Foundation for Shamanic Studies Online Workshops
Online Workshops
All online workshops are held live via Zoom
All workshop times are in Eastern Time
Workshop cancellation policy:
Refunds will be given, minus a $40 processing fee, up to one month before the workshop. 50% refunds will be given up to two weeks before the workshop. Within two weeks of the workshop, no refunds will be issued.
​
​
Please note that it is against FSS policy to record any workshops, whether online or in person. Online workshops will not be recorded; you must be present for all sessions in order to complete the workshop, and in order for it to count as a prerequisite for advanced workshops.
Preparation for online workshops:
Please be located in a private, quiet place, without background noise, where you will not be disturbed
Please be able to have your camera and microphone on during the workshop
Dress comfortably
Please have with you a rattle, as well as pen and paper to record your experiences (see individual workshops for additional items to bring)
Headphones are recommended but not required
​​
​
​
Jump to online workshops listing
​
About the Online Shamanic Training Series
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies curriculum is designed to provide step-by-step training in authentic and powerful shamanic methods. These trainings are broken up into the Knowledge and Power series and the Healing Series. Trainings generally must be taken in a particular sequence, with some exceptions. This allows students to build their relationships with their own helping spirits and gain experience receiving wisdom from the spirit world before delving into learning the healing methods.
​
Relationships with compassionate helping spirits are essential to learning healing and working for others; the order of the series allows you to meet your own spirit helpers and build your relationships with them, so that you can be effective in bringing wisdom and healing into the world, which is the essential role of the shamanic practitioner.
​
I teach the entire online series once a year, beginning in January or February and ending in November or early December. Some students prefer to learn from different FSS faculty at their own speed, while some students find benefit from working with a single teacher whose teaching resonates with them. I welcome both paths. I have students come into workshops after learning with other faculty, and they are always welcome (as long as prerequisites are met with an FSS faculty member). I also always have a core group go through the entire series with me, and with each other, building relationship with the same community of humans, and with me as a teacher, as they explore these methods. I encourage you to find what feels right to you.​​​
Online Shamanic Training Series
The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge and Power
Wednesdays February 12 and 19, 5pm-8:30pm
The shamanic journey is a remarkable visionary method for entering into another reality with discipline and purpose. Using classic drumming techniques to alter consciousness, participants will be introduced to the shamanic journey to awaken one's soul and dormant spiritual power. Travel outside of time and space into another reality and make contact with compassionate helping spirits, such as teachers and power animals, for personal wisdom and to gain knowledge to help create a better world.
Cost is $160 for this workshop
Shamanic Divination in Practice
Wednesdays March 5 and 12, 5pm-8:30pm
**Prerequisite: The Shamanic Journey (online) or The Way of the Shaman (in person)
​
The skilled practice of shamanic divination, the process of consulting the spirits for knowledge, is an essential aspect of shamanic healing and of bringing the wisdom of the helping spirits to bear on personal, local, and global issues. This workshop offers students opportunities to practice methods for contacting their compassionate spirit helpers, particularly through the shamanic journey, and to enhance their abilities to form on-topic questions and interpret the messages received. Participants will also experience classic shamanic ways to build and nurture strong relationships with their own spirits.
​
In addition to the items listed at the top of this page, please have with you a palm-sized rock (NOT a crystal), preferably found in nature
Cost is $160 for this workshop
The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive
Wednesdays April 2 and 9, 5pm-8:30pm
**Prerequisites: The Shamanic Journey and Shamanic Divination in Practice (online) or The Way of the Shaman (in person)
This workshop will be required to complete the Healing Series
The shamanic worldview underpins the ethical and effective practice of shamanism. Experiential knowledge of this worldview leads to a profound awareness of the sacred nature of our world and an awakening of compassion, resulting in a deep desire to relieve pain and suffering and restore balance and harmony.
Using journeying and experiential shamanic methods, in this online workshop you will have the opportunity to personally explore and experience the fundamental aspects of the shaman's worldview:
-
Everything is alive and has spirit
-
Unity: We are part of, connected with, the totality of nature
-
Independent spirituality, the shaman as "one who knows"
-
The implications of these principles related to permission when doing shamanic healing and divination
Cost is $160 for this workshop
Shamanism, Spirits, and Healing
April 23 and 30, 5pm-8:30pm
**Prerequisites: The Shamanic Journey and Shamanic Divination in Practice (online) or The Way of the Shaman (in person)
**Strongly recommended: The Shamanic Worldview
This workshop is require to continue with the Healing Series
​
Effective shamanic practice depends upon knowledge of the spirit realms and how to access them to build strong relationships with the compassionate helping spirits. Powerful shamanic healing requires training, discipline, and experience.
In this experiential workshop, which sets the context for the Shamanic Healing Online Training Program, you will have the opportunity to personally explore:
-
The three worlds of the shaman (Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds) and the qualities of ordinary and non-ordinary reality;
-
The nature of the spirits of the three worlds;
-
Middle World non-ordinary reality spiritual aspects and their relationship to illness and wholeness.
Primary shamanic healing methods will be described, including shamanic extraction healing, psychopomp to help the spirits of the deceased, and soul retrieval. You will learn and practice power animal retrieval, with the chance to work with another participant to both retrieve and receive a power animal.
​
In addition to the items listed at the top of the page, please have with you:
A rock (NOT a crystal) about 2-3" in diameter, preferably found in nature, that is new to you
A human-made piece of artwork that is able to be visible on your screen (Examples: A sculpture, ceramic dish/vase, painting, weaving, stuffed animal, jewelry (larger), drawing, etc. NO ELECTRONICS OR PHOTOGRAPHS -- nothing with people in it.)
Cost is $160 for this workshop
The Shaman As Psychopomp
June 11, 18, and 25, 5pm-8:30pm
**Prerequisites: The Shamanic Journey; Shamanic Divination in Practice; and Shamanism, Spirits, and Healing and its prerequisites (online) or The Way of the Shaman (in person)
**Strongly recommended: The Shamanic Worldview (this will be required for the next workshop in the series)
Shamans are concerned with the human soul, with healing during life and assisting the soul's passage out of the Middle World after death. Familiar with the realms of the dead, a shaman can act as a psychopomp - a conductor of souls. A trained shamanic practitioner is able to guide the soul of a deceased person out of the Middle World to a place where the soul can receive help in taking the next step on its path. The focus of this training is on learning and practicing the psychopomp method.
In this fully experiential workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
-
Explore what happens for human souls from a core shamanic perspective after they leave the body - the "destiny of human souls" in the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds
-
Learn and practice the psychopomp method to help the souls of the deceased out of the Middle World to a better place
-
How to locate a soul in the Middle World that may be stuck and in need of help
-
How to obtain the soul's permission to offer shamanic assistance
-
How to guide the soul to a place in the Upper or Lower World where it will be helped to continue on its journey
​Cost is $235 for this workshop
Shamanic Extraction Healing Training
July 9, 16, and 23, 5pm-8:30pm
**Prerequisites: The Shaman As Psychopomp and its prerequisites, and The Shamanic Worldview (online); or The Way of the Shaman (in person)
Shamanic extraction healing is a powerful practice for treating localized pain and illness resulting from spiritual factors. "The shaman works to remove things that interfere with the health of the body, such as spiritual intrusions, and extract them. This is not done through journeying. It's done through working here in the Middle World in an altered state of consciousness." Michael Harner, Shamanic Healing
In this fully experiential online workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
-
Learn methods to build spiritual power to prepare for extraction practice
-
Sense and see spiritual intrusions, which may be causing localized illness
-
Practice with other participants to safely extract (remove) spiritual intrusions
-
Re-empower a client after a shamanic extraction to restore health and well-being
Cost is $235 for this workshop