"You are straddling the two realities, the physical and the spiritual, integrating them and bringing them to the whole."
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 the physical world. The practitioner crosses the bridge entering parallel universes to bring healing, life-force energy, guidance, and deep awareness to themselves, their clients, and their community.
Format: In-Person (Glasgow, UK)
Duration: 2 Years
Start Date: 20th-21st Feb 2027
Course Cost: £3,500.00 / Reduced Cost: £3,350.00
Two-year Shamanic Training in Glasgow, UK
How is the Course designed?
This is a powerful, in-depth training that involves learning and practicing ancient ways. It is an experiential course designed to take participants through the initiations of the shamanic path and teach the shamanic healing work. Over the two years participants will forge a strong and close bond with their helping spirits to become the brisge between the physical and the non-ordinary reality.
What will our Shamanic Medicine Training cover?
The comprehensive training covers Ceremony, Power Retrieval and Introduction, Healing with Spiritual Light, Medicine for the Earth, Shamanic Journeying and Divination, Soul Retrieval, Extraction, Psychopomping, and Death and Dying. It finishes with a Graduation Ceremony.
How long is our in person shamanic programme?
The practitioner programme is taught as a two-year Ceremony. There are seven meetings in 2027 and fiv ein 2028. The teaching is much more than sharing information and shamanic techniques. Participants will be riding a shamanic wave on a journey home to themselves. Our hope is that the Ceremony will carry everyone to a new inner depth, inner understanding, and soul evolution both within and outwith the times we meet.
How do I graduate from the Shamanic 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 person makes with the wise spirits / guardians of these ancient teachings. On the Course you will learn the methods and then it is up to each person and their enlightened spirit helpers to develop the art. No-one can make us a practitioner. It is an inner calling and a gift from spirit to the person.
How many people will be on the Course?
Places on the training are limited to a maximum of 13 people. We teach in small groups so that everyone's voice is heard. If you are interested in joining this powerful healing Ceremony please contact Fotoula as soon as possible.
In addition, there may be spaces for anyone who has already completed the Practitioner Programme with the ISIS School of Holistic Health Ltd and wishes to repeat the Training. Please contact us if this applies to you.
Shamanic Teacher: Fotoula Adrimi
Fotoula Adrimi has over twenty years experience in teaching the shamanic ways. She was born in Greece and as a child she was intrigued by the local ceremonies of bone divination and full moon rituals.
When the shamanic path called her in early 2026 Fotoula had a spiritual awakening. Since then she has travelled extensively and studied shamanism with Sandra Ingerman and Nepalese Shaman, Bhola Banstola, as well as other indigenous shamans from various traditions – Native American, Himalayan, Peruvian, Toltec. Fotoula has also retrieved many old ceremonies and stories from her living elders and ancestral spirits.
Through her on going spiritual practices Fotoula is able to radiate the light of compassion to all her students. She has been holding Shamanic Workshops and a Shamanic Drumming Circle since 2009 and teaching Shamanic Practitioners since 2012. As a practitioner herself since 2007, Fotoula has helped hundreds of people.
She is the author of the best selling book: The Golden Book of Wisdom: Ancient Spirituality and Shamanism for Modern Times.
More about the Golden Book of Wisdom
More about Fotoula's extensive experience and qualifications
Practitioner Meeting Dates
2027
10.00-17.00, Sat 20th & Sun 21st February
10.00-17.00, Sat 17th & Sun 18th April
10.00-17.00, Sat 12th & Sun 13th June
10.00-17.00, Sat 3rd & Sun 4th July
10.00-17.00, Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd October
10.00-17.00, Sat 6th & Sun 7th November
10.00-17.00, Sat 11th & Sun 12th December
2028
18.30-21.00 Fri 11th Feb – 10.00-17.00, Sat 12th & Sun 13th Feb (Extraction)
18.30-21.00 Fri 7th April – 10.00-17.00, Sat 8th & Sun 9th April (Death and Dying)
18.00 Thurs 1st June – 10.00 Sun 4th June (Medicine Walk – 3 night Residential Retreat)
10.00-17.00, Sat 5th & Sun 6th August (Ancestral Healing)
10.00-17.00, Sat 30th September (Graduation)
Course Cost and Payment Plans
Cost: £3,500.00 for the entire course including a 3-night Residential Retreat for the Medicine Walk. Below are suggested Payment Plans, alternatively we are very open to you suggesting a Payment Plan that works for you – please let us know.
Payment Plan 1 – Reduced Price of £3,350.00
Deposit: £500.00 to secure your place. Then pay the balance (£2,850.00) by 13th February 2027, one week before the course begins. (The total course fee is reduced to £3,350.00, a saving of £150.00). (Total fee is non-transferable and non-refundable).
Payment Plan 2 – Total Cost £3,500.00
Deposit £560.00 to secure your place. Then pay 12 payments of £245.00 on the Monday prior to each teaching weekend.
Payment Plan 3 – Total Cost £3,500.00
Deposit: £300.00 to secure your place. Then pay 20 monthly payments of £160.00 from February 2027 to September 2028 inclusive. This payment plan can be adjusted to an individual plan that suits you. (Please let us know if you wish to do this and what payment you suggest – info@isis-school.com).
Payment Plan 4 – For people repeating the Course – Cost £1,750.00
There may be spaces for Shamanic Practitioners who have trained with the ISIS School who wish to repeat the Course. For anyone repeating the cost is reduced to £1,750.00, deposit £150.00. Then pay £80.00 monthly from February 2027 for 20 months.This monthly amount can be adapted if you wish to start paying for the training earlier than February 2027. Also, the deposit and monthly amount can be incorporated into a payment plan that suits you. (If you are interested in repeating the course please contact Fotoula).
(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)
Bookings: Places are limited, advance booking is required. To book, email Fotoula: info@isis-school.com
How to pay: Payment is through Bank Transfer. Please email The School (info@isis-school.com) for our bank details.
Shamanic Journey Video
Fotoula guides us in a shamanic journey to merge with our ancestral helping spirit and power animal for the purpose of shamanic healing
Training as a Shamanic Practitioner
A practitioner in shamanism is someone who is willing to step into th eunknown and surrender to the River of Life and Divine Will.
Shamanism has been practiced for thousands of years. In these changing times, as the veils between the worlds become thinner, many people are being drawn to the ancient spirituality of Mother Earth and Father Sky.
Shamanism is a vocation, an inner calling, a way of life. When the calling comes, either in your heart or through a spiritual experience, Fotoula, as a gifted teacher, can help you navigate the spiritual planes and teach you how to harness your inherent shamanic gifts.
Through the training 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 family and community. At the same time, a practitioner needs to be grounded. Unless the shamanic practice is based in the here and now of everyday reality, it has little value.
Rather than teaching individual modules, we offer an comprehensive training programme that covers the aspects you need for your work. The teaching includes theory to support what is predominantly an experiential course. You will learn through group work, individual practice, initiations, ritual, and ceremony. Through this in-depth process we come together as one circle, one tribe, one prayer, and one heart.
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.
Topics Covered – based on Classic Core Shamanism and Lineage Teachings
Power Retrieval and Introduction: We will cover the three shamanic worlds, the three times, as well an experiential practice of shamanic healing and working with the animal spirits in alternative realities. Participants also learn to retrieve power and life-force energy for clients through journeying.
In Medicine for the Earth and Shamanic Healing with Spiritual Light we ally withthe four sacred elements, perform space clearing and experience our radiance through the Light of our essence – the shamanic transfiguration.
Soul Retrieval is the cornerstone of shamanic healing and practices widely throughout the world by indigenous shamans. We learn how to retrieve people's soul essence, remember our intention for incarnating, and release the soul essence of other people we have carried.
Shamanic Extraction is a way to remove energetic intrusions from the body of your client and neutralise them.
Another important aspect of this work is Psychopomping – 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 spirit realms of the Light, and how to support people who are grieving. We also work with Depossession. This is the work of Death and Dying.
Ceremonial work is at the heart of shamanism. Our focus is 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. It is a wonderful way of working to heal our birthing into the world and to connect once more with our intention for incarnating.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
SANDRA INGERMAN
Fotoula has a marvellous reputation with all her students. She is one of my trusted teachers, and is one of the teachers I asked to keep my work going when I am gone. I trust her so much and her commitment to responsibility, and integrity.
PAULO, PORTUGAL
Fotoula and Fi are a safe haven for the soul. Although this is a course on shamanic practices, I felt that it's mainly a deep dive into your Self, face to face with your soul. Unlike other courses, I never felt that there was something to be fixed. I never felt the "wrong", the "must do", the "must be". I felt like Home. Not the family home, where you somehow have to adjust. But the kind of Home where you can Be!
Although I had to travel all the way from Portugal to attend the course, I never regretted it, not for one second. I will be forever grateful for this journey with the beautiful circle and the wonderful teachers. And now I can finally say to my Soul: I see You!
LEWIS
I first looked into the Shamanic Practitioner's course with the ISIS School of Holistic Health after a long battle with my health. I signed up with the intention of healing myself, but now I have the ability and confidence to offer healings to other people. It is an amazing course and I have been blessed with a fantastic tribe. Fi and Fotoula are kind, patient, funny and very supportive. I highly recommend them as teachers and this course to anyone interested in Shamanism.
MICHELLE TRUNG-ADAM
Taking the Shamanic Practitioner Course with Fotoula and Fi has been one of the most profound and life-changing experiences of my spiritual journey. The course not only deepened my connection with the spirit world, but it also transformed me as a person—awakening a part of myself that had long been waiting to return.
Fotoula and Fi are truly exceptional teachers—deeply knowledgeable, incredibly compassionate and grounded in years of dedicated practice. Their presence and integrity created a safe, sacred space where each of us could explore, heal, and grow in our own unique way.
The in-person format added a powerful dimension to the teachings. Working directly with the drum, journeying, soul retrieval, and ancestral connection work—my intuition sharpened, and my confidence in walking the shamanic path deepened with every session. If you're feeling called to step onto the path of the shamanic healer or deepen your spiritual connection in a grounded, respectful way—this course will meet you where you are and take you much further than you imagined. I'm beyond grateful for the wisdom, care, and empowerment that this training has given me. I carry it with me every day.
MICHELLE
Fotoula and Fi are wonderful teachers. The courses have been such a blessing to me in my personal journey and I have benefited so much from the healing and teachings received. I will be forever grateful
LYNNE
The 'Introduction to Shamanism Course' was my first experience of Shamanism. I was fairly new on my spiritual path and Fotoula and Fi created a safe and beautiful space that enabled me to open up more fully, just what I needed at the time. Following the weekend I knew that my soul was awakened and I began the 'Shamanic Practitioner' course. I have completed the Shamanic Practitioner Training and I find it difficult to express in words how positively my life has been transformed. The teachings and ceremonies are so beautiful and profound. Fotoula and Fi radiate so much light with kindness, compassion and crucially, authenticity. No matter where you are on your own spiritual journey I would totally endorse working with Fotoula and Fi.
SARA
I was a student of the Shamanic Practitioner Course with the ISIS School of Holistic Health. This course was a profound journey of reconnection with myself, the light within, and the wider realms of existence. Fotoula and Fi hold a deeply compassionate and truly safe space, where wisdom and practice come together in a way that is both grounded and magical. More than teachers, they are loving guides who share powerful shamanic perspectives with warmth, patience, and integrity. Their presence and teachings are a true gift, offering support and guidance that help us grow and connect with our own light and the light of others. I feel deeply grateful for their work