Classes
2025 Workshops - June - July
More will be added throughout the year - look further ahead on the Calendar.
Beginning Shamanism:
Trance-Connection and Spirit-Guide Training
Weekend Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, June 21 & 22, 2025
10 am to 5:30 pm both days.
Held at a private location in the Denver-metro area.
When we grow and strengthen our inner resources, our potential to effect change expands. One of the great beauties of shamanism is that by nature it exists in community, both within ourselves and as we come together in learning groups.
Let's grow that.
How can we better embrace life with heart and spirit? We each have a personal direct-line to Spirit, but may need some help to reawaken it. Shamanism - the trained spiritual practices of Animism - is still here, and it still works. If it’s ready to reawaken within you, please read on.
This workshop covers the initial steps of a path with ancient roots and wide contemporary applications. Throughout many cultures and by many names — Medicine-work, Seidr, and Shamanism are just a few — variations on such work are known and used around the world. Each version is unique to its own people, place and particulars, but all have the common factor of Spirit, which is our focus.
You’ll discover the connections with your own Guides, and learn how to move into Their space, communicate with Them, and then return to our here-and-now so you can put Their wisdom to use.
This intensive 2-day workshop covers a wide range of key practices, including
— Creating ceremony and sacred space;
— Using sound- and intention-based journey practices, with drums and rattles;
— Meeting your spiritual guides and allies;
— Journeying to the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds;
— Building good alliance with your spiritual guides and helpers;
— Exploring Spirit-directed divination;
— Connecting with your personal ancestral roots to help work more deeply;
— Working in connection with others: the first steps towards Spirit-directed healing work;
— Learning ethics and protocols of these practices, and exploring their traditional uses in healing.
Building strong alliances with our own healing and helping Spirits helps bring in guidance, connection, and enhanced well-being.
For some, this training will be complete in itself as a personal path, but the workshop also serves as a prerequisite for more advanced practices into Spirit-allied modes of healing — Soul Retrieval, Shamanic Extraction of Misplaced Energies, Shamanic Death and Dying Practices, and more — that are used for healing work with individuals and communities.
We work in a small-group setting, so every participant can receive plenty of personalized attention.
Self-selected sliding scale fee: $125 to $225. Please refer to my F.A.Q. pages for information on Sliding Scale pricing. Click here to pay a $95 deposit via PayPal. If you prefer Venmo, my address there is @renna.shesso or scan the Venmo QR below, and be sure to contact me by email so I can send you all the details. The deposit counts towards the overall fee and reserves your place; the remaining money is due the first morning of the workshop. Contact me for other payment options. If you have questions, please email me so we can talk before you register. This class' minimum fee - $125 - matches what I paid for the Beginning workshop in 1989.
Instructor Renna Shesso: Since learning the practices called “core shamanism” in the late 1980s, I've been melding that direct-spirit information with my own practices of the Craft. My primary teacher throughout the years has been Sandra Ingerman, though I find many of the most profound lessons come from the Guides that I’ve encountered within the journey. I’ve been teaching this workshop since 2005.
What is Shamanism?
Wednesday, July 9, 5:30 pm. FREE.
SpiritWays, 3301 E. Colfax, Denver CO
Shamanism works with the spiritual aspects of Animism, not just knowing that Spirit exists in all things, but actively engaging and creating alliances with the helping beings we meet there, in "non-ordinary reality." In this introduction, I'll speak about Shamanism and some of the beliefs, purposes and processes that can be involved. There will likely be drumming and rattling, and definitely time for questions.
This in-person "mini class" is part of SpiritWays' on-going free intro series on all kinds of spiritual topics. Very casual and concise (about 30 minutes), plus time for Q&A. Please join us!
Shamanic Extraction of Misplaced Energies
- Training for Healers
Saturday & Sunday, July 12 & 13, 2025
10 am to 5:30 pm both days.
Held at a private location in the Denver-metro area.
In shamanic extraction, we work with our spirit-plane allies to locate and remove misplaced energies that are causing trouble for the client. Done well, you “liberate” these invasive, stuck energies out of the client, and help them go where they need to go. Done not-so-well, you risk taking those misplaced energies into yourself. Hence, careful training.
We’ll cover:
- Finding, and then working in good partnership with, your specific spiritual ally for extraction.
- Comparative shamanic extraction practices and beliefs in various traditions
- How to safely handle the energies you help release.
- Good client-care in shamanic healing practices
- Keeping yourself safe and clear when working with spiritual intrusions.
Good journeying abilities are a prerequisite for this training, as is a class in Beginning Shamanism (or some thorough equivalent).
Self-selected sliding scale fee: $175 - $275. Click here to use PayPal to pay the $95 deposit. Or scan the Venmo code below (and PLEASE send me your email address, so I can send you the pre-workshop information). The deposit counts towards the overall fee and reserves your place; the remaining money is due the first morning of the workshop. Contact me for other payment options. Please refer to my F.A.Q. pages for information on Sliding Scale pricing. If you have questions, please email me so we can clarify before you register.
I was trained in Shamanic Extraction by Sandra Ingerman, initially in 1992, with refresher work since then, followed by years of direct practical use with clients, which is on-going.
* This class meets the required prerequisite for Sandra Ingerman’s Two-Year Teacher Training.
Quintessential Tarot - a 5-session series will return!
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