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A traditional role of shamans is to preside at or contribute to (bring the Spirits to) rituals that mark important transition in the lives of members of their communities. In shamanic cultures, the rites for honoring the death of a loved one have been practiced for...
This ceremony was enacted for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Alamosa, Colorado and the article appeared on the blog, "Postcards from Shamans", January 2019. The word “ceremony” in its original Latin form is “awe”. Repeated behaviors related to...
Here we are, together, in the dark time. The dark is physical, as in the long winter nights in the northern hemisphere. And it’s metaphorical, as in all the dark energies washing through the daily world. On the Celtic Medicine Wheel that I work with, we are now in the...
A traditional role of shamans is to preside at or contribute to (bring the Spirits to) rituals that mark important transition in the lives of members of their communities. In shamanic cultures, the rites for honoring the death of a loved one have been practiced for...
This ceremony was enacted for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Alamosa, Colorado and the article appeared on the blog, "Postcards from Shamans", January 2019. The word “ceremony” in its original Latin form is “awe”. Repeated behaviors related to...
Here we are, together, in the dark time. The dark is physical, as in the long winter nights in the northern hemisphere. And it’s metaphorical, as in all the dark energies washing through the daily world. On the Celtic Medicine Wheel that I work with, we are now in the...
I remember some years ago Michael Harner joking that what he loved about shamanism is that nobody knows what it is. Michael was not just quipping for the sake of quipping, although he did that too. No, he was drawing our attention to an important feature of...
Beautiful grounded message thank you for sharing, growing up as a child this was taught to me. Blessings
Lovely guidance, thanks Renee
Yes! This immediately resonated with me. I have been walking the same path through the woods, along a golf course, eventually to the banks of a river for 20 years, yet my shamanic practices have brought a whole new layer of meaning to this activity. Instead of just a walk, it has become a walking ritual. I have been naturally drawn to do the sorts of things that Renee describes because I have heard the land gently inviting me to do them. And when I do, I invariably learn something new and deep that no doubt was there all along, but which I hadn’t heard because I hadn’t attuned myself to hearing it. It is about using all the usual senses and then gradually opening to the subtle ones. My walks are now prayers; everything I encounter is a message; all that I experience is a magnificently generous gift from Pachamama and the spirits of this place.
Thank You Lise for sharing your deep reverence and practice.
Happy it resonated.
How lucky that this was part of your childhood too.