What Authentic Shamanic Practice Looks Like Real shamanic work isn't glamorous. It's often uncomfortable. It requires you to face your shadow, heal your ancestral line, and recover parts of yourself you've been avoiding for good reason. It's not about escaping into "higher consciousness" while your trauma runs the show. It's about becoming whole—integrating both light and shadow, reclaiming lost power, and building genuine energetic sovereignty. Authentic shamanic practice: ✅Emphasizes direct experience over belief systems - You don't have to believe anything. You journey and see what happens. ✅Requires relationship with helping spirits - You're never doing this work alone. Your power animals and spirit teachers guide the process. ✅Includes shadow work alongside light work - Healing isn't just about love and light. It's about integrating everything you've disowned. ✅Addresses ancestral patterns as spiritual wounds that impact current life - Your lineage matters. Healing often requires going back generations. ✅Builds energetic boundaries rather than encouraging codependency - True empathy doesn't mean taking on others' suffering. ✅Results in practical life changes - If your practice isn't improving your actual life—relationships, health, purpose, capacity—something's missing. Most importantly, shamanic practice becomes integrated into who you are as vibratn living being who is part of nature, of the earth and all its inhabitants.

The Core Shamanic Skills Every Healer Needs You don't need to become a traditional shaman to benefit from shamanic practice. But there are core skills that transform how you work: ➡️Journeying - The foundational practice of entering non-ordinary reality to meet helping spirits and receive guidance. This becomes your direct line to wisdom beyond your conscious mind. ➡️Power animal retrieval - Connecting with your primary helping spirit who brings medicine, protection, and guidance specific to your path. ➡️Energetic boundaries - Learning to distinguish your energy from others' energy, staying clear and present without absorption. ➡️Ancestral healing - Working with your lineage to heal patterns that have blocked your family for generations, freeing both ancestors and descendants. Remember, we always work with a clear intention and a willingness to receive healing and guidance from the spirit world. Our helping spirits are always ready -- all we need to do is journey and ask. This month we're diving in with the shaman's journey and meeting your helping spirits and power animals.

Hey everyone, it's Anthony and I just wanted to come on here say thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. On March the 2nd, we crossed 500 members in the Rainbow Path community. And that's just, it just makes me feel amazing. Makes me very happy. And I'm just really thrilled to have this opportunity to have this platform to share with you all about shamanism, traditional healing, to be part of your journey. As a healer or a healer in training wherever you're at on this path of following the call of healing that you are doing. So I just wanted to say thank you. 500 is a big deal. We crossed over that on Monday. Our next goal is 1,000. But I just wanted to say thank you. I'm just really, really humbled and really honored to have this opportunity to be part of your life and share with you what I know and what I've learned over 30 years of practicing shamanism and and teaching students over the years. I'm just really excited, really, really excited. And I've got some great content that I'm creating for us in the Rainbow Path. I've got an updated Shaman's Journey outline that I'll be probably putting out either by the end of the week or early next week and then recording some of that for you. But yeah, thank you just so much from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for giving me this opportunity, placing your trust in me to help you on this part of your journey, okay, wherever it takes you from here. So thanks very much. If there's any way that I can support you in the Rainbow Path and you wanna make a comment, you wanna ask me a question, you can always send me a direct message using the chat feature in Skool do that, right? I'm here to support you on your journey, on your path as a healer. And however that's gonna reveal itself and unfold itself for you. So anyway, big thanks, big thanks from the bottom of my heart. And let's get on with the business of healing! 💜

I want to thank @Tony Sibbald for a beautiful reminder he posted in his Skool community the "Alive Again Collective" Tony offered us a gentle reminder to stay calm these days. A reminder to notice when we get pulled into the emotion of what's happening in the world and to be aware of when we are reactive and lose ourselves in anger fear sadness and the other emotions that surface. And I shared that I was very reactive this morning regarding events here locally where I live. I had to stop and remind myself and ask myself the question what is mine? and what is not mine? I also had to ask myself what is this Shadow part that is here right now? So this is a reminder to be aware of when you get pulled into emotions that surface and to be conscious of the tools that you have available to integrate to release and to bring yourself back to wholeness. As empathic people, as healers, it is vital that we use the tools that we have to remain as spiritually grounded as possible especially during difficult times when the collective emotional energy can be so wild and it affects everything.

This is a Welcome Orientation for all here at the Rainbow Path. For all new members, and those of you who've been here since we started - I recommend a listen to this orientation as we begin our work moving into a deeper healing practice for ourselves. I thank you for your support and commitment to your healing path. After listening, and if you feel complete - I encourage you to comment here by simply stating: I am choosing the path of the grounded seeker.