The Healing Process--What to Expect
I (Laureen Rama) now recommend attending a Soul Healing Weekend as the most effective way to incorporate this intense healing into your life.
At this time, Laureen Rama is taking a break from doing healings. For a distant healing, contact Linda McKay at lnmckay@telus.net or 403-247-2096 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. For other healing see the Soul Healing Shamanic Network.
If you book a shamanic healing with me (Laureen Rama), your healing will follow the processes described below, for healing in person, or by distance. Those who have trained with me (see Soul Healing Shamanic Network) will generally follow these same procedures.
Investment:$495 Cdn, incl. GST (about $310 US) for a Soul Healing Weekend. $267.50 Cdn. incl. GST (about $160.00 US) for a full shamanic healing with Laureen.
$80.25 Cdn. incl. GST (about $50 US) for a one hour extraction (removing energy blocks) session. Visa accepted.
Steps in Laureen Rama's Healing Process for full shamanic healing session when done in-person:
You will speak over the phone with me to set the time and parameters for the healing. I will ask you to prepare for the healing by identifying what you want to change in your life or yourself. We will set the time for a 3 to 4 hour healing session. I will suggest the healing take place when you have unscheduled time afterwards (preferably one or two days) to facilitate integration of the healing.
In Edmonton, healings usually take place at my healing sanctuary, although I can travel to you if necessary. In other locations, the healing usually takes place at a venue you provide.
I will also invite you to invite your support people, e.g., friends, family, counsellor, to the healing. Shamanic healing traditionally took place in community. The sense of "as one heals, we all heal" can add a wonderful energy to the experience. This is not necessary, though. You need to feel comfortable above all.
To prepare for the healing, you will identify some or all of the following:
- qualities you want back (e.g., joy for life, self-love, tolerance of others)
- possibly times in your life when you know you changed and you want back whatever soul parts left then
- people you want to become unhooked from, with whom you feel you have an unhealthy connection
- physical ailments or spots in your body where you feel you may have an energy block.
It is best when your intent for the healing is forward-looking and positive. In other words, think about how you want to be in the future, rather than how you don't want to be now. It often helps to write a list of what you want from the healing. Don't restrict yourself; you may not get everything you ask for, but in shamanic healing, you have to set an intent and ask for what you want.
Focus on you and your life, rather than others you would like to see change.
It is not necessary to share your history or past traumas. If you would like me to reveal to you any known traumas I see in my healing journey for you, though, please do tell me about those before the healing.
If you would like to read to prepare, read Soul Retrieval by Sandra Ingerman and/or visit the What is shamanic healing? section.
At the beginning of the 3 to 4 hour healing session, we will talk to clarify what you want from the healing.
We will create sacred space by calling in the spirits to be with us through rattling and prayer.
I will do a shamanic healing journey for you while you relax. Usually we will lie on floor mats side-by-side. In my journey, I will ask my helping spirits what would be most helpful for you at this time regarding your intent for the healing. This question leaves it up to spirit to determine what healing will take place. It also ensures that you will only receive as much healing as you are ready for and not more than you can handle. I am guided by spirit as I perform this healing for you.
The order of the next three steps varies with each healing.
I will tell you the story of my healing journey for you. This will be tape-recorded or written down for you.
I will transfer to you any soul parts and/or power animals I have brought back. Usually this is done by blowing each one into the top of your head and into your heart.
I will perform extraction, removing any spiritual intrusions in your body, if guided to do so by my helping spirits. Usually this is done by rattling over your body to loosen up the spiritual intrusions and then coaxing and drawing them out of your body with my hands, which are held just over your body. The intrusions are thrown into fire (a fireplace or candle), or the nearest large body of water, to neutralize them and allow them to rejoin the general energy flow of life.
We will talk about what you can expect after the healing and what you can do to integrate the healing.
Two to four weeks later, we may have a follow-up session. Follow-up sessions are invaluable in supporting the integration of this powerful healing. You will also learn skills in shamanic journeying that you can use life-long for guidance and self-healing.
In the 3 to 4 hour follow-up session, the steps are:
a) We will talk about what you have been experiencing since the healing. I will coach you with any challenges you may be having in integration.
b) I will teach you how to do shamanic journeys. You will do one or two shamanic journeys to meet your power animals and visit your returned soul parts to ask them for guidance on how best to integrate their qualities into your life.
c) I will perform more healing for you, if necessary. Often, there is more extraction to do, and occasionally, more soul retrieval.
d) I will make suggestions as to how you can continue your integration of the healing process. I will also give you a handout of exercises you can do on your own or through further sessions with me.
You can phone or email me with any questions you have, or stories to share, after the healing. I am available to support you as you integrate your healing.
In 3 months to a year or longer, you may feel the need for more healing and can call to book another healing session. Generally follow-up sessions are not necessary in subsequent healing processes. Three healing processes are usually enough over your lifetime to bring you to wholeness.
Steps in Laureen Rama's Healing Process for a full shamanic healing when done by distance:
Steps 1 to 3 (setting the parameters and intent for the healing) are the same as above, but all take place over the phone.
I then do Steps 4 to 8 (the actual healing) alone.
I will telephone you with the story of the healing including follow-up integration suggestions and/or send you the tape-recording of these.
I will speak with you over the telephone within a month after the healing to check on your integration process and provide coaching if necessary or desired. You can phone or email me with any questions you have, or stories to share, after the healing. I am available to support you as you integrate your healing.
Steps in Laureen Rama's Healing Process for an Exclusively Extraction (Removing Energy Blocks) session.
Extraction sessions are up to one hour long.
- We will set a time by phone. Healings in Edmonton generally take place at my healing sanctuary, although I can travel to you if necessary. In other locations, I generally travel to a venue you provide.
You are invited to bring others, if you wish, to support the healing and contribute their energy. Bring people who genuinely want the best for you and support shamanic healing.
Don't drink alcohol the day before or the day of the healing.
- Once we are together for the healing, we will create sacred space by calling the spirits to be with us through rattling and prayer.
- You will lay on a massage table or bed or couch. I will remove any spiritual intrusions in your body. Usually I do this by rattling over your body to loosen up the spiritual intrusions and then coaxing and drawing them out of your body with my hands, which are held just over your body. The intrusions are thrown into fire (fireplace or candle), or the nearest large body of water to neutralize them and allow them to rejoin the general energy flow of life.
- I will then talk with you about how to continue to clear the intrusions and how to stay clear. We will thank and release the spirits.
- Afterwards people usually report feeling lighter and freer, as well as feeling relief from their symptoms. Some physical pain may be experienced for a few hours. Releasing may continue for a few days. Sometimes people experience tiredness for a few days afterwards due to the intense nature of the healing.
Generally, people can have extraction sessions more often than soul retrieval sessions. Not as much time is needed to integrate an extraction healing as a soul retrieval healing. It is not unusual to book bi-weekly sessions for a period of time.
Whenever you feel you may have an energy block in your body is the time for an extraction session. The signs of an energy block, or spiritual intrusion, are a tight area physically (e.g. persistent muscle knots), or a feeling of constriction (e.g. tight chest and restricted breathing, lump in throat, knot in stomach), or a persistent emotion often related to a tightness in energy in a certain part of the body (e.g. high anxiety with a tight stomach).
Steps in Laureen Rama's Healing Process for an Exclusively Extraction (Removing Energy Blocks) session by distance
Distance healings seem to be just as effective as in-person healings.
- We will speak by telephone about your symptoms (where and how you experience energy blocks in your body) and your intention for the healing (what you want to receive from it).
- I will perform the healing through a shamanic journey. Then I will phone you to tell you the story of the healing. This phone call will be taped and the tape sent to you. If we cannot connect by phone, I will send you the tape, and you will be able to call me after listening to it.
The healing can be performed at a pre-arranged time, if you wish.
Investment:$267.50 Cdn. incl. GST (about $160.00 US) for a full shamanic healing with Laureen. $495 Cdn, incl. GST (about $310 US) for a Soul Healing Weekend (the equivalent of 3-4 individual sessions).
$80.25 Cdn. incl. GST (about $50 US) for a one hour extraction (removing energy blocks) session. Visa accepted.
To book a shamanic healing in person or by distance, contact Laureen at info@soulrestore.com or phone 1-403-851-1198 in Edmonton or outside North America, or 1-800-491-7738 toll-free from anywhere in North America.
