Shamanic Practitioner Course
2025-26
Current In Person Shamanic Practitioner Course 2025-26
For course dates and times see below
"You are straddling the two realities, the physical and the spiritual, integrating them and bringing them to the whole."
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Spirit words given to Fotoula
in a dream describing
a shamanic practitioner –
A shamanic practitioner is a bridge between the world of spirit and the alternative realities, and our own physical world. The practitioner crosses the bridge entering parallel universes to bring healing, life-force, guidance and deep awareness to themselves, their clients and their community.
The Shamanic Practitioner Course – A One Year Ceremony
How is the Shamanic Practitioner course designed?
This is a powerful and in-depth shamanic practitioner course that involves learning and practicing ancient ways. The shamanic practitioner course is designed to take participants through the initiations of the shamanic path and teach the healing work of a shamanic practitioner. Participants will work with spirit guides and teachers of the light, to become the bridge between the worlds and bring the spiritual light into the physical reality.
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What will the Shamanic Practitioner Training cover?
The training covers ceremony, Power Retrieval and Introduction, Healing with Spiritual Light, Medicine for the Earth, Shamanic Journeying and Divination,
Soul Retrieval, Extraction, Psychopomping, Death and Dying, and finishes with a Graduation Ceremony. It is a comprehensive course offering a strong foundation for shamanic practice.
How long is the Shamanic Practitioner course?
The whole shamanic practitioner course is taught as a one year ceremony. It is much more than sharing information and techniques. We will be riding a shamanic wave on a journey home to ourselves. We hope that the ceremony will carry everyone to a new inner depth, inner understanding, and soul evolution, within and outside the times we meet.
About the Shamanic Practitioner Training
To graduate as a shamanic practitioner participants need to complete all modules and casework, and attend the graduation ceremony. This is a commitment each participant makes with the wise spirits / guardians of these ancient teachings. The shamanic practitioner course teaches the methods but it is up to participants and their wise spirit teachers to develop the art. No-one can make us a practitioner. It is an inner calling and a gift from spirit to the person.
Once you sign up, changes may take place to align you with your path and soul's calling. Places on the In Person and Online Shamanic Practitioner Courses are limited. Please contact Fotoula as soon as possible if you are interested in joining this powerful, healing Ceremony.
​In Person Shamanic Practitioner Training Meeting Dates
​2025
19.00-21.00, Fri 31st Oct & 10.00-17.00 Sat 1st & Sunday 2nd Nov (Power Retrieval & Introduction)
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2026
10.00-17.00, Fri 20th–Sun 22nd Feb (Medicine for the Earth)
10.00-17.00, Sat 21st–Sun 22nd March (Healing with Spiritual Light)
10.00-17.00. Wed 6th May–Sun 10 May (Soul Retrieval)
18.00 Fri 5th – 10.00 Mon 8th June (Medicine Walk – 3 night Residential Retreat)
19.00-21.00, Fri 7th Aug and 10.00-17.00, Sat 8th–Sun 9th Aug (Extraction)
10.00-17.00, Thurs 1st–Sun 4th Oct (Psychopomping & Graduation)
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In Person Shamanic Practitioner Course Practical Information​​​
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Venue: Lecture Room (first floor), Glasgow Theosophical Society, 17 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, G4 9BL
Cost: £3,500.00 for the entire course including a 3-night Residential Retreat for the Medicine Walk
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Payment Plan 1: Pay £500.00 deposit to secure your place. Then pay the balance (£2,850.00) by 24th Oct 2025, one week before the course begins. (The total course fee is reduced to £3,350.00)
Payment Plan 2: £560.00 deposit to secure your place. Then pay 7 payments of £420.00 on the Monday prior to each teaching weekend.
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Payment Plan 3: £250.00 deposit to secure your place. Then pay 13 payments of £250.00 from October 2025 to October 2026 inclusive. This payment plan can be adapted to an individual plan that suits you. Contact us to discuss.
(Please note: All deposits are non refundable and non transferable. Also, participants are required to pay the total fee, even if they drop out before the course finishes. See our terms and conditions)
Shamanic Journey Video
In this video Fotoula guides us on a shamanic ceremony-journey to merge with your ancestral helping spirit and power animal for the purpose of shamanic healing
Training as a Shamanic Practitioner
A shamanic practitioner is someone who is willing to step into the unknown and surrender to the River of Life and Divine Will
Shamanism has been practiced for thousands of years. As the veils between the worlds become thinner, in these times, many people are drawn to the ancient spirituality of Mother Earth and Father Sky.
Shamanism is a lifetime practice. It is a vocation, an inner calling, a way of life. When the calling comes, either in our heart or through a spiritual experience, Fotoula, as a teacher, can help you navigate the spiritual planes and teach you how can harness your inherent shamanic gifts. Through the training as a shamanic practitioner, you have the opportunity to grow personally and spiritually and if you choose to, become a vessel of spiritual power and light that can help other people, as well as your community.
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At the same time, a practitioner needs to be grounded. Unless the practice is based in the present and everyday reality, it has little value.
Rather than teaching individual modules, we offer an in-depth training that will cover the aspects that you need for your work. Our teaching includes theory, but it is experiential. You will learn through group work, individual practice, initiations, ritual and ceremony. Through this process we come together as one circle, one tribe, one prayer, and one heart.
Some Topics Covered – based on Classic Core Shamanism
Power Retrieval and Introduction: We will cover the three shamanic worlds, the three times, as well as experiential practice of shamanic healing and working with the animal spirits in alternative realities. Participants also learn to retrieve power and life-force for clients through journeying.
In Medicine for the Earth and Shamanic Healing with Spiritual Light we ally with the four elements, perform space clearing and experience our own radiance through the light of our essence, the shamanic transfiguration.
Soul Retrieval in the cornerstone of shamanic healing and practiced widely across the globe by indigenous shamans. We learn to retrieve other peoples' soul essence, remember our intention for incarnating and release
the soul essence we have carried that belongs to other people.
Shamanic Extraction is a way to extract energetic intrusions from the body of your client and neutralise them.
A big part of our work is being the psychopomp, helping those who are in the process of dying or have died but could not cross through the veil. You will learn about the soul's journey after death, the rebirth in the spiritual realms and how to support people who are grieving. We also work with de-possession. This is the work of Death and Dying.
Ceremonial work focuses on working with Mother Earth, the Wheel, the sun and moon and astral energies. We see ourselves as part of the Earth and Nature and at the same time we are the cosmic traveller.
Shamanic Birthing and Rebirthing initiates a new beginning on our path of life. A wonderful way of working to heal our own birthing into the world and to connect once more to our intention for incarnating.
Supporting your Work – having a Spiritual Shamanic Practice
In committing to walk the shamanic path, you open yourself to spiritual beings of light and it is important to work with integrity and for the highest good. It is also important to practice.
Below are some suggestions for people who wish to focus on, and take ownership of their shamanic path:
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Practice shamanic journeying once a week.
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Have a regular daily spiritual practice that helps calm the conditioned mind. This could be meditation, mantra chanting, time in nature, ritual, ceremony etc. It may be different for each person.
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Continue personal development through inner work. Shamanism is a path where we embrace our vulnerability, open our heart and work with integrity and love. As we walk this path, issues and patterns will come up. If we choose to acknowledge and work with the patterns they can be cleared, and we can move towards becoming 'the clear vessel' through which the light of spirit shines.
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As we walk further along the path we will be called to: develop our integrity, and personal responsibility;
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look at addictive behaviours and what takes us out of balance; develop self love, as well as understanding;
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and compassion for all beings; whilst at the same time embracing our own personal power and soul purpose.