Today's Thought (Sandra Ingerman, Psychotherapist and Shaman)

Sandra Ingerman, Psychotherapist and Shaman of New Mexico

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Sandra Ingerman, MA, is the author of Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, Welcome Home: Following Your Soul's Journey Home, A Fall to Grace, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins, Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide, and How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation.  She is the author of "The Soul Retrieval Journey"  "The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying" and "Miracles for the Earth" lecture programs produced by Sounds True.        

Sandra teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods.  She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers.  Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management.

Sandra shares:
Shamanism is the most ancient spiritual practice known to humankind. We know from the archaeological evidence the practice dates back at least 40,000 years. Some anthropologists believe that the practice dates back over 100,000 years. 

The word "shaman" comes from the Tungus tribe in Siberia and it means spiritual healer or one who sees in the dark.  Shamanism has been practiced in Siberia, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Greenland, and native North and South America.

A shaman is a man or woman who uses the ability to see "with the strong eye" or "with the heart" to travel into hidden realms. The shaman interacts directly with the spirits to address the spiritual aspect of illness and perform soul retrievals, retrieve lost power, as well as remove spiritual blockages.  The shaman also divines information for the community. Shamans have and still act as healers, doctors, priests and priestesses, psychotherapists, mystics, and storytellers.
 

            Shamanism teaches us that everything that exists is alive and has a spirit. Shamans speak of a web of life that connects all of life and the spirit that lives in all things. Everything on earth is interconnected and any belief that we are separate from other life forms including the earth, stars, wind, etc is purely an illusion. And it is the shaman's role in the community to keep harmony and balance between humankind and the forces of nature.

           

For more information on Sandra's work you can visit her other website at: www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html. 

Join me in wonderful conversation about the multifaceted, multidimensional modality of Sandra's Soul Retrieval Process!