Category: Healing
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Shamans, Clowns, and Tricksters
Psychotherapy and shamanism rely, in part, on compassionate truth-telling to facilitate healing. Sometimes we healers become clowns, touched by the playfulness and directness of the Tricksters: Coyote, Raven, or Spider. The truth can hurt, yet it can also heal. A lot depends on packaging.
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Seeking A Place of Balance In Shamanic Practice
Humanity insists we care and work. Humility teaches us to have compassion, to breathe, and to let go. Shamanism insists we find balance. These can be very challenging lessons.
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Encounters With The Sacred
I found myself trying to explain the client’s innocence to the tobacco spirit, and asking forgiveness for the client. The spirit asked repeatedly for the client also to apologize. Each time, a crow flew by and called. I again tried to explain to the spirit that the sacredness of tobacco gets lost in translation between…
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This Sunday: Equinox Ceremony and Prayers and Blessings for Japan and the Middle East
This Sunday marks the Spring Equinox, traditionally a time to remember, and return, to balance. This year, the Equinox arrives during a period of great suffering and imbalance in the world. All are invited to join us, at JourneyWorks, for a time of storytelling and ceremony. Together, we will acknowledge our debt to, and appreciation…
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