About Core Shamanic Practices

Core Shamanic Practices: Touching Spirit

As a Core Shamanic Practitioner, Kristina offers several time-tested (from ancient times) “Shamanic Practices” that assist in the search – and in the finding – of The Healing Peace. 

Question/Answers or “Divination” 

Do you have a question that you are struggling with; that you just cannot seem to find the answer for? Should you take the job? Should you quit the one you have? Should you move your home to another city (state, country)? Is it the right time to have a child?  

The answers to your questions are already within you. However, working with divine techniques, Kristina can journey into non-ordinary reality and bring back information, wisdom, and/or knowledge that can confirm or, at least, solidify, your own inner wisdom. 

If you are looking for someone else to make your decisions for you, this Shamanic Practice is not for you; however, if you want to seek clarity of purpose and thought – to find and connect with you own inner wisdom and the Source of all guidance, then this is an enlightening and deeply resonating experience. 

Answers to your questions are often given in detailed, rich, metaphorical and archetypal language – the language of your soul. Working with Kristina, you can become a detective in discovering a much deeper answer than many your busy-talk “conscious” mind can provide. This is often a team effort. All answers are tailored to your needs, and to your higher being. You must break the code, but Kristina will walk the walk with you until you receive the answer that truly resonates with your soul.  

Dreamwork 

Has a “big” dream rocked your reality – but you just cannot determine it’s “truth” or what it means for your life and your future?  

In this unique remote spiritual Shamanic Practice, you will have the opportunity to work with Kristina in exploring the nature, meaning, and use of your dreams (and your archetypal/dream language). You will learn how to de-code the symbols and archetypal metaphors of your dream life – to decipher what Spirit is trying to communicate to you – for your energetic health and well-being. 

Our dreams regularly provide the ways and means to improve and enhance our lives, and yet they go “unnoticed” by most of us, most of the time. This can result in the loss of eternal insight. Focusing on the message behind the imagery can make the difference between dis-ease and enhanced well-being; between depression and contentment; between walking down a road that will not serve your highest needs and diving into the source of pure joy and fulfillment.  

Kristina can journey to the source of your dreams and help you find the answers you need to move forward in a healthy and productive and integrated way. Layer-by-magical layer, you can work with Kristina, as a team, to find the truth within the dream; the truth that resonates to the core of your being – ensuring that your dreams manifest in a bountiful and positive manner. 

Power (“Spirit”) Animal Retrieval 

Throughout history, animals have played a vital role in providing material and spiritual support and insight for human life. Our ancestors depended upon animals for much of their material life. Animals provided food, clothing, ornamentation, tools, weapons, medicine, shelter, transportation and companionship. They served as “harbingers” of seasonal change, danger, and fluctuations in the weather. 

Compared to humans, animals collectively possess greater strengths and powers. They can run faster; swim better; see, hear, and smell more acutely; climb better, hunt more successfully, and (of course) fly. Our ancestors looked to animals (and to animals in spirit or “archetypal” form, who had even greater powers than individual animals) as teachers, companions and guides throughout life. This connection to animals is built-in to the core of our DNA. 

Many indigenous cultures believe that we all have at least one “Power Animal” (or “Spirit” or “Totem” Animal) who travels with us from birth. This sacred being offers a unique and specific energetic essence, such as courage (perhaps Bear?) or wisdom (perhaps Owl?) or joy (perhaps Dolphin?) or patience (perhaps Turtle?) or love (perhaps Dove?) or freedom (perhaps Eagle?) or acceptance or grace or focus or…. 

When we were children, we were in direct contact with our Power Animals; however, as we grew older (especially in western cultures) we were encouraged to disconnect from this source of wealth and knowledge – as well as from with anything and everything that could not be “sensed” by our basic five senses. In that process, we lost a very critical “power” – a power designed to enhance our existence in this realm. 

Working with Kristina (and using an ancient, time-tested Shamanic Practice), you can reconnect with your Power Animal and, by doing so, the specific energetic essence that soul companion holds for you – a lost “power” that belongs to you. Once in relationship with a human, each Power Animal serves as a teacher, revealing the power (or “medicine”) that it carries for you. And once you have reconnected, you can stay connected to this power and energy. Whenever you need to, or want to, you can fly with Eagle, swim with Dolphin, stand tall and courageous with Bear, run wild and free across the mountain meadows with Wolf. [Keeping in mind, of course, that one Power Animal does not have more “power” than another. The spirit of the Mouse has just as much power as the spirit of the Tiger – but each offers you different power essences. Do you need to realize the power of “moving” through the small details (like a Mouse) or do you need to realize the power of “courage” (like a Grizzly Bear) to achieve your larger dreams?] 

Your Power Animal is waiting to connect, or perhaps reconnect, with you. 

Soul Retrieval 

As we grow and move through our lives, we are bombarded by “traumas” that exceed the ability of our soul to comprehend. Maybe we were abused as children (physically, mentally or emotionally); traumatized by a car accident; brutalized by combat; or enslaved by addictions to alcohol or drug. Whatever the reason, we lost, in that moment, an essential piece of our soul.  

In modern language, this is often referred to as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is often characterized by: 1) re-experiencing the events (through flashbacks forcing you to relive the trauma over and over again, bad dreams, or anxious/frightening thoughts); 2) avoidance symptoms (staying away from places, events, or objects that are reminders of the experience; feeling emotionally numb; feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry; losing interest in activities that were enjoyable in the past; and/or having trouble remembering the event); or 3) hyperarousal symptoms (being easily startled; feeling tense or “on edge,” and/or having difficulty sleeping, and/or having angry/emotional outbursts).  

In traditional Shamanic language, this was referred to as Soul Loss. If you are experiencing Soul Loss, you might hear yourself saying such things as:

· I felt like a part of me died that day.

· I feel like I lost my innocence when that happened.

· It was as if I lost my freedom (my faith, my hope, my will to live, etc.) that day. 

Or, more correctly, “I feel like I lost a piece of my soul when that happened.” 

On an energetic level, you did lose a piece of your soul. Your soul is who you really are. Contrary to popular belief, you are not your thoughts, emotions, opinions, ideas, and what you do for a living – you are so much more! You are energy – pure, high-vibrational energy; and how your energy vibrates determines the quality of what “matters” in your daily life. Your soul is pure spiritual essence that flows through you and around you. It is the life-force energy that sustains you. If you have become “disconnected” from or “lost” some of this energy (part of your soul) then you are operating (or attempting to operate) at less than full capacity. And, if this is the case, you are probably experiencing a myriad of symptoms of that energy loss.  

Soul Loss can result in symptoms such as depression, anxiety, fatigue, emotional “numbness,” a weakened immune system, frequent or chronic illness, and even a feeling of “emptiness” inside that no amount of activity (or money, or drugs, or sexual encounters, or cars, or…) can ever fill.  

Soul Loss need not be permanent. Across the globe and throughout time, Shamans and Shamanic Practitioners have journeyed to Spirit and brought back the soul “energy” that was lost. The simple, yet very powerful, act of reconnection (“retrieving”) this soul energy can bring you back up to full capacity (harmony, balance, happiness, peace and joy…). You can regain the soul’s natural state of being, which is that of open expression, giving/receiving abundance, empathy, intuition, and substantive action that makes a difference in this world.  

Working with Kristina in this sacred, spiritual practice, you can regain what was lost. You can reconnect with your lost innocence, courage, drive, youth, vitality, happiness, spirit, freedom, faith. You can have your wholeness restored. Without having to re-live the trauma (this is not talk therapy), you can experience what tens of thousands of people have experienced throughout ancient and modern times – you can have back what was taken from you: the wholeness of your very soul. 

Extraction of “Negative” Unwanted Energy 

Many believe that there is no “negative” energy, per se; they believe that all energy is simply energy. What makes it “positive” or “negative” is whether or not it serves our physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual well-being. 

Energy may not be “negative;” however, it can most certainly be unwanted. Energy can attach itself to our core being without our awareness. Have you ever heard yourself say:

• I felt like I got kicked in the gut when I walked in that house!

• I feel like the spirit of _____ (someone who was unkind or abusive to you) just won’t leave me alone!

• I couldn’t take enough baths to get the creepiness of that guy (or gal) off of me! 

Throughout life, we can collect and carry around (embody), energy that does not belong to us. This unwanted energy can cause a great deal of harm – from just “weighing” us down to actually making us physically ill (or dis-empowered).  

Working with Kristina, you can release what does not belong to you – and be free to open up the space in your own physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual “being” that uplifts and energizes and heals you.  

Psychopomp (Work with Death and Dying) 

Traditionally called “psychopomp,” this is sacred work with the dying that is designed to ensure peace and harmony during the transition; journey work to ensure that deceased loved ones have safely passed to the light. 

In our western cultural experience, death has been banished to the depths of fear and terror. Throughout the ages, many cultures celebrated death and dying; not seeing it as an “end” – a journey into nothingness, but as a “transition” to a higher dimension of spirit. 

Kristina works with people who are dying in a compassionate and divinely guided manner; helping ease fear and doubt and increase faith and hope in what lies ahead – for all of us. She also works with families who are concerned that deceased loved ones have not passed into the light. Trained by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in psychopomp, Kristina has guided souls to the other side – and finds it a joyful and abundantly rewarding endeavor.  

Just as energy can never be created and, therefore, never destroyed – we live on forever. It is essential that we live up to our own code of honor and truth and dignity -- not to the code of others. It is Kristina’s belief, after visiting the other side numerous times, that what we believe is what we get; and the more we prepare for a positive, uplifting, and “ascending” experience in death, the more likely that is exactly what we will experience.  

We can fear and tremble at the thought of death and dying, or we can align our spirit with our own code of True – and approach the light with only tears of joy. It is, after all, our choice. 

Healing Journeys 

We all experience pain – physical pain (within our body), mental pain (within our thoughts), emotional pain (within our feelings), and/or spiritual pain (within our very essence). Pain serves a purpose in our lives. It teaches us (do not touch fire); it gives us wisdom (do not do that again); it gives us strength (to know that we can survive if we stand up and overcome); and it gives us compassion (to never do that to others). 

Life is full of pain; however, after we “get” the signal (the lesson or the purpose of the pain), it is okay to say enough. It is okay to seek help and healing. 

Working with Kristina, you can seek healing and balance. Journeying directly to the Source, Kristina will enlist the aid of her compassionate helping spirits to “divine” information/wisdom that – a plan – that will help you rise above a health and well-being challenge; that will help you balance your energy, decrease your stress and anxiety, and enhance your existence on this planet.   

It is Time to Heal 

Rise Up & Flip the Script 

The Proof is in the Healing: The Healing Peace