My Shamanic Training and Healing Sessions

I am a trained shamanic healer, a shamanic practitioner who practices the shamanic healing arts of
  • Shamanic Extraction:  Removing Energetic Intrusions
  • Soul Retrieval, Soul Restoration
  • Soul-Guiding, also known as Psychopomp
  • Shamanic Energy work
  • Working with Ancestors and Past Life Healing and Information
  • Power Animal Retrieval
  • Illuminations in the Peruvian tradition
  • Initiated Mesa carrier in the Peruvian tradition
About Shamanism, in general

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I have been doing shamanic journey and healing work since the summer of 2005 when I had my first amazing experience with  shamanic journeying.   It changed me, and re-confirmed for me that healing and bodywork is what I'm here to do.  I offer shamanic healing sessions and I teach and facilitate shamanic workshops, both beginning and advanced, in Huntsville, Alabama.


I have also received advanced training in shamanism from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, studying with Dana Robinson, and have also studied with Joana Shinkara, a Foundation-trained urban shaman who studied closely with Michael Harner of the Foundation.  Much of my recent training has been with Betsy Bergstrom and with Ana Larramendi in Wisconsin. 

The shaman is the "hollow bone" through which healing passes from Spirit to the client.  As shamanic practitioner, I don't "do" anything to effect a healing.  I follow the directives of Spirit in the form of my healing allies - Spirit really does the healing, not me.  As far as I have been able to determine via DNA testing, there is virtually no Native American blood in my family and I do not claim that lineage.  From the beginning, my shamanic journeys had a distinctly Celtic flavor to them, and continue to do so. 

If you would like to know more about my shamanic healing work, please do not hesitate to call or email me. Typically my shamanic sessions take place away from the massage office, either at your home, in nature, or in a conducive healing space. I also do shamanic work via request.  Email me or call me for this work if you are interested.  I can be reached at 256~337~1699  and also at    Jeffrey . Rich @ gmail . com

I am a primary facilitator for the Huntsville Shamanic Drumming Circle, co-organizing and facilitating a monthly healing shamanic drumming circle.  Shamanism is an inclusive spiritual healing practice focusing on unity and balance and is not a religion. Its tenets are:
  • Everything is Alive
  • Everything is Aware and Conscious
  • Everything is Dynamic and Changing
  • Everything is Connected
  • Everything Responds
To learn more about what shamanism is and is not, and how its healing modalities can help you live, balance and heal, please visit one of these links:

* The Foundation for Shamanic Studies Michael Harner's 501(c)(3) non-profit educational foundation and home to much information about shamanism and shamanic training

* Sandra Ingerman a site about Sandra, about Soul Retrieval and about Earth Healing

* Shaman Tracks Dana Robinson's shamanism web site

* David Lee Lang's article on Dream Weaving, describing a little bit about the nature of the five tenets of shamanism (above), and how they can be used in shamanic healing.  David Lang says so much, and says it so well, please visit his site!


A Personal Statement
I believe that we are all part of one human family, and that everything is connected. Nothing exists that is not in connection to the whole, to Source, Great Spirit, the Tao. Touching one thing touches all others; touching the body also touches one's spirit. I hope that my healing philosophy is one that indeed grows corn.

Thanks for reading :-)
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