SHAMANIC THERAPIST TRAINING
This experiential 3-day training equips healing practitioners with a deeper awareness of non-ordinary states and how to use the energies of shamanism in their work with clients.
Comprehensive course notes included. Some prior knowledge and experience with intuitive states is an advantage. Certification is awarded upon completion of training.
During our experiential 3 day journey, we will learn about:
Power Retrieval
In the process of going through life, a person may lose some of his or her personal spiritual power. This will cause symptoms like chronic fatigue, a run of bad luck, chronic illness. The shaman will attempt to restore the client's power, usually by reconnecting the client to a former source of power, often in the form of a power animal or totem through personal, or guided journeys.
Soul Retrieval
When traumatic events happen, a portion of our vital essence (soul) can become separated and lost. This can happen in both physical trauma (accidents, anaesthesia, abuse) and emotional trauma (separation, loss of love, abuse). Sometimes we even (unconsciously) "give away" our vital essence, or unwittingly participate in someone else taking it. The shaman attempts to locate these lost fragments of vital essence and determine if it's safe for them to be brought back at this time. If so, the shaman will bring back the client's lost essence, or "soul parts". This work is often combined with power animal retrieval.
Extraction
If someone is low on personal power, or has suffered some soul loss, they are "open" for opportunistic spiritual intrusions to enter. Localised physical (or emotional) pain, with no particular physical reason, is a common symptom. The shaman will, with the help of his or her helpers, find and "extract" these spiritual intrusions. They are usually returned to nature, where they should be.
Depossession
Similar to a spiritual intrusion, the spirit of a deceased person that didn't "go on to the light" can attach to someone. Usually these spirits are not malicious -- just confused. They are looking for a nice warm body to live in, like they used to. To the host, the symptoms will be things like a sudden change in personality, a change in desires, or addictive behaviour. What is sometimes thought of as "demonic possession" is often just the fear carried by the possession being (perhaps a frightened child) being experienced by the host. The shaman will contact the possessing entity and bring it enough light and love that it will understand its situation. Then the shaman will help it to heal and go to the light.
Divination
This is where the shaman will attempt to get information for a client from the spirits by using traditional and natural ways of 'seeing', from clouds, water, smoke, stones, throwinhg the bones and other methods.
Psychopomp (Healing the Dead)
One of the most important jobs of the shaman is to help people through the dying process, then help them afterwards to be sure they "cross over", or "go on to the light". In addition to the shaman's clients and their families, this sort of work is also done to clear "haunted" houses and land. Sometimes this work is called "psychopomp", which means to conduct the soul.
Lucy Baker has studied shamanism since her first experience of nature telepathy and spirit rescue work as a child in 1972. In 1996, after a long apprenticeship that involved working with celtic, african, native american and global shamans, she was formally recognised as Shaman in 1997. Today, she incorporates her shamanism within the areas of hypnotherapy, healing, training and vortex work and teaches her methods worldwide.
