The Beginning
One thing I find amazing about Spiritual Healing is that the ceremony begins the instant we set a date. Somehow, a solid commitment frees and moves energy. I tell clients, “Don’t be surprised if your issue is exacerbated." When something is about to change, it can hold on with a mighty grip.
What to Bring
Nothing is necessary. Anything you’d like to place on the altar is perfect.

Who to Bring
Shamanism, an aspect of my Spiritual Healing practice, is about community. In the old days, healing was not a secret, and the shaman most likely attended to us with friends, family, and neighbors witnessing. I like to imagine children coming and going.
This isn't so in modern times. Healing has become a private affair. Witnesses are rare, and too often, we keep our experiences to ourselves.
Why is there such a need for privacy? Is it based on shame? Clients have said, “I don’t want people to know these things about me.” Many of us embrace our wounds and emotional pain in solitude. What are we so afraid of?
Privacy can sometimes cultivate separation.
The shamanic way is unifying. I love when a client brings a loved one, or two, or three—someone once brought seven!—community members to witness and support their healing.
Spiritual Healing is not your everyday event, and inviting others creates countless opportunities. In addition to having support that easily transfers to our daily lives, we have a shared experience with loved ones. I tend do a lot of teaching, so instead of wondering what's going to happen next, everyone can freely participate Friends and family are our healing partners, and much to their surprise, also receive the energies.
Ceremony
Ceremony is foundational in my healing practice. At the very beginning, I center, ground, and purify. I call to the spirits of my mesa—a medicine bundle of the Q’ero tradition, "Humpue, humpue,” (Come, come in Quechua.) I call to the Spirits, Masters, Healers, Teachers, Shamans of the Light. Pachamama. Apus. I pray for miracles.
Once the ceremony is open, we become enveloped within an energetic bubble of power. The feeling is palpable. We asked for help, and the spirits responded.
Intention
Intention is important. I listen as you share your concerns, needs, and desires, and usually ask questions to help you hone into the core. If you’re depressed and say, “My intention is to not be depressed.” I'll say, “No. There’s not enough power in that. What is the opposite of depression? How do you want to feel?” With this perspective shift, you might say, “I am a joyous person.”
Do you notice the difference?
There’s a human side to Spiritual Healing, as well as a mystical. Our intention opens and heals the layers of the soul that need attending, and afterward, we use our mind to consciously align with the intention. It's a partnership of awakening.
What happens next?
You lie upon my healing table with one task—receive. I place my hands on your feet and channel Light. This begins what I call "the purification of the soul phase." While I remain in a conscious connection with my Teacher and spirit helpers, my hands move and rest upon each energy center, as well as your head and shoulders. You are infused with the Light of Love.
During the Healing
I might: speak with you (Inner Dialog), blow into you (Soul Retrieval), drum, ask you to feed my mesa with heavy energy, rattle...
You might: sleep intermittently, feel "random" pain, become emotional, need to talk, have a mystical experience, become caught within your mind, feel nothing...
When your healing is complete, I leave the room for a while to give you space, and then when you’re ready, we talk. I share everything and offer post-healing suggestions. Once you feel complete, we close our ceremony with prayers of gratitude.
How long does a Healing Ceremony last?
I don't have a set time-frame. It all depends upon what happens, how you receive it, and your needs. Two-and-one-half hours is common, although there are no clocks in the healing room.
When the healing is complete and you feel ready, we'll share our experiences. I will answer any questions you might have and offer post-healing suggestions. And then we will close our ceremony with big gratitude—for all we were aware of and all of the unknown miracles.
Post-Healing
You arrive to your healing in one state of being and leave in another. I encourage everyone to spend the first three days post-healing in conscious integration, as that's when the newly refined energies are harmonizing within the soul. That can feel wondrous and/or disconcerting. Claiming your intention daily and following through with post-healing suggestions assists and accelerates changes that have occurred.
It's a miracle. The spiritual surgeons you work with took my pain away! T.
I have no words to truly describe how I feel to where anyone would truly understand. So, all I can say is, thank you for this feeling. I can’t say I was a skeptic, because I wasn’t. However, typically in the past any “metaphysical” work never truly made a noticeable difference, so I guess I was leaning towards hopeless but desperate and willing to try anything. But this. This feeling. *big inhale followed by intensely relaxing tear-filled sigh*. Thank you for this. A.


6 comments
You are a powerful healer!
Annie, Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom. I love getting these from you. The Light of Love is All!
Annie, your sentences and words are so clear… I love them.
Tibor
Thank you Annie. I esp like the end ” offering prayers of Gratitude”.
I love what you said about the community aspect of healing.
Rosemary Quinn
Could you answer a question for a friend in pain. She asked me today “what is a shamanic death before rebirth?” I think she may have gotten it from a tarot reading.
Rosemary, This is a longer conversation. She might want to read the Shamanic Rebirth blog post. https://fullcirclespiritualhealing.com/2022/01/16/shamanic-rebirth-2/
And of course she can call and ask me directly. Annie