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Walk the Crystalline Path of
Awakened Heart Shamanism
Answer the Call to Deepen Your Spiritual Path
A path of trauma-informed, earth-based, mystical, and energetic practice for those who feel called to heal, serve,
and participate in the transformation of humanity.
This is for you if you....
Are a mystic at heart with a deep connection to the spiritual forces of Mother Earth, the animals, plants, waters, Star Nations, and sacred lands.
Have always found peace and healing in Nature and the stars.
Sense the calling to study shamanism and earth-rooted spirituality but are not sure what it means.
Are receiving messages through dreams synchronicities, and intuitive knowings that point to a movement towards deepening spiritual study.
Have had powerful experiences of awakening or expansion.
Are called to the deep teachings and luminous practices of compassion, healing and peace through connection with ancient lineages of medicine people.
You may have already...
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Done a great deal of inner work or therapy
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Studied in one or more spiritual paths or learned a variety of techniques
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Had powerful experiences of awakening or expansion
And yet…
Something is shifting.
You are no longer satisfied with healing your own wounds alone. You feel a soul calling to a deeper, more integrated spirituality and a better understanding of how to use your emerging intuitive and healing gifts.
You feel a deeper pull toward:
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Energy work
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Spiritual, evolutionary development
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Connection with spiritual community
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Serving something larger than yourself
This is the moment when your healing has become a spiritual path.
What Awakened Heart Shamanism Is
This is a Shamanism of Love in which you learn:
Earth-based and cosmic spiritual practice
Energetic perception and healing
Deep personal and ancestral transformation
Initiation into deeper levels of consciousness and spiritual development
The transference of empathy into compassionate presence
Service aligned with the evolution of humanity
What makes this path distinct from other shamanic programs
is its integration of spiritual practice with deep self-awareness and trauma-informed healing.
You are not only learning shamanic techniques--you are developing:
The discernment to work with energy responsibly.
And the presence to support yourself and others with integrity.
A profound relationship with spiritual lineages of light.
This is not a certification, about performance, or spiritual identity.
It is about becoming someone who can walk this path with clarity, maturity and depth.
This is a living path that transforms how you perceive reality,
relate to the energic cosmos and walk as an embodied, evolutionary being in the world.
How This Path Differs from Other Shamanic Trainings
In many spiritual traditions, the focus is on techniques, ceremonies, and mystical experiences.
While these are important, they are not enough in and of themselves.
In Awakened Heart Shamanism, we begin with something deeper:
You do the work yourself first.
This path emphasizes:
Examining the patterns and beliefs shaping your life.
Understanding how your perceptions create your reality.
Developing emotional and energetic awareness and maturity.
Cultivating discernment rather than blind belief.
Practicing compassionate presence and attunement.
The result is not just being a practitioner--but a human being who is grounded, self-aware, ethically aligned, and capable of meaningful, responsible service to others and the planet.
This Path Unfolds in Three Dimensions
1. Healing & Initiation
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Deep personal and ancestral healing
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Creation and activation of a powerful medicine bundle or mesa
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Reconnection with Spirit and inner wisdom
2. Sacred Practice & Energy Medicine
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Learning to perceive and work with subtle energy
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Healing practices including illumination, extraction, and soul retrieval
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Developing and refining your intuitive gifts
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Working with sacred song, fire, water, earth, air, sound, and ritual
3. Spiritual Leadership & Service
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Stepping fully into your spiritual voice
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Learning to hold healing and ceremonial space
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Bringing your gifts into the world with integrity and confidence
This path supports movement from:
healing → mastery → service
Practical Details
Five monthly 3-day Friday-Saturday retreats
(In person in Alexandria, VA or via Zoom)
Six 2-hour Zoom classes on Thursdays, 5:30-7pm ET
Program starts June and continues through October 2026
Rich online program materials, including wisdom teachings, guided meditations, visualizations, ceremonies, and more.
Robust love and support from Dr. Mann
and the Awakened Heart Institute Faculty
Led by Institute Founder, Rachel Mann PhD & Faculty
The Awakened Heart Institute Faculty are experienced practitioners
and dedicated stewards of this work, trained within Rachel’s approach to shamanic healing,
spiritual development, and trauma-informed practice.
Each faculty member brings their own depth, integrity, and lived experience,
while holding a shared commitment to supporting students
with clarity, presence, and care as they walk this path of transformation and service.
Join Us in this Free Masterclass
Are you feeling called to something deeper—toward healing, purpose, and sacred service? In this free 90-minute masterclass, Rachel Mann, PhD, introduces the path of Awakened Heart Shamanism, a trauma-informed, spiritually grounded approach integrating shamanism, Native American wisdom, and Buddhist practice. You’ll discover what it means to awaken your healing gifts, walk a path of service, and step into your true calling with clarity and courage.
Choose from 2 Saturday dates in May.
Come walk a luminous path of Love-Light in times when the world is in deep need!
The Awakened Heart Lineages of Love-Light
This initiation honors and draws with gratitude first from the mystical cosmology of the Q’ero medicine people of Peru, descendants of the ancient Inca, specifically those who were the teachers of Dr. Mann's teacher, Alberto Villoldo of the 4 Winds Society and others.
Further, it incorporates the best western knowledge of trauma from Rachel's years of academic, non-clinical training and study in the field.
Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and lovingkindness
are an energetic and practice foundation.
We walk in the integrity of the teachings of love and compassion within them all, with respect for ancestral wisdom and its evolution as it meets the contemporary challenges and needs of the 21st century.
Explore what your soul connection is to these lineages of light and the path of Awakened Heart Shamanism by booking a complementary
Soul Discovery Session!
Do you feel called to be
a 21st Century Healer-Shaman?
The Awakened Heart Shamanism Initiation is a prerequisite if you wish to learn the tools of a shamanic energy healer in the Shamanic Somatic-Emotional Energy Transformation Program. Do you want feel called to support & help others in need? Do you have wisdom to share from your own spiritual study & healing journey? Are you wanting to learn shamanic energy healing or have you already studied other modalities, like Reiki and want to add to & deepen them?
Shamanic Somatic-Emotional Energy Transformation (SSEET) uses shamanic tools such as rattles, feathers, bells, sacred smoke, sacred songs, a medicine bundle (mesa), and hands on contact, can dramatically shift heavy inner and outer patterns and emotions, conflict in relationships, unhealed personal and ancestral trauma, and stubborn blocks to thriving in relationships, love, work/career, creative endeavors, finances, and health. Learn how to counsel clients with tools like energy tracking, reading signs, psychodrama, and soul-informed self-inquiry and exploration.
A pre-requisite to apply to enter the program is having a mesa through study with me or another teacher.
To learn more about the SSEET Program and see if it is the path you are reaching for, click on the button.
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