Working with Space and Spirits of the Land
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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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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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The Way of the Leopard with John Lockley
John Lockley is one of the first white men in recent history to become a fully initiated Xhosa Sangoma, the traditional healers of South Africa,…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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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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What Does it Mean to Live in Your Body?
The strength of the earth element is seen in our relationships with our selves, our intimate partners, and our community. It speaks to what it…read more.
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Joyful Manifestation, Summer and Shamanism
Do you find yourself in mid-summer grumpy about the weather, bored, and facing a life empty of joy, purpose, and the radiance of your true…read more.
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Spring: Dreaming and Manifesting
Each season has its own spirit and they all have profound influence on us, regardless of our ignorance to their presence. Modern people who live…read more.
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The Heart of Fear
Everything has a heart, even fear. In our chronic, cultural avoidance of fear we miss the heart of the matter and in that miss the…read more.
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Grace in Transition
Grace in transition does not come easily to modern people who live in the climate controlled illusion that they have mastered nature, wilderness, and the…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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Predatory Energy: Children and Shamanism Part 4
Little frightens us as parents more than the fear of someone abusing our children. There are predatory people in our current culture. In this reality,…read more.
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Children and Shamanism: Teens
Shamanism is misunderstood, occasionally maligned, and still considered to be on the fringe even in alternative circles. Yet contemporary practitioners remain undaunted and the range…read more.
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Shamanic Life with Kids
“Children arrive animists,” says author and shaman, S. Kelley Harrell. “They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come…read more.
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Children and Shamanism: Infants
Sacred space is created for ritual and ceremony, but rarely for conception. For a human there are few actions as sacred as the creation 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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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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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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Creating an Outstanding Life with Alex Stark
What steps must you take to live in harmony with nature, culture, community, and the path of your heart? What overlooked assumptions about space and…read more.
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Return to the Mother Tongue with Will Taegel
We must engage intimately with our wild heart to participate in shaping a new direction for humanity on Earth. Only through an intimate relationship with…read more.
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Restoring Spirits of the Land with David Franklin Farkas
What do we do when things stop flourishing? What do we do when houses don’t sell, businesses fail, and illness keeps cycling through the family?…read more.
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Working with the Spirits of the Land
Shamanism is the practice of direct communication with the Divine lifeforce present in all things. The purpose of this communication is to cultivate and maintain…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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Shamanic Shrines and Creating Community
We live in sacred space all the time, everyday, but most of us do not know how to acknowledge it or to use it. By…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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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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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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Why We Work with the Elements
The Elements—Earth, Air, Fire and Water—are true nourishment for our spirit. This is equally true for three-element and five-element systems also found in shamanic cultures…read more.