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Where Two Worlds Meet The medicine wheel or sacred hoop has been used for generations by different cultures but specifically by American Indians to facilitate change and transformation. The wheel or hoop can be used to facilitate healing and to seek direction not only...
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One Coin, Two Sides As we have already seen, shamans interact with the spiritual world or non-physical world. They interact in order to bring about change, healing, transformation, not only in their own lives but in the lives of others, in the lives of the whole...
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Working with Spirit Journeying is the shaman’s gift which entails a high level of responsibility and commitment to their own walk, commitment to their patient and to their community. The ability to be able to divine or see an illness is an important part of treatment,...
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Soul Retrieval If a shaman diagnoses soul loss, his role in that healing is to seek, find, heal and return that lost aspect safely to the client. This is a complex process. The shaman may need to travel in time and space to find the lost soul. She may need the...
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Herbs, Ceremony & Sound Plant medicine has been around for thousands of years. Even if you had never heard of shamanism or shamans, you would have heard of plant medicine or herbal medicine. Traditionally, shamans were expected to know their herbs, especially...
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The Divine Within We are so much more than what we think we are. We are actually the universe, learning and experiencing itself. So often we look out, we look out towards what we perceive as the universe, when in reality we must all learn to look in, look within,...
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Our Intent Matters In 2014, I had been contacted by a young lady whom we shall call Ruth. Ruth was in her late twenties. She visited Sri-Lanka six years previously, where she was a volunteer for eight months with a center that helps street kids. Whilst over there she...
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The Effects of Shamanic Healing – Kenzo Amariyo The Effects of Shamanic Healing & Other Healing Practices on General Well-Being – aims to explore the relationship between spirit and matter, but to explain it in relation to shamanic healing and other...
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Time – Does It Exist in the Universe? Time – it seems to be the governor of not only our life but our entire existence. But does time really exist or is it just a measure that we use to organise the events of our day, our night, our past, present and...