Shamanic Accompaniment

Background

Shamanism is a body of spiritual practice that allows us to access, navigate and interact with normally hidden aspects of reality and apply the results in everyday life. Through regular engagement in shamanic journeying and other forms of ceremonial action, shamanic practitioners form ongoing relationships with power animals, shamanic teachers and other allies in the spirit world. These helping spirits are a potentially limitless source of healing, guidance and empowerment for anyone prepared to commit to working with them.

I see shamanism as particularly important for personal and collective healing from the systemic violence that defines contemporary industrialised society, and empowerment for resistance and creation of harmonious ways of living. I thus consider it to be a form of Sacred Political Ecology that transcends the dominant belief system and enables alternative forms of thought and action based on co-creative solidarity with all of humanity and nature.

My Approach

Working on a one-to-one basis, I offer to accompany you in developing your own shamanic journeying practice, and applying it towards beneficial outcomes in the material world. Depending on your circumstances, interests and level of experience, I will guide and support you through any or all of your intention-setting, ritual preparation, the journey itself, and its documentation, interpretation and integration.

In some cases, if you explicitly request it, shamanic accompaniment may also involve me conducting a healing intervention or other journeying on your behalf. I am trained and experienced in the standard repertoire of healing techniques in core shamanism, including extraction, soul retrieval, power retrieval, removal of possessing entities, curse unravelling and psychopomp.

How it Works

As a first step, you can contact me to schedule an exploratory conversation, by video-call or phone, to clarify your needs and expectations. If on that basis we feel a mutual alignment, we will agree a schedule, structure and terms of payment (or other exchange) for an agreed number of support sessions. These sessions can take place online via videocall, or in-person at my home base in the Tomar/Ferreira do Zêzere area of Central Portugal. They can also be combined with a volunteer stay or other residential visit.

Shamanic accompaniment is also available as a complement to other Shamanic Training, whether with me or elsewhere, and for Permaculture Diploma apprentices. If this is relevant to you, please tell about it when you first get in touch.