Becoming a Shamanic Healer: A Three-Year Initiation and Professional Training
The intention of this training is to provide you with the skills, experience, and understanding you need to begin working on behalf of clients as a professional shamanic healer.
The components of the training include:
First Gathering: The Art of Divination
Successful divination lies at the heart of effective shamanic healing. During this gathering, you will become fluent in the language of your helping spirits, and refine your ability to receive and convey trustworthy, insightful, and helpful guidance.
Second Gathering: Partnering with the Natural World
This gathering will provide you with an opportunity to discover and cultivate relationships with your allies in the natural world, including the benevolent spirits of the elements, trees, stones, plants, flowers, the sun, the moon, the stars, the guardians of the land, etc. You will experience rituals for visioning, discharging, grieving, and empowerment that will be undertaken in partnership with your new allies, and can be easily adapted to meet your own clients’ needs.
Third Gathering: Becoming Transparent to the Divine
This gathering will be devoted to practices for becoming fully permeable to the divine for the purpose of bringing through healing spiritual light. You will begin by enlisting the support of a gatekeeper and body protector, and proceed with an exploration of the spirit gates, which are the portals of communication with non-ordinary reality. With that foundation firmly in place, you will learn the shamanic healing techniques of merging and transfiguration, as well as the applications of these powerful shamanic healing rituals.
Fourth Gathering: Healing Wounds from Other Lifetimes
Memories, fears, and unresolved issues from other times and places can accompany us into our current lives, making it difficult for us to be fully rooted in our present circumstances. During this gathering, you will learn how to revisit the other lives of your clients, for the purpose of uncovering and resolving what lies at the root of their current struggles, and freeing them from past entanglements.
Fifth Gathering: Removing Foreign Energy and Energetic Enmeshment
The focus of this gathering will be to restore energetic autonomy by way of extraction and cord cutting. You will learn three methods for diagnosing and removing foreign energy, and two approaches to cutting energetic cords. You will also discover the role that negative thought forms play in compounding illness, as well as the difference between feeling and sending emotions. Finally, you will experience the process of becoming inspirited as a means for prevention against foreign energies of all kinds.
Sixth Gathering: Restoring Lost Power
From a shamanic point of view, our well-being is a function of our connection to our spiritual power. When that connection becomes compromised or severed, we become vulnerable to spiritual illnesses such as soul loss and power loss. During this gathering, you will learn the symptoms and ramifications of power loss, the remedies for restoring lost power by way of soul retrieval and power animal retrieval, and preventative practices for continually strengthening your connection to your spiritual power.
Seventh Gathering: Shamanic Healing for the Dying and the Dead
Shamans tend to the spiritual well-being of the living and the dying, as well as the dead. As such, it is essential for shamanic healers to possess the appropriate skills and sensitivity for working with those who are actively in the dying process, as well as the souls of those who have already passed and are in need of shamanic support. Therein lies the focus of this gathering: to learn how to guide those who are actively passing to a peaceful crossing, and to intervene on behalf of the souls who have failed to cross over and are in need of loving assistance.
Eighth Gathering: The Practitioner-Client Relationship
As with any healing modality, the sense of safety that a client feels when working with a shamanic healer is critical to the outcome of the session. Safety is generated by strong boundaries, as well as the experience of being held in one’s process with compassion and care. In order for you as a practitioner to be fully present in those ways, you must be clear about your boundaries, committed to your own self-care, and skilled in the art of navigating the intimate relationship between a client and a healer. This gathering will enable you to take a close look at both sides of the client-practitioner relationship, with the intention of bringing awareness, clarity, and thoughtfulness to the tending of that chalice.
Ninth Gathering: Creating a Successful Shamanic Healing Practice
We will spend our final gathering laying the ground for your shamanic healing practice, which will include further clarifying your unique offering as a shamanic healer, increasing your thresholds for abundance and success, enlisting the support of the benevolent spirit of money, and calling-in the clients who will be best served by your shamanic gifts.
Dates, location and times:
The gatherings will take place at the Shamanic Healing Arts Studio in Boulder, CO. Please note that this training is non-residential, so you will be responsible for your own lodging if you come from out of town. Meals will not be provided, so please plan on bringing your own lunch, as well as your dinner when evening sessions take place. The studio is within a short drive of several places where you may also purchase meals during our breaks.
The schedule for each gathering is:
10am – 5pm on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
10am – 8pm on Saturday
10am – 3pm on Sunday
The dates for the gatherings are:
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 – Sunday, September 9th, 2012
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 – Sunday, January 20th, 2013
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 – Sunday, May 26th, 2013
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 – Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 – Sunday, January 19th, 2014
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 – Sunday, May 25th, 2014
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 – Sunday, September 7th, 2014
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015 – Sunday, January 18th, 2015
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 – Sunday, May 24th, 2015
We will schedule our eight conference calls as a group, which will take place in between the gatherings.
Pre-requisite:
Applicants must have completed an introductory shamanic journeying workshop of at least 2 days in length in order to be considered for this training.
Application process:
Please click here to complete the on-line application. You will receive a reply indicating whether or not you have been accepted into the training within one week of your application being received. If you are accepted into the training, a $300 non-refundable deposit will be requested to hold your space, which will be explained in detail in your acceptance letter.
Tuition:
Once you have been accepted into the training, a $300 non-refundable deposit will be requested to hold your space. You may pay your remaining tuition balance in one of two ways:
Thirty-three monthly payments of $220 beginning on September 1st, 2012 and ending on May 1st, 2015 using checks, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard.
OR
Three annual payments of $2,200 using checks, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard.
The first payment will be due on September 1st, 2012
The second payment will be due on September 1st, 2013
The third payment will be due on September 1st, 2014
If you choose this option, your savings will be $660 over the course of the three years.
Please note that you are responsible for purchasing your own reading materials.
