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Using ancient healing techniques to restore purpose, joy, and fulfillment in life
• Teaches practical methods to heal from trauma and realize a balanced sense of self to overcome emotional, mental, and physical ailments
• Gives practical techniques based on Core Shamanism, which finds its roots in the Indigenous traditions of the world such as the Australian Aborigines and the American First Nations
• Includes visualization exercises and guided meditations that are rooted in these ancient traditions
The practice of shamanic soul retrieval has been transmitted orally among Indigenous cultures for 45,000 years and is among the oldest of healing techniques. Distilling her research and experience as a shaman and spiritual teacher, Lisa Biritz provides a practical guide to shamanic soul retrieval for our time.
Biritz describes the soul as a sphere of light that is brightest when it is whole. Trauma, abuse, and negative life events can cause parts of the soul to split off, and this lowers one's self-esteem, energy, and light. The author explains how soul fragmentation also leads to a loss of life force and a diminished sense of self and this can give way to emotional, mental, and physical ailments.
With a practical and accessible approach based on years of experience in shamanic healing, Biritz shares shamanic soul retrieval methods and techniques to help readers recover lost soul parts, heal, and return to wholeness. She emphasizes that this process does not require complicated rituals or trance states. Instead, she offers simple methods such as visualization exercises and guided meditations that are rooted in Indigenous traditions.
Shamanism is an ancient and natural way to connect with the divine and the invisible world and anyone can learn to access this healing energy with the right techniques. Shamanic Soul Retrieval is a practical how-to guide that provides clear steps to help individuals restore their soul, regain balance, and experience a renewed sense of vitality and joy.
Contents
Foreword by Susanne Hühn and Mike Köhler
Introduction
What Is Shamanic Soul Retrieval?
The soul: a luminous sphere of light
Exercise: The healing work of the glowing
"soul sphere"
Soul retrieval with children
What Exactly Is Shamanism?
Shamanism exists everywhere
Shamanic techniques
Shamanism, supported by the
World Health Organization (WHO)
New Western shamanism
Exercise: A journey into the soul world
Why Do Soul Parts Leave?
Microtrauma in everyday life
Pregnancy and birth
Exercise: Relive your journey to life
Childhood
Entangled lives and dependencies
Exercise: Becoming free in relationships
Trauma, coma, and death
Past lives and collective themes
The symptoms of missing soul parts
Exercise: Dismemberment
Healing
Exercise: Self-healing
How do soul parts come back to us?
Exercise: Soul retrieval
Time for action
Maintaining Vitality: Care of the Soul
Integrating soul parts
Exercise: Soul part integration
The characteristics of a healthy and complete soul
You are whole when you feel whole
Exercise: A journey into your inner garden
Health from the Shamanic Perspective
Illness: too little or too much
Intruders and possessions
Exercise: Cleansing foreign energies
Soul Retrieval for the Earth
Soul loss in nature and the Earth
Exercise: Soul retrieval for the Earth
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Picture credits
About the author
