IAKP Advanced Kambo Practitioner – Compassionate Inquiry (CI) Therapist – Plant Medicine Facilitator – Hatha Yoga Teacher 200hrs – Flow Artist – Traveler of Earth and Consciousness
My passion for holistic health was first ignited in 2012, as I began my own journey at the age of 22, with counselling to support me through depression, down-days, anxiety, alcohol-drug abuse and underneath it all the early childhood grief that had been covered over many a year before. Learning at the same time, how to meditate by searching ‘meditation for dummies’ and coming across chamomile tea and the yogic 4:7:8 breathing technique (thanks to the work of Dr. Andrew Weil) as part of a list of natural remedies for anxiety, literally changed my life.
Other formative experiences that supported my healing and growth over the last 10 years include:
- Learning Vipassana Meditation in 2015, sitting 10 days at a silent retreat and continuing the practice to this day
- Finding a passion for teaching while working in China
- Sharing stretching classes in the pear fields of Australia (the catalyst for signing up for and completing my 200hrs Hatha Teacher training).
- Guided sittings with nature based medicines including; Ayahuasca, Iboga, Mushrooms, Bufo Alvarius, Rapé, Sananga & San Pedro.
- Sitting with Ayahuasca in Putumayo, Colombia
- Reading and listening to the work of Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Marcus Aurelius, Gabor Mate, Peter Levine, Stanislov Grof, Dick Swartz, Bessel Van der Kolk, Paulo Coelho and so many more philosophers, authors, poets and comedians that have inspired, uplifted and taught me more than I could possibly fit in a summary about myself.
Over the last 4 years, I’ve been working full time in the facilitation of integrative holistic retreats, holding one-one/small circled Kambo ceremonies, training in and working online with CI therapy sessions. Supporting people through and beyond their addictions, It’s an honour to continue to share and hold these spaces. The courage, vulnerability and resilience shown by those I’ve been blessed to work with, reaffirms my trust in humanity, in Spirit, in our body’s innate capacity to heal itself, given the appropriate support and that impermanence is a gift.
I’ve also continued along my own journey of healing, growth and skill development, working with Master Practitioners of the IAKP, Pathwork and Shamanic Psychotherapists based in Brazil and Ireland, Dr. Gabor Mate and his co-facilitators of Compassionate Inquiry. I’ve explored the practices of Family Constellations, Bio-emotional Decoding and Shamanic Journeying and am happy to share the knowledge I’ve gained from these modalities and also can refer you to credible practitioners whose work I can vouch for with trust.
Everything can become a meditation, every act can become sacred, every wound can be exposed and understood, every emotion felt, every experience lived and learned from. Every symptom is a treasure toward transcending transgenerational trauma. Every moment of our lives is a gift.
Shane
Notes & Disclaimer: I am not, nor ever intend to call myself a Shaman or your ‘healer’. The services offered are not aimed to be used as a replacement for any medical treatments that have been prescribed by your doctor/therapist. Working with kambo in support of your decision to wean off of medication is recommended to be done with collaboration of your psychiatrist. Potential clients interested in working with Kambo and other services are asked to complete a medical screening form during the consultation phase, whereby any information withheld is done so at your own risk. All information shared with me during this time and throughout our work together is held with complete confidentiality.
“Don’t try and change the world, find something that you love and do it everyday, do that for the rest of your life and eventually, the world will change”
Macklemore
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