Beginning New Age Shamanic Work

Explore two shamanic breath work techniques—conscious breath, a circle breath for energy and grounding; and rebirthing breath, a long inhale–pause–exhale cycle for trance work, with safety notes.

Explore the four directions and their elemental correspondences—earth, air, fire, and water—and learn to balance them in a circle-centered medicine wheel for shamanic protection and insight.

Explore how shamanism embraces both masculine and feminine energies, encouraging practitioners to open to non-traditional roles and broaden their center as the spirit and the physical merge.

Connect with your ancestors through regular offerings and an ancestral mound or altar. Build a simple ritual with sticks, rocks, earth, and dna memory to honor lineage and land spirit.

Protect your shamanic and physical workspace with medicine shields and the medicine wheel, then create a spirit post to guard space, adjusting instructions for travel or permanence.

Learn how to assemble and use a shamanic bundle to keep your tools, stones, totems, plant medicine, and smudge items ready for quick work, whether in travel or daily practice.

Master shamanic shielding by using medicine shields, white-light protection, and personal talismans to guard the heart, throat, and energy field through intention and visualization.

Learn to care for your body in shamanic work by adjusting diet and hydration, and by energetically cleansing after journeys. Embrace spirits' guidance on sleep, exercise, and well-being.

Bless seeds as a foundational shamanic practice, transferring your intention through three breaths to seed and plant growth, imagining a sacred harvest and healthier, more resilient crops.

Salt is one of the oldest forms of preservation and protection, cleansing energy and guiding blessing for space warding.

Explore fire making as a shamanic tool, using flint and steel to unite earth, water, fire, and air, and practice tenets with charcloth, tinder, and mindful ignition.

cultivate a personal, energy-based relationship with the drum through daily care, offerings, and smudging, and learn to choose the right drum to deepen your shamanic drumming.

Move freely through dance and song to deepen shamanic trance, balancing body and mind; practice purposeful utterances and sacred language choices to heal and release energy.

Wear a dedicated shamanic outfit to channel spirits' energy and separate mundane life from your work. Whether handmade or purchased, make the outfit special and let dressing begin the ritual.

Explore shamanic tools such as headdresses, masks, fur, fans, and mirrors, and learn how each item can ground attention, deepen connection with power animals, and support divination and journey work.

Learn how to select and use a shamanic knife for functional and non-functional energetic work, including stone and metal options, safety, and keeping mundane tools separate.

Learn to choose and use staves and wands in shamanic work, focusing on wood types, energy, and length guidelines (18–24 inches). Practice seeking tree permission through offerings, safety, and intuition.

Explore rattles, rhythm sticks, and rain sticks as shamanic tools that clear negative energy, support rhythm and trance work, and connect you with energy through plant and animal materials.

Horns and whistles are simple instruments used to wake energy and call the ceremony, with natural items like acorn tops or bone and cow horns adding animal energy.

Explore a range of instruments ideal for shamanic practice, from Native American and transverse flutes to singing bowls and tuning forks, emphasizing energy, simplicity, and spirit guiding your journey work.

General guidelines for connecting to spirits, emphasizing a cautious, reverent approach, honest communication, offerings, signs, ancestor connections, and a childlike mindset to deepen the connection.

Discern what spirits tell you in shamanic practice by balancing intuition with fear, recognizing mighty spirits and elemental powers, and navigating gradual to profound lifestyle changes.

Ground yourself with the earth, hold a stone, then greet land or house spirits and offer four elements and regular offerings to build a protective, collaborative relationship.

Respect mountain energies by seeking permission, presenting worthy offerings, and approaching with caution. Explore how volcanic and non-volcanic mountains differ, their ancient history, and how to connect responsibly—often remotely.

Connect with the forest spirit by viewing the forest as an ecosystem of beings—animals, rocks, streams—and acknowledge it before entering, then focus on individual spirits as needed.

Practice crystal communication with stones as portals to guidance, and place connected stones in your shamanic bundle.

Explore how to connect with the sun and craft a sunstone, including timing, sun exposure, and rituals guided by weather spirits to harness solar energy.

Explore connecting to the moon through dream pillows and the moon ladder, using lunar energy to charge stones and ritual tools, with guidance on herbs and ethical feather use.

Connect with plant spirits face-to-face where they grow, wild or in your garden. Provide a gentle offering, ask permission before touching or plucking, and listen for their guidance beyond books.

Discern your power animal, a lifelong energy source, from your spirit animal, a temporary guide that appears for specific purposes; nurture respectful, communicative relationships through journey work and offerings.

Explore how water forms carry spirits, from ponds to oceans, and how salt water, ceremony, and permission-based offerings help you connect the water within you to nature.

Explore rain, fog, and blood as shamanic spirits, then learn to craft and use a rainstone ritual to invite rain through local blue stone preparation, placement, and ritual timing.

Explore fire in its basic forms: fire, smoke, steam, and embers, and learn respectful, transformative practices in shamanic work, including offerings, incense, smudge sticks, and safe handling.

Connect with snow, frost, ice, hail, and sleet by respecting their environment and timing. Respect unlocks safety as these spirits reveal destructive and creative energies that move obstacles.

Explore the three worlds of shamanism, focusing on the middle world as the starting point to experience reality, connect with earth spirits, and prepare for upper and lower world healing.

Begin journeywork by entering a trance state, using breath and music to calm body and mind, and set clear intentions before respectfully engaging with spirits across different worlds.

Design your personal shamanic space in the astral realm as a flexible, interactive blueprint for daily work with guides and spirits, adaptable across worlds and evolving with practice.

Explore travel methods to the upper, middle, and lower worlds, using doors, trees, ladders, water, caves, and portals, while learning to open and close portals with spirit helpers.

Enter the group space, a fire-centered long house with crystals and shamanic tools, where entry is guided by your ceremony and prep, and the space expands with participants.

Explore your shadow house, a dream-world space storing traumas, regrets, and ancestral baggage, reflecting past events and your representation in the middle or lower world, changing as you address them.

Learn the setting out vision quest: isolate in nature to commune with spirits, make offerings, and discover guidance for your work; prepare respectfully, carry shamanic tools, and leave no trace.

Congratulations on completing the first course in shamanism, where you explored the basics, the types of shamanism, and learned tools to connect with and work with various spirits.

Access the Facebook page for the new age shaman and a downloadable PDF with 24 to 48 hours links, plus an extended 20-minute musical drum work in MP4 or MP3.