Shamanism, Dying, and Beyond
Participants learn how to explore dying, afterlife navigation, and the destiny of souls from a shamanic perspective. The workshop is both for those who wish to learn for themselves, and for those who wish to help others who are in terminal situations or who have already passed on. Experiences to be undertaken include learning how to become experientially familiar with the after-death realms, tracking a person using shamanic journeying, completing unfinished business, helping a person to cross over (classic psychopomp work).
From a shamanic point of view, physical death does not represent the end of life, but is a major transition, a transformation. Coming to terms with one’s own dying and death enables shamans to support other people in dealing with these fundamental experiences. Shamans mediate between the living in ordinary reality and the souls of the deceased in non-ordinary reality. Furthermore, if the deceased cannot find their way onwards by themselves and need assistance, then shamans guide these souls to Transcendent Worlds.
Participants in this workshop deal with shamanic cosmology in depth. They become familiar with the process of dying from a shamanic point of view and develop an understanding of what happens to the essence of the human being – the soul – after death. Finally, they learn how the shamanic accompaniment of processes of death and grief can look in practice and how to do psychopomp work.
The workshop “Shamanism, Dying and Beyond addresses the following aspects of shamanic work in a practical way:
Exploration of the shamanic cosmology
Theoretical and practical experience of the process of dying, before and after death, from a shamanic perspective
Confrontation with one’s own death and dying
Shamanic work with grief and death
Assisting deceased souls who cannot find their way onwards on their own (classical psychopomp work).
*Prerequisite for participation is completion of the basic workshop The Way of the Shaman