Episode 31 - Getting to Know Shamanism with David Shi

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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