Shamanic Teachings
Remembering Ancient Ways
Shamanism, sometimes called animism, is an ancient spiritual path woven from the belief that the world is alive with spirit—that trees speak, rivers remember, and stones hold stories. At its heart, shamanism is about relationship: a deep, reverent bond with the natural world, where every creature, cloud, and gust of wind carries wisdom. Shamans or medicine people are those called to listen. Through drumming, chanting, trance, or silence, they enter altered states of awareness to commune with the unseen—spirits, ancestors, and the soul of the land itself. They walk between worlds, healing, guiding, and restoring harmony where it has been lost.
Shamanic traditions have flourished in indigenous cultures across the globe, including here in the British Isles. Our own roots—once grounded in sacred groves, standing stones, and seasonal rites—have long been buried beneath centuries of forgetting. Yet the echoes remain. In the wind over the moors, in the whisper of oak leaves, in the stirring of something ancient within us, the old ways still call. Shamanism reminds us that we are not separate from nature, but part of her dreaming, and that to remember this is to begin the journey home.
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