Shamanic Healing
Shamanic healing interventions offer powerful avenues for directly accessing, clearing, healing and re-informing old traumas, souls contracts, ancestral patterns and other powerful energies imprinted on our luminous energy field, sometimes for many lifetimes. While healing is a journey, shamanic sessions seek to find the imbalances at their root cause, rather than working backwards from the presenting issues. This by its very nature, tends to promote deep, lasting, transformation shifts that help us heal more quickly. Shamanic healing is also focused on restoring personal power, and removing unwanted energies that contribute to our loss of power.
It is up to each person to set their clear intention and commitment for their own personal healing journey. As a practitioner, I am here to support you in honoring that commitment to yourself. By creating and holding a safe and sacred space, the luminous body can transmute heavy energies back to sources of light and power. Our entire being is then informed in new ways, leading us to new levels of awareness, greater states of health and well-being. As we are sourced more and more from our wholeness, and less and less from our wounds, we step more fully into our personal power and potential.
During sessions, you remain fully clothed, and lie on a massage table, or sometimes work is done on the floor or the ground if we are working outdoors. There is gentle touch to the body for some of the work, and other forms of energy work and body work may be integrated into your session. The work is always conducted with the deepest respect for you and your process, in the safety, protection and grace of Sacred Space, where Spirit is invited to work on your behalf.
Illuminations
Many of my shamanic sessions include an Illumination – working with one of the stones from my mesa – and with your luminous energy field, and the Luminous Lineages, to deeply clear one or more chakras that is holding “hucha” heavy energies. This gentle but powerful process, can clear lifetimes of energy sludge from your chakras. It’s called an Illumination, because when the clearing is complete, the chakra is “illuminated” – reinformed with Divine Light. When I begin an illumination on a chakra, it is most often spinning counter clockwise – a sign of a clogged, blocked chakra. When the illumination is complete all the chakras are spinning clockwise, full of energy and light, once again sourcing the luminous and physical bodies with life force energy.
Extractions
Our luminous body and chakras do an amazing job combusting a lot of energies that enter our energy field. However, there are some energies that are too dense for the luminous body to transmute and they must be manually extracted. Often the location of these dense energies are places the luminous and/or physical body is holding memories of past physical traumas….even from other lifetimes. Energies from toxic relationships, “curses”, psychic attacks, etc. can also manifest as energetic objects in the luminous field. Physical ailments sometimes manifest in these areas…..and then disappear following the extraction.
Another type of extraction is that of entities or spiritual intrusions. A lost soul, a close relative who died suddenly or unconsciously, or a spirit caught between the worlds, will sometimes attach themselves to another luminous body, instead of completing their journey toward the Light. They not only take up energetic residence, but can begin to impact the psychological and emotional well being of their “host”. This phenomenon is actually quite common in our culture, so I always assess if these energies are present. The extraction process is quite gentle as the entity is invited to leave the luminous field and to come into a beautiful crystal. Following the session work, I go outside with the crystal and call on Spirit to escort the entity back to its true home.
The third kind of extraction work offered supports clearing of deeply imbedded energies often related to ancestral wounding and repeating patterns and themes in one’s lifetime, or within families…..i.e. the same kind of event, bad luck, illness, etc. occurring generation to generation….grandmother to daughter to granddaughter. Again, because this work is done at the level of energy and Spirit, these “inherited” energies can be accessed, cleared and/or transmuted back to Light and pure essence. It’s not unusual for immediate and sometimes dramatic shifts to happen once these deeply held patterns are cleared.
Retrieving Our Sources of Power
There is hardly a person alive in today’s world who has not suffered some form of soul loss and thus loss of their true “power” – power to manifest, to live healthy, abundant, productive and meaningful lives. We are culturally conditioned to believe we are “less than” for a whole host of reasons. Certain cultural paradigms have kept entire populations repressed and “powerless” sometimes for many hundreds of years. Certainly our ancestors experienced soul loss, and many people, without realizing it, have experienced some form of trauma that has resulted in soul loss.
When under great duress, soul parts will actually leave the body, to avoid the full impact of the trauma. That protects the soul part, and leaves the individual feeling what I sometimes call feeling like “there’s a hole in the soul”…..hollow, not complete, something is missing. Chronic depression, chronic fatigue, eating disorders, addictive behaviors, inability to manifest goals/dreams and low self-esteem are some signs of possible soul loss.
Often the soul part does not come back on its own…it must be found, retrieved and returned to the individual (if it is willing to come back.) Sometimes, the loss of power is related to the loss of our power animal and protector in this life. (It’s interesting to note, that although we may think shamanism is some old world practice we have no connection to, the first things we give a newborn baby are a stuffed animal and a rattle – two fundamental tools of the shamanic healer!)
Soul Retrieval
Soul retrieval is one of the core shamanic practices in which the shaman journeys on behalf of an individual with the intent of finding, retrieving and restoring soul energies which have left the person – often due to some kind of trauma. During a soul retrieval, I will not only gather information about your soul’s journey, but I will bring back energies waiting to come to you and restore your spiritual power. These may include a part of your soul energy, a medicine object of power, and another power animal ally. As you work with these soul parts and form a relationship with them, you cultivate your personal power.
It is very comforting and empowering to have your power animal and other soul parts retrieved and to form a relationship with these spiritual allies. They have many healing gifts and much wisdom to offer you.
During a soul retrieval, I journey with my power animals to the Lower World. If I receive permission from the Keeper of the Lower World to journey on behalf of the individual, I will then journey to the four chambers of the soul to gain information, retrieve pieces of the soul’s essence that has left due to trauma or other reasons, and bring back additional sources of energy and power to assist the individual.
I visit the chamber of wounds, where I gain information about karmic or ancestral themes that are still impacting the soul; I journey to the Chamber of Contracts, where I
am shown a “soul contract” which no longer serves the individual and can be re-written; I journey to the Chamber of Grace where there is usually an aspect of the soul
waiting to return and be re-integrated; I journey to the Chamber of Treasures and ask for a medicine object for this individual and before I return I ask for a power animal. I journey back to this reality and blow the retrieved energies into the appropriate chakras. I journal the soul retrieval and give the notes and follow up homework to the client and discuss the integration work we would do in a follow up session. During the journey I ask questions and get some information for the person I am working with. I also support the individual in reclaiming and integrating these energies through various “soul work” assignments and processes such as journaling, “dialoguing with soul parts”, ceremony, creating an altar, etc.. As shamanic practitioner, I can retrieve these lost soul parts, and medicine gifts, but it is the client who has the blessing and responsibility to nurture and benefit from the wisdom and healing gifts of his or her own soul.
Soul Contracts
When journeying to the Chamber of Contracts it is not unusual to find a poorly worded soul contract – which can be thought of as a deeply held unconscious belief. This soul contract still “lives” in the luminous energy field of the soul, and therefore still has power. I can override our conscious intent and prevent us from moving ahead in our lives. Re-writing old and outdated soul contracts is a very powerful and concrete opportunity to reclaim a piece of our lost power.
Shamanic Journey Work
As a shamanic practitioner I will often journey to the Middle, Lower or Upper Worlds on behalf of the person I’m working with, to gain information and healing assistance from the compassionate spirit teachers in these realms. The journey will have a clear intent and purpose and I often teach the person coming to see me, how to journey for themselves – Another step on the path of re-empowerment – our own personal, direct access to our spiritual teachers and power animals.