Sandra Ingerman – Shamanic Journeying With the Spirits of Nature

It can break our heart to watch the beings we love pass away, and working with ceremony can provide a powerful way to honor both humans and nature beings that have transitioned.

You’ll learn burial ceremonies for people and nature beings to send life forms home to Source in joyful and beautiful ways. This will include ceremonies you can do to honor those who have died through illness and environmental catastrophes. You’ll also discover the importance of cultivating an honorable closure with people it is no longer healthy to remain connected to.

You’ll also learn how to fill yourself up with the beauty of life… when you open your eyes to the beauty in the world around you, you can bring it into your inner life.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The importance of honorable closure and what this means in shamanic cultures
• How to perform ceremonies to honor the deceased
• An understanding of how to move on after loss
• How to honor the process of grief
• A simple drawing exercise that can help you to draw from the beautiful images, colors, tastes, textures, sounds, and fragrances of the outer world to fill your inner world

Many of us have forgotten that we’re interconnected and interdependent, yet this is constantly being reflected back to us by our environment…

Life forms that have been around for thousands, even millions, of years are adapting to the changes in the environment. Science captures these animals to do testing, but shamans move into their “spirit self” to talk with different species to learn from them and have them learn from us — revealing that we do not need to capture species and run experiments to learn about their amazing powers of regeneration and adaptation.

You’ll journey to an animal that you’d like to establish a reciprocal relationship with to learn its ways of adaptation during times of change and to start to learn its language, including insights into its ability to communicate telepathically — and how you have this capability as well.

In this module, you’ll:

• Journey to a nature being you believe to be highly intelligent such as Octopus, Whale, Dolphin, Bee, Snake, Ant, Raven, or Eagle to learn from its wisdom
• Explore how to use animal parts (such as feathers) for making sacred objects, including how to gain permission to do so and how to do this from a place of honor and respect
• Learn new ways of telepathic communication
• Learn how you can make lifestyle changes that support all of life
• Learn how to ask permission to eat another life form and how animals respond when asked in a sacred way
• Discover how to perform ceremonies to honor all the beings we share this Earth with and those we take in for nourishment

Plants and trees are important teachers for us, programmed with powerful medicine to heal and nurture us. And in many shamanic cultures, it’s widely understood that by sitting with a tree for long periods of time, the tree will teach you all you need to learn about the practice of shamanism.

We have to learn the language of the plants to learn their “programs,” yet, in our way of doing things, we program the food and substances we use before learning about their program and what they have to share.

In this module, you’ll:

• Explore plants’ healing blueprints and how can we learn from their gifts of strength, protection, and medicine
• Discover how to prepare plants to benefit from the healing we need
• How to grow food with more consciousness, and how to care take of our local areas of native plants and trees
• How to honor the plants and trees that care for us through the power of ceremony
• Explore how spending time with plants and trees enlivens our ordinary and unseen senses
• Merge with an herb or mushroom to absorb its healing
• Journey to the spirit of the foods you eat

Crystals and stones have been used by shamans for divination and healing for millennia. Yet, for us to use precious materials from the Earth for these purposes, we must first learn their essential properties and teaching gifts. For example, rocks and stones, which are strong, still, and silent, can teach us ways of living a life focused on the present.

Crystals are being mined in ways that disrespect the Earth and their sacredness. Through journeying, you will learn how we can use them in ethical ways, how we can learn from a favorite gem or crystal, how they contribute to the web of life, and how we can use them for healing.

You’ll also learn simple methods for working with crystals, including how to use them to incubate dreams, stop nightmares, perform a cleansing on another’s energetic field, send healing energies long distance, and gain divining information.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How to care for our sacred tools, such as our drums and rattles, used in shamanic work
• The wisdom rocks can teach us
• How to work with crystals and gems in ethical ways
• How to use crystals for healing and for incubating dreams and manifesting intentions
• Simple healing methods of working with crystals

Humans are a relatively new species, yet, we often feel dominant over life. In reality, however, we’re all woven together in deep relationship with other life forms.

And, whether we’re aware of it or not, nature is always in a reciprocal relationship with us. We may experience ourselves talking to the beings in nature, but rarely do we experience them communicating with us — in their own vibrational language. When we can imagine this new reality — this telepathic connection — we step into a truly mutual and cooperative relationship.

You’ll discover how working with the elements teaches you how to enter into the flow of life… and how they can teach you about cleansing, death, and rebirth. You’ll journey to the ancient beings in the Middle World — Earth, which is 4.6 billion years old; Air, the first living being to inhabit the planet; the Water of the ancient seas, and our younger Fire beings, including the sun, the moon, the stars, and galaxies.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how to be a blessing to life instead of blessing life
• Experience the power of absorbing the energy of the sun, wind, water, and earth in both your inner and outer world
• Discover how to perceive everything you take in and absorb as pure, loving, beautiful light-filled and joy-filled energy
• Meet a species of living beings in a journey and take in their energetic transmissions by reflecting on the energy of their message, teaching, or healing — to absorb it
• Learn about the power of the stars and visit new galaxies to learn about the life forms there
• Know gratitude as reciprocity — no matter how challenging life gets you can stay grounded, centered, and focused through gratitude practices

There is powerful wisdom in communicating with a species that has been here since the beginning of time. They hold a wealth of advice for us on how to move our lives to a place of health and balance.

In this module, you’ll journey back in time to a species of creature now extinct, and to an ancient creature still alive today. For example, dragonflies are known to be one of the oldest living beings on Earth, but they still live today, unchanged. Looking to these types of species, we can discover how we live in them, and what we need to know for our future.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover how to create a relationship with life forms that are now extinct and can share wisdom about the changes we must make in our own lives to protect our survival
• Learn from ancient creatures to glean wisdom, love, compassion, and insights
• Discover ways you can help protect the future health of our planet
• Learn how, through the practice of shamanism, we can keep up our relationships with all of nature and its intelligence
• Work outside of time, journeying to creatures in the future to learn healthy ways we can adapt our lives to protect the future of our descendants

The process of death and rebirth is sometimes hard for us to embrace… We cling to the familiar and grieve the beautiful beings that pass and we have shared this Earth with. Yet, with death, there are new energies to be born that can manifest into amazing new species of animals, plants, trees, insects, and microorganisms.

You’ll learn more healing with spiritual light — connecting the light of the galaxies, stars, moon, and planets. And, you’ll learn about nature’s cycles, and how we can be more of a light in the world. We’ll also explore how to transform the toxins in our medications, food, water, air, and everything else we take in, as we learn to work with liquid light.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn about more about the cycles of death and rebirth and how they lead to the evolution of new species
• Continue to look at lifestyle changes that can keep life on the planet sustainable
• Learn healing methods from the future that include working with light and sound
• Discover how to infuse all we take in using light-filled energies
• Ask for guidance on healing methods that include working with sound and light
• Visit a new species in a future generation and ask for guidance on how to create a more sustainable future