Soul Retrieval is quite simply the need for soul essence to be returned. Soul parts can disconnect at key transition moments in a person’s life. Incidents such as a shocking accident, the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship or periods of intense stress can signal the departure of singular or multiple soul parts. It is almost as if it is too much at that time for the human container to hold so a part will separate and leave.
It is a perfectly natural form of human survival. Given the choice of withdrawing or blowing up who wouldn’t choose to leave? When Shamanic culture was the norm, as it was for at least tens of thousands of years, performing soul retrieval was probably as common as receiving a prescription from the doctor would be today.
The thing about a soul part separating is that it sets up a more limited functioning for the person who is now missing this part. It’s like losing a vital team player. A person can find themselves running on lower energy and living around a more rigid agreement of what is or is not possible in ones life now. This is because the worse possible scenario is perceived as being a repeat of the incident which created so much pain and distress in the first place. The result can be a life lived with more fear and less passion.
The job in Soul Retrieval is to journey back to the point where the soul part separated and tenderly bring it back again. The agreement which was made at that time is also released and a new agreement put in place. Guidance on how to integrate the soul part and go in a new direction again together is also given.
Power Animal Retrieval – is the need for Power to be returned to the human vessel. This comes in the form of an animal, where the animal represents the qualities of the type of power that has been missing (e.g. lion – bravery, courage, strength or whatever is significant about a lion for the individual).
Power loss is often a symptom of difficult situations where there is a non-sympathetic attitude around one being able to safely express one’s will. The procedure for retrieval is identical to that described for Soul Retrieval. Quite often a soul part will require a Power Animal retrieval to be able to come back.
Extraction – is the removal of intrusions which has entered the system and are creating blocks. The treatment is like having a spiritual hoover! An extraction will often be followed by a Soul or Power Animal retrieval. Energies tend to go to where there is a lack.
Quite often the retrieval of a soul part will push out rogue energies as there is no room for them anymore. You might find certain unhelpful people or situations simultaneously leaving your outside world life.
Divination – as an enlightened friend of mine defines it is ‘to see the divine as a drop of water sees the ocean’ – it is a beautiful motivation for journeying…
Divination is useful for when you need to see the bigger picture and can be successful for such projects as finding lost objects, receiving guidance on the right course of events and for understanding and healing relationship-dynamics.
A Spirit Council - is a Native American ritual used to access information and guidance from the spirits on an important subject.
Meeting the guide or Power Animal – many people have a longing to be connected with their ’Guardian Angel’ or Totem Animal. Traditionally Shamanic culture believes that we have the same guide through life times and are born with two or more Power Animals who will be our main guardians in this life-time. A session is held to learn how to make the connection and bring the energy of the guide or Power Animal through in our everyday lives.
Cord-cutting – One of the requirements of being a happy individual is to feel free to make our own highest choices without the fear of upsetting others. Living as social beings, we create codes of behaviour which allow and respect the rights of one another. The over-riding helpful principle is to trust that there is enough for all of us and create healthy relationships and an optimistic society. We create our reality through what we believe in and through what we do after that to allow that belief to take root and blossom…
However, for most of us in this culture, we didn’t naturally inherit this way of thinking when we were born! Because of the prevailing reality mind-set which has been operating around the belief in scarcity and addiction to drama and bad-news our relationships have been tarnished. It’s hard to let someone move on freely if you genuinely believe you’ll lose out and something bad will happen to you if they do. It’s difficult to feel happy about growing up and moving on if you know that your mother believes she has no emotional relationship with your father and will have no one to understand her when you’re no longer there.
So part of our work is to clear the terrain a bit so that we can work on germinating the seeds of the free and loving expression of ourselves. Cord-cutting is one of the Shamanic methods used to help with this.
Cord-cutting is a small ceremony held with the intention of allowing threads of dependency and guilt to dissolve. In a cord-cutting ceremony the people or situations whose energies are attached to these threads may be safely released. A journey is included to travel back to the source of this pattern taking root, to release the fear and receive guidance on how to move forwards cord-free, with strength and clarity.
Releasing Past Agreements in the body - often a body part can be screaming out in some way and we have a sense that it is trying to tell us something but don’t know what that is. Listening to the physical body can be as easy as listening to our emotions or thinking with our minds. In this treatment a body part is treated as the subject for the session. This session will involve touch and reiki treatment if that is agreed by the client.
Through journeying the source of the pain is visited and agreements set up at source are released as a new agreement is found that relieves us from the cycle of suffering. Guidance is received on how the client can bring the body part into lasting harmony in the body again.
Recapitulation – could be defined as a mix of Ancient Mexican and contemporary Taoist practices. It is a practice which focuses on the breath and memory.
If we see our life as a film and ourselves as the projector, there are parts which are really full of high drama! The drama can be intense and beautiful or intense and painful. The high drama acts as a magnet in our system. If we hold the awareness of drama as a magnetic force, we can see how intense drama can actually stop us from being in the full force of the present as the magnets can attract us back to certain magnetic people and events. This can set up repeated patterns or story-lines in our lives which can get a bit tedious to say the least.
With recapitulation, we click out of projector-mode and press the film-maintenance switch. We rewind the film and can travel back to the scenes in the archives of our memory which are pulling us out of perfect tension. We clean the drama with the strength of our intention and the power of the consciousness of our breath. The memory is left intact but the aim is that we are cleared of the longing or the repulsion which used to be associated with carrying it.
Possession, or over shadowing is when a spirit has not managed to find its way over the threshold at death and has housed itself in someone's body. There are various symptoms which can indicate possession which include not feeling fully at home in one's body or feeling a struggle going on with making decisions or knowing one's own mind. The practitioner journeys to get guidance on whether possession is present to ascertain whether depossession is a treatment for the session.
The client is supported in being active and creating a space for the safe emergence of the overshadowing spirit so that differentiation work can commence. The practitioner works with a special team of psychopomp guides who are specialists in this work in the spiritual worlds. The over shadowing spirit, or suffering being as they are known in compassionate depossession work, is then escorted to the light, or back to the realms where its true self belongs.
Our thoughts can be curses. In the past and in some cultures still today, creating curses was/is common place. A curse can have a strong influence on the path of an individual or a family line if it is embedded and accepted by an individual or a family system. Unravelling the curse means going back to the source of when the curse was made and changing the program. It can also involve cleansing the part or belief which has accepted the curse. Sometimes, there can be innocent suffering beings whose spirits have been harnessed in fuelling the curse and depossession work is needed to release these souls.
Shamanic Coaching – Quite often people ask for some support on the path and prefer to have someone to work alongside them for a few weeks to assist them with transforming some key areas. It is useful to have a practitioner to reflect back on what seems to be happening, help locate and dissolve limiting patterns and agreements and encourage practicing. Shamanic Coaching offers 6 sessions over a 6 month period and supports the client in working through a specialised area. A special program is designed for each client.
Pre-Space Clearing Information Appointment - The session needs to be held in the client’s home. As with a Shamanic session, the client’s intention is crucial and the Practitioner will listen carefully to locate areas of importance. No treatment is given; this session is for advice and information only, although diagnosis and solutions may be a part of the service. It’s probably best to book one of these sessions if you are ready for a big spring clean or looking to create ways to allow a better flow of energy in your home.
Space Clearing - Depending on the diagnosis of the previous session, this may involve Releasing and Retrieval Shamanic work as well as the standard space clearing and attunement.
Fire walks are advertised on the program page.
The first Individual Session lasts 2 and a half hours. It may incorporate one or more of these treatments and costs £65.
Further treatments last 90 minutes and cost £50. Longer sessions may be booked.
Treatment spaces:
1.
@ synergy centre, glenrothes
shamanic treatments are held here on a Monday or Friday
tel 01382 541953 to book an appointment
2. @ eden therapies, pitscottie
shamanic treatments are held here
monthly on a
Saturday
tel
01382 541953 to book an appointment
Shamanic Coaching for 6 sessions
over 6 months is
£300.
tel 01382 541953 or e-mail
shamanism@thelittlereddrum.com
to arrange a
program.
A Space Clearing Session will take
approximately 3 hours. A treatment is £75.
Tel 01334 829127 or e-mail
shamanism@thelittlereddrum.com to make an appointment
Firewalking per person is £50. Joint booking reductions are available.