Why Shamanic Healing?
Shamanism is humankinds’ oldest form of healing and spirituality, having supported and nourished the various peoples and cultures of the world for millennia. It’s relevance today is based on the fundamental wisdom that, in order to live a life of balance, fulfillment and health, we must live in a harmonious relationship with the living, natural, Divine world that has created us; the world from which so many of us have become disconnected. Shamanism delves into the unseen world of energies and relationships to discover the underlying cause of a problem. Whether the issue is physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual, the healer listens and looks at ever-deepening levels to reveal and heal the imbalance.
This is for you if:
- You have physical symptoms or a condition that has not responded to conventional healing methods or that you would like to treat holistically.
- You feel a sense of isolation and a longing for deeper connection in your life
- You have strong unresolved emotions such as grief, anxiety or anger that don’t seem to shift
- You have trauma, past or recent, that needs to be healed
- You would like to reduce your stress
- You feel stuck, unmotivated and unable to move forward in your life
Who is a shamanic healer?
A shamanic healer is someone who is dedicated to the wellbeing and service of their community. They call on their connection to, and relationship with, both the divine presences in the natural world as well as with the community that they serve. This sense of relationship and connection is what creates the context for traditional healing. The essence of this healing is divine mystery itself. And yet shamanism is also extremely practical. It dances with the seemingly paradoxical union of acknowledging deep mystery while engaging with the practical demands of our everyday world.
Prema's training
Prema did a 6 year apprenticeship under the tutelage of shamans in the Huichol tradition of Mexico. In this tradition apprenticeship includes both tutelage as well as pilgrimage to prescribed sacred sites that allow the apprentice to forge a deep relationship with the divine beings and forces present in the natural world. In 2007 Prema was initiated as a healer in the Huichol tradition under the supervision of Eliot Cowan and Don Jose Sandoval de la Cruz. Prema also spent several years training with Ohashi, a master of the Japanese healing tradition of Shiatsu and she is an initiated Reiki practitioner.
Causes of illness or imbalance from a shamanic perspective
An earth-besed healer is often the bridge between the seen and the unseen. So much of what is experienced as symptoms and disease arise from what is unseen by our culture that relies heavily on the mind and science. From the shamanic perspective there can be various causes of illness of which these are a few:
• All physical conditions we experience are a mysterious interweaving of the state of our mind, our emotions, and our relationships - with our loved ones, our community and with the natural world around us.
• Illness can often be a prompting to follow a calling in life, take a new direction, or to bring awareness to an unacknowledged need.
• Sometimes we can inadvertently get into trouble with nature spirits or sacred sites without even knowing of their existence or their effect.
• Certain energies can sometimes attach themselves to us for their own purposes.
• Loss of part of our soul through trauma can have a powerful effect on our health.
The Process
Prema will sit with you to hear about what is going on for you and treatments include counsel as well as hands-on and energetic healing.
“Prema’s healing work is exceptional, as is her capacity for loving compassion. My work with her has been deeply revealing and profoundly healing. I was not aware of the cage I was living in and the rage I held. I am out of the cage….and I find myself embarking on my path with a joyous heart.”
Sherry Morgan, Development Director
"To know Prema is to love Prema. To experience Prema's healing is to be elevated into higher planes of consciousness; to know oneself as Divine. Prema's perceptive and profound shamanic wisdom affected me deeply. Prepare to be transformed."
Julia Carroll, M.A., A.T.R., Author, Teacher
“I have done a lot of inner work but I found the healing sessions with Prema took me to a level of my being that was not available through the therapy or coaching I had done. Although I had intuited some of the things we touched on, I had never been able to consciously access or process them. It was done in such a subtle, gentle and artful way that it slipped under any resistance that I had. It has allowed me to move very naturally into a new way of approaching things. I highly recommend Prema’s work to anyone who has challenging physical, emotional or spiritual issues that are getting in the way.”
Maria Connolly, MFT
