Shamanic lineage of the Andes and working in nonlocal states of consciousness

Death Doulas

I recently attended the Foundation Training for Living Well Dying Well and I would like to promote this to everyone! In the western world we have developed a paranoia about death and many people are kept alive for a few extra days or weeks, when this may or may not accord with their wishes. As […]

Reiki Healing With Clients

I love Reiki and it is one of the first therapies I learned, back in 2005 – 2007. While it can be very helpful for lots of people, I find that there are two particular groups of clients that really benefit from it. Firstly, those who are completely dissociated from their bodies, often due to […]

Reiki Healing – the need for protection and clear intention

As a Reiki Master I do all levels of Reiki attunements – Level 1 for self-healing, Level 2 to work with others, then Level 3 the Master level, to allow people to teach/attune others. I have learned from others who have done Level 1 and maybe even Level 2 with other teachers, that many Reiki […]

Specific Rituals for Our Lives

Some of the rituals that I work with regularly and often recommend to clients are: Letting go of that which no longer serves us by breathing into where you feel it in the body, then breathing it out into a stone, then giving it to Mother Earth, or Water, or breathing it out into a […]

The Importance of ritual

Over many years as a shamanic practitioner, I have gained great appreciation of the ancient traditions of ritual and ceremony. It is important that we acknowledge, celebrate and honour significant events in our lives, witnessed by friends and family. These events include marriage, handfasting, vow renewal, child naming, death, grief, or other important milestones such […]

Psychedelic risks and psycho-spiritual crises – emergence or emergency?

First in this post, let me briefly address some risks of psychedelics. Medically, if taken commonsensically, in a safe set and setting and as long as there are no medical contraindications – these risks are very small. For example see this academic article. There is a great organisation founded by Jules Evans which assists people […]

Preparation and integration

As I wrote about before, preparation of set and setting are crucial before engaging in a psychedelic trip. And integration afterwards is also crucial. Preparation is to help the client who is about to undergo a psychedelic experience to be in as good an emotional state as possible, understanding what they are about to experience […]

Set and Setting

Ever since psychedelics started to be used widely again in the 1960s, the importance of set and setting has been emphasised. Set is the person’s internal state, the beliefs, expectations and current mindset of the patient. This includes their reason for taking the psychedelic, their intention for the trip. Is it for ‘therapy’ because they […]

Psychedelics and altered states of consciousness

In recent years there has been such an enormous surge of interest and research into psychedelics, that it is hard to know where to start in a 500 word blog! First of all let me just put a definition in place. I am largely referring to what are known as classic psychedelics, including psilocybin, DMT, […]

Placebo vs Nocebo

In the Oxford English Dictionary the definition of a placebo is a medicine or procedure prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient rather than for any physiological effect. But when we accept that the body and the brain are not separate, that they are inextricably linked, with our mental and emotional state intricately bi-directionally […]

Conscious Dying at end of life, and Death and Rebirth within life

In the Western world in particular there is huge fear of death, and in a surprisingly high percentage of people, even denial of its inevitability! Some of the stories collected by Stephen Jenkinson in Die Wise illustrate this. This is gradually changing however, since the work of Elisabeth Kubler Ross and her seminal book On […]

Constellations in The Knowing Field

The constellations framework and method stems from 1978 and the incredibly brave and insightful work of Bert Hellinger and his colleagues. Constellations is a systemic way of working, involving not only the client in isolation, but their whole system. It started with family constellations, looking at the client in the wider context of the lineage […]

Evelyn Brodie

Shamanic, Reiki & Craniosacral Healing Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex

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