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How Healing Actually Happens: The Natural Pathway of Transformation
Transformation in meditation For many years, I thought healing meant understanding. I began psychotherapy in my early twenties and eventually spent years in Jungian analysis. That work changed me profoundly. I learned to recognize the dynamics of my family, understand the ways I had adapted to an unpredictable childhood, and see patterns in myself that had once been invisible to me. I mined my dreams for images of transformation and meaning. I became deeply self-reflective an

Rachel Mann PhD
4 days ago7 min read


The Wound of Separation: When Suffering Makes Us Feel Cut Off from Love
The Golden Love-Light of Healing There are experiences that do more than hurt us. They can alter our relationship with ourselves, with other people, with the Sacred, and with life itself. Trauma, violence, betrayal, abandonment, oppression, grief, and other forms of suffering can leave us feeling profoundly alone, even when we are surrounded by people who love us. We may feel disconnected from ourselves, unable to trust what we once trusted, or spiritually disconnected from a

Rachel Mann PhD
Oct 147 min read


What is Shamanic Healing Really For?
A Shamanic Healing People come to shamanic healing for many reasons. Some are carrying the effects of trauma, loss, betrayal, or difficult relationships. Others feel stuck in patterns they understand intellectually but have been unable to change. Some describe feeling disconnected from themselves, their bodies, their spiritual lives, or a sense of meaning and direction. Still others have already done considerable healing and arrive with a different kind of question: There is

Rachel Mann PhD
Oct 57 min read


How a Shamanic Medicine Wheel Maps Life Transitions
2025 brought to me a very intense late-life reintegration and spiritual upleveling as I entered my mid-60s. Sometimes it has felt pretty harrowing with... .....the arising of intense emotions and both positive and difficult memories from the past ....reexperiencing layers of grief from what has not yet been accomplished or reached (life partnership), past trauma, losses of loved ones and opportunities unexplored ...reevaluating shedding of an old trauma-based personal, profes

Rachel Mann PhD
Dec 30, 20253 min read


The Ancient Art of Shamanic Healing
Shamanic healing is a profound and ancient practice that has been used for thousands of years across many cultures. It involves connecting with the spiritual world to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This ancient art is rooted in the belief that everything in the universe is interconnected, and healing comes from restoring balance within oneself and with nature. Understanding the origins and methods of shamanic healing can offer valuable insights into ho

Rachel Mann PhD
Oct 22, 20254 min read


Understanding the Light Body: The Luminous Dimension of Being Human
What does it mean to say that a human being has a Light Body? Across many spiritual and healing traditions, human beings have been understood as more than physical organisms. We are embodied, certainly. We think and feel. We carry histories in our bodies and psyches. But spiritual traditions have also described dimensions of human existence that extend beyond what can ordinarily be perceived through the five senses. In my own spiritual practice and nearly two decades of work

Rachel Mann PhD
Dec 3, 20247 min read


Discovering Shamanic Energy Medicine for Healing PTSD
My trauma-body awakened in February 1993. Ice poured down as if from the heavens. The season had already been brutally cold. It was...

Rachel Mann PhD
Oct 9, 20247 min read


Peace is Possible & Real
Our world is currently an extremely violent place. There are ongoing conflicts in up to 40 regions. Russia has been pummeling Ukraine for almost 3 years. Israel and Hamas are at war with too many innocent civilians murdered in both wars. In the United States, mass shootings have been on the rise, particularly in schools where innocent children have been killed and injured. Western commentators have logged only 268 years of peace in a span of 3400 years. It is estimated that a

Rachel Mann PhD
Oct 1, 20245 min read


The Gravity of Mother Earth is Love
“Beloved, beloved Pachamama, mamakita, la Tierra Madre, Mat’ Zemlya , our great cosmic Earth Mother, oh, how much we love you!” -A...

Rachel Mann PhD
Sep 28, 20244 min read


A Shamanic View of Destiny versus Fate
If you have ever had a sense that you are launching onto a new and more promising path in your life after being blocked or burdened for...

Rachel Mann PhD
May 16, 20248 min read


Soul Retrieval: What It is and What Can It Restore?
There are experiences in life after which we may say, “I have never been quite the same.” Sometimes the change follows an obvious trauma: violence, abuse, the death of someone we love, war, betrayal, abandonment, or another experience that overwhelms our capacity to absorb what has happened. At other times, the loss is quieter. A child learns that a particular gift is unacceptable. Someone repeatedly suppresses an essential part of themselves to remain connected to a family o

Rachel Mann PhD
Apr 24, 20248 min read


Create Your Own Mesa para un Altar en la Casa: A Shamanic Healing Altar
In today’s intense and busy world, it is very important to have special places where we can recharge, come back into balance, and even...

Rachel Mann PhD
Apr 16, 20247 min read


Shamanic Healing is Becoming Mainstream
My client, Lisa, the executive director of an NGO in Washington, D.C. is lying on the massage table, fully clothed, as I use my stones,...

Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 26, 20245 min read


The Healing Mesa Tradition in Shamanic Practice
I am a carrier of a mesa, a beautiful, multicolored medicine bundle containing various crystals and stones used for creating a...

Rachel Mann PhD
Nov 23, 20235 min read


When the Spiritual Path Asks More of You: The Role of a Spiritual Mentor
There are times in life when the spiritual practices, insights, and understandings that have carried us for years are no longer enough. This does not necessarily mean that something has gone wrong. Sometimes the opposite is true. We have reached a threshold. A death, betrayal, illness, relationship ending, career change, or other upheaval may unsettle the structure of a life we thought we understood. We may find ourselves repeating patterns despite years of inner work. A spir
Rachel Mann PhD
Nov 18, 202311 min read


15 Benefits of Shamanic Healing
Discover the transformative power of shamanic healing with benefits. Experience spiritual growth, emotional balance, & holistic well-being.
Rachel Mann PhD
Nov 17, 202312 min read


6 Steps to Healing Trauma with Awakened Heart Shamanism
Shamanic energy healing is an effective way to heal symptoms of trauma from this and other lifetimes.

Rachel Mann PhD
Oct 28, 20234 min read


How a Shamanic Medicine Bundle Opens the Doors to Manifesting Our Mission in Life
“ Beloved Condor Spirit and Spirit of Macchu Pichu, I am feeling stuck around manifesting the next step in my mission and purpose in life....

Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 14, 20234 min read


May We Defeat the Kremlin in Humanity’s Mind
When Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his powerful and inspiring speech to the United States joint chambers of Congress on...

Rachel Mann PhD
Jan 11, 20236 min read


Heal your Wounds and the Wounds of the World
Healing Frequencies About two years after 9/11, I had a vision of billions of people flooding the streets in every corner of the world, demanding an end to violence and war. I did not experience this vision as a prediction. I experienced it as a revelation of something possible in the human heart: a longing for another way of living together. That vision has stayed with me for more than twenty years. So has the question beneath it: What would have to change in us—and between

Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 28, 20188 min read
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