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Leaning Toward the Light 🌿🔥💫 Your Invitation March 2026
Published 3 months ago • 15 min read
Dear Shamanic Healers, Teachers, Colleagues, and New Friends,
"May you remember you were born from Source and the light of the Earth." — Sandra Ingerman
LEANING TOWARD THE LIGHT
Each year, the seasons arrive on schedule. They do not arrive by force. They answer a rhythm remembered by the Earth. The March Equinox (often referred as the Spring or Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, or Autumnal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere) occurs on March 20 this year, and marks a profound moment of balance, renewal, and connection to Nature's cycles. This time is understood not as an escape from winter, but as a continuation. The life that blooms in spring is shaped by everything that comes before: the cold that strengthens the roots, the darkness that teaches patience, and the stillness that preserves energy. Nothing is wasted. In much the same way, we find ourselves at a collective threshold. Across the planet, many are carrying grief, fatigue, uncertainty, and a deep concern for the future. The instinct can be to brace, harden, or shut down — to wait until things feel safer before allowing ourselves to fully live again. But the Earth teaches a different way. Spring does not wait for certainty, it leans toward the light anyway. Leaning toward the light does not mean denying the realities of the world we are living in. It does not mean bypassing pain, ignoring injustice, or pretending that everything is fine. Rather, it is a conscious, courageous choice to continue participating in life, to keep tending our relationships, creating beauty, telling stories, singing, praying, laughing, and loving. From a shamanic perspective, this leaning is not passive. It is an act of responsibility. Life responds to life. When we allow ourselves moments of joy, creativity, and connection, we strengthen the web that holds us all. Our vitality becomes nourishment not only for ourselves, but for our families, our communities, our ancestors, and the generations to come. While grief and despair are real part of our life experience, stagnation is not inevitable. Even in the harshest landscapes, life adapts. It grows sideways if it cannot grow upward. It rests when rest is required, and it blooms when the moment is right. We, too, are part of this living intelligence. To lean into the light is to remember that our capacity for joy, tenderness, and presence is not frivolous, it is medicine. In difficult times, joy becomes a signal to others that life is still possible. That goodness still exists. That the future is not yet written. As spring unfolds around us, may we take our cues from nature. May we allow ourselves to reorient to the beauty that is still around us, gently and without urgency. May we trust that even small acts of care matter. And may we remember that continuing to live with open hearts is a powerful form of service to the world. This month we invite you to be nourished and supported by our FREE Live Online Events. Saturday 14 March 2026 — The Medicine of Joy with Wolf Martinez Saturday 28 March 2026 — Coming Back to Life with Grandmother Helene Lindmark See details below, including additional offerings — courses, events, and publications to enrich your shamanic experience. 🌿🔥💫
With our best and blessings,
Tricia, Mayumi, and all of us at Shamans Directory
THE MEDICINE OF JOY | LIVE ONLINE EVENT
Resilience as a Sacred Practice for Challenging Times
With Wolf Martinez Saturday 14 March 2026
8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm CET
Approximately 2 hours
Across our planet, many are feeling the weight of uncertainty and change. And yet, within every authentic lineage based tradition, joy is critical medicine.
We are honored to welcome Shamans Directory Member Wolf Martinez, for this powerful online gathering. In this timely and heart-opening session, Wolf will share lessons learned from his own life experience, and the Lakota lineage, on the sacred role of joy, not as denial of hardship, but as a disciplined, life-affirming practice that strengthens the human spirit.
Joy, as Wolf teaches, is an act of resilience. It restores balance. It reconnects us to Creator, to community, and to our responsibility as good relatives. Especially in challenging times, choosing joy becomes a way of standing upright in our humanity, emerging wiser, kinder, and more courageous. This is an invitation to remember that joy is not separate from the work of healing, it is medicine that the world needs.
Wolf Martinez has dedicated his life to learning, honoring, and living the wisdom of his ancestors — teachings that remind us we are related to all that is within the web of life. Guided by reverence for the Seven Generations before us and the Seven Generations yet to come, his path is rooted in humility, responsibility, and trust in the Creator of all that is. Having found his way to these teachings at a young age through profound personal struggle, Wolf speaks from lived experience about what it means to come home to oneself.
Join us for an enriching and grounding experience of story, wisdom, and reflection, and rediscover the medicine that lives within your own heart.
Your support makes this work possible. Together, we are powerful medicine.™️
COMING BACK TO LIFE | LIVE ONLINE EVENT
Returning to Your Inner Compass With Grandmother Helene Lindmark Saturday 28 March 2026 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm CET
Approximately 2 hours In a world that moves quickly and pulls us in a myriad of directions, it is easy to quietly drift into survival mode. We manage, we perform, we endure, but many of us find it hard to say that we are truly living.
Coming Back to Life is a heartfelt invitation from Shamans Directory Ambassador and Member Sámi Elder and Global Grandmother Helene Lindmark to pause, breathe, and gently return to yourself. This gathering will be a shared and reflective space — one where presence, responsibility, and life itself are explored as sacred practices.
Helene is a wisdom keeper of Sámi heritage, rooted in the ancestral lands of Sweden above the Arctic Circle. A ceremonial leader grounded in the forest, she serves as a living bridge between ancestral traditions and modern approaches to healing and resilience. With a background in social work, psychiatry, and Indigenous leadership, she offers trauma-informed guidance that honors both the human nervous system and the living spirit of the land.
Through story, memory, and gentle inquiry, Helene invites participants to reconnect with their inner compass — to remember what it feels like to belong to themselves. To feel joy without guilt. To feel sorrow without shame. To understand that caring for oneself is not ego, but the foundation for stewardship and community.
Helene’s journey is a testament to the power of heritage, resilience, and the enduring bond between humanity and nature. In her presence, trust unfolds naturally. She listens deeply, guiding people home to the heart, to love, and to the quiet beauty that still lives within and around us.
This event is FREE and all are welcome. No pre-registration is required. Shamans Directory Zoom Link Meeting ID: 391 375 8693 Passcode: 08164761
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At Shamans Directory, we dream of a world where ancient wisdom is honored, where Indigenous voices are respected and uplifted, and where humanity remembers its sacred relationship with the Earth.
We exist to protect and amplify lineage-based, earth-honoring traditions, to create bridges between cultures, and to offer spaces where authentic wisdom keepers can be heard in their own voices. In a time of fragmentation and appropriation, this work matters deeply. It is about remembrance. It is about reciprocity. It is about restoring balance.
If this vision resonates with you, if you believe that these teachings deserve to be preserved, shared with integrity, and carried forward for future generations, we invite you to step into the dream with us.
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GATES AND GATE KEEPERS | ONLINE EVENT Tending the Threshold of Power With Renee Baribeau Saturday 07 March 2026
In shamanic and ancestral traditions, gates mark sacred thresholds between worlds, seasons, roles, and states of being. They invite us to pause, sense, reflect, and choose with awareness.
Join Shamans Directory Ambassador and Member Renee Baribeau for a transformative online workshop exploring the practical and spiritual art of tending these thresholds with awareness and integrity — knowing when to open them, when to close them, and when to wait. During this immersive four-hour experience, you will:
- Learn to recognize when energy is ready to move forward and how to intentionally open themselves to new possibilities.
- Explore how to consciously close gates when something has run its course: an old role, habit, pattern, or commitment.
- Learn about discernment, not every gate should open, and not every moment is the right one.
- Recognize a threshold, the pause between what has been and what is becoming. Participants will be guided to identify the specific thresholds in their lives right now.
Blending storytelling, journeywork, ritual, creative reflection, oracle wisdom, and experiential practices, Renee's workshop offers practical shamanism for modern life: grounded, accessible, and rooted in the rhythms of nature. Step forward as a responsible, conscious keeper of your own gates of power.
The Maiden Rices of Graínne A Moontime Event for Women of all ages With Karen Ward and Camilla Saufley
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Shamans Directory Member Karen Ward welcomes you to join her, together with Moon Mná Circle Facilitator Camilla Saufley, for a deeply nourishing Lunar Live Gathering. This special gathering offers an opportunity to honour your first Moontime — your menarche — through the sacred Maiden Rites of Gráinne, a Celtic-inspired ceremony devoted to reclaiming the powerful, youthful “I-can-do-anything” energy within.
Whether your first menstruation was celebrated, misunderstood, or left unacknowledged, this circle offers a compassionate and supportive space to consciously embrace femininity, revisiting and reimagining that pivotal transition into womanhood. You may choose to recreate your girlhood experience as you wish it had unfolded, or to celebrate and deepen gratitude for what was.
Alongside the live Zoom gathering (with recording available), you will receive beautifully curated course materials, including an exquisite Moontime Art self-ceremony to experience privately in your home or garden. Matching Soulwork invitations support you in integrating the rites at your own pace, at your chosen Moon phase.
The Maiden Rites of Gráinne are part of the Moon Mná Circle series and are open to women of all ages to retrospectively honor the transition into womanhood. Through sacred ritual, reflection, and sisterhood, you are invited to honour your cyclical wisdom and reconnect with your Celtic soul. It is time to begin.
Many of us move through our lives unaware that Indigenous communities are still honoring traditional teachings, holding ceremonies, and preserving centuries old wisdom, right along side us This offering is a chance to open our eyes, our hearts, and the doors of awareness to the world and the people around us. It offers a meaningful opportunity to meet Indigenous healers directly, to listen with humility, and to learn practices that restore balance in daily life.
Guided by respected Medicine Man Jay Bird (Aanimkii Giishigadoon, Thunder Days) and Helper Sweetie Bird (Ozaawaa Bines Animikiiwagikwe, Yellow Thunderbird Woman), Opening Doors is a three-week online immersion into Traditional Ojibwe teachings. Through sacred storytelling, ceremony teachings, and Spirit-led dialogue, participants are invited into a deeper understanding of humanity’s original relationship with the Earth, the elements, and the unseen world.
These are not academic lectures. They are living teachings, carried through generations, and shared with thoughtful intention. Participants will be introduced to the beauty of the Ojibwe language and explore topics such as seasonal legends, cultural protocols, the role of names and clans, and the understanding that everything is connected — and each day offers an opportunity to live in ceremony.
As we take on even small ways of living in greater reciprocity with the Earth and each other, we become a part of mending the fractures that divide our communities and our planet.
There are times when life offers us an invitation to remember who we truly are — not just as individuals, but as part of Creation. If you feel called to deepen your spiritual path, and walk in greater harmony with all your relations, we warmly invite you to join us.
KATÔ | ONLINE FILM PREMIERE Dreams of Dark Earth: From the Heart of the Amazon Film by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo, Founders of SAND A 3-Day Online Event with Amazonian Leaders
18-21 March 2026
The Amazon is a living library of ancestral wisdom. This new film invites you to see the Amazon not through a typical Western film but rather through an Indigenous perspective, where humans are inseparable from nature. Beka Saw Munduruku explains in the film that trees, birds, and rivers are literal "relatives" and "cousins."
Many in the West consider the Amazon a natural resource, a vital carbon sink. The film illustrates that for Indigenous peoples, however, it is a living web of relationships and a repository of ancestral wisdom.
And as Vandria Borari notes, Indigenous knowledge is not found in universities but is stored in the "library" of the territory and accessed through dreams and spiritual guides. This indigenous worldview can teach us how to move from domination to mutual respect and from separation to meaningful connection.
Protecting Indigenous territories safeguards biodiversity, limits carbon emissions, and sustains ecosystems far beyond the Amazon. Indigenous leadership, activism, and cultural preservation are directly linked to planetary health.
When you join the premiere event for this upcoming documentary, you’ll receive full access to the Live 3-day online event, held alongside the global film premiere.
The film is available to stream by donation of any amount, including $0. This offering is shared in the spirit of reciprocity, 50% of proceeds (after covering costs) are directed to Indigenous-led initiatives in the lands where the film was made.
KIVA AFRICA 2026 | ONLINE FILM SCREENING KIVA: Call of the Wisdom Keepers Documentary and Inspiring Dialogue With Filmaker Marijke Kodden and Indigenous Elders
Wednesday 18 March 2026
You are invited to a special online film screening and dialogue. Revived after a vision in 1968, KIVA Gatherings rekindle a ceremony believed to be more than 3,000 years old. Through powerful prayers, stories, and conversations with Wisdom Keepers, the film invites us to reflect on how we might restore balance in our relationship with the Earth— and with one another.
The film captures the spirit of this ancient ceremony that has brought together Indigenous leaders from around the world for more than three decades to pray for peace, equality, and the restoration of harmony with Mother Earth.
Following the screening, we will be joined for a live dialogue with Wisdom Keeper Rutendo Ngara from Zimbabwe, South Africa, and a special surprise guest, offering a rare opportunity to hear Indigenous perspectives on healing, unity, and our shared future.
Your participation supports the continued work of Roots of the Earth / Raíces de la Tierra, the organization that carries the KIVA ceremonies forward worldwide, including this year’s gathering in Zimbabwe.
By joining this event, you help keep the sacred fire burning, supporting Indigenous leadership, global unity, and the restoration of balance with our Earth.
19-22 March 2026 Menla Mountain House, Phoenecia, NY
Mesa (misha) carriers of all lineages are invited to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Equinox in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Whether you have trained directly with Peruvian Masters, through the Global Paqo School, the Four Winds, or with other Andean teachers, let us come together as one to celebrate this time of renewal, of rebirth, of balance and of new beginnings.
We will gather in community to share our wisdom, our medicine, our dreams, and throughout the night to tend the sacred equinox fire. We will consciously dream into being a world of peace, of harmony, and of unconditional love. This is the time to gather, to rest and recover, to heal and renew, to drink from the well of the mystic.
Through the sharing of wisdom, through movement, and in ceremony we will strengthen our connections to the spirits of the land, the sky, and the great mountains. We will reawaken our personal altars and remember why, and for whom, and with whom, we walk this path.
Julie Hannon and Jim Dewell are seasoned spiritual teachers, guides, and ceremonial practitioners who have spent decades supporting personal transformation through shamanic wisdom, energy medicine, and nature-based practice. Together they have led sacred journeys to the high Andes of Peru, helping seekers awaken spiritually, reconnect with nature, and walk their authentic path.
Shamans see subtle energy patterns that cause difficulty and pain. Under their wise direction, people can learn to quickly shift their perspective, remove stubborn inner blockages, and step into lives of ease, flow, and real magic.
There are retreats, and then there are weekends that change the direction of your life. The Gathering of the Shamans is a three-day immersion in shamanic wisdom, healing ceremony, and ancestral teachings led by some of the most respected teachers in the world, including Shamans Directory Ambassadors, Members and Friends HeatherAsh Amara, Linda Star Wolf, José Luis Stevens, Asha Frost, Don Jorge Luis Delgado, Dr. Marie Mbouni and Dr. Steven Farmer.
Held on 173 acres of sacred desert land in Sedona, you will walk labyrinths under the stars, sit with vortex energy, and step into workshops designed to release fear, open insight, and reconnect you to the deeper intelligence of your spirit. The weekend includes: fire ceremony and firewalk initiation, transformative breathwork to clear emotional energy, and ancestral Celtic and Inka teachings rooted in living tradition.
This is a retreat for people who are ready for genuine transformation, real tools, real practices, and real healing. If you are ready to step into sacred space and renew your life from the inside out, reserve your place. There are no special criteria for joining this retreat. This is a space for you to recharge and reconnect with your deepest self in a profoundly spiritual and peaceful setting. All while being held and guided by some of the world's leading shamans.
This event fills quickly. Reserve your place soon.
Author, artist, and shamanic teacher extraordinaire, Shamans Directory Ambassador and Member Imelda Almqvist offers years of lived experience in one accessible, grounded, and practical guide to spiritual work with children of all ages. Natural Born Shamans, written in just ten weeks, was shaped by decades of teaching, correspondence, and hands-on facilitation, bringing together extensive notes from Imelda’s Spiritual Toolkit programs and the thoughtful guidance that she has shared with parents and educators around the world.
Imelda began her journey at a time when many cautioned that shamanism should not be taught to children. Yet through raising her own three young children alongside her intensive practitioner training, she discovered something profound: children are not empty vessels needing spiritual instruction — they are naturally connected, intuitive beings who often become our greatest teachers.
Between 2012 and 2019, she developed and led “The Time Travelers,” a spiritual development program for children, tweens, and teens. The focus was simple yet radical: help young people cultivate their own reliable spiritual toolkit, rooted in direct connection with helping spirits and ancestors, while holding safe and sacred space.
From conversations about death and shadow work to ancestral healing and imaginative energy practices, this truly timeless book honors children’s innate wisdom and offers adults a refreshing and respectful framework for walking beside them on their spiritual path.
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Modern Medicine Woman and Shamans Directory Co-Founder Mayumi Beckers is devoted to guiding the reconnection of our true selves with nature — and with the aspects of our being that have been obscured by trauma, conditioning, and the complexities of modern life.
Meet Peruvian Medicine Man Alfredo Huayta Singona of the Qanchis Illya Rainbow Lineage for The Spirit of Wachuma, a sacred journey into the teachings and wisdom of Apu Wachuma, also known as San Pedro, and the Pre-Incan Temple of Chavín de Huántar.
Jorge Luis Delgado was a modern man, determined to pursue material success and leave the “old ways” behind, but the wisdom of his ancestors had other plans. His new book Love Service Wisdom is a practical path or transformatuon from your mind to your heart.
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Deep in our hearts we know a better way. Mother Earth is waiting for us to remember ourselves as the light beings that we are. Whether you are a seasoned shamanic earth-based healer or teacher, seeking to find balance and healing in your life, or simply curious to learn more, we invite you to begin or enrich your journey with us here at Shamans Directory.
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We invite lineage based healers and teachers from around the world to join us as colleagues, those seeking healing or to find balance during challenging times to make an appointment, and all those who are simply curious to learn more. Welcome to our global community!
