SHAMANIC ART: Ceremonial Drums and Rattles

Shamans, Teachers, and Other Resources

There are many, many people who call themselves shamans, but a shaman is one who is called by the helping spirits and is so-named by his or her community. Not all shamans are equal in power, ability, and connection with the compassionate spirits. Some shamans are to be avoided while others are widely sought out.

I have had the good fortune over the years to encounter many excellent shamanic practitioners and teachers. The ones below are outstanding souls; they are the teachers, healers, and artists I recommend.
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Betsy Bergstrom
Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Practitioner who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures. She is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3-Year Program. She has been trained by a number of indigenous shamans and healers who have encouraged her and shared with her their wonderful teachings. She has worked in various fields of Alternative Healing for nearly 20 years. Her calling is to work in partnership with the Helping Spirits, to help the living and with the dead. She says, "...the feedback from my classes has been that the teaching (of Heart Centered Shamanic Depossession) defused much of the fear that some people felt in approaching the work of clearing and depossession."
Alida Birch
Alida Birch is an acknowledged shamanic healer. Her love and passion for helping people fuels her soul as she assists them in recovering their true selves. She is a bridge between the seen and unseen. She is certified as a shamanic counselor by Michael Harner ('93) and trained to teach shamanism by Sandra Ingerman ('03-'05). She has a thriving counseling, teaching and healing practice in Eugene Oregon.
Jan Engels-Smith: The LightSong School of Shamanic Studies
Jan Engels-Smith assists individuals in finding their personal power, which is a path to healing and wholeness. Her healing practice derives from decades of experience as a shamanic practitioner, counselor-psychologist, and a science teacher. She has seen amazing transformation take place by combining these disciplines. Jan is a licensed professional counselor, a chemical dependency specialist, a marriage & family counselor, reiki master as well as a hypnotherapist.
Carla Meeske Person
I am a shamanic practitioner in Glendale, Arizona. I have been working with my spirits since the late 80's to help people and animals become well and whole. A member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and The Society for Shamanic Practitioners, I follow the path of core shamanism, using healing techniques that are common to many cultures and compatible with our modern world. I have trained with the Foundation in soul retrieval, power animal retrieval, death and dying, divination and healing, and completed the Foundation's three year training program in 2000. I work with people and with animals. Cats, dogs, horses, goats and chickens have been recipients of my spirit allies' gracious healing power.
Susan McClellan: Shaman Song
Shaman Song is offered as resource to anyone interested in learning more about shamanism -- newcomers and experienced shamans alike -- and to those seeking community and support on their journey to self-awareness, self-healing and self-mastery. Susan, a native of Wales, is an active shamanic practitioner, teacher, facilitator and counselor. She is the founder of Dream Song: The Center for Shamanic Studies, and a co-founder of The Seventh Academy, both based in Wilmington, Delaware; and she has her own shamanic healing & counseling practice. Her work includes classical and transformative shamanic techniques, energy and vibrational healing, past-life regression, hypnotherapy and Multi-Dimensional Cellular Healing.
Karen Furr: Spirit Drum
Spirit Drum is the heartchild of Karen, a former Franciscan Sister living in Kingman, Arizona. For her there is no separation of the realities of seen and unseen, and her work as a healer is rooted in the belief that it is not what we "do" that heals, but what we allow ourselves to become. As a Shamanic healer and Reiki Master Teacher, Karen understands illness from perspective of loss of essential power. As a former Catholic sister, she walks the path of the mystic and healer, seeking to integrate all the worlds for healing of self, community and Earth. She is aware that it is in bringing Light into the world that healing and wholeness can happen.
Claire Von Karls: Riverside Counseling Center
Claire Von Karls is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been consulting with individuals, couples and groups for over 25 years, in both public and private mental health settings. Claire facilitates effective and creative solutions to the problems of living, through the integration of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance. Claire graduated with a BA degree in Sociology from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), in 1968, and then received her Masters in Social Work degree from Catholic University, in 1979. Claire has created specific experiential practices, in the areas of dreamwork, guided imagery, dance, music, and meditative techniques, to enhance personal growth.
Donna M. Callaghan: Peace Place
Donna M. Callaghan , B.A., is a Transpersonal Facilitator, Shamanic Teacher/Practitioner and Certified Hypnotherapist, offering individual personal growth services for adults and couples as well as providing shamanic services. Peace Place hosts a wide variety of Individual Personal Growth, Shamanic and Specialty Services, including Workshops & Classes for your Journey of Self-Exploration and Spiritual Quests in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Our goal is to provide a place of Peace in which one can Remember the Journey of their Soul.
Lee Hilfiker
Lee Hilfiker, holds a Masters Degree in Education - Professional Development/Art Therapy, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and is Certified in Clinical Hypnosis and Past Life Regression. Lee has focused her work on the mind-body-spirit interface in her teachings, workshops and clinical care. She respects the endless forms the healing process can take and has integrated a number of them in her practice. She has healing through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, The Four Winds Society, numerous indigenous shamans, and is a Founding Member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners which supports the emergence of a new healing paradigm.
Carlisle Berquist: Vantage Quest
Vantage Quest helps access creativity that may astonish you. It works by stilling the mind and allowing material to enter the field of awareness from the subconscious and transpersonal realms of consciousness. Creating, whether in the arts and sciences, personal growth and development, or the act of healing, is a dynamic oscillation between our outer and inner worlds. An oscillation between normal consciousness and expanded altered states. Like a shaman's journey, it is diving into the inner formless unknown and returning with a gift to help repair our outer world. It is receiving to give. Vantage Quest is a instrument for applied reverie in service of your creative, meditative, and healing work.
Terry Keepers: The Shamanic Arts Studio
I have been making ceremonial objects and practicing shamanism and shamanic healing for the past eighteen years. It has changed my life. I founded the Shamanic Arts Studio about fourteen years ago for the purpose of creating functional shamanic art.
Donna Cooper: The Wildcast Bronze Sculpture Gallery
I believe creative expression is an inherent attribute available to each of us. It requires believing in yourself, acquiring the necessary skills to do the work, and finding your medium of expression -- whether that is writing, painting, teaching, sculpting or working with people.
Michael Harner: The Foundation for Shamanic Studies
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies is dedicated to the preservation, study, and teaching of shamanic knowledge for the welfare of the Planet and its inhabitants. Internationally renowned anthropologist Michael Harner founded the FSS in 1985 to foster shamanism worldwide. Dr. Harner has been recognized as the pioneer in the revival of shamanism since 1961 when he chose to immerse himself in tribal spiritual traditions and accept initiation in Upper Amazonian shamanism rather than restrict his study to more traditional academic techniques.
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