Shamanic Practice
Authentic Shamanic practice is the art of knowing through direct experience, techniques, teachings and tools that enable the practitioner to connect to the spirit world and employ ancient healing methods in order to effect change and healing in oneself or another. Shamanic practice comes with a very deep respect and reverence for all life forms, compassion and integrity, and considers every act and manifestation of nature sacred. The practitioner of the shamanic arts know that the spirit world and the physical world are inextricably linked, one being unable to exist without the other. They are practiced at travelling in the otherworldly energetic realms to assist in the continual evolving and healing of themselves, others, and the whole.
Gifts and talents of the experienced shamanic practitioner that assist in effecting change and healing include: the ability to be both in and work in altered states of consciousness; a knowledge and understanding of sound and how it is used to heal, to connect with spirit and to assist in creating and manifestation; a connection with their higher/spirit selves and spirit guides, being adept at receiving information from source at any given time, and, utilizing that information; an ability to travel consciously in other realms whilst retaining the memory and information of the experience; a knowledge of ceremony and ritual; experience with and knowing of spirit and entity attachment; an understanding and knowing of the natural world and acknowledging all other lifeforms as our teachers; an ability to connect with the teachings of different animals, plants, and minerals and, and an understanding of energy and how it is possible for us, as energetic beings, to start to heal ourselves with energy/soul/spirit work.