Private Shamanic Training
Experience the timeless wisdom of the shaman in intimate, tailor-made training.
One of my greatest joys and passions is teaching. I have been teaching public workshops for almost a decade. And seeing the magic and healing power that the spirits can bring through in them never fails to leave me in awe.
And now, by popular demand, private group and 1:1 shamanic trainings are available.
In private shamanic training, one can not only experience the potent material that is present in public workshops - we have the distinctive opportunity to focus solely on you, and to tailor the rich content and exercises to your unique needs, background, and passions.
There are a number of incredible courses ready for you to experience. Take a look at the list below to learn more about shamanic training content, timing, and beyond.
The Power of Shamanic Journeying | Beginning Workshop
Experience the ancient brilliance of shamanic journeying for bringing guidance, healing, and empowerment to yourself and others.
Suitable prerequisite for all further trainings
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Anthropologists have called shamanism the “world’s oldest profession.” And there appears to be good reason that this ancient practice has survived for so long.
Shamans, found in cultures across the globe, have been tasked with locating food sources, healing the sick, defending the community, and otherwise maintaining balance and well-being for their people.
And today, shamanism is no less vital. The spirits with whom the shaman works are still here, illuminating the spiritual causes or aspects of illness, providing us with meaningful guidance and direction, and empowering us to meet the beauties and challenges of this life in a more harmonious and inspirited way.
In this initiatory experience, you will be introduced to the cross-cultural elements of global shamanisms, as well as to a fundamental shamanic ceremony for bringing brilliant guidance and healing to yourself and others - the shamanic journey.
Together, we will discover:
The nature, history, and modern power of shamanic practice - and why it is ethically available to Westerners,
The shamanic journey into the three worlds of the shaman to access firsthand knowledge, guidance, and healing from compassionate spiritual forces,
The basics of shamanic divination - doing shamanic readings for others,
How to alter your consciousness for shamanic work in safe, effective, and hallucinogen-free ways,
How to interpret and feel confidence in what you receive in your journeys,
How to form supportive and personal relationships with your own helping spirits,
Causes of illness that shamans commonly perceive - and how they heal them.
The power animal/helping spirit retrieval healing methodology for restoring health, spiritual immunity, and personal empowerment to others,
And so much more.
This workshop serves as a suitable prerequisite for all advanced shamanic trainings. It is an ethnographically-rich and world-expanding experience for both new practitioners of shamanism, seasoned “veterans,” and those who may simply wish an introduction to the practice.
No prior experience is necessary. As we step onto the path of direct revelation - direct, firsthand access to wise, transcendent transpersonal forces - not only do we equip ourselves with the tools to begin helping and healing others, we throw open the doors to discover what is “out there” for ourselves, and gain rich knowledge that we can use to improve our own daily lives. As we enter the world of the shaman, we enter into ineffable spiritual freedom.
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Total core content hours: 9
Tuition (per person):
Online: $288 (or $258, for those intending to take further private courses)
In-person (in the Vancouver, WA area or where applicable): $378 (or $348, for those intending to take further private coursework)
Shamanic Medicine for Personal & Planetary Healing
Transform inner and outer toxins using profound shamanic methods and “lifeways.”
Shamanic journey knowledge optional
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Climate change, social division and injustice, mysterious and chronic illnesses - these are but a few of the harrowing challenges facing the modern West.
And while we can cultivate vital change using “physical-world means” - voting, advocacy, and beyond - some may be craving an energetic addition that bridges spirituality with social healing, as well as ways of living in daily life that help them to walk with greater balance, insight, and - quite literally - light.
Fortunately, shamans, mystics, and wisdom-keepers of old (and new) have rich knowledge that we can utilize to meet these very goals.
In this experiential workshop, you will discover simple yet powerful tools and “lifeways” that can help to uplift, heal, and empower ourselves, others, and our very planet in the face of our contemporary challenges.
In the course, you will discover:
Exploring and healing what prevents you from knowing that miracles and change are possible,
Multiple simple and effective methods for transforming toxic thoughts and emotions,
Deepening your relationships with the spirits of nature - and becoming one with the elements that give us life,
The curative and destructive power of words, and how to harness them for inner and outer healing,
The art of transfiguration healing - shape-shifting into your own divinity in order to ignite incredible healing for yourself, others, and all of life,
Receiving your own firsthand stories of how you and the world were created - and an experience for stepping deeper into universal love,
Accessing futuristic knowledge and methods from the descendants - and receiving a healing from them firsthand,
The transfiguration group healing ceremony,
And so much more.
This course is appropriate for anyone seeking to participate in both inner- and outer-world change, those looking to expand their healing “toolbox,” or persons simply looking for rich ways to become more centered and strong in a chaotic landscape. It is suitable for those with shamanic journeying knowledge as well as those without such knowledge, as this course can optionally be taught entirely through guided shamanic journeys and meditations.
As we face wild weather and environmental pollution, communal division and misinformation, and work to balance the many demands of modern living, exploring ancient and modern practices - that you can begin applying today - open the doors for us to experience healing and unity consciousness, participate on the energetic level in social activism, and walk through the world in such a way that our hearts and vibrational presence can serve to be a medicine that our world so desperately needs.
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Total core content hours: 9
Tuition (per person):
Online: $288 (or $258, for those intending to take further private coursework)
In-person (in the Vancouver, WA area or where applicable): $378 (or $348, for those intending to take further private coursework)
Advanced Shamanic Divination Training
Experience deepened methods and practice in bringing guidance, comfort, and direction through shamanic divination.
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“What is the best next step?” “What is my purpose?” “Should I stay in this relationship or career?” “What do my departed loved ones have to share?”
This is only a small sampling of an infinite pool of questions that clients and practitioners alike ask the spirits in psychic and tarot readings, shamanic journeys, and beyond - all part of a body of work known as divination.
Divination, as I see it, is actually a healing methodology - for although the shamanic practitioner does not actively “move energy around” for a client as they would in shamanic healing, divination - when done with good discipline and knowledge - gifts us vital insight, guidance, comfort, confirmation, and inspiration that we can use to gradually, or radically, change our lives.
In this advanced experiential training, which builds off of the introduction to divination from the Power of Shamanic Journeying workshop, you will discover further methods for channeling clear, accurate, and ethical shamanic readings for others.
In this course, you will:
Briefly re-experience the basics of shamanic divination - including the “miraculous” simultaneous journeying method,
Fundamental principles for the ethical and effective practice of shamanic divination.
The use of merging and voluntary, controlled, and transcendent possession in mediumship,
Using unique physical tools, such as stones, cards, and even candy in giving readings,
How to do readings on a range of specific complex question types, such as those related to healthcare, dying, relationships and abuse, and beyond,
Gracefully addressing the inevitable message rejection and non-resonance in clients,
Safely connecting with the departed to channel comfort, healing, and (at long last) connection,
And so much more.
This course is appropriate both for new practitioners of shamanism and shamanic divination, as well as seasoned professionals of shamanic (and other forms of) divination wishing to refresh, reinvigorate, deepen, and expand their ethical and effective channeling work.
Over a decade of real-world practice has shown me the incredible miracles of comfort, problem-solving, and healing that divination can provide, as well as some of the challenges that can come up for practitioners. As we connect with a population struggling to find answers to life’s most meaningful questions, we can prepare ourselves to be hollow bones for the answers that are so desperately needed to flow through and come to bear the lives of ourselves and those in our communities.
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Prerequisite: Completion of The Power of Shamanic Journeying Beginning Workshop or equivalent.
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Total core content hours: 9
Tuition (per person):
Online: $288 (or $258, for those intending to take further private coursework)
In-person (in the Vancouver, WA area or where applicable): $378 (or $348, for those intending to take further private coursework)
Shamanic Extraction Healing Intensive
Safely diagnose and remove spiritual aspects of illness stemming from toxic thoughts and emotions.
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Toxic thoughts and emotions are natural - they are an organic part of the human condition.
Yet we have an unconscious power to send the accompanying heavy energies to ourselves and others, contributing to personal and environmental dis-ease.
In the shaman’s eyes, localized pain and illness, as well as emotional imbalances, can result from these spiritual intrusions - in fact, shamanisms cross-culturally have known the injurious impacts of taking on of a “dart” or “psychic arrow.”
In this advanced experiential training, you will discover the safe and powerful application of shamanic extraction healing.
Here, you will explore:
The nature and origins of spiritual intrusions, and the illnesses that they can connect to,
Discovering firsthand the damage that unconsciously sending such energies can cause - and why intrusions could constitute a “spiritual public health crisis,”
Simple ways of shifting the toxic energies that we naturally produce, transforming them into beneficent energies,
Multiple methods of diagnosing the presence and location of misplaced energies,
A safe and spirit-embodied method of facilitating shamanic extraction healing,
Tools for maintaining the spiritual immunity of self and client against intrusions,
Post-extraction considerations for the self, as well as for clients, so that they can “anchor” the healing provided,
And so much more.
This singularly-focused training is suitable for those who wish to expand their “healing toolbox,” deepen or refresh their shamanic practice and understanding, or are working towards becoming a professional shamanic practitioner.
As we face quite a bit of fear and unease in the collective, it is wise to learn not only how to strengthen your own spiritual immune system so as to remain as safe and healthy as possible, but also to discover methods of cleansing others and our collective with the aid of the spirits from such challenging energies, thereby working to cultivate health, energetic freedom, and emotional balance within our communities.
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Prerequisite: Completion of The Power of Shamanic Journeying Beginning Workshop or equivalent.
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Total core content hours: 7
Tuition (per person):
Online: $225 (or the discounted $195, for those intending to take further private coursework)
In-person (in the Vancouver, WA area or where applicable): $295 (or $265, for those intending to take further private coursework)
Shamanic Soul Retrieval Training
Discover the treatment of trauma and illness through the return of the soul.
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Frightening and traumatic experiences, serious illness, unhealthy relationship dynamics, even being startled awake - these are potential causes of what can be called partial soul loss.
In this condition, some of one’s personal soul - their spiritual essence, an energy of consciousness - leaves the individual, which can be seen as an organic self-defense mechanism. Yet, if left unattended, one may begin to experience challenging symptoms, said to range from lack of motivation, to anxiety, depression and dissociation, to addiction and suicidal tendencies.
Shamans all across the globe have known of this phenomenon of the “flight of the soul.” And through the cross-cultural shamanic healing methodology of soul retrieval - tailored uniquely for the modern West - we can work to heal and bring our clients, neighbors, and communities home to their lives again.
In this incredible extended training, you will discover firsthand the healing power of soul retrieval.
In the first section of the program, you will discover:
The nature, origin, and causes of partial soul loss,
The potential symptoms of such soul loss,
Where lost soul energy may go to, and how it may appear to a practitioner,
A step-by-step method of soul retrieval, tailored to the unique needs of the modern Western world - and why such shifts are both healing and crucial,
The phenomenon of “psychic vampirism” - soul stealing - and how to heal and prevent it,
Dealing with challenges that may come up in doing soul retrievals for others,
Preparing yourself to become a hollow bone for effective soul retrieval - and preparing clients to absorb the power of their returned soul,
Good steps to take shortly after soon retrieval as methods of “integration,”
And much more.
About two weeks later, after you have, as appropriate, received your own soul retrieval healing (from me in a 1:1 setting, or for a classmate if in a group), our attention in part two of the training turns to:
“Life after healing” work - exercises that we can do, both for ourselves and with clients, to take the healing deeper,
Identifying the soul energies of others that we may have unconsciously held onto, and how to safely return and unburden ourselves from them,
Exploring what prevents us from using our life-creative powers - and discovering what we wish to create with them now that we are more whole and “home again,”
The method of body part soul retrieval for addressing physical traumas,
A wealth of practical details of shamanic practice, including facilitating soul retrievals for different populations, the vitality of personal ego work, charging for shamanic services, and more.
A sacred fire ceremony for releasing blocks to creating the desires of our soul,
And far beyond.
This workshop is for serious students and practitioners of shamanism or other forms of either conventional or complementary healthcare only, including those who wish to further develop (or refresh) a shamanic healing practice. It is not designed for persons seeking personal healing.
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Prerequisite: Completion of The Power of Shamanic Journeying Beginning Workshop or equivalent.
An application is required, and will be emailed to you upon notification of your intent to enroll.
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Total core content hours: 24
Tuition (per person):
Online: $769 (or the discounted $739, for those intending to take further private coursework)
In-person (in the Vancouver, WA area or where applicable): $1,008 (or $978, for those intending to take further private coursework)
Shamanism, Dying, & Life After Life
Discover the healing of the dying, the haunting deceased, and your own relationship with death - and thus, with life.
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Death is one of the great inevitabilities of life.
And while the shaman may know that death is but a transition into a new state of being - a life after life - in the West at large, death has often been rejected, demonized, hushed or hidden away - perhaps in the hopes that, if we ignore death, somehow, it will ignore us.
But this modus operandi can create significant problems for both the dying and the deceased - for the dying may find themselves suffering under questions of “What comes next?” and wishes to voice their concerns or make amends with family, and the departed may need help in crossing over - help that we cannot provide if we have unhealthfully sanitized our lives of the consciousness of death.
In this experiential initiatory training, you will discover the advanced shamanic healing field known as psychopomp.
Together, we will:
Shed light on, with the wisdom of the spirits, that which keeps us fearful of death and dying,
Experience an initiatory death that regularly features in shamanisms cross-culturally,
Be introduced to gentle shamanic and non-shamanic ways of aiding dying friends, family, and clients - including how to teach them to journey for comfort and healing using sacred art,
Explore firsthand the territories that souls can travel to after death,
Journey to resolve unfinished business with departed persons,
Discover a safe, power-full method for counseling and crossing wandering souls (ghosts) in psychopompic “de-haunting,”
Journeying to check in on departed friends, pets, and loved ones to ascertain where they ventured to,
Learn methods for safely facilitating the crossing over of multiple souls in mass-casualty disasters,
And much more.
This program is suitable for hospice workers, death doulas, nurses and doctors, energy healers, and anyone with shamanic journey knowledge who seeks to be of aid to the dying, the dead, and their families, either now or in the future.
Death will come for all of us someday. It is better to be ready to greet our old friend with open arms and a fulfilled heart, having experienced as much of this precious life as you please.
Using the timeless wisdom of shamanic psychopomp, we can not only healthfully shift our own relationship with death (and thus, with life itself), we can gain profound methods for aiding the dying and the haunting departed in one of the most sacred, and sometimes most intimidating, transitions of their incarnation. In other words, the wisdom of psychopomp, though seemingly focused solely on death and dying, is, on another level, really about - on behalf of oneself and others - supporting and enriching the experience of life, living, and of life after life.
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Prerequisite: Completion of The Power of Shamanic Journeying Beginning Workshop or equivalent.
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Total core content hours: 9
Tuition (per person):
Online: $288 (or the discounted $258, for those intending to take further private coursework)
In-person (in the Vancouver, WA area or where applicable): $378 (or $348, for those intending to take further private coursework)
“I highly recommend Garrett…If you are seeking knowledge, he is the most amazing teacher! He is kind and inclusive. His workshops go deep and are content rich. Whether you are seeking a healing or learning, he has a way of making you feel welcome and valued…After you associate with him, you will feel like you have gained a good friend for life!”
— K.A.
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“Garrett is one of the best, kindest, knowledgeable, and honest teachers I have had the privilege of working with over the past 5-6 years. In-person or Zoom, his classes have been life changing. I would recommend his services to any one looking to further their own spiritual journey.”