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"Little did I know when I stepped onto the path of the Wild Witch 5 years ago, where my journey would lead me. Thank you to Joanna Joy who introduced me to Shamanic practise and helped me find Crow on that day. He has become my constant guide and companion and was with me today as I graduated as a Shamanic Practitioner!"
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She is a legendary Spirit Teacher, Prophet and Ancestor of the Native American Lakota/Sioux nation of North America
“The great spiritual Teachers who walked the Earth and taught the basics of the truths of the Whirling Rainbow Prophecy will return and walk amongst us once more, sharing their power and understanding with all. We will learn how to see and hear in a sacred manner. Men and women will be equals in the way Creator intended them to be; all children will be safe anywhere they want to go. Elders will be respected and valued for their contributions to life. Their wisdom will be sought out. The whole Human race will be called The People and there will be no more war, sickness or hunger forever.” - ‘Rainbow Warriors’ by Jenni Giovanetti LakotaTimes.Com
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To take your place on this Shamanic Practitioner Online Training - 3 Year Apprenticeship...
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Even within the Holistic Heath and Complementary Medicine Industries, Shamanic Healing is still pretty left-field and far out of the box!
There are no Regulatory Bodies or set curriculum criteria for Shamanic Practitioner Training.
There are also so many branches, lineages and practises with Shamanism that it would be impossible to standardise this most ancient and diverse healing methodology.
Each teacher will have their own path and practise, based upon their own lineages and training.
I will be issuing Certificates for this Shamanic Practitioner Training & Apprenticeship, upon completion of all required case-history practicals and course-work.
Each Year and Level will be certified separately, and then there will be a final certification for completion of the entire Training.
You can supply these Certificates for insurance purposes for your business and practise once you qualify at each Level.
If you wish to receive Certification for completion of this Shamanic Practitioner Training & Apprenticeship, you will need to complete...
Practical and Written Assessments for Client Case-Histories for...
There will also be a Book List with recommended core texts to read.
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.