Offerings


The International School of Shamanism™ offers the following programs:

Ongoing Shamanic Healing Circles

World Wide Shamanic Workshops:

  • Mesa Carrier Program
  • Women’s & Men’s Circles
  • Couples' Workshops     
  • Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice
  • Shamanic Apprenticeship
  • Boyhood to Manhood
  • Girlhood to Womanhood
Shamanic Consultations:
  • Private Sessions
  • Couples’ Sessions
  • Personal Intensives
Rituals & Ceremonies:
  • Rites of Passage
  • Marriages, Commitment Ceremonies
  • Sacred Journeys
Advanced Shamanic Workshops:
  • Shamanic Healing
  • Dance Between The Dark and Light (Shadow Work)
  • Sexuality and Spirituality
  • Past Life Regression
  • People of Power

If you would like to learn more about our workshops or sponsor a workshop series in your area please contact us .

Shamanic Healing Circles

Shamanic Healing Circles gather twice monthly. We explore ancient, time-tested healing ceremonies and techniques to access and energize the healing element forces in our lives.
 
Our Shamanic Healing Circle is designed for individuals who are curious about shamanic healing, as well as those seeking a place to come together as a community to support each other on our spiritual path. Following the models from our ancient cultures, we use drumming, singing, talking circles, group healing, and various non-denominational prayer practices for growth and healing. The space created is quite powerful, peaceful, rejuvenating, and encouraging. Spirit is at the heart of all. This is a time to heal and be healed, a time to feel, a time to be loved and accepted, and a time to express whatever is in our hearts. Some self-disclosure is implied and members of the group agree to maintain these revelations in confidence. Together, as a community, we have an opportunity to learn, grow, heal, and experience personal transformation and help each other on our journey. If you have drums, rattles, or wind instruments feel free to bring them with you to the circle. Otherwise, just bring yourself. Participants should wear loose, comfortable clothing. We will be sitting on the floor, so a cushion or a blanket may be helpful. Participants are requested to bring an object of personal significance to place on our altar during the circle as a self representation.

Where and When:

3783 Presidential Parkway, Suite 142C, Atlanta, Georgia USA 30340,near Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  

First Saturday of each month:  10:00am – 12:00pm
Third Wednesday of each month:  7:00pm – 9:00pm

Cost:
$20.00 suggested donation 


 

Worldwide Spiritual Workshops 

Mesa Carrier Program – Two Year Program

What is a Mesa Carrier?
A Mesa Carrier embodies love and acceptance and is one who develops a personal and intimate relationship with the unseen world for the purpose of being of service as a healer. This relationship is cultivated experientially through self-induced, altered states of consciousness, ritual ceremonies, refined energetic work, and awareness.

Shamanism is not a religion. It is a spiritual practice, grounded in reverent awareness that the universe is animated, conscious, and energetically interdependent.

Guiding Principles of a Shamanic Mesa Carrier:

  • Everything the Mesa Carrier does has to be based on love and acceptance; first of one’s self and then of each other.
  • Everything is alive. Everything manifests a physical form from the same essence. The Mesa Carrier learns to attend this knowledge. 
  • Everything is conscious and watches us. The world is mirrored within us. The Mesa Carrier learns to be a visionary observer.
  • Everything is interconnected. Everything responds to and is in an interdependent relationship to everything else.
  • The Mesa Carrier can be a mediator of these interconnections.
  • Everything transforms. Matter is the dense form of Spirit. Spirit is the subtle form of matter.
  • Everything is in vibrational flux.  Mesa Carriers can be agents of change.
  • Everything responds to focused intention. Proper intention, purification, protection, and grounding of motive are indispensable for all heartfelt shamanic practice. The Mesa Carrier must know him or herself in order to help others. A hollow bone must know they are a hollow bone and how to stay hollow.
  • The Mesa Carrier’s task is to come into a right relationship and a reverent communion with the seen and unseen world, so as to mediate between worlds on behalf of themselves and others; they use themselves as hollow bones to channel energy, or they may just use this space for their own spiritual practice.

To find out when our next Mesa Carrier Program begins, contact The International School of Shamanism™.


Women's Circle
The power of women gathering to nurture, confront, and support themselves is a unique healing experience, both individually and socially.

Only in the presence of other women, can a woman           realize her true feminine self.

For More Information:  Please contact
Lisa. This allows us to assess the appropriateness of the group for each woman and will clarify goals for participation.  This group is open to all females 18 years or older, regardless of religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.

Men's Circle 
The power of men gathering to nurture, confront, and support themselves is a unique healing experience, both individually and socially.

Only in the presence of other men, can a man                    realize his true masculine self.

For More Information: Please contact Tom.
This group is open to all males 21 years or older, regardless of religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.


               Blending our Light and Dark Sides:                 Conquering our Shadow Self


“The only devils in the world are those running  around in our hearts. That is where the battle must be fought."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
 

This workshop is an exciting and experiential journey into that which you are becoming and explores the obstacles we create that interfere with us taking responsibility for our self by blaming others for our faults or failures.

Do you want to become more at one with yourself through exercising unconditional love and acceptance?
 
Do you want to learn how to integrate the dark and light sides of yourself in a powerful and honest way without the manipulation of blame or guilt?
 
Do you want to learn how to balance and focus your dark and light sides creatively thus becoming a reflected light for all who cross your path?
 
The blending of our light and dark sides is an amazing experience that frees you to be all you can be in body, mind and spirit. In this workshop you will:
  • Learn to accept your dark and light sides as friends.
  • Experience a powerful journey of personal change and transformation.
  • Contact your dark side in the deepest of honesty without fear.
  • Embrace the power that a wider vision of your self allows. 
  • Learn to live in greater harmony with yourself and others.
  • Learn more about the joy in your own heart. 
We avoid the things of our dark side that we are afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. Actually, the only dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things of our dark side that we need to discover and learn about.
 
We must go into our dark side in order to bring forth our light. When we suppress our feeling and impulses, we are also suppressing its polar opposite. If we deny our ugliness, we lessen our beauty. If we deny our fear, we minimize our courage. If we deny our greed, we also reduce our generosity. Our full magnitude is more than most of us can ever imagine!
 
This workshop examines the process of projection whereby we attribute, from our dark side, our sense of inferiority to others. The Shamans will demonstrate concrete ways we can own the qualities of our dark side and then use them in a healthy way towards pursuit of wholeness. They will explain why we keep meeting the same people and situations that push our buttons over and over again. Best of all, they will challenge you to accept your God-given gifts which make you special instead of giving these gifts away by attributing them to others through your dark side. This incisive and energizing workshop will give you the tools to help you reframe your dark side and approach the best that is in you if you are willing to stay open.  Please contact The International School of Shamanism™  for more information on this workshop.

Couples Shamanic Tantra Sex Workshop:
Does Your Committed Relationship Need Help?
Relationships afford us the greatest possibilities for deep growth, both individually and as a couple. We choose each other for positive and so-called negative reasons. Both are growth producing. Our significant other holds the mirror to our face and shows us who we are, in more profound ways than we could see ourselves. This makes us uncomfortable, and sometimes angry, and resistant to moving through to our next learning. Open to all couples. Do you want to deepen your intimacy with your mate? Is your relationship in crisis? Have you lost the romantic spark? Do you blame the other person for your discomfort?

Learn to explore your inner child and play with your mate!

  • Break down barriers to your sexual communication
  • Learn ways to be more intimate
  • Confront what holds you back
  • Explore sexual blocks
  • Explore your adult selves
  • Find the beauty in your similarities and your differences
  • Explore your spiritual selves and connect lightly with each other

Learn and practice to break down your barriers to your mate's world. Share your sheet of music with each other so you can sing together. Please contact The International School of Shamanism™  for more information on this workshop.

We offer a variety of Shamanic Workshops.  For more information  please contact The International School of Shamanism™.


Consultations: 

Shamanism can help you realize your Spiritual Potential

Private Sessions and Couples Sessions:
The process
Tom Lake uses is a bridge between psychology and spirituality. Tom is devoted to assisting people in integrating body, mind, and spirit, becoming truly alive, conscious, and responsible, functioning with creative grace, and developing the capacity to love, accept and heal. To this end, Tom utilizes over 37 years of experience and training in a variety of healing modalities, Shamanism, one-on-one counseling, subtle energy work, philosophy,and theology, among others.

Price per 45 min. session: $120.00  (Discounted rate for Students of the International School of Shamanism participating in the Mesa Carrier Program: $75.00)          

Personal Intensive Session

Using Shamanic Practice to help you begin to realize your Spiritual Potential.
In a Personal Intensive Session, we take ample time to focus on you and your process without feeling rushed. In a several hours to many days period, personalized, individual, energetic work will assist you in your evolution toward your healing and to opening more deeply to your heart's truth and your spirit's longings. Together, we create a plan that best suits your spiritual, personal and emotional needs.

During your personal intensive, you are guided in working on all three levels of human existence, Body, Mind and Spirit:

You are guided in opening your heart and speaking your truth; expressing your painful emotions and the negativities of your dark side; exploring your images and false conclusions, and most importantly guiding you to the healing path of loving and accepting yourself just as you are in this moment as you walk your path.

Intensives are particularly geared for people who need and desire more time than a single session. 
People create Intensives for various reasons. For example, when you:

  • are dealing with a life crisis such as divorce or illness;
  • cannot feel unconditional love and acceptance; 
  • have hit a wall in therapy and need a new approach;
  • want to go deeper into your spiritual process;
  • are battling your negative self;
  • live at a distance where it is difficult to travel to weekly sessions;
  • are in a spiritual crisis;
  • do not have an appropriate Shaman nearby to guide you; 
Therapeutic Energy Work
 Lisa Lake, An Anointed Shaman with a background as a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, offers a blend of healing services drawing from her spiritual training and her background in bodywork and energy work.  Your session is tailored according your needs to help you relax, rejuvenate and heal in body, mind and spirit.     
 
Cost per 60 minute session is $75 or $100 for a 90 minute session. 
For more information contact lisa@shamanic-path.com

 

Sacred Reciprocity:  Today for You; Tomorrow for Me;


 

 
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