| Sometimes it feels like a part of you is lost. You may | | | | soul loss. |
| experience sadness, grief, inconsistencies in your | | | | Once their work in the lower world is complete, the |
| thoughts and emotions, and even anger. Feeling this | | | | shaman will call on the animal spirits for guidance and |
| loss, you may wish to seek some unusual assistance. | | | | one or more animal spirits may choose to assist in |
| A soul retrieval may be just what you need. | | | | the integration of healing and return with a shaman. |
| What is it? | | | | The shaman will then travel back to the present with |
| From a technical perspective, a soul retrieval is a tool | | | | the healing energy, the gifts and any animal spirits |
| used by shamans to retrieve a part of the soul which | | | | that choose to return. |
| has been lost due to trauma, inner conflicts, deep | | | | Once back the Shamanic will bring the energies into |
| grief, excess stress, or birthing event that created a | | | | the individual's chakra and full energy system as |
| power loss. | | | | guided to buy their guides. Finally the shaman will |
| How does it work? | | | | perform a full healing and balancing of the new |
| A soul retrieval begins with a conversation with a | | | | energies into the individuals system. Once the physical |
| shaman or shamanic practitioner who will ask | | | | healing is complete, the shaman will share their |
| questions regarding why the individual feels this loss | | | | information of what they saw and experienced on |
| occurred and what they are experiencing as a result | | | | the journey to the lower world with the individual and |
| of it. The shaman will then check in with your energy | | | | offer the opportunity for a healing to occur on a |
| field and through a myriad of practices they will | | | | very deep cycle psychological level. |
| determine the chakras most affected by the soul | | | | The ramifications of a retrieval can go on for months |
| loss and gain additional information or energies to | | | | and can also be affected by future retrievals. This is |
| assist them in the retrieval itself. The shaman will | | | | not an experience to do every day, rather, a deep, |
| then ask you to lie down either on a table or the | | | | soulful practice to be performed with reverence and |
| floor and they will go into a deep trance where they | | | | an understanding of the sacredness of the event. |
| will perform the soul retrieval. Drums, music, or | | | | Soul retrievals can last one to three hours and are |
| breathing techniques, may all be part of going into | | | | offered for variety of body, mind, & soul |
| the trance. A soul retrieval guides the practitioner into | | | | challenges. As a shamanic healer I've personally |
| the soul of the individual receiving the healing. | | | | offered retrieval sessions for chronic illness, traumas |
| Once in trance, the shaman will travel energetically | | | | such as rape and child abuse, questions regarding |
| and consciously to a place called the lower world | | | | one's life's path and stressful situations such as the |
| where the chambers of the soul exist. In these | | | | loss of the parent child or spouse. |
| chambers are the energies of the lost soul part, the | | | | I'm not saying that these traumas are always |
| contract or decisions made after the soul loss | | | | indicative of the need for a retrieval. There are times |
| occurred, the energies to heal the part and other | | | | when INLP, hypnotherapy, shamanic counseling or |
| healing gifts or energies for moving forward in the | | | | other integrative therapies are more appropriate |
| individual's life. The Shaman will travel to each of | | | | ways of healing. Work with your individual practitioner |
| these chambers to retrieve, learn from, and heal the | | | | to see what is best for your personal situation. |