Shamans Directory Ambassador and Member Imelda Almqvist’s offerings for 2026–2028 reflect a deep commitment to ancestral wisdom, imagination, and the healing of intergenerational patterns. Rooted in Sacred Art and Seiðr/Old Norse traditions, her work invites participants into lived, embodied relationships with land, spirit, and lineage.Across the next three years, Imelda will offer a carefully curated series of in-person courses in Sweden and the UK. Highlights include Seiðr introduction and advanced practitioner modules at her Forest School in Sweden; intensive work in ancestral and spirit-release healing aligned with Old Norse cosmology; and Inanna’s Descent, a profound women’s Sacred Art initiation in London. Future offerings include The Forest Witch retreat, a possible art-making voyage off the coast of Iceland, a deep immersion into rune magic, and in 2028, Tracking the Völva: An exploration of pre-Viking prophetess traditions from the Stone and Iron Ages, followed by a Dream Incubation retreat in London.
Underlying all of Imelda’s work is a clear guiding principle: if we want to change the world, we must learn to dream new dreams. By consciously engaging imagination, creating new thought forms, and honouring our ancestors through intergenerational healing, we can begin to unravel inherited burdens and open pathways toward more whole futures.
Imelda is an international teacher of Sacred Art and Seiðr/Old Norse traditions and the author of four non-fiction books, including Sacred Art: A Hollow Bone for Spirit and Medicine of the Imagination. She is also the creator of The Green Bear, a picture-book series for children set in Scandinavia, encouraging young readers to stay connected to wonder and magic. Imelda appears in the Smithsonian-produced TV series Mystic Britain (Ice Age Shaman), speaking on Mesolithic Arctic deer shamanism.
For thought provoking articles, artistic musings, and much more, visit her on Substack.
Plant Medicine and Shamanic Practices of the Amazon
With Aya Healing Retreats
Live Online and On-demand 2026
Aya Healing Retreats online courses offer an incredible opportunity to delve deeply into shamanic wisdom from the comfort of your own home. Their programs provide an accessible way to expand your understanding of these ancient practices, while gaining practical tools for personal and professional growth.
Shamans Directory Ambassador Elio Geusa of Aya Healing Retreats believes that safety and care in today’s psychedelic renaissance is a human right, a birthright. To honor this, they strive to co-create an inclusive, ethical, trauma-informed psychedelic renaissance grounded in responsibility, compassion, and impeccable care for all.
Aya Healing offers a transformative suite of online courses that bring the ancient healing traditions of the Amazon to life, supporting spiritual awakening, integration, and deep learning.
Prepare to embark on a remarkable journey of spiritual awakening and rediscover your inner balance. Approach the process with courage, and you will unlock profound transformations that can reshape your life.
Courses include the Trauma‑Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation Training, Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Practitioner Program, and the Noya Rao Remote Dieta, which explores sacred Amazonian dieta practices with remote guidance. Additional focused masterclasses offer targeted insights for newcomers and experienced practitioners alike.
Whether deepening your personal journey or learning to support others, Aya Healing’s online courses provide a meaningful, transformative path forward.
Blog and Course Excerpts by Ahamkara
Introduction to His Year-Long Shaman-Healer Training
“There are too many sleeping healers in the world. It is time to wake them up.” — Ahamkara
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Shaman-Healer Year-Long Training
Shamanism and Intuition
The foundation of shamanism is based on the belief that every person has innate wisdom and the ability to communicate with spiritual forces and the natural world. A fundamental aspect of this path is cultivating a deep connection with oneself. Through this process, we gather insight into our true needs and purpose while strengthening our intuitive awareness. Each individual has powerful intuitive abilities, and learning to listen to and trust our inner guidance is essential.
Beyond rituals and meditative practices that facilitate trance states, aspiring shamans explore various techniques for working with energy. By understanding the flow of energy within themselves and their surroundings, they learn to regulate their state of being and shape their reality. Over time this translates into the ability to work with others. Many shamans also work with plants and herbs, which serve as allies in expanding consciousness and accessing profound spiritual wisdom.
Shamanism is a deeply personal journey. Each practitioner chooses the methods and practices that resonate most with their unique nature and aspirations. Yet, at the heart of all shamanic practices remains the core intentions — to foster a connection with oneself, cultivate intuitive abilities, connect with the world of Spirit, and be of service.
Shamanic Healing and Illness
Illnesses caused by the attack of harmful forces often manifest themselves in symptoms such as localized pain, frequently accompanied by an increase in body temperature. This physical response is closely tied to the energy of the attacking forces. The concept of "attack by dark forces" corresponds with the modern understanding of infection. Both in its conventional medical sense and its more esoteric interpretation, healing is required to address these issues through appropriate methods.
Removing the harmful forces that have attacked an individual is a complex matter, requiring the shaman to extract these forces not only physically, but also on an emotional and mental level. During this healing process, the shaman navigates two realms of reality. In the shamanic state of consciousness, the attacking force may appear in an unsettling form. By extracting this force, the shaman uses tools to capture the harmful energy and transform it in both the shamanic and ordinary states of consciousness.
Healing through Reflection
We become sick for various reasons. Firstly, through a lack of something meaningful or essential in our lives. Secondly, the situation is the opposite, an overabundance of something, whether it be physical, emotional, or mental. Each tradition has its own spirit-protectors that help coping with dis-eases.
To address this on our own, it is important not to focus too much on the disease itself, as doing so can emotionally nourish and prolong it as you are “feeding” the dis-ease. Instead, shift your focus to the positive aspects of your life, both past and potential future experiences. It may be helpful to reflect on what might be needed to restore vitality to your life, or what could be introduced anew.
Illness often serves as a signal to reconsider and reevaluate your current path. In many cases, self-reflection and adjustment can be enough to bring healing. However, if the situation is more complex or persistent, it may be time to seek the guidance of a shaman who is skilled in helping to address deeper, spiritual causes of illness.
If this wisdom and practice calls to you, Ahamkara invites you to learn shamanic healing practices with him through his upcoming year-long training, “How to Become a Shaman-Healer.”
In this course, you will learn:
- Perform rituals, enter trance states, and connect with spirits
- Harness the power and energy of the spirit world
- Heal yourself and others from suffering, illness, and addiction
- Receive guidance, visions, and insights from the spirit realm
- Travel beyond time and space through the subtle body of dreams
- Purify internal organs using dream body techniques
- Discover and work with sacred places of power
- Create protective fields and craft amulets
- Enhance the energy of your home
- Strengthen family bonds through ancestral healing
- Manifest your goals and desires
- Cleanse personal and ancestral karma
- Determine life purpose through shamanic astrology
As a result, you will:
- Understand the root causes of challenges and how to overcome them
- Heal both the physical and energetic body
- Receive wisdom, answers, and guidance from the spirits
- Uncover your true purpose and unlock your full potential
- Tap into an infinite source of energy and inspiration
- Cultivate inner harmony, joy, and confidence
Through this online training, you can learn from anywhere at your own pace. The entire course is professionally filmed and edited into video lessons.
What’s included in the online course package:
- 7 Modules completed over 12 months
- 102 video lessons (15-20 minutes each) with summaries
- Homework assignments with expert review and feedback
- Support chat for questions and motivation
- Masterclass on throat singing
- 24 interactive group webinars
- Your own shamanic name
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Shaman-Healer Year-Long Training
Mayan Healing and Transformation
Twelve Month Training Program
With The Mayan Wisdom Project
The Mayan Wisdom Project offers a transformative 12-month program guided by authentic Mayan teachings rooted in ancient traditions. The curriculum, designed as a spiral journey, mirrors the natural flow of life and healing, deepening your understanding and personal growth with each phase. Founded in honor of the revered Maya spiritual guide Carlos Barrios, this program carries his legacy of bridging Mayan wisdom with the modern world.
Highlights of the program include: Activating your Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual bodies. Discovering the 20 Maya energies. Cleansing your body and home of unwanted energies. Healing past traumas through transformative practices. Exploring sacred connections to the four elements, ancestral rituals, and the role of ceremonial cacao in Mayan culture. See a beautiful example here: https://bit.ly/4h4SRJx
If you're ready to embrace authentic teachings and reconnect with Mother Earth, The Journey awaits.
Online Shamanic Training and Soul Reconnection
With Roel Crabbé
1 Year Shamanic Training Circle has started
Soul Reconnection begins this month
“We are being called to step into our healing power, and become part of this great movement of healing that is dedicated to uplift ourselves, each other, and the world.”
— Roel Crabbé
Join Shamanic Practitioner & Teacher and Shamans Directory Ambassador Roel Crabbé for a One Year Training in Shamanic Deepening Practices. This is Roel’s most complete Online Shamanic Training. He will bring three courses together in one in-depth program, including Shamanic Training Circle, Soul Retrieval Ceremony Course, The Year of Soul Ceremony Course, as well as Powerful Teaching & Ceremony by Sandra Ingerman. Although the training has just started, it is not too late to join this training only held Live only once.
Roel will also be offering a Free Three-Part Online Course on Shamanic Reconnection as an introduction to his new course Soul Reconnection starting in November, opening a gateway to a deep initiation of living from the quantum field so you can step into your soul’s full potential. This six-module transformational experience with Roel will offer the six gifts of Soul Reconnection, including: Reconnect to Source and Awaken Your Destiny, Heal Soul Wounds and Transmute Your Shadow, Walk in the Light of the Infinite, Manifest from the Quantum Field, Receive the Purest Guidance from the Masters of Light, and Awaken Your Potential and Become a Healing Presence.
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Do you feel passionate about helping women to reclaim their authentic sacred feminine connection? Then you may be ready to step into a powerful new role as a authentic feminine teacher and facilitator.
Diana Beaulieu, Shamans Directory Ambassador and founder of Sacred Woman Awakening, invites you to become an inspirational leader in the new feminine revolution, Sacred Womb Awakening.
As a Womb Awakening Practitioner you will catalyze incredible healing breakthroughs for your clients and create a richly rewarding professional path for yourself. Over the course of three levels you will receive the following:
Level 1: Womb Awakening Facilitator (4 months / 60 hours)
During your online training you will learn to transmit foundational Womb Awakening practices and get extensive teaching on how to hold sacred space as a facilitator working 1-1 with your clients and groups.
Level 2: Womb Healing Practitioner (8 months / 120 hours)
Learn to facilitate advanced Womb Healing practices and get extensive teaching on how to hold sacred space as a facilitator, while setting up your own Womb Healing practice.
Level 3: Advanced Shamanic Womb Practitioner (6 months / 90 hours)
Learn to facilitate shamanic journeys into the Womb for the purposes of healing, divination and manifestation. Receive advanced coaching to develop specialized areas for your Womb Healing practice.
This training offers so much more. We encourage you to take a look!
For thousands of years, dating back to the Inca, the Peruvian people have chartered pathways to spiritual awakening to be of lifelong service on the planet. They have long had a prophetic understanding of the larger awakening needed on Earth, and deeply understand the power of ceremony and ritual to transform their inner worlds, their families and communities, and to unite us all.
In the upcoming 'Peruvian Healing Practices & Sacred Ceremonial Service' immersion program, you will have the extraordinary opportunity to work closely with Puma Fredy Quispe Singona, a beloved Shift faculty and lineage carrier, along with a team of guest faculty and elders to receive wisdom transmissions, hone your specific spiritual gifts, and serving others.
With Puma’s guidance, you will receive powerful transmissions of ancient Peruvian Incan wisdom for living in a sacred way, an infusion of life force from the sacred culture of the Andes. You will also learn to lead rituals, prepare offerings, support others’ healing journeys, and discern the specific ways you are called to serve.
If you have been instinctively drawn to the spiritual depth, cultural wisdom, and natural majesty of Peru, it may be because your soul recognizes that it offers a kind of sacred template for us all, to restore our connection with Pachamama, reclaim parts of our souls, heal our cultures’ imbalances, and emerge into a new dawn for humanity.
It’s a new year and a new opportunity to choose to immerse yourself in the world of shamanism and shamanic healing.Shamans Directory Ambassador and Member Ahamkara is a shaman from the Altai region of Siberia. For over 20 years he has been practicing shamanism as he was taught directly from Siberian indigenous peoples, hereditary shamans. All of his classes are aimed at improving health, personal development and finding one’s path.
Ahamkara is a knowledgeable and generous teacher who brings warmth, humor and modern day practicality to his teachings. In addition to his expertise in communing with the world of Spirit and dream work, he is also well versed in working with plants and herbalism and the human body systems, including potential pathologies and remedies.
His courses are highly interactive, encouraging students to ask questions and share their experiences with one another. To date, more than 600 people have been trained in his school of shamanism.
In this year long course you will:
Discover how to rid yourself and others of suffering, disease and addiction. Learn rituals and trance for connecting and receiving information from the spirit world. Travel in the subtle body of dreams in time and space. Purify the internal organs using the body of dreams. Build good relations with relatives through the purification of family ties. Clear personal and family karma. Determine your purpose and assist others to find theirs using shamanic astrology. Access an infinite source of energy and inspiration Find inner harmony, joy and self-confidence. And much more!
Ahamkara lives in Siberia with his wife and two children. He spends his summers at Zhivo, a healing center that he created in the Siberian forest, where he offers teaching and healing, and in winter he travels, offering seminars in various countries in Europe.
2.5 Year Apprenticeship
Become a Caretaker of Mother Earth
With Serena Centre for Inca Shamanism
27-29 March 2024
Shamans Directory Ambassador Serena Anchanchu Centre for Inca Shamanism, was founded by several Q’ero Paqos (priest healers) from the Andes who are truly masters of living energy. According to the Paqos, we all come from the stars. They help us to reconnect with our ancestors and to communicate with them.
The Paqos invite you to step into the Inca shamanic tradition of wisdom, healing and profound personal development. In this two and a half year apprentice training program, they will initiate you to walk the spiritual path of the Pampamesayoq, caretaker of Mother Earth, and share ceremonies to honor Her. Their teachings are beautiful and authentic, right from the source, transmitting their wisdom through age-old, oral traditions, and touching your heart and soul.
In the training you will gradually build a Mesa, which is a medicine bundle of initiated stones, an important healing tool for the Paqos. You will learn healing techniques to cleanse and heal yourself and others, in the same way they still do in the Andes mountains today! Allow yourself to be touched by their heartfelt love for Pachamama, the Apus (sacred lords), the Ñustas (sacred goddesses) and the Ancestor Star families. Learn to walk with clarity, balance, beauty, and love.
The Paqos will share their wisdom online via ZOOM. The course is taught in English with translation from Quechua.
“Tuku Munay Niyoq” — From the deepest vibrations of our hearts.
Beluga Whales, Shamanic Art, and More
With Imelda Almqvist
Shamans Directory Ambassador Imelda Almqvist is an international teacher of Sacred Art and Seiðr/Old Norse Traditions, an author, and a painter. This month we warmly invite you to check out her training and course offerings for 2024-2025, as well as her Substack page where she posts beautiful essays on a variety of shamanic subjects twice a week. These include Old Norse Traditions, Sacred Art, and shamanic perspectives on the contemporary issues that we are all facing.
One of her recent articles called “Beluga Wale” talks about animal communication and the teachings that she receives in her dreams. She divides her dreams into three categories: composting dreams (processing everyday experiences), dreams of personal significance (pointers for inner work), and dreams of larger or collective significance (which she often turns into paintings, essays and classes).
One such dream of global significance, was about tuning into a dream of a Beluga Whale that was swimming in solitude in the coastal waters of the Shetland Islands. In the dream she grew a whale tail herself, swimming along with the animal, and communicating images telepathically. The message she received from the Beluga Whale was that there is currently so much upheaval, grief and pain in the world of human beings, that this is distorting the energetic field which we share with animals and all non-human beings. These imbalances in the human realm are affecting the song lines (or ancient dreaming tracks) followed by the animals. It pulls them off the track of their natural movements and migration pathways and disturbs their peace of mind. It also pulls them closer because of their concern for us as human beings.
Imelda’s work is always an invitation to connect more intimately with the natural world around us. She has a special connection to both Beluga Whales and the Arctic and will be teaching a sacred art course in Greenland later this year. Read more about her articles and upcoming courses here.
12 Month Online Shamanic Mentorship
With Evelyn Rysdyk and Allie Knowlton of Spirit Passages
Begins 29 February 2024
For as long as time remembers, shamans have worked to negotiate life-giving harmony in the world. We have always taken practical actions to make our surroundings safer for all beings. Harnessing our ability as creators is critical to both our collective and our own personal evolution. It is also what supports us to be connected, more whole, and more joyful as we move through our life day to day.
The truth is, that we were born for these crucial times. Our souls embodied at this time to participate in a Great Shift for humankind. Do you feel the call? Are you ready to finally live with deep trust, relying on your powerful partnerships with Spirit to be the person your soul came to be?
Whether your ideas are formulating or you are already doing exciting things and feeling ready to take them to the next level, allow yourself to be supported and mentored by Shamans Directory friends and colleagues, renowned shamanic elder-teachers Evelyn Rysdyk and Allie Knowlton, to find the clarity, energy, and courage to have them manifest and flourish.
This year, activate your Inspirited Leadership to heal humanity’s relationship with nature for regenerating the world!
Training in Andean Mysticism
With Juan and Ivan Ñuñez del Prado
Begins October 07, 2023
Andean Mysticism is a path of personal power and conscious evolution. The Paqos, Andean energy masters from the high Andes, have passed down this powerful yet graceful energy tradition over generations, and they have freely and lovingly shared this tradition with anyone who comes to them with an open heart.
The Andean Path is an earth-honoring tradition grounded in the belief that the world is made of ‘living energy.’ Andean mystics, Juan and Ivan Ñuñez del Prado (father and son) are offering live webinars of 17 sessions, providing the keys to step into a direct and personal experience of the world of living energies, a world previously relegated only to highly trained Mystics.
According to the Inka Prophecy, humanity is currently in transition from one level of consciousness to a higher one. By combining quantum physics, ancient energy techniques and modern psychology, Juan and Ivan offer a framework complete with structure and steps to walk a path of personal power in harmony with the universe based in energetic perception, enabling you to understand your personal experience ‘to walk with living energy.’
About Juan and Ivan
Juan Ñuñez del Prado and his son Ivan are Master teachers of Andean Cosmology. Juan is an Anthropologist and with his father, discovered the long lost Q'ero civilization in the 1950’s. Juan has studied directly with the Q'ero, and is a widely respected keeper of this ancient wisdom. Both father and son are passionate about teaching people to live more empowered lives. Their teachings are directly from direct experience with the Andean wisdom keepers.
Learn more about their upcoming trainings
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