During a shamanic healing session, a shamanic practitioner journeys into the spirit world on your behalf to meet with your spirit guides.

The guides are your spiritual partners and they will restore soul power that has been lost to you throughout your life.
During the session, you may feel a sense of relaxation or a strong tingling throughout your body as your power is restored to you. How you react to receiving energy depends on what you’ve gone through.
When power is returned to you, it can take time for that power to ground. Oftentimes, in order for the energy to ground, less healthy energy resulting from old wounds (physical or emotional) must first dissipate from the body. The process of healing old wounds is similar to how we grieve where one first feels fear and anxiety that graduates to tension and anger before finally revealing and releasing the hurt that’s at the base of the wound. Once this hurt is released, the new power will ground and you should feel renewed and peaceful.

Preparing for your shamanic healing session

• Refrain from drinking alcohol and taking non-prescribed recreational drugs for at least 48 hours before your shamanic healing appointment.
• Prior to your appointment, say a prayer asking for your spirits to help you on your life journey.
• When we’re in the midst of the ceremony, stay present. Even if you have experience with shamanic journeying, you should stay present at all times. This is your chance to relax and think about nothing more complex than your laundry.
• Within two weeks of your appointment, make an offering to show gratitude and honour your spirits outside, in nature. Depending on your traditions, you may wish to leave healthy (for animals) food at the base of a tree, scatter sacred herbs over the ground, or throw a larger gift of gold or silver into the water or attend mass.
• Pay attention to your dreams and to signs both before and after your appointment. This is often a time when we begin to see synchronicity in our lives.
• Say a prayer of thanks and acknowledgement to your spirits, then take time for quiet reflection. It’s only when we quiet our minds that we are able to receive message from our spirit guides and ancestors.