Videos and Audios

Dear Shaman College Community,

In today's morning contemplations I look at a very often shared statement, "I am a Shaman!"

Over the years I have heard this statement from so many people and my reactions have changed and grown as I have listened.

My primary message here is... YES!  You are a healer, you are the Shaman you have been searching for.  We are self-healing beings with untapped abilities.  As a universal expansion on our collective consciousness, people are realising more and more that their power, strength, healing and love is built into who and what they are.

It does not mean that we do not help each other.  We do assist each other.  But someone else does not hold the keys to your healing. The best healers help you to find the healing within you.

So, if you have received this message of "I am a Shaman", follow it.  What does it mean to you?  Does it mean you need to go out into nature?  Does it mean its time to listen to your heart?...

Dear Shaman College Community,

This video sharing today is all about the symphony of timing and rhythms in your life.  My observation is that our minds, our thoughts and our information gathering is quick.  We get it!  We can process high levels of information very quickly.  We can gather insights and new concepts easily from the internet through written and video formats.  We can communicate with other people through email, texts, social media, etc.  And it is very fast.

Yet, problems arise when we expect this speed in the growing, transforming, and developing aspects of our lives and the nature all around us.  It is a mis-match.  This can leave us disappointed with the natural cycles of life.  This can leave us impatient with manifestation.

In shamanism, I see this timing mis-match with students, practitioners and clients.  They can get something on a mental, conceptual level.... but the embodiment is not there yet.

As if more and...

Hello Dear Shaman College Community,

I know my emails have been a little quiet lately.  I am here.  But, I am in the jungle at times, diving in the waters, learning new languages of this land, and building a retreat center for like-hearted souls. My family is doing this together and it is an adventure - at times brilliant, at times mundane, at times really tough.  Our fulfillment is in listening to the deep call and navigating the current.

I see you all doing the deep-work.  But also having to interpret the times that we live in.  My heart goes to you compassionately and through the song of empathy (which I believe needs understanding beyond the current norm).  We are here together.

This video I share with you today summarizes what we are here to do as teachers, practitioners and mentors… we are here to help you come to Earth.

Some people think that studying shamanism means learning to...

 What a world we live in.  I know we - us spiritual folk drawn to nature - are being asked to stand ever more in the beauty of this place.  As the world around us seems to fill with so much opinion and countering beliefs, I wonder what does the shaman see?

Today I discuss my observation that shamans and practitioners have always lived on the edges... the boundaries of what is accepted norm and what is the wilderness of the unknown.

I also look at how a student or client (including us practitioners) can miss the healing when they try to fit the medicine from the unknown spaces into the logical and binding contracts of cultural beliefs.

Finally, I share in the compassionate appreciation that its not always easy to live on the edge... but it simply is the way that it works when you venture out.  Untold beauty is also there... of course, this is the wonder of this bountiful place.

I will never forget when a beautiful and skilled student and practitioner asked me,...

I welcome you to join me in my personal morning contemplation session.

May my musings serve you - whether you are a practitioner, a student or a client... I feel there is something here for you! 

Some of the topics I explore:

What is it that happens in the presence of a shaman?  What happens when they see you through the awareness of wholeness?

How do they access this wisdom?  How do they "do" it?

How can different shamans speak different languages, use different healing tools, receive different information... and still the healing works?

There is a question that arises very frequently when people begin to journey and communicate with the spirits.

They ask, "Is it all in the mind?" or put another way...  "Am I just imagining this?"

To answer these questions... you have to look at two other larger questions, "What is real?"  and "What is the mind?"

These questions lead us into an inquiry of the ages and a path that shamanism walks.

Can it be that the answer is both yes and no?  Can it be that reality is perceived through the mind, the body, and the heart?  Can it be that you are connected to everything... the "I AM", and yet at times working with the illusion of separation?

In this video, I ask some of these questions and I explore the gifts of the illusion of separation and how we may be able to discern what is coming through.

Please join me!

Many blessings to all,

Kimba

Here I highlight our 5th video in the latest series, The Ground We Stand On.

(For the entire series, click here.)

In this series we look at the spiritual warrior that is required for this work.  I say this is required but I am conscious that it develops with study and practice. This warrior has seen both light and shadow, discovered the strength of the ground, and the loving power of their discerning heart.  They have a navigation skill through the journeys and travels with the spirits.

In this final video, we look at ethics, boundaries and permissions.  These are skills.  I cannot say that they are 'simple' skills... and yet they do get overlooked by many.

None of us practice shamanism in a vacuum.  Even if we only work in isolation, there is not such a thing! 

Our actions, thoughts and words impact the world around us, affecting the energetics and the healing. Shamanism is a study and practice of connection, communication, sharing, giving,...

In this video, I look at what it is to "journey well".  By this I mean clear journeys and ones that receive healing information (divination) and healing energetics or transmission (application and results).

You have to get very clear.  You have to be able to step out of your belief systems to such a degree that you do not get in the way of what is needed.  All at the same time, you are monitoring safety for yourself and others.

This is possible!  Yet, it requires an understanding of light and shadow within yourself, a ground, and a connection to the heart centre. (I speak about these aspects in the first videos of this series. Click here to watch them.)

While the shamanic journeys are beautiful, colorful and filled with information and insights, they are not escapes from this world.  And they too, can be filled with many challenges.  Ultimately, the journeys are travels within this reality... only they present perspectives that are often not...

We continue with the series of Shaman College videos, " The Ground We Stand On".  If you haven't started the series, I recommend that you start with the first video and work your way through them.

For the complete series, click here.

I created this series to look in detail at spiritual healing and the shamanic practitioner who has honed their skills to that of a spiritual warrior.

All of this in hope that something here resonates with you, inspires you to continue, and finds you weaving your gifts together.

This week, I would like to highlight the importance of the Sacred Heart and its gifts of navigation and discernment.  Having discovered both your light and your shadows, developed a ground that opens your perception, you naturally have come into your sacred heartspace.

In this video, I invite you to become curious about this heartspace... what is here?

Why do I call the Sacred Heart the place of discernment?  And how can we navigate from here?  How can we...

(If you would like to watch part 1 and 2 if this video series, click here.)

Here we are in the 3rd video of this series, "The Ground We Stand On".  I share with you the specific understanding of grounding that comes into our shamanic world view.  I will never forget that my teacher, Steve Serr said that the shaman is the most grounded person you will meet.This resonated in my heart.  I could feel it in my bones.

Sure, we fly, we speak to spirits, we travel worlds, and we see things very differently than most people walking around today in our daily life.  Yet, the ground is essential.  And we do not take this for granted.  It is the ground itself that allows us to do what we do.

What I describe here may not make sense to most people.  It is one of those divine paradoxes that makes sense only at the heart level.  But once you get-it at the heart, the conceptual space also opens.  This is the ground that opens us, and clears through the...