Shamanic Practice
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Ancestral Healing: Transforming Persistent Patterns—Part Two
We all come from the first man and the first woman. Yet we created “race,” a historical story to justify the concept of “white supremacy.”…read more.
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Ancestral Healing: Transforming Persistent Patterns – Part One
Healing our ancestral lines can bring us face to face with some really complex patterns, woven and interwoven by generations of people before us. Often…read more.
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Ancestral Healing: Where to Begin
We all have ancestors. Some are the source of great blessings and protection. Others repel us with their legacy of injustice, abuse, and suffering. Either…read more.
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What Does “shaman” Mean?
Stanley Krippner respectfully defined shamans as “community-assigned magico-religious professionals who deliberately alter their consciousness in order to obtain information from the ‘spirit world.’ They use…read more.
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Power and Shamanism
Where do we learn the right use of power with examples of abuse, misuse, and squandering of power everywhere? As we enter the new year…read more.
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Curanderismo in Contemporary Times with Erika Buenaflor
Modern curanderismo has roots in indigenous Mesoamerican shamans and curanderos, specifically the ancient Yukatek Maya and Mexica (Aztec). This week author and practitioner, Erika Buenaflor,…read more.
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The Fundamental Element of Lasting Change
There is a fundamental element of internal energy exchange at the root of every process that helps us to create lasting change. Lasting change is…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Five
The last part of the Cycle of Transformation involves using all the skills you have learned in the cycle to dismantle your False Self. The…read more.
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Ancestral Healing and Activism
When we change patterns held by our ancestors, we become free to change those patterns within ourselves. Ancestral Healing empowers not only the healing of…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Four
Traditionally, our Ancestors are meant to be a primary source of blessing, wisdom, love and protection. However, when the dead aren’t tended well they hijack…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Three
We are given so many stories by our culture that limit how we use our power. Often these stories involve what it means to be…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Two
What if the juiciest parts of yourself, your humor, your creativity, your sexuality were waiting for you in the shadow realms? What if the parts…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part One
What if you had a chance to hit the restart button on your authenticity? To peel back all the layers of trauma to reveal the…read more.
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The Nepalese Shamanic Path with Evelyn Rysdyk, Part Two
The Nepalese Shamanic Path is a major contribution to our understanding and practice of shamanism. This new book offers the expertise of jhankri, Bhola Nath…read more.
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The Nepalese Shamanic Path with Evelyn Rysdyk, Part One
The Nepalese Shamanic Path is a major contribution to our understanding and practice of shamanism. This new book offers the expertise of jhankri, Bhola Nath Banstola,…read more.
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Authentic Self, Authentic Shamanism
Is there authenticity in shamanism without knowing and living your authentic self? Authenticity isn’t always popular or trending. At times what makes you most unique…read more.
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Solstice Fire: Transforming Discord and Division
The depth of systemic political, financial, ecological, and social divisiveness and abuse of power is revealed more fully each day. Now what? What will you…read more.
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Moving into the Deep Water: Update
We all need to learn to swim in the black water. It is the deep water of life where we are no longer in control.…read more.
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Getting Unstuck Part Four: The Lies We Tell
We all experience stuckness at some point in life and there is an art to getting out of it. You can become the person who…read more.
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What is Shamanic Healing? Some Case Studies – Part Two
Shamanic healing describes a particular set of healing forms. Many diverse cultures practice these healing forms in ways are culturally specific and still functionally the…read more.
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What is Shamanic Healing? Some Case Studies – Part One
Shamanic healing describes a particular set of healing forms. Many diverse cultures practice these healing forms in ways are culturally specific and still functionally the…read more.
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Peace, Justice, and Shamanic Activism
Traditionally shamans are activists. It is the role of the shaman to see where the people have lapsed in their ways for living well. Working…read more.
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Getting Unstuck: Finding the Vein of Gold Part Three
We all experience stuckness at some point in life and there is an art to getting out of it. It begins with changing our chemistry,…read more.
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Engaging our World in New Ways: The Yachaks of the Andes with Itzhak Beery
In 1993 the new Pachacuti, a correction of Time and Space began for the Americas. For the Kichwa people of the Andes this is a…read more.
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Are We Changing the Spirit World? With Kelley Harrell: Part Three
Our personal focus and practice must move out from inner work into ever-widening circles of collective work for our personal/spiritual transformation to be truly effective…read more.
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Moving into the Deep Water
We are born as an answer to the prayers of our ancestors. We are the medicine for our time. But what does that actually mean?…read more.
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Getting Unstuck Part Two: Seeing into your Blindness
There is an art to learning to get out of your own way when you are stuck. That art begins with stepping out of denial…read more.
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Bridges to Earth’s New Era with Will Taegel
Walking with Bears: On Bridges to Earth’s New Era, by Will Taegel, PhD, completes a trilogy including Wild Heart and The Mother Tongue, that addresses…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part Four
In preparation for this upcoming Solstice Fire Ritual, we create two arrows, Life and Death. The Trickster’s alchemy and wisdom about true sacrifice helped us…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part Three
In preparation for this upcoming Winter or Summer Solstice the Healer asked us to stir our old stories. The Warrior guided us to sort through…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part Two
What will you do differently and how will you make the desire for change in your heart real in your world today? This week we…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part One
The depth of the systemic political, financial, and social misuse and abuse of power at the core of the old story is revealed more fully…read more.
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Integrating Shamanic Peak Experiences: Part One
Shamanic peak experiences, whether experienced in ritual, ceremony, or shamanic healing, often feel as if they have changed our lives in the moment. And then,…read more.
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Self Help and Shamanism
The soul sickness experienced by many in our modern day can be remedied by living as ancient, animistic, shamanic people did. This requires creativity to…read more.
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Should I Learn Shamanic Journeying?
Shamanic journeying is a practice, like other meditative practices, that allows the practitioner to access a non-ordinary experience of sight, sound, sensation, and self…in other…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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Getting Unstuck Part One: Real Life Shamanic Practice
We all experience stuckness at some point in life. Whether we do precisely what people expect of us or choose a different path that flows…read more.
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Are We Changing the Spirit World? With Kelley Harrell: Part Two
Is there a parallel between our effect on the physical world, like climate change and polluting our elemental resources, and changes in the spirit world?…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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Heart-Centered Work in Challenging Times
In these times that require sustained action to create change simultaneously in multiple arenas: political, spiritual, social, economic, and cultural, how do we sustain ourselves.…read more.
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What is a Working Relationship with Spirit?
Working with spirit is at the heart of what defines shamanism as shamanism. What does “working with spirit” mean? What are shamans talking about when…read more.
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Are We Changing the Spirit World? With Kelley Harrell: Part One
The fixed and constant idea of the invisible world ordered in upper, middle, and lower worlds is a fundamental assumption of neoshamanism. However, if the…read more.
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Messy Initiation and Transformation Confusion
One of the great challenges and ongoing questions in contemporary shamanic practice is “what is initiation?” or more accurately “am I initiated?” It is messy…read more.
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The Fundamentals of Shamanic Practice
The shaman’s working relationship with spirit defines the practice or the healing as “shamanic”. It is the basic working relationship of shamanism and it is…read more.
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Doing the Impossible: Tools for Change
The ability to face the impossible and do it anyway is at the core of what it means to be human. At their best humans…read more.
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Solstice Fire Between Stories: Tools for Change
The solstice of 2016 gives us the opportunity to step off the wheel of the Old World whether we are enjoying winter or summer. A…read more.
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Warriorship, Shadow, and Shamanism
What actions are required to unite a nation divided? If we are not insane (and one wonders these days) then we must innovate and take…read more.
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Healers, Shadow, and Shamanism
Now that the ugly racist, sexist, violent, ignorant underbelly of America is exposed for the world to see, will we learn to heal the wounds…read more.
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Visionaries, Shadow, and Shamanism
True visionaries are a dime a dozen. Humanity is full of great ideas. What we find in short supply are those people who will actually…read more.
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Leaders, Shadow, and Shamanism
Leading is a thankless job, whether you lead a community garden or a nation. People criticize, blame, and project their unacknowledged flawed selves onto leaders…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 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 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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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.