Getting to Know Woo

Episode 31 - Getting to Know Shamanism with David Shi

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Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, welcome David Shi shaman in training and author of Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanism. 

In this episode, they talk about:

  • Help is readily available from the ethereal realm
  • Learning to lean into this support
  • A meditation for connecting to your higher self on the daily
  • The vastness of Source
  • The damaging and growth-inhibiting constraints of organized religion
  • Stop and think before you act
  • The north Asian Tungusic roots of the word "shaman" and its definition
  • The widespread misuse of the word
  • Being chosen by ancestral spirits to be a shaman
  • David's unusual journey to shamanic initiation
  • Some rituals anyone can use in their own practice
  • And more!

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    • Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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