Soul Retrieval
The shamanic healing process of soul retrieval and remembering helps you recover your essence—who you were meant to be—and rediscover your wholeness.
Soul loss is a self-protective response to trauma.
When your psyche feels it cannot survive a particular situation—whether abuse, addiction, or danger—part of you may split off, or dissociate. This loss creates damage to your energy body and your spirit.
How Can You Tell if You Have Soul Loss?
Do you feel like something has always been missing in your life? Has chronic illness or grief plagued you? Does emptiness overwhelm you? Does life seem to pass you by? Are you unable to remember big chunks of your life? These feelings are clues that you may have lost your vital essence, or soul.
Retrieving what belongs to you, your essence, along with the gifts and strengths brought back with your soul parts, is my sacred work. Helping you remember your soul's purpose brings you vitality, awareness, and beauty as you move forward. Your spiritual healing results in regained energy and wholeness.
Common Questions
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Soul retrieval is a shamanic technique used to reintegrate "fragments" of a person's vital essence that may have split off during past trauma or high-stress events. The goal is to return these parts to the individual, restoring a sense of wholeness, vitality, and presence.
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Soul retrieval is a gift to you from the spirit world. This classic shamanic healing technique, known and used worldwide in nearly every indigenous culture, exists because humans are prone to such loss and need help.
We start with an initial meeting. We talk about how you experience your life, the feelings that brought you to this place. I do a divination journey to inquire about your soul loss, gifts spirit has for you, and any preparation the spirits want from you.My spirit helpers will offer a “prescription” for you to follow—preparatory work that helps you be open and ready to receive what is returned to you. When you have completed your spirit-given assignment and all goes well, we schedule your soul retrieval ceremony, in person if possible.
Your part in the retrieval and remembering process is to:
Have clear intent.
Commit to your own healing and remembering as I support you every step of the way.
Receive, welcome, and make friends with your returned essence(s) during our follow-up-sessions.
The process includes the soul retrieval ceremony along with six follow-up and support sessions. In these, you will learn to embrace, make space for, and nurture your returned essence. On Zoom or in person in Sonoma, Northern CA.
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During your soul retrieval ceremony, I work with my helping spirits to track, find, and return one or more lost essences (soul parts) to you, bringing them back from the realms they have inhabited.
In this process, the spirits—power, animals, and teachers, who are my allies, and with whom I maintain a deeply reciprocal relationship—guide and help me find what is lost, learn the gifts and strengths they are bringing back to you, and ask what the returning parts might want from you so they can feel safe and cared for.
I carry the energy of your returning parts and blow them into you. Then you spend quiet time absorbing what has been returned. I invite you to go outside and ask a tree for advice on rooting your returned parts. Finally, I share with you what I learned and what gifts have been brought back to you as part of your wholeness.
This retrieval replaces what belongs to you—your essence that came into this world to have adventures grow and evolve.
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After your soul retrieval is performed, the remembering and follow-up work we do together over about 6 to 12 weeks is essential. You will:
Learn to keep and root your soul parts during your follow-up sessions.
Explore the qualities have been returned to you with your essence and the joy of feeling more whole.
Discover how to use your new energy.
Release attitudes and habits that continue to block your wholeness.
Step into your essence with grounded energy, clarity, and open-heartedness.
During the remembering process I lead you in guided visualization and/or shamanic journeying. (Many clients first learn to journey during these sessions!) We do ceremonies together. You learn skills and potent tools for continuing your integration and self-empowerment.
I guide you in getting to know and embracing your returned soul parts. You make friends with them! We explore the gifts and strengths they’ve brought back to you, identify coping mechanisms that may be counter-productive, and help you come sturdily back into the wholeness you were born with.
You gain knowledge of your soul's purpose in the world during soul remembering. The gifts, talents, and strengths you recover and build provide beauty, vitality, and awareness as you move forward.
Re-membering is a spiritual healing that results in regained wholeness. It is a journey of discovery, like learning a lover or long-lost friend, familiar and mysterious at once.
