Both energy healing and shamanic healing generally aim to support the health and well-being of the person by engaging on the subtle energies levels beyond the purely physical level like a medical doctor would.
However, energy healing is focused on how vital energy flows through the body and how that flow can be disrupted and cause issues. So the goal is to balance that flow by channeling healing energy into people to help remove blockages, restore balance, and promote well-being.
The Integrated Energy Therapy® (IET®) modality that Sandra does, however, has a more specific focus, compared to other energy healing modalities like Reiki, that make it more similar to shamanic healing. IET® is focused on helping people remove blockages to expressing their soul's purpose and bring their actions and life into alignment with their soul's purpose - with the support of angels. So this particular energy healing modality is unique since it also works on the level of spirits and souls too like shamanic healing does - just not to the degree of variety and specific interventions and relationships that shamanic healing does.
So again, shamanic healing is more focused on working at the level of spirits and souls, in addition to addressing the level of subtle energies. It is concerned about the relationships we have with our own souls, our (known and unknown) spirit allies, (well and unwell) ancestors, nature and land spirits, (alive or dead) other humans - since shamanism is based on an animist cosmology that believes all things have a spiritual essence and consciousness, not just humans.
That means we are all interconnected and influencing and impacting each other in known and unknown ways that can be harmful, helpful, and/or neutral. Shamanic healing helps to restore the harmony and balance between the human realm and spirit realm. This can sometimes involve energy healing.
In a shamanic healing session, we need to ask our Spirit Allies what is most needed for the person, because they will know best what is happening at the spiritual energy level. They advise a method that is much more targeted, specific purpose than energy healing - more like taking a surgeon's scalpel to the situation versus a deep but general cleanse.
Sandra is trained in:
- Clearing negatively impacting energies and beings like curse unraveling, shamanic extractions, compassionate depossesions, and psychopomp (guiding the dead and other trapped spirits to their afterlife and rightful realms)
- Restoring spiritual wholeness, like soul part retrieval and power animal retrieval
- Divinations with Spirit Allies for guidance and clarity via different methods
- Cultivating mutually supportive relationships with our well ancestral helping spirits and land spirits
However, energy healing often feels more accessible to people since clients are passively receiving the support - similar to a massage. While things are being released, it's done in a very gentle way. It is also more well known to the general public, particular as Reiki.
Shamanic healing can feel harder to engage with for some people, in large part, because it is not well known and is very much misunderstood and misrepresented in our mainstream society.
It also asks for more active participation and openness from the client in terms of them understanding that there is more than the physical realm in the world and it can be negatively impacting them. This can be difficult for many people to wrap their heads around and want to accept. This is understandable given how much colonization, capitalism, and Christianization has torn many people from their indigenous shamanic roots and made the spirit realm seem like just superstition or scary and evil.
However just because that's what we've been taught about it doesn't mean that the spirit realm isn't real. It's still here impacting us for better or for worse. Ignorance of how to skillfully, safely, and respectfully engage with the spirit realm is what causes most of the harm that we're experiencing from it.
So the beauty and power of shamanic healing is also that it can help introduce and deepen your understanding that there is more than the physical realm in our cosmology. We are surrounded by so many loving, supportive spirits, especially our well ancestors and other spirit allies. We could lean on them so much more if we knew how and showed up regularly for our relationship to them. Sandra can help you do this, if you'd like.
Hopefully that brief summary and comparison of energy healing and shamanic healing was helpful! Obviously many things were left out of it. So if you have questions, please feel free to ask Sandra at [email protected].
