Classical Shamanic Psychopomp Training: Death, Dying & Departure

Within shamanism death is understood as a passage and a crossing over to the Land of the Dead and a return to the ancestors or to source and serving the healing in the dying process is part of serving the healing in life One of the distinguishing features of shamanism is that shamans not only help the living, but also the dying and the deceased. As the soul guide or psychopomp, the shaman transports the souls of the dead home, assuring that soul’s safe and complete journey through the death process. The shaman also functions as a psychopomp for souls who, though dead for a long time, have not completed their passage to the Land of the Dead. On this course you will be trained in how to prepare the dying for the journey ahead and to escort the soul when its time on earth is done.