About Julie | Julie M Kramer

Julie has been practicing shamanism since 2000 and is the founder of the Shamanic Healing Arts Studio in Boulder, CO. She divides her time between tending to her private practice, and facilitating shamanic trainings nationally and internationally.

Julie believes that everyone has benevolent spirit guides, and anyone can learn the technique of shamanic journeying in order to work in partnership with them. Her reverence for the ancient art and practice of shamanism, as well as her devotion to her helping spirits, infuse her sessions, trainings and tours.

Julie’s areas of particular focus include: life purpose, issues of empowerment, the resolution of trauma, past-life healings, divination, mediumship, facilitating initiations and rites of passage, and working with uniquely gifted and sensitive people.

Julie’s Discovery of Shamanism

In her own words, Julie describes her 11 year relationship with shamanism, beginning with her initial introduction in 2000:

I was introduced to shamanism in 2000, when I attended a Foundation for Shamanic Studies “Basic” workshop taught by Leslie Conton. At the time, I was living on Cortes Island, British Columbia, and working in the registration office of a gorgeous retreat center called Hollyhock, where the workshop took place.

To my surprise and delight, during that weekend workshop I successfully established contact with my spirit guides using the technique of shamanic journeying. It was a revelation. Those initial experiences confirmed the existence of benevolent beings I had felt and sensed around me throughout my life but had never interacted with directly. Prior to that weekend, while I was certain of their existence, I lacked any evidence to substantiate my conviction.

Learning how to journey provided me with a framework for understanding and cultivating my interest in the unseen. It was the missing piece that I had been seeking to retrieve since I was a child. That short workshop catalyzed a shift in the direction of my life that finds me now, 11 years later, steeped in what has become my spiritual and professional home. While I wasn’t fully cognizant of it at the time, my introduction to the path of shamanism clarified my life’s purpose: to work in partnership with compassionate spirits to generate healing and transformation.

I have since discovered that working with the helping spirits is both dynamic and unpredictable. During the last ten years, I have routinely found myself at the edge of the known territory of my experience and training only to be shown an adaptation of a familiar technique that reveals a whole new layer of information. That is why shamanism is known as “the path of Direct Revelation”. My spirit guides habitually lead me into those unknown places to teach me new processes for inquiry and healing, which I love to share with others. Those encounters have convinced me of the enduring nature of this work; it has continuously evolved in order to meet the changing needs, challenges and issues of humans for tens of thousands of years.

In fact, the view in shamanism is that there is no endpoint to our shamanic explorations; rather, as we continue to practice, more and more veils simply fall away. That certainly describes my experience thus far, and I rejoice in the knowledge that I will never outgrow this path. It will continue to grow me and I’ll continue to grow through it, as long as I continue practicing.

My heartfelt aspiration is to support others in connecting directly with the wisdom, unconditional love and indescribable grace of the helping spirits. I feel that this is our universal birthright: to live a life infused with – rather than separate from – the divine.

Julie’s Shamanic Training

Below is a listing of the formal shamanic trainings that Julie has completed:

2000

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies Basic Workshop
Taught by: Leslie Conton
Location: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, B.C., Canada

2002

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies Basic Workshop
Taught by: Julia Darnell
Location: Boulder, CO

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies Soul Retrieval Training
Taught by: Sandra Ingerman
Location: Sunrise Springs, Santa Fe, NM

2003

Sandra Ingerman’s Medicine for the Earth Training
Taught by: Sandra Ingerman
Location: Sunrise Springs, Santa Fe, NM

2004

Betsy Bergstrom’s Compassionate Depossession and Curse Unraveling (Level I)
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Boulder, CO

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies Extraction Training
Taught by: Dana Robinson
Location: New Orleans, LA

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies Death, Dying and Beyond Training
Taught by: Julia Darnell
Location: Boulder, CO

Betsy Bergstrom’s Compassionate Depossession and Curse Unraveling (Level II)
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Santa Rosa, CA

2004 – 2005

Sandra Ingerman’s Two Year Teacher Training Program
Taught by: Sandra Ingerman
Location: Sunrise Springs, Santa Fe, NM

2006

Ann Drucker’s Extraction Training
Taught by: Ann Drucker
Location: Boulder, CO

2007 – 2008

Betsy Bergstrom’s Wheel of Life Two Year Middle World Training
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Still Meadow, Portland, OR

Workshops Julie Has Facilitated

Julie began facilitating workshops in 2003. Below is a complete summary of the workshops she has led from 2003 to the present.