This is NOT a Certified Professional Training. 

This is a Personal Soul Journey of inner and outer exploration, discovery and empowerment, within the context of Shamanism.

You will not get any form of qualification or a piece of paper from this expedition.

You cannot quantify or qualify this type of journey.

A Vision Quest, if done with commitment and willingness to the process will give you so much more than you could ever hope to achieve, or that I could possibly be able to anticipate.

We are journeying into the Great Mystery, and none of us knows what awaits us there!

While there will be many teachings and challenges offered in this Vision Quest, there is no requirement to complete any of it.

You can go at your own pace, pick and choose which aspects you want to engage with, see what calls to you and what inspires you.

You will be able to download all the Vision Quest Content throughout the year, to work through in your own time, if the pace of the journey is not aligning with your life demands at each stage.

You will also receive access to a file containing ALL the Vision Quest content at the end, so you can continue working with the teachings, challenges and materials after our Year-Long journey has finished.

The Shamanic Treasure Trail of your own life never really ends, as long as you are paying attention to the messages from your own Soul and your Spiritual Guides.

This Vision Quest gives you the knowledge and tools of how to more effectively communicate with your inner and outer guidance, and these will be tools you can continue to use and work with for the rest of your life.

How much you get out of the experience will directly relate to how much you put into it, but it is entirely up to you to gauge that output of effort according to how much spare time, attention and energy you have or that you want to give to the process.

I started my Shamanic training at the Lodge of the Singing Stones, in Derbyshire, UK, which has now changed it’s name to the Centre For Shamanic Arts.

My Apprentice Guide and Teacher for 3 years of my Shamanic Apprenticeship there was Carole Youngson, who ran the Lodge of the Singing Stones for 20 years. 

I had other teachers while there too, Pete Edwards and Elaine Casey.

The content of the teachings and traditional ceremonies were drawn from several North American nations, notably Lakota, Hopi and Navajo.

Through my apprenticeship with Carole Youngson, I learned how to practise and hold many traditional Healing ceremonies such as Womb Clearing, Cord-Cutting, Prayer Pipe, and Sweatlodge ceremonies.

I also learned many Personal ceremonies during my Apprenticeship, such as the Flowering Tree and Forgiveness ceremonies.

I participated in Vision Quest and Eagle Dance Ceremonies with my Teaching Lodge during this time too.

After completing 3 years of Shamanic Apprenticeship at the Lodge of the Singing Stones, I trained with the Sacred Trust in One-To-One therapeutic methods in Shamanic Healing - Shamanic Practitioner Training.

My teacher at the Sacred Trust was Simon Buxton, the founder of the Trust.

I learned many techniques in Classical Shamanism, which are drawn from several different traditions, as Simon teaches them.

The main techniques taught within the Core-Shamanism framework come from the life-work of Michael Harner (now deceased) and his Foundation For Shamanic Studies, who Simon trained with.

These include the practises of drum-based Shamanic Journeying, Power Retrieval, Soul Retrieval, Shamanic Extraction and Psychopomp work.

Betsy Bergstrom was Simon’s teacher for the De-Possession and Curse-Unravelling teachings.

And she drew her lineage from Scandinavian Seidr and Tibetan Bon Shamanism.

I have done a lot of work with Family and Systemic Constellations with various different teachers and facilitators, through the western system established by Bert Hellinger, which he  originally learned in South Africa from the Zulu traditions of Ancestor Worship and Ancestral Healing.

I also learned another method and system of Ancestral Healing with Christina Pratt, who founded the Last Mask Centre in New York, USA.  Her shamanic work is a synthesis of studies with Ecuadorian, Tibetan, Tamang, and African shamans, the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, the Centre for Intuitive Energy Processing, and personal shamanic experience.

I have worked with her methods extensively and I adapted and built upon this methodolgy for use in Past-Life and Karmic Healing, with the guidance and direction from my own Spirit Teachers.

Since arriving in Guatemala, nearly 4 years ago, I have been immersing myself into the indigenous Mayan Cosmovision, spiritual practises and ceremonies, as passed down through the indigenous Mayan shamanic lineages.

My first Mayan teacher has been a man named Pedro Pop Gonzalez, a wise plant and dream shaman, who comes from a long patriarchal ancestral lineage of un-officiated shamen.

Pedro’s father was a renowned healer in the region who specialised in removing spirits from people.  Pedro’s grandfather was a sorcerer, and the stories Pedro has told me about his grandfather’s abilities are straight out of a Carlos Castaneda novel!

The officially trained and ordained shamen in the Mayan tradition are known as Tatas (male) and Nanas (female), and they preside over the main Healing and Fire Ceremonies of the Maya.

More recently I have been invited to attend a regular Mayan Fire Ceremony by my neighbour Tata Viento, who run’s our town’s regular Mayan Fire Ceremonies, with all the town’s Tatas and Nanas - ordained and in training - every 13 days.  These regular ceremonies are opportunities to learn the ways of the Mayan Cosmovision by participating in the group ceremonies, for personal and collective healing.  You cannot just decide to become a Tata or Nana if you are a foreigner here.  You must wait to be invited, and regular attendance is a positive step down that road.  And so I feel like my invitation to attend these ceremonies by Tata Viento is a tentative beginning of an apprenticeship into the official Mayan Shamanic tradition.  And the learning continues !

There are many other spiritual and healing traditions that were stepping stones, paving the way for me into the realms of Shamanism, and they are still a foundation for my Shamanic practice and understanding - I have been a Reiki Master for nearly 25 years, initiating hundreds of students into Reiki over the years. I completed a two year diploma in Crystal Healing.  I consider myself to be a lay Herbalist and Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner - self-taught and with 4 years of experience working in a Herbal Apothecary.  I have extensive experience in working with animals, spiritually and practically.  The Animal Kingdom has provided me with a huge amount of companionship and learning experiences throughout my life, with a great variety of animals blessing me with their medicine, as I have done what I could to assist them in both Life and Death.

I consider myself to be a self-taught Hedge Witch, as within the European context, that label always fitted me more comfortably than Shaman.  Although really, I consider them to be one and the same.  These are the additional pathways that have shaped my spiritual experiences, outlook and practise, and that flavour my offerings in a unique way.