. Relationship with the sacred nourishes our deeper self, rekindles our passion for our soul’s purpose, and opens the…read more.
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Enliven Your Spirit: Shamanic Practice 5...
Sacrifice enlivens our spirit. It opens the way for miracles or the impossible or that which we truly desire to come into our lives. To…read more.
