When Black Rock City rises from the desert, we will be there.
Our mission is to help restore humanity’s relationship with spirit through the original, 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.
If you've joined us on the playa for a workshop or healing,to visit or to lend a helping hand, please send us a "hello" email at Shamanistas@gmail.com Tell us about an experience you had at Shamandome. Blessings.
OUR VISION STATEMENT
Shamandome is an inclusive, collaborative, co-operative, collective of diversely skilled and passionate 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 with 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 reawakening of the ancestral mind and its connection to all life.
Our growing circle has fluid and flexible roles aligned with spirit, spontaneity and intuition. We work together and 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. We lead by the example of our beautiful, peaceful, balanced, loving, wise, intentional community and our commitment to our own individual spiritual development and practices.
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."
[From "The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner"]
"The oldest spiritual tradition of our species, Shamanism is an ancient and ever unfolding wisdom path that may be up to 100,000 years old. Our Ancestors discovered a way to divine experience through a natural, mystical connection with Nature. Through this quest of outward connection came a deep, inner awareness of new consciousness. Within these realms, the source of life itself became known along with the power to work with the energy systems of the Self, other living beings and the Earth.The word ‘Shaman’ has its roots in the Siberian Tungus, (‘Cam’ or ‘Saman’) which was used to identify the medicine man or woman who was a blend of healer / priest(ess)/caretaker of the earth/wisdomkeeper/counsellor. One of the meanings of the word ‘Shaman” is ‘one who is on fire’, which indicates an even deeper root from the word ‘Sram’, an ancient Vedic Sanskrit term meaning ‘to heat oneself’.
As we know through the ages and traditions, heightened consciousness and spiritual strength have always been associated with light, fire and heat and the healing Shaman cultivates this fire within fearlessly.
Indeed, the Shaman was and is today regarded as a person of power, one who ‘journeys’ back and forth successfully through territories of consciousness to retrieve insight into the true workings of energy, the currency of Spirit.
He/She holds the ability to bring harmony to the living energy systems of the individual human, their community, animals, plants and the greater world. These methods of healing, divining and problem-solving through sensitivity to energy and the ability to balance it, have become known as Shamanism.
The practice of Shamanism calls us to awaken to our indigenous nature. It is the bedrock of almost all healing and spiritual-religious traditions.
However it is not a faith, but a constantly evolving wisdom tradition in which we learn purely from our own, individual and collective personal experience.
Nor is it a religion and it is dogma-free, indeed it supports any existing spiritual practice a person may already hold. The healing shamanic practitioner follows ways that nourish the sacred within and without and therefore comes to see, know and work with all energy as sacred."
John Cantwell, The Way of the Heart Irish Shamanism
https://www.slianchroi.ie/shamanism/
" . . . Aboriginal medicine-men [and women], so far from being rogues, charlatans or ignoramuses, are [people] of high degree; that is, [people] who have taken a degree in the secret life beyond that taken by most adult[s]--a step which implies discipline, mental training, courage and perseverance . . . they are [people] of respected, and often of outstanding, personality . . . they are of immense social significance, the psychological health of the group largely depending on faith in their powers . . . the various psychic powers attributed to them must not be too readily dismissed as mere primitive magic and 'make-believe,' for many of them have specialized in the working of the human mind, and in the influence of mind on body and of mind on mind . . ."
- "Aboriginal Men of High Degree" by Australian anthropologist A.P. Elkin
Glossary of Terms
SHAMANISTA : As a form of respect, we reserve the term “Shaman” for teachers and practitioners from native cultures. Shamanista is a term coined in the seminars of Dr. Barnaby Ruhe to denote a contemporary practitioner and/or follower of shamanism who incorporates a sense of freedom in a variety of healing modalities in a positive relationship that respects ancient traditions. Shamanista is what happens when we as individuals take the initiative to combine our art and expression with our concept of healing and transformation -- in practice and in our everyday lives.
CIRCLE : A spiritual assemblage, large or small. A ceremonial circle gathers around an altar, and is opened when the spirits of the Four Directions are called upon to bless and support the circle's work. It is the essence of our collective presence -- in metaphor, spirit and intention. The circle holds space, it creates community. It is how we connect, and connection is where spirit comes from. Without circle, we have no "Dome", we have no Burning Man, we have no Earth. Without circle we actually have no Self. We do individual, paired, or group journeys, healing sessions, etc. but we open and close in a circle. It surrounds us, it protects us and forming one is setting shamanic space and intention, it is the act of checking in with spirit itself.
Core Shamanic Modalities
POWER ANIMAL : A guide which appears as an animal in the Lower World, which is accessible by a "journey" in an Alternate State of Consciousness (ASC) induced by focusing on a drumbeat or by sacred plant medicine. You already have one, and it has been with you since you were born. Let's go find it and put it to work protecting you and guiding you on journeys to non-ordinary reality.
SOUL RETRIEVAL : A shamanic practitioner takes a journey to the Lower World, their Power Animal helps them find "soul parts" you lost or left behind during a traumatic event, and they return them to you. Soul parts can break off during or just before any trauma: abuse, car accident, surgery, even a bad break-up. Co-dependency typically displaces soul parts. A shamanista can bring them back to you, then you will be responsible for deciding how to incorporate them back into your life.
EXTRACTION HEALING : The shamanic practitioner journeys to meet with their power animal. Following a brief diagnostic journey, the shamanista can then remove bad vibes, nasty hitchhikers, stuck up energy, anger or frustrations. We all need a clean out!
SHAMANISTA : As a form of respect, we reserve the term “Shaman” for teachers and practitioners from native cultures. Shamanista is a term coined in the seminars of Dr. Barnaby Ruhe to denote a contemporary practitioner and/or follower of shamanism who incorporates a sense of freedom in a variety of healing modalities in a positive relationship that respects ancient traditions. Shamanista is what happens when we as individuals take the initiative to combine our art and expression with our concept of healing and transformation -- in practice and in our everyday lives.
CIRCLE : A spiritual assemblage, large or small. A ceremonial circle gathers around an altar, and is opened when the spirits of the Four Directions are called upon to bless and support the circle's work. It is the essence of our collective presence -- in metaphor, spirit and intention. The circle holds space, it creates community. It is how we connect, and connection is where spirit comes from. Without circle, we have no "Dome", we have no Burning Man, we have no Earth. Without circle we actually have no Self. We do individual, paired, or group journeys, healing sessions, etc. but we open and close in a circle. It surrounds us, it protects us and forming one is setting shamanic space and intention, it is the act of checking in with spirit itself.
Core Shamanic Modalities
POWER ANIMAL : A guide which appears as an animal in the Lower World, which is accessible by a "journey" in an Alternate State of Consciousness (ASC) induced by focusing on a drumbeat or by sacred plant medicine. You already have one, and it has been with you since you were born. Let's go find it and put it to work protecting you and guiding you on journeys to non-ordinary reality.
SOUL RETRIEVAL : A shamanic practitioner takes a journey to the Lower World, their Power Animal helps them find "soul parts" you lost or left behind during a traumatic event, and they return them to you. Soul parts can break off during or just before any trauma: abuse, car accident, surgery, even a bad break-up. Co-dependency typically displaces soul parts. A shamanista can bring them back to you, then you will be responsible for deciding how to incorporate them back into your life.
EXTRACTION HEALING : The shamanic practitioner journeys to meet with their power animal. Following a brief diagnostic journey, the shamanista can then remove bad vibes, nasty hitchhikers, stuck up energy, anger or frustrations. We all need a clean out!
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