Shamanic Journeying for Guidance and Healing with Sandra Ingerman

In this session, Sandra will lead an opening meditation to welcome in and start to activate the power of the community of participants gathering together to perform shamanic work. She’ll introduce you to the shamanic journey and how the helping spirits in the invisible realms can provide guidance and healing in your life.

Together, the group will perform its first group ceremony in the non-ordinary realms to create a sacred altar for the entire circle to visit throughout the training. The gifts, talents and strengths that you bring into this circle will be acknowledged and honored.

During this session, you’ll:

• Discover how to let go of your daily activities and leave your ordinary thoughts behind, so you can fully step into the love and healing of the invisible realms
• Uncover ways to deepen your experience of shamanic journeying by incorporating a drum, rattle, movement and chanting to open up your full sensory awareness
• Meet a helping spirit in the “Lower World”
• Experience the exponential creative and healing power of working in community
• Create a community altar in the non-ordinary realms where all participants can continue to visit and share blessings and words of support during the length of the course
• Place your personal requests for prayers and blessings for yourself, others and the planet on the community altar
• Discover how to journey on your own between course sessions

In this session, Sandra will lead you to meet a teacher in the “Upper World” who might appear as a god, goddess, legendary figure, angel, religious figure or loving ancestor. You’ll experience the different qualities between the Lower World and Upper World and expand your knowledge of non-ordinary realms.

During this session, you’ll:

• Journey to the Upper World to meet a teacher
• Discover the nature of how shamans perceive and heal illness
• Uncover an unidentified wound you have that needs healing
• Explore how chanting your journeys can lead to a deeper shamanic experience
• Follow Sandra as she chants a journey that guides you to a crystal cave of healing
• Journey to a place of healing in the invisible realms, including a temple for healing or the River of Grief
• Perform a group ceremony to provide support for the healing of each member in the community

In this session, Sandra will share how connecting with the unseen forces and spiritual allies in nature can improve your health and wellbeing. She’ll teach you how to journey into the invisible realm of the Middle World to discover an element — earth, air, water or fire — that can be a healing ally for you.

During this session, you’ll:

• Cultivate a rich inner landscape that will lead you to living a life filled with joy and good health
• Understand how to interpret the messages you receive while journeying
• Journey to meet an element (earth, air, water or fire) as an ally
• Receive a healing from this ally and learn how to absorb its power
• Discover how you can experience a Middle World journey to meet a plant, tree, rock, crystal or mineral to communicate and connect with nature spirits
• Communicate and connect with the elements as a way to bring balance back to the planet during this time of extreme climate change
• Perform a group ceremony to honor nature and give thanks for all it provides to sustain us
• Perform a blessing ceremony for our group and the Earth

In this session, Sandra will discuss the need to distinguish between what your ego desires and what your spirit is leading you toward. She’ll share how to use your imagination to dream into being a good life for yourself and for all of life.

During this session, you’ll:

• Journey to your future self to discover what can lead you to a life filled with meaning
• Journey to the Land of Dreams to uncover what you’re dreaming into being through your own daydreams, thoughts and words
• Discover steps you can take in the present that will lead you to your desired outcome
• Realize how your daily daydreams impact the life you’re living now
• Explore ways to change your daydreams to create the life you desire for yourself and for the health of the planet
• Recover a lost dream you would like to retrieve and nurture through a guided journey to the Cave of Lost Dreams
• Experience how the universe and the creative forces of life love you, so you understand that you deserve the best that life has to offer
• Gather the power of community and perform a virtual fire ceremony to call in personal and collective dreams

This session will explore the shamanic teachings around the power of words and how the words we use create what we experience in our lives and in the world. Sandra will guide you in discovering the core beliefs blocking you from using your full creative potential and show you ways you can start to work on releasing these beliefs.

During this session, you’ll:

• Experience support and love from your ancestral line
• Transform the energy behind your thoughts so you’re sending loving energies to yourself, your loved ones and the world
• Discover how shamans perceive the power of words as a way to bless others and ourselves
• Identify the core beliefs blocking you from using your creative energy and learn ways to release them
• Look at who you need to forgive (including yourself) and perform a group ceremony where you will be supported by the community to release beliefs that block you from forgiving and from tapping into your true creative potential
• Explore ways to be a bright light to transform the energy in your home, workplace and surroundings

Every change you go through in life involves a death. In shamanism, death is not seen as an end but as a transition. The transitions you go through are actually initiations or rites of passage that lead us into new stages of life.

For the shaman, these rites of passage are what led to acquiring the gift to heal and be a visionary for the community. Through these initiations, they experienced a sculpting of what is on the surface of the ego and personality so that the depth of their spirit could shine through. As most of us do not go through formal initiations, we find that life brings us experiences that inspire, transformation and evolve us.

During this session, you’ll:

• Discover how shamans view the “little deaths” we go through in life as well as the big death, as we transcend at the end of our lives
• Experience a journey that includes disintegration, illumination, re-membering, re-construction and re-emergence to help you dissolve your sense of separation from Source and the creative forces of the universe
• Explore the topic of initiation and how important formal initiations are to mental and physical health as well as to the younger generation
• Understand the importance of community to welcome home initiates so they feel honored instead of being seen as outcasts, whether they’re returning from war, a tragedy, or after dealing with mental or physical illness
• Experience a journey of initiation for liberation, purification, transformation and healing, in which illness is cleansed and removed from your body and you feel revitalized
• Discover ways to dismember blocking beliefs, judgements and disappointments
• Journey to ask a teacher to provide a blessing for you after your initiatory journey
• Join together in community to journey to the “Inner Chamber of Light”

In this last module, you’ll learn how to evolve your shamanic practice to work with the power of unity consciousness. You’ll discover how your perception creates your reality, and how you can use your “strong eye” to view the world through the eyes of Spirit. Sandra will also lead you on a journey to experience who you are beyond your skin — which is divine spiritual light.

During this session, you’ll:

• Discover how you can change your reality by shifting your perception
• Use your “strong eye” to perceive your life and the world around you through the eyes of Spirit
• Experience your inner divine light and what it feels like to be lit from within
• Find simple methods of working with spiritual light to help others in need of healing
• Understand how to integrate working with light into how you view your family, friends, loved ones, co-workers and the planet
• Engage in a healing ceremony for all in the group using spiritual light
• Learn how to bridge the methods of what you learned throughout this course into your daily life and how to continue your shamanic practices
• Perform a closing ceremony in which the virtual community blesses the group altar and radiates light to the group circle and within and throughout the Earth
• Look at how this training can continue to support this sacred circle