Trainings and Announcements from Sandra Ingerman
A Message From Sandra
I know we have been riding some very challenging and turbulent waves. And the natural flow of life will continue to bring us challenges that inspire us to really deepen our spiritual work. For clearly we cannot think our way out of or physically power through the personal and planetary initiation we are in. We are being asked to dive deep into the power of our inner spirit that has all the knowledge and strength to carry us through to the rebirth as to attune us to the nature cycle of death and rebirth that all living beings on Earth experience.
But we must learn how to live a new way of life filled with love, light, and the power of spirit. We have to correct the disharmonious patterns we have created in the collective field of energy.
There are no compassionate spirits or shamanic teachers who can do your personal work for you. But they can inspire you on ways to perform your own ceremonial work, join with others in your local and global community to do the same, and keep going deeper.
The practice of shamanism was gifted to humans by the compassionate spirits over 100,000 years ago to help them survive. And obviously we need the power of these universal and ancient practices to assist in the survival of life on this Earth.
I started teaching the practice of shamanism when I was 29, and I will be 71 in 2024. I am working with new formats so I can share teachings with the international community without being on the road 300 days a year as I did in the past. Teaching online classes have given the opportunity for people from all over the world to train with me.
I will keep teaching, just more locally and through online courses, summits, and lectures, through my writing and of course I will continue writing the monthly Transmutation News.
Studying long term with a local teacher where you can work within a bonded and supportive community is such a powerful way to be introduced to shamanic ways of receiving guidance, healing, and living a shamanic way of life. I have been training shamanic teachers since 2003. You will find an international list of brilliant local teachers I trained by visiting www.shamanicteachers.com. This site includes a list of shamanic practitioners I have trained if you are looking to work one on one with a shamanic healer.
Below you will see the workshops I have scheduled. Keep checking back as I add more to my schedule. Please take a look at the wealth of online classes I have taught that were recorded and can now be registered for and downloaded on your own timeline.
Continue to check this section to learn about new workshops I schedule at retreat centers or new online courses.
What people are saying….
“Sandra is an excellent teacher with a great deal of love and wisdom to share.”
This course helped me see the world in new ways, connect with nature beings, and find sources of love and healing within me and in the outer world. Sandra is an excellent teacher with a great deal of love and wisdom to share. The course helped me move into a place where I think I will be able to offer more love and joy to others and help make the world better. Thank you, Sandra!
– Anna, Pittsburg, Kansas
“I have no doubt my life has changed for the better since this course.”
Sandra is such a brilliant teacher, and her way of being in this world feels so profoundly aligned to my life as well. Her practices and teachings on nature connection are a breath of beautiful, hopeful fresh air in what can feel like an overwhelmingly chaotic world. I will continue to refer to these classes and practices frequently. I have no doubt my life has changed for the better since this course.
— Catherine, Victoria, Canada
CALENDAR
January 7, 2025 – A Shaman’s Approach to Death as a Rite of Passage
September 14-19, 2025 Session 2 of Sandra’s 10th 2 Year Professional Teacher Training CLOSED
September 13-18, 2026 Session 4 of Sandra’s 10th 2 Year Professional Teacher Training CLOSED
I am teaching a new 7-week online course for the Shift Network on A Shaman’s Approach to Death as a Rite of Passage beginning January 7. This course is modified from the course I have trained teachers to teach on death as a rite of passage. I won’t teach psychopomp work as it is not appropriate for a large online course with students who have no background in shamanism. People do need to have a connection with a helping spirit.
But this will be such a beautiful course for shamanic journeyers, hospice workers, death doulas, and anyone who fears death or wants to understand what happens when we die.
This course is for individuals to understand death, how to resolve unfinished business with loved ones, those of you who want to learn how to use spiritual practices to care for a loved one or a client dying, how to perform honorable closure and memorial ceremonies, and how to work with grief.
We will also be visiting Earth, Air, Water, Fire, the Sun, lightning, and other nature beings to learn about their perception of death.
And of course, every change we go through in life is seen as a death. And we are facing big changes NOW!
This course also teaches how to work with humans, pets, plants, and other nature beings.
I have been teaching this course since the early 1990s. I am just leaving out psychopomp work. So many people would tell me I have no idea why I signed up for the course, but months and years later tell me how valuable it was.
We are sung into this world, and we are sung out of this world. We travel through the darkness and into the light. The process of dying is so beautiful as we follow the River of Life. By trying to stay here past our natural cycle is stepping out of the flow of the River of Life.
I am so passionate about this course. One of the reasons my guardian spirit told me he taught me Soul Retrieval was because of how much time I spent helping people cross over to the other side. It has been a destiny call for me. My guardian spirit told me I needed more help in creating balance and bringing people back from there to here again. I love the work of Death a Shamanic Rite of Passage.
To sign up and to explore what each of the 7 modules will cover, click on this link: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/ssdSI/ingerman/
I know we are facing times most of us have not seen. But my helping spirits keep telling me we are going to get through this. And we are going to get through this together. The cycle of life and death continues throughout time.
Join me. I think you might love this work!!
Back in the late 1990’s Isis asked me to start seeding local communities with really well trained teachers. She said a time would come when people would not be able to travel, and we needed good teachers and practitioners who could serve their local communities.
I have been seeding our communities with well trained teachers to save people the expense of having to travel to distant workshops. We need to create a way to get information out to a broader audience so we can help change the current level of consciousness in the world.
In this training I will cover issues and questions that come up when teaching groups, help participants design workshops, and I will share new adaptations to the work that will speak to our world community and work with present- day issues and problems.
We will also use shamanic journeying and ceremonies to work through the egoic traps that many teachers fall into when they take on the role of teacher and help work through blocks that prevent us from being as creative as is our birthright.
In this course participants are trained to teach:
Shamanic Journeying
Extraction
Five Day Soul Retrieval Training
Psychopomp work as well as a working with people who are facing death.
Medicine for the Earth
Healing with Spiritual Light
How to teach and lead ceremonies in workshops
This is my last Teacher Training. I am only looking for people who want to teach direct revelation and who want to be listed on www.shamanicteachers.com. If this is not your wish and if your background is not primarily practicing direct revelation please this is not the training for you. I teach old time shamanism and only teach the work of direct revelation and working in the Lower World, Middle World, and Upper World. Experience working in all three worlds is required.
This is a professional training not just a workshop. I have kept the tuition much lower than others would charge for this opportunity. Room and board prices at retreat centers are high these days, which I have no control over. Please calculate your costs and see if this is realistic for you. I have been teaching for 44 years. And I expect this will be a life path for you too.
This training will give you a way of being in service and being able to teach and see clients for the rest of your life. So this is a training that will benefit you for life not just for a short period. And obviously this is going to need a commitment on every level.
There are very strict prerequisites for this course as great teachers teach from his or her experience. Therefore, I will only be accepting applications from people who have already completed workshops and are practicing all the work shared in this course.
Please only apply to the course if you have completed all the prerequisites.
You need to have taken the following courses as well as have the practice using the material:
Shamanic Journeying
Shamanic Extraction
Five Day Soul Retrieval Training with someone listed on www.shamanicteachers.com authorized to teach it.
Psychopomp work
Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Spiritual Light
Also you need to be seeing clients.
In the application you will be asked to list the courses you completed, as well as who you studied with, and you will be asked to describe your practice with clients and how many clients you see a week. For you can’t teach shamanism without a healthy healing practice. You need to be seeing clients for at least 6 months.
Those who took all prerequisites with someone listed on shamanicteachers.com will have preference on enrolling into the course.
You will need to send 3 case studies on your work with soul retrieval for a client, two case studies of your extraction work, and one case study of your psychompomp work. The format for what I ask for with case studies is specified in the application.
If I have questions about your application an interview will be set up. I am not just looking for participants trained in shamanism I am looking for emotionally mature participants who have done a lot of personal work on themselves and lead a deep spiritual life and can deal with all types of challenges that can come up in a workshop.
We we will meet twice a year for two years at the Chi Center in Galisteo, New Mexico outside of Santa Fe. The dates are:
April 20-25 2025
September 14-19 2025
April 19-24 2026
September 13-18 2026.
All the sessions are five days and begin Sunday night with dinner and end Friday at noon and lunch is served after.
Participation is required for all four meetings in order to complete the teacher training.
You might be asked to teach a workshop on your own before completing the training. And once accepted to the website you can only be listed if you submit workshops to our webmaster Sylvia Edwards that you have scheduled.
Participants who have completed all four sessions will be eligible to be listed on www.shamanicteachers.com. You will be able to list workshops that I’ve trained you to teach as well as you can list unique and creative workshops you have designed that have to do with shamanism.
Cost: Tuition is $750 for each five day session. Room and board charges will be based on the type of room you stay in and the final number of people in the class. For planning purposes, use $1400. Due to contractual obligations, all fees for the four sessions are non-refundable.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Sylvia Edwards info@sandraingerman.com
Click on this link to download the application:
https://www.sandraingerman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2025_2026-Application-1.docx
Please note: Sandra does not provide any business services for her Teacher Trainings.
THIS COURSE IS NOW CLOSED.
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Several of Sandra’s Workshops are available to be purchased so you can take the course at your own pace.
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