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Building Sacred Relationships: A Practical Guide to Working with Guides and Gods
Learning how to develop a relationship with a higher spirit guide of any kind – ancestors, spirit animals, angels, fairies, deities, ascendant masters, etc. – is an important aspect of our spiritual growth. Learning how to connect, but also how to stay open to communication in the physical and spirit realms, can be foundational. There…
Shamanic Journey and Drumming Group
Please note that this event has moved online due to the snow forecast in MA. Contact me for the Zoom link. Our monthly Shamanic Journey and Drumming group meets on the third Saturday of every month. This is a drop-in event, and no experience with shamanism, journeying, or drumming is required – just a curious…
Samhain Circle and Meditation
Join Amanda Worcester and Cynthia Menard this Saturday evening for a Samhain Circle, featuring a guided meditation that brings participants to the twilight space between the worlds to reunite with our beloved dead. Woven into a ritual to honor our ancestors and guides, we will spend time together in deep reverence for those who came…
Snowy Owl: A Journey into Feminine Power and Healing
In the fall of 2023, I discovered firsthand the difference between spirit animals and power animals. Up until then, I had worked with a variety of spirit animal helpers, but my new experiences with Snowy Owl taught me a whole new relationship with this spirit guide. From my journal: 10/3/23 3 pm, waning gibbous moon.…
Invoking Reindeer
Reindeer, both the animal and his spirit, was (and is) central to Reindeer Shamanism because thousands of years ago, the reindeer their people followed kept them alive during the long winters. A deep relationship with this animal developed, a mutual relationship of survival (humans kept wolves away from reindeer herds), and a mystical relationship of…
What is Reindeer Shamanism?
Reindeer shamanism was an indigenous shamanic practice in the Nordic (Scandinavian) Arctic, among the tribes of people who followed the migrating reindeer herds approximately 7,000 to 10,000 years ago. Over thousands of years, it evolved into the more intricate practice of Sami shamanism, which was eventually suppressed when shamanic practices came under attack in Scandinavia…
Developing My Spirit Family – Working with Rat Spirit
Shamans work with a host of spirits – physical ancestors, shamanic ancestors, spirits of animals, plants, land, and others – that become their family. Which type of spirits become the most called on or worked with depends on each shaman’s shamanic tradition and personal practice. In some traditions, spirit animals can be one of the…