The third in our series on the Twelve Techniques. Technique no.3, Sealing, is the first that applies Gyre within the physical chalicity, and together with 1 and 2 can form some pretty rich and useful spirit dance with practice. As with the other shorts, the audio appears here on the podcast and the accompanying video can be found in the Woven Energy Patreon dashboard.

The accompanying video for this episode can be found on Patreon at patreon.com/wovenenergy. Technique no.2, Gathering, allows you to start to stir and move the energy contained by your physical chalicity and to maintain chalicity while morphing your physicial structure through patterns that are not entirely circular. Putting it together with technique 1, Gathering, will allow you to do some "real" spirit dance. The first thing to concentrate on when doing technique 2 with the staff is the ability to roll the staff over the back of your hand without losing contact with it (and without dropping it :-) ). Gaining this skill greatly expands the range of possibilities in creating the weave as we continue to introduce more techniques.

In this episode we catch up after a long time away for a wide ranging chat on all things shamanism, spirit animals and shamanic technique

This short episode is mostly just a bit of fun. Ranking spirit animals on a tier list based on how useful they are in starting out in animal spirit dance. In short, which spirit animals are the best to study once you have a good ability in level 3 and level 4 technique in order to broaden your understanding of spirit dance, and which ones should you avoid (at least to start with)?

This is a description of Enfolding, the first of the twelve Woven Energy techniques for Spirit Dance. The latter half of the podcast can be played as a commentary alongside the companion video on Patreon. Enfolding has a great many aspects, but most fundamental is the practice of physical chalicity, as well as gaining an understanding of threading and the Squall energy change.

An introduction to the idea and foundations of the twelve techniques that we're going to be using to convey spirit dance on these new short episodes of the Woven Energy Podcast on Shamanism, as well as an explanation of why we are doing it this way. In future shorts some of the episodes will be accompanied by instructional videos on Patreon.

What is the future of Woven Energy, what changes are being made? This new short-format episode marks a point of change in the ongoing story of Woven Energy. Check out the episode for more.

In the sixth Woven Energy monologue, Damon talks about Shamanism on the island of Okinawa, drawing parallels with the worldwide Shamanic phenomenon and looking at the details of how the mostly female Okinawan shamans, called Yuta, provide a supportive and nurturing aspect of Okinawan life.

In this special episode special guest martial artist Graham Barlow and Damon examine Bear as a spirit animal in reference to Xing Yi. This is the first of a series covering, at a minimum, all twelve of the spirit animals of Xing Yi, setting some of the ground work for upcoming mainstream Woven Energy episodes on Animal Spirit Dance.