With Fiona – cost €85 – €110 (inc. tax) sliding scale
Generally the session duration is 1.5 – 2hrs.
Sometimes a client will know exactly what they are looking for in a session. Other times they just will feel they need to explore what is moving within them. The client will share what has motivated them to book a session and as this unfolds an intention for a journey will be set. The Shamanic practitioner will journey for the client and interact with their spirit guides to bring back relevant information or healing.
From a Shamanic perspective we look at the areas of power loss, soul loss, problem solving and spiritual intrusion which lead to illness or dis-ease. This can manifest on an emotional, physical or mental level.
Power loss
When a person loses connection to their power in the form of their power animal or spirit guides, they lose that connection to their spiritual essence. Some symptoms that are associated with this are chronic illness, depression, suicidal thoughts.
Soul loss
Soul loss can be experienced when a person experiences an emotional trauma or physical trauma where life can be threatened. As an act of self preservation, the soul will flee the body to survive the experience. Common presentations for soul loss are abuse (sexual, emotional or physical), death of a loved one, an accident, surgery, addiction, a frightful experience, conflicts.
Spiritual Intrusion
Often any of the areas of soul loss or power loss can result in a spiritual intrusion. When there is a vulnerability in the body and a void of energy, it will be filled by another energy. Spiritual intrusions can come from negative thought forms. Sandra Ingerman (American Shamanic practitioner and author) articulates it beautifully, “..Spiritual intrusions come from negative thought forms. In indigenous cultures people understand the difference between expressing energy and sending energy. In the West we often do not understand the difference. It is important for us to express our anger, frustration, sadness, etc. But we often send these energies to ourselves, others, and into the environment like a psychic arrow. And these energies can create what shamans call spiritual intrusions..”
There are also times when a spirit can get confused at death, due to a sudden or traumatic death and remain caught in this dimension, what is referred to as the middle world. A spirit may attach to or enter a person who is missing their vital essence often being a familiar loved one.
When a spiritual intrusion presents, the Shamanic practitioner will perform an extraction with the help of spirit guides. This is done in a variety of ways, sometimes with often hands placed on the area of the body and using the breath to extract the energy.
Ancestral Work
Our ancestors are revered and seen as very important from a shamanic perspective. They hold a lot of wisdom and they made a lot of sacrifices to pave the way for us to follow. As humans we have gifts to pass on, but also challenges and trauma occur in our lives, these impact the generations to follow. We can have individual/family trauma and collective generational trauma.
Western medicine is starting to understand this phenomenon by the research into epigenetics. Epigenetics is the idea that people’s behaviour is shaped by more than just their gene’s DNA sequence, but also by external environmental effects on genes, which they call epigenetic factors.
Very often ancestral themes will come up in any shamanic session without booking a specific session to look at ancestral work. However, some people are acutely aware that they have patterns that are the family’s ancestral traumas that need to be worked with. Very often it is the ‘difficult or outcast’ family member who may be carrying this wound.
We are influenced positively and ‘negatively’ from our ancestors. We can look at this as our blessings and our burdens, however our burdens are very often our blessings and our greatest teachers. Witnessing and bringing awareness to a trauma and then healing it, not only is beneficial for ourselves, but also for our family and those after us. It is how we learn to evolve. We are the ancestors of tomorrow.
“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.” – John Donoghue