For 2024, Shamandome Camp in Black Rock City will be on Fascinate Street at 8:45.
Shamandome is based in New York City - there's info on joining our NY journey circle on this page.
Shamandome and its circle of shamanistas has a mission: to help restore humanity’s right relationship with the world through the universally ancestral connection to spirit known as shamanism. Our philosophy is that every person expresses this relationship in a unique way, whether through healing modalities, creative expression or compassionate service.
Our heart's desire is to be a catalyst for healing in those we serve as clients, each other, and ourselves.
The camp we intend to manifest in Black Rock City is an exercise in karma yoga -- selfless action offered without regard for results or reward. It is our gift to the city, and to you.
If you're interested in joining Shamandome, click here: How do I join Shamandome?
If you've joined us on the playa for a workshop or healing, to visit, or to lend a helping hand, please send a "hello" email to [email protected] and tell us about your experience.
The deluge of the '23 burn decimated much of our ground-covering infrastructure, and caused us to incur many unexpected expenses. Any amount you can extend our way will be greatly appreciated.
Our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/9de265ab
Our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/9de265ab
OUR VISION STATEMENT
Shamandome is an inclusive, collaborative, co-operative collective of diversely skilled and compassionate healers, shamans, shamanistas, spiritual practitioners, body workers and mediums honoring all spiritual traditions and coming together in a ceremony-centered community to learn, grow, heal and serve.
We help people heal themselves by putting them in touch with the energies that are already working through them, and by showing them how to “live in ceremony” through the direct experience of various methods, modalities, rituals, workshops and rites of passage which facilitate a re-centering of the ancestral mind and its connection to all life.
Our growing circle has fluid and flexible roles aligned with spirit, spontaneity, service, and intuition. We work together, play together and facilitate the Great Turning by helping people give birth to their whole humanity. We are a transformational tribe that aids in the evolution of this new paradigm of mindful cooperation.
Our practice is Core Shamanism, as described by Michael Harner. Our intention is to lead by the example of a peaceful, balanced, loving, wise, intentional community, with a commitment to our own individual spiritual development and practices.
"...the most valuable action anyone can take to heal the environment right now is to teach shamanism to everyone, to reconnect us to our true nature, to Pachamama, and Burning Man has the potential to be a catalyst for this work to go global." - Tukuillapa, Quechua indigenous practitioner
WHAT ARE SHAMANS AND SHAMANISM?
"Shamans are the keepers of a remarkable body of ancient techniques that they use to achieve and maintain well-being and healing for themselves and members of their communities. These shamanic methods are strikingly similar the world over, even for peoples whose cultures are quite different in other respects, and who have been separated by oceans and continents for 10's of 1000's of years . . . Shamanism is a great mental and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the Shaman-healer are involved. - Your shamanic experiences will prove their own value. In Shamanism, the maintenance of one's personal power is fundamental to well-being. . . The techniques are simple and powerful. Their use does not require "faith" nor changes in the assumptions you have about reality in your ordinary state of consciousness. Indeed, the system usually does not even require change in your unconscious mind either, for it only awakens what is already there."
- The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence. - Michael Harner
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human. - Terence McKenna
Glossary of Terms
SHAMANISTA : Traditionally, the title "shaman" is bestowed by the community a healer serves. As a form of respect, we reserve the term for indigenous practitioners and those who have a life-long-practice in shamanic healing. Shamanista is a term coined in the seminars of Dr. Barnaby Ruhe to denote a contemporary student-practitioner of shamanism who incorporates a sense of freedom in a variety of healing modalities, in a positive relationship which respects ancient traditions. Shamanista is when we as individuals take the initiative to combine our art and expression with our concept of spiritual healing and transformation -- in practice and in our everyday lives.
CIRCLE : A human assemblage, large or small, formed around a commonality. A shamanic, ceremonial circle gathers around a fire or an altar, and is opened when the spirits of the Four Directions (actually seven: North, South, East, West, Father Sky, Mother Earth, the Center/Void) are called upon to protect and support the circle's work. Circle is the essence of our collective presence, in spirit and intention. The circle holds space, it creates community. It's how we connect, and connection is how spirit works through us. Without circle, we have no community, no "Dome", no Burning Man, no Earth. Ultimately, without circle we have no Self. We experience individual, paired, or group journeys, healing sessions, etc. through circle -- even a circle of one person working with spirits, gathered around an altar. Circle includes us, surrounds us, supports us, and protects us. Forming circle is creating shamanic space and setting intention. It's the act of checking in with spirit. It's the manifestation of the seventh realm of spirits upon whom we call.
The Core Shamanic Modalities of Michael Harner
POWER ANIMAL : A metaphysical ally which usually appears as an animal in the Lower World, a real-yet-non-physical world which is accessed by a "journey" in an Alternate State of Consciousness (ASC), which is naturally induced by the mind's focusing on a drumbeat or rattle, and may be augmented by the use of sacred plant medicine. This spiritual collaborator has been with you since you were born. It will protect you and guide you on journeys through Non-Ordinary Reality in the Lower World. Many practitioners collect a team of Power Animals -- some for healing, some for protection, some for other modalities.
PAIRED JOURNEY : A practitioner-client healing modality. The practitioner journeys on behalf of the client, and asks their power animal to work for the client, to answer a specific question posed by the client.
(For the past few years, in our practice, the practitioner journeys without knowing the client's question. The answers our Power Animals reveal for our clients have become more clear and direct since we initiated this adjustment.)
SOUL RETRIEVAL : In this healing modality, a shamanic practitioner journeys to the Lower World, where their Power Animal helps them find "soul parts" the client lost or left behind during a traumatic event, usually represented by objects which metaphorically characterize the soul parts or the event. Soul parts can break off during or just before any trauma: violence, abuse, a car accident, surgery, even a bad break-up (co-dependency often displaces soul parts). The practitioner returns to the Middle World and blows the soul parts into the client, returning the client's soul to its fresh state before the trauma.
EXTRACTION HEALING : The shamanic practitioner journeys to meet with their power animal. During a brief diagnostic journey through the client's body, the practitioner perceives stuck energy, bad vibes, nasty little hitchhiking manifestations, anger or frustrations as inanimate (or even animate) objects. The practitioner can then remove whichever ones are ready to be released. We all need a clean out!
SHAMANISTA : Traditionally, the title "shaman" is bestowed by the community a healer serves. As a form of respect, we reserve the term for indigenous practitioners and those who have a life-long-practice in shamanic healing. Shamanista is a term coined in the seminars of Dr. Barnaby Ruhe to denote a contemporary student-practitioner of shamanism who incorporates a sense of freedom in a variety of healing modalities, in a positive relationship which respects ancient traditions. Shamanista is when we as individuals take the initiative to combine our art and expression with our concept of spiritual healing and transformation -- in practice and in our everyday lives.
CIRCLE : A human assemblage, large or small, formed around a commonality. A shamanic, ceremonial circle gathers around a fire or an altar, and is opened when the spirits of the Four Directions (actually seven: North, South, East, West, Father Sky, Mother Earth, the Center/Void) are called upon to protect and support the circle's work. Circle is the essence of our collective presence, in spirit and intention. The circle holds space, it creates community. It's how we connect, and connection is how spirit works through us. Without circle, we have no community, no "Dome", no Burning Man, no Earth. Ultimately, without circle we have no Self. We experience individual, paired, or group journeys, healing sessions, etc. through circle -- even a circle of one person working with spirits, gathered around an altar. Circle includes us, surrounds us, supports us, and protects us. Forming circle is creating shamanic space and setting intention. It's the act of checking in with spirit. It's the manifestation of the seventh realm of spirits upon whom we call.
The Core Shamanic Modalities of Michael Harner
POWER ANIMAL : A metaphysical ally which usually appears as an animal in the Lower World, a real-yet-non-physical world which is accessed by a "journey" in an Alternate State of Consciousness (ASC), which is naturally induced by the mind's focusing on a drumbeat or rattle, and may be augmented by the use of sacred plant medicine. This spiritual collaborator has been with you since you were born. It will protect you and guide you on journeys through Non-Ordinary Reality in the Lower World. Many practitioners collect a team of Power Animals -- some for healing, some for protection, some for other modalities.
PAIRED JOURNEY : A practitioner-client healing modality. The practitioner journeys on behalf of the client, and asks their power animal to work for the client, to answer a specific question posed by the client.
(For the past few years, in our practice, the practitioner journeys without knowing the client's question. The answers our Power Animals reveal for our clients have become more clear and direct since we initiated this adjustment.)
SOUL RETRIEVAL : In this healing modality, a shamanic practitioner journeys to the Lower World, where their Power Animal helps them find "soul parts" the client lost or left behind during a traumatic event, usually represented by objects which metaphorically characterize the soul parts or the event. Soul parts can break off during or just before any trauma: violence, abuse, a car accident, surgery, even a bad break-up (co-dependency often displaces soul parts). The practitioner returns to the Middle World and blows the soul parts into the client, returning the client's soul to its fresh state before the trauma.
EXTRACTION HEALING : The shamanic practitioner journeys to meet with their power animal. During a brief diagnostic journey through the client's body, the practitioner perceives stuck energy, bad vibes, nasty little hitchhiking manifestations, anger or frustrations as inanimate (or even animate) objects. The practitioner can then remove whichever ones are ready to be released. We all need a clean out!
The deluge of the '23 burn decimated much of our ground-covering infrastructure, and caused us to incur many unexpected expenses. Any amount you can extend our way will be greatly appreciated.
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Our GoFundMe:
https://gofund.me/9de265ab
THANK YOU!