Learn Somatic shamanism & transform lives

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Somatic Shamanism is a therapeutic modality that combines ancient Shamanic, Taoist and Yoga practices with contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches.

I developed this work because I discovered how powerful healing could be when ancient technologies are combined with cutting-edge therapeutic practice. 

The results have been truly astonishing.

After over 1,500 client sessions, I now train practitioners who want to facilitate this work with skill, ethics, and genuine commitment to supporting deep transformational change.

I just want to express my gratitude for how thankful I am to have had you as such an amazing teacher. This whole course experience has been so lovely and authentic and real and the therapy is amazing! 

I absolutely love it and all of my friends that I did my practice with are SO inspired by it. So, thank you so much for opening me up to this wonderful world, which I know I will never be able to go back from.

Thank you Chris for the depth of your understanding. I can say from my heart I have had the truest teacher, guide and support from you and I feel so blessed.

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 your 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 courses are officially globally certified by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine. I was delighted when their accreditation letter to me stated:

“We see what you're doing, and can we just say, we think it is brilliant. Your courses and training are so unique, and the results are exactly what we are looking for”

I'm definitely not your typical holistic practitioner.

I'm a working class woman from Liverpool who calls most people "love," makes my students laugh a lot, and will never - ever - say "love and light" or spout New Age platitudes. That's just not me.

I don't take myself seriously, even though I take this work deadly seriously. I'm a messy human like everyone else, still navigating my own challenges, still learning. I'm not a guru and never will be. But I do have an incredible amount of wisdom to share after 35 years of deeply cultivating this practice.

Here's what makes my training different: 

Everything I teach is rooted in scientific understanding. I'm educated, I'm thorough, and I wholeheartedly believe shamanic practice can be understood through neuroscience, physics, depth psychology, and solid historical evidence. Because it can. My course materials will give you evidence and plenty of rigorous research to back this up.

I've spent decades researching this work properly - not just repeating what I've been told.

I'm grounded. Authentic. Congruent. Warm. Funny. Real.

If you want someone who's thoroughly researched this ancient wisdom and can bridge it with modern science, you've come to the right place.

This training is right for you if you:

• Want to learn shamanic practice properly, not just collect techniques

• Are willing to commit to 15 months of consistent work

• Understand that working with clients requires doing your own healing work first

• Want thorough professional training with ongoing supervision

• Are ready to invest time, money and energy into this path

• Want to actually use this work - either in your existing practice or building something new.

This training is probably not suitable if you:

• Are looking for a quick certification

• Want spiritual experiences without doing the deeper work

• Can't commit to regular attendance and practice over 15 months

• Aren't ready for work that will challenge you

· The Art of Shamanism - The shamanic journey and working with the stones, plants, and animals.   

· Soul loss and Power loss   

· Ancestral healing

· The Medicine Wheel

· Ritual and ceremony   

· Andean mysticism

· Somatic healing   

· Working with the nervous system

· Polyvagal Theory

· Focussing   

· Parts of self-work  

· Counselling skills

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE:

• Working effectively with clients

• Session structure and safety

• Knowing your scope of practice and when to refer

• Building a sustainable practice

• Maintaining integrity and ethics

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

• Facing your own material (non-negotiable)

• Experiencing the work on yourself before offering it to others

• Developing your unique practice style

• Growing as a practitioner and as a person

 EXPERIENCE:

• 20 years of shamanic practice

• Trained with Alberto Villoldo and Q'ero shamans in Peru (Four Winds Society) Leo Rutherford, Simon Buxton, various other national and international schools

• Studied for 1 year with Taoist masters in Thailand

• 19 years experience as qualified yoga teacher

• IEMT (Integral Eye Movement Therapy) Practitioner

• Training practitioners since 2021

BACKGROUND

For 30 years I worked in youth and community work, child protection, and oral history. Those years gave me profound insight into people living with poverty, abuse, neglect and inequality. I learned about human resilience and what it actually takes to thrive in the face of adversity.

I've always been fascinated by healing - both collectively, within communities, and on an individual level. I spent years supporting others professionally while simultaneously training and working on myself: courses, practices, travelling to learn from indigenous teachers. 

Looking back, I can see now how I was driven throughout my life to create something powerful and transformative.

This is what became Somatic Shamanism.

This work weaves ancient practices with contemporary understanding of trauma and the body. What I teach is grounded, practical, and effective.

For thousands of years, our ancestors maintained community wellbeing through somatic wisdom, witnessed story, collective care, and oral traditions that passed healing knowledge from generation to generation. Contemporary research now validates these practices - and our overstretched mental health system desperately needs them.

My work unites ancient healing wisdom with modern therapeutic practice, remembering our capacity to heal one another beyond waiting rooms and diagnoses.