The main qualificiation for doing healing or teaching or leading ceremonies in our modern world, in my opinion, is not the long individual apprenticeship to a teacher that is traditional - we just don't have that. Rather, it is coming into a deep relationship with yourself, often being dismembered along the way, learning to listen to yourself in a new way, and carrying your mess alongside you, being friends with it: the mess keeps your feet on the ground and keeps you learning and keeps you the same as everyone else. It'll always be there.
When we've done that - or rather, made sufficient headway with that - the rest is fairly straightforward to learn. Of course, it helps to have a teacher, but if you haven't, many things can even be learned out of books, if that is all you have, whether it is journeying or sweatlodges or pipe ceremonies or medicine wheel or whatever. The Spirits, or your Spirit, will help you.
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I
offer Shamanic consultations, usually by skype, in which we can talk
over anything you want to talk over. I may use the Medicine Wheel,
Journeying, Astrology, Tarot or anything that works. And it centres
around listening to ourselves in a deep way. I work on a donation basis,
and I am happy with whatever is easy for you: I love this work.
Contact: BWGoddard1@aol.co.uk
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What matters is the wisdom and the listening: if you can listen deeply to yourself, then you can listen deeply to other people, and you are of use to them, whatever it is you are leading or teaching. If you haven't been through that often long initiation into who you are, then you aren't any use to anyone and you need to wait, even if you have got the certificates, which can be quite easy to get hold of.
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