Shamanic practice and its techniques help us reconnect to ourselves, each other, our communities and the great cosmic story - the Earth and the great mystery we are all a part of. According to lore, these practices date back 50,000 years. This tradition forms the roots of all healing and spiritual models. Whether Celtic, European, Native-American or Aboriginal origins we can all trace back our shamanic ancestry. The teachings have gone through many transformations, as mountain peoples migrated to lush farmland and then crossed the ice in Siberia into thick forests of the American continent. Today, we're going through another evolutionary change as we bring ancient teachings into the 21st century. Although the outer form of the teachings changes, the inner form has remained the same.

A shaman is a person whom through various techniques such as breathwork, drumming and dreaming can change their state of consciousness and journey outside time to the non-ordinary realms of magic and mystery. Traveling beyond the 'matrix' of ordinary reality to contact the spirit world to seek wisdom, knowledge and power to help heal the individual and the community. The shaman makes contact with his spirit guides and power animals to effect changes in ordinary reality. Working closely with nature and the elemental forces is a very important part. Shamanic experiences are part of everyday life, the cycles of birth, death and re-birth are an intrinsic part of our reality. This pattern is repeated throughout our lives as we are continually being born into new experiences and dying to old habits, behaviour patterns and belief systems. We are all on an adventure of self discovery, the calling is to set out on this quest consciously.