Shamanic Healing Ceremonies
Key Benefits
- Treats the spiritual causes of illness and imbalance so that healing can happen on a physical, mental, and emotional level
- Exposes a person directly to the healing power of the spirits
- Creates balance by restoring lost energy and removing intrusive or harmful energy
- Establishes a stronger bond between you and your helping spirits and guides
Description
A Shamanic Healing Ceremony is a healing technique which encompasses many healing tools. It facilitates healing on physical, mental, and emotional levels for a client. It's important to remember that Shamanic Healing Ceremonies are a catalyst for healing and not a cure by themselves, just as I am a facilitator for healing and not a "healer". When I conduct a Shamanic Healing Ceremony I connect with guides, spirit helpers, and the spirit worlds on behalf of my client. I then ask for guidance that needs to be shared with my client and ask that the helping spirits work through me to assist my client. It is through this process that vital healing and guidance can be shared between a client and their helping spirits. It is also through this process that harmful energy can be removed from a client and that missing energies can be returned to a client. This creates a balanced environment within a clients body so that true healing can happen.
The healing process that results from a Shamanic Healing Ceremony can manifest in many ways. A client may simply start healing naturally as their body restores itself in balance, they may find themselves feeling calmer or more mentally clear so that they can help themselves more effectively, or they may find or see opportunities that were missed previously (such as the right physician, medication, or therapist suddenly presenting itself). The way healing manifests itself isn't important- what matters is that healing CAN happen once balance is restored to an individual.
It is also important to note that Shamanic Healing Ceremonies supplement western medicine and modern medical practices. A Shamanic Healing Ceremony is not a replacement for medical or psychological treatment and it does not conflict with such treatment. Therefore Shamanic Healing Ceremonies, modern medicine, and psychological counseling can all work together to treat a person on all levels. Shamanic Healing Ceremonies are also a spiritual, and not a religious, practice. So it can work together with almost anyone's personal belief system.
The Tools I Use in a Shamanic Healing Ceremony
As I mentioned before, I use many tools during a Shamanic Healing Ceremony, here is a short list of the more common tools I utilize in a session:
- Limpia- This is a purification technique to cleanse a persons energy and aura. We most commonly work with a fan of dried leaves from the jungle called a chacapa. The leaves are shaken like a rattle and used to sweep a person down, drawing harmful energy away from them as this is done. The process is commonly accompanied by challay, which is the ritual spraying of a person with flower waters. Sometimes eggs are also used in this process to draw illness from the body into the eggs- which are then burned or buried after the ceremony.
- The Sacred Pipe- This is one of the most sacred items and rituals of indigenous North America. Different nations have different stories, but all agree that at a time of suffering a spirit being came into our world and delivered the first Sacred Pipe. They taught the first nation people how to restore harmony with the pipe. From that time on the Sacred Pipe has always been a bridge between our worlds to carry prayers. In my experience the Sacred Pipe brings a great deal of power to a healing session. The spirits come forth with the pipe in a way that is very humbling to witness and often brings people to tears and deep gratitude.
- Extraction Healing- Through our lives and our daily contact with the physical world we are bombarded by energies and thoughts that do not belong to us. These energies can attach themselves and take up residence in our being. This foreign energy can then create blockages and imbalance that leads to physical illness, emotional blockages, and a lack on mental clarity. Through the process of Extraction Healing I connect to my helping spirits and scan a person on an energetic/spirit level to detect where these energy intrusions reside. I then let my helping spirits draw out these energy intrusions from a person so that they can be returned back to the universe and go where they are needed.
- Power Animal Retrieval- Everyone has helping spirits and guides. One form of guide is a person's Power Animal, which is a spirit guide and protector in the form of an animal. Power Animals are also referred to as Totems, or a Nagual in some traditions. Our Power Animal is our main guide and spiritual ally and if a person is not connected to their Power Animal they may suffer from a loss of energy, a weakened immune system, a sense of loneliness, and a lack of personal power. The process of Power Animal Retrieval is a technique where I send my consciousness to the spirit worlds while drumming or rattling on behalf of my client. I then work with my spirit helpers to track down a person's Power Animal and return that energy to the client. This can also be done for a client who is already connected to their Power Animal but needs that connection and energy reactivated.
- Soul Retrieval- This is a process of returning fragmented, stifled, or "lost" aspects of a person to them to restore wholeness of the soul. Through trauma, extended neglect, or mistreatment we may suffer from what is known as Susto or Soul Loss. This is a sense of feeling like part of us is missing or no longer accessible. We may feel "dead" or "numb" inside, apathetic about life, or as if we are a passenger in our own body. Through Soul Retrieval a shaman enters a trance state to find these missing or fragmented parts of the soul and return them to a client with the aid of the healing spirits.
- Divination- This is the process of asking the spirits for guidance on behalf of a person. This is not "predictive" work to be used for "what will happen" questions. Instead it is worked with to gain guidance into what a person needs for healing and what shifts or changes they need to make to live a healthier and more joyful life. I most commonly work with candle divination, drum divination, throwing of bones, or Mayan Day Keeping.
- Herbalism and Aromatherapy- Plants have spirits and healing energies of their own and by utilizing them as a tool we can facilitate the healing process. Herbal teas, compounds, and oils can be used for specific ailments and to encourage specific emotional states.
- Khuya Rumi- Roughly translated into "impassioned stone" or "stone of love", this is a technique from Peruvian shamanism that works with healing stones that have been awakened to radiate spiritual medicine. The khuya stones are placed on a client and prayed with to infuse their healing into the client. Some of these stones have been collected from very sacred sites in North, Central, and South America and then awakened by myself. While other khuya stones that I work with have come from Lake Titicaca in Peru and been passed down from medicine person to medicine person, being worked with for healing by several generations.
- Drum and Rattle Doctoring- The soul doctoring spirits will often come through the vibrations of the drums and rattles to heal a person. The vibrations of these instruments break up dense energy and carry power from the spirit world into this one.
- Spirit Channeling- This is a very common part of my practice. I work with taking a step back from myself so that the healing spirits can take a step forward and work through me. By letting the healing spirits inhabit me they are able to come into direct contact with a client offering healing, nurturing, compassion, and soothing comfort. The spirits will often bring their medicine through healing songs that are then sung directly to the client.
Scheduling a Shamanic Healing Ceremony
- A Shamanic Healing Ceremony typically lasts 2-3 hours. Sessions may last longer- so make sure you have a free schedule before making an appointment.
- The fee for a Shamanic Healing Ceremony is $100
- A Shamanic Healing Ceremony is a healing partnership between myself and my clients. A great deal of work happens during the session but you may be given exercises and techniques to do on your own as well. Before scheduling an appointment make sure that you are truly ready and committed to work toward your own healing on a physical, mental, and emotional level.
- Shamanic Healing Ceremonies are done in my home in Eatontown, New Jersey
- Appointments are scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays during the daytime
- DO NOT HESITATE to contact me with questions about Shamanic Healing Ceremonies. Via phone at 732-389-4859 or email at shamansdawn@verizon.net
Schedule an Appointment:
Via Phone: call Adam at 732-389-4859