Core Shamanic Training

The Shamanic Journey:

Pathway to Knowledge & Power™

Divination in Practice

The skilled practice of shamanic divination, the process of consulting the spirits for knowledge, is an essential aspect of shamanic healing and of bringing the wisdom of the helping spirits to bear on personal, local, and global issues. This workshop offers students opportunities to practice journeying to contact their compassionate spirit helpers and to enhance their abilities to form on-topic questions and interpret the messages received. Participants will also experience classic shamanic ways to build and nurture strong relationships with their own spirits. This is an excellent follow-up workshop from the Way of the Shaman or the new online Shamanic Journey workshop. An opportunity to practice your journey skills with the purpose of Divination. This is not the same workshop as the in-person Divination workshop

The workshop offered by Catherine Hughes is a 7-hour course. The cost of this workshop is $160 CDN, $148 for FSS members.  Note* the prerequisite for this course is either the in-person Way of the Shaman or the online The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Power and Knowledge. You can register through Paypal or etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com

The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive™

The shamanic worldview underpins the ethical and effective practice of shamanism. Experiential knowledge of this worldview leads to a profound awareness of the sacred nature of our world and an awakening of compassion—resulting in a deep desire to relieve pain and suffering and restore balance and harmony. Using journeying and experiential shamanic methods, in this online workshop you will have the
opportunity to personally explore and experience the fundamental aspects of the shaman’s worldview:
• Everything is alive and has spirit
• Unity: We are part of, connected with, the totality of nature
• Independent spirituality—the shaman as “one who knows”
• The implications of these principles related to permission when doing shamanic healing and
divination

The workshop offered by Catherine Hughes consists of 7 hours of training. The cost of this workshop is $160 CDN. 

PREREQUISITES: The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge & Power (online) AND, Shamanic Divination in Practice (online)OR the in-person Basic Workshop, The Way of the Shaman.
NOTE: Participants must be able to successfully journey to contact at least one helping spirit from the
Upper or Lower Worlds.

You can register through the Paypal link or by etransfer to Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com.

Shamanism, Spirits, and Healing

Effective shamanic practice depends upon knowledge of the spirit realms and how to access them to build strong relationships with the compassionate helping spirits. Powerful shamanic healing requires training, discipline, and experience.

In this experiential workshop, which sets the context for the   Shamanic Healing Online Training Program, you will have the opportunity to personally explore:

• The three worlds of the shaman (Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds) and the qualities of ordinary and non-ordinary reality;
• The nature of the spirits of the three worlds;
• Middle World non-ordinary reality spiritual aspects and their relationship to illness and wholeness.

Primary shamanic healing methods will be described, including shamanic extraction healing, psychopomp to help the spirits of the deceased, and soul retrieval. You will learn and practice power animal retrieval, with the chance to work with another participant to both retrieve and receive a power animal. In these challenging times, shamanic work, when combined with ordinary reality knowledge and action, can make an immense contribution toward an effective long-term solution. The Workshop is 7 hrs of training and the fee is $160 CDN, $148 for FSS members.

PREREQUISITES:

1. The Basic, Way of the Sham (in-person workshop)
2. OR  The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge & Power  AND  Shamanic Divination in Practice
3. AND  The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive  (available online only)

Shaman As Psychopomp

Shamans are concerned with the human soul, with healing during life and assisting the soul’s passage out of the Middle World after death. Familiar with the realms of the dead, a shaman can act as a psychopomp—a conductor of souls. A trained shamanic practitioner is able to guide the soul of a deceased person out of the Middle World to a place where the soul can receive help in taking the next step on its path. The focus of this training is on learning and practicing the psychopomp method.

In this fully experiential workshop, you will have the opportunity to:

Explore what happens for human souls from a core shamanic perspective after they leave the
body—the “destiny of human souls” in the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds

Learn and practice the psychopomp method to help the souls of the deceased out of the Middle
World to a better place

• How to locate a soul in the Middle World that may be stuck and in need of help
• How to obtain the soul’s permission to offer shamanic assistance
• How to guide the soul to a place in the Upper or Lower World where it will be helped to
  continue on its journey

PREREQUISITES:

1. The Basic, Way of the Sham (in-person workshop)
2. OR  The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge & Power  AND  Shamanic Divination in Practice
3. AND  The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive  (available online only)
4. AND Shamanism, Spirits, and Healing

This workshop is 10.5 hours in length and has a fee of $225 CDN, $207 for FSS members. You may register through the PayPal link or etransfer Catherine@wayfindingspirit.com

Shamanic Extraction Healing Method

Shamanic extraction healing is a powerful practice for treating localized pain and illness resulting from spiritual factors. “The shaman works to remove things that interfere with the health of the body, such as spiritual intrusions, and extract them. This is not done through journeying. It’s done through working here in the Middle World in an altered state of consciousness.” Michael Harner,  Shamanic Healing 

In this fully experiential online workshop, you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn methods to build spiritual power to prepare for extraction practice
• Sense and see spiritual intrusions, which may be causing localized illness
• Practice with other participants to safely extract (remove) spiritual intrusions
• Re-empower a client after a shamanic extraction to fully restore health and well-being