It is through understanding and experiencing different realities that the shaman is able to move between worlds bringing the gift of healing for self and his community. When we master moving between realms, allies and powers are identified to assist with the healing at hand or simply with our daily life. Walking the Shaman's Path covers journeying into the spirit world to connect with our guides and power animals. Journeying for the self and journeying for a friend.

By understanding, feeling and bringing the teachings of the Medicine Wheel into our body and our life, we will always have a map to refer to and to shows us exactly where we are. This way we can remove or heal blockages and move forward at ease. By navigating with this map we can access more of our potential power, find our centre and live a more balanced, authentic and fulfilled life. The teachings of Medicine wheel also covers the pshycological, emotional, physical and spiritual dimensions of the self.

Life is energy. All physical and spiritual sensation is, on all levels, energy vibrating. What we and others experience as depression, fear, stress, negative thoughts and bad feelings are energies vibrating at "low" frequencies. Energy transformation, energetic healing, aura cleansing and self awareness are some techniques to transform energies and expand into our full potential as human beings and healers. Healers of the self, others and our planet.

The Spiritual Warrior's battle is concerned with the inner life far more than the outer life. Her/his path is the path of great understanding of the self and the Universe around us. Healing of the self and consequently people and planetary healing is possible through the inner journey of awakening the warrior, overcoming the ego's limitations and engaging the enemy within, then seek vision and manifest that vision into the world. The Spiritual Warrior seeks visions that benefits all and is centred in love.

We close our programme integrating what we have learned over the past year with the understanding and the experience of creating ceremony. With the Ceremonies and Nature programme we celebrate who we are, our visions and dreams and how they can be manifested into the world. Nature then becomes our teacher.

When we suffer a trauma, be it small or major, a part of our soul, a part of our essence flees our body departing to safety leaving us to cope or survive. Sometimes it can also happen that we give away parts of ourselves to someone we love, or through abuse or neglect we may lose a soul part. This soul loss is a process that helps us cope mentally, physically and emotionally. Part of being human is having this adaptation mechanism for our survival. That part of us - our essence or life force - has the ability to live in other dimensions because we are, by nature, multidimensional beings. When soul loss occurs, we are left with a feeling that something is missing but we are not quite sure what that is. Sometimes it is a sense of not being here, not being present, sometimes it is a sense of confusion, not being able to have clarity or direction, sometimes it is being stuck in enacting suffering and pain, depression may set in, suicidal thoughts haunt us. Childhood trauma is also a very common reason for needing soul retrieval. With the help of a shamanic practitioner, the inner helpers will tell us how many parts need to come back to help solve a specific problem in our lives. When a healing takes place at a soul level, when the re-union takes place, very often, it has an effect in all other levels. Soul retrieval, although very simple, is one of the most powerful shamanic healing one can have.

Developing a bit further, challenging all our assumptions, we will now explore the process of taking a step back and simply facilitating the soul retrieval. How to identify if the client is empowered enough, how to monitor the process, how to trust and let Spirit do the work. There is no better feeling then the feeling of seeing your client empowered and in charge of their own healing process. When your client is fully empowered is when real healing takes place.

A very common type of energetic illness and complain brought for Shamanic practitioners to work on is the removal of intrusive energies. If for whatever reason we have a hole in our energy field, negative energies can come and stay in that space. Those energies can manifest themselves as negative thoughts, physical illnesses or pain and sometimes even suicidal thoughts. Those energies can also be coming from other people e.g. envy, bad thoughts or anger. If they are there for a very long time, they become entities who have their own mind and are able to control the person's thoughts and feelings. Fully formed entities can also attach themselves to people and zap their energy. During the weekend we will learn to identify when an extraction work is needed and how to perform an extraction. Also learn to identify when an entity is present and how to release an entity. This is another ancient healing technique where the shaman has to have sufficient power, therefore, the importance of learning to be ruthless is fundamental for this work.

Psychopomp work: One of the most important roles of the Shamanic practitioner is to help lost souls to complete their journey into the afterworld. Compassion and unconditional love are the essential powers to accomplish this work.

House Cleansing: removing trapped energies, transforming places of negativity, space and house clearing are also part of the teachings this weekend.

As the veils between the spiritual and the physical worlds are becoming thinner and thinner, past life problems and memories have been one of the main causes for people to seek shamanic help. We are all multidimentional beings and on the shamanic path time does not exist, therefore we can journey back into past lives for healing purposes.

We will finish the course celebrating who you are and sharing your shamanic gifts with your people. With the Creative Community work we want you to explore how is it to step into your power and fully become a shamanic practitioner. You will be given the opportuntiy to share your gifts and unique ways with others in the group by facilitating 1 1/2 hours of shamanic work for your group.

Sweat Lodge Ceremony and training. Here you will receive an introductory training to facilitate Sweat Lodge Ceremonies for your community to bring about empowerment and healing. Structure of the lodge, safety, prayers, respecting and honouring tradition, the spirit of the lodge, healing and community. You will then have the opportunity work with the group to practice what you have learnt for a period of a year or two until you are ready to step into this powerful ceremony as a sweat lodge leader.

Working with the inner child to heal the heart. 90% of the problems people come for shamanic healing is childhood trauma related. With this work you will develop the appropriate skills to support the healing of traumas. One can only come from the heart if the heart is open, strong and free from past childhood traumas.

Working with the shadow self and the ego self: Here we deepen our understanding of the shadow and expand our awareness of how the ego self limits beliefs and thoughts. Working wiht this gateway we can assist ourselves and our clients to engage with the shadow and the ego selves to heal, transform, transcend and embrace spiritual gifts and powers.

Through the consciousness of the North gateway we walk the ancestral paths and lineages for healing. The North gateway also holds the consciousness of service to the community. Included in this weekend is DNA work, changing the DNA in our ancestral line for healing purposes and also teachings on how to undo curses and black magic.

With this work you will transcend time and transcend the self. Helping your clients create a positive life path, finding confidence to choose supportive, loving relationships and rewarding jobs and careers. What is for the good of all is in line with the laws of the Universe.

Here you will have the opportunity to fully immerse with our Earth Mother with an Earth Lodge Ceremony. With the death of the ego, your full connection with Spirit and being held by Nature, in the Earth Lodge you will ask your Spirit Guides to give you teachings and ceremonies to take back to your people to help them in their healing journey.

As multidimensional beings our work is to recognise and integrate the fragmented parts of ourselves and connect deeper with the Spirit world. As we become more aware and integrate the different aspects of ourselves through the 7 gateways, we have the opportunity to fully become who we truly are with integrity and authenticity, grounding more and more our spiritual life purpose and powers. The essence of this work can help you centre yourself, connect deep with your trueself, chanelling inner wisdom, channeling your guides, gathering and sharing that wisdom for balance, empowerment and becoming whole in service to your community. Divination and channelling are part of this work.