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Shamanism is an ancient, pre-religious, holistic approach to healing. Our indigenous grandfathers and grandmothers know that balance is a key to happy and healthy living and that balance includes all bodies - physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Working with a shaman, or developing your own shamanic habits, includes bringing your bodies into alignment. Shamanic Healing works with your luminous body, with the subtle energies that compose your being, through both physical and psychic means.
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The definitive study on shamanism was written by the late Mircea Eliade
in his book, Shamanism, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. The word
"shaman" comes from tribes in Central and Northern Asia. The
concise definition Eliade offered is that shamanism is the "technique
of ecstasy." Ecstasy refers to the shaman's process of going into
a trance, whereby he leaves his body and travels to the upper or lower
worlds. Here he engages in activities such as obtaining information, or
mediating or negotiating with the spirits in those realms on behalf of
the tribe or patient. Tribes and indigenous peoples from around the planet
normally include an extraordinary individual identified to be this mediator
with Spirit. This person may also be the medicine man, magician, sage,
and/or healer. Western society has utilized the label "shaman"
to refer to masters of the technique of ecstasy in any culture.
Interest in the abilities and techniques of shamanic healing has grown in western societies. Those of us born and raised in the West are realizing that western medicine, although very powerful and needed for certain diseases and injuries, has severe limitations for "healing."
Healing comes from within.
Often a surgical procedure or a course of medicine will produce a "cure," but the person reverts to the same disease because they did not change their thinking, their habits, their living circumstances, or whatever was causing the disease in the first place. The shaman connects with Spirit and works to bring the client back into harmony with Spirit.
Working with a shaman, or developing your own shamanic habits, includes bringing your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual selves into alignment. Shamanism works with your luminous body, with the subtle energies that compose your being.
Imagine learning to live with one foot in this world and one foot in the next. Imagine traveling to many worlds beyond this one and returning to tell the tales to those who remain. Imagine being free of your past and overcoming death. Imagine fully experiencing and developing a deep respect for and connection with the infinite and awesome power of Spirit, discovered in the moment of being.
We are fortunate to live in a time when our indigenous elders have chosen to share with the western world their ancient wisdom about the Earth and her people. From Siberia, Africa and Australia to the Americas, caretakers of the Earth, who have lived unceasingly in harmony with Nature for thousands of years, are teaching us to wake up and learn to tend the planetary garden that sustains us so beautifully.
"One reason why the practices
of energy healing have been kept so closely guarded is that they are often
mistaken for a set of techniques, in the same way the Western medicine
is sometimes regarded as a set of procedures. We mistakenly think that
we can master energy healing by learning the rules. However, for the shaman
it is not about the rules or ideas. It's about vision and Spirit. And
while the healing practices often vary from village to village, the Spirit
never varies. True healing is nothing less than an awakening to a vision
of our healed nature and the experience of infinity." from Shamanic
Healer, Sage, Alberto Villoldo.
Shamanic Healing
