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The power of
Shamanism

Shamanism is an ancient, universal practice intended to bring practitioners into contact with expanded, unseen, and non-ordinary realms of reality. Through this state of expanded consciousness, we can request divine guidance in order to effect healing on levels from the personal to the planetary. In this presentation, Sandra will share shamanic teachings intended to help you navigate turbulent times and step toward states of rebirth and illumination. By touching the unseen dimensions, you will discover sources of love, light, health, and healing that are ever present and always available. Join her to learn:

• How to empower yourself by bringing the sacred into your everyday life
• Practical ceremonial tools for manifesting blessings, breaking old patterns, and healing the wounds of your past
• How to discover a deeper sense of reverence and connection with the natural world

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“Unwinding Your Pain”
Sandra will lead a ceremony intended to contact helping, compassionate spirits who will assist you in unwinding a stuck pattern or past trauma.

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is a world-renowned teacher of shamanism who has shared her wisdom for more than 30 years. She has taught workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution with spiritual methods. In addition to teaching, Sandra has published 10 books and eight audio programs, including Walking in Light, Soul Retrieval, and Shamanic Meditations.

Throughout time, great spiritual teachers and healers have answered the call of Spirit. It is critical that we each answer this call as well by journeying from the head (or intellect) to the heart of compassion and inner wisdom. Spirit is the undeniable voice within that goes by many different names, including God. In this session, Mandaza examines what each of us must do in our lives to respond to this imperative call. Join him to discover:

• The source of chaos in ourselves and in the world
• How Spirit calls each of us in unique way—and why we must ask Spirit what is wanted of us
• Going into nature and other approaches to draw us closer to Spirit
• The necessity of all genders, ages, and ethnicities to see through the eyes of others

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“Making Offerings to Spirits in the Natural World”
Mandaza shares a prayer of thanksgiving to the elements, the ancestors, and great spirits of the unseen world.

Mandaza Kandemwa was born a Svikiro of the Shona people in Zimbabwe. As a Svikiro, Mandaza has always lived as a channel and carrier of multifarious spirits of the earth and water. In his current role as an internationally traveling peacekeeper, Mandaza acts as a vessel for the spirits and teaches audiences to become “living prayers” in service of the One Spirit that exists in all things.

“As the darkest dark rises, so the lightest light rises to meet it,” says Andrew Steed. In this session, Andrew encourages us all to stand in our Battle Truth, to be in our hearts, and to be the beacons of hope that will light the way to co-creating the evolution of all worlds. “Embodying a medicine way requires courage and dedication,” he teaches. Join him to explore how each of us can take responsibility for being the change we have been waiting for. Here you'll learn more about:

• The difference between Battle Truth and War Rage
• Taking responsibility through responding rather than reacting
• How to move from our heads to our hearts
• Ways to “make love to the land”
• The difference between being in Sovereignty with the land rather than being in dominion over it

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“The Power of a Reclaimed Tale”
Andrew Steed creatively reweaves a life story showing how we can move from being a victim, stuck in the mire of a challenging story, to being the hero of our own tale.

Andrew Steed is an inspirational speaker, shamanic practitioner, storyteller, and guide to sacred travel. Since 1996 he has been working internationally in the USA, Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Ireland, and the UK, and has led over 50 pilgrimages in the British Isles and Ireland for personal and planetary healing. He also offers two-year training programs on the indigenous medicine of the Celtic people.

C.G. Jung, the pioneering analytical psychologist, spent time visiting shamans and medicine men in East Africa and in the American Southwest. He came to see the shaman's heart-path as an age-old prototype of the path of individuation, centering on four major archetypes—The Archetype of the Wounded Healer, the Archetype of the Self, the Archetypal Shadow, and the Archetypal Feminine. In this session, C. Michael “Mikkal” Smith shows you how these archetypes shed light on the ways you can clarify your life calling, and live an openhearted and earth-honoring life. Join him to explore:

• The four major archetypes of the Wounded Healer and their importance in daily life
• How your own heart and your Guardian Spirit can help you navigate the paths of shamanic healer and/or your own individuation
• How the Archetype of You (Jung's Self Archetype) lives in your heart and can be accessed
• How the Wounded Healer Initiation is an ongoing process, including ongoing Shadow work

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“Invocation of Your Guardian Spirit”
A guided journey for finding and working with your Guardian Spirit.

“The Four Acts of Power”
You will learn the Four Acts of Power for creating a life you really want and feel called to, as invited by your strongest Archetype.

C. Michael “Mikkal” Smith, PhD, is a practicing clinical psychologist with a certificate in analytical psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute. He is the author of Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue and Psychotherapy and the Sacred. As an initiate in both the Cherokee and Attis-Quechua medicine traditions, he has been conducting workshops on the intersection of Jung and Amazonian shamanism for more than five years.

Recapitulation is a Toltec tool that enables us to reclaim our energy from the past. Energetically speaking, we look like colanders because we're unable to hold our energy for ourselves. This constant leakage renders us reactive and vulnerable to energy outside of ourselves. To be "at choice" and present in our lives, we need to learn how to recognize, reclaim, and store this vital life energy for ourselves. In this session, HeatherAsh shares the method of Recapitulation to help you retain your energy and reclaim your inner fire. Here you will discover:

• Why every agreement you make takes energy
• Why you have less energy to make choices in the present if your agreements are bound in the past
• How to work with energy in new ways—a key element of shamanic work
• Setting clear intentions around recapitulation work in order to channel energy efficiently

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“Claim Your Strength and Ignite Your Will”
A guided practice from Warrior Goddess Meditations that engages a role model to help you see yourself from a place of power.

HeatherAsh Amara's teachings celebrate and draw from a variety of world traditions, but find their foundation in her apprenticeship in the Toltec lineage of don Miguel Ruiz. She is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from each tradition she encounters. She is the author of The Warrior Goddess Way and The Toltec Path of Transformation.

From his grandfather don Maximo, Fredy "Puma" Quispe Singona received the teachings of the lineage of the rainbow, a synthesis of ancient Andean traditions. In this talk, he shares how to work with the energies of Pachamama (Mother Earth) and the Apus (mountain spirits of cosmic origin) in order to live in communion with the spirits of the earth and mountains. Puma describes sacred breathing practices, shares how to pray with the stones and crystals of your mesa (personal altar or medicine bundle), and discusses the healing power of the sacred plant medicines ayahuasca and huachuma. Highlights include:

• How ancient Andean spiritual practices can bring healing to humanity
• Ways that breath and intention can help us live in ceremony
• The three worlds of the serpent, puma, and condor

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“Limpia: Practice for Transforming Heavy Energy into Light Energy”
Puma explains how to use the essence of plants and flowers for healing to create communion with the spirit world.

Fredy “Puma” Quispe Singona was trained by his grandfather don Maximo in mastery of the ancient Andean forms of shamanic ceremony. In addition to being a spiritual leader to the community of Chinchero, Puma travels the world sharing Andean culture. He is the cofounder of Cusi Huayna, a youth organization focused on strengthening communities through the celebration of traditional dance, story, and song.

For the vast majority of the human journey on earth, our ancestors embraced earth-based spiritual practices that today we call “shamanism.” This way of experiencing the world through the heart instead of the thinking mind arose effortlessly in response to the spirits, powers, and natural cycles that our ancestors lived with in natural communion. In this talk, Mitchell will explore the spiritual support that is available to us when we stop reinforcing our ego-story and begin to find our natural place in the whole of life. Join him to learn more about:

• Exploring your unique medicine in the world
• Encountering the world through the awake heart
• Creating earth-honoring practices for reciprocity and balance

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“Heart Council Medicine Practice”
This guided practice is designed to explore and become familiar with the space of the heart, and to work with three different beings—a mountain, an owl, and an ancestor—as a way of experiencing the medicine available to us as earth-dwelling beings of spirit in human form.

Mitchell Clute has been a producer and editor at Sounds True for more than 15 years. During this time, he's worked and studied with some of most accomplished figures on the spiritual and shamanic paths, including Adyashanti, Sandra Ingerman, and don Oscar Miro-Quesada. He is the host of Year of Ceremony, a monthly online program featuring a different shamanic teacher hosting a new ceremony on each full moon.

“In these days of rampant crisis,” says Dr. Malidoma Somé, “it is very important that we begin to think in terms of the indigenous wisdom we have forgotten.” According to this renowned teacher of African shamanic wisdom, the challenges of today can be traced back to our disconnection from our Ancestors and the great knowledge they can bestow upon us. Here Malidoma describes the nature of Ancestors, why it is essential we connect with them, and how this rekindled relationship can heal both you and the world at large. Join Elder Malidoma to learn:

• How we can cultivate strong relationships and bonds with the Ancestors
• The importance of setting up an altar and regular communication with the otherworld
• How to resolve our own misgivings about contacting our Ancestors
• Why inner authority is critical to successful communication with the Ancestors

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“The Otherworld and Us”
This PDF article offers a brief explanation of why we have such a fascination with the otherworld and what it has to teach us.

Malidoma Somé, PhD, is an initiated elder and representative of his home village in Burkina Faso. After earning PhDs from the Sorbonne and Brandeis University, Malidoma has traveled the world sharing the wisdom of his lineage, which emphasizes the power inherent in contacting the invisible worlds of spirit and our Ancestors. He is the author of Of Water and the Spirit and The Healing Wisdom of Africa.

Speaking from his own experience following a cancer diagnosis, Claude Poncelet explores many aspects of how shamanic practice can be used in the process of self-healing. Labeling his approach “partnering with cancer,” Claude explains a multifaceted effort that focuses on regular contact with helping spirits. Claude also ruminates on the power and responsibility of self-healing among shamanic, spiritual, and energy healers. Join Claude to explore:

• How daily guidance from spirits can greatly broaden the meaning of and approaches to self-healing
• How the foundations of a shamanic practice—such as awareness that everything is sacred, has spirit, and is interconnected—can reveal the multidimensional nature of self-healing
• For shamanic and other healers, how to enhance the guidance provided to patients during and after a healing session

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“Guided Inquiry on Self-Healing”
In this inquiry, Claude guides you in examining your approach to physical, emotional, and mental self-healing, exploring your judgments and underlying assumptions about healing.

Claude Poncelet, PhD, trained and worked as a physicist before becoming a shamanic practitioner and teacher. His work points the way toward a path where science and shamanic knowledge are one and the same. In addition to facilitating shamanic workshops across the world, Claude has taught in universities and served on two presidential commissions on sustainable development. He is the author of The Shaman Within.

In traditional shamanic cultures, ancestors offer the living the strength to do right work, the wisdom to know what that work is, and the protection to do it safely. Yet you may feel disconnected from your ancestors. They may have handed down unresolved patterns of addiction, abuse, dementia, and other issues you struggle with—leaving you resistant to the idea of connecting with them at all. In this session Christina explores how you may learn to work with true ancestral helping spirits known as the Luminous Ones, so you can connect with the power of your legacy no matter your lingering family issues. Join her to learn how to:

• Connect with the Luminous Ones in your own ancestral lines
• Distinguish the difference between ghosts and ancestors
• Draw effectively on the ancestral helping spirits for protection from the burden of the unresolved issues of your relations (ghosts)
• Build an ancestral altar and work with it for power, wisdom, and protection

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“Engaging the Luminous Ones”
The Luminous Ones are humanity's ancient ancestors, so close to the Source and long-steeped in the collective wisdom of humanity that they glow from within. This guided visualization connects you to their realm and a spokesperson to begin your potent relationship with your true ancestral helping spirits.

Christina Pratt is a shamanic healer, author, and teacher, and founder of Last Mask Center. She is the author of the two-volume set An Encyclopedia of Shamanism and host of the international, live-Internet radio show Why Shamanism Now. For over 25 years she has performed effective, transformative shamanic healings for individuals, families, and communities using traditional forms of shamanism like soul retrieval and cleansings. She is pioneering new shamanic techniques to initiate our young and to heal our ancestral lines.

In the Kamasqa curandero tradition of northern Peru, the seven principal Pleiadian stars are considered sources and protectors of abundance. Known as Kullka or Qollqa, meaning "storehouse" or “silo” in Quechua, the Pleiades have been revered by Andean shamanic peoples as a repository of divine wisdom since time immemorial. In this session, don Oscar will guide you in invoking this source of power and insight in order to establish sacred reciprocity (ayni). Please bring your favored ceremonial object for the fullness of your shamanic vocation. Here you will receive:

• Three star-based mythic legends related to our human origins
• A guided ritual invocation in Quechua and English intended to awaken one's luminous nature
• An initiatory transmission of Pachakuti Mesa Tradition star wisdom medicine

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“Initiation: Vision Journey to Chavin”
In this guided journey, don Oscar invites us to explore the ancient Peruvian shamanic culture of Chavin de Huantar in this excerpt from the Sounds True program, Healing Light.

don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru and originator of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism. He is an OAS Fellow in Ethnopsychology, founder of The Heart of the Healer Alliance, and coauthor of Lessons in Courage. He also created the audio learning program Healing Light. He dedicates his life to the global revitalization of shamanic awareness as a means of restoring sacred trust between humankind and the natural world.

Shamanic practices need not consist of elaborate ceremony, special garments, or one-on-one healings to be experienced. Pixie Lighthorse reveals that when we translate shamanism into what she calls “thought medicine,” it becomes a practice that has the power to reshape our relationships to everything around us. “Approaching existence as a fluid conversation with one's environment of plants, animals, geology, and elements brings a grounded reality to otherwise esoteric concepts,” says Pixie. “If we know how to listen, nature speaks volumes about how to live synergistically with all things in ordinary language.” Join her to discover:

• Journeywalking for grounded connection
• Understanding earth as a mirror
• Collaboration with helper spirits to raise energy
• Celebration of seasonal shifts
• Honoring the medicine

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“Intention-Setting with Horse”
Travel with Horse as a helper spirit to open up the portal to dreams, unbridled courage, and highly sensitive attunement to the gifts that both energize and serve.

Pixie Lighthorse is a shamanic teacher and author whose work focuses on earth medicine, humanity's relationship with nature, and bringing a feminine sensibility to spiritual seeking. Her books include Prayers of Honoring and Boundaries & Protection. Pixie has taught more than 40 courses on ancestral wisdom, plant and animal studies, and shamanic painting.

“Consciousness is our true being,” teaches Alonso del Río. With this insight, we realize the importance of knowing the difference between the “mind” and “consciousness”—especially since the mind is the creator of society, and society in turn shapes the mind. In this session, a master of indigenous plant medicines examines how we can heal our minds and bring them into alignment with true consciousness. Join Alonso to learn about:

• The importance of self-awareness
• Why self-knowledge leads to true happiness
• How to live in a freer way
• How to free yourself from mental and emotional patterns

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“The Four Altars Guided Practice”
This guided practice, created by Alonso del Río and read in English translation by Katie Williamson, contains a complete sequence for activating the chakras. Written instructions are also provided to help master the meditation sequence.

Alonso del Río is a healer in the Peruvian Amazon tradition and a pioneer in the study of sacred plants. One of the first Westerners to investigate the power of traditional plant medicines to expand consciousness, Alonso has been devoted to their close investigation for more than 40 years. He is the author of Tawantinsuyo 5.0, as well as the founder of the Ayahuasca Ayllu Healing Center.

In this session, Yeye Teish will introduce you to the beliefs and spiritual practices of the African diaspora. She will relate some of the myths and folktales that guide the paths taken by shamans, healers, priests, and visionary artists. Here you will be guided to embrace the elements, seek out your plant allies, and embody the power of your animal kindred. You’ll also explore practical ways to apply this knowledge as a medicine for healing the problems of these trying times. Here Luisah will teach about:

• The guiding myths and folktales of the African diaspora
• The talents and responsibilities of shamans, priests, and healers
• How to identify and relate to plant, animal, and elemental allies
• Exercises to embrace the visionary artist within
• Methods for sharing your experience in community

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“The First Two Stars: A ‘Returned Tale’ of Creation”
Luisah shares insights on the power of ”capital-M“ Myth-making, storytelling, and the importance of reclaiming or ”returning“ these tales for the sake of healing ourselves, our culture, and our world.

Luisah Teish—known by her students as “Yeye”—is an artist, activist, and storyteller who is known internationally for her renditions of folktales from across the African diaspora. Her book Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals is considered a classic of women's spirituality. Luisah teaches workshops, facilitates conferences, and directs ritual theater worldwide.

Inside all of us flow many kinds of energy. For Greenland-based shaman Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, one of the most powerful forms of this internal energy is intention. Through applied intention, anyone can change the world. In this session, Angaangaq will share the ancient teachings, chants, and ceremonies of his people to help you to find inner balance, to become more aware of yourself, and hone the energy of your intention. According to Angaangaq, “Peace, love, and beauty can begin only inside the heart of each of us by changing our intention consciously.” Highlights include:

• Learning to access the power of intention
• How your intention affects the world around you
• Ancient teachings for inner balance

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“Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq Honoring His Grandmother Aanakasaa”
After a 15-hour spiritual walk around the Aajuitsup Tasia (Long Lake) in Greenland, Angaangaq arrives at the remains of his ancestor's settlement, honoring his grandmother Aanakasaa with a song.

Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq is an elder, teacher, healer, and shaman native to Greenland. He was raised in a remote village in Greenland. His work, Melting the Ice in the Heart of Man, has taken him to five continents and over 68 countries around the world. He has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on climate change, environmental, and indigenous issues. He has represented the Arctic people in the United Nations General Assembly and he frequently speaks before governments, and at universities, forums, and summits.

This presentation will consider the relationship with your primary spirit teacher, the source of your intuitive wisdom—what is known as your Higher Self or Oversoul. In this session, Hank Wesselman brings you wisdom from the powerful tradition of Hawaiian shamanism to help you engage with the Oversoul. Here you will learn about how you can protect yourself from unhealthy spirit attachments by earthbound souls who are of lower vibration, while remaining open and compassionate to all. Join Hank to explore:

• The nature of your spiritual self-aspect, who sourced you into your current embodiment
• The relationship between the “spirit teacher” and your “spirit guide,” as well as who your guides really are
• A meeting with your spirit teacher in human form for learning about how you may protect yourself when doing shamanic work

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“The Bowl of Light”
In this chapter of Dr. Wesselman's book, he recounts the story of a powerful gift and teaching he received from a highly revered Hawaiian elder, Hale Makua.

Hank Wesselman, PhD, is a paleoanthropologist and shamanic teacher who has worked with noted anthropologists investigating the mysteries of human origins in Africa. His books include Visionseeker, Spiritwalker, and The Bowl of Light.

When we start our spiritual journey, we are oriented externally. We learn that the answers are “out there.” Here Flordemayo advises that we not look for outside experiences. The answers, as it turns out, are within each of us. In this session, she will remind you that we often need spiritual guidance and teaching to help us listen to our intuition; after all, we are born knowing, and we all have the capacity to dream and translate dreams. Join Flordemayo to learn:

• Stories of Flordemayo's Guatemala childhood and visionary experiences
• The practice of sacred bathing with herbs
• The importance of dreams, visions, and inner guidance

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“Water Blessing”
In this guided practice, Flordemayo shows how we can suffuse the simplest acts with gratitude and love.

“Follow the Golden Path”
In this video, Flordemayo shares the visions that have led her on her path as a healer and protector of the earth, speaking of a golden era that humans are just entering as we begin to understand ourselves as cosmic beings.

Flordemayo is a Curandera Espiritu, or “healer of divine spirit.” Born in the highlands of Nicaragua, Flordemayo has worked throughout her life to spread Mayan teachings on plants, seeds, and the bounty of the earth. Since 2004, Flordemayo has been one of the founding members of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a worldwide group devoted to prayer and education in support of Mother Earth.

Interweaving stories from his own family with the accumulated wisdom of several different Native American tribes, Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona reveals that our world is full of invisible beings eager to connect with us. Highlighting the immense historical trauma experienced by indigenous peoples, Dr. Mehl-Madrona emphasizes the importance of maintaining ceremonies and rituals that have existed for thousands of years. In sharing these cosmologies, Dr. Mehl-Madrona shows clearly why it is incumbent upon practitioners to cultivate relationships with the invisible realm and all its inhabitants. Here you will learn:

• Why we can cultivate our own relationships with spirit without needing intercessors of any kind
• The necessity of working with others to contemplate and interpret messages from spirit
• People can see visions anywhere, but mentors or elders are necessary to help forge connection with spirit
• How to nurture the art of deep listening

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“Dialogue with the Spirit of an Illness”
In this 50-minute guided practice Lewis Mehl-Madrona shows us how to slow down, go within, and meet our illness in the deepest state of dialogue available to us. Once there, he shows us how to reclaim the nutrients and well-being that have been siphoned by the illness.

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, is certified in family practice, geriatrics, and psychiatry, and has worked for years in rural emergency medicine. His work discusses healing practices from Lakota, Cherokee, and Cree traditions, and how they intersect with conventional medicine. He has been writing about the use of imagery and narrative in healing since the 1980s, authoring books such as Narrative Medicine, Remapping Your Mind, and Coyote Healing.

According to Siberian shamanic tradition, you can only connect with your soul and return to your natural health and happiness by solving the five mysteries of the Supreme Spirit: Why was I born in this body? Why was I born in this family? Why was I born with these problems and talents? What trace should I leave on earth, and what path should I follow? And who is my guide in the world of spirits? Under Ladamira's guidance, you will move toward answering these questions by:

• Learning to connect with your own path and destiny
• Finding what brings you happiness in this lifetime
• Participating in a guided drum journey for empowerment

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“Awakening of the Spirit”
An ancient hymn about the sun of love burning in the soul of every person.

Ladamira has focused for more than 20 years on connecting female wisdom with shamanic traditions to provide transformative spiritual healing. Through shamanic workshops and retreats around the world, Ladamira has helped thousands of people access, and restore, harmony and balance in their lives. She regularly returns to Siberia—where shamanism remains an important tradition—to reconnect with other respected shamanic healers and elders.

All shamanic traditions recognize the importance of cultivating a relationship with the seen and unseen aspects of where you live. Whether you call home an apartment in the city, a house in the suburbs, or a rural setting, there are benevolent sentries who coexist there with you. By learning how to forge allegiances with these sentries, you will experience an increased sense of well-being, groundedness, and belonging. During Julie's presentation, you'll learn:

• The subtle pathways of perception that enable you to perceive in the unseen world
• Three benevolent sentries who are the guardians of the place where you live
• The principles of sacred stewardship
• A morning practice for enlivening yourself and your home with the energy of the earth
• An evening practice for clearing yourself and your home with the energy of the moon

Julie Kramer practices and teaches Essential Shamanism—a universal approach to working in partnership with the unseen world using natural trance states. She is the creator of “The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing”, a three-year professional shamanic practitioner training, as well as “The Sacred Call of the Healer”, a year-long initiation program for those who carry the mantle of the healer in any discipline.

When your heart is touched by the medicine of a plant spirit, you feel the love and wisdom of the natural world. Ideas do not deliver the same touch. Therefore, this presentation is about stories—because stories aim for the heart, where experience lives. In this narrative-rich exploration, Eliot reveals:

• The great awareness carried by plants
• Plants' true nature as spirit beings
• How plant spirits can touch and heal the human spirit

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“Sacred Plant Teachers”
A PDF excerpt from Eliot's book Plant Spirit Medicine.

Eliot Cowan specializes in Plant Spirit Medicine, a modality informed by both traditional Chinese medicine and ancestral shamanic knowledge from across the world. He is a fully initiated elder shaman of the Huichol people. For Eliot, plants have always been humanity's most powerful healing allies—a view he has taught in classes and workshops for more than three decades. Eliot is the author of Plant Spirit Medicine.

In this session, Nepalese shaman Bhola Banstola discusses the shamanic calling and the primary ways it manifests in the Himalayan traditions. As both a scholar and a shaman in a lineage stretching back generations, Bhola understands the power of this call—which can arrive through hereditary transmission and ancestral deities, receiving instructions from spirits in dreams, and seeking out a teacher to learn from directly. He shares shamanic insights into the interconnectedness of all beings and talks about the shamanic calling as it appears, especially in the contemporary West. Here Bhola examines:

• Types of shamanic calling in traditional Nepalese culture
• The need for shamans in contemporary culture
• How to answer your own shamanic calling

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“Deuta-aunu: Receiving the Shamanic Call from a Nepalese Perspective”
This article explores how shamanic calling manifests in Himalayan shamanic traditions, offering insights on how we can awaken to it in the contemporary world.

Bhola Banstola is a shaman from a long family lineage of Nepali practitioners. He has spent long periods with other traditional Himalayan shamans in order to study, catalog, and update their techniques in order to bridge them with the modern world. He lectures in Nepal, Italy, and the USA.

Knowing how to be neutral is critical on any spiritual path, but is especially important on the shamanic path. Here you will explore how attachment to appearances and projections prevents the Inner Shaman's full expression of power. You will learn how becoming neutral can heal the past more quickly, as well as to accelerate and support the path of Spirit. José and Lena will discuss ways to find the path of neutrality in the face of outer turmoil, the pitfalls of self-deception, and methods to open and enter the field of neutrality. Highlights include:

• Addressing misunderstandings: neutrality is not indecision or passivity
• Why the ego or false personality is addicted to drama
• The power of neutrality for releasing past pain and trauma

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“Tracking Reactivity and Finding Neutrality”
In this guided process, Lena Stevens explores ways to return to neutrality when we are triggered, and shares how we can connect more deeply to our essence so that we can live proactively rather than reactively on the shamanic path.

José Luis Stevens, PhD, is an international lecturer, teacher, consultant, and trainer who has studied extensively with shamans of the Huichol, Shipibo, and Q'ero traditions. He is the author of Awaken the Inner Shaman and Encounters with Power.

Lena Stevens is a shamanic teacher, author, and cofounder (with her husband José) of Power Path Seminars. After a ten-year apprenticeship in the Huichol tradition, Lena traveled the world to learn healing techniques from shamans in the Amazon, Northern Europe, Siberia, and many other regions. She is the coauthor of The Power Path and Secrets of Shamanism.

Shamans in many traditions reveal that dreams create our waking life. In this session, renowned Mexican shamanic master Sergio Magaña shares the insights of the ancient Mexica and Toltec lineages, revealing the importance of dream recall, lucid dreaming, and taking charge of your sleep patterns. Sergio also teaches about the knowledge we can gain during those liminal periods before falling asleep and the moments just after waking. Here you will learn:

• How your dreaming can change your life
• The ancient power of working with mirrors and reflection in order to gain a truer sense of your divine identity
• How to empower yourself to live in the present instead of clinging to the past
• How to cultivate a practice of seeding dreams with goals and intentions

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“Healing with the Power of the Blood”
In this guided practice, Sergio shows you how to infuse the blood with transformational power and direct it toward your own healing.

Sergio Magaña is a Mexican master of the ancient Toltec and Mexica traditions, specializing in a lineage of dream knowledge that has been transmitted orally for thousands of years. He has written three books: The Dawn of the Sixth Sun, The Toltec Secret, and Caves of Power. Sergio travels and lectures extensively, teaching on healing techniques and the power inherent in dreaming.

In modern Western society, shamanic practitioners often encounter material that needs to be understood and processed through a psychological framework. Fortunately, the field of transpersonal psychology recognizes the importance of altered consciousness and related phenomena in ways that conventional psychology does not. At the intersection of traditional shamanic thought and transpersonal psychology, Byron Metcalf presents an approach called “The Shaman's Heart”—an integrated practice that views the heart as the cosmological center of all human experience. Here Byron will reveal:

• The important role of psychology in modern shamanism
• Why transpersonal psychology is the ideal approach for processing the psychodynamic material of shamanic practice
• The boundless potential for healing and transformation within the heart center

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“The Full and Compassionate Heart Meditation”
A guided meditation with music enhanced with Field Effect Audio Technology.

Byron Metcalf, PhD, is a transpersonal guide, teacher, shamanic practitioner, and award-winning musician. Drawing on his experience as a professional percussionist, Byron produces music for deep inner exploration, breathwork, shamanic journeywork, body-oriented therapies, meditation practices, and the healing arts. He has led personal growth and healing workshops for more than 25 years.

In these turbulent times, shamanic practitioners from around the world are being called upon to use their unique gifts to shepherd a Great Metamorphosis of humankind. The key to remaining energized and effective as you “resist and persist” lies in resetting your emotional balance. In this session, Evelyn connects you with a powerful resource for achieving this balance through the energies of the Norse goddess Freyja in her guise as Gullveig, the giant seeress. Gullveig will help you through a ceremony of spiritual dismemberment—a time-tested ritual of renewal that will help you shed that which no longer serves. In this session, you’ll experience:

• How to free yourself from the immobilizing grip of fear and anger
• The role shamans have in creating transformation
• How the divine feminine is pivotal to your spiritual sustenance at this powerful time
• How dismemberment can help release what limits your effectiveness and harness your ability as a creator

Bonus Content:

“Relieving Fear and Anger”
A guided meditation for relieving the immobilizing grip of fear and anger.

Evelyn Rysdyk is a teacher and author specializing in Northern European shamanic traditions. Whether through contact with individual patients, workshop groups, conferences, or the written word, Evelyn is devoted to opening hearts and inspiring more joyful, purposeful lives. Her books include Spirit Walking, The Norse Shaman, and A Spirit Walker's Guide to Shamanic Tools.

We are all born with immense powers. Then, soon after birth, we begin to learn to suppress and abuse those same powers. We need not do so; there is a way in which we can use our powers in healthy, loving ways that promote peace and global harmony. However, we first need to become aware of the invisible abilities that we have disowned for the majority of our lives. Here Oona will guide you toward a tremendous paradigm shift—one in which you will begin to see and feel these innate, unseen powers. Highlights include:

• Learning how to comprehend and release the hidden and suppressed energies within you
• Understanding and recognizing subliminal manipulation
• The discovery of a new joy, liveliness, and confidence

Bonus Content:

“A Powerful Heart”
This guided meditation—accompanied by binaural beats for resonating with your brain waves—clears heavy and paralyzing emotions from your heart.

Oona Soleil Fergusson has studied and worked with many powerful spiritual traditions from around the world, including Aztec, Mayan, and Celtic cultures. Having lived an adventurous life in pursuit of spiritual truths, Oona teaches how to harness the innate power of our mind, body, and heart to elevate consciousness and enrich every aspect of daily life.

In this exploration of the shamanic practices of the Q'ero people of the Peruvian Andes, don Mariano describes his own decades of apprenticeship and practice as a pampamesayoq, offering insight into the key principles and practices of Andean shamanic tradition. He discusses Andean teachings that trace our origins to the stars; shares how to work with energy and connect more deeply with Pachamama, or Mother Earth; and explores the concepts of ayni, or reciprocity, and munay, or love and respect—which are key to the Q'ero worldview. This session will cover:

• Why Andean teachings are key to planetary well-being
• Love and gratitude as the key elements of our practice
• Ways of working with the energy of Pachamama

Bonus Content:

“Quechua Healing Song”
Don Mariano, accompanied by his son and apprentice, offers a healing song in his native Quechua.

don Mariano Quispe Flores is an elder in the Q'ero community of Charkapata, located high in the Andes near Cusco, Peru. At an early age he became a pampamesayoq apprentice. He is recognised as a Kurak Akulleq, a seer and master shaman. Don Mariano is also renowned for his ability to heal through despacho offerings and to diagnose illness through pulse reading.

Ancestral trauma is passed down to us through our DNA, passing from one generation's psyche to the next without cease. In order to heal this trauma, we need to honor our ancestors and accept our position in life as living ancestors, giving thanks for the gift of life. Drawing from the wisdom of South Africa's Xhosa tradition, John will reveal how to honor our bones (ancestors) from a place of gratitude and humility, so our own dignity increases and we open to grace on all levels. “In this way,” John says, “we may begin to wake up and appreciate the magnificence of our human birth.” This session will cover:

• Ancestors as the doorway to the spirit world
• Why it is important to heal our ancestors
• How to connect to our ancestors through simple invocations
• Adopted ancestors and traditions as a way to access ancient wisdom streams that might be forgotten in your current family

Bonus Content:

“Ancestral Connection Practice”
In this guided practice, John offers methods of connecting more deeply with our ancestors for guidance and healing.

John Lockley is a senior sangoma (African shaman) trained in the lineage of the Xhosa, the South African nation of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. After completing a decade-long apprenticeship, John has traveled the world leading workshops on Ubuntu (common humanity) and how to connect with one's ancestors. Before his sangoma apprenticeship, John also trained with Zen master Su Bong in South Korea. He is author of the book Leopard Warrior.

After a lifetime of studying the roots and interconnections of the world's great wisdom traditions, Roger Walsh has a knack for identifying those aspects of spirituality that are universally shared and those that are singular. Some practices—such as developing concentration, fostering insight, and serving others—are common to many traditions. However, the world's shamanic lineages often differ from other spiritual paths (and each other) both in practice and thought. Here Roger will explore a variety of different shamanic practices, comparing and contrasting each to other traditions. Highlights include:

• The wide agreement among spiritual practitioners across the world's cultures and traditions that seven specific kinds of practices are essential
• Shamanic practitioners employ these common practices
• However, shamanic practitioners also employ a wide array of practices specific to their traditions

Bonus Content:

“Life from a Larger Perspective”
Reflecting on one's life from a larger perspective—ideally a transcendent or cosmic perspective—is a practice recommended by multiple philosophical and contemplative traditions. This guided meditation offers a rapid and effective method of doing this.

Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, DHL, is a multitalented psychiatrist and professor of religious studies at the University of California at Irvine. His research focuses on the psychological foundations of religion, spirituality, contemplative practice, and non-ordinary experiences. He is the author of many books, including Essential Spirituality, Higher Wisdom, and The World of Shamanism.

Although shamanism has been practiced by cultures throughout history, it is only recently that scholars have reinterpreted ancient Egyptian ceremonies from a shamanic perspective. In this presentation, Nicki Scully will shine a light on the Egyptian shamanic practices that have been hiding in plain sight for centuries, and explore why they are still relevant to you today. You will also learn how to contact various neteru (deities)—including Sekhmet, the lioness goddess of healing, and Thoth, the lunar god of wisdom—to help you counter the chaos that threatens life as we know it on planet Earth. Highlights include:

• How and why shamanism is bursting into our Western culture as the most important medicine of our time
• How to access the divinity that you are
• The shaman's role throughout the eons
• Journeying to meet members of the Egyptian pantheon

Bonus Content:

“Return to Egypt: Horus of the Horizon”
A guided journey to meet Horus of the Horizon, the holder of wisdom represented by the rising sun. Here listeners will move into a realm of unbridled information to take advantage of Horus's wisdom and sight.

Nicki Scully is a lineage-holder in the the hermetic tradition of Thoth—one of the hidden shamanic traditions of Egypt. She has taught alchemic healing and the Egyptian mysteries for more than 30 years. She is the author of Sekhmet, The Union of Isis and Thoth, and Planetary Healing, among others. Since the late '80s, Nicki has led many spiritual pilgrimages to Egypt and other sacred sites.