The Soulfull Living Journal

Most of us don’t consciously decide to lose touch with ourselves.

It happens gradually.

Life gets busy. There are people who need us, things that need doing, work to keep on top of, messages to answer, appointments to remember and all the ordinary practicalities of being human.

We get very good at keeping everything moving.

And somewhere along the way, we can stop noticing how we actually feel.

We are functioning. We may even be functioning very well.

But we’re no longer quite sure when we last stopped long enough to ask:

What do I need? What do I want? What feels right for me now?

That’s what I think of as living on autopilot.

Autopilot isn’t always obvious

We tend to imagine that if we were deeply disconnected from ourselves, we would know.

Surely something dramatic would happen.

Perhaps we would feel completely lost, desperately unhappy or unable to cope.

Sometimes that does happen, but often autopilot looks much more ordinary.

You get up. You do what needs to be done....

If you've been feeling drawn to deepen your shamanic practice - whether with the intention of working professionally or primarily for your own personal and spiritual development - you may have questions about what practitioner training actually involves.

What will I actually learn? 

Shamanic practitioner training is about much more than learning a collection of techniques.

Yes, you'll learn practical shamanic healing methods, including power and soul retrieval and energy extraction, alongside energy healing practices and the Munay-Ki Rites.

But just as importantly, you'll learn how to bring those different elements together and begin developing your own way of working.

Because when someone comes to you for healing, they don't usually arrive knowing which technique they need. They simply know that something isn't right.

Part of becoming a practitioner is learning how to listen - not only to your client, but to your own intuition and guidance - so that you can respond to the person...