An Overview of Shamanic Healing

Max DG — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:19:51 +0000

Last week’s post addressed the broader topic of shamanism and provided a basic definition of what it is. Having gained an understanding of shamanism, you can now learn about shamanic healing. This is the umbrella term for many different techniques that shamans make use of to return their clients to a state of balance.

Why Might Someone Need a Shamanic Healing?

Shamanic healings may be necessary when an individual has an imbalance of energy, which can, or may already have, triggered unhealthy patterns, actions, or decisions. This imbalance is caused by something called the original wound, which is often created as the result of a traumatic event or incident that has happened in this life, a previous life, or to one of the individual’s ancestors.

What Happens During a Shamanic Healing?

Shamanic healings are conducted jointly between a shaman (or shamans), Spirit, and spirit guides. Similarly to a shamanic journey, shamans travel to the spirit world during a shamanic healing. The two are distinct from each other in that a shamanic healing occurs when the shaman enters the spirit world while carrying a healing intent for their client. The shaman then asks Spirit to reveal the original wound, and the healing can begin.

What are Some of the Shamanic Healing Techniques a Shaman Might Use?

Since shamanic healings seek to restore an energetic balance, most techniques either remove intrusive energies, or return energies that have been lost.

Energy removal techniques include ancestral healing, compassionate depossession, curse unraveling, illumination, extraction, cord removal, and house clearings. These techniques all involve the removal of heavy, negative, and/or intrusive energies (and sometimes suffering beings like a discarnate spirit) from a person’s body or energy field. Energy return techniques include soul retrieval, destiny retrieval, and power animal retrieval. Each of these techniques unites individuals with an energy that can restore wholeness and spiritual vitality as well as aid in guiding them towards their true purpose.

Benefits of a Shamanic Healing

Shamanic healing has several benefits including helping with the release of physical and emotional trauma as well as other painful experiences. It is also helpful in clearing and/or shifting heavy energy, allowing for restoration of joy and vitality. Shamanic healings also help form and strengthen connections with spirit guides and our own inner knowledge and spirituality.

Thank you for reading! I hope you were able to begin to understand the benefits of shamanic healing, some of the techniques shamans use to work with energy, and situations in which they might be applicable. There’s a lot more to each technique than can be covered in one post, so keep an eye out for future posts that will dive deeper into each!

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Understanding Shamanism

Max DG — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:17:18 +0000

Have you ever had questions about Shamanism? Shamanism is a concept that is sometimes misunderstood, and I often get questions about it as a shamanic healer. This blog post will act as an introduction to the basics of shamanism, which will help you become more familiar with the core tenets of shamanism so you can better understand the specific shamanic healing techniques that future blog posts will discuss.

Shamanism is an ancient spiritual practice that allows for a deeper connection with our own spirituality and the spiritual world around us. Shamanism was practiced around the world and predates organized religion. There are several concepts, beliefs, and ideas that are central to the practice of shamanism. These beliefs include:

1. The Spirit World

The belief in a spirit world is a belief central to all of shamanism. The spirit world as a whole is composed of three smaller segments: the lower, middle, and upper worlds. The lower world is the realm of mother earth, power animals, and ancestors. The middle world is the spirit realm of the physical world we inhabit. It is the home of nature and animal spirits. The upper world is the realm of higher consciousness and divinity where ascended masters and other divine beings reside.

2. The Spirit & Universal Energy

Shamans believe in the concept of animism, which is the belief that all things, living and non-living, have a spirit. These beings also share a universal energy. This energy flows through all and allows for communication and interaction between beings in both the physical and spirit worlds.

3. Communication & Journeying

Beings such as power animals, spirit guides, and nature spirits reside in the spirit world, and shamans will often communicate with them and may ask for their assistance or advice in healing sessions. A shamanic journey is one of the ways shamans communicate with beings in the spirit world. Journeys occur when shamans enter a trance-like state in which they travel to one of the spirit world’s three levels.

Hopefully this post has helped in giving you a basic understanding of some of shamanism’s central concepts and beliefs. Future posts will further explore specific shamanic healing techniques as well as other shamanic topics, so stay tuned for more shaman knowledge!

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