A list of shamanism workshops, events, conferences and related training in the UK, throughout the world and online by established practitioners and trainers.
Events are open to the general public unless stated otherwise. Click on the event title link (highlighted in blue) or image to view websites which will open in a new webpage where available. Contact information may also be given on the event advertisement. For more information on any event please contact the event holder directly. Events diary listings are in date order with ongoing events listed at the end (beginning with online then in alphabetical order by location).
If you are looking for a shamanic course, workshop or training in shamanism please also look at our Course Providers page. For shamanic drumming circles please view our Drum Circles page.
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EVENTS DIARY 2024
Psycho-spiritual and Therapeutic Shamanism. Accredited & Certificated Practitioner Training Course December 2024 – April 2025 with Christa Mackinnon.
This highly successful and inspiring training course is loosely based on my book ‘Shamanism and Spirituality in Therapeutic Practice’ and many years of experience as a shamanic teacher and psychologist / therapist. It will inspire and open new worlds for you, teach you skills and techniques, and truly enhance your personal and professional life.
The course is suitable for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Complementary Practitioners, Body-workers, Energy- and Holistic Practitioners, Healers & Coaches. The course can also be attended by people with prior experience in shamanism who would like to build a shamanic practice or use the course to further their shamanic practices.
Click on link above for more information.
Winter Solstice Song and Celebration with Firebird. Saturday 21st December 7-10 pm. The Box Moor Trust Centre, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE, HP1 2RE.
Cheryl and Kate look forward to hosting an evening of inclusive song, music and creativity. You will be led in easy to learn and sing harmony songs around the world. No need to read music and all voices welcome!
Tickets £25. Contact us for more info and to book your place: Email firebirdmusicandcelebration@gmail.com; Phone Kate 07939164565, Cheryl 07521530916.
EVENTS DIARY 2025
Shamanic Healing Training, EQUADOR. This special apprenticeship is led by Itzhak Beery with Josep Rosas Calbo, a native of Catalonia, January 2-18, 2025. Cost: $5,880.00. Price Includes: All shamanic ceremonies, the teaching of shamanic healing methods with Itzhak Beery and local shamans, the teaching materials, all transportation (land/air) in Ecuador, entry fees, hotel accommodations (double/triple), English-speaking guides, translators, food, and snacks. More information in link above.
Dreams & Tracking retreats in the KALAHARI, BOTSWANA with John Lockley. A 7-day retreat from Sto Ma
Take part in a trip of a life time to Ancient Africa. Walk in the Kalahari Desert & Okavango Delta – the Jewels of Africa. Learn Indigenous African technology skills to conserve our Wilderness. A 7-day masterclass immersion in the Kalahari Desert with John Lockley and Alwyn Myburgh joined by special guests, !!Xo Bushman/San elders.
For more information click on link above or email info@johnlockley.com.
Magic of the Amazon . Shamanic Voyages travels to the AMAZON RAINFOREST for an intensive experiential program with don Cesar Agustin Rivas, (Viejo) and dona Andrea Marques, (Nina Caspi). Join us and learn about the traditional healing and visionary plant medicines of the jungle amid the sights and sounds of the most important ecosystem in the world. From March 9 – 23, 2025. The cost, (exclusive of airfare), is $2800 USD with a $100 discount if signed up before November 1, 2024. For more information, details and itinerary please click on the website link in the title.
Modern Medicine Woman Practitioner Accredited & Certificated Training Course, March – August 2025, with Christa Mackinnon and Vanessa Tucker. Includes interactive Zoom online sessions and 6-day residential in GLASTONBURY. Our empowering, inspiring and transformational certificated and accredited practitioner training course starts again in March 2025. It invites you to become a Modern Medicine Woman, step into your authentic power, learn shamanic, energy- and embodied Medicine tools and approaches, and gain the confidence and skills to share your unique medicine with the world.
For more information please click on link in event title.
ON-GOING EVENTS
ONLINE
Sacred Earth Activism. We invite you to take part in our ONLINE Talking Stick Ceremony & Deep Listening Circle. We envisage this to be a safe platform to express ourselves and be listened to in these challenging times.
For more information about this and our monthly gatherings please click on title link above.
Sacred Oasis Circle, Shamanic Red Tent, for divine feminine healing and soul nurturing in a busy world; with Tanya Adams. We hold an in person group in LONDON with a Zoom link from the room so people can attend ONLINE.
Online shamanic Circle and online shamanic workshops: The circle meets on Mondays via Zoom. We come together as the human tribe to create a sacred space, where we journey and do shamanic ceremony. Each Monday we have a different theme.
Fotoula Adrimi has been facilitating the shamanic circle since 2009. She is an experienced shamanic teacher and member of shamanicteachers.com since 2012. She holds a safe and sacred space for self-empowerment and inner transformation.
Please click on website link above for more information and to join.
The Shamanic Way, A seven module ONLINE (pre-recorded) Introductory Shamanic Course.
This Online Course offers a concise and powerful introduction into the shamanic ways. We explore foundation teachings on how to journey, access the different etheric planes (lower, middle and upper worlds), work with power animals and spirit guides, build an altar and create ceremony. We also work with the Medicine Wheel, including the directions and their spirit keepers. We learn ways to integrate the shamanic work into our lives.
The Course is facilitated by Fotoula Adrimi, Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner. Fotoula has been practising the shamanic ways, professionally for over 14 years. She has studied with indigenous shamans in America and the Himalayas, and with western shamanic teachers. Fotoula completed her shamanic teacher training with Sandra Ingerman. A shamanic lineage runs in her family line.
For more information click on website link above or email info@isis-school.com.
Path of the Eagle 1: Walking the shamanic journey. In this four module ONLINE (pre-recorded) course on classic shamanism, Fotoula Adrimi, shamanic teacher, shares practices, teachings & ceremonies that will help participants access a deeper calling as they walk their shamanic path. It will also strengthen people’s journeying experience in the alternative realities. The course has been created through Fotoula’s experience in teaching classic shamanism, her Greek ancestral ways, as well as direct revelation from her helping spirits.
Path of the Eagle 2: Shamanic Purification. In 5 ONLINE (pre-recorded) modules Fotoula Adrimi, shamanic teacher of classics shamanism, shares practices & teachings that help us purify & cleanse old energies from this & other lives & from our ancestors. Topics include cauldron work, shapeshifting and anthropomorphosis (human-animal state), underworld ancestral bone work, and light work in the upper realms.
The course has been created through Fotoula’s experience in teaching classic shamanism, her Greek ancestral ways, as well as through direct revelation from her helping spirits.
The Path of the Eagle 3: Shamanic Ancestral Work. The Shamanic Ancestral Spirits have created this course to help people heal and clear their ancestral line and develop a deep and supportive relationship with their ancestors. As we heal the past, we are able to open to the gifts and the power of our lineage.
For more information click on website links or email info@isis-school.com.
Women’s rites shamanic course: The Magic of the Sacred Blood. In this 4-module ONLINE (pre-recorded) webinar, Fotoula Adrimi shamanic teacher, and Priestess of the Moon, facilitates deep work into the awakening of the feminine power within women, that is linked to the womb and the menstrual blood (All women can take part, whether they currently menstruate or are in their elderhood time). In these modules we harness our Divine feminine energy & rebirth our sacred self & work with the phases of the moon as maidens, mothers & elders to share ceremonies, wisdom teachings, & our soul’s gifts.
The course starts on the waxing moon and follows each phase of the moon and each phase of our lives, uniting all women through the sacred blood they shed or have shed from their womb.
For more information click on website link above or email info@isis-school.com.
Sunday evening DISTANCE (ONLINE) drum healing group, on Facebook with Renata & Steven Ash. To join or add names to the list please click on highlighted link.
ONLINE (Zoom) Free Shamanic Support Group, with Itzhak Beery every Friday 11 am -12:30 (New York-EST) . (Please check your local times). If you are interested please email ibeery@gmail.com to get a Zoom link a few minutes before the session begins and join many people from around the world.
Shamanic Mentoring Course with Gonzalo Bénard. 1st and 2nd Level courses available ONLINE.
1st Level Course – Over 9 sessions this course will not only give you an introduction to shamanism, but will also enable you to be able to start healing and connecting with the Universe to receive its wisdom. This Shamanic course will be divided into 9 sessions, over 9 weeks, being 3 sessions per month. After every 3 weeks, there will be a week off so you can practice, and I’ll be available by email in case you need guidance. Topics per session: Shamanism; Sanctuary and Guides; Spirit Animals; Medicine Bag; Consciousness; Detachment and trance; Healing; Underworld and Upper world; Soul Retrieval.
The sessions will be online through Skype, and each session can take around 1h30m.For each block of 3 sessions a 270 € donation is required, paid at least 1 week in advance before starting. If you prefer to pay for the 9 sessions in advance, the donation is 750€. And a tree: you should commit yourself to planting a tree. At the end of the 9 sessions, which include theory and practices, you’ll receive a Shamanic Mentoring Course Certificate. All sessions are on a 1-1 basis with Blue Wolf Shaman.
2nd Level Course – The first session of this 2nd level allows you to go deeper on any of the topics we talked in the 1st. Topics: Going deeper on any of the topics from 1st level; Shadow Work; Generational trauma – rebirth; Past and future lives – present; Death rituals; Going deeper on any topic according to your need.
6 sessions – 500€. Can be paid in 2 parts, 1 donation of 270€ a week ahead of each 3 sessions. The sessions will be online through Skype, and each session can take around 1h30m.
Email gon@bluewolfshaman.com for more information or to join the course.
Spirit Medicine Path: Heart-Centered Learning with JoAnne Dodgson. Each ONLINE class is designed for you to move through the materials at your own pace. Learning, healing and growth will unfold in your natural timing and ways. Medicine stories, audios, videos and experiential practices will guide your personal explorations, ignite your curiosity and empower you to weave what’s awakening within you into your everyday life. Join us: more information on the website linked in title.
Throwing of the Bones Ceremony with JoAnne Dodgson. Relationships, home, work, health, life purpose, clarity about next steps in your path…what guidance are you seeking? Throwing of the Bones is an ancient divination ceremony and healing art offering guidance and healing from the spirits. Personal sessions for Throwing of the Bones are offered ONLINE via zoom, with photos and recording of your ceremony provided. For more information, visit website linked in title or email: hello@joannedodgson.com.
The School of Natural Esoterics with Emma Fitchett (Farrell).
The new home of all Plant Consciousness Courses where we provide learning opportunities within the fields of plant spirit healing, metaphysics, shamanism and consciousness studies. Our courses focus on the development of healing practice and associated skills and knowledge.
Nestled in the peaceful Quantock Hills of SOMERSET we co-create spaces and experiences to cultivate wisdom from within. IN PERSON and ONLINE courses.
Emma is a plant spirit healer, shamanic teacher and author. She holds a Master’s Degree in ‘The Preservation & Development Of Wisdom Culture & The Art Of Liberation’ in the Tibetan Buddhist Mahayana Tradition, writing her thesis on ‘Understanding The Nature Of The Self Through Lucid Dreaming’. She has been initiated into and trained in indigenous healing and magical lineages of the British Isles and the Ecuadorian Amazon, is a Yew Mysteries initiate and holds the lineage of the White Serpent. She is also a Geomancer, Pranic Healer, Psychic Surgeon and entity removal specialist. Emma has been undertaking plant dietas for 10 years. She also runs the Plant Consciousness Apothecary, a Remote Healing Practice and is the author of Journeys with Plant Spirits published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co.
Click on link above for more information about current courses.
Monthly ONLINE webinar with African sangoma John Lockley.
As a traditionally trained sangoma I have been immersed in ceremony with singing & drumming for the last 20 years. My monthly webinars started off as a way for me to reconnect with friends I have done workshops with around the world. They quickly developed into monthly ceremonies of reconnection & chanting. I love them and I recommend them to anyone looking for some soulful connection once a month.
Cost: Each webinar is part of a monthly subscription of $25, you can cancel at any time. Click on website link for more information or email info@johnlockley.com.
Dare to Blossom Monthly Circle, ONLINE on Zoom. With Mary Lunnen, Saturday Circle at 11.00 am GMT, Monday Evening Circle at 7.30 pm.
I invite you to a chance to gather, as if sitting chatting in a beautiful garden, and simply share some time together. We will use the Compass Rose Speaks opening and closing meditation, the Dare to Blossom Rediscovery Cards and the Magic Carpet Ride guided visualisation, to explore whatever is arising for us on that day.
These events are open to all on a donation basis. This means you can come along, try it out and, if you wish and your circumstances allow, send me a donation, either before or afterwards.
Contact me on mary@daretoblossom.co.uk to find out more or if you would like to attend so I can make sure you have the Zoom link.
Shamanic Sundays. with Mandy Pullen. ONLINE & FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Usually on the first Sunday of the month 10.30am – 1pm. Monthly journeying circle to allow space for spirit work in our busy lives. Suitable for those who can already journey and beginners as a taster of shamanic journeying. Regular Introduction to Shamanism workshops are held for those who wish to go on and learn the technique. Contact details: Mandy Pullen Tel: 07805 800313 or Email: info@ecoshamanism.org.uk
The Temple of the Stars, Full Moon Shamanic Trance Dance. ONLINE. Every month with the full moon. Join us from your own home in a shamanic trance dance event, journeying into the Universal Womb, the universe within, to rebirth ourselves and the New Earth. An opportunity for you to dance your intention into life in an empowering practice. These events are held by Sitke, each month will a different theme and full guidance for you to find all you need within. To find out more, details and videos explaining this practice please click on link to visit website.
Monthly Shamanic Journey Circle with Nicola & Jason at The Way of the Buzzard.
Each circle is themed, often drawing on the energies within the transformational wheel of the year. We include a talk around the topic, a guided shamanic journeying and a space for sharing afterwards. It is suitable for novices to experienced practitioners and everyone in-between, and it is recorded and the replay made available afterwards. This circle forms part of our online membership site, The Mystery School. Membership is £19 per month. Click on title link to visit The Buzzard Tribe for more information.
ONLINE Shamanic Drumming Circles plus Online Shamanic Classes, with Jonathan Weekes of Heron Drums. Facebook Live and Zoom. Plus ONLINE shamanic classes. For more information please click on link or email jonathan@herondrums.co.uk
UK Wide
Munay Ki Network UK. A network of certified Munay-Ki mentors across the UK offering the traditional nine rites of the Munay Ki. For more information please click on website link.
ENGLAND
Plant Spirit Healing workshops, PAPWORTH EVERARD, CAMBRIDGESHIRE with The Wild Edges. Plant spirit medicine is an aspect of shamanic work in which we work with the botanical properties and spirits of native flowers, trees and herbs for wisdom, guidance and healing.
Scheduled to coincide with the eight festivals of the Celtic Wheel of the Year, these half day workshops will help you learn how to consciously deepen your connection with native plants through learning about each one individually and how to work with it in daily life, meditation, ceremony and journeying, and in doing so restore your sacred relationship with yourself and the natural world.
In each workshop, you will:
- learn how to recognise the plant and work with it safely and respectfully, experiencing it with all your senses
- learn about the history, folklore and healing properties of the plant and learn how our ancestors would have used it
- learn how to work with the plant for healing on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels
- prepare a simple and safe herbal remedy to take home with you
- participate in a sacred tea ceremony to honour the spirit of the plant
- meet your plant spirit ally and gain wisdom, guidance and healing through guided shamanic journeying
For more information and to book, please click on link above to visit website.
Sacred Gatherings. The Wild Edges gatherings, held in PAPWORTH EVERARD, CAMBRIDGESHIRE from 7.00 pm – 9.30 pm.
The Wild Edges sacred gatherings mark the turning of the Wheel of the Year and we meet in a spirit of gratitude, community and connection, to share wisdom, participate in ceremony, shamanic drumming and journeying to honour and work with the energies of the seasons and the elements for healing, cleansing, guidance and wisdom.
In the sacred space we create for each gathering, we follow in the footsteps of our ancestors and we:
- Hold a sacred ceremony to honour that particular time of the year
- learn about ancient native traditions, folklore and customs relevant to the season and pagan festivals
- explore how the turning of the wheel of the year can support our personal and spiritual development
- take a shamanic journey to tap into the wisdom of our guides
Gatherings are held in Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire. For more information and to book, please click on link above to visit website.
Breathwork Ceremonies. An active meditation, a time to nurture and honour ourselves on a deeper level. This can feel uncomfortable and challenging at times. By using our breath consciously to slow things down, this can help us to integrate parts of us that are coming into our awareness to be witnessed with love and compassion towards ourselves. Hosted by Emerald Earth Medicine and Emily Storey Integrative Healing.
LANCASHIRE. Second Sunday Morning of the month – St Josephs, BARNOLDSWICK. Last Monday evening of the month – The Lawrence, PADIHAM.
For bookings, contact through Facebook and Instagram @Emeraldearthmedicine and @Emilystoreyintegrativehealing
Shamanic Ceremonies & Women’s Circles Circles with Maria Fotiou (Maia) in LONDON. Shamanic Ceremonies & Journeying Circles on/ around the New/ Full Moon and the Holy Days marking the change of the Earth seasons attuning to the higher cosmic frequencies and grounding them for the greatest good of all. For next dates, email Maia at mfotiou12@gmail.com or click on website link.
Sacred Oasis Circle, Shamanic Red Tent, for divine feminine healing and soul nurturing in a busy world; with Tanya Adams in LONDON. There is also a Zoom link from the room so people can attend either in person or ONLINE.
We meet on line and in Euston once a month on a Wednesday evening. Members only circle. For more details email Tanya Adams – Pathwayfinder@mail.com.
Drum Birthing Workshops with Melonie Syrett.
To birth a drum is to rebirth yourself. Melonie, thedrumwoman, runs regular drum birthing 121 and group workshops as well as retreats across the year.
121 workshops mean that you can make more choices about your drum. Perhaps pyrography or paint on the hoop, different crystal placements, adding feathers or attaching things, changing the way the handle looks. These are £299 per person and 10:30am to around 5:30pm. Group workshops can take up to 7 participants, (if in my home the maximum is 4). In this space we all make a traditional drum with a cross handle or 3 strand goddess handle. You have the option of placing a crystal in the centre of the handle. These are £200 per person.
Melonie also offers advanced workshops for those that have perhaps birthed a drum before and now want to expand their creativity. In these workshops people have created whale tail handles, ovoid drums with stick handles, intricate handle designs or crystal placements and more.
Melonie also makes and sells drums, take commissions for embellished drums and rattles.
For more information click on website link above, Instagram and Facebook @thedrumwoman. Email melonie@thedrumwoman.com
Shamanic weekend retreats running throughout the year in the NORTHWEST OF ENGLAND, AND NORTH WALES with Nicola & Jason Smalley, The Way of the Buzzard. Immerse yourself in the beautiful landscapes of the PEAK DISTRICT, YORKSHIRE DALES, LAKE DISTRICT AND SNOWDONIA national parks. Learn and further develop your shamanic practice through nature connection journeying, drumming, crafting, and working with animal spirit guides, spirit guides & teachers, and tree spirit medicine. Contact Nicola and Jason on contact@thewayofthebuzzard.co.uk.
Monthly Shamanic journeying circles, 3rd Friday of the month, just outside of GUILDFORD, SURREY, UK, with Hat Sa’Re. For more information email harriet@invitethelight.net.
Monthly Open ‘Warrior’ Soul Rescue Circle with Shirley Flint and Kieron Morgan. St Michael’s Church The Sanctuary, Ewell Village, SURREY, ENGLAND. 7.00 pm for a 7.30 pm start. An evening rescuing the lost souls of those who have fought in battle and war, who in such a traumatic and selfless way ended their lives, and those who have died as a result of war throughout all ages and lands. For all enquiries please contact Shirley Flint on 07889 018713 or shirley.flint789@gmail.com. There is no charge for the evening but donations to St Michael’s are welcome.
Monthly Full Moon Fires.near LEWES in EAST SUSSEX, UK with Ali Rabjohns . Circles are a vital way to hold and share light with each other through the level of the heart. These fire ceremonies gather us together to re-connect inwardly and with each other. Anyone can join our circle to experience the essence of this beautiful energy. The ceremony originates from the High Andes in Peru. More Info: enquiries@alirabjohns.com, phone 07528 614747.
SCOTLAND
Shamanic Counseling – Learning the Shamanic Journey. Near PERTH, SCOTLAND with Brian Anderson.
A six-session personal workshop that can be taken anytime. By the end of the sessions, you will have learnt the method of the shamanic journey. You will learn how to safely and effectively engage with your own helping compassionate spirits as a method of guidance and problem solving. This time-tested practice opens us up to build partnerships with our own helping spirits to dynamically and practically support our lives.
The six session covers the cosmology of the shaman’s map, we will undertake Lower and Upper world journeys, learn how to ask questions of the spirits and how to understand how they communicate with us as well as look at how to bring this wisdom practically out into our own lives. This means as a result we have an effective practice to build supportive relationships that we can call on at any time to grow our lives.
It works best to have regular sessions with a space of one to two weeks in between to keep the momentum moving. This work is offered online using Zoom/Skype as well as in person and each session last around one and half to two hours as well as in person. Cost for the full six session £300 paid in full or with deposit of £100 for first session then £40 paid for each the five remaining sessions. Please contact with any questions or to arrange this workshop.
For more information click on link above to visit website or email imbasdarachduille@outlook.com
Walking the Sacred Way.Near PERTH, SCOTLAND, with Brian Anderson. Shamanism opens us to the sacredness of life, this process moves us away from a hierarchical and linear mind to a circular state of consciousness where we know we are connected as one web of life and come to experience life as sacred and that all life is alive and that land is sacred and so asks to be respected. Cultures across the world talk of nature as the visible face of spirit so as we walk we are walking in the presence of spirit this is why a conscious walk in nature can be so restorative for us.
This 3 hour workshop offers an opening and deepening of this sacred experience and offers a practical and effective method of healing that you can use in your life as and when needed. We start with our ceremony with respect and moving our perception to see that land as a sacred living spirit, one that is aware of us as we are aware of it. We then will walk out with the land to continue our work and finally return to share and integrate your experience where support will be given to carry on this opening in your everyday.
You will need to bring with you a question about something that you need support with or that is currently challenging you. There is no need to share this as we will be working to resolve this in a different way with the healing power of the natural world. Email oakenleaf@zoho.com
Sacred Activism Events Monthly.Near PERTH, SCOTLAND, with Brian Anderson. These events are held each month throughout the year please see website for dates.
INTERNATIONAL (OUTSIDE UK)
Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Retreats Ongoing Ayahuasca and shamanic plant diet apprenticeship retreats with Shipibo Maestra Rosa, in SACHA HUARMI, PERUVIAN AMAZON. 1-26 weeks. Certificate from 13 weeks onwards.
Blue Morpho Shamanic Ayahuasca & Sacred Plant Retreats, IQUITOS, PERU. Blue Morpho offers traditional ayahuasca retreats and plant medicine dietas in a safe, professional and engaging environment. We specialize in guiding traditional ayahuasca ceremonies in a way that is understandable, impactful and results-oriented. In the last 16 years we have successfully led over 5,000 people through life-changing experiences and this continues to be the heart and soul of our work. We strive to embody 7 Core Principles: Medicine, Safety, Service, Professionalism, Integrity, Community, and Heart. These principles form the bedrock of what we do, and represent our commitment to helping others achieve profound and lasting change through ayahuasca and sacred plant medicine.
Recognized as one of the most renowned shamanic centers in the Peruvian Amazon, all our ayahuasca retreat programs are led by 7th Generation Master Shaman, Maestro Alberto Torres Davila, who has over 50 years of experience working with ayahuasca and medicinal plants. Together with our team of dedicated shamans and assistants, our work helps unite these ancient practices with modern needs to illuminate and unlock the many benefits that ayahuasca and the shamanic arts have to offer you. Please click on website link for more information.
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