Shamanic Skills
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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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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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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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The Runic Book of Days with Kelley Harrel
“Our most challenging task as humans is finding meaning in our self and the world around us,” says Kelley Harrell, author of Runic Book of…read more.
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Wild Fires, Climate Change, and Shamanism with Ana Larramendi
As the wild fires rage throughout the western North America for another season, how do we respond? The destruction is real and truly devastating, and,…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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Winds of Spirit with Renee Baribeau
Wind is an invisible force of nature that leaves an indelible mark on time and space. In ancient times the winds influenced our lives and…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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Ancestral Healing and the Spirits of the Land
Traditionally “the ancestors” are helping spirits that assist the living in creating a world the descendants are honored to inherit. Yet in our immediate past…read more.
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Life and Death: Authenticity in Shamanism
Those who engage in life and live it to its fullest, die many, many small deaths. When we live fully, learning, healing, and expressing who…read more.
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Visions and Illusions: Authenticity in Shamanism
Are your visions just illusions? Are your dreams really just fantasies? How do we know that our connection with spirit is authentic? Regardless of type…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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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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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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Shamanism is Not an Excuse to be Crazy
Being shamanic is not a pass card from the responsibility of living a grounded and sane life. Shamanic skills are actually a means by which…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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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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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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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 One
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.
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The Power of Dance: Trance Dance
The power of dance goes largely untapped in the contemporary world. When we dance we can access the power to reconcile inner conflict, to transform…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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Shamanic Journeying: Tricks of the Trade
Literally thousands of people around the world have been taught to use the shamanic journey practice to connect with their spirit help and guides since…read more.
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Working with Helping Spirits
If helping spirits are present for all of us then why are they so hard to talk to? From a shamanic perspective everyone from child…read more.
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What is a Power Animal?
What are power animals and why do they help us? Power animals are one of the many ways that shamanic peoples, ancient and contemporary alike…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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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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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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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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The Shamanic Journey and Direct Revelation: Part Two
The shamanic journey allows the journeyer to receive direct revelation from Spirit. A direct connection with spirit is the birth right of every human and…read more.
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The Shamanic Journey and Direct Revelation: Part One
The shamanic journey allows the journeyer to receive direct revelation from Spirit. A direct connection with spirit is the birth right of every human and…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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Intimate Apprenticeship with Paula Denham
“It is your commitment to be in your highest level of integrity, to teach what you are and not what you want to be.” So…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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What Weather Teaches with Nan Moss and David Corbin
“We are passionate about using shamanic skills and practices to become fully human, about approaching and manifesting those potentials that human beings represent,” say Nan…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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Working Effectively with Spirit (II)
This week host and shaman, Christina Pratt, answers listener’s questions about working effectively with spirit. At the core of shamanism is the individual’s direct relationship…read more.
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Your Shadow Self and the Divine
Your Shadow Self is an important aspect of who you are. Engage it well and it will show you your greatest assets and deepest passions.…read more.
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Protection: How to with Betsy Bergstrom
How do you protect yourself, even on your really bad days? How do you protect the energy of your life, so that it is not…read more.
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Your Most Powerful Ally and Protection with Betsy Bergstrom
This week shaman, Betsy Bergstrom, returns to continue our discussion of shamanism and Heart Centered Shamanic Depossession. Bergstrom specializes in unraveling thoughtforms and curses 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.