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I work on a sliding scale donation basis ranging anywhere from $40 - $160 per session. Payment can be made in person by cash, check or credit card and online via the Paypal link below.
Book Online Here: calendly.com/heartstonehealing
I work on a sliding scale donation basis ranging anywhere from $40 - $160 per session. Payment can be made in person by cash, check or credit card and online via the Paypal link below.
Shamanic Healing
Celia has been initiated into the ancient Inca lineage of Earthkeepers and Lightbody healers directly transmitted by the Q'ero shamans from the high Andes in Peru through her studies with The Four Winds Society. This powerful healing work involves a process of removing stagnant and crystallized energy accumulated through life's past traumas from the body's energetic field through the chakras. It incorporates many ancient tried and true methods including fire ceremony, soul and destiny retrieval, energetic and underworld extractions, journeying and Lightbody illuminations. It is very gentle and simple while being incredibly powerful and transformational. Many of these techniques are currently employed by today's psychotherapists because of their profound and lasting effects in eliminating recurring emotional and psychosomatic problems. Shamanic work breaks us out of our old conditioning and even past life contracts by breaking our affinity to old soul wounds. It addresses the soul’s evolution, the obstacles in its path, and it removes them. Free of the wounds we can move fully into our lives, consciously, and fulfill our destinies in this lifetime!
In my work I acknowledge that dis-ease comes through disengagement from our internal source of wellness which is our Soul. Our Soul is our connection to Oneness and when what we do is in accord with Oneness we are healthy. When our way-of-life is in discord with Oneness dis-ease follows. By using shamanic techniques and guidance from helping spirits I connect seekers to this inner spring and help to clear the patterns and blockages that may have caused this disconnection.
In my work I acknowledge that dis-ease comes through disengagement from our internal source of wellness which is our Soul. Our Soul is our connection to Oneness and when what we do is in accord with Oneness we are healthy. When our way-of-life is in discord with Oneness dis-ease follows. By using shamanic techniques and guidance from helping spirits I connect seekers to this inner spring and help to clear the patterns and blockages that may have caused this disconnection.
What is Shamanism?
Shamanism is one of humankind’s oldest and perhaps original form of spirituality. Early in human evolution, we began to look to the spirits of ancestors, animals, plants, elements and deities for help, guidance and sustenance. These compassionate beings assisted us by teaching humankind about how to live in the world and by offering protection. The spirits taught ceremonies and rituals for hunting, agriculture, fertility and healing. The spirits provided a framework and sense of continuity that helped people to feel safer and to function well within their world. The spirits offered relationship, thus spirituality in a shamanistic sense means having relationship with Spirit or spirits.
Certain people were observed to have strong affinities for communicating with these spirits and they became known as the shamans, the seers and the mediators. The shamans served their community in many capacities. Some shamans were healers, seers or masters of ritual to ensure the success of various endeavors. Shamans were the ones whose job was to ensure that balance be kept between the seen and unseen worlds. Shamanism exists today as the substratum of most if not all cultures and it exists because the relationships between the helping and compassionate spirits and people continue to exist.
Modern shamanism is alive and thriving. There is a wonderful blending of ancestral and ancient knowledge with new experience. Many people are discovering that connecting to and relating with the Helping Spirits is not confined to shamans, but is available to all of us.
Certain people were observed to have strong affinities for communicating with these spirits and they became known as the shamans, the seers and the mediators. The shamans served their community in many capacities. Some shamans were healers, seers or masters of ritual to ensure the success of various endeavors. Shamans were the ones whose job was to ensure that balance be kept between the seen and unseen worlds. Shamanism exists today as the substratum of most if not all cultures and it exists because the relationships between the helping and compassionate spirits and people continue to exist.
Modern shamanism is alive and thriving. There is a wonderful blending of ancestral and ancient knowledge with new experience. Many people are discovering that connecting to and relating with the Helping Spirits is not confined to shamans, but is available to all of us.
What is a Shamanic Practitioner?
In Service to their Community
by S. Alexander Alich
Shamanic practitioner’s work is based in cultivating the human spirit. Today’s shamanic practitioners, much like their predecessors, develop their own relationship to the earth, elements, plants, and animals, as well as to their gifts and spirit helpers. Their biggest challenge is finding a way to bring their gifts into our modern world.
Much like their ancestors, today’s practitioners have felt called, usually from an early age, to serve something greater than themselves. They have also had a form of crisis or spiritual experience that has opened them to a larger perspective of the world and an initiation to working with spirit helpers and guides. Ideally, potential practitioners might use their experience and greater viewpoint to help their clients and communities facilitate healing and growth.
Myths and Misconceptions
The three most common myths and misconceptions I face as I educate people about this work are the following:
Shamanic practitioners take drugs, fall into a trance, and spirits take over their bodies. Although it is true historically that some practitioners have used chemical means to go into trance and thus come into contact with the spirit realms, there are a variety of ways to reach trance states. Dancing, chanting, drumming, and creating artwork are a few ways that a practitioner can enter a trance state. In my own work, and the work that I teach, I require that each practitioner remain awake and aware at all times while facilitating clients. If practitioners lose their memory while working, it would be a clear danger sign that something has gone wrong.
The second myth I encounter is that shamanism is a form of religion or cult; it is not. Shamanism by its nature is spirituality and our unique experience of spirit or divinity. Through its history it has not been institutionalized and cannot be practiced the same way by any two people.
The third is what I refer to as feathers and beads. There is a stereotype that practitioners must always appear in a tribal or earth setting. I think the most important thing to know here is that each practitioner must serve a community and be a member of that community. The people I have worked with and trained serve in a variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, clinics, churches, and corporate business.
Today’s Shamanic Practitioner follows four principles:
1. The first and probably most important is to listen to the client’s spirit to guide them through the healing process. We must always ask, what is the unique journey of this person, place, or animal? What are they here to learn and teach? This looks different for each situation and will guide us to help them in the way that they need to learn. For some it may look like a cure for their illness and for others it may mean guiding them through the process of dying. There must be no judgment in this, only allowing and respecting each being's journey.
2. Find the origin point of the imbalance causing disease. We want to find the place in the person’s spirit and life where the imbalance began and correct it at its source.
In shamanism we see five bodies or aspects of a person– physical body, mind, heart, spirit, and soul. We view these aspects in a circle, with the soul sitting in the middle and the other four around it. The wheel is in constant movement and change. Seen in this way, there is not one aspect we consider superior. What we call illness begins subtly in the spirit. If the imbalance is not corrected there, it will move to the mind, heart, and eventually the body, where is becomes more challenging to treat.
3. Apply tools to restore balance. All practitioners come with their own tool bag and medicine. Our medicine is the special gift or talent that is unique to each practitioner. We must apply our own tools to help our clients move toward balance. The practitioners must rely on the relationships they have developed in their years of training to do this. They must be open to other possibilities, even if those possibilities mean that they have to leave what they are comfortable with. They must also be willing to think outside the established system and create new paths for others to follow. Being invited into this role by a community is a serious commitment and not one to enter lightly. Practitioners dedicate their lives to serving something greater than themselves and must regularly empty and purify themselves so the information or healing that a community needs can come through them.
4. The last step is offering education so the client can obtain a better quality of life. After my first year in practice, I learned that the healing session or table work was only the initial step in the healing process. The rest of the work is what the clients can live with, develop, and ultimately integrate into their daily lives. That is where the real healing happens.
by S. Alexander Alich
Shamanic practitioner’s work is based in cultivating the human spirit. Today’s shamanic practitioners, much like their predecessors, develop their own relationship to the earth, elements, plants, and animals, as well as to their gifts and spirit helpers. Their biggest challenge is finding a way to bring their gifts into our modern world.
Much like their ancestors, today’s practitioners have felt called, usually from an early age, to serve something greater than themselves. They have also had a form of crisis or spiritual experience that has opened them to a larger perspective of the world and an initiation to working with spirit helpers and guides. Ideally, potential practitioners might use their experience and greater viewpoint to help their clients and communities facilitate healing and growth.
Myths and Misconceptions
The three most common myths and misconceptions I face as I educate people about this work are the following:
Shamanic practitioners take drugs, fall into a trance, and spirits take over their bodies. Although it is true historically that some practitioners have used chemical means to go into trance and thus come into contact with the spirit realms, there are a variety of ways to reach trance states. Dancing, chanting, drumming, and creating artwork are a few ways that a practitioner can enter a trance state. In my own work, and the work that I teach, I require that each practitioner remain awake and aware at all times while facilitating clients. If practitioners lose their memory while working, it would be a clear danger sign that something has gone wrong.
The second myth I encounter is that shamanism is a form of religion or cult; it is not. Shamanism by its nature is spirituality and our unique experience of spirit or divinity. Through its history it has not been institutionalized and cannot be practiced the same way by any two people.
The third is what I refer to as feathers and beads. There is a stereotype that practitioners must always appear in a tribal or earth setting. I think the most important thing to know here is that each practitioner must serve a community and be a member of that community. The people I have worked with and trained serve in a variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, clinics, churches, and corporate business.
Today’s Shamanic Practitioner follows four principles:
1. The first and probably most important is to listen to the client’s spirit to guide them through the healing process. We must always ask, what is the unique journey of this person, place, or animal? What are they here to learn and teach? This looks different for each situation and will guide us to help them in the way that they need to learn. For some it may look like a cure for their illness and for others it may mean guiding them through the process of dying. There must be no judgment in this, only allowing and respecting each being's journey.
2. Find the origin point of the imbalance causing disease. We want to find the place in the person’s spirit and life where the imbalance began and correct it at its source.
In shamanism we see five bodies or aspects of a person– physical body, mind, heart, spirit, and soul. We view these aspects in a circle, with the soul sitting in the middle and the other four around it. The wheel is in constant movement and change. Seen in this way, there is not one aspect we consider superior. What we call illness begins subtly in the spirit. If the imbalance is not corrected there, it will move to the mind, heart, and eventually the body, where is becomes more challenging to treat.
3. Apply tools to restore balance. All practitioners come with their own tool bag and medicine. Our medicine is the special gift or talent that is unique to each practitioner. We must apply our own tools to help our clients move toward balance. The practitioners must rely on the relationships they have developed in their years of training to do this. They must be open to other possibilities, even if those possibilities mean that they have to leave what they are comfortable with. They must also be willing to think outside the established system and create new paths for others to follow. Being invited into this role by a community is a serious commitment and not one to enter lightly. Practitioners dedicate their lives to serving something greater than themselves and must regularly empty and purify themselves so the information or healing that a community needs can come through them.
4. The last step is offering education so the client can obtain a better quality of life. After my first year in practice, I learned that the healing session or table work was only the initial step in the healing process. The rest of the work is what the clients can live with, develop, and ultimately integrate into their daily lives. That is where the real healing happens.
Shamanic Healing Techniques
Illumination
The Illumination process clears the energy loops that predispose us to malignant physical and emotional conditions, erases imprints of disease in the Luminous Energy Field, and brings about healing at the blueprint level of our being. This process helps to shed the past the way the serpent sheds its skin and creates freedom from karmic and generational baggage.
Extraction
Heavy energies such as fear, envy, and anger can penetrate the Luminous Energy Field and become embedded in the layers of the field or the physical body. When this is detected, the extraction process is used to clear both crystallized energies and intrusive energies and entities, changing the affinities and attraction for toxic persons and situations.
Soul Retrieval
Indication for soul retrieval is soul loss. Soul loss may be expressed by a person as feeling or thinking that something is missing, they don’t feel whole or their empty inside and they don’t know how to get it back, though they have tried other therapies or intervention strategies. Behavioral health intervention doesn’t heal soul loss. There are wounds to the soul due to experiences in the person’s life that causes a part of their essence to be shut off to them, or lost to them in some way. Soul Retrieval is a healing process of returning the energy the essence of you and what’s yours back to you.
Power Animal Retrieval
Power animals are guardian spirits, similar to the concept of guardian angels. We all have them, whether or not we are consciously aware of them. Children are more aware than adults are, and we see this reflected in their strong and loving attachment to toy animals and pets. Many indigenous people believe that childhood cannot be survived without the guardianship of these spirit allies. They protect us, keep us full of power, health and enthusiasm and prevent negative energies and illnesses from entering our energy field. Sometimes a power animal leaves suddenly for unknown reasons. When this happens, the person becomes disempowered and the result is misfortune and/or illness. The services of a shamanic practitioner can retrieve the power animal for the client in "non-ordinary" reality (assisted by the shaman’s power animal!) and return it to the client in this reality. Specific symptoms which indicate the need for a power animal retrieval include repeated misfortune/accidents, chronic and debilitating illness, depression and, in extreme cases, a lack of will to live.
Psychopomp
A psychopomp is a guide, whose primary function is to escort souls to the afterlife, but they can also serve as guides through the various transitions of life. When people are unprepared to face death, they often need additional assistance. They may not be aware of the fact that beings are waiting on the other side to help them, or they may be too preoccupied or anxious to acknowledge such assistance. This can leave people lost and confused, or can create a situation where they may not even know they are dead, and instead attempt to continue on with their human existence instead of crossing over. This is most often the case when people have died in a sudden accident, committed suicide or where addictions may be involved, but it is increasingly also the case with the growing number of people who are emotionally unprepared to face their own death. This is where the modern-day psychopomp plays an active role by helping the deceased find their way. Much healing can be done even after death and powerful transformations can occur for the deceased and their loved ones.