In this session, Sandra will lead an opening meditation to welcome in and start to activate the power of the community of participants gathering together to perform shamanic work. She will introduce you to the shamanic journey and how the helping spirits in the invisible realms can provide guidance and healing in your life. Together, the group will perform its first group ceremony in the non-ordinary realms to create a sacred altar for the entire circle to visit throughout the training. The gifts, talents and strengths that you bring into this circle will be acknowledged and honored. 

During this session, you will:

• Learn how to let go of your daily activities and leave your ordinary thoughts behind, so you can fully step into the love and healing of the invisible realms.
• Discover ways to deepen your experience of shamanic journeying.
• Meet a helping spirit in the “Lower World.”
• Experience the exponential creative and healing power of working in community.
• Create a community altar in the non-ordinary realms where all participants can continue to visit, share blessings and words of support during the length of the course.
• Place your personal requests for prayers and blessings on the community altar.

In this session, Sandra will lead you to meet a teacher in the “Upper World” who might appear as a god, goddess, legendary figure, angel, religious figure or loving ancestor. You will experience the different qualities between the Lower World and Upper World and expand your knowledge of the territories in the non-ordinary realms. 

During this session, you will:

• Journey to the Upper World to meet a teacher.
• Learn about the nature of how shamans perceive and heal illness.
• Discover an unidentified wound you have that needs healing.
• Explore how chanting your journeys can lead to a deeper shamanic experience.
• Follow Sandra as she chants a journey that guides you to a crystal cave of healing.
• Journey to a place of healing in the invisible realms, including a temple for healing or the river of grief.
• Perform a group ceremony to provide support for the healing of each member in the community.

In this session, Sandra will share how connecting with the unseen forces and spiritual allies in nature can improve your health and well-being. She will teach you how to journey into the invisible realm of the “Middle World” to discover an element – earth, air, water or fire – that can be a healing ally for you. 

During this module, you will:

• Learn how to cultivate a rich inner landscape that will lead you to living a life filled with joy and good health.
• Journey to meet an element that volunteers itself to be an ally.
• Receive a healing from this ally and learn how to absorb its power.
• Discover how you can experience a Middle World journey to meet a plant, tree, rock, crystal or mineral to communicate and connect with nature spirits.
• Learn how to communicate and connect with the elements as a way to bring balance back to the planet during this time of extreme climate change.
• Perform a group ceremony to honor nature and give thanks for all it provides to sustain us.

In this session, Sandra will discuss the need to distinguish between what your ego desires and what your spirit is leading you toward. Sandra will share with you how to work with using your imagination to dream into being a good life for yourself and for all of life.In this session, you will learn how to: 

• Journey to your future self to discover what would lead you to a life filled with meaning.
• Discover steps you can take in the present that will lead you to your desired outcome.
• Learn how your daily daydreams impact the life you are living now.
• Explore ways to change your daydreams to create the life you desire for yourself and for the health of the planet.
• Recover a lost dream you would like to retrieve and nurture through a guided journey to the Cave of Lost Dreams.
• Experience how the universe and the creative forces of life love you, so you understand that you deserve the best that life has to offer.
• Gather the power of community through ceremony to call in personal and collective dreams.

This session will explore the shamanic teachings around the power of words and how the words we use create what we experience in our lives and in the world. Sandra will guide you in discovering the core beliefs blocking you from using your full creative potential and show you ways that you can start to work on releasing these beliefs.

In this session, you will:

• Experience the support and love from your ancestral line.
• Learn how to transform the energy behind your thoughts so you are sending loving energies to yourself, your loved ones and the world.
• Discover how shamans perceive the power of words as a way to bless others and ourselves.
• Identify the core blocking beliefs that prevent you from using your creative energy and learn ways to release these.
• Look at who you need to forgive (including yourself) and perform a group ceremony where you will be supported by the community to let go of any old hurts and betrayals into a great cauldron of light.
• Explore ways to be a bright light to transform the energy in your home, work place and surroundings.

Every change you go through in life involves a death. In shamanism, death is not seen as an end but is viewed as a transition. The transitions you go through are actually an initiation or rite of passage that lead us into a new stage of life. For the shaman, these rites of passage are what led to acquiring their gift to heal and be visionaries for the community. Through these initiations, they have experienced a sculpting of what is on the surface of their egos and personalities so that the depth of their spirit can shine through. As most of us do not go through formal initiations, we find that life brings us experiences that inspire, transformation and evolve us. 

In this session, you will:

• Learn how shamans view the little deaths we go through in life as well as the big death, as we transcend at the end of our lives.
• Experience a journey that includes disintegration, illumination, re-membering, reconstruction and re-emergence that will help you dissolve your sense of separation from Source and the creative forces of the universe.
• Explore the topic of initiation and how important formal initiations are to mental and physical health as well as beneficial for the younger generation.
• Learn about the importance of community to welcome home initiates so they feel honored instead of being seen as outcasts, whether they are returning from war, a tragedy, or after dealing with mental or physical illness.
• Experience a journey of initiation for liberation, purification, transformation and healing in which illness is cleansed and removed from your body and you feel revitalized.
• Learn how to dismember blocking beliefs, judgements and disappointments.
• Journey to ask a teacher to provide a blessing for you after your initiatory journey.
• Join together in community to journey to the “Inner Chamber of Light.”

In this last module of the training, you will learn how to evolve your shamanic practice to work with the power of unity consciousness. You will discover how your perception creates your reality, and how you can use your “strong eye” to view the world through the eyes of Spirit. Sandra will lead you on a journey to experience who you are beyond your skin – which is divine spiritual light. 

In this session, you will:

• Discover how you can change your reality by shifting your perception.
• Learn how to use your “strong eye” to perceive your life and the world around you through the eyes of Spirit.
• Experience your inner divine light and what it feels like to be lit from within.
• Find simple methods to help others in need of healing by working with spiritual light.
• Learn how to integrate working with light into how you view your family, friends, loved ones, co-workers and the planet.
• Engage in a healing ceremony for all in the group using spiritual light.
• Learn how to bridge the methods of what you learned throughout this course into your daily life and how to continue your shamanic practices.
• Perform a closing ceremony where the group non-ordinary altar is dismantled and everyone in the circle is honored and blessed as they go forth and continue their work.
• Look at how all in this training can continue to support this sacred circle.

There is a huge resurgence of interest in the practice of shamanism. Sandra and Llyn, both well-known shamanic teachers, will share their experiences in bridging the ancient practice of shamanism into our culture today. 

Llyn Roberts, MA, is an award-winning author and a prominent teacher of healing and shamanism. Her dynamic teaching and writing styles incorporate a background in contemplative psychotherapy, Tibetan Buddhism, work in remote locations with diverse indigenous shamanic groups, Reiki, and Western body-mind approaches to healing. Roberts holds a Master’s Degree in Tibetan Buddhist and Western Psychology and was initiated by shamans in South America and Siberia. She has trained extensively with Ecuadorian Quechua healers and facilitated sacred journeys to indigenous people living in remote regions of the Amazon, the Asian steppes, high Andes and in ancient Mayalands.

Shamans have always known how to tell the stories that would bless and heal clients and their community. Lewis Mehl-Madrona is renowned for his teaching on the art of sharing indigenous stories to heal emotional, mental and physical illness. Sandra and Lewis have an engaging conversation on this topic. 

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry and clinical psychology. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He continues to work with aboriginal communities to develop uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and health care for use in those communities. He is also currently working with people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia to explore healing through dialogue in community. He is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on what Native culture has to offer the modern world. He has also written Narrative Medicine and, his most recent book, Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry.

The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to our medicine and healing today is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suffer soul loss – the loss of parts of our vital energy and identity – and that in order to be whole and well, we must find the means of soul recovery. Shamans journey to find lost soul parts and bring them where they belong. Dreams can show us where soul has gone, and offer paths by which it can be reached and encouraged to come home. 

In this important dialogue between Sandra and Robert Moss, we’ll learn why “anyone who dreams is a little bit shaman” and how we can help each other to become the shamans of our own souls and the healers of our own lives.

Robert Moss describes himself as a dream teacher, on a path for which there has been no career track in our culture. He is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a 3-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a bestselling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. His nine books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead, The Three “Only” Things, The Secret History of Dreaming, Dreamgates, Active Dreaming and Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole.