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All that we weather is recorded in the liquid memory of our body. Over the spans of our lives, we can become a collection of others’ thoughts, feelings, emotions, perceptions, history. Re-tuning your frequency can change the way you live.Why consider shamanic healing?
You may come to shamanic healing for many reasons. There might be an experience of overwhelm or unease or a sense that a part of you is missing or hidden. You might be hearing a call from the compassionate spirit world but do not have the context or framework to conceptualize your experience as you look to tune into your soul’s path and work. Perhaps there is a sense of a pattern or barrier from the past or along your ancestral lines that might be influencing your current life in negative ways or blocking you from stepping into your personal power. Maybe you are ready to connect on a deeper level with spirit or discover your personal gifts and create healthy boundaries in your life.
Shamanic healing is a compassionate approach to connecting with your true spirit and self. The intention of this type of healing is to expand your awareness, to create space for seeing what might have been unseen, and to open up for healing. This work can be a pathway to healing old wounds, unhelpful thought patterns, and misconceptions or misperceptions of yourself. Shamanic healing can help you come to a new understanding with illness, suffering, and burden. It can open you up to new teachers in the spirit and natural worlds that have deep knowledge and wisdom. Shamanic Healing can give you the ability to develop new tools, techniques, and rituals to enhance the way you live and experience the world.
A seasoned shamanic practitioner creates a safe container for you to explore and open your awareness to the spirit world. They play the key role of being a Hollow Bone and holder of sacred space. Whether you are learning, deepening, or returning home to a shamanic practice, it is important to be protected and intentional in your work. A shamanic practitioner provides a secure structure and supports you in developing the framework for your personal experiences so you can journey safely and interpret your spirit realm signs and lessons with clarity. The shamanic practitioner is your compassionate sounding board for reflection, helping you metabolize and integrate your practice.
“Shamanic healing with Sara has been a bridge to new ways of problem-solving for me. I have received messages and gifts of imagery that fit my life and soul’s path. This work helped shine a light on areas of myself that I was not sure the world was ready to know - now I understand this was part of me that needed to be reintegrated with love and kindness. I found messages within the session that were so specific to my life, I know that Sara can communicate with my guides. Each session is so full of information and support. Sara’s gentle voice and calm presence stay with me long after the journey, and I hear the reminders from my guides that they are always nearby to assist me.” -Julie H.
what does a shamanic session look like?
A shamanic healing session is sacred time. It creates an opening to experience your own divinity - to attune to a higher vibration and expression of yourself. Shamanic healing work can offer the opportunity to learn about your past and present in a new way. It is an honoring.
All shamanic sessions begin with time to discuss any questions or concerns related to shamanism, shamanic work in general and the individualized healing work that you will be receive in the session. Sara shares the information she received from the journeys to her compassionate guides that she completed in preparation for the session. She then creates space for you to feel comfortable with the work and process. A guided meditation is offered to ground into the healing space. Sara plays a drumming track to allow her to go into a state of trance to travel on the healing journey with her guides. The healing journey work is spoken so that you can absorb what is happening on an auditory level. Although there is no physical contact between you and Sara, the healing can be felt physically through sensations and emotions.
When the healing ritual is complete, you will sit with Sara to process, and there will be plenty of time to ask questions. After the session you will receive a detailed email that includes invitations and suggestions from Sara’s guides for taking care and integrating the work. These recommendations may range from movement, exercise, herbs, readings, mantras/affirmations, suggested ritual and possibilities for your own personal altar.
As a shamanic practitioner, Sara’s role is to create space in this physical world for the ritual of healing and to be a conduit for her trusted and compassionate guides. These spirit guides move through her to bring teachings and energy back from the compassionate spirit world and to remove energy that doesn’t belong in this physical world back to the compassionate spirit world. Sara’s responsibility and honor is to serve as a “Hollow Bone” so that spirit can serve the highest good of all.
“I reach out for a shamanic session when I am trying to work through something but I feel an energy block; that, try as I might, there is a facet of accessing myself, “the center of my being,” that I can’t reach and that I need in order to resolve an issue that’s holding me back. During and immediately after the session I experience unimpeded energy flow; I generally cry because I can feel love and peacefulness moving through me and passing through my heart. I find access to gratefulness and am reminded that there are loving spirits that will help me access self-compassion when I invite their assistance. I am left with the ability to reflect on the guidance given to me and allow it to become a permanent meditation, to use to problem solve and live better.
-Cyndy M.
What Type of Healing Can I Experience in a Shamanic Session?
Shamanic Healing is offered in a number of different forms. Each shamanic session is unique based on what you bring and are open to receiving. After permission is given and Sara has a sense of what you are looking for support with, she journeys on your behalf to her trusted Spirit Council to see what would be most useful and in your highest good for the session. Here is an overview of some of the different possibilities. Note that you might come to this work with a specific healing modality in mind, like soul retrieval or past life healing. That is beautiful and most welcome.
Past Life Healing
You can experience energetic entanglements from past lives and incarnations which can be directly influencing your current life. They can block the expression of your authentic self in this life, impact relationships and be seen in patterns of behaviors. Past Life Healing can offer the opportunity to recognize threads of incarnations, open up space for honoring and healing, and support you in stepping into a new sense of freedom in the here and now.
Curse and Field Unraveling
Fields of energy and curses are created and cast consciously and unconsciously. They can span over different lifetimes, be carried through generations along ancestral lines, be created by the collective, cast and created from friends and foes and even cast upon yourself. Curse and Field Unraveling offers the opportunity for freedom and release from negative ties that might be binding you to unhealthy patterns in your actions, thoughts, feelings and relationships.
Ancestral Lineage Healing
Ancestral Healing is a gift to the living and the dead. Beliefs, burdens, trauma, disease and unhealthy patterns can be passed energetically from one generation to another. Threads of these energetic fields and even curses can directly influence your life, livelihood and your body, your vessel. Ancestral Healing opens up opportunity for healing generational wounding and creating a safe access point to attune to your vibrant ancient ancestors and their gifts.
Power Animal Retrieval
The compassionate animal kingdom and spirit world are rich with wisdom and healing. Receiving a power animal, a compassionate guide in the animal, plant or nature kingdoms is a true gift. This type of retrieval offers you the opportunity to develop a personal and deep relationship with your spirit guide and learn about the gifts they have to offer you in your everyday life.
Soul Retrieval & Integration
In shamanic thought, your soul can become fragmented by stress, grief, and trauma, and there can even be soul exchange in romantic love relationships or with family and friends. The healing art of soul retrieval offers the opportunity for healing and blessings to the time of soul loss, the healing of your soul part, and the returning of your healed and vibrant soul part to its home, with you.
Energy Body Attunement
The energy of our experiences can become absorbed into our tissues and lodged within our systems. Energy Body Attunement opens up conversation and dialogue with your body, your systems, your organs and chakra centers. Allowing safe passage and transmutation of these energies that no longer serve you or were never actually yours can open up space to access and embody your personal power and create healthy and empowering boundaries.
“Sara brings such compassion and true gifts of healing into her sessions. From helping transition through the death of a beloved pet to retrieving soul parts creating more wholeness, each and every time I have worked with her, I've walked away feeling the profound shifts within my Being that have taken place. Her loving presence makes it easy to let go and trust, and her ability to beautifully express what she is doing during the session brings you even deeper. I am beyond blessed our paths have crossed; she has been such a supportive guiding soul on this journey”. -Taryn M.
sara also serves as a psychopomp.
This healing form supports spirits’ safe passage into the Light and on to their healing journey. This can be at the time of death or an offering of guidance to the Light after one has transitioned out of their physical body. This work is not a form of connecting the living with the dead. It is a form of healing service to spirits who might not realize they are no longer in their physical bodies. Psychopomp can offer the living closure, healing, a sense of clearing and a new sense of freedom from bound relationship or influence from unresolved spirits.
What is shamanism?
Shamanism is an ancient healing form. It’s an indigenous practice and way of life from the hunter-gatherer communities dating back to at least 40 thousand years ago – some anthropologists believe from as long as 100,000 years ago. The practice of shamanism has a very broad background geographically and existed and exists within different communities around the world. The word Shaman is derived from the Tungus tribe in Siberia and is a word for spiritual healer, or one who sees in the dark. The actual word “šamán” means “one who knows”.
Work with sara.
There are several ways to have a healing session-
In-Person at Sara’s Healing Room in Bowdoin, Maine
Home Visit where Sara comes to you
Zoom / FaceTime / Phone
Cost-
In-Person New Client $270 (3 hour session)
Zoom New Client $240 (3 hour session)
In-Person Established Client $240 (2 hour session)
Zoom Established Client $200 (2 hour session)
$60 per hour for session time beyond 2 hours.
Zoom Weekly Established Client $145
For home visits there is an additional fee of $25 for every half hour of travel from the Bath, Maine area for home visits.
“Sara’s shamanic journeys have been a source of unparalleled insight. Like Raven, she travels with her guides to retrieve the most reflective and luminous truths about a person’s essence- and in offering that light, the client is able to proceed forward with far greater clarity and a sense of profound safety. I owe many career advancements, as well as the most healing romantic relationship of my life, to her compassionate retrievals and explorations”. -Hillie B.
FAQs
What does a session include?
Sara begins preparations for your session one to two days prior by journeying to her spirit council holding your intention for healing that was shared in an exploratory phone call or email communications.
The healing session includes time for talking, sharing and connecting followed by the healing journeywork and then time for an conversation and questions.
The day after your session Sara will check-in with you via email sharing a summary of the healing work along with invitations and suggestions from Sara’s guide for taking care and integrating the work. This can include and range from movement, exercise, herbs, readings, mantras/affirmations, suggested ritual and personal altar suggestions.
how long is a session?
A healing session with a new client is typically 3 hours. Sessions with established clients average at 2 hours.
i’m not sure but curious?
It might be beneficial to set-up a free exploratory phone call with Sara. You can learn more about shamanic healing, get your questions answered and see if this work is a good fit for your healing intention.
what is shamanism?
Shamanism is a primordial healing form. It’s an indigenous practice and way of life from the ancient hunter-gatherer communities dating back to at least 40 thousand years ago – some anthropologists believe from as long as 100,000 years ago. The practice of shamanism has a very broad background geographically and existed and exists within different communities around the world. The word Shaman is derived from the Tungus tribe in Siberia and is a word for spiritual healer, or one who sees in the dark. The actual word šamán” means “one who knows”.
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How do i meet with sara for a session?
There are 4 ways to have a healing session with Sara-
In-Person at Sara’s Healing Room in Bowdoin, Maine
Home Visit where Sara comes to you
Zoom / FaceTime
Phone
how often can i have a session?
Shamanic healing is unique to the individual. Some people find it supportive to be on a consistent schedule with Sara throughout the year and others find it supportive to reach out when needed.
Sara is here to move at and with your pace. She can make suggestions based upon your intention for healing and the feedback she receives from her guides.