Shamanic Teachers
Hosted by noted shamanic teacher and practioner, Sandra Ingerman, this website is designed to help you find a shamanic teacher in your area who can teach you basic shamanic skills. In addition to teachers and workshops, also listed are practioners, drum circle and other valuable information.
Medicine for the Earth: Transmutation News
Monthly newsletters, available in eight languages, about topical subjects written by Sandra Ingerman and inspired from her book Medicine for the Earth. Includes calendar of trainings and announcements, and creating a human web of light.
New York Shamanic Circle
The core New York Shamanic Circle group practices healing and journeying work every week since 1997. NYSC is dedicated to promoting and supporting a shamanic community in New York City. Through its activities (workshops, monthly Open House Shamanic Circles, Monthly Women's Circles, and The annual Shamanic Gathering in Central Park.
Gay Men's Medicine Circle: LA
GMMC sees gay people as our tribe and the Los Angeles gay community as our village and encourages and supports the gay-centered spiritual growth of each other and gay men throughout the community.
Society for Shamanic Practictioners
The Society of Shamanic Practitioners is an alliance of people deeply committed to the re-emergence of shamanic practices that promote healthy individuals and viable communities. We are a not-for-profit public benefit corporation whose goal is to support the re-emergence of shamanism into modern, western cultural.
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies
Founded by internationally renowned anthropologist Michael Harner with a three-fold mission to study, to teach, and to preserve shamanism, the Foundation for Shamanic Studies has built a reputation of consistency and dependability by providing reliable training in Core Shamanism to interested learners worldwide.
Tom Cowan Web site
Tom Cowan is a shamanic practitioner specializing in Celtic visionary and healing techniques. He combines universal core shamanism with traditional European spirit lore to create spiritual practices that can heal and enrich one's own life and the lives of others. He is an internationally respected teacher, author, lecturer, and tour leader...
Shaman Links
An interesting site that gives general information on shamanism topics: shamanic extraction, power animals, journeying, and a good list of links
Tuva: Shamans and Spirits Video
Clips from a moving documentary of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies' 1993 expedition to help, at their invitation, the Tuvan peoples of Central Asia revive their shamanic traditions, nearly destroyed under Soviet Communism. Michael Harner offers commentary on shamanism and shamanic healing.
other select links you'll love
Gay Elders Circle
They say: "We are a group of gay men, more or less fifty-five or older, who have assembled to support each other in becoming gay elders. We come from a wide range of backgrounds and are united in our primary purpose of being useful to younger gay men and of service to the gay and larger community."
Gay Wisdom — White Crane
White Crane Magazine is a fabulous quarterly magazine exploring Gay Culture and Wisdom for over 15 years, run by our long-time friends Bo Young & Dan Vera. Gay Wisdom is a daily email of gay history and (what else??) wisdom. LOTS to see at the site: deep archives, White Crane Books, a Blog, more...
Touch Practice
The Touch Practice site explains a bodywork for the soul that empowers men through compassionate touch. It is not a traditional massage where one person gives while another receives. Rather, it is a style of interactive, mutual touch that uses hugging, holding, light strokes, and evolves like an improvisation or a slow dance of touch.
Easton Mountain / Gay Spirit Camp
Easton Mountain is a retreat center on 175 beautiful acres in upstate NY with guest houses, private rooms, spa room, outdoor sauna and pool, meeting rooms, temple. Perfect retreat location!
Shantigar Village
Shantigar Village is dedicated to where artistic and spiritual practices meet. It is a farm on a spectacularly beautiful mountainside in Western Massachusetts. Founded by the playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie, Shantigar Village offers workshops in performance and other arts conducted by professional artists-teachers
Body Electric
Body Electric is a school of the healing arts committed to helping people experience their potential as healers of self and others through touch, conscious breath, and honoring the wisdom of the body.