Sacred Stream

The Certificate Programs in Applied Shamanic Practice provide one of the most complete trainings in shamanic practice available anywhere. These programs seek to provide training that moves beyond the boundaries of acculturated practice and, instead, to bring forward practices which are common to a wide spectrum of shamanic practices found in different acculturated contexts. In Applied Shamanism, traditional practices where the power of the shamanic practitioner is emphasized are adapted to facilitate the empowerment of the client.

Students learn how to facilitate a wide variety of shamanic healing practices, including power retrieval, soul retrieval and the removal of energetic interference. Drum initiations, divination, mediumship, drum healings, space clearing, creation and maintenance of ceremonial space are just a few of the activities that students learn to manage in the Certificate Program in Applied Shamanic Practice.

Shamanic Practitioners in every cultural context have been the keepers of the wisdom of healing powers of plants. In the Advanced Certificate Program in Applied Shamanic Practice, students are introduced to the ways in which shamanic practitioners engage with the world of plants. Although the practices of the Ancestral Puebloans are the focal point in learning about the intelligence of plants, this class broadens the practitioner’s ability to plumb the intelligence of plants beyond cultural contexts.

Certificate in Applied Shamanic Practice

Required Courses:
Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
Applied Shamanism Immersion Workshop
Advanced Applied Shamanism (Note: Admission to this class is by application only.)
Working with Dreams

Additional requirements include a limited number of private individual Depth Hypnosis counseling sessions and a final assignment.


Advanced Certificate in Applied Shamanic Practice

Requirements:
Ethnobotany of Mesa Verde
All of the requirements of the Certificate in Applied Shamanic Practice