The Shaman's Death is more than a topic for this week's show, it has been the reality I and many others have been living over the last 13 lunar cycles of the year 2020. The shaman's death is an initiatory process, a rite of passage, that brings us from one form of existence and shapes us into a completely new one. In our process of dismemberment, we become the shapeshifter, and in this episode, I am taking you through what it means to die the shaman's death. The Shaman's Death is the experience in life when one moves through a loss or a change so profound, that they wonder if they will ever be able to come back from it. Here, in the dismemberment of life, or an annihilation as it may feel, is the death passage to becoming more of who we truly are. I have written about change before, as change is thoroughly a part of our human existence, whether one decides to honor a shamanic way of living or not. When the crash down, removal, dismemberment, dismantling comes, the cracking open to the voice that chants and the drum that sings is what merges the shaman's death into rebirth with the total psychic, physical, emotional and energetic breakdown that comes with this total change of life as we knew it. Transcending the wounds we carry creates the doorway to the New Life that we so deeply want and desire. That our soul is ready to create. Even when we don't know exactly what we want, or think we do know, we probably don't. Not when the voices of the past are carrying on our conversations and exchanges for us. It was surprising (and not!) to me how much of my life had been created by a voice that was not my own. I had mistakenly believed it was. Until now, it had been a combination of ego, inheritance, and somewhere in there, the voice of Soul. What I have inherited, though, is not a curse. My ancestral line and lineage is a great blessing to me because it has showed me the areas of life where I experience limitation, where we in my bloodline have experienced it for generations, connecting all of us as we move through our epoch of time on Earth, and it has shown me how I can heal it. Love and honoring, and surrender to death. That is the way. That is the way of the Shaman.The light heals, and one can Know the Light through a great and mighty death process. Surrender to death, and death with surrender you to rebirth back into the light. A'ho. I am including a riff that was recorded from my car a year ago about my experience during a shamanic breathwork workshop because it also was an important and transformational piece of dying the shamanic death. Thank you for being here and walking this path with me. I honor you in all your death and life processes, with so much love. Amen.
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Link to Shiva Shack Yogi Playground + Daniel's Breathwork Worhshop www.shivashackchicago.com
Link to Blog Post about the Breathwork I experienced on the Solstice of 2019 and the article about the Shaman's Death can be found here https://www.resonancerestorative.com/words
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