Vibrational Healing
Handout, Videos, Recordings
In-Class Videos Shown
After-Class Deepening Practices
Handout, Videos, Recordings
- Main Handout (8 pages, pdf).
- Pre-Class Videos (38 mins.) Password is FfJ7yidf
Just one video this time.
In-Class Videos Shown
- Emotional Wedding Haka Moves Maori Bride to Tears (3 mins.); translated and subtitled version (2 mins.).
- Throat Singing from Different Continents (3 mins), Xhosa of South Africa; Sardinia, Italy; Middle East; Tibet.
- Olena Uutai (5 mins.).
- "Nokon Kano" Ayahuasca Shipibo Icaro (with English translation) | Don Miguel of Aya Healing Retreats (3 mins.) Shipibo/Conibo Songs (Icaros) (2 pages, pdf rough transcript of Nokon Kano).
- Shaking Medicine, Bradford Keeney.
- Power Songs from Around the World (from a prior shamanic movie night) and Songs, Poems, and Quotes.
- Vibrational Healing: Plant Essences (2 pages, pdf).
- Vibrational Healing: Gem Elixirs (2 pages, pdf).
- Polar Bear Shaking Trauma (2 mins.), March 19, 2020.
- Informal "Curses": Uncovering and Unwinding (2 pages, pdf). We'll learn to unwind formal curses in a later class.
After-Class Deepening Practices
- Continue to practice embodying your True Self every day and sing as many of your power songs as you can, especially those that invoke or honor your True Self and your known helping spirits. Add at least one wordless song and explore new songs that employ toning or other "non-singing" sounds.
- Practice vibrational healing on each other. Connect with your assigned partner using Zoom (free for just 2 people) or the phone or other platform. You can journey to get the song and then connect with your partner or do the whole thing together.
--- Kate (202-744-0440) and Sabrina (313-799-3220)
--- Phil (571-419-1808) and Brittani (301-904-3739)
(a) "Power stack"/"power up" by merging with your True Self, refreshing your Body Empowerment and Auric Filter, and connecting or merging with your helping spirit who does healing for others.
(b) Sing to meet up with your helping spirit who does healing work for others. Ask them for a healing song for your client; the song may or may not have words. “I’m asking for a healing song for [partner’s name] to heal [stated purpose of song]. Teach the song to your partner and have them sing it.
(c) Don’t talk, analyze, or explain the song; let your partner just sit with the song. Have them repeat the song over and over till it’s clear that they got it.
- Shamanic Counseling Case Study-The Healing Drum (1 page, pdf), by Isa Gucciardi, Shaman Portal.
- The Sound of the Sun: Throat Singing and Tuvan Shamanism (4 pages, pdf), Nikolay Oorzhak and Vladislav Matrenitsky, Sacred Hoop, # 63, 2009, pp. 20-23.
- Music in Shamanic Healing (8 pages, pdf), Mihali Hoppal, Macht Musik, pp. 141-147.
- Tuvan Shamanic Healing, Ai-Churek Ouin, Foundation for Shamanic Studies.
- How to Write a Shamanic Song (2 pages, pdf).
- How to Learn Throat Singing at Home (4 mins.), Great intro, plus explains the shamanic/nature sounds origins of throat singing. See also Tanya Tagaq's The Sounds of Throat Singing (3 mins.).
- What Is a Haka? (5 mins.)
- Music as Medicine (2 pages, pdf), by Bill Briggs, MSNBC.com, June 1, 2009.
- Brent Baum: Introduction to HMR (36 mins.), HMR integrates body, "energy," and color psychologies.
- "Healing the Heart: A Randomized Pilot Study of a Spiritual Retreat for Depression in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients," Sandra Ingerman, Sara L. Warber, et al. Published in Explore, July/August 2011, Vol 7, No.4. Formal, scientific, randomized study in which Ingerman translated shamanism to conservative Christian heart patients and showed significant healing results.
- Shaking Medicine: Way of the Bushman (podcast, 62 mins.), Hillary and Bradford Keeney on Why Shamanism Now, Aug. 2015. We all have ancestry to the Kalahari Bush people. Pratt says: The teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen or San are the oldest spiritual, shamanic, and healing practices in our world. The San do not believe that “words” can change the world. They give little importance to written words or fixed oral tradition, but emphasize the way n/om (the vital force or spiritual power or shaking medicine) touches us. They discuss the difference between ecstastic "trance" dance and building "heat" where you tremble and cannot speak. Bradford Keeney’s fieldwork with the Kalahari Bushmen (San) in Namibia and Botswana started over two decades ago. Today he is recognized as a Bushman healer or n/om-kxao and is able to participate in and have access to the world’s oldest living religion and healing tradition.