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Shamanic Calling and Spiritual Practices
Restore the magic in your life!
8 Month Live Zoom Course
Begins Fall 2024
This is also the 1st year foundation for the 2nd year practitioner training: Shamanic Calling: Healing Arts Training and Mentorship
Discover how to develop a grounded relationship with spirit work, and build a relationship with your spirit allies that you can rely on for guidance, support, healing, and protection.
You’ll experience transformative shamanic practices to enrich your connection to the spirit world safely, and the magic that is possible when you engage your ancient knowing. You’ll learn how to navigate in “non-ordinary reality” as Carlos Castaneda called it, and claim your embodied kinship with nature that will provide vital sustenance for your spirit and soul. You’ll come away self empowered, and with tools to to help others.
We’ll be meeting one weekend day each month. Time flieswith a combination of lecture, experiential practice, and sharing. Meeting by Zoom allows for a rich cohort, making it possible for people to join in from far and wide.
Contact Michelle here if you would like to find out about the details.
This program is also the 1st year foundation for the 2nd year practitioner training: Shamanic Calling: Healing Arts Training and Mentorship, description below
What people are saying
“Appreciated how each class was organized with teaching, exercises, sharing, breaks, etc. It made the long day go by fairly quick.”
“I was quite scared of the spirit realm at the beginning of class. With your guidance I became more comfortable with the spirit realms and I feel like I am more discerning too. Also, being able to go on a shamanic journey.”
“It seemed like you were really in tune to our needs as a group and I really appreciate that. I enjoyed the check-in with everyone at the beginning of each class. I enjoyed listening to you speak on each subject as I could hear the passion and love you have for each subject.”
“I was talking to someone about you the other day, and I said that one of the things I love most is just how human you are. I feel like there are a lot of people who are (or who would like to be seen as) very powerful healers who put themselves on this weird pedestal and I just love how real you are. It is very grounding and easy to trust.”
“Michelle is an authentic, knowledgeable, and compassionate soul. Attending her first-year shamanic training course has left me with tools that have helped me navigate the spirit realm and aided with my own spiritual practices. This is the first time I have felt empowered within my own energy. I have also learned how to journey and connect with my helping spirits which has been very transformative for me. She provides a safe and nonjudgmental environment. I can feel the love and energy put forth in each class that was taught. She is a dedicated teacher that has positively impacted my life with her knowledge, wisdom and guidance.”
“The Shamanic Calling 1st Year with Michelle has been an invaluable experience for me. I have gained greater awareness and deepened my connection to spiritual practice. I now have the confidence to journey to find the answers to many of my deeper questions. I feel supported by not only the new community of people that I have met in this class, but also by the world around me. My childlike curiosity as once again been piqued through this experience. Thank you, Michelle for your commitment to sharing this work and for creating a safe and sacred space in which to do so.”
Shamanic Calling: Healing Arts Training and Mentorship 2023-Full
The second year’s focus of Shamanic Calling is an immersion and initiation into the art and practice of shamanic healing. You will deepen your relationship with yourself, your spirit allies, ritual, ceremony, the mysteries that have the potential to bring about profound results. Skills and practices include soul retrieval, extraction, death/dying/grief and helping the deceased cross over, space clearing, curse unraveling, depossession, and much more.
Prerequisite: 1st year program Shamanic Calling and Spiritual Practices.
Additional Workshops TBA
Shamanic Journeying
Shamanic journeying is one of the most personally empowering and spiritually grounding skills you can learn. It provides a clear and safe way to connect with your power animals and spirit allies who can provide information, guidance, protection, and healing.
In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to this ancient way of knowing and healing. You’ll learn how to navigate safely with discernment in the upper, middle, and lower realms, meet your power animal, teaching spirit, and journey for information others. You will also be introduced to a healing method that restores power and protection.
Spiritual Hygiene, Boundaries, and Protection
In this workshop you’ll learn and experience simple everyday practices to help keep your energy field strong, healthy, clear, and protected. If you are easily drained, overwhelmed, or in other ways effected by being around certain people and places, this class can help. There are many things you can do that will make a difference.
You’ll learn about how to develop awareness of your energy field and how to maintain it, connect with a guardian spirit in a way that you will know they are there for you, and many other essential practices and tools that will make a big difference in your everyday life, including your work environment.
As a sensitive myself, I have spent my life preparing this material.
Empath’s Toolbox
Empaths feel what other people feel as if it were their own. It can be really hard to know the difference. It’s a sub group of highly sensitive people or HSP. The gifts of emapths, and highly sensitive people are many, including being very intuitive. You might find that basic “shielding” is not so helpful and a tendency to be a psychic sponge, or easily drained by being in groups of people. Many empaths and HSP often feel like they don’t belong, that it’s hard being here, and are easily overwhelmed by too much stimulation. This workshop is designed to help you identify your “gift”. You will learn more about what it means to be energetically sensitive; how to develop your intuitive awareness, about boundaries, protection, and spiritual hygiene. You will come away with simple everyday practices that can be done to help you toward feeling stronger, more clear and protected. Even more, understanding the special gifts that you have!
Tree Medicine and Your Medicine Tree
Nearly everyone I’ve met loves trees, and for good reason. Besides their beauty and status of being the tallest freestanding organism on our planet, we have a very special symbiotic and spiritual relationship with them. They are powerful beings and spirit allies.
Our guardian spirits come in many forms: power animals, ancestors, angels, and yes, trees! Your Medicine Tree is a particularly powerful nature spirit ally that can provide healing, grounding, support, protection, and inspiration.
In this one-day workshop you will learn about healing and spiritual attributes of trees, a bit of lore, and our special connections with them. You’ll be introduced to perceiving and communicating with the spirit of trees, including your own unique guardian Medicine Tree.
Creating Sacred Space
Creating sacred space is an essential part of spiritual work, from making simple prayers, to doing healing work, as well as opening and closing ritual and ceremony. Ideally it sets a container of safety, intention, and spiritual power.
I teach about creating sacred space as part of my Shamanic Calling training, but students often express wanting more exploration and guidance in honing their own unique way of calling in the directions.
This class will cover the basics of creating sacred space, what it means to hold space for yourself and others, and also dive in deeper and become more familiar with the spirit of the directions, the gatekeepers, who and what to invite to your sacred space. Intention is everything! We will also explore different ways of setting the space by acknowledgment (or “decree”), or by invitation.
This is open to beginners and the experienced alike with “core” shamanic journeying skills.
Space Clearing and Blessing
Our homes and offices can become cluttered with energy that needs to be cleared from time to time. Come and learn how clear and bless your home, your car, even your place of work. We will cover issues like preparing your home or car for sale, moving, troublesome spots, smudging, and all kinds of helpful tips to keep the energy in your home feeling warm, inviting, and clear.
New Moon Ritual: The Power of the New Moon to Make Your Wishes Come Alive
We will gather to vision and create a new moon ceremony to support and collectively give power to each others dreams and visions.
The new moon is a powerful time to plant new seeds, start new projects, and set new intentions. You will learn a little moon lore, develop a relationship with the spirit of the moon, and learn the keys to creating a ritual that you can do on your own or with friends whenever the new moon calls to you, including how to formulate a clear intention. It’s intention that sets the course for our wishes to come true!
For Women Only: Constellations Workshop
In this time of deep change, we need a place where we can slow down, tap into our soul, and realign our internal compass. Life has a way of getting away from us.
This is an invitation to gather with a small group of women, and explore what it is you are yearning for.
Having sacred witness, and using tools like constellational process set in a container of sacred space, you will have the opportunity explore your yearning, what is holding you back, and taking steps toward realizing your heart and soul’s intention.