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Shamanic Soul Coach
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Learning for your Soul
I passionately believe in teaching new skills which allow you to take back your power and develop it so you can heal yourself and change with ease. Over many years I have been privileged to facilitate many people to move successfully through big changes and challenges in their lives.
Why learn Hedge Shamanism?
Because:
- you learn to change, heal yourself and take back your own power.
- it is safe and easy to learn.
- you can use it at home and in everyday life.
What is Shamanism?
It is a name for the old core beliefs of indigenous peoples across the world. A Shaman works on behalf of their community to help with healing of people and the land and divination.
What does a Shamanic Practitioner do?
Works with the tools of Shaman to heal people and the land.
What do Shamanic Practitioners believe?
- Everything has a spirit.
- Everything is connected – there is a web of life.
- Humans should honour the natural world and the earth
- We should honour our ancestors and work with them
How do Shamanic Practitioners Work?
Shamanic Practitioners gain information, advice and insight from Spirit to help learn how to heal others, themselves and their land. They “journey” to other parallel worlds and use other tools such as ceremony and divination to learn what to do from Spirit.
What is Hedge Shamanism?
In England we have no native Shaman with direct traditions going back to the ancient times. Hedge Shamanism is a path that I have developed as I learned Shamanic Practice as an apprentice to others who have trained with indigenous peoples and with Universalist traditions. It is firmly set in the context of the Western European – the world I am part of.
How do we know what to do?
Spirit communicates directly with us. Spirit usually speaks in metaphor which we need to learn how to interpret. We have helping spirits – Power Animals and Teachers in Human Form
What do I learn on a Hedge Shamanism Course?
You learn techniques from Shamanic Practice which you use to change and heal yourself.
What sort of courses?
In normal times I run evening classes, day, weekend and week-long courses in Hedge Shamanism, safe personal ways of living and healing oneself. During COVID, (and I expect beyond) I run courses on Zoom and residential courses at Claridge House Retreat Centre in Surrey.
As a Shamanic Practitioner I teach individuals and small groups about the ancient wisdom of Hedge Shamanism online with interactive session using Zoom. With groups I use breakout rooms via Zoom I also run residential retreats and evening classes where COVID 19 permits.
Residential Weekend Hedge Shamanism Courses
These courses work with a subject area and are designed to be suitable for beginners and those with previous experience. During a weekend we will develop a theme and learn to use various Shamanic Techniques to learn to change, heal ourself and take back our own power
Moving Forward – Using Hedge Shamanism for Self-Healing.
May 6 – 8 2022 at Claridge House Retreat Centre Book Direct
https://www.claridgehouse.org.uk/
We will be using the ancient tools and techniques of Shamanic Practice to work on our own stories to look at how to move forward in our lives.
Courses on Hedge Shamanism
On these three courses you learn Hedge Shamanism techniques to change, heal yourself and take back your own power.
These courses which take you from the absolute beginner to advanced techniques in self-healing:
Introduction to Self-Healing with Hedge Shamanism for Beginners and Returners.
Six sessions to learn tools and techniques to change, heal and take back your own power.
Starting on Wednesday 29th September 2021 and on Wednesday 10th November 2021from 7.30-9.30pm UK time on Zoom. £75.00.
Six sessions on the basics of using Hedge Shamanism for self-healing including:
- What is Shamanism? What is Hedge Shamanism?
- Opening and Closing Space
- Journeying safely – Shamanic Garden
- Upper World and Teachers in Human Kind
- Lower World and Power Animals
- Intention, Interpretation and Integration
- Standing in your own power, Grounding and Coming back into your own body and Basic Protection
- Ceremony
Taking Self-Healing with Hedge Shamanism Forward.
Eight sessions to learn more tools and techniques to change, heal yourself and take back your own power.
Starting on Wednesday 26th January 2022 from 7.30 – 9.30pm UK time on Zoom £100.00.
Eight sessions of more advanced Hedge Shamanism for Self-Healing including:
- Manifesting your needs
- Working on your own Timeline to heal the past
- Releasing yourself
- Finding your Protector Spirit to gain freedom from fear
- Fully working with the worlds
- Creating your own altar
Advanced Self-Healing with Hedge Shamanism
Eight sessions to learn advanced techniques to change,heal yourself and take back your own power.
Starting on Wednesday 11th May 2022 from 7.30-9.30 pm UK Time on Zoom £100.00.
Eight sessions of advanced Hedge Shamanism for Self Healing including
- Healing yourself through the Linden Grove
- Restoring your Power fully
- Working with the stone people to understand your world
- Working with the plant people to understand your world
- Cord cutting to release yourself from old relationships
- Completing a Dismemberment Journey to allow yourself to fully heal
- Vision Quest.
12 Month Apprenticeship Shamanic Practitioner 2022 – 2023
A twelve-month Apprenticeship Programme building on core Hedge Shamanism self-healing techniques. This programme will enable you to train to a certificate level with insurance to practice with clients as a Shamanic Practitioner.
This course is expected to run again from SEptember 2022- September 2023. To complete this you will need to have a full understanding of basic self-healing Shamanic Practice either through my courses or through other work and if necessary additional one on one sessions on line. The Apprenticeship Programme builds on the self-healing techniques of Hedge Shamanism to become safe and competent to work independently as a Shamanic Practitioner in Hedge Shamanism. More details can be found here. Please contact me if you are interested.
Testimonials
“Sarah’s hedge shamanism course teaches such a wide variety of techniques that can be used to help you navigate real life issues. It is a fun practical course that I would recommend to people who are looking for ways to connect deeper to spirit and themselves.”
Carolyn
“It was so wonderful to meet Sarah teaching on a retreat and learn with her. She has great commitment in her teachings. She promotes other’s development allowing them to be themselves and stimulating people to build and recover their own power and energy. “
Marianna
“This was an exceptional weekend of teaching and learning.”
“My own healing was profound and took place as a result of the journeys.”
“Feeling that my mind was being stretched and opened to new ideas.”
“It was presented in such a great way to encourage exploration of the inner self with imagery.”
Contact Me
If you have any questions or wish to chat about my courses, please get in touch.
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Disclaimer
I am a Shamanic Practitioner. I am not a doctor, psychotherapist, or other registered professional. Any advice, healing, or teaching at a workshop, is offered to supplement medical or other conventional treatment. Please consult your doctor or other health care professional for any physical or psychological conditions you may be experiencing.
The Apprenticeship Programme
You can download the following details as a pdf here.
The Apprenticeship Programme builds on the self-healing techniques of Hedge Shamanism to become safe and competent to work independently as a Shamanic Practitioner healing clients using Hedge Shamanism by:
- Developing the student’s own path and relationship with Spirit.
- Learning the Shamanic techniques of Hedge Shamanism which can be used safely as a Shamanic Practitioner to enable independent working with people and the land.
- Understanding the risks and best safe Shamanic practice for working with clients.
CERTIFICATION
On completion of this course students will receive a certificate of competent practice as a Hedge Shamanic Practitioner. During the course they can have student insurance and on completion they can insure as a Shamanic Practitioner.
TEACHING AND STUDENT INPUT
This course will be based at least 75 hours teaching. How this will be delivered in 2022/2023 will depend on circumstances such as Covid. In 2021/2022 this included:
- 1½ to 2 hour sessions of online tuition of both theory and experiential practice
- ½ hour of one-to-one on line supervision per month
- 8 days of practical experiential learning of techniques.
It is expected that students will need to spend at least as much time again:
- practicing the techniques, including four one-to-one sessions with clients
- working on their Spiritual path
to complete the apprenticeship within the minimum 12 months.
Handouts on the theory and checklist on techniques will be provided to students.
ENTRY CRITERIA
In order to complete this apprenticeship previous training will need to be completed, either through the three self-healing Hedge Shamanism courses or by demonstrating prior learning by application and interview:
Understanding and being competent in:
- Setting intention
- Cleansing
- Opening and closing space
- Understanding the role of, creating, and maintaining an Altar
- Using a Shamanic Journal
- Journeying safely and with ease to: Shamanic Garden, Upper World and Lower World
- Meeting and continuing to work with Power Animals and Teachers in Human Form including merging.
- Interpreting journey and other signs safely recognising that normally signs need to be triangulated except in exceptional
circumstances. Understand how to recognise exceptional circumstances.
- Understanding protection, how, where and when to use protection.
- Understanding the nature of the Middle World and how to work safely in the Middle World.
- Finding, merging, and working with your protector spirit
- Working with Time River and Ancestors and finding and working with a Ancestor.
- Working with candle or fire ceremony.
- Working in the Shamanic Garden to self-heal with Spirit
- Using ceremony to Self-Heal.
If you have not covered some of the material but have previous experience one on one on line sessions can be completed to cover any areas which are not yet understood.
THE OUTLINE PROGRAMME CURRICULUM
Basic Theory
- Theory of Practising as a Shamanic Practitioner including the role of Spirit in the process.
- Understanding and managing the risks of Shamanic Practice and safe practice in Shamanism
- Consent in Shamanism
- Practicalities of seeing clients, including record keeping.
- Safe ceremony
- The importance of integration and client support during integration
Practical Hedge Shamanism Skills for Healing Others
- Journeying for others
- Dowsing
- Using wands: picker, feather and smoothing wands.
Practical Hedge Shamanism Healing techniques for People
- Cord-cutting.
- Illumination and extraction techniques
- Retrieving lost body parts.
- Soul Retrieval
- Psychopomp
- Possession and Dispossession Techniques
- Curse theory and undoing the curses we have put on others
Practical Hedge Shamanism Healing for Land
- Why and how to heal Land
- Space Clearing
- Soul Retrieval for Land
Ceremony
- How to create, deliver and move on a Despachio.
- Developing your own ceremonial techniques
- Leading Ceremony including safety with Fire Ceremony
- Developing your rituals
Developing your Spiritual Infrastructure
- Completing a Pilgrimage and at least one Vision Quest
- Completing Death and Rebirth ritual
- Identifying which teachers to work with e.g., Stone People, Plant People, The Elements, The Winds, Deities
ASSESSMENT OF COMPETENCE
Assessment of competence will be based on:
- Completing supervised sessions with clients/ other students during the course for each of the following techniques:
Cord-cutting.
Illumination
Extraction techniques
Retrieving lost body parts.
Soul Retrieval
Psychopomp
Possession and Dispossession
Land and space clearing
Land soul retrieval
Ceremony
Including:-
- preparing for the session, completing client records where appropriate.
- explaining to the client the what will/has happened, the benefits and what work will be needed for integration
- writing up, reviewing and reflecting on what went well and what could have gone better.
- one-to-one supervision session reviews.
- leading a ceremony, including preparing some of the student’s own material during the face-to-face taught sessions.
- understanding the place of Spirit in healing as demonstrated by oral discussions and the student’s Journal. This should include
the completion of a pilgrimage led by Spirit and at least one Vision Quest.
- completing at least four sessions outside the face-to-face teaching with clients.
Students will need to demonstrate at least three different techniques and :-
- how they prepared for the session, including completing new client records where appropriate.
- demonstrate they explained to the client the what will happen prior to the healing/ceremony and what has happened, the
benefits of the practice and what work will be needed for integration after the healing/ceremony.
- writing up, reviewing and reflecting on what went well and what could have gone better.
- final informal assessment interview during the last one-to one session.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
This programme is designed so that individuals who have specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, may complete the course without having a very high level of literacy. Assessment will be done orally and pictorially where possible. For example, although students will be required to write up sessions and keep client records, there will not be a requirement for client notes to be understood by anyone other than the Shamanic Practitioner. An oral explanation of the notes will be required to demonstrate that, at a later date of of up to seven years (the legally required minimum time for record keeping) the Shamanic Practitioner can recall important details of a session.
Students can demonstrate their understanding through a combination of written and/or oral and/or supervised sessions and/or client practice sessions-
- The theory behind Shamanic Practitioner Healing.
- The risks for both themselves and their clients of Shamanic Practitioner Healing and how to mitigate these risks
- The Shamanic Spiritual Practice which underpins their work.
- Practical Techniques: –
Working with a new client including record keeping, confidentiality and consent.
Identify the areas the Shamanic Practitioner should be working on with the client in a session.
Understand when to use, how to conduct, have completed and recorded, the following techniques:
Cord-cutting.
Illumination
Extraction techniques
Retrieving lost body parts.
Soul Retrieval
Psychopomp
Possession and Dispossession
Land and space clearing
Land soul retrieval
Ceremony
Understanding Curse Theory, what to refer to a more experienced practitioner and what can be done safely
Telling a Shamanic Story in a way that a client can understand the message.
Teaching a client basic self-help technique including:-
Grounding
Bringing back your power and sending back others power
Basic protection
Bringing yourself back into your own body
Cleaning heavy energy
Gift giving
Cleansing yourself
Cleansing your environment.
Use of ceremony
The importance of Integration and client support during Integration
The course can be extended for those who have found it difficult to complete on time or need additional work on a particular area of learning. Costs will be negotiable depending on the input required. In normal circumstances a course would be extended for not more than a year.