5-Day Soul Retrieval Training

This training is based on Sandra Ingerman’s books Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self and Welcome Home: Following Your Soul’s Journey Home and the CD program “The Soul Retrieval Journey” produced by Sounds True. These are suggested not required readings. This five-day workshop is designed exclusively for those who wish to bring shamanic healing techniques into their practice with others, not for personal healing. Participants will learn how to perform the shamanic method of soul retrieval to assist individuals who have experienced emotional or physical trauma. Participants will learn how to diagnose soul loss, perform soul retrievals, tell healing stories, and much more.

Soul Retrieval

One of the primary reasons an individual today might seek out a Shamanic practitioner is to provide soul retrieval. Many indigenous peoples believed that soul could not bear the direct impact of trauma, so in order for the soul to survive it would leave, sometimes it would return and sometimes it would become fragmented and would not return entirely whole. When an individual feels they are suffering from soul loss, the Shaman will travel to non –ordinary reality, aided with the Shaman’s own familiar spirits and retrieve the soul pieces that had become fragmented. You often hear people say they haven't felt like them selves since a specific event occurred, a break up, loss of a loved one, an accident; that phrase is a good indication that soul loss has occurred. Someone saying, "I just feel like I am going through the motions and not really living anymore," is also a sign that soul loss has occurred. Often there are symptoms associated with soul loss such as:

• Depression
• Sleep Apnea
• Addictions
• A feeling of being lost or incomplete
• Inability to move past an issue
• Feeling stuck
• Feeling disconnected from life
• Feeling numb
• Something missing from life
• Feeling shattered, in pieces
• Lost a piece of yourself.
• Can't find yourself.
• A part of yourself died
• Lost memories
• Never felt the same after traumatic event

A sense that someone took a part of you. You keep wanting to return to a person or location that seems unhealthy or unlikely, even though there is no apparent reason for you to do so.

For more information see Sandy Ingerman’s book, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

Below is a link to images taken with a Kirlian camera at a Soul Retrieval Training in 2004 (I was at this training). The images show pictures taken before and after Soul Retrieval.

http://www.sandraingerman.com/soulretrievalresults.html