Shamanic Practice
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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 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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Mythical Beasts and Weirdness: Working with Helping Spirits
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 with Daniel Abney
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 Larramendi
“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 Langston Kahn
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Shamanic Skills for the New World: Part 2
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 1
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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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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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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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.
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The Shaman’s Mind: Shamanic Practice 4
We interpret the world and our experience through our mind. Ancient peoples understood this and were sophisticated enough to leave nothing to chance. The ancient…read more.
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Creating Shamanic Tools with Evelyn Rysdyk
There is nothing quite as powerful as making your own power objects and shamanic tools. Artist and shamanic teacher, Evelyn C. Rysdyk, joins us this…read more.
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Igniting the Ecstatic Heart: Shamanic Practice 2
A spiritual life is nothing but dogma and deception without the heart’s active presence. The heart’s active presence will soon wander, bored to death with…read more.
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Creating a Foundation for Wellness: Shamanic Practice 1
Knowing where you stand in life—and how to truly stand there—is essential if you want to live a spiritual or enlightened life. This is one…read more.
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Cultivating the Deep, Wise Heart—Working with Water
When we focus on the element of water we are focusing on the quality of our relationship with our own emotions. Do they flow or…read more.
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Freedom From False Passions—Working with Fire
When we focus on the element of fire we are focusing on the quality of the relationship we have with our own spirit. As a…read more.
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Creating Clarity of Heart—Working with Air
Air is the visionary in transformational processes showing us how to engage the power of our vision through the clarity of our heart. Working with…read more.
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Creating Presence and Autonomy—Working with Earth
Earth is the teacher in transformational processes showing us how to engage the power of the heart through our strength of heart and to make…read more.
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What is Spiritual Integrity and How Do I Get It?
What does it mean to have strong moral principles and to be whole and undivided in our spiritual life? Many people feel that the fact…read more.
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Shamanic Ritual and Ceremony with Lenore Norrgard and Kent Dorsey
Shamanic ritual and ceremony are the “power tools” used by shamanic practitioners around the world to create change and transformation in their lives. Humans engage…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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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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What is a Shamanic Cosmology?
Cosmology is the science of the origin and development of the universe. When we say “a cosmology” we are talking the way we interpret what…read more.
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Lessons in Courage with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Lessons in Courage, by Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, is a guide for changing our lives and bringing much needed healing to ourselves and our planet through…read more.
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Shamanic Practice in the New World
How is shamanic practice evolving, as it has in every age, to meet the challenges of our time? The spirits gave us good council as…read more.
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What is intimacy with Spirit?
True shamanic trance states, those that actually clear the control of the small self, require intimacy with spirit. “Intimacy grows with contact,” explains host and…read more.
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What is the Axis Mundi?
The axis mundi is an existential place or point wherein creation and entropy, the essential generative and destructive forces of the universe, exist as one…read more.
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How to Begin Shamanic Journeying
Shamanic Journeying is not an “out of body experience.” When this particular alternate state is achieved the journeyer has “a foot in both worlds.” The…read more.
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Art and Living Shamanism with Mark Wagner
“Creativity is a magical and sacred process. The process transforms the artist and the product transforms the world,” explains artist Mark Wagner of Hearts and…read more.
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Sacred Dance: Art and Shamanism
True power can be accessed through the spirit of dance in a freeform atmosphere. Anyone can access his or her power anytime. You don’t need…read more.
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Sacred Song: Art and Shamanism with Lauri Shainsky
Sacred sounds resonate with the original blueprint for life and for your life. Sacred song can be a direct path by which the shaman restores…read more.
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Sacred Art: Art And Shamanism with Faith Nolton
“Making sacred images co-creates reality and feeds into the soul and web of life…” explains visual artist, author, and shamanic practitioner, Faith Nolton. “Making paintings…read more.
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Nature, Madness and Shamanism
How do we live a sane life in an insane world? First we need to question Old World definitions of “reality” and “sanity” without throwing…read more.
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Spirit Walking with Evelyn Rysdyk
Indigenous shamans share a quality of connection with the world that allows them to simultaneously sizzle with spiritual power, remain entirely grounded, and express a…read more.
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Transforming Communal Shadows: Part Two
If we are to write a truly new story for the people in the new world we must transform the communal shadow behaviors that shaped…read more.
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Transforming Communal Shadows: Part One
Most of us are aware of the Shadow thanks to the genius of Karl Jung. However knowing and doing are two different things and, let’s…read more.
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The Bowl of Light with Hank Wesselman
“It’s not the year 2012 that is important. It’s 2013,” said Hale Makua, Hawaiian, Kahuna elder. “…what we decide to build on will determine the…read more.
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Good Witch, Bad Witch?
Witches, vampires, werewolves, and the living dead appear in our dreams, nightmares, and fairy tales. They also appear in our journeys and as manifestations of…read more.
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Shamanic Journeying: Taking Action
Direct revelation from spirit is a human birthright, but what do we actually do with those messages from spirit? Whether our answers come to us…read more.
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Shamanism in the New World
The shamanism of today must continue to evolve if we are to respond to the times we have chosen to live in. Our contemporary shamanic…read more.
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Shamanic Art of Reciprocal Exchange
If the New World is to be different than the one before then we must learn to ally our minds with paradox. We must see…read more.
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The Wild Heart in the New World
There has been a great domestication of the heart in America, numbing and dumbing down the voice that should guide us. It is the rare…read more.
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Our Answers Lie in Oneness
Not all shamans are great visionaries; not all understand the universe at the same depth. However, they all apply the knowledge they have and that…read more.
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What is the change in 2012 asking of us?
What is our part in the global crisis we find ourselves sharing in September of 2012? What is the nature of the challenge ahead of…read more.
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Gift of the Dreamtime with Kelley Harrell
For those of you interested in shamanism you can experience a shaman finding her shaman legs, reshaping the workings of her mind, and awakening her…read more.
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Becoming a Shaman
We all have the ability to create art, make love, and offer healing. And some people have the gift. Part of the art of life…read more.
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A Field Guide to Shamanism with Colleen Deatsman
“Shamans cannot undertake personal healing, action in the world, and service to the community using only their personal life-fore energy; they must harness the more…read more.
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Sandra Ingerman and Awakening Now
2012 is here. What do we need to focus on? “Many of us have been moving forward to wake up, but we are still in…read more.
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Shamanism and Unconscious Sorcery
The distinction between acts of healing and acts of sorcery is self-control. In the realm of shamanism a conscious act of sorcery isn’t about good…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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Picking Up Your Medicine Today
You can open the door to a life of meaning and purpose by “picking up your medicine.” Your medicine does not come to you in…read more.
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Creating Sacred Space Anywhere, Any time
Space is inherently sacred, as are all things, as are you. When we act to “create sacred space” we are acknowledging that fact of the…read more.
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How Spiritual Emergency Becomes Awakening with Kevin Sachs
“In spiritual emergency, our process of awakening becomes difficult and destabilizing,” explains our guest, Kevin Sachs PhD of Safe Journeys Home. “These states can be…read more.
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Pour Your Heart Out in Prayer—The Spirits as Teachers with Stephan Beyer
“The spirits want you to be a human being, in right relationship with all persons, both human and other-then-human,” explains our guest, Stephan Beyer, professor,…read more.
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Energy Velcro and the Hollow Bone
The shamanic altered state of consciousness and being a “hollow bone” are not necessarily the same thing. All over the Internet contemporary practitioners are claiming…read more.
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What is a Wounded Healer?
Today being “the wounded healer” has become the excuse for poor discernment in contemporary practitioners around boundaries, responsibility, and personal healing. In western thought the…read more.
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Shamanism and the Spiritual Warrior
Spiritual Warriorship is more than a metaphor that your therapist drags out every time you are challenged to take the actions necessary to change. Our…read more.
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Power and Responsibility with Jonathan Horwitz
“With great power comes great responsibility.” What will come of contemporary shamanism if we only focus on learning new skills to access greater and greater…read more.
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Spirit Teachers and Better Humans
“The spirits are teachers, not therapists. They are here to teach us to be better humans,” explains host and shaman, Christina Pratt. The helping spirits…read more.
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Shamanism and the Trickster
“The Trickster cannot be trusted,” writes author Lewis Hyde, “It is a contact that puts us slightly at risk; we open ourselves to disruption whenever…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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Healing into Peace with Martha Lucier
“As I rekindle the indigenous spirit within myself I connect to my sacred roots listening to the voices of the ancestors while honoring my connection…read more.
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Recognition Rites to Create and Celebrate Elders with Tom Pinkson
“Recognition Rites is a ceremonial rite of passage which honors and celebrates Elderhood,” explains our guest, author and shaman, Tom Pinkson, PhD. Join host Christina…read more.
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Rites of Passage with Annie Spencer
“Making Ceremony is a way of reminding ourselves that in fact all that we do is sacred,” explains Annie Spencer, founder of Hartwell Centre for…read more.
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Ethics and the First Shaman
“The ethics of shamanic practice were brought by the First Shaman who was of Divine origins and not entirely human. The First Shaman brought knowledge…read more.
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Shamanic Inheritance with Jonathan Horwitz
“The shaman works by asking for help,” explains Jonathan Horwitz, co-founder of the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies with Annette Høst. “We never get anywhere…read more.
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Conflux of Power with Tom Cowan
Tom Cowan joins host, Christina Pratt, to explore the art of “standing in the conflux of power.” This traditional role of the shaman involved moving…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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Shamanic Awakenings with Leo Rutherford
Leo Rutherford, co-founder of the Eagle’s Wing College of Shamanic Medicine in England, joins host and shaman, Christina Pratt, for our series of Society of…read more.
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Energy Exchange and Ayni
A lovely man from France informed me that my Encyclopedia could be pirated for free on the Internet. My initial response was to be flattered. …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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Outlaw Shamanism in the UK
How do we honor our traditions and still keep our shamanic practices alive and potent? How do we walk that interface between traditional teachings and…read more.