Shadow and Soul:
A Summer Shamanic Healing Retreat for Reclaiming Regulation, Sovereignty, & Wholeness of Self
August 6, 13, 20, & 27
4:30-6:30pm PT (7:30-9:30pm ET) each session
Live Online via Zoom
A lot of us just don’t feel that good.
Whether it’s chronic fatigue, exhaustion from caring for everyone around you, anxieties over personal and global affairs, a lack of clarity about why you’re actually here, grieving the loss of loved ones, relationships, or even dreams, or a disquieting sense of disconnection from your own self - there is much that burdens us today. And you may not feel that you have the strength, tools, or inner resources to navigate it all.
Shamanism - which anthropologists have called the “world’s oldest profession” - does not constitute a universal spiritual cure-all for humankind’s ills. It does, however, offer a unique system for calling healing and wholeness back into our lives through soul-level work, personal growth and freedom from internal blocks through shadow journeys, and connection with and revitalization of our purpose through direct contact with the incredible powers of the universe.
For those who are tired of pushing to “fix it all” on your own - and would benefit from a special space dedicated to tending to you and your healing - this sacred summer healing retreat offers exercises and ceremonies dedicated to cultivating nervous system regulation, sovereignty from burdensome patterns, and wholeness of self.
Week One: Discovering Your Multidimensional Self
You’re more than just a body and mind. But what does that actually mean?
In the initiation of this four-week sacred container, after calling in our sacred container and becoming gently united with your fellow journeyers, you will (re)connect with the many facets of you - and how they relate to your illness, and your healing.
Here, you will:
Discover various aspects of your “spirit body” - such as your soul and body souls, spirit, and shadow - and their roles in your health and life,
Enter into conscious relationship with your natural shadow - and be shown by the spirits where it may be “protecting” you from healing and fulfillment,
Journey to meet your own soul - that part of you that keeps you alive - and gain specific, illuminating personal insights from it.
You will also be given an individualized shadow work ceremony to perform that can integrate and take your healing deeper in preparation for the next session.
Week Two: Welcoming Your Soul Home Again - The Power of Soul Retrieval
Do you feel like a part of you is missing?
From a shamanic viewpoint, this is quite literally possible.
Through traumas such as abuse, accidents, the stress of chronic illness, the loss of a loved one or job, or another frightening event - or even imbalanced relationships - some of our vital soul may leave and enter the spirit realm. Though this can serve a protective role in the moment, soul loss can be connected to X.
In this session, you will discover classic diagnoses of illness that a shaman may give - and experience a unique group shamanic healing dedicated to retrieving the soul that you need “home” again.
Here, you will:
Briefly explore how toxic thoughts and emotions, sorcery and spirit attachment, and the loss of soul can relate to physical and emotional illness,
Discover the power of soul retrieval in reclaiming greater presence, well-being, and wholeness,
Experience a potent group shamanic healing ceremony - performed by the circle’s compassionate spirits - specifically designed to call back your lost soul energy,
Have your soul lovingly welcomed home by the warm container of our circle,
Integrate the healing you’ve received through rich connection with the restorative power of nature.
You will also receive individualized action steps to take between this and next session to “anchor” the power of your healing.
Week Three: Embodying Your Soul - and Releasing What Isn’t Yours
You are “home again” and shining more brightly after our healing ceremony. Now how do we make the body a temple for our soul to “dance” in - metaphorically and literally?
In this session, you will:
Learn how to dance your soul - bringing its power forth each day with the aid of physical movement,
Journey to connect even more deeply with the soul energies that returned to you last week - and learning what they may need from you to fully empower you,
Discover how unconscious soul stealing in your relationships can keep you unhealthfully tethered to the past,
Experience healing in safe pairs by performing your own ceremony to release stolen or forfeited soul - thus offering others healing as we free ourselves from their burden.
Your optional integration exercise for the week will constitute an exploration of how to protect yourself from soul stealing - and learning how to stop yourself from stealing the souls of others.
Week Four: The Power of Soul Remembering and Shape-Shifting into Healing Radiance
Throughout the month, you have engaged deep healing work that helps you to become more whole, more healed, more embodied in your life. So where do we take our newfound presence?
In this culminating session, weaving the final thread on the tapestry of our circle’s journey, you will reconnect with your soul’s purpose - as well as shape-shift into a part of you that lies perhaps even deeper than your soul.
In our final session, you will:
Allow a soul song to emerge from within you - offering yet another tool for daily vitalization and empowerment,
Experience a deeper familiarity with your soul and its gifts,
Journey to offer - and receive - a soul remembering, a technique that reconnects you with your purpose in this world through art, symbol, and travels outside of linear time.
Our circle closes with a ceremony of shape-shifting into your own inner divinity - your spirit, your “deepest self” - to ignite incredible healing for yourself, all in our group, and all of life.
This sacred at-home retreat is open to everyone - no prior experience required - and is most especially for those:
- Feel like a part of them is missing - and want to wield a stronger sense of identity, sovereignty, and wholeness,
- Seeking deep soul-level healing for physical, emotional, and relational challenges,
- Who would benefit from the power and care of regularly gathering with like-minded hearts for healing,
- Are ready to release bonds to old relationships and break illness-connected patterns.
This live experience - co-designed, approved, and guided each session by the wise and compassionate spirits - will provide you the opportunity for real-time connection with soul-centered persons with whom you can practice, share, and exchange love and support. The deepening exercises provided each week offer integration and empowerment each week, and our private communication thread allows for questions to be asked and experiences to be shared at any time during the retreat.
Additionally, the exercises led here offer a unique opportunity to experience content from the Shamanic Soul Retrieval Healing Training - part of the Shamanic Apprenticeship program - as a recipient, allowing you to sink into your own healing in a different way.
Looking at our current state of affairs, it would be relatively easy to conclude that we are experiencing a certain level of mass soul loss - where material gain and division matters more than health and life; where the people feel dissociated, de-vitalized, and dis-spirited; where we simply go through the motions of life but do not actually live it purposefully.
By harnessing the power of shamanic techniques for soul retrieval, shadow management, and beyond, we can find ourselves more whole and present, sovereign from harmful influences, and readily-equipped with tools for navigating the chaotic world in which we live - and through our own wholeness, inspire and seed healing and wholeness within our communities.
If something within you is calling you to join, consider listening to it - your soul may just know exactly what it needs.
Ready to journey into healing?
Dates & Times: August 6, 13, 20, & 27 OR WEEKEND MORNING | 4:30-6:30pm PT (7:30-9:30pm ET) each session.
Location: Live online via Zoom.
Registration: $X Early-bird discounted price of $X until X!
Participant cancelation and non-attendance policy: Prior to July 23rd, full refund. From July 23rd to 31st, 50% refund. On and after July 31st, no refunds. Discretionary exceptions may be made.