CORE SHAMANISM WORKSHOPS
Our Most Important Workshops at Burning Man
- based on the work of Michael Harner


Find Your Power Animal
is offered daily, Tuesday through Saturday, every burn.

For 2023, we will offer Power Animal circles at 11am
Tuesday through Saturday,
and at 8pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

Find Your Power Animal
A simple beat of a drum or rattle can help anyone fall into an Altered State of Consciousness (ALC), wherein mind, heart, and spirit integrate, promoting a healing transformation. (While we honor and revere the authority of plant medicines, our practice uses only the sound of the drum and the rattle to achieve ALC, as is the tradition in most shamanic practices globally.) Shamandome circle leaders lead our guests -- who we refer to as clients, to establish a professional relationship -- on a journey to the Lower World, to enable a connection with their primary spirit guide, which usually manifests as an animal. They may then ask their Power Animal for healing, or guidance. The basic Power Animal journey will usually be followed immediately by a Paired Journey as time allows.


Extraction Healing
This year, we'll be offering Extraction along with basic Power Animal journeys, for those who have already found their Power Animal. You'll begin by journeying to connect with your Power Animal. On a second journey, your circle leader will instruct you in diagnosing energy blockages in your client's body, and how to remove bad vibes, stuck energy, and negative emotions. We all need a clean out!  

Soul Retrieval
This year, we'll be offering Soul Retrieval with Power Animal workshops, for those who have already found their Power Animal.  Soul parts can split off during and just before trauma, abuse, a car accident, surgery, or a bad break-up. Co-dependency can displace soul parts. In this workshop, you'll go on a shamanic journey and ask your Power Animal to search for a client's lost soul parts. Our circle leaders will teach you how to return them to the client, with tips for incorporating the soul parts back into their life. 


Other workshops come and go as spirit guides us and the guests who bring their practices to our camp.
Shamandome and Guest Healers specializing in other modalities may offer workshops in non-shamanic modalities, such as entheogen and/or therapies describing the use of psychedelics, kundalini awakening, breathing techniques, mind-body connection, metaphysics, and other energy practices.
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We post our full schedule just before we leave for the playa.
Check our Schedule and Events page in mid-August.