This audio features beautiful Celtic storytelling, poetry and song. We then turn to ask ourselves, how are we similar to Beara, Brigid and Angus and how can these Celtic allies support us and others during this time of year?...
Teachings & Stories
Our ‘Teachings & Stories’ audio content focuses on teachings and stories from traditional shamanic cultures as well as teachings some of our authors have received through their own experience of walking a shamanic path. You might also be interested in our ‘Teachings & Stories’ articles.
A Bedtime Story: Lifecycle of a God
This Bedtime Story imagines the Lifecycle of a God, of which dragon and human are parts. https://cdn1.shamanicpractice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/31105516/Bedtime-Story-by-Shannon-McArthur.mp3
The Acorn Meditation
"From oak I come to oak I go, I sit amid the ancient flow. From oak I come to oak I go, I look, I watch, I see, I know...." ~Tom Cowan https://cdn1.shamanicpractice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/13120105/The-Acorn-Meditation-by-Tom-Cowan.mp3 [media-downloader...
The Popularity of Ayahuasca and Other Plant Medicines
Vegetalisa is a term used to refer to a practice of mestizo shamanism in the Peruvian Amazon in which the shamans — known as vegetalistas — are said to gain their knowledge and power to cure from the vegetales, or plants of the region. Dr. Steven Farmer interviews...
Interview with 2018 Eagle Feather Award Recipient, Mona Polacca
"Your prayer is like an arrow. Walk behind it as it clears the way for you." ~Mona Polacca On her mother's side, Mona is Havasupai, the people of the Blue Water. On her father's side, she is Hopi from the Sun Clan and Tewa from the Tobacco Clan. An important...
Xhosa Sangoma Medicine
From time immemorial the medicine person’s job was to help the community reconnect with their ancestors and thus find their vision and soul’s purpose. For it is well known that all people come to earth for a particular purpose and when that purpose is realized then...
African Shamanism & Ancestral Wisdom
Dr. Steven Farmer interviews Gretchen Crilly McKay about the wisdom obtained from working with a Sangoma (African Shaman) through a divination process called throwing the bones. Gretchen is reunited with her African ancestors as she begins to cultivate the healing...
The Story of Boann and the Well of Wisdom
Jaime leads us through a transformative story about Boann, goddess of the River Boyne, a river in Leinster, Ireland. Although Boann was instructed otherwise by her husband Nechtan, she unleashes a power that has been keep still and protected. These actions and...
Shamanism and the Secrets of Childhood
In this audio Tom explores the wisdom and secrets contained within the innocence of childhood. https://cdn1.shamanicpractice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/18141929/Shamanism-and-The-Secrets-of-Childhood_Tom-Cowan.mp3 [media-downloader media_id="3621" texts="Download...
The Shipibo Icaro Tradition
The Shipibo peoples of the Amazon believe everything has its own song and pattern. Anna shares the basics of their understanding of the universe and ends by offering a icaro, a sung prayer....
Interview with Joseph Rael, 2016 Eagle Feather Recipient
This "audio" is a filmed interview with SSP's Eagle Feather Award Recipient, Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow). Mr. Rael is an Artist, Teacher, Author and Visionary. SSP Board members Lena and Jose Stevens traveled to Southern Colorado to present the award to...
Challenges and Joys of working the Celtic Tradition (December 2017)
Tom Cowan, Jane Burns and Jaime Meyer discuss what drew them to Celtic Shamanism. Each shares some of their favorite Celtic practices and how they integrate these practices into their daily lives. Together they discuss how Celtic traditions are relevant to our times,...
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