• Past life experiences: beliefs and actions in a past life carry through and can create the problems and sufferings that we are experiencing in this life.  As an example, if a person has had lifetimes of experiencing mental/emotional/physical abuse in relationships, by their families or partners, they may find themselves falling into that same pattern in this lifetime.
  

• Ancestral energies: are the spiritual and energetic blocks and problems that we inherit spiritually from our mother’s and father’s sides of the family. We know about cancer and obesity, but what about specific fears, anger issues, unhealthy relationships, negative cycles (such as lack of success in life) that gets repeated through each generation? The collective energy of the family group over time has created a bowling ball of negative energy that is ready to roll over the next generation.

Ancestral energies can also refer to your ancestors from a past life, especially if this is the root cause and you are the only in your family with those issues.

I have found that these are the two main causes of current life problems and sufferings that require Shamanic healing.

• The Akashic Records hold all the knowledge of a Soul’s journey from its inception through all its lives, and into the present one. Each person has their guides in The Records, and by connecting to them, we can discover the root cause of the issue that needs healing and transmuting.

• In addition to learning what needs to be healed and transmuted, the guides will also show us how to prepare for the healing and what spiritual objects will be needed on the altar.

• A shamanic healing takes place in a room with an altar that has been purified and made sacred from the smoke of burning sage called smudging. Smudging is also used to purify myself and the client and any tools I will be using, such as drums or rattles, to prepare us for the ceremony.

• Drumming or rattling is used to put us into a meditative state and connect to the spirit realm. As a shamanic healer, my job is to hold space for healing and channel the energies of the spirit guides and lead my client to them and experience healing.

• We enter the spirit realm through the door of our imagination. That is the space of limitless possibility. Using our imagination doesn’t mean that something is imaginary. Because it is the realm of possibility, it becomes the entry point where a person can meet and work with their guides to heal.

Healing occurs through the transmutation of energies from one state of being into another one. What we have come to heal, whether it be a relationship or a situation, the underlying root cause will be an imbalanced, negative, or stagnated energy dynamic or pattern. With the help and guidance of our spirit guides, these unhealthy energies are healed, balanced, and transformed into healthy ones.

• As the shamanic healer, I guide the person to meet their spirit guides. This journeying process oftentimes resembles the hero’s journey or quest. The journey is created by that person’s guides. Each journey is unique and what happens within it is unique as well as specific for that person’s healing.

• Some journeys resemble a quest, whereby the person travels through an environment that resemble places on earth or places that are mythical or fantastic in nature, such as an underground city or the surface of another planet.

• Spirit guides may come in the form of: ancestors, angels, animal spirits, gods and goddesses, extraterrestrials, mythical beings like dragons or unicorns, and more…

•  On these journeys a person may be given tasks to accomplish, such as bathing in a magic river (to purify or to re-energize ourselves), finding a special jewel-encrusted sword that will help the person cut away anything that no longer serves them (ties to an ex who is not right for you) or never did (such as bouts of panic attacks), or dancing around a fire in a circle of women who are all your ancestors (reconnecting you to the power of the divine feminine within the ancestral line).

• As human beings, it would be difficult for us to work directly with the energies of our guides. I believe that someday we will evolve enough spiritually to do so. In the meantime, our spirit guides have compassion for us and have created these wondrous journeys for our benefit. Through them we have the opportunity to interact with them and with the field of energy that holds the potential for all our healing!

• After the healing journey has come to an end, the person may feel lighter and happier as though a burden has been lifted. They may feel tired as though they have just come back from a real journey of epic proportions. Gratitude, a new understanding of themselves and their lives…

• Whatever the end result, the person who began the journey is not the same one that finished it. In addition to your energy field, your manner of thinking has shifted as well too. Now comes the most important part…you have to dedicate time to integrating and nurturing the new you! The healing is an opportunity to walk on a different path – one of freedom and joy, where before we might have been living in a hopeless cloud of gray. It is up to each person to choose the healing path on a daily basis and nurture it so that it becomes a solid and reliable part of our lives, and not some ephemeral experience.