Shamanic Healing

A different doorway into healing, transformation, and personal growth.

Shamanic work offers a way of exploring experiences that may be difficult to approach through words alone.

Old patterns, emotional burdens, major transitions, ancestral influences, loss, questions of purpose, or simply the feeling that something in life is ready to change can all become starting points for a session.

At Lumidha, individual Shamanic Healing draws from training received in Chile in 2021 with Alberto Villoldo and Marcela Lobos, whose work incorporates teachings and practices connected with Indigenous traditions of the Andes.

Central to this work is the Medicine Wheel, a journey through four directions: South, West, North, and East.

Working With the Medicine Wheel

Each direction explores a different layer of the human experience and offers different forms of shamanic work.

  • South · Serpent — releasing what has become burdensome or outdated. Sessions may include decoupling and illumination work, with attention to grounding, energetic patterns, and what is ready to be shed.
  • West · Jaguar — working with fear, power, and experiences that may still influence the present. This direction can include extraction work and practices centered around reclaiming personal strength.
  • North · Hummingbird — reconnecting with what may have become lost, forgotten, or disconnected. Work may include soul retrieval, ancestral practices, and constellation work.
  • East · Condor — turning toward vision, direction, purpose, and what comes next once greater space has been created for something new.

The journey isn't necessarily about moving neatly from one direction to another like somebody checking off a spiritual to-do list.

The work begins with what is present.

When the Past Keeps Showing Up

Sometimes what happened then is still calling the shots now.

A past relationship may be over while the ties to it linger. An old betrayal may affect trust, previous hurt may keep closeness at arm's length, or ancestral patterns may keep cropping up without an obvious reason.

The Medicine Wheel offers different ways to work with this. Illumination and cord cutting can help release what no longer needs to be carried, while other directions explore fear, reclaim what was lost, and eventually turn toward purpose, direction, and the life waiting ahead.

The goal isn't just letting go.

It's making room for what comes next.

What a Session May Include

Depending on what is being explored, a Shamanic Session may involve ceremonial work, energetic practices, visualization, breath, constellation work, ancestral practices, the mesa, or cuyas.

The mesa is a ceremonial cloth containing stones and other meaningful objects connected with the practitioner's training and healing work. Cuyas, often stones or crystals, may be used during practices such as illumination work as physical carriers of intention and symbolism.

Each session takes a different shape because the work is guided by what is present and which part of the Medicine Wheel is most relevant.

A Different Kind of Care

Shamanic work uses ritual, energy, ancestry, nature, and the Medicine Wheel as ways of exploring the human experience.

At its heart are three deceptively simple questions:

What is ready to be left behind?

What is ready to be reclaimed?

And what is ready to come next?