Shamanic Training
The training programme is aligned with a regulatory body and accredited by UK Healers. This alignment and accreditation provides confidence to prospective students and clients regarding the quality of education and care they will receive.
The training programme not only address professional healing skills and shamanic practices but also personal growth and well-being. Overall, Shamanic Healers Circle aims to create an environment where continuous improvement, personal growth, and professional healing services go hand in hand.
The Healers Way: Foundational Practices Certificate
Flexible, Standalone Weekends
Join any of our four standalone weekends in any order, and pay as you go—offering the flexibility to fit your schedule.
Hands-On Shamanic Healing
Each weekend provides practical, experiential learning with new shamanic techniques, fostering personal growth and spiritual connection.
Build Your Foundation
Complete all four weekends to gain a solid grounding in shamanic healing, deepening your connection to spirit and the world.
Pathway to Advanced Studies
These weekends also serve as a stepping stone to the Diploma in Shamanic Healing for those seeking further learning.
Details & Cost
Each weekend is £190.00, with a discount of £30.00 when booking two weekends together. This includes teaching sessions and access to an online Q&A after each weekend. Training runs from 9:15 am on Saturday to 5:00 pm on Sunday. Accommodation is not provided, but options include local B&Bs, as well as rooms and camping at Dartington Hall.
Financial support is available with a limited number of scholarship places—please reach out if needed.
Journeying for wellbeing & transformation
March 1 - 2, 2025
Ashprington, Nr. Totnes, Devon
Embark on a transformative journey into the heart of shamanic wisdom and practices. Rooted in ancient traditions, this foundational course offers practical tools and insights to integrate shamanic healing into your daily life, fostering profound personal and spiritual growth.
- Learn Sacred Rituals: Explore rituals, including gratitude practices and ceremonial etiquette, to cultivate mindfulness and respect for the sacred.
- Experience Healing Ceremonies: Participate in a Mexican healing ceremony, fostering well-being and deep transformation.
- Navigate Shamanic Realms: Gain an understanding of the shamanic worlds and practice journeying to receive guidance and healing from spiritual realms.
- Connect with Spirit Guides: Build a sacred relationship with your spirit guide to enrich and support your healing journey.
- Practice Heart-Aware Healing: Develop your intuitive abilities in sacred healing techniques, such as releasing stagnant energies and channelling blessings.
- Foster Safety and Grounding: Learn grounding techniques and energetic safety practices to navigate shamanic work responsibly.
Engage in Community: Participate in group rituals and shared experiences to deepen your understanding and connection.
Healing and energy fields
April 5–6, 2025.
Ashprington, Nr. Totnes, Devon
Through experiential shamanic practices and heart-centered approaches, this course invites you to honour the dynamic interplay of energy and spirit. Join us as we journey together toward empowerment, harmony, and holistic wellness.
- Understand Energy Foundations: Discover the basic structure of the human energy field and its connection to physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
- Refine Energy Awareness: Develop skills to sense, protect, and balance your energy field, enhancing your ability to navigate sensitivity in diverse environments.
- Practice Energy Healing: Participate in guided practices to clear, align, and harmonise your energy field, fostering inner balance and renewal.
- Craft Sacred Spaces: Learn to create heart-centered environments that support spiritual connection, healing intentions, safety and energetic alignment.
- Cultivate Spiritual Connection: Build meaningful relationships with spiritual guides, receiving their wisdom and support throughout your healing journey.
- Foster Safety and Grounding: Practice grounding techniques to stay centred and confident in your energetic work.
- Engage in Community: Participate in group exercises to practice techniques, share insights, and experience the collective power of healing.
Sacred Sound Healing (Harnessing Sacred Tools)
May 3 - 4, 2025.
Ashprington, Nr. Totnes, Devon
Join us as we honour the wisdom of sacred tools and the healing potential of sound, guiding you towards empowerment, spiritual growth, and holistic wellness. This immersive experience will provide you with transformative techniques for healing and personal transformation.
- Explore Sacred Tools: Learn the origins and sacred roles of shamanic tools such as the rattle, drum, stones, and herbs, grounding your practice in respect and understanding.
- Harness the Power of Sound: Use rhythmic vibrations from the rattle and drum to shift energy, release blockages, and access spiritual dimensions for healing and guidance.
- Engage with Sacred Elements: Work with sacred herbs for smudging and purification, and experience the cleansing and protective qualities of water, including Holy water.
- Cultivate Heart-Aware Healing: Refine your ability to sense and channel sacred healing energies through hands-on practices, including:
- Stone healing for grounding and balance.
- Drum healing for restoring harmony.
- Rattle healing for transformation and renewal.
- Integrate and Ground: Practice grounding techniques to stay balanced and learn how to integrate shamanic tools and sound healing into your daily life.
- Connect and Collaborate: Participate in group sound ceremonies, fostering connection and shared insights within a supportive community.
Introduction to plant & animal medicine
June 14-15, 2025.
Ashprington. Nr. Totnes, Devon
This transformative course invites you to honour the sacred interconnection of all life, empowering you with tools, insights, and practices to support healing, growth, and balance for yourself and others.
- Discover Your Animal Teacher: Build a sacred bond with a spirit animal to receive guidance, wisdom, and support on your healing journey.
- Work with Plant Spirits: Explore the healing energy of plant teachers, connecting with both symbolic and local plants for renewal, guidance, and balance.
- Set Energetic Boundaries: Develop skills to maintain clear boundaries with clients and spirit guides, ensuring balance and integrity in your healing work.
- Engage in Heart-Aware Healing: Practice techniques to channel sacred healing energies and foster transformation, including stone, animal, and plant spirit healing.
- Honour Shamanic Traditions: Learn the foundational principles, cultural roots, and ethical considerations of shamanic healing practices.
- Integrate and Reflect: Incorporate the wisdom of spirit guides into daily life through journaling, meditation, and practical exercises.
- Build Community: Participate in group rituals and exercises to deepen your understanding and experience the collective power of healing.
- Stay Grounded: Practice grounding techniques to remain centred and ensure safety while working with spirit energies.
Reviews
Faye Fitness
February 2024
Jim & Lorraine are exceptionally experienced teachers with a wealth of knowledge taught to you in a soft & approachable manner. I felt very safe and welcomed in the Shamanic Healers Circle from the first day that I arrived. I love the fact that you can jump into the course on any of the 4 ‘Foundation Course’ weekends throughout the year, this has really helped with my journey into Shamanic Healing. The classes are full of practical exercises, so you get some fantastic hands-on experience – this has really helped with my confidence. The class is a mix of people from all walks of life, not intimidating, and everyone is super friendly. I would highly recommend this course.
Aleka Powell
June 2023
Jim and Lorraine create a very grounded and nurturing space in which to learn about natural energy medicine, honouring the Shamanic traditions for the modern practitioner who wants to achieve the professional standards required by the CNHC. They have a wealth of knowledge and experience that they share with genuine generosity and wisdom.
Ruby Taman
October 2023
Amazing weekend. Teaching is deep and profound. You get healing and practice. I felt a big change after this weekend. Also increase of my healing practice confidence. I am continuing with every course. Teachers are amazing. Fully recommend it.
Sara-Jane Gauntlett
February 2021
I joined the Shamanic Healers Circle Foundation Course in 2021 and I have attended all four of the weekend workshops. I highly recommend this course which is run by highly experienced and capable teachers who hold deep wisdom and knowledge of Shamanic Healing Practice. It has been such a rich and diverse learning journey with a group of lovely souls. I am really looking forward to progressing on to the Shamanic Healers Circle Diploma Course this year.
Kevin Humphrey
March 2021
I joined the Shamanic training weekend and LOVED meeting Jim and Lorraine, they are both excellent teachers sharing their knowledge, skills, wisdom, drumming, smudging, and so much more, with humour, energy & depth and the days flew by outside of normal time. I learned so much and so excited for further training dates. See you next time. THANK YOU
Diploma in Shamanic Healing
Professional Course
Professional Course 2025 Schedule
The program starts in February and spans across a year. It comprises 4 immersive weekends conducted in person, along with 5 comprehensive online teaching sessions. The Professional Course, enriches the practice of Shamanic Healing by delving deeply into soul retrieval, death and dying, and the requirements of a professional practice. It meets the requirements for aspiring Shamanic Practitioners, covering case studies, anatomy, physiology, and professional healing standards. This year-long program emphasises extensive healing practice and demands full commitment due to its nature and reverence. Completion leads to recognition as a Shamanic Healer Practitioner and a Diploma in Shamanic Healing.
The Professional Course, provides guidance for establishing a professional healing service and meeting accreditation standards. It incorporates diverse methods such as ritual practices, personal power song discovery, remote healing techniques, soul loss understanding, lost soul retrieval, self-care planning, comprehension of the dying process, Psycho pomp ceremony, and the creation of sacred power items. Practical assessments include demonstrating professional healing standards, handling administrative tasks, understanding legal frameworks, and completing case studies with foundational anatomy and physiology knowledge.
Holistic Care and Soul Work
Learning effective techniques for working with clients, including active listening, compassionate communication, and facilitating personal growth and transformation.
- Client-care plan
- Working with clients
- Healer relationships with clients and other healthcare professionals.
- Power imbalance between healer and client
- Equality and diversity – 1
Main focus Soul loss and Soul retrieval healing
Death & Dying
Understanding the shamanic perspective on death and dying, including supporting individuals through the end-of-life process and working with grief and loss.
- Life regrets
- Metaphysical framework
- The power of thought and the importance of intent
Main focus death, grief, protection and psycho pomp healing
Earth-Based Spirituality and Connection
Deepening the relationship with nature, the elements, and the Earth as a source of wisdom and healing.
- Altars
- Self-care
- Basic anatomy and physiology
- Equality and diversity – 2
- Attunement and Songs
Main focus, Ancestral healing and emotional clearing.
Ethics and Boundaries
Understanding the ethical considerations and responsibilities of being a shamanic healer, including issues related to client confidentiality, consent, and maintaining professional boundaries. Honouring and respecting the cultural roots of shamanism and indigenous practices, understanding cultural appropriation, and integrating cross-cultural perspectives in a respectful and responsible manner.
- Setting-up practice
- Advertising
- Continuing Professional Development
- Commercial practice
- Record keeping
- What is data protection?
- Cultural appropriation
- Code of conduct
Main focus, professional boundaries and stepping into practice.
Costs
Professional Course. The course consists of in person training over four weekends and monthly online training and case-study support.
Fee: Deposit £55.00 plus £230 for each weekend.
Accommodation. There are various B&B’s, campsites and Airbnb available in the area.
Cancellation Policy. Cancellations made up to 14 days before a scheduled training will be refunded back to the original payment method minus any administrative/financial fees. Cancellations made 14 days or less before a training will be charged the full amount.
Commitment to accessibility. We are strongly committed to keeping the training accessible to people of diverse backgrounds and variable means. Please see our Scholarship page for details.
Tutors
Lorraine and Jim are both experienced Shamanic Healer Practitioners.
They each have over 20 years training with various teachers from around the world, and they both have their own healing practice.
Lorraine Chamberlain
Jim Brant
Teachings
It has been around 2,000 to 3,000 years since people lived close to the land with an Earth honouring and animistic practice in the UK. We have effectively lost our own heritage and connection to the ancient ways of healing and living close to the land with the other than human peoples. We need to look to those places and cultures around the world that still practice these ways to learn and rekindle our own respectful and heartfelt connection to the land and healing. We acknowledge the harm that has been done and is still being done around the world to native peoples, whose teachings we humbly and respectfully base this training on. Furthermore, we include our own ancestral linages, who probably directly or indirectly were part of this harm.
We are grateful to have received permission to use the healing ceremonies outlined in this course and will always offer them in a sacred and respectful way. We also financially support individual Elders and communities more generally through Survival International charity, as an act of reciprocity.
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact us:
info@shamanichealerscircle.com
Tel: 0782 456 8863
Training F.A.Q.
We strictly limit numbers to ensure everyone receives the best training possible and social distancing is maintained.
Yes, we provide handouts for the Foundation course, they are given out at the course and, a Student handbook for the Professional course.
The weekend training is delivered by Lorraine and Jim, who also provide online Zoom meeting between weekend trainings. Where possible, we have an assistant on the course who can help support individuals. SHC also offering counselling support for its members.
All of our courses are delivered by a team of highly qualified, experienced and specialist trainers. We also have course assistant/s who support the weekend trainings.
The Foundation course weekends are aimed at people interested in shamanic healing who may or may not have any experience. The format is experimental, giving you the opportunity to practice healing in a safe environment. The course assistant/s will also have experience of the training. If you need a helping hand, contact us, and we would be happy to advise you.
Cancellation Policy
Please be advised that cancellations made up to 14 days before a scheduled training will be refunded back to the original payment method minus any administrative/financial fees, e.g. PayPal fees. Cancellations made 14 days or less before a training will be charged the full amount.