What Is Shamanic Healing?

Did you see my big announcement from the other day?

In case you missed it, here it is: I am officially re-opening my Shamanic healing work.

(I never actually stopped doing it, but I wasn’t specifically inviting people to do that work. Shamanic healing has always been a part of my practice because it’s what got me started on this path 22 years ago. But after primarily focusing on offering training and mentorship for the past 8 years, my guidance is very loudly telling me to officially re-open the healing crucible.)

You might be wondering:

What is Shamanic Healing? Do I need it?

New clients sometimes ask, “What do you do in Shamanic healing sessions?”

There is no standard answer to that because every client is on a unique healing journey. I draw upon a vast array of tools, techniques and decades of training to support each client in their individual journey. Here are some common themes and Shamanic healing techniques that I utilize in my sessions.

Shamanic Healing sessions may include:

• Energy clearing, blockage removal, emotional liberation

• Past life healing, karmic clearing, soul contract and Akashic record work

• Ancestral and lineage healing

• Soul retrieval

• Shamanic extraction

• Psychic surgery

• Intuitive mediumship, messages and transmissions from spirit guides

• Wisdom retrieval, energetic upgrades, etheric code transmissions

• Sound healing, chanting and healing songs

• Breathwork, somatic and movement practices

• Nervous system regulation, trauma release

• Grounding, energetic cultivation, nourishment and radiance practices

• Protection and boundaries

• Personal healing ritual and ceremony

In the words of one recent Shamanic healing client:

“After years of feeling disconnected, Michelle helped me awaken to myself and Spirit more deeply. She is a masterful healer who, with grace and intuition, guided me through old blockages and reconnected me to my passion and purpose. I feel alive again—more whole, more me. I am deeply grateful for Michelle’s love and care during these powerful healing sessions.”

Shamanic Healing 3-session packages are available now. The regular rate is $ 1200 but I am offering a $ 100 discount if you schedule a consultation before May 8. (A consultation is required to assess your healing needs before beginning intensive sessions.) Sessions take place in person near Portland, Oregon or online anywhere worldwide.

Book your Shamanic Healing consultation here.

Q: Why is a consultation required to book Shamanic healing sessions?

A: I personally interview all potential clients to make sure we are a great fit to work together. A consultation gives me the opportunity to assess your healing needs so I can offer the best support for your path. If for any reason I believe another practitioner or offering would be a better fit for you, I will make a recommendation or referral accordingly.

Many blessings,

Michelle Hawk

These Practices Will Save Your Butt (when you need them most)

Simple practices will save your butt when you need them most.

I am finally emerging from two solid weeks of a very severe respiratory infection. It has been brutal. I haven’t been that sick in over a decade.

During that time, the things I was doing to take care of myself got pared down to the simplest, most effective and most necessary. I didn’t have energy for anything else.

But here’s the important part: My version of “simple practices” is actually a pretty solid baseline of physical and energetic health tools, because I have spent years making them second nature.

Here’s some of what that included:

• All the immune supplements and potions (mineral detox, 12+ different kinds of mushrooms, nano silver, superfood hot chocolate, electrolytes, vitamin C drink I made from Douglas fir twigs from my land, plus six types of tea and all the nourishing soups and broths).

• Medicinal aromatherapy (immune booster capsules I made from six types of essential oils, Raindrop protocol blend made from seven essential oils applied twice a day, diffuser and steam inhalation of respiratory and immune support oils).

• Qigong and movement practice as I was able (dredging the lung channels, Ringing the Heavenly Bell and other lung channel practices, shaking and clearing, short walks outside every day).

• Energy healing (clearing and purging, microcosmic orbit meditation, I even tried a Shamanic journey during one of my feverish episodes but I wouldn’t say that one was terribly effective).

• Of course, lots of rest and snuggling with my dog and cat.

For someone else who doesn’t have the tool kit that I do, my care routine may seem overwhelming or out of reach, especially during a time of crisis.

At some point between states of feverish listlessness, I thought about this in terms of the challenges people are facing all the time: grief and loss, depression/anxiety/mental health, physical illness, spiritual psychosis, mediumship awakening and more.

When you are in challenge or crisis, it will not be the fancy or complicated practices that save your butt. It will be the simple, effective practices you can do without thinking.

When we’re in crisis (whether it’s an activated nervous system state, a trauma response, or a depressive or dissociative state), higher cognitive function shuts down.

In those moments where you are in the thick of challenge and you need your practices to help you stabilize and regulate, you will not remember the complicated meditations or invocations, or the order of the steps of a long practice.

In the moments where you are sick, afraid, tired, in pain, dissociating or all of the above, the simple practices that you have done thousands of times will help you discharge and clear energy, stabilize enough to bring some cognitive function back online, and resource yourself sufficiently to take steps towards care and relief.

Here’s the other very important part:

Doing the simple practices over and over when you have capacity to learn them will ensure that they’re second nature to you when your cognitive function is impaired.

I guarantee you the only reason I remembered the ingredients to all those complicated recipes when I was sick and feverish is because I made them hundreds of times when I felt well and healthy.

The only reason I was able to dredge the lung channels and do other qigong practices was because I’ve done them over and over for years and I didn’t have to think about it.

The fundamentals of energetic fluency are very simple practices. And they are often overlooked or glossed over in favor of shinier, more exciting practices.

But the shiny practices will not help you when you need it most. In fact, the more complicated they are, the less likely you are to remember how to do them when you’re in crisis.

It will be the simple, fundamental practices that save your butt when you need it most.

Do you want to develop your energetic fundamentals to make sure you have effective tools when you really need them?

I hate to bring up the scary state of the world/country/politics, but it is indeed scary and probably only going to get worse.

If you’re reading the news right now and dissociating —

If you feel powerless, afraid and like you’re struggling to put one foot in front of the other —

If you are called to spiritual practice as an effective tool to support your personal empowerment, well-being and fortitude (viva la resistance!) —

>>>Book a call with me to talk about what type of support is right for you!