3 Shamanic Techniques for Healing Trauma and PTSD

Shamanic healing, an ancient spiritual practice, offers profound techniques for addressing trauma and PTSD by tapping into the soul’s energy and connection to the natural world. These practices, rooted in indigenous traditions, focus on restoring balance, retrieving lost parts of the soul, and releasing trapped emotions. Three key shamanic techniques that have shown promise in healing trauma include soul retrieval, energy extraction, and journeying. Each method provides a unique pathway to re-integrate fragmented aspects of the self, clear energetic blockages, and reconnect with a deeper sense of wholeness, ultimately facilitating emotional and spiritual healing. Let’s explore the most beneficial techniques for healing trauma and PTSD. 

Journeying

Journeying is a personal favorite of mine. This service allows you to retrieve information from different dimensions for healing help and guidance in your daily life. Journeying, a fundamental shamanic skill, is a process where the shaman guides individuals to the lower or upper worlds to connect with their spirit animals or helping spirits. The shaman's role is not just about creating sacred space, often using a smudge stick and invoking the four different directions, but about transforming it into a place where our burdens are lightened, and we are touched by the hand of spirit, inspiring hope and wonder.

Drumming is essential to journeying. It is how you move into a trance state and out of ordinary time. Every shaman has a process for leading a person to the lower or upper world. We raise the vibrational level, which is necessary to speak to spirit.

 During the journey, the shaman identifies problems and, following the journey, begins working with spirit on ways to alleviate the trauma and the pain associated with it. Typically, a shaman will use one of the next techniques.

Energy Healing

Every shaman has a specific approach to energy healing, but generally, a session begins with the shaman asking permission to check on the client’s energy levels. Clients typically can advise on their overall energy levels. A shaman will probe the energy levels of the six main chakras. Typically, a pendulum is used to discern energy at the chakra level. Shamans know from study and experience where specific trauma settles in the body. With a light finger touch or a feather, the shaman will work to remove the trauma from the body and draw up the overall energy level.

Next, the shaman will ask the client’s spirit guides to direct her to other energy problems. These can range from dark entities attaching and draining down the overall energy level or negative thoughts and traits that repel positive energy and keep the energy at a lower level. This step involves a willingness for a client to be open about their interactions with others and allowing the shaman to introduce different healing methods, such as meditation and praying. The shaman might suggest that the client bring back an activity that used to bring joy, such as music. Often, a shaman may discover that this negative trait (finding fault, arguing, criticizing) is related to the soul contract. Working to reduce or eliminate these negative traits will bring long-term lightness to the body and place the person on the right track for this life.

Soul Retrieval

Soul retrieval helps to find and heal the soul. Deep trauma can cause parts of our soul to break off, causing people not to feel lost and incomplete. A soul retrieval is performed using spirit guides to help identify what part of the soul has been lost due to trauma and bring the part back from the dimension where it is stored. The shaman will then integrate all the parts of the soul and restore the complete soul in the body. Lastly, the shaman will help the client learn to reach out, love the restored soul, and let go of the trauma.

Shamans have other tools than just the three discussed here. Which tools are selected depends on the type of trauma and the client's comfort level. Trauma recovery is not easy and requires the client to trust the skills of the shaman. Investing in two – to three sessions will tell anyone if the relationship works. This gives the client a good introduction to how a shaman is trained to help resolve trauma and PTSD.