The training will include but will not be limited to the following bodies of work which will be further supplemented by ceremony and ongoing supervised homework:
Shamanic Counselling: a vital tool, a marriage between ancient methodology and modern technology. Intensive training is given to develop skills for assisting clients in answering personal life questions with the assistance of helping spirits, who are considered to be the True Counsellors.
Shamanic Soul Medicine: a detailed study of the principals that lie behind illness from a shamanic perspective and an exploration of the territory of disease. Includes a thorough training in the primary cross-cultural tools of the shaman, namely Soul Retrieval and Extraction medicine as well as the tools to guide the suffering across the terrain of sickness and death.
Oneiric Practices and True Dreaming: the shaman considers the true location of certain key healing work to be at the crossroads of waking, sleeping and mundane dreaming, understood to be the state of True Dreaming. In Europe, the discipline reached a peak of excellence in the Greek Mystery Schools through the dream temple incubation methods, an entirely shamanic body of work. This, together with little-known oneiric practices will be taught and experienced.
Healing Circles: acknowledge and celebrate the community aspect of healing, involving the client receiving healing from an octet of eight tutelary spirits and their human partners. Advanced techniques of merging with Ancestral Kin and becoming a mouthpiece of the gods will be taught and experienced.
Shamanic Land Work and working with the spirit of place / the application of Drum and Rattle within the shamanic healing paradigm / Movement and trance / Altars and shamanic tools / Masks and the shamanic ‘Theatre of Ambiguous Behaviour’, part of the European Bee Tradition.

The training allows each participant to safely climb, branch by branch, the World Tree - or axis mundi - of the shamans path. We strip shamanic work down to its core, eventually incorporating material and methods often not presented elsewhere. It is here we operate and train as healer, ceremonialist, spiritual guide and artist, using trance and ecstasy to master the unseen forces of nature and undertake communion with the purveyors of power. This gives a rich and highly experiential induction into the life-way of the shaman, trained in the art of equilibrium, with mastery of ecstasy, moving with poise and surety on the threshold of the opposites.

For the shaman, human existence, suffering and death are rendered a series of maps and symbols that form a moral order, within which clear pathways lead to the treatment and elimination of the most painful aspects of human life. Through learning and practicing a rich variety of sacred action along these pathways, students upon this training will step forward into the role of shaman, enabling them to be of profound assistance and help to others

DATES:   This training commences in April 2009 with a five day residential   componant running from 25th - 29th April at The Sacred Trust Centre.   This is followed by a non-residential component in Bath, 1st-5th August   and a further residential component at The Sacred Trust Centre,   5th-9th December.   2010 dates will follow the same sequence.   Fees are inclusive of residential component costs and can be payable in   bimonthly instalments.   ANNUAL FEE: £1,495                                                                                                                                                                                       Book Here