SHAMANIC TRAINING

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BRIDGING SHAMANISM WITH TRADITIONAL MEDICINE SERIES: Portland, Oregon

Instructors: Karyn Armstrong & Kristi Vaughn, RN, ACNP
Provider approved by the California State Board of Registered Nursing #CEP14509

Death & Dying - Sept 17, 24, Oct 1, 8, 22 & 29
10% of all tuition is donated to Sandra Ingerman’s Scholarship fund

Contact:
Karyn Armstrong
For more information and to register go to:
www.harmonicvisions.com
>Download class information

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ANCESTRAL MEDICINE

Daniel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he offers regular ceremonial circles, shamanic trainings, and individual healing and mentorship sessions. He also co-leads an annual Mount Shasta Vision Quest with Linda Held of Mt. Shasta Herb and Health. Daniel's specialities include working with the ancestors of blood for personal and collective healing and working with natural places of power here in California and the S.F. Bay Area for earth healing and empowerment.

Daniel's initial training in shamanic healing was with the Church of Earth Healing and he has done subsequent study in both Native North American ceremonial ways and the Buryat Mongol tradition. He completed an MA in counseling psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and is en route toward a doctorate focused on the intersection of shamanic and psychological approaches to healing.

Newcomers as well as experienced practitioners are welcome at circles and trainings.

Contact:
Ancestral Medicine
PO Box 151
Mountain View, CA 94042
650-248-8917
danielfoor@yahoo.com
www.ancestralmedicine.org

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BETSY BERGSTROM

Heart Centered Shamanic Healing practice and workshops, Shamanic Depossession Training, Middleworld workshops.

The Wheel of Life - Second 2 Year Middle-world Training
Clackamas, Oregon. Starting in June 2008.

Registration and Flyers are all at www.spiderlinks.net/pages_Community/Betsy.html

Contact:
Betsy Bergstrom
Seattle, WA
www.betsybergstrom.com
betsy@betsybergstrom.com

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ALIDA BIRCH

Alida Birch is a Certified Shamanic Counselor who offers long distance compassionate spiritual healing and soul retrieval for those people who want help with their life, their health or their emotions.   She is an esteemed healer, counselor, and teacher.   She offers beginning and advanced shamanic training, annual vision quests, a monthly shamanic healing circle and sponsors many shamanic trainers for Eugene, Oregon.

Finding Your Medicine: Advanced Training in Shamanism for healers in training. Our 12th year!!! Begins fall, 2007, meets one weekend day monthly for 12 months includes soul retrieval, extraction, divination, storytelling, dying & beyond, celtic shamanism, shamanic initiations, healing with spiritual light and vision quest. $100 per day. Begins as soon as we have 10 students signed up. Call/e-mail for application. (Carpools forming from Portland.) Taught at my home in Eugene. I will be co-teaching this training with Marta Boyett.
Dancing With Eternity - A Workshop on Death & Dying

Contact:
Alida Birch
PO Box 121
Eugene, OR 97440
www.AlidaBirch.com
AlidaBirch@yahoo.com

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LYN BIRMINGHAM

Shamanic Journeys, Healings and Workshops
Lyn Birmingham has been a shamanic practitioner for over 25 years. She offers soul and power animal retrieval, healing extraction. She performs personal ceremonies and blessings. Lyn offers a program in basic and advanced shamanic practices as well as specialty classes. Lyn has created the SpiritMoon Shamanic Community whose mission is:

To connect the relationship of the one to the Whole
To heal ourselves and help others heal
To assist in the healing of places
To offer ceremony: birth, death, unitings, empowerment, rites of passage, and blessings

Contact:
Lyn Birmingham
Dallas, Texas
www.spiritmoon.net
lynb@sbcglobal.net

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BODY MIND & SPIRIT...A Wholeness Center
HARMONIC VISIONS

Karyn Armstrong, Minister, Shamanic Healing Arts Practitioner, Certified Tantra Educator, Director of Harmonic Visions and Proprietor of Body, Mind & Spirit…A Wholeness Center for Integrative Wellness based on CAM therapies. Shamanic healer, facilitator and teacher offering Shamanic Counseling, Advanced Shamanic Healing, Soul Retrieval, Shamanic Extraction, Depossession, Space Clearing, Death and Dying preparation, Shamanic Journeying, Intuitive Feng Shui�, Interior Alignment� and Shamanic Tantra�.

Karyn has graduated from the three year program with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, directed by Michael Harner, and is a graduate of Sandra Ingerman's Teacher Training in Shamanic Healing practices. Karyn has apprenticed with indigenous shamans, high priests, medicine men and women in Peru, Bali, Egypt, Belize and Canada. Karyn was one of the shamanic practitioners in a clinical trial of shamanic healing funded by The National Institute of Health's research grant and carried out by researchers at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon. She has performed and documented over a thousand Soul Retrievals teaches internationally and is recognized for her ability to bridge the world of spirit and bring it into everyday life. Over the past 20 years, her education and experience in the healing arts includes, Shamanic Healing, Reiki, Healing Touch, Sound Healing, Flower Essences, Essential Oils, Expressive Movement, Yoga, Voice, Tantra, Drum and Rattle making as well as sponsoring and facilitating workshops and seminars in the US and Canada. Karyn's integrative approach to her teaching is based on years of personal experience and learning which is rooted in her own unique, focused and disciplined daily spiritual practice.

Contact:
Body Mind & Spirit... A Wholeness Center
6491 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR 97239
503-525-2521
karyn@shamanictantra.com

Harmonic Visions
1314 NW Irving #602
Portland, OR 97209
503-452-6522
www.harmonicvisions.com
karyn@harmonicvisions.com

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HEALING THROUGH SPIRIT WORK
JOSEPH J. BURINSKY, AIA, Shamanic Practitioner, is a semi-retired registered Architect and Landscape Architect and a retired Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering Technology. Joseph's practice "Healing Thru Spirit Work" asks Spirit to help with any dysfunction that may have a causal component in Spirit. Techniques include: Soul Retrieval, Multiple Personality Resolution, Extraction Healing, Depossession, Power Animal Retrieval/Journey Work, Pre-birth Soul Resolution; Fibromyalgia, CFS, EDS, Bipolar Resolution; Healing Hereditary Dysfunctions, Active Dying Support, Ceremonies/Workshops, Meditation Intensives, Nationally Certified Bereavement Facilitator and Palliative Care specialist. Ethnobotanicals and hypnosis are not used in our work.

Studios include:

• "Healing the Healer"; support to help caregivers resist Soul fragmentation and "picking up Souls"
• "Building Responsible Relationships with Spirit Helpers"; including discernment, checks and balances, an up line for help, protection, and documentation.
• "Dealing with The Dark Side", for caregivers; discernment, methods, exercises,   strategies to insure survival, may include "Psychic Protection for Caregivers".
• "Earth, Fire, Water, and Air Intensives"; use of the Sacraments in your daily life, professional healing practice, and public Ceremony.
• "Die-right Workshops" for caregivers and anyone who might one day die; what it's all about, hazards, opportunities, we practice,   there's homework too.
• "Tips for Traveling. . ." protocol for family members and caregivers to assist those actively dying.
• "Heavy Sleepers. . ." protocol for family members and caregivers to assist those dying in coma or a state of impaired consciousness.
• "Solstice and Equinox seasonal Ceremonies"; connecting, integrating the Elemental Earth energies with Spirits of Place and the business of our daily lives; may include "Healing Spirits of Place".
  

  Contact:
  Joseph J. Burinsky, AIA
  570-454-6491
  jburinsky@psu.edu
  

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CIRCLE OF LIFE COUNSELING SERVICES

Colleen Deatsman is an author and a Masters Degreed Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Social Worker, Shamanic Practitioner, Reiki Master, Certified Hypnotherapist, and Certified Alternative Healing Consultant. She has been dedicated to her personal spiritual practice and life path of guiding people toward increased energy, personal empowerment, self-healing and self-actualization through individual sessions, national workshop trainings and authoring self-help books for over 26 years.         

Colleen is the author of two books: Inner Power, Six Techniques for Increased Energy & Self-Healing (Llewellyn Worldwide 2005); and Energy For Life  (Llewellyn 2006).

Colleen offers individual, couples and family healing and counseling sessions, monthly beginning shamanic classes, monthly advanced shamanic training circles, one-year intensive shamanic apprenticeship programs and a variety of weekend workshops where participants experience the empowering techniques from her books: Inner Power and Energy For Life!

Contact:
Circle of Life Healing and Counseling Services
P.O. Box 54
Mason, MI 48854
517-676-3187
www.colleendeatsman.com
colleendeatsman@colleendeatsman.com

 

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SUZANNE DAY

Education in Shamanism
         Training programs throughout the US
         Residential retreats in Arkansas

Shamanic Mystery School
         Apprenticeships
         2-Year Programs
         Group and Private Trainings

Shamanic Healing
         Personal Healing Sessions throughout the US & Long Distance Work
         Conflict Resolution - healing for families, businesses, communities
         House Clearings

Suzanne has taught Shamanism as a shamanic healing practice throughout the US for more than 14 years now. She has been a presenter at two International Peace Conferences and helped facilitate numerous Woman's Ceremonies across the US and Europe.   Suzanne is a Sundancer and minister of the Blue Star Church. She is a woman of great insight and integrity with a focus on fun!

Contact:
Suzanne Day
P.O. Box 36
Fox, AR 72051
suzanneday7@yahoo.com
www.SuzanneDay.org

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DOWN TO EARTH - THE SHAMAN'S CIRCLE

Down to Earth — The Shaman’s Circle is the shamanic teaching collaborative founded by Nan Moss, David Corbin and the late Linda Crane.  We offer workshops in shamanism led by Nan Moss, David Corbin and esteemed guest teachers at our center in Maine and in other locations around the Country.  Workshops include the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Basic and Advanced Courses as well as Nana and David’s work with the Spirits of the Weather.

Nan Moss and David Corbin have been faculty members of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies for over ten years.  They have a private practice in shamanic counseling, soul retrieval and shamanic healing, and are authors of the divinatory card set, CloudDancing: Wisdom from the Sky and a forthcoming book on Weather Shamanism, due out in 2007.

Contact:
Down to Earth — The Shaman’s Circle
PO Box 330
Port Clyde, ME 04855
207-372-8823
dscorb@earthlink.net
www.shamanscircle.com

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DYNAMIC ENERGETIC HEALING® is an integrative psychospiritual healing model that takes place within the psychotherapy context. I have been a psychotherapist in private practice since 1981, the same year that I started my shamanic training. I have completed the Foundation for Shamanic Studies' three-year program and train therapists how to move in and out of dreamtime within the psychotherapy context.   Dynamic Energetic Healing is an innovative synthesis that integrates core shamanic practices with energy psychology applications and Mindell's processwork principles. Manual muscle testing is used throughout the work to facilitate and keep the client's process moving. In order to become a facilitator, trainees must commit to participate in five 3-day trainings, each of which are progressive and build upon the previous ones. All include supervised practice with the last additional 2-day weekend training completely devoted to supervised practice. This is a powerful methodology for integrating shamanic practices into the psychotherapy context. For more in-depth descriptions of what is involved, you may click my web site links that connect you with the specific training outlines as well as my book that details the theory, step-by-step methodology and illustrative case histories. Because this is an energy based psychotherapy and healing model, changes occur rapidly and dramatically. Most significantly though, it is through the intercession of the compassionate spirits and the power they infuse that distinguishes this model from other energy based healing and therapy models.

Contact:
Howard Brockman, MA, LCSW, DCSW
Salem, OR
www.DynamicEnergeticHealing.com
howard_brockman@qwestoffice.net

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EARTH CARETAKERS

Earth Caretakers is dedicated to caring for the web of energy, sound, light, and love that surrounds us and our planet. Our intent is to renew and reweave our interconnections with trees, stones, and stars; with cross-cultural wisdom and prophesy; and with our own bodies, souls, and spirits. We focus on helping people discover the silence and mystery of the cosmos; experience personal transformation; and develop a joyful, heart-centered shamanic practice.

Meg Beeler, MAT, draws on her training in Andean and core shamanism, meditation, sound healing, feminist spirituality, and Medicine for the Earth work in her experiential classes, healing practice, public earth-honoring ceremonies, and apprenticeship program. A naturalist and artist, she has authored many articles on nature and spirit see www.earthcaretakers.net.

Contact:
Meg Beeler, MAT
Sonoma, CA
707-939-7961
megbeeler@earthlink.net
www.earthcaretakers.net

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EYE OF THE EAGLE
M. LEONTINE HARTZELL, BA

Shamanic Pracitioner since 1996. Founder and Director of Eye of the Eagle Center for Shamanic Studies and Healing in Andover, MA. Graduate of FSS 3-Year and Sandra Ingerman Teacher Training. Has studied with indigenous shamans in many cultures. Private healing sessions, soul retrieval and shamanic healing. Two year shamanic training programs,
workshops, on-going classes. Ceremonies, sweat lodges, guest teachers.

Contact:
M. Leontine Hartzell, BA
Andover, MA
978-475-1268
www.eyeofeagle.org
info@eyeofeagle.org

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FOUNDATION FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES

Founded by internationally renowned anthropologist Michael Harner with a three-fold mission to study, to teach, and to preserve shamanism, the Foundation for Shamanic Studies has built a reputation of consistency and dependability by providing reliable training in Core Shamanism to interested learners worldwide.

Contact:
Foundation For Shamanic Studies
PO Box 1939
Mill Valley, CA 9494
415-380-8282
www.shamanism.org

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FOUNDATION OF THE SACRED STREAM

The Foundation of the Sacred Stream strives to help people find their own path to wholeness and build a supportive community that is committed to deepening their connection to themselves, and the world around them.  We offer in depth training programs in Depth Hypnosis, Applied Shamanism, Depth Hypnosis, Huna and Integrated Energy Medicine.  Our programs and workshops are ideal for those who work in a helping profession, as well as individuals seeking their own personal growth.   The Applied Shamanism Training Program focuses on bringing the ancient practices of core shamanism into a modern context, while maintaining some of the traditional methods of practice. Depth Hypnosis is a therapeutic model developed by Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. which combines principles of shamanism, Buddhism, hypnotherapy and transpersonal psychology.  The Huna workshops are held in Hawaii and offer a clear view into the stream which runs under most shamanic practices.  The Integrated Energy Medicine Program distills the principles of energy management from shamanic practices and compares and integrates these practices with other energy medicine systems.  Classes are kept to under 30 participants and students may attend any class free of charge, or for a nominal charge, again as many times as they like.  Continuing Education Units are available for many of our programs for many professionals.

Contact:
Isa Gucciardi, PhD
info@sacredstream.org
415-333-1434
www.sacredstream.org
www.depthhypnosis.com
www.hunaspirit.com

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AMANDA FOULGER

Amanda Foulger is a shamanic teacher and practitioner based in Topanga, CA. She has trained with The Foundation for Shamanic Studies since 1988 and has a broad background in spiritual study and practice for over 30 years, including work with indigenous and American healers, The School of Lost Borders and Ralph Metzner¹s Alchemical Divination training.

Amanda teaches for FSS in Southern California and Colorado and assists at the Two-Week and Three-Year Programs. She has regular referrals from psychotherapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, ministers and performs ceremonies and seasonal or personal rites of passage.

She has taught on shamanism at institutions such as the Yo San University of Oriental Medicine, the San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council, U.C.L.A., The Esalen Institute and Churches of Religious Science. And she leads her own theme-based shamanic workshops, generally titled Our Personal Medicine, including a series on The Shaman's Heart.

Contact:
Amanda Foulger
310-455-3758
afoulger@aol.com

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FOUR WINDS SOCIETY

The Four Winds Society is a research and training organization whose mission is to preserve the techniques of Inca Shamanism and bring them into the 21st Century through classes and in depth training programs.   The Society offers programs in the Medicine Wheel, Soul Retrieval, Energy Medicine as well as expeditions to sacred sites in the Amazon, the Andes Mountains of Peru, India and Africa.

Contact:
888-437-4077
www.thefourwinds.com

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ALICIA LUENGAS GATES, C.S.C.

Alicia Luengas Gates spent seven years with indigenous populations in Mexico, where she was born. She has studied with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, especially with Michael Harner, since 1986 and is a Certified Harner Method Shamanic Counselor (C.S.C.) as well as having an active practice in shamanic counseling, consulting, and healing. She has been a faculty member of the Foundation since 1993, teaching the Basic Workshop and advanced programs in the United States, Argentina, and Spain. In addition, she currently teaches the Three-Year Program in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing and the Two-Week Intensive Course on the West Coast.

Contact:
Alicia Luengas Gates, CSC
www.shamanism.org/fssinfo/gates

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FRANCESCA GENTILLE, BA, SD, SC

Are you a healer, a therapist, a seeker who is called to listen to and empower the Body Soul?

We offer a 9 month Shamanic Soul Coaching Certification and a 10 month Touching The Body Soul Training. As well as workshops, seminars, and private sessions.

Francesca Gentille, the founder & director, is an initiated shaman in 4 traditions, cross cultural minister, clinical sexologist, health educator, and relationship coach. Her programs, trainings, workshops and private sessions collaboratively guide the soul home to its deepest truth, and lost Inner Aspects.

Francesca and her staff guide, model, embody and teach from the integrity of transforming their own lives of tragedy into triumph - ongoingly.

Contact:
Francesca Gentille, BA, SA, SC
Cell: 510-759-3839
www.LifeDanceCenter.com
sacreddancer@mindspring.com

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THE HEALING ARTS CENTER
Dancing Bear Teaching Lodge

Hal Robinson, MRC, is a partner in the Healing Arts Center, a holistic medical facility in Kerrville, Texas.   His practice is Gesalt Psychotherapy with shamanic healing practice included. The Center also provides training in Body-Mind Spirit Medicine.

Dancing Bear Teaching Lodge is the eductional/training component of the Healing Arts Center. We offer training in indigenous healing movements and their complimentary use with modern western medicine. This trainig is for professionals in healing related professions or individuals for personal growth.

Contact:
Healing Arts Center/Dancing Bear Teaching Lodge
Hal Robinson, MRC
144 Fairway Drive, Suite A-1
Kerrville, Texas 78028
830-896-8190
dancingbearteachinglodge@yahoo.com
www.dancingbearteachinglodge.com

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THE HOLLOW BONE
Ana Larramendi

Dedicated to spiritually awakening and healing our connection to the Earth, our community and ourselves. Ana Larramendi is a shamanic practitioner, teacher, minister, public speaker, Vision Quest leader, wilderness enthusiast, and ceremonialist who has been studying and practicing shamanism since 1989. Ana’s greatest passion is working with the Earth and teaching others how to connect spiritually with nature. She specializes in teaching Earth Healing practices.

The Hollow Bone sponsors workshops and apprenticeships on shamanism taught by Ana and other nationally known practitioners.  The instructors are chosen for their expertise and integrity. In general, these classes are located in southern Wisconsin.

Workshops on Shamanism:

• Basic Core Shamanic Journeying
• Shamanism & Nature
• Extraction or Soul Retrieval
• Past life and Ancestral Healing
• Peruvian Shamanic traditions
• Energy Healing & Illuminations
• Earth Mesa Medicine Wheel
  For current workshops go to www.thehollowbone.com/workshops.html

Apprenticeships:

• Caretaker of the Earth: An advanced level 18-month shamanic training on earth healing. www.thehollowbone.com/caretakerEarth.html

Shamanic Healing:
Ana’s private practice includes: soul retrieval, spiritual extraction, depossession, curse removal, illuminations, past life and ancestral healing, shamanic counseling, space clearing, land healing and much more.

Contact:
The Hollow Bone
Ana Larramendi
Madison, WI 53703
608-255-4333
inomoxo@tds.net
www.thehollowbone.com

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ROBINETTE KENNEDY, PhD

Robinette Kennedy, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, community activist and clinical anthropologist who had a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia for 20 years. Her ongoing training in shamanism has come from life/death situations and visionary experiences that allowed her to become conscious of her spirit guides and her spiritual calling.

     In 1992, she began conducting spiritual archaeology on ritual poses from Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete (the first European culture) that embody shamanic consciousness. This original research is the basis of her forthcoming book and retreats in North America and Greece where participants learn how to experience visionary dimensions of the culture known as “Minoan.”

     As a shamanic practitioner, her focus is on helping people to separate from the destructive aspects of Western culture and re-direct their personal resources into a life that integrates spiritual purpose with ecological sustainability. As a consultant and activist, Robinette helps organizations and community groups to transform visions into policies that respect all life forms. She lives in the mountains of Southern Appalachia and on the Greek island of Crete.

Contact:
Robinette Kennedy
PO Box W
Mountain City, GA 30562
706-746-5485
info@robinettekennedy.com
www.robinettekennedy.com

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HEALING WORKS INC.

HEALING WORKS INC is a healing center dedicated to helping people who are transitioning through physical, emotional, or spiritual imbalances. The staff at HEALING WORKS INC is well-versed in both Western medical models and complementary techniques that are essential in providing healing of the whole individual. If life is challenging you, if your body is trying to get your attention, or if you are interested in learning to connect and heal on a deeper lever, then HEALING WORKS INC is the center for you.

Located in Wilmington, Delaware, HEALING WORKS INC offers therapeutic massage, energy work, and shamanic healing practices by appointment. Private and group instruction for meditation, focusing techniques, and grounding practices are available. A variety of classes for personal growth, shamanic training, balance, and healing are available on site, or at your location.

Contact:
Katherine Franta Ries, PhD, PT, LMT
Barbara L. Williams BS, LMT
HEALING WORKS INC
3520 Silverside Road, Suite 28 The Commons
Wilmington, DE 19810
www.healingworksinc.com
healingworksinc@comcast.net

 

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INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SYMBOLIC AND SHAMANIC ENERGIES

The Institute for the Study of Symbolic and Shamanic Energies (ISSSE) is a multidisciplinary approach dedicated to understanding shamanism, energy dynamics and symbolism as portals of consciousness. The program uses long distance study, individual mentoring and group intensives both in the UK and the US.

Contact:
Adele R. McDowell, PhD
The Greenheart Center
PO Box 8059
Stamford, CT 06905
203-961-0490
ARMCDOWELLW@aol.com

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THE LAST MASK CENTER

Shamanic healer, teacher, and author, Christina Pratt, opened the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing in New York in 1990. She has been serving clients on both coasts since then, opening the Center in Portland in 2001. Pratt, a teacher of exceptional clarity, humor, and inspiration, has taught at The Omega Institute, Rowe Center, Hollyhock, Breitenbush Hot Springs, and Sleeping Lady Retreat Center in addition to the workshops produced by Last Mask Center. She is a frequent and honored speaker for the American Holistic Medical Association and local salons. Pratt's book, An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, will be published in two volumes by Rosen Publishing Group.

The Last Mask Center offers a wide variety of individual and community shamanic healing experiences, workshops and classes. Ms Pratt is always willing to travel to work with committed and creative people. If you are interested in scheduling a shamanic healing session or registering for a class or workshop, please call or email us.

For work in many cities across the US see the calendar.
For registration/information about all events (workshops, lectures, etc.).
For info on all private healing sessions (soul retreival, phone sessions,etc.).

Contact:
Christina Pratt, shaman, teacher, author
The Last Mask Center
Portland, OR
800-927-2527 ext. 02586 (24 hour message line)
www.shamansense.org
lastmaskcenter@earthlink.net

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A LIGHTSONG SCHOOL OF SHAMANIC STUDIES & LIGHTSONG HEALING CENTER

Jan Engels-Smith- MEd., LPC, is a hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, chemical dependency specialist, shamanic healer, teacher, and Reiki Master. Jan is the Founder of the LightSong School of Shamanic Studies and LightSong Healing Center. Jan has performed over two thousand soul retrievals. She is a water pourer and pipe carrier in Native American standards, and an ordained minister.  Author of the book: Becoming Yourself: The Journey from Head to Heart, (winner of Editor's choice award) the drumming CD: Take Your Body With You, and Awaken/Unburden/Create a guided meditation series with three powerful ceremonies that Jan works with in guided meditation form. Jan's personal philosophy is to assist individuals in gaining their own personal empowerment, which, in turn, promotes self-healing, better communities, and a healthier world. Lightsong School of Shamanic Studies teaches a full curriculum of classes regarding shamanic healing practices, from basic levels through mastery levels.  She offers apprenticeship programs for long-term commitments. Vision quests and sweat lodges are also available through LightSong.

Contact:
Jan Engels-Smith, MEd,LPC, HT
832 SW Wilson Court
Gresham, OR 97080
jan@janengelssmith.com
www.lightsong.net

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MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH

Drawing on the wisdom of ancient and modern-day mystics, the Medicine for the Earth training explains how to tap into this knowledge and use it to solve the problem of pollution and other maladies plaguing the planet.

Contact:
Medicine For The Earth
PO Box 4757
Santa Fe, NM 87502
www.medicinefortheearth.com

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ADELE R. MCDOWELL, PhD

Contact:
Adele R. McDowell, PhD
PO Box 8059
Stamford, CT 06905
www.channeledgrace.com (coming May 2008)
armcdowell@aol.com

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THE OTHER FORUM - www.theotherforum.net
Pennsylvania & Michigan

For thousands of years there were people who acted as healers, spiritual leaders, and innovators in their societies. Those people were known by various names in different cultures, but the name that seems to fit them best is Shaman. Like musicians and other artists, the Shaman seemed to be born to fulfill his office. They were identified from birth as special. In the modern world, this identification is no longer made. The question that arises is, did those born to the Office of Shaman suddenly cease to be? The answer is no. There are people who fulfill that Office to this very day. They may not think of themselves as Shamans but in reality they are. They are people with special abilities to understand human thought, human action and act as agents of change. This site is dedicated to those people with special abilities to understand human thought, human action and act as agents of change. This site is dedicated to those people, no matter what walk of life they currently occupy, and to those in particular who are seeking a path to actualize their potential, that they might fulfill their birthright!

Contact: Paul
275 Legion Road
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
800-892-5109
pbowersox@gmail.com
www.theotherforum.net

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RIVERDRUM

Workshops, retreats, and training programs in shamanism, Celtic spirituality and European mystery traditions presented by Tom Cowan and invited guest teachers.

The goal of Riverdrum activities is to gather people together who wish to learn, practice and thereby keep alive shamanic tradition of healing, seership and divination.  Riverdrum gatherings are structured to meet three important needs of contemporary people: training programs in core shamanism and European-based shamanic folk traditions; ritual space for earth and ancestor-based celebrations; and opportunities for spiritual retreats from everyday life.

Contact:
Tom Cowan
17 South Chodikee Lake Road
Highland, NY 12528
845-691-3564
www.riverdrum.com

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MARY A. ROOKER

I offer regular journey group sessions as well as shamanic healing and training in Takoma Park, Maryland and the Washington, D.C. area. My primary services include soul retrieval, power animal retrieval, journeying, extraction, depossession, vibrational healing with light and sound, space clearing, and awakening from spells, habits, and beliefs that no longer serve you. Workshops are available for both shamanic practitioner training and for the average person interested in bringing the ancient power, joy, and peace of shamanism to their
everyday lives.

The focus of my healing services and my workshops is to help all beings and energies who come to me to answer the call to wholeness and take their rightful place in the universe. Contact me to reawaken your body's healing powers, to remember who you really are, and to step more fully into the circle of life.

I acknowledge with deep gratitude the training I have received from my helping spirits and from Sandra Ingerman, with whom I have studied extensively, and from other great teachers, such as Betsy Bergstrom, Michael Harner, and Tom Cowan.

Contact:
Mary (Tyrtle) Rooker
804 Larch Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912-5828
301-891-1288
greentyrtle@gmail.com
www.greentyrtle.com

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SACRED WAY

Founder, Lee Hilfiker, has received extensive training in shamanism and walked with teachers from both North and South America.   She has been initiated as a shamana through the traditions of the Peruvian Andes and Amazon, receiving the transmission of a fourth-level Andean mystic and has been initiated as a coca leaf reader. In the Western tradition, Lee hold a Masters Degree in Education/Art Therapy, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist, and Expressive Arts Therapist.

Lee provides an apprenticeship in shamanism, which offers teachings and training that assist in both personal transformation and in the development of skills to be of service to others. Participants in the training are challenged to step out of the commonplace and into the mystical by entering into an experiential exploration of the world of the shaman. You will forever change your perception of yourself, the world, and all of creation.

Contact:
D. Lee Hilfiker
3922 Harless Road
Eau Claire, WI 54701
715-834-8337
lee@sacredway.net
www.sacredway.net

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SHAMANIC SHIFT CENTER - Companions Circle

A non-profit mission of new shamanics centered in Milwaukee WI and reaching out online. We live original shamanic ways of blessing, questing, dreaming, dancing, and jesting amidst the ordinary, everyday. We specialize in fun restoration and healing laughter linked to contemporary, adapted, natural, and universal ways of shamanic alchemy.

Contact co-founder Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins for shamanic circles, mentoring, teaching, counseling, transformational divination, expressive and visionary artplay, ministerial services, and shamanic street jesting and prophetic entertainment with character clown 'Shamantic! The Wise'.

Contact:
Shamanic Shift Center - Companions Circle
Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins
930 East Knapp Street, Ste. 06
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414-289-8661
shamanicshift@gmail.com
www.shamanic-shift.org

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SHAMANIC TEACHERS

An international alliance of shamanic teachers filled with heart and integrity to help you make personal contact with the spiritual realms.   Trained to teach by Sandra Ingerman, teacher and author of five well-known books on shamanism and shamanic healing including Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self.

Contact:
Shamanic Teachers
www.shamanicteachers.com

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SHARED WISDOM

Shared Wisdom is the vision of anthropologist and author Hank Wesselman, PhD., and transpersonal medical practitioner Jill Kuykendall, RPT, whose shamanic workshops and presentations reflect a perspective derived from the Hawaiian kahuna la'au kahea tradition in which knowledge of the personal soul cluster, as well as an expanded understanding of the nature of reality, forms the foundation. Their schedule, as well as their travel program with PowerPlaces Tours may be found at:

Contact:
Shared Wisdom
www.sharedwisdom.com

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PAUL M. SIVERT, L.C.P.C.
Shamanic Healing Institute

Paul M. Sivert is the Founder and Owner of Shamanic Healing Institute. He is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (L.C.P.C.) and Cross-Cultural Shamanic Practitioner. Paul's expertise is in Divination, Soul Retrieval and Indigenous Healing Traditions including the
Andean Cosmology. Paul has been initiated by the most renowned medicine people to practice the energy medicine of South America. Paul's healing ceremonies have proven to be effective, efficient and filled with the energy of munay (love and beauty). Paul holds a Masters Degree in Psychology, and a degree in Ministry of Spiritual Counseling, as well as certificates to practice Integrated Awareness and Past Life Regression. Paul has provided clinical counseling for 30+ years and he has provided healing ceremonies and energy medicine educational programs for 20+ years.

Contact:
Paul M. Sivert, L.C.P.C.
Shamanic Healing Institute
8600 Foundry Street, Suite 214, Box 2011
Savage Maryland 20763
301-362-2221
paul@shamanic-healing.org

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SPIRIT PASSAGES

Spirit Passages is the work of Evelyn C. Rysdyk, author of Modern Shamanic Living and C. Allie Knowlton, MSW, LCSW, DCSW.  Both women are nationally recognized presenters who are featured in the book Traveling Between the Worlds. Spirit Passages is an organization whose purpose is to give individuals the tools to become conscious participants in their own healing, health and spiritual evolution.  As each of us is inextricably entwined with the Earth, living from our highest selves brings us into resonance with our planet's magnificent potential for renewal. They offer workshops, apprenticeships and presentations with both shamanic and eco-spiritual themes.

Contact:
www.spiritpassages.org

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SHELLEY STUMP, JD, CPF
HEALING WATERS INSTITUTE

Shelley Stump is a teacher of ancient wisdom and peer counselor whose work focuses on helping others understand the connectedness and sanctity of all Life by supporting others in their direct experience of loving spirit.  Drawing on her years of learning and personal experience, Shelley leads women's spiritual exploration and empowerment circles, women’s journey circles, Medicine for the Earth circles, solstice and equinox drumming circles, and shamanic journeying and healing 1-day classes, multiple-day workshops and apprenticeship program. Shelley teaches Earth-based spiritual practices as well as higher vibratory energy practices, including shamanic journeying, chakra healing and meditations, and ceremonial drum and rattle-making.  Shelley also offers individual shamanic healing sessions and blessing rituals for land, homes, and other spaces.  Shelley's spirit-connected offerings are shared with joy and gratitude for Spirit's guidance in her life.

Contact:
Shelley Stump, JD, CPF
Healing Waters Institute
2110 Nielsen Road
Tillamook, OR 97141
503-842-2809
www.coyotemoon.net

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TERRA MANDALA

A place where people come to heal, learn and reflect. Services include therapy, trainings, retreats, celebrant and art.

Offerings:
>Shamanic Workshops
>Shamanic Counseling
>Shamanic Healing
>Earth Centered Ceremonies
>Drumming Circles
>Ceremonial Pottery

Irene Friesen is a shamanic practitioner and has completed advanced training with the Foundation For Shamanic Studies.

Contact:
Irene Friesen
Terra Mandala
Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada
wolfston@mts.net
www.terramandala.ca

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DEBRA VARNER, MA

Services offered:
>Healing - hands-on healing and guidance in self-healing techniques
>Blessings - for self, relationships, partnerships, new homes, businesses, pregnancies, newborns, children and family
>Ceremonies- to memorialize significant events
>Distance Healing – to assist in the health of those far away
>Divination – seeking information
>Dream Work – to understand the messages
>Drum Circles – to collectively build the energy for intentional purposes
>Empowerment Journeys– to assist in the access to the spirit world
>Extractions – to remove negative energy from the body
>Soul Retrieval – to retrieve lost soul parts to be integrated back into the body
>Consulting – to teach and to learn
>Holistic Sexuality - remembering your primal energy source
>Building Ovaas - a sacred space in nature

Contact:
Debra Varner
415-922-0137
debra@purplemedicinewoman.org
www.purplemedicinewoman.org

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WARRIOR IN THE HEART
Shamanic Training in the UK and Italy

Howard and Elsa Malpas are both therapists working since 1990 in psychiatric hospitals and clinics, and have been facilitating Shamanic trainings and events since 1994.   They have spent more than 20 years learning, remembering and honouring the Shamanic Way and how to tread lightly on the Earth. 

They run regular Journeying Circles in Glastonbury and London. Their trainings range from weekends to year-long Practitioner Trainings and Advanced Counseling Courses. This year they are initiating Blending the Light with the Dark trainings into their programme.
 
For every Student they offer supervision throughout the training period and are always available to support and encourage after training. Since 2000, for those who have completed their Practitioner Training, they offer a free meeting every three months to share, update and create a healing ceremony for the Earth. Most of their trainings are held in London or Glastonbury, but they also offer retreats in Wales and Italy.
 
"The Shamanic Way has given us much JOY, wise counsel and passion for life".

Contact:
Howard & Elsa Malpas
United Kingdom
www.shamanicwarrior.com

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Contact:
Wolfindark
Box 390
Lions Bay BC
Canada V0N 2E0
inevitablegrace@wolfindark.com
www.wolfindark.com