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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
14 hours ago7 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


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


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


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


Why the Mystical is Essential to Trauma Healing
In my early 20s, I got myself into therapy. Talk therapy, that is. I had a lot to say and process. It was extremely helpful to have a...

Rachel Mann PhD
Jan 23, 20235 min read


A Solstice Ceremony to Catalyze a New Vision for Your Life
All around the world for millennia, human beings have understood the power of the Solstices to magnetize highest visions and elevate...

Rachel Mann PhD
Dec 21, 20224 min read


Follow the Path I Took to Heal from Complex PTSD
I have been asked many times how I healed from the trauma I experienced? How can I be so (mostly) confident and live with a measure of...

Rachel Mann PhD
Nov 4, 20229 min read


Shake Your Fist at the Heavens in the Midst of Dark Times and then Make a Heart at Your Heart
Yep, this planet is can be a hard, hard place to live. Sometimes when I am feeling weighed down by personal challenges and/or by the many...

Rachel Mann PhD
Jul 18, 20224 min read


Mother Earth Loves You: Awaken the Connection
I know it sounds corny and even like a platitude to say Mother Earth loves you. Lots of people say it everywhere, all the time. It can...

Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 3, 20212 min read


The Way We Think about Healing What Ails Us is Dead Wrong
Yep, that's what I think. I suspect that many of you have been in some kind of talk therapy--maybe even on and off for years. I've heard...

Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 1, 20214 min read


Healing the Wounds of the Ancestors with Shamanic Energy Medicine
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the violence brought against peaceful protestors in the US in 2020, African Americans and...

Rachel Mann PhD
Jun 12, 20204 min read
A Global Vision of Healership
I have a radically expanded view of the meaning and purpose of healing and creativity which speaks to something I call Creative...

Rachel Mann PhD
Aug 25, 20196 min read


Why Am I Doing this Again??! Some Insight into the Spiral of Healing
Have you done a lot of therapy and personal growth work—perhaps years or even decades—and one day, you realize that what you thought was...

Rachel Mann PhD
Jan 28, 20195 min read


Do you Need a Soul Retrieval?
Do you want to know what soul loss is? Do you feel you are missing a vital part of your being? Have you heard the words “soul retrieval,”...

Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 1, 20187 min read
No Time Like Now to Heal
Current events in 2017 bring me back to the day after 9/11 when I sat in a packed concert hall at the University of Virginia. The...

Rachel Mann PhD
Sep 9, 20177 min read
Make No Enemies: Only Love
I live in Charlottesville, VA. On Saturday, August 12, the date of the white supremacist rally here, I was in South Dakota visiting my...

Rachel Mann PhD
Aug 28, 201710 min read
Your Energy Body is Like your Car: It Needs a Regular Oil Change
Is your energy low? Do you feel drab despite the sun shining so brightly outside? Do you feel stuck in your head with old stories and...

Rachel Mann PhD
Aug 2, 20175 min read


Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma: Rings of Consciousness
In this third blog of the series on Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, I go more deeply...

Rachel Mann PhD
Oct 7, 20157 min read
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