Holistic Resolutions Healing with Danuta Jirik, Ph.D.
shamanic work
 

Shamanism is the oldest healing modaliy on the planet, dating back 30 or 40 thousand years. That it is still alive and well in many traditional communities all over the Earth, and making a huge come-back in the western societies, is a testament to its effectiveness.

Shamanic spirituality provides a template for navigating change and crisis, for apprehending the guidance and wisdom we need to manouver our lives as caregivers, artists, community servants, activists, peacemakers, and teachers. Such a practice anchors us in three elements that are needed in quiet times and times of upheaval alike: soul, heart, and earth. - Frank MacEowen, The spiral of Memory and Belonging.

In shamanic healing things are resolved on a mythical, inner plane and this effects the healing change on the outer plane; the healer is a mediator between the two worlds. The many, many hours of day-dreaming I spent as a child turned out to be training not "wasted time"!
I learned the techniques of core shamanism in the intensive training with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and in a number of workshops, but my deepest inspiration, learning and 'knowing' come directly from the inner guidance. My healer spirit is a wisdom warrior and as such, it has the power to transform the spirit of unease and disease which thrive on confusion.
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Shamanic Work

Shamanic Journeying: an ancient method of accessing spiritual guidance and insight by developing a partnership with spirit guides and animal spirit allies. It can be used for personal growth as well as for healing. A doorway to the inner worlds of power and transformational wisdom.

I teach one-day workshops in which one learns to connect with his power animal and spirit guides and to journey with them.

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Soul retrieval: restoring the power of one's soul, bringing back the parts of one's vital energy lost through trauma, illness, giveway or theft. Finding and bringing the fragmented self home. It is profoundly healing.

If you feel numb, empty or detached, if something happened in the past and you feel like you haven't been the same since, if you cannot break through a negative pattern or let go of addiction, if you're not sure where your passion lies, or if you feel like you don't quite belong here, or just don't have much energy and zest for life, soul retrieval may be for you.

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Power retrieval: bringing back one's lost personal power, usually in the form of a power animal. An example of how real it is: a client shouting: "It's an alligator!" as I blew the spirit alligator into his body-field.

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Shamanic resolution of past trauma and inner-child retrieval: this work combines shamanism and systemic family constellations. The past trauma is accessed and resolved in the time frame of the event. The child self that experienced the situation (the trauma can be acute or as general as a dysfunctional atmosphere of the childhood home) is then taken out of that environment and placed with the healing spirits in a nurturing environment.

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Depossession: releasing spirit attachments, foreign entities that once attached to one's body-field, try to further their own agendas or expre ss their own (often negative) emotions through the "host". People who have been traumatized in the past and suffered major soul loss often attract such energies by being too open energetically.

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Shamanic extraction: removing spiritual intrusions that cause pain or illness. In the shamanic world everything has a spirit, and so an illness can be addressed as a spiritual entity and induced to leave.

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Psychopomp: helping the spirits of the dead that are stuck in the near-earth realm to cross over. It can be very helpful for people in a coma, helping their spirit in making the choice to cross over or to return to the body.

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Space Clearing: Removing negative energies (extraction) and entities (psychopomp) from a space.

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Negative intention (curse) unraveling: when a problem has been running in a family for generations, it may be a result of a curse placed many generations ago on an ancestor. That hurtful intention stays in place and affects the generations that follow until the perpetrator is spiritually located and induced to retract it.

Unintentional curses are the most common. When someone declares to himself with conviction: "I'll never love again!" it acts like a curse as one becomes locked into that energy. Things that we hear from our parents can affect us like curses as well. Example: A father saying to his daughter who wanted to paint: "only whores become artists."

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Thoughtform deconstruction: taking the energy out of limiting thoughtforms ("I never have enough money", "I don't want to be here", "I am inadequate"...). It can be followed by spiritually potentizing life-enhancing thoughtforms (examples: "I have a charmed life", "I always have enough", "I am a good person")



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The Great Eagle spirit.




Special training: 2-week intensive course in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing (with Michael Harner and Alicia Gates, Foundation for Shamanic Studies); Shamanic Healing of Cancer (with Myron Eshowsky, Pathways for Peace); 2 vision quests and apprenticeship with Myron Eshowsky; Celtic Shamanism with Tom Cowan, 3-level program in Hawaiian shamanism and a week-long shamanic intensive on Big Island, Hawaii (with Larry Kessler); weeklong training with Betsy Bergstrom in Advanced Curse Unraveling and Thoughtform Deconstruction with Space Clearing.

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