Shamanism is an embodied art.

Apprenticeship is an embodiment journey.

A shamanic calling requires a leap of faith.

A trust fall with the universe, as it were.

I leaned my head back, allowed the water to caress my forehead and gently soak my hair.

I felt the sun beat down through my third eye.

I dunked under, fully immersing myself.

The vision for Apprenticeship.

Close your eyes.

Imagine yourself standing with a group of women, sisters, around a fire.

Hello chronic illness warriors, health-obsessed and everyone else! Today, I am going to address a topic near and dear to my heart: toxic relationships and how they affect the body. Specifically, how does toxic energy enter the body through our interactions with other people and the world? How do we notice it? And how can we banish it?

Several months ago, I took a six week meditation course where we learned how to identify energies in the body, those that belonged and those that did not, and how to release them.