Shamanic Counsellor in training …
I am a Shamanic Counsellor in training and hope to be fully certified mid-February. I have wanted to this course since my first ever trip and workshop in Dunderry at the Irish Centre for Shamanic studies and 5years later here I am.
This training also is healing for me. Below is more on what it is but I wanted to add here what it has meant for me. It’s like accessing your deepest shadow and sub-conscious , inner child healing, past lives healing and present day figuring out of why things are happening, I feel like I do, patterns return, people show up, why healing needs to happen and more … This is shadow healing and soul work at another level. My questions and intentions answered through my own power and innate wisdom, some of which I been working on for a long time and here, in a session, you are given access within minutes to move through, heal and forward. If you are working on your inner child or ‘why’ questions these sessions are so powerful.
I shall update you on my progress, hopefully with a lovely pic with my certificate after my final training day and after all case studies completed!
Shamanic Counselling is spiritual rather than a psychological system where you work with an experienced Shamanic Therapist with a highly effective system of personal problem-solving and guidance for those who wish to use the methods for themselves. Shamanic Counselling is not like Western counselling. It gives the full power to the client as they show up to heal through experiential methods of journeying, deep listening, intention setting and shamanic interpretation in an intimate setting. Shamanic Counselling is a system for permitting clients to make their own shamanic journeys of divination to non-ordinary reality, where they personally obtain direct spiritual wisdom and guidance in answer to the questions most important in their lives by journeying into the non-ordinary realities. The client becomes their own shaman. It's a system of personal empowerment. The object of this change is to restore spiritual power and authority to the client.
“Shamans access unique states of consciousness through rituals and ‘soul’ journeys that allow them to heal events that occurred in the past, and to dream into being an auspicious future for their loved ones.” ~ Alberto Villoldo
Now - are you getting why I am loving this so much?! When people ask me how can I heal this is a wonderful way. I'll let you know more as I know current clients who would fully embrace this healing and others who will be called to work this way. It has helped me reach depths of my subconscious that I am now ready to go to. It's been enlightening.I've experienced freedom from allowing myself go into my shadow unlike before. So I am feeling the benefits myself. It's another reminder that we are a soul living a human experience. Everyone has shadow aspects and issues to heal. We can do that from a place of contentment in life, that's how I feel myself, but allow ourselves to access more hidden parts of ourselves that need love so that we can truly access love, joy, peace and deeper contentment as we live.
What is journeying?
Journeying is a vision quest practice that can access a unique state of consciousness that you enter through guided meditations and breathing exercises. It allows you to revisit the past to heal events that occurred long ago, and to find more desirable destinies for yourself and your loved ones. This can change how you feel about the past, present and future and bring healing, wisdom and guidance. Journeying is often accompanied to a Shamanic drum beat and it’s healing potential - 4 to 7 bps the Theta state.
Journeys access the world tree cosmology of the Upper World, Middle World, Lower World and Under World. These aren’t physical places, but rather archetypal and energetic domains. The world we live in, where we work and raise our families, is the Middle World; the Upper World is the invisible domain of our destiny and our spirit; and the Lower World, where the record of all human history is held, is the realm of the soul. In these realms time seems to stop, to warp and fold onto itself, just as it does when we are dreaming in a non-ordinary state of consciousness. Where to journey to, to help you and your intention in a Shamanic Counselling session is discussed with the therapist.
No previous experience of journeying or Shamanism is necessary.
HARNER SHAMANIC COUNSELING™ "Shamanism is not 'New Age.' It is Stone Age and has been living ever since." — Michael Harner