Trauma is something that many people need healing from and we often don’t have the tools to do it.  Sayulita is home to some amazing shamans, and there is no better time to embrace all that a shaman can do for your healing journey.  

Shamanism is an ancient healing tradition and a way of life. The teachings of shamanism focus on our connection to nature and promote the well-being of all creation.  Essential aspects of shamanic life include journeying, ceremony, sacred dance and pilgrimages to places of power in nature. Through these techniques the shamanic circle embraces us, unifying our lives with strength, healing and love.

A shaman is an intermediary between this world and the spirit world. They act on behalf of the community conducting ceremonial rituals, healing the people, and helping to guide others on the shamanic path. A shaman’s life belongs to the village and it is their responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of the family, the community and all of creation.

In this way the shaman helps to maintain balance and harmony on both a personal and planetary level.

How can Shamanism benefit your health and wellbeing?

Individuals may seek shamanic healing for many different maladies. If they are living within a shamanic culture, shamanic healing is typically part of a multidisciplinary approach used for any disease or imbalance, in partnership with physical healers, botanical medicines, changes in diet, and other therapies.

In contemporary western society, shamanic healing is unfamiliar to most non-indigenous individuals. Despite that, people are finding their way to contemporary shamans for all types of health challenges, but especially when they are not making satisfactory improvements with conventional approaches. 

How can Shamanism benefit your health and wellbeing?

Individuals may seek shamanic healing for many different maladies. If they are living within a shamanic culture, shamanic healing is typically part of a multidisciplinary approach used for any disease or imbalance, in partnership with physical healers, botanical medicines, changes in diet, and other therapies.

In contemporary western society, shamanic healing is unfamiliar to most non-indigenous individuals. Despite that, people are finding their way to contemporary shamans for all types of health challenges, but especially when they are not making satisfactory improvements with conventional approaches. 

Shamanic healing work requires two distinct phases:  

• The accurate diagnosis of the seen and unseen energies at the root of the problem. 
• Carrying out the specific choreography of energies needed to resolve the problem. 

The shaman may serve by removing energies that are inappropriately present, or by returning energies that have been lost. This includes soul recovery to accomplish healing via the return of lost parts of the soul. 

When an individual is living within a community that supports such work, there is time and support for the integration and processing that an individual must do to complete most healing processes. In contemporary society, the shaman and the client must create the resources and structure for the individual to adjust to the shift in internal energies. 

Shamans direct and move energy to restore the harmony within the individual, between the individual and the community, and between the community and the spirit world.

What is the Shamanic Journey Like?

The Shamanic journey involves traveling within oneself for the purpose of consultation and therapy. This is a profound way to conduct an internal conversation and to ascertain vital information. This inner being is in constant contact with all levels of our consciousness. The Shamanic Journey believes that once within, a person will find the answers to all of their questions, good and bad. During the journey, a person goes beyond their own awareness. Oftentimes people will describe seeing various lights, and these can be interpreted in different ways. Many people experience a change in body temperature or a shift of movement. The experience is unique unto itself and may provide insights that are unexpected and revealing.

What is Cord Cutting? 

Cord cutting can heal your body from negative energies, returning to yourself with light and love.

​From the shamanic worldview when we are intimately connected to another, our energy bodies start to blend together and filaments from our light bodies entwine together. Using life transforming, ancient shamanic practices to restore your light body to its original state of being.

Cord cutting is literally cutting the light cords which get entangled. and is especially powerful for people who have:

• Gone through separation or divorce
• Are experiencing emotions and/or recurring dreams of individuals who have passed over
• Are ready to fully let go of any previous lovers

By cutting the cords we literally cut the ties to the other, sending their energy back to them with love and restoring your own light body.This is deep healing and the client participates in their letting go using breath and sound.

What is a Soul Retrieval? 

Soul retrieval is recommended to bring peace, clarity and a sense of wholeness to those who feel detached or damaged

Soul retrieval is based on the shamanic notion that each of us has a whole and perfect soul. When we experience trauma the soul can fragment leaving aspects of it existing inter-dimensionally in other realms. It is the role of the shaman to track these fragments and return them to the person receiving the healing.

Soul loss can happen from any trauma such as:

• Car accident or other accident
• Operations, and going under anesthesia
• Unexpected loss of a loved one
• Divorce
• Child abuse or experiencing a serious threat

Soul retrieval is recommended for anyone experiencing feelings of just “not being all there” or after experiencing a shock and not quite able to feel their “old normal self”. Quite often people who are addicted to substances have experienced soul loss. Through soul retrieval they can connect with the aspects of themselves which have left and return those aspects they no longer need to feel whole.

The positive benefits which can come from receiving a soul retrieval are:

• Renewed vigor and energy for life
• Spontaneous happiness
• A feeling of being whole
• Clarity, stability and renewed confidence
• A deep sense of inner peace

Shaman work is very powerful and one can accomplish years of healing in just one session. I personally love Shamanic journeys and couldn’t recommend them more.  We have some of the most talented Shamans here in Sayulita, so make sure to reach out to them to start your journey. You can also check out our calendar to find current and upcoming workshops. 

Via EARL E. BAKKENCENTER FOR SPIRITUALITY & HEALING and MINDBODYGREEN