Begins: 18th – 20th April 2026
Join a deep, experiential, transformational journey. Through 5 modules over 5 months, you’ll learn & cultivate foundational shamanic practices and principles to help you live a more creative & connected life. Deepening your embodied connection with earth & spirit, and to your own soul, medicine & gifts.
‘This course introduces shamanic practice and traditional healing systems relevant to contemporary living. It will enhance your ability to reconnect to yourself, the land, nature and community. Tools and techniques are provided to enable people to access their inner resources, develop their ability to navigate altered states of consciousness (and life), and embody their full potential. Those who are already working with individuals, groups and communities will develop new and innovative ways of working in their modalities.’
About the Journey
Follow the path of the sun around the Circalore medicine wheel as we journey with the spirit and medicine of each direction. Explore the archetypes and masks of the shaman. Practice rituals, songs, prayers and processes from around the world- passed down through various lineages. Create sacred art and craft. Journey to navigate the imaginal realms and your dreamscapes- diving into ‘our increasing depths’ as you shed layers of conditioning and identity that no longer fit or serve. Strengthen your connection to your own intuitive wisdom and knowing. Drop into trance and dance your medicine through your body and into being.
We dis-member, to re-member. Remembering the ancient ways in your bones. With roots deep in the earth, branches reaching to spirit, reweaving the sacred connection of belonging to all of life that is your birthright. To rise up and stand strong in your medicine and bring your gifts to the world.
This is a journey of reclamation, and of how to live the organic wisdom of these ancient, eternal ways in contemporary times- in our own lives, in our workspaces, and with our families and communities.
Groups are small, with a maximum of 6 to enable each person to be held deeply in their journey.
The Certificate is an offering of Circalore, founded by Vicki Dean. Vicki has had a deep involvement in the creative and healing arts for the past 40 years. She’s received shamanic training in Australia, USA, Peru, Nepal & NZ, as well as in-depth training with Tom Brown Jr and in the Michael Harner method, and has brought the wealth of her years of learning and experience into the creation of this course.
I’m deeply excited and honoured to be stepping into the role of teaching this, after many years of study, training, practice and apprenticeship. This work is my passion and my ‘path of heart’ and I believe it’s vital to bring the original wisdom of the earth and these ancient ways of living and being forward to help us to navigate and meet the challenges of these times.
Upon completion, participants have the opportunity to deepen their practice and study with Vicki by continuing on to the Diploma of Mask & Traditional Healing.
For more information check out the Circalore website below (though these courses have been held for 12 years, the website is new and some pages are still being collated & created).
Reach out to be sent a course prospectus or to have a chat- I’m always happy to talk and share about this work.
Belinda: 0421 244 254
belinda@pathofheart.com.au
Location: We’ll be gathering and camping on 56 acres of beautiful, wild bushland overlooking the Dyarubbin (Hawkesbury River) at Mt White.
My ‘Why’ & my love for this work:
As I was reflecting on my ‘why’ for teaching this, inwardly I saw an image of a person in full-body prostration on the earth. My ‘why’ comes from a deep love and devotion to this earth and from the dreaming in my heart for humanity to be living in ways that are respectful, in harmony and in right-relationship- with each other, with life and with this beautiful, living mother earth that we belong to. I know this is the same deep love, devotion and dreaming that many of you also feel.
I believe that shamanic practices, tools & principles, and the shamanic paradigm can help to support us to live into and embody this dreaming.
Shamanism isn’t something made up by man, but has come from the earth- from deep listening and observation. Learning the natural way of things, the natural law, being in relationship with nature and spirit, honouring and connecting to our ancestors, journeying into the imaginal realms, paying attention to the wisdom in our dreams and the messages from the earth.
“Everything alive and speaking to you- are you listening?” – Yorro Yorro
This ‘original wisdom’ born of the land, is vital medicine for the wild and chaotic modern times we’re living in. This is the time for remembering who we are, why we came here at this time, and the power that we have to dream a new dream for the earth and write a new story.
To dismantle the corrupt outer structures and systems, we begin with dismantling the corrupt systems and structures that we’ve internalised in our own psyches. We begin by decolonizing, de-conditioning and unlearning the teachings of an unhealthy system and culture- that have taken up residence within ourselves. To return and remember our roots, ancestry, wisdom and knowing in our bones. To remember ways that are far more ancient, healthier and sound than the ways of this modern, capitalist, consumer culture. To rewaken our autonomy and sovereignty, our inner authority, intuition, gut knowing. To deepen and strengthen the roots of our being, embedded deep within the rich, fertile soil of earth and soul… Knowing ourselves in a deeply embodied way, as interconnected with the roots of all else, sensing the mycelium networks between us. Knowing that together we are strong and that together we can rise up through the cracks and descend down into the depths.
The skills and tools of shamanic practice help you reconnect and remember these timeless ways of being and living in the world in harmony with nature and spirit. The Certificate is a journey of un-learning and re-membering, that can help to bring about real, lasting transformation. As we strip away and shed old conditioning, your life comes into greater alignment with your own soul, medicine and intuitive wisdom- the knowing in your bones.
Shamanic practices help you to access your own gifts, healing capacities and potential to transform yourself and your life. So that ultimately, we can each be a drop in the ocean of restoring harmony and right-relationship. We can each be an embodiment of a return to wisdom, and to our responsibilities to the earth, to our families and communities, and to future generations.
If this calling stirs something within you, I invite you to reach out for a prospectus or a chat.
Would love to have you on the journey and share this with you.
