Category- Art and Shamanism Series
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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.
Category- Busting Shamanic Myths Series
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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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Is Shamanism a Path to Enlightenment?...
“The shamanic path is not a path traditionally intended to achieve enlightenment,” explains Michael Harner of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. “It has been a…read more.
Category- Energy Body Hygiene
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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.
Category- Foundations of Shamanic Practice
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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.
Category- Mastering the Art of the Shamanic Journey Series
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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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Interpreting Your Symbolic Language: Part Two...
Traditional cultures have systems or cosmologies that explain the universe. These shamanic cosmologies explain for the people where the world came from, what we are,…read more.
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How to Interpret Messages from the Invisible World...
The invisible world speaks to each of us through our own unique symbolic language. Learning to accurately interpret that language is essential to understanding your…read more.
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Crafting Shamanic Journey Questions: Part Two...
Mastering the art of shamanic journeying requires that you first learn to craft a good question that, like key in a lock, opens a realm…read more.
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How to Craft a Good Shamanic Journeying Question: Part ...
Shamanic journeying is an art that requires crafting good questions. A good question provokes an answer that addresses your problem effectively without creating new problems.…read more.
Category- The Basics of Living Well Series
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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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Truth, Delusion, and Altered States...
How do we know that the messages we receive are true? With the direct revelation offered us through a broad range of shamanic altered states…read more.
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Boundaries & Protection: The Basics of Living Well...
Conserving and protecting your energy resources are essential for you to Live Well regardless of the path you are on. Join host and shaman, Christina…read more.
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Energy Cultivation: The Basics of Living Well...
Energy Cultivation is essential to Living Well regardless of the path you are on. Whether you are engaged in religion, spirituality, shamanism or just living…read more.
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Grounding: The Basics of Living Well...
There are a few basic practices that are essential to Living Well regardless of the path you are on. Whether you are engaged in religion,…read more.
Category- The Courageous Heart Series
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The Courageous Heart, Part 4: The Vision of the Seer...
Courageous Heart Series—Part 4 of 4: The Vision of the Seer Shamanism as a spiritual practice allows us to gather and cultivate the powers of…read more.
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The Courageous Heart, Part 3: The Power of the Teacher...
Courageous Heart Series—Part 3 of 4: The Power of the Teacher You have the gathered the love of your path (Healer) and the wisdom to…read more.
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The Courageous Heart, Part 2: The Wisdom of the Warrior...
Courageous Heart Series—Part 2 of 4: The Wisdom of the Warrior So what does it take to live your life with a courageous heart? To…read more.
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The Courageous Heart, Part 1: The Love of the Healer...
Courageous Heart Series—Part 1 of 4: The Love of the Healer So what does it take to truly and fully live a life of Authenticity…read more.
Category- The Cycle of Transformation
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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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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.
Category- The Initiation Series
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Remembering True Initiation: The Initiation Series Wrap...
In the opening of Curing our Cultural Sickness: The Initiation Series on June 8th, shaman and host, Christina Pratt, presented the hypothesis that the lack…read more.
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The Initiation Series: John-Luke Edwards...
This week we resume our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness with out final guest, Reverend Shaman John-Luke Edwards, MA, PhD. It is our hope…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Gretchen Crilly McKay...
Sangoma (shaman), Gretchen Crilly McKay is our guest this week in our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness. She joins us to discuss her traditional…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Michael Dunning...
Shaman-healer, Michael Dunning is our guest this week in our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness. He joins us to discuss his exceptional initiation experiences…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Desiree Demars...
Healer, Desiree DeMars is our first guest in our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness. She will join us to discuss her own initiation experiences…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Curing Our Cultural Sickness...
This week begins a series exploring initiation and spiritual maturity. “It is my hypothesis,” says host and shaman Christina Pratt, “that the lack of meaningful…read more.
Category- The Power Series
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The Power of Joy...
In a culture that can barely sort out the distinction between wants, needs, desires, addictions and obsessions, the power of Joy remains strong, but largely…read more.
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The Power of Blessing...
“Blessings strengthen us, subtly or powerfully depending on the person giving the blessing and the strength of the blessing itself,” explains our host and shaman,…read more.
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The Power of Faith...
“Faith is freefall. It is the liquid state of grace in which all change is possible,” explains shaman and host, Christina Pratt. “Without faith we…read more.
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The Power of Gratitude...
“Gratitude as a function in life that makes things work out,” says our host, Christina Pratt. When we are without gratitude we are without perspective.…read more.
Category- War and the Soul Series
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War and the Soul: Mature Warriors with Edward Tick...
There is a journey warriors must walk to heal and truly return to them selves, to their families and to the larger community. Those who…read more.
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War and the Soul: How the Warrior Heals from War with E...
We continue in our four-part series exploring war and shamanic healing with our guest, Ed Tick, author of War and The Soul. Dr. Tick specializes…read more.
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War and the Soul: Healing Grief and Loss with Edward Ti...
We continue in our four-part series exploring war, the soul and shamanic healing with our guest, Ed Tick, author of War and The Soul. Dr.…read more.
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War and the Soul: Healing the Warrior’s Wounds with E...
War occurs in an altered state as does the wounding of body and soul. The experiences of war can only be understood from an altered…read more.
Category- Working with the Elements
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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.