Shamanic Practitioner

02/15/2026

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A shaman’s prayer for another person is never just words spoken toward the sky. It is a profound spiritual journey and one of the oldest and most meaningful healing rituals in traditional cultures.

When someone seeks help, the shaman does more than ask nature or spirits for mercy. He enters an altered state of consciousness and travel into subtle spiritual realms to restore balance where harmony has been disturbed.

Such rituals can serve many purposes. Most often, people seek healing from illness, whether physical or spiritual. The task is to find and retrieve lost parts of the soul that can separate after deep fear, trauma, or emotional shock. In other cases, people ask for help in attracting good fortune, strengthening health, improving relationships, or supporting success in life and work.
Sometimes a ritual is performed to guide the soul of the deceased into the next world or to communicate with ancestral and local spirits to restore balance and peace. Shamans also perform cleansing rituals to remove negative influences, harmful energies, or the effects of the evil eye.

Shamanic prayer is always an action. It is risk, inner struggle, and diplomacy all at once. It is negotiation with invisible forces for the sake of restoring the integrity of the one who has sought help.

This approach to healing is unique in its depth and respect for natural balance. Illness and life challenges are not seen as isolated problems but as disruptions in a person’s relationship with the surrounding world, both visible and unseen.

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02/09/2026

Notice the drums!

Bad Bunny turned the Super Bowl 60 halftime show into a moment of unity. Surrounded by flags from South America and the Caribbean, he paid tribute to different nations before closing with, “God Bless America.” The show ended with a powerful reminder on screen: love is stronger than hate.

02/06/2026

In this engaging conversation, Timothy Cope shares his journey into shamanism, detailing how he was drawn to the practice through a transformative experience...

02/06/2026

A Dismemberment!

Being Rearranged

The bear rows through the rapids wild,
through chaos like a frightened child,
yet knows what we so often miss—
that breaking down precedes the bliss.

You are not broken, though it seems
like all your carefully laid dreams
have shattered into countless parts,
like life has ripped away your hearts.

You're being rearranged, reformed,
you're being weathered by the storm
not to destroy what you contain,
but to reveal your truest grain.

The rapids look like violence pure,
like nothing good could there endure,
like everything will be destroyed,
like all your efforts are now void.

But rearrangement looks like loss,
looks like you're being thrown and tossed,
looks like the end of all you knew—
but it's the pathway to what's true.

Something truer waits ahead,
a version of yourself that's shed
the parts that never really fit,
the roles you played but didn't sit.

The bear navigates the foam,
not fighting to return to home,
but trusting that this rushing through
will bring it to what's real and true.

When life dismantles who you are,
when you feel shattered, bruised, and scarred,
remember that you're not undone—
your rearrangement has begun.

The pieces that are falling off
were never meant to be enough,
were never truly part of you,
were just the false obscuring true.

And what remains when chaos clears,
when you've survived these painful years,
will be more honest, more aligned,
more you than what you left behind.

So row through rapids, hold your oar,
and trust that there's a distant shore
where you'll arrive more whole than broke,
rearranged but not revoked.

The canyon walls rise steep and high,
the mist obscures the clear blue sky,
but light breaks through from up above—
this rearrangement is from love.

You are not broken, never were,
you're just becoming who you are,
and rearrangement, though it's hard,
will leave you beautifully unmarred.

02/06/2026

JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
One of the qualities that you can develop, particularly in your older years, is a sense of great compassion for yourself. When you visit the wounds within the temple of memory, you should not blame yourself for making bad mistakes that you greatly regret. Sometimes you have grown unexpectedly through these mistakes. Frequently, in a journey of the soul, the most precious moments are the mistakes. They have brought you to a place that you would otherwise have always avoided. You should bring a compassionate mindfulness to your mistakes and wounds. Endeavor to inhabit the rhythm you were in at that time. If you visit this configuration of your soul with forgiveness in your heart, it will fall into place itself. When you forgive yourself, the inner wounds begin to heal. You come in out of the exile of hurt into the joy of inner belonging.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

Dawn, County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

02/05/2026

𓂀 𓃭 𓆣 𓇳 𓊹 𓏏 𓃀 𓂀 A Sacred Pilgrimage Awaits Journey with the Shamans Egypt Walk the ancient temples. Awaken the mysteries within. MARCH 14–23, 2027 🏨 6 Nights at Pyramids View Hotel ✦ ⛵ 3 Nights on a 5-Star Nile Cruise Your Guides HeatherAsh Amara Warrior Goddess & To...

01/28/2026

01/27/2026

For decades, Indigenous stories reached the screen without Indigenous voices guiding how those stories were told. Visibility existed, yet real creative authority was often missing. This imbalance shaped public understanding of Native communities and influenced how Indigenous youth saw themselves reflected in media.

When stories are filtered through outside perspectives, nuance and truth can be lost. Stereotypes fill the gaps left by absence, and lived experience is reduced to simplified narratives. The impact of this extends far beyond film, touching identity, confidence, and belonging.

The first Academy Award nomination for a film directed by an Indigenous North American filmmaker marks a powerful shift that should have come much sooner. It signals a change in who holds the pen and who decides what stories look like, sound like, and mean.

This moment is about authorship and honesty rather than trophies. It represents the right to speak from lived reality, cultural memory, and community knowledge without translation or distortion from outside voices.

When Indigenous creators lead their own narratives, the result carries depth, care, and truth rooted in experience. This milestone opens space for more voices to rise, while reminding us how many Indigenous stories still remain unheard and waiting to be shared on their own terms 🎬🪶