Home Art Therapy and Counseling Shamanism - Healing - Classes - Journey    Circles Links Contact Susan, in my place of sleep long ago surrounded by dark terror You met me, smiling ease, while always hearing the echos of my pain and feeling the chaos. Patiently, with hope and joy You helped me guide myself. You helped me love the drum and gave me my first power guide. Traveling your own dusty roads You always were there for me And when I emerged into a rainbow of joy You were standing in the light And we laughed, and our laughter fills the world. Thank you, Susan. --- M.D.

In our work as shamanic practitioners we rely on the assistance of spirit teachers and power animals. We use a drum or rattle to alter our consciousness to connect with spirit helpers, who respond by showing us information about the person seeking help and offering the best way to give this person what they need at the time. Many come asking for soul retrieval. Soul is our life force and vitality. Due to chronic problems, illness or trauma many people are experiencing partial soul loss. Some symptoms are not feeling present in your body, feeling out of balance since surgery, an accident or the end of a relationship, or serious illness and addictions. Soul Retrieval is an active spiritual response that seeks to fill inner voids with your own personal power. This process may resolve emotional and physical distress, repetitious destructive patterns, past fears, and traumas. The soul part(s) returned to the physical body are healthy and strong, allowing you to experience this type of healing in a gentle manner and gain more resources. When you have a shamanic healing the intent is for you to be more present in your body so that you will feel whole and centered while dealing with your personal needs and recovery. It's time to welcome yourself home. "I feel like you 'removed' a black plug that stopped my energy flow. The backed up and suppressed energy created the depression." - client after receiving healing While doing shamanic healing work for others, we sometimes need to extract intrusions, spiritual attachments a person may have taken on in times of weakness or trauma. In our experience intrusions often appear as sticky or oily black substances, dark areas either hot or cold, and insects or stingers. In these cases it has been helpful to have a bowl of water during the healing and to spiritually send the intrusion to a body of water. In this way it becomes transformed and will not be a danger to others. Shamanic extraction work can alleviate depression. Other physical ailments can be improved or alleviated by removing intrusions and assist people in their recovery and remission healing process. A shamanic extraction can be essential as a complementary intervention to allopathic treatment or surgery. Intrusions exist along a continuum and obviously reflect individual issues and needs. Some clients indicate that their intrusions take on human or animal form. In these cases intrusions may be seen as soul attachments. The soul who has attached invariably is no longer alive in physical dimension as we know it and needs assistance to accept their need to go to the light, where they will be much happier and comfortable. The client then is free of an unneeded entity. This usually causes relief from the symptoms reported.

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