Becoming a modern shaman means developing your consciousness. It means hunting for your real gift because you long to use it in ways that enhance your life and benefit others. It means reaching your full potential and living well, no matter what your area of passion. This means that more people than ever before can benefit from shamanic training.

To enter the training you don’t need to know exactly what your gift or purpose is. You do need to believe there is something in you – an itch you can’t scratch yet – that is waking up and demanding to be put to imaginative use in your life.

• Some people come to find out what that ‘itch’ is.
• Some come to find out about spontaneous visionary experiences they’ve had.
• Others come to explore their intuitive abilities, understand the power of their imagination, or surface a deep longing.
• Still others come because they are completing their careers and know it is time to fulfill their true potential.

Where do they come from?
Trainees come from all over North America and abroad.

What did they do before they became shamans?
Here is a partial list of the professional arenas trainees are in:

Writing, photography, business consulting, conflict resolution, filmmaking, architecture, biochemistry, biology, alternative healing (for humans and animals), western medicine, psychiatry, psychology, acupuncture and herbal medicine, chiropractic, real estate, engineering, marketing, healthcare administration, design, theatre, environmental conservation, wilderness leadership training, adult education, children’s education . . .

Who benefits?
Any mature adult who has an intuitive talent, a desire to use it for something good, true, and beautiful, and the means and discipline to put new information to work in life.

Many trainees remain in their chosen profession and simply learn how to do it like a shaman – more powerfully, creatively, and effectively than can be done in ordinary states of awareness.

Others use the training to grow themselves into the work they have always dreamed of doing.

All of them grow as people and realize a magnificent wholeness in their lives.

Find out for yourself at the next Preview Day
When you come to a Preview Day, you get a taste of the training experience, and I’ll tell you the basic truths about training in shamanic technologies and traditions:

• It takes the courage to imagine, the desire to act, the willingness to learn, the availability to be in relationship with life, and a great sense of humor. (If you are lacking in any of these, you’ll be shown how to develop it.)
• You will be given the means to uncover the genius you really are, and you’ll be asked to use the technologies to become that person.
• You will be gifted powerful shamanic principles and asked to use them to put your passion to work in the world.
• You will be offered membership in the mystery and asked to come fully awake and aware.

I tell each and every prospective initiate when human passion is awakened and put to work in positive, life-affirming ways, fulfillment, purpose, and benefit are given and received all around. This is what it is to be a modern shaman.

Copyright Marti Spiegelman, MFA, 2007

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Read more about the program and
what it means to be a modern shaman:
Shamanism in Today’s World
The Language of Awareness
The Technology of Awareness
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Marti’s clarity, deep commitment to Spirit, and understanding of what seeds to plant and what chaff to loosen have opened doorways in my life previously unimagined.

– Rebekah Ingalls, LAc and initiated shaman, Earth and Sky Healing Arts, Seattle Washington

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