Welcome

Coming soon:

Summer retreat Saturday 8th August 2026 in Newton Village Hall, West Kirby 10am-4.30pm

Autumn Retreat 3rd October 2026 in Bromborough 10am-4.30pm

Introduction to Shamanism Course 

Tuesday evenings 7-9pm UK time 8th Sept - 13th Oct 2026 (6 weeks) 

Listen to a podcast about my life's work here:

 https://youtu.be/_UEc2Oi_aDc 

Somatic Shamanism is the power of ancient Shamanic, Taoist and Yoga practice integrated with contemporary psychotherapeutic modalities; Integral Eye Movement and Internal Family Systems, Somatic experiencing, Polyvagal theory and Compassionate enquiry.  

Through this integrative approach, I guide a sacred process for individuals and groups which facilitates the opportunity for deep healing to occur at an emotional, mental and spiritual level.

The Model

At the heart of this work is a simple premise: I believe our lives and all living beings are sacred and the experience of life itself is the ground on which we grow.

Growth for me means moving toward a life rich in health, joy, safety, community, love, kindness and a deep reverence for nature.

My contribution to that aim is one-to-one therapeutic work that draws on two deep wells of knowledge and brings them together.

The first is ancient — shamanic practice, Taoist philosophy, and yoga - traditions that have refined our understanding of human healing over thousands of years.

The second is modern therapy that understands our consciousness is broken down into several parts, or personalities. And that the parts each have distinct characteristics.

Ancestral healing sits at the centre of this synthesis, and it's the piece most conventional psychotherapy overlooks: that much of what we carry didn't start with us.

What makes this work distinct is how I use altered states of consciousness as a precision tool.

Most therapeutic conversation works at the level of the story: the labels people carry, the narratives they repeat about themselves, the projections others have placed on them.

My work goes underneath them, to locate exactly what needs to heal, my experience demonstrates that deep down in the psyche and the body there is a living wisdom that knows exactly what to do, and so it is to this place that I can take clients.

I believe every person carries a divine spark — a wise, connected aspect of themselves that holds knowledge about what their own system needs in order to heal.

This is the principle behind every session. My role isn't to heal people. It's to show them the way to that place in themselves — the actual healing, and the understanding that comes with it, is something we do together, and the deepest part of it comes from them, not me.

In practice, this means people get to the heart of what needs attention with unusual speed — just a few sessions, where other approaches might take months or years to locate the same starting point.

I’ve been playing around with latin/Greek rooted words that describe my work in one word and have made up the word Sapientropic (say-pee-EN-troh-pik) — Latin sapiens (wise, knowing) — tropic – turning towards – thus Sapientropic means "turning toward the wise self."

For me this is what my work is all about.

I spent many years immersing myself in cultures across Asia, Australia, North America and Europe, where I studied the ancient practices of Shamanism, Taoism and Yoga. This has given me an enormous appreciation and respect for the power of this ancient wisdom and played a major part in my own healing journey. I have also been a youth and community worker with vulnerable children in London and over time I explored and studied the more contemporary therapeutic practices of Integral Eye Movement and Internal Family Systems, Somatic experiencing, Polyvagal theory and Compassionate enquiry.

After many years of practice and experimentation I have now come to realise the most powerful healing for modern people goes in the opposite direction to the traditional shamanic model. We need to move through the shamanic levels of engagement in reverse. From the body, to the psychological, through to the soul and eventually effect change at the energetic level. In this way the individual experiences all the levels of engagement, and the power dynamic shifts away from the shaman to a healthier person-centred approach. I call this powerful integrative therapeutic approach Somatic Shamanism.

“Working with Christine has been unlike any other therapy I’ve done in the past, it goes much deeper and much further, it’s also, I have found, a lot quicker as the work goes straight to the emotional, sometimes physical, sometimes soul-based core of the issue.” Client

 Please read this interview to find out more about my work:https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/interview-christineholt/

This course really has changed my life, thank you Chris, I don’t want it to end. I want to do another one ♥️ I love your teaching style and energy it’s really like no other, you have been the best guide and teacher to me keeping things so real which is a rarity in this industry and really resonated ♥️  

My Somatic Shamanism approach has been tried and tested via zoom sessions with the same level of success as face to face, therefore most of my sessions are carried out remotely. 

Sessions last 1.5 hours.

For more details on booking see Fee's page 

Email: christine@somaticshamanism.co.uk

Mobile/Text: 07958 058 191

I am now pleased to offer 2 levels of training courses: 

• An introduction to Somatic Therapy
• Somatic Shamanism Practitioner training    

For information on my upcoming workshops