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 2023
The Gathering at the Cosmic Fire Summit 2023. FREE ONLINE. Nov 27 – Dec 01. Hosted by Shamans Directory. Speakers include Itzhak Beery who is honoured to be speaking in this five day global online event featuring 30+ shamanic earth-based leaders, healers and teachers from around the world. They will guide us on a journey into the ancient and timeless, ever evolving nature of shamanism.
Wisdom and medicine will be shared for creating wholistic health and wellbeing, harmonious living, sustainability and the potential for both personal and global change — illuminating heartened solutions for the problems of today’s world that are suited to each one of us.
Click on link above for more information and to join.
Dreaming the New Earth: Co-Creating the Sovereign Resilient Humanity of the Future. Global FREE ONLINE Gathering, 27th November – 1st December, created by Clara Nisiri. With Michael Meade, Jocelyn Star Feather, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Dr. John Ryan, Pea Horsley, Janelle Hardy, Q7 Beckett, Pam Montgomery, Sharon Bolt, Jeanne White Eagle, Kedar Brown, Patricia Awyan Lehman, Shirley Lohmaier, Tayria Ward, Mbali Marais, Onyx Baird, Carlos & Elizma Enteogenik.
A gathering of visionaries, wisdom keepers and practitioners who are in service to the global awakening of consciousness and to supporting people and our planet during these times of great change. A gathering of wisdom and experiences, shared as support for us to ground our personal and our collective vision, to bring awareness about what we are experiencing in this prophetic time of transformation, to move through this collective initiation together with heart, and how to creatively and soulfully support ourselves and our Earth Mother.
In this sacred energetic container you will enjoy five days of profound transmissions and experiences with extraordinary thought leaders and creators. Together, we will delve into how we can move forward, cultivating resilience and courage, during these powerful times.
Click on link above for more information and to join.
Death, Life, and the Afterlife: A Shamanic Exploration. ONLINE on Zoom. Nov 28 – Nov 29, with Itzhak Beery.
This transformative workshop delves into the profound themes of life, death and the afterlife from a shamanic perspective. Participants are invited into a safe and open space to deeply reflect on these fundamental aspects of human existence, drawing from their own experiences to nurture a richer understanding and reverence for the riddles of life and what might await us beyond what we perceive as dying.
Click on link above for more information and to join.
Voices of Celtic Wisdom . A 4-month ONLINE program exploring the living threads of Celtic & other earth-based cultures of Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales,with song, story, lore and hands on craft-making workshops, including your own bundle of crafting materials from these lands. 30th November 2023 – 25th March 2024, Thursdays & most Mondays, 6pm – 7.30pm GMT.
Hosted by Hanna Leigh with Guest Teachers: Gwilym Morus-Baird, Michael Newton, Dolores Whelan, Dougie Mackay, Amanda Verdery Young, Manda Scott, Robert Moss, Angharad Wynne, Tara Brading, Terri Conroy, Jeremy Schewe, Alexandra Juliette, Simon de Voil, Jen Murphy, Danu Forest, Dorrie Joy, Phyllida Anam Aire, Michael Harvey, Seoras (George) Macpherson, Peter Ananin & Bethan Bray, Glennie Kindred, Lana Lanaia.
Many of us are drawn to “the old ways”…but why? What can we draw from the past in order to live a more fully connected life now? Why is it that the Celtic culture, and other earth-based cultures of these lands, have a particular draw & allure for people during these times?
We have gathered 23 + incredible teachers who will be sharing bright threads of the ancestral traditions of these isles, and we invite you to join us as we drink together from this well of wisdom that is still very much alive.
This course is intended to be an in-depth study, and a gathering around the fire, where we will learn and grow together, untying the knots and re-weaving the thread. Over 4 months we will journey into a deep and rich exploration of Celtic ways and culture; providing nutrients to feed our own sense of connection and belonging. We will be joined by some wonderful elders, musicians, crafters and storytellers who will be sharing from the well of ancestral wisdom from these isles…awakening remembrance of ancient, yet timeless, animistic cultures and ways.
We invite you to gather with us to hear and learn some of the old songs, stories, and lore; as well as to physically craft your own Brigid’s cross, deerskin pouch, and Scottish wool yarn. May this series touch your heart and inspire your own connection to place, to your unique voice, and to your path of purpose and expression.
For more information please click on link in title above.
Shamanic Remote Seeing of the Unseen. Dec. 7 & 15, Thurs. ONLINE from London, UK with Itzhak Beery.
Shamanic remote seeing – or diagnostic seeing – has been used for centuries to gain information about a person’s physical or mental health condition. You’ll learn how to do it and refine your practice in this advanced 2-part online workshop.
Click on link above for more information and to join.
Winter Equinox Celebration. Dec. 21, ONLINE from Alternative Events, London, UK with Itzhak Beery.
Let’s come together, light a candle, and sing from our homes all around the globe to celebrate the Winter Solstice
In indigenous traditions, it marks the year’s shortest day, symbolizing life’s cyclical dance of death and rebirth. It calls us to cherish the light amid darkness within and outside us. It calls us for deep introspection, urging us to release our old stall energies and embrace renewal and hope. It is rooted in nature’s cyclical rhythms and emphasizes our bond with the Earth and its cycles.
Click on link above for more information and to join.
Shamanic Drum Birthing Workshops, with Jonathan Weekes of Heron Drums. UK.
In this full day workshop, you will birth your own Shamanic Drum in a day of ceremony, honouring the spirits of the animal and the tree. We make our drums in the traditional way using lacing cut from the same hide, thus keeping the spirit of the animal within the drum. When you have birthed your drum, you will be led on a journey to connect with the spirit of your drum.
Your drum can be either stag, reindeer, or horse, with a choice of size between 16”, 18” or 20”. Price of workshop dependent on size of drum. Please click on link above for more information.
CARMARTHENSHIRE – 2 December
GLASTONBURY – 16 & 17 December (fully booked)
The Gathering at the Cosmic Fire Summit 2023 – Hosted by Shamans Directory – ONLINE FREE, Nov 27 – Dec 01. Five day global online event featuring 30+ honored shamanic earth-based leaders, healers and teachers from around the world. They will guide us on a journey into the ancient and timeless, ever evolving nature of shamanism. Click on link in event title for more information.
Il Condor e L’Aquila: Una nuova prospettiva sciamanica sulla tua vita – The Condor and the Eagle- Firenze. TOSCANA, ITALIA, Nov. 7-12, with Itzhak Beery.
In a world that can feel chaotic and disheartening, many of us are left wondering what is going on and where humanity stands. The ancient Andean prophecy of the Condor and the Eagle might offer us a hopeful perspective, reminding us that our world is going through a period of conscious realignment. The prophecy describes a time when the Condor, the symbol of South American indigenous wisdom and Earth-honoring living, and the Eagle, the symbol of Western industrial society, will fly together in harmony, peace, and cooperation. It symbolizes the sacred balance between the masculine, logical technology of the West and the heart-centered, intuitive spiritual connection with nature.
For more information Email Alessandra Capelli
Sparring with Spirits: Tools for Depossession, Attachments & Psychopomp – Nov. 9; 16; & 23 – Thursdays ONLINE, London, UK with Itzhak Beery.
Walking the path of a shamanic practitioner is not always easy, especially when encountering difficult spirits. In this 3-part livestream workshop, you will learn how to prepare for such encounters. Click on title link for more information and to join.
Shamanic Practitioner Training in person, in GLASGOW with Fotoula Adrimi, starting 10 November 2023 and finishes 25 October 2025. The course is designed to take participants through the initiations of the shamanic path and teach the healing work of a shamanic practitioner, including medicine for the earth, power retrieval, soul retrieval, extraction, death and dying and de-possession, as well as moon and sun ceremonies, ancestral healing and rebirthing. Participants will work with spirit guides and teachers of the light, to become the bridge between the worlds and bring the spiritual light into the physical reality for themselves and, if called, for their clients.
For more information please click on website link above.
Bridging the Worlds – Psycho-spiritual and Therapeutic Shamanism, 25th Nov 23 @ 10:00 am – 13th Apr 24 @ 5:00 pm, with Christa Mackinnon and Vanessa Tucker.
This inspiring training course, which is loosely based on Christa Mackinnon’s books, will empower and enchant you, open new worlds and enrich your personal and professional life. You will develop the shamanic within you, as well as learn approaches, techniques and tools you can utilize in your work with clients and groups and for yourself.
The course is certificated and accredited for all and carries CPD hours for therapeutic professionals. It will be held over three on-line weekends on zoom, and one extended residential weekend at The Earth Spirit Center, GLASTONBURY, UK. It includes two evening zoom sessions between the weekends. A workbook, comprehensive course materials as well as recordings of the online weekends are included.
The course is suitable for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Complementary Practitioners, Body-workers, Energy- and Holistic Practitioners, Healers & Coaches. 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.
Shamanic Remote Seeing of the Unseen – Dec. 7 & 15 –Thursdays ONLINE, London, UK with Itzhak Beery.
Shamanic remote seeing – or diagnostic seeing – has been used for centuries to gain information about a person’s physical or mental health condition. You’ll learn how to do it and refine your practice in this advanced 2-part online workshop. Click on title link for more information and to join.
Wise Women, Sages, Elders & Crones. Explore – Empower – Become. Four evenings interactive ONLINE course, 12th December 2023 – 23rd January 2024, 7pm – 9pm, with Christa Mackinnon.
This four-evening workshop is an invitation to women who feel that they are approaching, or have already reached, the stage of the Elder, Crone or the Wise Woman. It is an invitation for women who want to, in a safe circle with others, dive deeper into the subject, and explore the realms of their own psyche and the archetypal, acknowledge the power and wisdom within themselves and explore with other women how they can bring them into the world that so desperately needs the female Elder.
More information on website (click on title link above).
EVENTS DIARY 2024
Shamanic Healing Training for Healers, Andes & Amazon -ECUADOR. January 2- 18, 2024. Lead by Itzhak Beery. This program is for healers only. (Certification for completing the program will be available). Waiting list only
For the 2nd time, we offer a 16-day intensive apprenticeship program to deepen your knowledge, gain new skills and enhance your understanding of the traditional Andes and Amazon shamanic healing methods. We are planning this healing trip for a select group of healers who wish to use the Andes healing methods in their practices. We hope you can offer it with more authenticity and power to your folks in the future.
For more information and application form please click on link above. An initial Zoom call interview is possible.
Learn Shamanism Online. First Steps Course, Shamanic Journey and Power Animal. Introductory Course in Therapeutic Shamanism. January 7th to February 11th, 2024. Main Tutor, Paul Francis, founder of the college and author of the Therapeutic Shamanism series of books.
Includes: The history of shamanism and animism, and how this indigenous knowledge was central to how all our ancestors once lived; How to do a shamanic journey; How to do a Power Animal retrieval journey and find your Power Animal; Other practices to powerfully connect back to nature; The basics of how to do simple shamanic healing for other people (including not just humans, but pets and other animals too).
Click on link above for more information and to join.
Co-Creating the Emerging World: Sacred Lands, Sacred Waters, Sacred Stories. ONLINE Summit – 20-21 January 2024 hosted by Sacred Earth Activism.
Sacred Earth Activism conferences and summits bring together, in a unique way, activism with the spiritual by presenting contributions of international speakers, visionaries, wisdom teachers, activists and project leaders who are actively involved in the change-movement, whilst being grounded in their spirituality.
We aim to contribute to the positive change during these transformational times by sharing inspiration, knowledge and teachings through talks, conversations, ceremonies and workshops, whilst offering an opportunity to form activist communities.
This year’s summit will focus on sacred lands, sacred waters and sacred stories. Within this wide remit we aim to bring together people who are wisdom teachers, visionaries and/or activists with focus on the following aspects: Protection and honouring of sacred sites, sacred landscapes and the sacred in nature; Land rights, access to lands & land usage; Water rights, water movements & sacred waters; Sacred stories which want to be told at this time in connection with lands, sacred sites and sacred waters; Sacred relationship between nature and humans.
Please click on line above for more information and contact details.
Dreams & Tracking Retreat in the Kalahari Desert 2024 with John Lockley. KALAHARI DESERT, BOTSWANA.
A 7 day retreat in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana 2024.
Retreat dates:
• 4th – 11th Feb 2024; + (optional) 3 days extension to 15th Feb
• 18th – 25th Feb 2024; + (optional) 3 days extension to 29th Feb.
• 3rd – 10th March 2024; + (optional) 3 days extension to 14th March
The only retreat of its kind in Africa. Take part in a trip of a life time, walk in the Kalahari Desert & Okavango Delta – the Jewels of Africa, learn Indigenous African technology skills to conserve our Wilderness.
Please click on link for more information.
Amazon Curandero Training – March 1st – 7th, 2024, with John (Crow) MacKinnon of Shamanic Voyages. This trip is for approved applicants only and will focus on serving a support role in an Ayahuasca Ceremony. Topics will include Safety, Ethics and how to tell when ceremony participants are in distress and what to do when that happens. A minimum prerequisite of one Magic of the Amazon trip or an approved equal will be required.
Registration now open. Email Mail@ShamanicVoyages.org for more information.
Shamanic Voyages: Magic of the Amazon. March 9 to March 23, 2024. Registration now open. With John (Crow) MacKinnon.
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.
For more information including itinerary and how to apply please click on link in event title above or email Mail@ShamanicVoyages.org.
Shamanic Drum Birthing Workshops, with Jonathan Weekes of Heron Drums. UK.
In this full day workshop, you will birth your own Shamanic Drum in a day of ceremony, honouring the spirits of the animal and the tree. We make our drums in the traditional way using lacing cut from the same hide, thus keeping the spirit of the animal within the drum. When you have birthed your drum, you will be led on a journey to connect with the spirit of your drum.
Your drum can be either stag, reindeer, or horse, with a choice of size between 16”, 18” or 20”. Price of workshop dependent on size of drum. Please click on link above for more information.
KENT – 2 March, 3 March
GLASTONBURY – 23 March
AVEBURY – 13th April
ABERDEENSHIRE – 27 April
Modern Medicine Woman Practitioner Training Course. 10th Mar 24 @ 10:00 am – 15th Aug 24 @ 5:00 pm, with Christa Mackinnon.
This substantial, certificated and accredited practitioner training course invites you to become a Modern Medicine Woman, step into your authentic power and share your unique medicine with the world.
During the five modules of your foundation training you will learn, develop, understand and practice fundamental skills, gifts and tools of the Medicine Woman and be able to apply them professionally as a practitioner as well as to your own development and personal life.
Please click on link above for more information.
Shamanic Retreat with Himalayan Shaman Bhola Banstola, Residential in FALKIRK, CENTRAL SCOTLAND. 20th to 23rd June 2024.
This is a transmission of an authentic tradition, which is still practiced and respected throughout the Himalayas. Bhola was born in the foothills of Mount Everest in the district of Bhojpur. Bhola received his training from his grandfather who was a skilful and well-known local shaman. He has also studied shamanism with different teachers in Nepal, Northeast India, Bhutan and parts of Sikkim and Darjeeling.
Please click on link above for more information or email maggiecarmichael@live.co.uk, phone (text only) 07999746389.
Bedouin Medicine – Sinai Desert Healers Expedition– ISRAEL/EGYPT, May 10 -18, 2024 with Itzhak Beery, Michal Shamir and Yossi Bar. A few spaces left.
Embark on a shamanic journey led by Bedouins through the stunning desert mountains of Sinai, Egypt. Marvel at the sunrises on Mount Sinai, where Moses is said to have received the ten commandments. Engage in a true vision quest in true silence and connect with the great mystery, as generations of sages have before you. A Bedouin team and elders from the Jabaliya tribe will share their rare knowledge of natural medicines, cultural heritage, and folk stories.
For more information and application details click on link above.
The 7th Annual Shamanic Andes Summit in MINDO, ECUADOR, June 16-22, 2024.
Let’s co-create a new, heart-centered way of experiencing our world. At Amaroo Sanctuary in Mindo’s Cloud Forest, Ecuador
Shaman Portal warmly invites you on a journey filled with spiritual, mystical, and healing experiences in the breathtaking Andes of Ecuador. Our gathering will be guided by renowned shamans, including Don Manuel Calazcon and his Taschila tribal family, Kichwa Taita Yachak Don Jacho Castelo, Yachak Don Pedro Cabascango, Jose Zambrano, Mama Maria Juana, Don Raul Yambrela, and others.
Click on link in event title for more information.
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).