Healing Modalities

Releasing Work: Spirit Release - Psychopomp, Depossession
Part 1: April 17. 18, 19, 2026; 10:00am-5:30pm each day, ONLINE
Part 2 Clinic: April 24, 25, 26, 2026; 10:00am-5:30pm each day, ONLINE or IN PERSON, Takoma Park, MD)
Cost: $125 to $400 per weekend/$250-800 for both (sliding scale)
      Safely restore to their rightful place sentient forms who have died. For those dead who are attached to a living host, Betsy Bergstrom’s profound spirit release ("depossession") approach is unique in the healing afforded to the spirit crossing over. It’s also the most gentle, complete, and effective for the possessed client-host. Some depossession methods are scary; this one is beautiful.

Vibrational Healing
TENTATIVE DATES: Aug. 28, 29, 30, 2026, 10:00am-5:30pm each day
ONLINE or IN PERSON (Takoma Park, MD)
Cost: $125 to $400 per weekend (sliding scale)
       Vibrational healing in shamanism focuses primarily on transmitting shamanic power/healing through singing, dancing, and drumming or other percussion, but it can include working with crystals, colors, elements, and more. We’ll explore the many possibilities of this powerful and essential healing work.

Releasing Work: Energy Blocks, Thoughtforms, Curses, Cords, & Hooks
Part 1: Oct. 23, 24, 25, 2026, 10:00am-5:30pm each day, ONLINE
Part 2, Clinic: Oct. 30, 31, Nov. 1, 10:00am-5:30pm each day, ONLINE or IN PERSON (Takoma Park, MD)
Cost: $125 to $400 per weekend/$250-800 for both (sliding scale)
      Safely release to their rightful place non-sentient forms that do not belong, a.k.a. "extraction": old rage or grief, intrusions, implants, other basic energy blocks. Includes lifting obsessions, hooks, cords, spells, protection issues, and curses, whether personal, ancestral, cultural, or cosmological.

Soul Retrieval & Other Restoring & Reconnecting Work
Part 1: Jan. 29, 30, 31, 2027, 10:00am-5:30pm each day, ONLINE
Part 2 Clinic: Feb. 5, 6, 7, 2027, 10:00am-5:30pm each day, ONLINE or IN PERSON (Takoma Park, MD)
Cost: $125 to $400 per weekend/$250-800 for both (sliding scale)
      Restore what belongs, vital essence and power that has been lost, stolen, or forgotten, hidden, or numbed out. Includes retrieving the client's Helping Spirit and lost Power Objects.

Reconnecting Work: Back to Nature
TBD, 10:00am-5:30pm each day, ONLINE
Cost: $125 to $400 per weekend (sliding scale)
      Most clients suffer from “Nature Deficit Disorder” and are not aware of the many ways their daily lives are statements against nature and part of the larger cultural insanity. We can help them awaken and reconnect to the rest of our Nature kin again. Friday, Sept. 19 is a special outdoor ceremony you can do where you are or with me at a Silver Spring, MD park.


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Prerequisite Webinars
Contact Mary at Shamanic Spring for videos
Practitioner Preparation
(One video)
      Shamanic healing requires the practitioner to be a clear and strong partner to the helping spirits who do the diagnosing and healing. This video gets you started on the path to being that ultimate partner, able to attain non-reactive, empowered states at will.

Introduction to Shamanic Healing, Part 1 – Principles
(4 videos; 1 hour, 45 mins. total viewtime)
      What is the shamanic view of illness and wellness and how is it evolving today? Includes the essential components of shamanic mediumship, ceremonies, and rituals to bring through healing power: working with power objects, tools, containers, the Directions, and land spirits; and working with portals and fields/lands. Includes a brief overview of the administrative aspects of a healing practice, such as recordkeeping, licensing, insurance, and other forms.

Introduction to Shamanic Healing, Part 2– Helping Spirits
(4 videos; 1 hour, 41 mins. total viewtime)
     Covers beginning, intermediate, and advanced aspects of helping spirits and other allies so you can master the art of calling up and merging with helping spirits.

Introduction to Shamanic Healing, Part 3 – Cosmology & Ethics
(2 videos; 40 mins. total viewtime)
     Boundary and many ethical issues arise in a healing practice. Cosmology affects ethics and many aspects. Important differences exist between classical shamanism and New Age, neo-shamanism, major contemporary world religions, and even atheism. In what ways are our own cosmologies and religious beliefs aligned with classical shamanic worldviews? Do they diverge in important ways?

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About Your Teacher, Mary "Tyrtle" Rooker

• is a member of Betsy Bergstrom's Compassionate Depossession Teachers Alliance,
  
• has studied with world-renowned shamans and healers, and
• is a licensed minister with the Circle of the Sacred Earth.

See full details about her training and credentials.

To learn more about shamanism, see Resources.

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