Shamanic Healing
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PTSD is Not a Mental Illness
PTSD is an illness of the soul, not the mind. Today PTSD is considered “an anxiety disorder.” However, the cluster of symptoms used to diagnose…read more.
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Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing with Daniel Foor: Part Two
The blood lineage ancestors, who carry the unresolved issues of the family line, can change when met by a skillful person. The dead can finally…read more.
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Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing with Daniel Foor: Part One
Your blood lineage ancestors, irrespective of religion, race, or culture, include the thousands of women and men whose lives weave a story back to the…read more.
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Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World with Itzhak Beery
“Why is it that Western medicine doesn’t have the answers and proper treatments for contemporary people?” Asks author, teacher, and healer, Itzhak Beery, in his…read more.
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What is Soul Loss? Part Two
What is soul loss? In Part Two we explore why other modalities that are effective in healing other physical and emotional wounds simply are not…read more.
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What is Soul Loss? Part One
What is soul loss? Is it real? What causes soul loss? How do I know if I have it? And most important of all, what…read more.
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Survival Skills for Sensitives With Mary Shutan
Humanity manifests a broad spectrum of sensitivities and psychic abilities and many struggle with how to manage the gifts and awareness they were born with.…read more.
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The Psychedelic Marine, PTSD, and Tools for Change with Alex Seymour
The Psychedelic Marine is a vivid portrait of both the anguish of war and the power of entheogens and shamanic ritual to help combat veterans…read more.
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Chronic Illness and Shamanic Practice with Kelley Harrell
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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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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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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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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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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Psychopomp—to Conduct the Souls of the Dead with David Kowalewski
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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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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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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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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A Shamanic View of Mental Wellness—Tacey: Part Two
Aboriginal elders warned the religious missionaries they encountered that if the trials of initiation were stopped then an even greater suffering would be unleashed on…read more.
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A Shamanic View of Mental Illness—Tacey: Part One
What we diagnose as “mental illness” today grows ever more resistant to reason, logic, pharmaceuticals, or medicine. What if these are not illnesses of the…read more.
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The True Root of Illness—Maté
One significant root of disease is the chronic stress created in the body by suppression or denial of emotions and the resulting abnormal release of…read more.
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A Shamanic View of Mental Illness—Somé
When we look at mental illness through a different cultural lens we can see something entirely different than the standard allopathic interpretation of the situation.…read more.
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What is Soul Theft?
Soul loss can occur quite naturally through sudden fright or situations where one fears they will die. Soul theft is an unnatural cause of soul…read more.
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Why Can’t I Find a Healer?
Have you been working on yourself and your suffering for 20 years and its still not fixed yet? Wounds, whether physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual,…read more.
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Life Hacks with Shamanic Skills
A life hack enables us to manage our time or daily activities in a more efficient way. While there are no short cuts to gaining…read more.
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Dancing with Anger and Spirit
The true nature of our emotions can surprise us when they are explored through shamanic skills. They are rarely come from where we think they…read more.
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How Do I Cultivate Emotional Well-being? Part Two
What we are taught about emotions in the “developed, Western world” will make the majority of us sick over time. This is the core teaching…read more.
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How Do I Cultivate Emotional Well-being? Part One
Health in shamanic terms requires the interaction of body and spirit, mind and emotion. There is no physical health in shamanism apart from the dynamic…read more.
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What is Shadow Work?
What is Shadow Work, really? Psychologically speaking the Shadow is an unconscious aspect of one’s personality that the conscious ego judges, fears or rejects to…read more.
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Chronic Illness and Shamanism
Chronic illness in America is “managed” in our allopathic medical system, not “cured.” Today 75% of our health care dollars go to the management of…read more.
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Healing in the Amazon: Nihue Rao with Dr. Joe Tafur
Among the indigenous cultures of the Upper Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo are one of the few cultural groups which has managed to maintain their language,…read more.
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Taking Shamanism Out of the Box with Sandra Ingerman
“This is a good time to settle into yourself and go beyond the surface of your spiritual practices,” advises our next guest, Sandra Ingerman MA,…read more.
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Encountering Evil with Betsy Bergstrom
How can we acknowledge the existence of evil, work effectively with it and still live our lives from a deep experiential knowing that we are…read more.
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Soul Retrieval Training with Sandra Ingerman
“There is a lot to understand about the results of bridging the powerful and ancient method of Soul Retrieval into a modern day psychologically sophisticated…read more.
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Healing in the Amazon with Roman Hanis: Part One
The Amazonian rainforest is home to a system of healing and plant medicines as vast, intricate, and effective as Chinese Medicine or Western naturopathy. Our…read more.
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Why isn’t my Shamanic Healing Working?
Shamanic healing allows us to get to the source of a problem or disease when that source lies outside of the purely physical or mental…read more.
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Laying Souls to Rest in Vietnam with Dr. Edward Tick
Vietnamese shaman, Nguyen Ngoc Hoai, speaks to the souls of the dead in her country. In this way she and a Society of Shamans have…read more.
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The Medicine of the Wild Feminine with Tami Kent
The wisdom in the Wild Feminine, by our guest and author Tami Kent, is the medicine we need to reclaim and embody the power and…read more.
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Loneliness and Solitude
Loneliness and isolation have risen sharply in America over the past couple of decades, a trend exacerbated by the time and energy we spend cultivating…read more.
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Soul Loss and Family Values: Part 2
Soul loss is unfortunately an everyday reality in America. While soul loss can be the result of abuse and trauma, it can also be caused…read more.
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Soul Loss and Family Values: Part 1
In today’s vitriolic public discourse about marriage and family values the child is the banner held high and waved about. However, what we see from…read more.
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Healing Through End of Life with Leslie Bryan
“Curing is the successful treatment and resolution of an issue; healing is to bring peace or fulfillment on an emotional, mental or spiritual level, regardless…read more.
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Shamanism and Healing from Trauma
The ancients understood that soul loss could occur as a result of trauma, warfare, sorcery, accidents, or abuse. So simple and deep was this understanding…read more.
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Have I Been Cursed?
Where there are blessings there can also be curses. The ability to send a blessing or a curse has been with humankind in almost every…read more.
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Depression and Soul Retrieval
We may be able to measure the ways in which depression alters our brain chemistry. However, that does not prove that brain chemistry causes depression.…read more.
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How Do I Begin Shamanic Healing?
How do you begin shamanic healing? And perhaps more importantly why would you start down the path of shamanic healing? Contemporary people begin to explore…read more.
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Bringing Health and Well-being to Children with Jon Bredal
“Let yourself imagine and experience the certainty that ADD and ADHD, birth trauma, incomplete bonding, sensory overload, dyslexia, and autism, labeled strenuous and unalterable by…read more.
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Shamanic Healing for Death and Dying
Death is a point of transition. There is the approach to death, a process we call dying. And there is the departure from death, a…read more.
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Have you lost your soul? Hosted by Dr. Linda Christensen
Shamans of old were healers of body and soul. They found that many of our ailments can be traced to a form of “soul loss”…read more.
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Shamanism and a Vital Energy Body
Shamanic practices involve the intentional movement between the visible physical realm and the invisible mental/emotional/spiritual/mythic/archetypal/Unknown realm. They also involve the inner journeys between the realm…read more.
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Shamanism and the True Nature of Health with Michael Dunning
“Health is divinely given,” explains Yewshaman Michael Dunning, “As is the consciousness with which to perceive it therapeutically. Thus Health in an embryological context exists…read more.
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How do We Heal? Shamanism & Disease
Shamans believe that soul loss or energy intrusions or both are at the root of all illness. This is only partially true. In the diagnostic…read more.
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Soul Integration and Shamanic Healing
What do you do after a shamanic healing experience? In past times people lived in a way that they saw soul loss in each other…read more.
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Shamanism and Recovery
Shamanism offers several tiers for engagement for anyone committed to the process of their own recovery. Shamanism is first the working relationship with spirit. At…read more.
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The power of shamanic healing from the inside out
We can use shamanic healing skills to address the suffering of humanity. Whether caused through human action, like war or drug use, or natural events,…read more.
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How do I become a Shaman?
How does someone become a shamanic healer in the 21st Century? What is the first step? What do you do if shamanic healing has been…read more.
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What is Shamanic Healing?
What is a shamanic healing in the 21st Century? Host and shaman, Christina Pratt, explores this question in three parts. First we will explore the…read more.
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What do you ask a shaman?
Can shamanism help with mental illness? What about my depression? Am I cheating myself out of healing by taking my pharmaceuticals? Can you heal my…read more.
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Shamanic Healing for Animals with Carla Meeske
Have you ever wondered if shamanic healing might help your animal or pet? Join us this week as host and shaman, Christina Pratt speaks with…read more.
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Choosing a Shamanic Teacher
How do we choose a shamanic teacher? And do we choose, or do the teachers select us? What should you look for? What are the…read more.
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Shamanism and Cancer
Shamanic practices can have an affect on cancer and the healing process. This week host and shaman, Christina Pratt, explores a variety of ways shamanic…read more.
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What is a Shaman?
What is a shaman? Host and shaman, Christina Pratt, freshly inspired by the diversity and community synergy of the UK Shamanic Conference, will explore this…read more.
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Shamanism and Recovery from Addiction
Addiction touches every one of us, particularly in America. If you aren’t an addict yourself you love someone who is. Addictions come in all shapes…read more.
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Shamanism and PTSD Recovery
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the aftermath of a healthy, normal response to threatening, unpredictable, out of control situations. Within the complex inner world of…read more.
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Authentic Shamanism
What makes shamanism authentic? Tradition? Certification? Or direct access to Spirit? Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, as she explores authenticity and ethics is shamanism.…read more.
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Shamanism and Autism
The Horse Boy is both a book and a movie about Rupert, Kristin, and Rowan Isaacson’s ride across Mongolia in search of traditional shamanic healing…read more.
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Shamanism and Sexual Healing with Gina Ogden
“…one of the most sensual, deep, and delightful experiences I’ve ever had. I realized I’m not alone in believing that sex can be both sacred…read more.
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Shamanism and Transforming Depression
Persistent depression, a disease of the heart and soul, is one of the most common problems motivating people to seek help. And shamanism is an…read more.
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Shamanism and Transforming Mental Illness
In shamanic cultures mental illness is a community illness that is caused when the community’s many shadow projections overwhelm the collective benevolent intent. When we…read more.
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Shamanism and Transforming Addiction
Addictions abound in our lives. Whether persistent, problematic substance abuse patterns, the simple inability to wind down after along day without a glass of wine,…read more.
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Soul retrieval and its place in modern healing
In 1991 Sandra Ingerman published Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self. In this beautiful, easy to read book she rebirthed the shamanic art of soul…read more.
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Healing— Alternative Ideas from Shamanism
Healing is transformation. Shamans don’t see healing as fixing what broke, eradicating a bug, or going back to a state of health before the illness.…read more.
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Integrating the Fragmented Soul with Martin Brennan
We all experience soul loss throughout our lives. It is caused by physical or emotional trauma and it is a natural way for us to…read more.
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Heart Centered Shamanic Healing with Betsy Bergstrom
“Modern shamanism is alive and thriving,” says shaman, Betsy Bergstrom, our guest this week. “There is a wonderful blending of ancestral and ancient knowledge with…read more.
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Healing the Hard Stuff
There are certain life experiences and traumas that contemporary medicine says people can’t or won’t heal from. Shamanism suggests that people can’t heal from these…read more.
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Shamanic Healing: What it is and why it works
Shamans look at “health” as well-being and balance in the individual physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, communally, intimately, and personally. Shamanic healing works because the relationship…read more.