Shamanism

RAINBOW DREAM DANCE

Dancing the Rainbow Arwyn DreamWalker has been bringing the Rainbow Dream Dance to the UK and Ireland for 20 years.  Based on the dreamer’s Sundance of Turtle Island, this ceremony offers a chance to dance in honour of Grandmother Earth. Ri Ferrier speaks to Arwyn about the dance What’s the purpose behind the Rainbow Dream Dance? Its purpose is to dance with Grandmother and Her Worlds - for Her dream and for our own Sacred Dream, sending the dance as an activator of what She carries and how it is embodied within us, and how we can restore Her Web. The…

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Going native SIEDR

Going native The English/Northern European shamanic path called Siedr is alive and well in the British Isles. Runic John gives us an introduction into this mysterious and powerful tradition   …

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Peaceful Passing

All human life is likened to…

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Your Body is the Earth

Advertisement Feature Your Body is the Earth My work as a shamanic healer brings me a wide variety of clients with an even wider variety of issues – from sexual abuse to spiritual struggles from depression to disease. Although the issues vary, the root cause can normally be…

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Making Your Own Spirit Stones

Make your own Spirit Stone Painting stones to focus intent is the practice of many different cultures. Tania Ahsan shows you how to make your own Spirit Stone   …

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Healer, Heal Thyself...Is Shamnic Sickness Really Necessary?

Healer, heal thyself Your toughest times may have been just what you needed to help you become a good healer. Eve Menezes Cunningham looks into shamanic sickness and how it aids healers   If you’ve ever felt locked into despair and despondency, it might comfort you to learn that your pain might be preparing you for a life in which you can…

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Hedgerider

As the author of Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld, Eric j. de Vries, a student of shamanism and mysticism, found that there were very few modern shamans that hearkened back to the shamanism of Old Europe. So, did European shamans ever really exist? Here are some of the results of his painstaking research and investigations. There were European shamans, a lot in fact. However the problem revolves around the fact that the heritage of European shamanism consists of half-forgotten fairy-tales and half-remembered myths and even that wisdom is mostly…

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Gregg Braden - Living The Answer

Spiritual Life Coach Mike Brown talks to best-selling author Gregg Braden, renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality, about his personal experience of merging the dark and light forces in the universe and his vision for our future. In terms of the human potential movement, what do you think have been the biggest strides in the past 25 years? GB: We’re living a moment in a cycle of time that has happened many…

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Lands of Light

In her travels, Sandra Straw has always felt the sacred feminine energy most powerfully in the South American countries working with the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Peru and Chile. Here, we can discover great teachings of wise ones and the natural laws. They continue to teach us as Moses and many great prophets have done down through the ages, that there is a ‘Spiritual Code’ for our existence. It is in these lands that the great initiators of the future will emerge. Enjoy Sandra's account of her illuminating voyage through this wonderful continent. …

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The way of the Shamanka

Having grown up in New Zealand, with horses and an addiction to water, now immersed in the life of being the financial provider, a mother and wife, I have often felt estranged from the natural world and the sustenance it once offered. I can ill-afford to take up riding again, and the northern hemisphere seas offer only fleeting invitations to dive in, so I was heartened to hear that Eliana Harvey was inviting me to spend a day with her and allow myself to be at one with the ancient wisdoms once again. Shamanka is a…

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The Courageous Dreamer

One of the most respected advocates of the path of natural wisdom, Alberto Villoldo PhD, invites us all to take up our places in a brighter world, engage our new brains and experience a luminous life. Find out how we can do this and not be left wanting in a primitive dimension. The shamanic path is the feminine path; the path of the earth peoples. It is a relational, sustainable, ecological path of stewardship in contrast to the Western path that we have taken. The Western path of exploitation, of extractive…

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The Legacy of the Druids

Our ancient ancestors were Druids – shamanic elders indigenous to the British Isles. The landmasses known today as Ireland, England, Scotland,and Wales were once part of Atlantis or, more specifi cally, the great continent of Appalachia.These highly developed civilisations were brought to an abrupt end in approximately 13,000 BC by terrestrial upheavals of an unimaginable scale. Author Michael Tsarion tells Karen Sawyer about his colourful revelations that go some way to explain the existence of mystical, sea-faring teachers who left their mark on all four corners of…

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The Body Tune-Up

We live in a toxic environment infecting our bodies, our minds and the world around us. Hawaiian kahuna, Abraham Kawaii, viewed the ileocecal valve as the regulator for the elements of fire, water, air and earth in the human body. When these elements were out of balance, causing what we would now call toxicity, he would look to reset the valve to restore natural harmony. Wayne Kealohi Powell explains how we can all benefi t from the Hawaiian ‘body tuneup’ to release the toxins and restore much-needed balance in our lives today. Not too long ago we were a…

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Island of Myth and Legend

Anna Maria Espsäter and her friend found themselves stranded in Tahiti for a bit longer than intended, en route to Easter Island. The unsettling start to their journey only added to the mystery that surrounds their remote destination Easter Island lies like a speck in the vast Pacific Ocean, some four hours plane journey from the Chilean mainland to the east and almost as far away from Tahiti to the west. The journey there is part of the adventure and although I’d heard much about this far-fl ung outpost and its famous moai, or stone statues, before my visit, nothing had quite…

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Dance of the First Born

To the best of our knowledge the San (Bushmen) of the Kalahari are the oldest surviving culture on Earth. They are a remarkable people who have somehow survived a phenomenal onslaught from imperialism and modernity and yet still hold on to their cultural existence with a tenacity that defines them as a people. What is their secret? In their words, it is their shamanic trance dance.…

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Natural Born Seeker

Kate Osborne spends time with Shirley MacLaine, tapping into the vast reservoir of her spiritual experiences covering health, education, the environment and the human potential movement. We open up to the passion and curiosity that this accomplished individual brings to the search for the truth and purpose at the heart of our being...Now she is in her 70s I asked Shirley if this life-long pursuit for her truth has left her feeling happy with what she’s uncovered, or isolated. SM 'I am always ten years ahead, so that makes me lonely. It has a sense of "God, does anybody know what…

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At One with All

Sandra Ingerman MA is a prolific author and world-renowned teacher of shamanism. Recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods and modern culture, she speaks to Kindred Spirit about her spiritual practice and what it offers all humanity.  Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves direct revelation. It requires seeing ourselves as part of nature and connected to a web of life. The underlying principle of shamanism is one of unity and no separation. Shamans diagnose illness as a separation from nature and look at what is spiritually,…

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Bee Shamanism

Simon Buxton reveals the spiritual link between bee and man.  It is rarely disputed that the bee is our most ancient ally. They have been on the Earth since the Cenozoic period, some 55 million years, and surviving images from the civilisations of Old Europe indicate that next to serpents, bees are the creatures most often depicted. Both live in small, dark places, carry venom and issue forth from the hole at certain seasons of the year. But whereas serpents might be depicted as symbols of both ‘good’ or ‘evil’,…

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Living Lightly on the Earth....

When Dawn Eagle Woman brings her transformational healing work to the UK she leaves behind a major eco building project. Following a spirit-guided endeavour to live in harmony with nature, in accordance with Native American tradition, Dawn Eagle and her husband Brian White are building a house from recycled materials, powered only by nature, in her native Wyoming, high in the mountains between Laramie and Cheyenne. A gifted healer, drawing on her own deep spiritual experience, from shamanic healing to psychoanalytic theory, to weave a profound alchemical magic, Dawn Eagle Woman’s own…

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