The Healing of Shadow and Soul:
A Summertime Shamanic Retreat for Retrieving Regulation, Sovereignty, & Wholeness of Self
August 1, 8, 15, and 22
8:30-11am PT (11:30am-2pm 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, and 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 alone have the energetic strength, tools, or inner resources to navigate it all.
Shamanism - which anthropologists have called the “world’s oldest profession” - is not a spiritual tradition that constitutes a universal cure-all for humankind’s ills. It does, however, offer a powerful system for restoring health and wholeness in our bodies, our minds, and our lives through soul-level healing, including retrieving soul energy that we’ve lost; personal evolution and freedom from viscous blocks through shadow journeys; and connection with our purpose through direct contact with the incredible powers of the universe.
If you’re drained, disconnected, or know you need something but aren’t sure what it is - and would like a special space dedicated to tending to you and your healing - this sacred retreat offers journeys and ceremonies aimed at supporting nervous system regulation, sovereignty from burdensome patterns, and curative wholeness of self.
Welcome to your summer of healing shadow and soul.
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE IN YOUR
MONTH OF HEALING:
August 1: Discovering Your Multidimensional Self
They say we’re more than just body and mind. But what does that actually mean?
In the initiation of this four-week experience, after calling in our sacred space 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:
Uncover various aspects of your “unseen 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 wise spirits where it may actually be “protecting” you from healing and fulfillment,
Journey to meet your own soul - “that part of you that keeps you alive” - and gain healing insight into its dynamic as a “deeper you.”
You will also be given an individualized shadowwork ceremony to perform in preparation for the next session that can help to integrate and take your healing deeper.
August 8: Welcoming Your Soul Home - The Power of Soul Retrieval
Do you feel like a part of you is missing?
From a shamanic point of view, this is possible in the most literal sense.
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 us. Though this can serve a protective role in the moment, partial soul loss can be connected to dissociation, obsessive-compulsivity, depression, complex grief, stuckness in old patterns, fatigue, spiritual “immunocompromise” to further physical and emotional distress, and beyond.
In this session, you will discover classic diagnoses of illness that a shaman may give - and experience a unique group healing dedicated to retrieving the soul power that you need “home” again.
IN THIS SESSION, YOU WILL:
Briefly explore how toxic thoughts and emotions, sorcery and spirit attachment, and partial loss of soul can relate to physical and emotional illness,
Discover the power of soul retrieval in reclaiming greater empowerment, well-being, and wholeness,
Experience a potent group shamanic healing ceremony - performed by the circle’s compassionate spirits - specifically designed to meet your personal needs and call back your lost soul energy,
Integrate the healing you’ve received through a rich and tangible connection with the restorative power of nature.
You will also receive personalized action steps from the spirits to help welcome the power of your soul home again between this and next session.
August 15: Embodying Your Soul - and Releasing What Isn’t Yours
Not all the parts you have, may be yours.
You are “home again” and shining more brightly after our healing ceremony. Now what are some ways that you can clean and empower yourself to be a temple for your soul?
HERE, YOU WILL:
Learn how to dance your soul - welcoming its power daily through safe physical movement,
Journey to connect even more deeply with the soul energies that have returned to you - and learn what they may need from you,
Discover how unconscious soul stealing and forfeiture in your relationships disrupts your sovereignty and can keep you ill and tethered to the past,
Ceremonially release stolen and “Velcro” soul that isn’t yours - thus offering healing and freedom not only to yourself, but to those whose souls are liberated.
Between this and our final gathering, you will experience some reflective time in nature - the purpose of which will be revealed in-session.
August 22: The Power of Soul Remembering - and Shape-Shifting into Healing Light
What is your purpose? And is there a part of you even beyond your soul that can be accessed to elevate your healing?
Throughout the month, you have engaged deeply restorative exercises aimed at shifting you into greater power and well-being.
And in this culminating gathering, which weaves the final thread of our circle’s journey, you will reconnect with your soul’s purpose - as well as transform into your radiant light aspect to ignite ineffable healing in yourself, and those around you.
IN THIS FINAL SESSION, YOU WILL:
Allow a soul song to emerge from within - offering yet another tool for daily connection and vitalization,
Experience your soul in an Inner World journey once more to deepen the healing space made for its return,
Be introduced to the healing power of transfiguration - shape-shifting into your “deepest self,” or spirit - and how it relates to the evolution of shamanic healing,
Journey to offer - and receive - a soul remembering, a technique that reconnects you with your life’s mission through art, symbol, and travel outside of linear time.
Our circle closes with a group transfiguration ceremony to generate healing and restoration not only for ourselves and one another, but for all of life that is touched by our circle’s light.
This special at-home retreat is open to everyone - no prior experience required - and is most especially for those:
- Feeling like a part of them is missing - and want to wield a stronger sense of identity, sovereignty, and personal empowerment,
- Seeking deep soul-level healing for physical, emotional, and relational challenges,
- Craving the power and care of connecting regularly with like-minded hearts for healing,
- Ready to release bindings to old relationships and break illness-connected patterns - stepping more fully into what life can really be.
This live experience - co-designed, approved, and guided each session by the wise and compassionate spirits - will provide you with an opportunity for real-time connection with soul-centered persons with whom you can share, experience the healing exercises, and exchange nourishing love and support. A private communication thread will also be opened, which allows for questions to be asked and experiences to be shared at any time during, and even after, the retreat.
Additionally, the exercises led here offer a chance 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 way that is unique to this retreat.
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 the health and lives of others; where the people feel disconnected, de-vitalized, and dis-spirited; where we simply go through the motions of life but do not actually live it.
By harnessing the power of shamanic techniques for energetic hygiene, shadow management, and soul retrieval, we can find ourselves more whole and present to engage our passions, sovereign from harmful influences, and readily-equipped with tools for navigating the chaotic world in which we live - and through that healing, in turn inspire and seed healing and wholeness in the territories through which we walk.
If something within you is calling you to join, consider listening to it - your soul may just know exactly what it needs.
Ready for your month of healing?
Dates & Times:
August 1, 8, 15, and 22 | 8:30-11am PT (11:30am-2pm ET) each session.
Location:
Live online via Zoom.
Registration:
$295
Registration for this experience is now closed.
Thank you for your interest! Join me for another upcoming healing circle or training.
Participant cancelation and non-attendance policy: Prior to July 18th, full refund. From July 18th to 24th, 50% refund. On and after July 25th, no refunds. Discretionary exceptions may be made.