The Shamanic Practitioners Foundation Course: Online and with an Intensive Retreat
Welcome and thank you for visiting!
Welcome brother/sister. Thank you for your visit. If you feel drawn to train with us you are welcome to book a free chat with us to make sure it feels right to you and so that we can also feel if we can help you.
The Shamanic Practitioners Foundation Course is another course that is aimed at people who wish to train as a shamanic practitioner but who cannot commit to the 6 in person modules on the Shamanic Practitioners Medicine Wheel. This is a deep journey of healing, of connecting to the directions, the Elements, the Earth, the Sky and All That Is. It is a journey from the head to the heart to embrace the true you.
About your teachers:
Grey Elk (Paul O’Halloran) & White Feathers Woman (Melanie O’Halloran-Gomes):
Grey Elk (named by the Cree Nation) is a fully initiated igqirha (healer/shaman in the Xhosa tradition). Grey Elk has healed and rebalanced around 5,000 properties in person, mostly in Eire (Ireland). He has a very strong connection to the elementals (spirits) of the land and was guided to teach shamanism. The teachings of the shamanic courses are very much are led by Great Spirit and encourage you to develop your own medicine while showing you different techniques from Native American, Celtic and African traditions.
White Feathers Woman (named by a Cree Elder) Water Rose Priestess and Medicine Woman was led to the spiritual work through her health and life’s experiences.
Melanie started out working as a marine conservation ecologist for around 20 years in different marine sectors such as Governmental, underwater dive surveys and charities. Melanie then trained in various modalities, shamanism (with Grey Elk), Rahanni Celestial Healing (Melanie is one of the original 7 Ambassadors and a Guardian of Rahanni (G.R.C.H.). Melanie has also been gifted a modality from the sea - the Water Rose.
Melanie and Paul teach the intensive Shamanic Rose Spiral and the Shamanic Practitioners Foundation Course and Intensive Retreats.
Shamanic Practitioners Foundation Course Details
The shamanic practitioners medicine wheel training can be taken in 2 ways with the School of Shamanic Studies at Pathway teaching, this route (online and intensive retreat- LIMITED TO 12 PEOPLE) or the in person 6 module course. There is also a Shamanic Rose Spiral which involves an online component with rose activations (white, pink, red, yellow and black), some shamanic training plus an intensive retreat either in Eire (Ireland) or the Azores (Portugal). The Rose Spiral is more for those drawn to the roses. For more info on the shamanic rose spiral please see here. Thank you.
The shamanic practitioners course explores an in depth journey around the Medicine Wheel thus finding out more about ourselves and who we really are. As we journey together through the directions, North, West, South and East in greater detail we will shed the skin of our mental, emotional, spiritual and to a degree physical baggage that no longer serves us. In doing this together, as we transform from the caterpillar to the butterfly, we learn and remember techniques in healing from the oldest traditions on earth. The shamanic practitioners medicine wheel goes deeper into the shamanic healing journey and if you are called on the shamanic path these are the courses we recommend.
You receive a shamanic practitioners certificate once finished, so you can get insured to do the work at the end of the course providing you have completed all the online modules and the in person intensive retreat (full package). Please note this course the online course and intensive retreat does not include the Munay Ki rites but rather works with the celtic archetypes in each of the directions.
Please be aware that we interview all prospective students before booking the full package, please contact us if you are interested prior to booking thank you. Everyone is welcome to attend the online training without talking to us. The online training is on a sale at the moment until March 2025 it is 555Euro instead of 777Euro.
Below are the booking links for shamanic courses, please be sure to select the right button (either in Eire (Ireland) or Azores Portugal. Thank you.
Furnas, São Miguel Azores by Melanie.
The Shamanic Practitioners Foundation Course online and retreat includes:
Healing techniques as we travel through the directions.
Deeper journey work to heal ourselves, the earth and others.
Connecting with Nature – the tree people, the stone people, the Earth people etc. and working with the elements.
Power and soul retrieval and extraction work.
Community and distance healing.
Fire and other ceremony/ rituals.
Drumming techniques.
What ever else Spirit dictates.
Learning to work with shamanic tools.
Introduction to divining/dowsing.
Spirit release.
Connecting you to your lineage of your Ancestors.
Connection to your soul group
Stalking awareness.
Vision quest - fasting outside in nature connecting with nature and self.
Sacred fire ceremony.
Please understand that the content does vary year on year depending on the energy of the group and what the group needs.
Please bear in mind that these courses are not really a course, they are a calling from your heart and soul into yourself via the Shamanic path. Once you have energetically committed the energy of the wheel Great Spirit (the Spirit Helpers of the Medicine Wheel) work to heal you even before you have got here. The energy of the wheel also works between the modules or training weeks. For those people who complete the wheel with us, they then have a connection to the Spirit Helpers of the Earth in all the directions within themselves. Once you step truly on the shamanic path there is no going back as although it can be the path of the warrior it leaves nothing hidden and leads you truly into the beauty in your heart. “When the student is ready the Master appears”.
If you are unsure and would like to talk to us about a big commitment such as this you are welcome to. Just contact us to arrange a call. We prefer to talk to people who have not worked with us before to interview them before they come on the shamanic wheel. Thank you.
Listen to your Heart.
It always resonates with the Truth.
Are you ready to dive in?
Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course Dates 2024 - 2025.
Lives are at 8pm Eire (Ireland) time and are recorded. Please note it is best to attend live if you can as some parts are not recorded such as discussions and when we do energetic work on people.
Month 1: Gathering the Medicine
Wednesday 4th December 2024 – Start of Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Wednesday 18th December 2024 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Month 2: Mother Earth
Friday 17th January 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Friday 31st January 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Month 3: Father Sky and the Celestial Ones
Tuesday 11th February 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Tuesday 25th February 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Month 4: Earth - North
Wednesday 12th March 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Wednesday 26th March 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Month 5: Water - West
Wednesday 9th April 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Wednesday 23rd April 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Month 6: Fire - South
Wednesday 7th May 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Wednesday 21st May 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Month 7: Air - East
Monday 9th June 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Monday 23rd June 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Month 8: The Centre – the I AM – Recap and Completion of Online part.
Wednesday 9th July 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Wednesday 23rd July 2025 – Shamanic Practitioners Online Foundation Course.
Intensive In Person Shamanic Practitioners Retreat: Monday 28th July 6pm to Sunday 3rd August 5pm Celebration and Completion.
Please note the retreat and retreat package IS LIMITED TO 12 PEOPLE ONLY.
The online course is 777Euro (555 Euro at the moment until March 2025) for people new to Pathway teaching. If you are a previous shamanic practitioners student of ours you are welcome to attend the online part for 188 Euros. This is only for students of Pathway teaching.
Please contact us if you are keen to talk to us about booking thank you.
Tullamore Co. Down by Melanie
Investiment in yourself:
Booking is non-refundable and non-exchangeable: 500GBP for the online and retreat package. Please contact us for the bank details. Thank you.
If you wish to do the online one year and then do the retreat the following year you are welcome although it is generally better to do it in the one year.
2026 onwards retreat full board and online training: 3365GPB in total.
2025 retreat full board and online training: 3165 GPB in total. EARLY BIRD until 1st March 2025 retreat and online training: 2865 GPB in total (500GBP of this is the booking). We will then email you regarding a payment plan so it is all paid before the retreat starts.
The retreat is not open to those who have not done the online training as it is a necessary foundation. Thank you.
Thank you!
If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us! The Spirits are waiting for you!
Sage, bowl and feather. Melanie.
“Shamanism connects us to our tribe, our community and eventually we realise the power of this, everything can change once we connect in community. The power of the collective heart, the power of love and the power of well set intentions can move mountains. It all starts with you having the courage to reach out and heal yourself.”