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Shamanic Guidance, Counseling and Healing
You're "feeling off." While you can't describe it in a way that any of your friends would understand, your world is in turmoil. Perhaps it's simply a feeling of restlessness. Perhaps it's something deeper.
In ages past, before the advent of pharmaceuticals, our ancestors would go to the village wise person or the tribe's shaman for assistance. The belief that there is a connection between our body and our mind is nothing new for many of us, but a shaman takes things a step further, believing that inner peace, joy, and to a certain extent, health, is a function of spirit.
Shamanic guidance and counseling offers more than a temporary fix. A typical session involves not only discussing the reasons and processes behind the space you're in, but it looks at the broader themes, spiritual lessons, and helps formulate a positive, constructive approach to successfully moving past the obstacles you're facing through the use of various hands-on techniques. When obstacles arise, they're understood and gently removed with as much compassion and understanding as possible, employing techniques that have been handed down for tens of thousands of years. These techniques may involve dream interpretation, symbolism and imagery, ritual, smudging, guided meditation, and certain amounts of shamanic training. You will be given concrete tools and concepts to begin to employ in your daily life and bring to life the changes that you seek in your own world.
You will be offered the ability and proficiency to become the person you truly believe yourself to be.
And you will be in the best of hands as we embark on this journey together.
I was trained by a Native American (Mi'kmaq) medicine woman and have been diligently practicing my path for more than twenty years. In that time I've been called upon by mental health professionals and assisted in reuniting runaways with their families and stabilizing suicidal patients that couldn't be reached through other means.
I've guided countless individuals through personal crisis and subsequent healing. While there is no process recognized by any certifying body, the healing of certain physical ailments and conditions often corresponds to the healing of spiritual wounds and struggles. I have personally witnessed and experienced this phenomena and we consider the connection between the mind, spirit, and body in our sessions.This is a calling for me, not a way to grow wealthy or to make money off of those in need within the spiritual community. I charge $30 per session which generally lasts approximately 40 minutes, although I schedule an hour for each session and don't mind using every minute of available time. Sessions typically take place in my small home office, surrounded by tools, stones, and other tools of the trade. We'll usually begin with a cup of homemade herbal tea and you'll be invited to curl up in a comfortable, over-stuffed chair. In the event that I'm working with a woman who is struggling with sexual or intimacy issues, I'll invite my wife (who is a Reiki practitioner and intuitive healer in her own right) to quietly sit in on the sessions.
Much of the training I received in shamanic healing involved sensing, understanding and working with the present subtle energies and we will often quickly pinpoint subconscious processes with a high degree of accuracy. While I gladly welcome the opportunity to assist with telephone and video conferencing clients, I charge $40 for distance sessions, simply because I find it requires an additional degree of focus and, consequently, the sessions take more out of me. I will place the phone call to you, so you won’t be hit with long distance charges. This applies to international clients as well.
I'm also a skilled shamanic teacher and have been offering instruction in integrated spirituality for more than a decade. You can find a great deal of material offered freely through The First Cycle course. I'm happy to devote sessions to teaching specific skills and helping your deepen your path or work past roadblocks that you've discovered in your own journey. Session rates are the same as shamanic counseling. I also teach workshops and classes to groups. Prices vary depending on the length of the workshop and the number of people in attendance, but are considerably less (per person) than individual sessions.
If you'd like to schedule a session, please email me at jeffrey@oldways.com and we'll schedule our first session.