This is a series of articles and audios focused on the shamanic practice of prayer.
Originally recorded July 31, 2023 We are thrilled to welcome all in the SSP global community to this extraordinary online ceremony: The Mosoq Chaquy. It is a ceremony performed by Andean Paqos once a year to renew their vows to Mother Earth, which is a way to renew...
In this audio Anna shares about the shamanic tradition of offering blessings through prayer. https://cdn1.shamanicpractice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/30153131/Shamanic-Traditions-of-Offering-Blessings-through-Prayer.mp3 [media-downloader media_id="4320"...
This audio offers a beautiful meditation to begin your day with gratitude and blessings. https://cdn1.shamanicpractice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/18165209/Prayers-to-the-Four-Directions-with-Tom-Cowan.mp3 [media-downloader media_id="3328" texts="Download Mp3...
This audio is a 15 minute talk with SSP board member Lena Stevens. In this audio Lena defines prayer and explains the power it has to break patterns and bring new energies into our lives. She gives examples of powerful ways to pray, and also explores the difference...
Prayers are silent, Prayers are sung, Prayers are danced, and Prayers are spun. What does it mean to live in prayer? My own expression of prayer has changed over the years as many of my prayers have become my reality, and many others not. I still like to give thanks,...
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -Gandhi What is Prayer? Prayers are an intensely personal communication with what anyone might consider a higher source of power. For some this power source is a vague notion of something...
‘You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer’. Thich Nhat Hanh When the request...
Over the past 30 years I have had the good fortune to participate in many spiritual traditions including Methodist Christianity, Islamic Sufism, Zen Buddhism, contemporary Paganism, Lakota ways and the Native American Church, Buryat Mongolian shamanism, and West...
I have often wondered what place prayer has in my life and in my work of bringing shamanism into contemporary western life. After all, I can do a shamanic “journey” to helping spirits to make requests and to have a direct relationship with the Larger Order of Things,...