Sandra Ingerman, MA
Embark on guided shamanic journeys to release blocks to your transformation and cultivate the strength of your light and spirit... to carry you through life’s challenges.
Darkness might be front and center in your life right now — or bubbling beneath the surface in your subconscious, informing your thoughts and feelings, whether or not you’re aware of it.
Without a doubt, this moment in history is a Dark Night of the Soul, and many are facing profound pain, deep wounds, and lingering uncertainty...
ThereIS hope, though, because darkness can also bring change. You CAN make the decision to traverse the darkness of these times and release blocks that no longer serve you… so you can shed your false identity and answer the call of your soul.
To ensure meaningful and lasting change, shamanism asks you to go on a quest to find your true inner strength.
Yet, you don’t need to walk this unfamiliar path alone.
In this 9-step spiritual quest from renowned shamanism teacher Sandra Ingerman, you’ll have expert guidance at your side as you learn to walk with courage into the transformation that awaits you.
Sandra's course welcomes you into this loving circle of shamanic seekers — your safe haven for rest and reconnection — as you embark on the deep, healing, regenerating work you must experience before your true identity, power, strength, inner light, and capacity to love can finally emerge...
Yes, this work is absolutely intense — and also so beautiful and rewarding. If you’re willing to immerse yourself in the darkness and surrender to it, you’ll emerge in a state of glory, love, and light that most people on earth will never experience.
You’ll discover the growth and transformation that await you as you face life’s darkness — the initiation that shamanic cultures understand as the only path into the light.
Shadow states, anger, fear, and old wounds live within all of us. Sandra's course guides you to immerse yourself in the personal and spiritual work that helps you change the unhealthy habits that impact how you move through the world…
Her course guides you to stoke the fire of your intuition, learn to fully love yourself, be embraced by the comfort of your soul — and be carried through to the light by your spirit.
For the only way out is through.
With enough devotion to your daily spiritual practices and the guidance of a skilled shamanic teacher like Sandra, you can heal from your past and transform your state of consciousness — as you learn to treat yourself, and all of life, with kindness, honor, and respect.
The powerful combination of your personal spiritual work and shamanic ceremonies can transform you into a more evolved person — you’ll feel calm yet fully empowered as you ride the waves of unprecedented change.
The ultimate goal of this quest is to awaken your inner wisdom, strength, and power so you no longer feel the need to turn to others for the truth — because you are now your own wisdom keeper.
Welcome a Legendary Shamanic Teacher as Your Mentor
Sandra, a world-renowned teacher of shamanism of nearly 40 years, experienced her own painful portal of initiation into shamanism at the age of seven when she was struck by lightning. A trusted priest told her that because she had no elders to follow and connect with, she’d been called too early.
Since then, her life has been one initiation after another, plunging her into one dark night after another.
As a result, she’s learned firsthand how the Dark Night of the Soul is THE portal to reaching a new dimension of life and experiencing the unconditional love and illuminating light most people will never find.
With her course, you’ll travel through very intense times to release all the layers that are stopping you from moving through the portal into new ways of being — and make way for the healing flow of life-force energy to create and sustain change.
As her course leads you to move through your own Dark Night of the Soul, you'll be guided to explore heart-opening inquiries to discern who you should stay away from, the shamanic tools that serve you best, and much more.
You’ll travel through a portal into another dimension of life, where you’ll experience beauty and joy, along with a true connection with yourself, your fellow seekers, and all of nature.
By the end of the course, your shamanic community will welcome you home into a new state of consciousness — an essential act for you to complete your initiation.
In each module, Sandra shares inspirational wisdom to help you move forward. You’ll explore the powerful truths that fear is an illusion, and that your spirit has the strength to carry you through everything you’ll ever face.
As you continue your work with transfiguration and transmutation, you’ll be fed with light and love that strengthens your spirit. Each session closes with a ceremony to honor any challenging events you’re experiencing on the planet — and to honor those beings who have died.
Sandra merges with her own guide, Isis, to provide encouragement and share invaluable information straight from the spirit world throughout many of the sessions.
No matter what you’re going through right now, Sandra's course and your shamanic community will help you feed your Shaman’s Light. As you grow and evolve, you’ll discover that the only way out of your Dark Night of the Soul is through it. On the other side of the pain, you’ll step into the light.
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- A wealth of tools to help you feel centered and strong in the midst of life’s darkest initiations
- Ways to allow your inner spiritual light to create what Sandra calls a protective bubble around you
- What to do when none of your allies respond to your calls for help — causing you to lose faith in God and feel certain you’re doing something wrong
- Omens that appear in nature to signal how much you’re loved by life itself
- Why simple practices like leaving flowers on the earth create more healing than you know
- How to process life’s toughest questions — even when nothing seems to makes sense
- How to stay consistent with your spiritual practices as you hold space to reveal a more comforting side of life
- Why Sandra has noticed many seekers using the word “I” and “me” far too often — and why we’re all merely shamanic vessels for helping spirits
- What the universe wants to share with you — and what you wish to share with the universe
- Methods for determining who your allies truly are — from friends to helping spirits, angels to religious figures, ancestors to nature beings, members of your new shamanic community, and more
- Ceremonies to help you connect with the Creator or creative forces
- How to fully experience the love, power, and light inside of you — and explore proof that you’re an aspect of your Creator, always held in unconditional love no matter what you’re going through
What You’ll Discover in These 9 Modules
In this transformational intensive, Sandra guides you to master journeys and practices for transformation as you face this personal and collective initiation.
The Beauty of On-Demand
This course features teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices from Sandra. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to release blocks to your transformation and cultivate the strength of your light and spirit. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Module 1 Designing Ceremonies to Create Harmony & Honor Transitions
In the practice of shamanism, performing ceremonies is the vehicle for positive change — and bringing through much-needed healing energies.
In this opening module, you’ll explore ceremonies that have been used since the beginning of time to ensure a balanced life in shamanic communities — including ceremonies to create harmony and honor transitions...
These ceremonies can be simple and brief or stretch into days and weeks. They always required 100% of concentration to be successful.
As you’ll discover, shamanic ceremonies change with the needs of our times. Even today, shamans are changing their chants and their work to keep current with the individual problems of their communities and the times.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The many ways shamanic ceremonies can bring healing, result in answered prayers — and create strong relationships with the divine and nature
- The powerful truth that no one is trying to control you during shamanic ceremonies
- How to open a door and veil between realms to create a strong connection between you, the Creator, and your helping spirits
- The objects and materials you’ll need to collect for YOUR ceremonial work
- How to set the appropriate intention and call upon your allies for support
- The difference between the vibration of a blessing and a decree
- Sandra’s guided grounding practices
Module 2 Performing Ceremonies in the Seen & Unseen Realms
During your nine modules spent walking the shamanic path of the Dark Night of the Soul you will face obstacles. In fact, they’ve been put in your way to force you to grow...
Along the way you’ll find spiritual tools to help you overcome not only your obstacles — but your fear, anger, grief, and feelings of hopelessness.
In this module, Sandra shares how to make your ego smaller while making your spirit stronger.
As you’ll discover, your greatest tool will be performing ceremonies to change your flow and place you in the right direction to move forward.
You'll be guided to design a simple ceremony that’s perfect for your surroundings — whether you perform your spiritual work in a small city apartment, a park, or a gorgeous location in nature.
In times of uncertainty we tend to worry, which puts us in the past or future, while ignoring the present. This course will keep you in present time where a different future than we see now can be created.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How to perform ceremonies in non-ordinary reality so you can deeply feel the process and practice
- Ways to locate the space in your body where your former hurts lived and fill it with beauty and light — and grab onto a positive thought instead of a negative one
- Techniques to draw on powerful energies to help you heal, release old traumas and hurts that are keeping you stuck — so you can meet the light of your soul
- Let go of the layers of your old self as you learn ceremonies to perform around grief
- How the elements can be used as allies in your ceremonies
- Sandra’s ceremonies for releasing old pain, asking for answered prayers, and breaking unhealthy relationships
- How to fully execute a ceremony with a defined beginning, middle and end
Module 3 Finding Your Inner Radar & Relying on Your Inner Strength
As you land in the Dark Night of the Soul’s unfamiliar territory, it can feel like you’re walking in the dark — with no light, no compass, no supplies, and no sense of direction...
And so in this module, you'll be guided on a journey to engage your own inner compass — your intuition, the strength of your spirit, and the wisdom of your soul.
This journey is a spiritual quest to release layers of old pains and hurts — as you also release the hard shell that cloaks your true internal beauty, strength, and light.
As you deepen into this spiritual quest for your divine light, you'll be urged to have a friend, loved one, nature being, or fellow community member praying for you daily — and keep a fire burning outside (or a candle inside) in your honor...
Whether or not you get someone to pray for you, Sandra and Isis will keep a candle burning for you every day of the course as they pray for you.
Sandra also encourages you to find a favorite tree to energetically watch over you — and become part of the community that welcomes you home.
In this module, you’ll learn:
- How to begin your journey with a call for help — as you experience a desperate state on your search for help and a safe haven
- Methods for determining who your allies truly are — from friends to helping spirits, angels to religious figures, ancestors to nature beings, members of your new shamanic community, and more
- A ceremony at your altar space to begin releasing any feelings of disempowerment — and tools to support you in times of hopelessness
- A guided journey to ignite your inner radar when the healing “help” you meet turns out to be a trickster
- How to perform a ceremony to begin to release limiting states of consciousness — because you can carry more inner wisdom and strength than you know
Module 4 Journeying to Forgive Atrocities
In this module, you'll be guided to look through spirit eyes to examine your behavior, acts, and deeds in past lives — this life and possible future lives.
You’ll gain a whole new perspective as you heal your actions, ask forgiveness of those you harmed, and forgive yourself in the past, present, and future...
As you’ll find out, you can even travel back into your past lives and ask for forgiveness and forgive yourself.
During this module, you’ll also spend time connecting with a helping spirit, looking out of their eyes to gain a new perspective.
You’ll discover that there was a reason for your behavior and the consequences.... It was all an opportunity for profound growth.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How your past, present, and future behaviors impact your journey through life
- A completely new view of the WHY behind your behaviors — by observing them through the eyes of spirit
- How to ask forgiveness for your actions
- Ways to rewrite your past, present, and future
- Techniques for taking notes after your journeys, with soothing music to help you stay centered and focused
Module 5 Exploring the Marriage of Life Force & Heart
Throughout the journey of the dark night of the soul, you’ll experience a constant dance between fight, surrender, and acceptance.
In this module, you'll be encouraged to examine which of these best describes where you are right now. Which quality do you need to embrace more — fight, surrender, or acceptance (of the ego, not of spirit)?
You’ll learn so much about your own strength when you tap into your primal life force — and learn to connect it with heart — to manifest what you once thought was impossible.
You'll be guided to perform a journey to meet your life force.
You’ll journey into the eye of a storm to learn to get out of turbulent energies — and enter into a calm space while the storm moves around you.
During your time in the dark night of the soul, you’ll find yourself calling to nature and reaching out for comfort...
You’ll soon learn that nature is calling... and reaching to connect with you.
In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Reflect on the energies of fight, surrender, and acceptance to experience the power of all of them — and immerse yourself in one of these states for healing
- Find your own flow and pace — and explore how to create a field of energy where life and work are no longer a struggle
- Meet your primal life force and learn about its power
- Combine working with your life force with your inner heart space, to hold a key to creation
- Experience the full state of calm you can achieve as you journey into the eye of a storm
- Experience a sun/moon healing at the very end of the module
Module 6 Journeying to Discover Gaia's Personal Message for You
As your journey continues, you’ll find yourself feeling more empowered by your internal intuition and spirit.
In this module, you’ll explore how your ego still shows up, moving into levels of anger, fear, judgement and blame. As Sandra shares, egos are highly skilled at projecting blame...
In reality, we’re all connected — and our lessons include looking within to work through the dark states of consciousness.
When walking through the darkness, you can’t see out, only within.
As you continue your deep inner work, you’ll travel beyond the ego to a sense of oneness, eternity, and light.
As Sandra explains, you must continue to work through — or drop — certain limitations in your consciousness as your ego fights to maintain a state of separation...
During this session, you’ll bring this issue to GAIA herself. She’s 4.6 billion years old, she loves us, and sustains us — and you'll be guided to ask Gaia’s permission to step into her field of energy to absorb her wisdom and message.
You’ll also explore how every state of consciousness forms its own field of energy. You’ll discover how to step in and out of fields of energy — of illness, trauma, and pain — as you build a new healthy field of energy to step into.
In this module, you’ll also explore:
- How to work with a stone versus a crystal — and techniques to scatter flowers or sacred herbs infused with love
- Ways to own your internal states without blaming others
- How to let go of additional layers of hurt that are leading you to blame others
- Techniques to go deeper into the work of energy fields — to explore what they are, how they impact your health, and how you can leave an unhealthy field of energy behind.
- Ways to step into, or build, a healthy field of energy so you’re always surrounded with a radiant energy
- A ceremony to transmit healing energies in seed crystals and bury in the Earth — you’ll scatter objects of beauty all over the land you love, filling it with beauty, expressing love, and having it returned
Module 7 Finding Your Rhythm & Pace
In this powerful module, you’ll journey to the river of life to...
take a break in nature, find your center and your inherent flow and pace.
You'll be guided to find what you’re grateful for.
You’ll also explore how creation and flow are connected — this includes creating abundance of the best things life has to offer.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How you disconnect from your body, mind, and spirit when you follow the flow and pace of others
- How following your own flow and pace puts you in harmony and flow with universal energies — and open the door to manifesting the goodness of life
- An opportunity to dance, sing, drum at your own pace to get in touch withyour rhythm
- A chance to share an experience or ask a question of Sandra
- A transformative sun/moon healing
Module 8 Accepting Life, Death & Impermanence
As you walk the Dark Night of the Soul towards the light of the shaman, you’ll feel the powerful truth that everything in life is constantly changing.
All life on this Earth is impermanent...
The sun rises each day, and sets each night. The seasons dance into one phase and flow into another. The moon brings a power to us each month and then fades into the darkness.
In this module you’ll discover how part of learning to live in the light of the shaman is to flow with change instead of resisting it. Any life form that stops growing, dies.
You'll be guided on a journey to merge with a seed — following it through its entire life flow, from birth, growth, and death.
Particularly if you came to this journey with a lot of releasing and healing work ahead of you, you can become emotionally exhausted. This module helps you focus on self-care as you find ways to rest and regenerate, like a plant that needs rest and sun...
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How to build on what you learned in the last mdoule — as you find your own inherent flow, the key to living from your heart and light
- Ways to experience the natural cycles of birth, growth, and death
- The true meaning of emotional exhaustion — and tools to help you recover
- A journey and ceremony to rest and connect with the primal sea
- The healing power of drawing symbols of love for the seas around the world
- How to journey into the void of zero space to find a place of pure stillness to rest in
Module 9 Arriving Home to the Light of the Shaman
In this final module, Isis and Sandra lead you and your shamanic community in this last phase of your journey — as you’re welcomed back home to stand in your own Shaman’s Light.
At this point in your journey, you will have gone through obstacles, awakened your inner radar — and discovered the strength of your light and spirit that carries you through all of life’s challenges...
You now have the tools, inner strength, and deep knowing to respond in every one of them from a place of power and wholeness.
In this module, you’ll be birthed into your Shaman’s Light by journeying through a portal...
You’ll arrive in the presence of light, the highest evolutionary state of a shaman. You now have the light of the Creator to transmit.
Come prepared to be warmly welcomed back home by your community as a changed being, and embraced by your allies who’ve been silently cheering you on.
You'll then be guided through a powerful ceremony at the altar to bring your work together to a close...
In this module, you’ll:
- Prepare to visit your new lifelong friend, the tree you asked to pray for you — you’ll share your journey, allow it to ground you, and remember you have the tools to get through any challenge
- Greet your friends and loved ones who have survived a big initiation experience a new way
- Deepen your expertise with the tools and skills you’ve been gathering so they become part of who you are as you walk through the world with new eyes and a deeper sense of compassion
- Become more deeply grounded in your homeland and in yourself
- Be equipped to use your intuition, trust the strength of your spirit, shine your light, and stick to your own flow and pace
- Journey through the portal, forever leaving behind the territory of the dark night of the soul
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Sandra’s transformative 9-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Teaching Package: Experiencing the Shamanic Journey
4-Part Package From Sandra Ingerman
This collection features everything you’ll need to begin your own journey practice — including a full audio lecture on shamanic journeying and an extensive guide that answers every shamanic journeying question from Sandra’s 40 years of teaching. You’ll also receive three journey tracks to the Lower World, Middle World, and Upper World, along with a downloadable digital postcard with journeying instructions.
Transfiguration
Audio Teaching From Sandra Ingerman and Karen Furr
In this program Sandra will share the history of her work with transfiguration. It is the key practice of her Medicine for the Earth work to work with spiritual light for healing. Then a brilliant shamanic teacher Karen Furr will lead a beautiful transfiguration ceremony.
A shamanic teacher and practitioner, Reiki instructor, ordained pries,t and Former Franciscan sister, Karen Furr holds a Masters degree in Social Work and has devoted much of her life to working on issues of economic poverty, abuse, addiction, homelessness and trauma — all from a perspective of balancing essential power.
Sandra Talks With New Shamanic Teacher From a Younger Generation
Video Dialogue With Sandra Ingerman and Garret Jackson
Garret Jackson is the youngest person to train with Sandra on how to teach shamanism. Sandra asks Garrett what brought him to the path of shamanism at a young age.
Garrett shares:
- Ways younger generations can apply shamanic principles and practices to their lives to cultivate greater health, wellbeing, and personal empowerment
- How members of our younger generations can find the right teachers for themselves.
- The fact that the voices, gifts, and shamanic callings of the younger generations are valid and important, no matter their ages
Essentially, the purpose of this talk is to empower younger generations to step more fully into their shamanic work and practices in order to benefit themselves and all of life.
Garrett Jackson is a shamanic teacher and practitioner. He is passionate about helping people to raise their consciousness and form their own connections with the spiritual realms in order to bring guidance and healing to themselves and others. He is part of Sandra Ingerman’s global alliance of shamanic and for Medicine for the Earth teachers.
The Practice of Conscious Co-Creation
Video Dialogue With Sandra Ingerman and Alida Birch
Shamanism really is a way of life and in this interview, Sandra and Alida focus on what we can do to open ourselves to working with the spirits to take back our personal power and create a world that is nourishing and sustainable for all. We are far more powerful than we have been led to believe so how can we tap into this power and use it well? Alida also offers a reciprocity practice with the elements to strengthen our bond with our beautiful earth. And, time permitting, a healing practice with the sun.
Alida Birch, MSW, is the author of the bookThe Co-Creation Handbook, A Shamanic Guide to Manifesting a Better World and a More Joyful Life. She is a former mechanical engineer, social worker, and manufacturing manager. She’s been practicing and teaching shamanism for the past 30 years, both nationally and internationally. Alida lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, Reid, and her two Siberian cats, an occasional group of gray foxes, and a flock of hummingbirds.
When We Focus on the Simple Ways
PDF Interview With Sandra Ingerman by Nicholas Breeze Wood in Sacred Hoop Magazine
Sandra Ingerman and Nicholas Wood bring together their shared wisdom on modern Western shamanic practitioners, cultural appropriation, and so much more. This article will give you a new perspective on the world of shamanism today.
Nicholas Breeze Wood is the editor of Sacred Hoop Magazine and a musician, craftworker, and artist. He has been a shamanic practitioner for over 30 years, and was recently nominated by members of the British public as one of the 144 leading evolutionaries in Britain today.
What People Are Saying About Sandra Ingerman, MA…
Author of Second Sight
Editor of Spirited Medicine: Shamanism in Contemporary Healthcare
Author of Painting the Landscape of Your Soul
Denver, Colorado
Brooklyn, New York
Mancos, Colorado
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Nine Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from shamanism teacher Sandra Ingerman — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to release blocks to your transformation and cultivate the strength of your light and spirit to carry you through life’s challenges.
Seven Transcripts of Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive session transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Dark Night of the Soul as a Portal to the Shaman’s Light
We feel honored that Sandra Ingerman has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a shamanism teacher whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about cultivating the strength of your light and spirit to carry you through life’s challenges, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
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More Praise for Sandra Ingerman, MA
President of the Society for Shamanic Practice
Port Hadlock, Washington
Albany, Oregon
Victoria, Canada
New Zealand
Ancona, Italy
About Sandra Ingerman, MA
Sandra Ingerman, a world-renowned teacher of shamanism, is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods with modern culture. She’s taught for almost 40 years, including workshops worldwide on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods.
Sandra's a licensed marriage and family therapist, a professional mental health counselor, and a board-certified expert on traumatic stress. Watkins Body Mind Spirit magazine honored her by including her in their 100 Most Spiritually Influential People of 2020. She was also chosen as one of the Top 10 Spiritual Leaders of 2013 by Spirituality and Health magazine and was awarded the 2007 Peace Award from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine.
Her newest book, co-authored with Llyn Roberts, is titled Walking through Darkness: A Nature-Based Path to Navigating Suffering and Loss. Her other 12 books include Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self and The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred in Everyday Life. Sandra and Hank Wesselman’s book, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, won both the 2011 COVR (Coalition of Visionary Resources) Visionary Award and the 2011 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award.)
Since the 1980s, thousands of people have healed from past and present traumas through soul retrieval, the classic cross-cultural shamanic healing method Sandra teaches.
She's also joined in partnership with Renee Baribeau to create a weekly 30-minute podcast called The Shaman's Cave.