I can help facilitate change on an emotional and spiritual level. With the Dream Change Coalition, she leads treks in the Andes and the Amazon. Vera trained with Michael Harner s Foundation for Shamanic Studies, with the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Study, and with the Eagle s Wing Centre in London, while working as a counselor and social worker. She decided to combine her professional and shamanic interests to introduce her new therapeutic program for families in crisis and, in the space of 18 months, is now so successful that the Family Holiday Association has adopted her approach as the guiding force behind its own program of healing holidays, and her work is even being quoted in the British parliament as a new model for the caring professions. At the other end of the scale, personal spiritual trainers like Nick Williams, author of The Work We Were Born To Do , founder of The Heart at Work Project, and director of Alternatives at St James , London s leading centre for new age and spiritual speakers, works with individual employees and groups within an organization to help them find their vision of the company they want to work for.
Shamanism is one of the oldest psycho-spiritual practices known to man.
Other artifacts, such as the cave paintings at Lascaux in France, which clearly depict shamanic activity, have been accurately dated at up to 35,000 years old. Yet its practices are still current in most societies in the world and the techniques it uses very valid and useful for business right now. Take the shamanic practice of 'journeying'. To the steady beat of a drum, the shaman wills his spirit to leave his body and to journey to meet with helpers and advisors in the spiritual 'otherworlds', bringing back information, healing, and gifts of divination and prophecy for the tribal people he serves. Science has now demonstrated that the rhythm at which the drum is played is conducive to a deep and subtle shift in consciousness which overcomes the limitations of the rational brain and gives access to more intuitive, holistic, and visionary information.