As we walk through life all sorts of challenges arise. Disappointment, rejection, traumas, and unresolved emotions begin to leave their imprints on us. Some of these experiences affect our thought patterns and expectations, while others create unhealthy emotional attachments or detachments. There are life events that shake our deepest sense of confidence and even rupture our connection to self.

Many people don’t know where to begin to recover from such experiences. Fortunately, shamanic energy medicine offers a range of tools to help remove harmful energetic imprints, rebalance emotions, and safely return to your core essence. It can help you access guidance from your own deep inner wisdom and knowing, and rebuild lost confidence. It’s a healing methodology designed to support you to rise above the challenges and live a rewarding and soulful life, grounded in medicine wheel wisdom.

I’ve found these ancient practices to be deeply healing for myself and hundreds of clients. They offer a path to return to wholeness, connection, and balance. The philosophy and practices are inherently empowering, and affirm that we all have the capacity to heal – no matter what trauma we’ve experienced.

Practical Shamanic Healing Circles

This winter I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating how to demystify key aspects of shamanic energy medicine and make it accessible to anyone in need. I’m being drawn to create safe spaces where we can come together around shared issues, guided by both these ancient healing practices and the collective wisdom that comes from being in community. Being in a circle of people who share your experience and speak from the heart, working together toward healing, is incredibly powerful.

As a result you’ll notice that new Ewassa events, workshops, and courses for 2024 and 2025 are largely built around this idea. We’ll be offering short intro events around a topic, with more in-depth classes or weekend retreat options, followed by longer retreats in 2025. We hope to build a strong sense of community over time, among these interest groups.

If one of the topics below calls to you, I encourage you to sign up for our mailing list and consider attending a course or event to become part of that healing circle. Event or course participants will also be invited to join a private Facebook group. Not only will you benefit personally from the healing circle, but your participation and sharing could make a huge difference for others. As we move through our own healing process our wounds become our medicine, which in turn can help guide and heal others.

The themes we’ll be focusing on in 2024-2025 healing circles are:

1. Reconnecting to Nature’s Wisdom and Flow

Living in today’s society of concrete and man-made technologies, we are inherently disconnected from nature’s grounding wisdom and flow. We’ve forgotten how to read the signs of nature, embrace the cycles of life, work with nature’s healing energies, and even accept our own unique nature. As a result, we may experience a generalized sense of loss, loneliness, depression, or disconnection. Our goal with this theme is to reconnect to nature’s vitality in ways that are nourishing and inspiring.

2. Developing Your Spiritual Gifts

I believe that each one of us has the innate capacity to perceive unseen energies, connect with the spiritual realms, and tap into our own deep inner wisdom. Most people simply need some guidance and practice to hone these gifts. For those interested in this theme we offer tools and techniques to deepen into your gifts including guided meditations, shamanic journeys, support getting to know your spirit guides, and more. In the future we also plan to offer in-depth training in shamanic healing methodologies.

3. Mothering Support

Being a mother in today’s society can be challenging. In this healing circle we’ll practice creating healthy energetic boundaries, maintaining our core power and sense of self, releasing unhealthy expectations, and parenting from a soul perspective. We’ll delve into healing generational traumas to limit what we transmit to the next generation, and practice forms of self-care that enable us to remain strong and thrive even as we give of ourselves to our children. This space is informed by my own mothering journey and work with clients who struggle to maintain their inner health and equilibrium during this highly rewarding yet often difficult phase of life.

4. Healing from Sexual Abuse

This safe space is for women who have experienced sexual abuse or assault in childhood or early adulthood. Such violations can leave deep energetic imprints and cause a fracturing of parts of self, along with surpressed and hidden emotions that long for expression. In this circle we’ll focus on healing the energetic and emotional impacts of sexual violation, and re-integration of the affected parts of self. Our goal is to feel safe, whole, and strong again, through a process of release, re-integration and symbolic rebirth. The process is informed by my work with many clients who have experienced sexual abuse, and my own healing journey. Due to the highly vulnerable and intimate nature of sexual abuse, this space is reserved for women only.