As I am preparing for my new Shift Network Journey Group Membership Circle, I have been reflecting on what I feel is an important focus. For we know there are so many communities and lost civilizations that found a way to create harmonious ways of living and evolved out of the denser collective ways of thinking. They learned to live in a more harmonious way. We can do the same by using our thoughts and energy, and adding to that doing deep inner work on our own unresolved emotions. This all leads us to create a road map into a healthier way of life. So I am excited about focusing on this aspect of our work for 3 months with a group of people who are trained in shamanic journeying to the three worlds.
As I have been sharing Isis’ message that we are in a sink or swim cycle, I love the idea of swimming together in community.
I have been re-reading some of my old books where I wrote about topics like this, not to be inspired for the group I will be leading, but to inspire myself. I know it might sound strange, but I find when I was younger I really explored some deep topics that I don’t write about or teach anymore. As we keep making changes, we absorb a lot of the wisdom we learned along our path of life. And I find some of the books I wrote when I was younger contain wisdom that is so important to me now. It is like my younger self is teaching me how to create and live a good life.
I am really getting a lot of strength and resilience from reading stories from the younger part of me, as I was newer on the path of transmutation and transfiguration.
I remembered a story I always used to share when I wrote and taught trainings. And this is such important information for the times we live in now. There is so much in politics and world events that has the public casting rage to people in power. But we have to understand that people in power know how to use energy to keep feeding their own power. And this means they can use the energy of hate to grow stronger.
Here is a story I used to share in all my workshops to demonstrate this. On earth, we deal with separation and in the unseen we deal with unity where all is seen as energy that is neutral. In my Medicine for the Earth Trainings, I share that although all energy can be seen as neutral, first we need to take responsibility for what energies we are sending into the collective and how to work with this. I think it is important to take responsibility for the energies we carry and emanate. So please don’t get confused about me bringing me up that all energy is neutral.
I am sharing a teaching story about how people in power might be feeding off of any energy, whether it is love or hate. In some of my books I share about this powerful practice of perceiving all energy as neutral.
Back in the early 1990s, I was teaching a residential workshop on shamanism, and we did not have evening sessions. Our retreat center was in a forested area where there was nowhere to go at night. So we played shamanic games, told stories, and danced at night, which was a wonderful way for our group to bond and learn more from each other.
One night after class I taught a shamanic game of seeing using bones. In this game, there are two teams.
Two people on one team hold bones in their clasped hands. One bone is unmarked and one bone has a circle carved into it. This team is called the Hiding Team.
Then there is the Seer Team. A person on the seer’s team needs to be able to look through the clasped hands and point to the hand that is hiding the bone marked with a circle. This takes an amazing amount of concentration.
The people on the seer’s team put their hands on the shoulders of the seer and sends energy that helps the seer keep their shamanic concentration and focus. Meanwhile, the hider’s team is making so much noise that is cacophonous to throw off the concentration of the seer.
I played this game in groups for years. And it is a very difficult game to play in our culture where concentration has always been an issue. So when I did find someone who can see well and won the game for their team in a short amount of time, I wanted to have a conversation on the strategy used. For I always find some strategy is used. I find being lucky does not win this game.
At one of these games a woman stepped up in her team to be a seer and won the game in less than 15 minutes, which is extraordinary.
I took her outside and asked her if she was willing to share the strategy she used. And she did. She was a musician in the symphony. And she found at a performance people came in excited, tired, angry from their day, depressed, and all the variety of emotions we carry from our day into an evening event. Even listening to beautiful music, you can still be immersed in anger.
This student of mine learned how to transmute and absorb all the energy being sent out into the room from the audience into the most positive energy that allowed her to be at her absolute best at a performance. She found energy is energy, and it can all be used to give us more strength if we know how to transmute it and use it.
And this is how she won the bone game. All the cacophony from the Hider’s Team was more energy she could absorb and use to be the best musician she could be.
So use your imagination to ponder how much some of the people who you hate are using that energy to strengthen their own power. It is something to ponder on. Are we actually feeding those in power with an enormous amount of energy they can use to create more challenges? It is an interesting concept to think about.
The full moon is June 11. This is a time to come together as one breathing heartbeat and one point of light. Let’s gather our powerful energies and transfigure into our brightest light as we continue to heal ourselves and bring more and more light and love to all of life on this great Earth.
If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News, please read Creating a Human Web of Life on the homepage for instructions for our full moon ceremony.
We celebrate and welcome in the solstice on June 20. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is the longest day of the year and when the Earth poles have its maximum tilt towards the sun.
In shamanism this has been seen as a time of renewal. And celebrating the sun’s power to sustain us is such important work to do. Take some time in nature at your favorite spot or outdoor landscape. And focus on your heart and your body. Go within and ask what practices do I need for my own renewal as I focus on my connection with the sun and all of life. This is a great journey to do.
Join me in celebrating the solstice, whether you live in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere – we greet a new cycle for us to step into while we deepen our relationship with our life-giving Sun!
And please join me in welcoming and blessing Dorota Madrzyk who is now a new translator for us. She has gracefully volunteered to translate the Transmutation News into the Polish language! Thank you Dorota, this is a huge gift!
Announcements:
I am leading a 3-month journey circle where we meet once a week for 3 months to journey on ways we can work and live in harmonious ways during this time. The group starts June 3 and goes through August. I will choose journeys before each week that speak to the work we need to do for the times we are in for each group meeting. We will have a chance to share in breakout rooms and on social media. And we work as a strong community to support each other and the planet. There will be journeys that have you be transparent about your own issues you need to be working on now too and exploring how some lost civilizations found a way to create a dimension to live in separate from the general collective to live a life of beauty and grace.
When I used to teach in person workshops on Experiencing the Shamanic Journey, we would do a divination journey to pose a question to the spirits to answer a question for another participant in the group. I could have 100–150 people in a workshop or less. But for over 40 years, I went around the room and helped each person in the role of shamanic practitioner word their question in behalf of their partner correctly. So I learned so much about asking the correct questions to the helping spirits that give us our best and deepest answers.
There are some really great questions I have, to ask to the spirits on how to unpack the lives we are living and our ways of thinking to create a new personal dimension of reality to step into. And I am so excited in helping in asking the right questions, so the helping spirits can guide us with more power and focus.
This is not a course on shamanism. It is a practice group for people who already journey who want to see what we can do together in community.
Please note that due to my movement disorder all online work I am doing is audio only. This includes the podcasts I have been invited to share on too. I have retired from video presentations.
For more information or to register for this circle:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/ccsirSI/ingerman/
The sessions begin on Tuesday morning June 3 10AM – 11AM MDT and runs every Tuesday morning until August 19.
Again, I am looking for a wonderful community to swim with during these times!
I just re-read How to Heal Toxic Thoughts. I am so happy I wrote this book. Even I forgot about some of the amazing tools I shared for transmuting energy that I don’t wish to absorb.
If you are looking for a summary of all the Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Light practices, they are all in my book Walking in Light which is available in multiple formats. And if you are looking at how to perform shamanic ceremonies The Book of Ceremony teaches how to perform ceremonies, and I also shared ceremonies you can do for all we experience in modern life.
“Polishing the Path of the Soul” (my audio book) is one of the best resources I have for walking through these times from a state of grace. I was in such a deep spiritual place when I spent a week recording this audio book. I don’t remember a recording I ever did that went this deep or far or embraced so much of the energy of unconditional love!
Llyn Roberts and I wrote such a beautiful book titled Walking Through Darkness, and then I recorded on my own “Polishing the Path of the Soul. Don’t be afraid to explore the maps I shared with you for walking through dark times. For those are the times we are in. With my book and audio you are provided a clear roadmap of how to keep walking forward, exploring the amazing territory of darkness and the healing it holds, and then how to emerge on a new path feeling empowered by your journey through the times we are living in and what you experienced in your past.
I am still consistently posting inspiration posts on my Authors Page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SandraIngerman and @ingermansandra on Instagram. I have been doing this for a year now and all the posts are still up. Reading and pondering what I am sharing is very inspiring. I hope you will check in.
And don’t forget to visit our Shamans are Gardeners of Energy Facebook page to post inspirational stories and images and also to be uplifted by what our community is sharing. To join the Facebook group Shamans Are Gardeners of Energy, go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/991720834662313. The password is “Transfiguration”. “
I love going to Shamans are Gardeners of Energy to rest from life and take in so much of the beauty that people post. It is my sacred space for getting away from the conditioned world.
It is important to me to know that I created these FB pages to give inspiration. Yes, I do promote as I do have new books, audios, and courses to share about. But my reason for posting now is to help lift us all up in these challenging times. I don’t care how many people sign up for my FB pages. I am simply trying to keep our community inspired and moving forward with our work- those who want some inspiration.
Sylvia Edwards has generously compiled a list of the ceremonies that have been shared so far on the Shamans Are Gardeners of Energy website. Below is a link to that page.
Thank you, Sylvia, for gifting us with this list:
https://www.sandraingerman.com/shamans-are-gardeners-of-energy/
Renee Baribeau and I are excited to be back on The Shamans Cave. We are doing audio only. For more information, please visit www.ShamansTV.com. We are having a wonderful time being back!
I have some really great Evergreen courses to learn more about shamanic work. Here are some of my courses with links where you can buy a course that was once live but is now a recording you can watch in your own time.
Here are some courses I have available:
Shift Network Courses:
Cultivate Spiritual Immunity with Shamanic Medicine of the Earth: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/csiSI/ingerman/
The Ancient Practice of Shamanic Journeying (Evergreen): https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/apsjSI/ingerman/
The Dark Night of the Soul as a Portal to the Shaman’s Light: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/dnsSI/ingerman/
Shamanic Practices for Spiritual Immunity: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/spSI/ingerman/ This is actually my course Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Spiritual Light
Shamanic Journeying with the Spirits of Nature: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/snSI/ingerman/
Shamanic Journeying for Guidance and Healing part 2: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/sjcSI/ingerman/ This an audio only
Sounds True courses:
Through Sounds True I taught an in-person Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Spiritual Light Training that was recorded and is still for sale: https://www.soundstrue.com/products/healing-with-spiritual-light-online-course
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I’m very inspired to be among the presenters for the Expanded States of Consciousness Mega-Summit, from June 17 – June 26, 2025, which features cutting-edge research and practical techniques for accessing and integrating expanded states.
The Expanded States of Consciousness Mega-Summit is not just an event—it’s an opportunity to learn directly from 90+ world’s leading experts in Psychedelics and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy.
Over ten transformative days, you’ll have access to groundbreaking research, expert guidance, and a supportive community to help you explore the relationship between our understanding of consciousness, mind, and the human brain.
Presenters include:
Sharon Salzberg, Deepak Chopra MD, Marie Mbouni MD, Stan & Brigitte Grof, Dan Siegel MD, Gita Vaid MD, Steven Kotler, Grandmother Flordemayo, Thomas Hübl PhD, Atira Tan, Pedram Shojai OMD, Matthew Johnson PhD, Marisa Peer, Sara Reed, DaeEss 1 Drea Pennington Wasio MD, Robin Carhart-Harris PhD, Sandra Ingerman, A. H. Almaas, Sunny Strasburg LMFT, Christina Pratt, Sue Morter DC, Rosalind Watts PhD, Amoda Maa, Stephen Porges PhD, Grandmother Moetu-Taiha, James Fadiman PhD, Kathleen Booker, Dennis McKenna PhD, Katherine MacLean PhD, Kien Vuu MD, and many more…
Please click this link for more information and to register:
https://www.heartmindpartners.co/expandedstatesworldsummit_com/singerman/verified
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