Shamanic healing is a practice dating back at least 75,000 years and is the most ancient healing tradition known on the planet. It stems from the belief and understanding that all healing has a spiritual component and that the spiritual, emotional, and energetic need to be treated in order for a person to be well. 

The shamanic perspective is that everything is alive and everything has spirit and awareness. Energy and matter are the same. Everything is vibration and everything that exists is an energy system within a greater energy system. Shamans hold the belief that everything that exists is connected to everything else in a web of energy or life and unseen/inner/spiritual reality affects visible reality.

Working within this system of perceptions, the shamanic healer strives to create balance and harmony of the spirit. This is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance and can be focused on the individual or the community. This also can be applied to anything that exists. Shamanic healers act as intermediaries between the Spirit world (or non-ordinary reality) and the physical world. 

By using shamanic practices, a wide spectrum of healing is possible. Shamanic healing takes place in many forms, depending on what Spirit recommends. This can include plant, herb and mineral spirit medicine, the use of song and other instruments to move and transform energy, visualization, soul retrieval, extraction, hands on massage or physical body manipulation. The shamanic practitioner understands the necessity to use both nature and spirit in healing and that true healing is whole and complete: body, mind and spirit.

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