Shaman Sister Sessions

Are you going through a spiritual awakening or deepening of your awakening experience? Did you know that the Death, Purification, and Rebirth phases of Alchemy can be some of the most powerful support and spiritual tools for your awakening?

The esoteric wisdom teachings of the ancient alchemists are relevant today on your journey of self-healing and evolving consciousness. 

Alchemy is a powerful spiritual technology that helps us master the process of creation and transformation in our lives and in the world. With Alchemy, transformation can go from feeling chaotic, unpredictable, and scary to organized and empowering. Through our spiritual awakening and evolution experiences, we naturally move through the cycle of Alchemy as we release our old identities, align with Universal Truth and Divine Law, and embody our higher selves. 

Michelle and Katherine, both practicing Alchemists, discuss the process of Alchemy and how it can support your spiritual awakening. Learn about how Alchemy can help you heal from trauma and release old energy, as well as purify and cultivate radiance and illumination. 

Do you desire Alchemy in your life? Michelle’s I AM Alchemy apprenticeship begins March 2024. Check out all the details and submit your application here: https://michellehawk.com/i-am-alchemy

Shamanic work can take a lot of energy and requires not only energetic stamina, but also physical resilience and endurance. When in Shamanic trance, practicing incorporation mediumship, or holding ceremony for 10 hours, your body has specific needs for minerals, muscle strength and flexibility, and ion exchange. 

Michelle and Katherine offer tools and practices for how to get into Shamanic shape so you can best support your health and sustainability of your practice, and channel more energy effectively and safely without burning yourself out.

The Shaman Sisters continue their conversation about abuse and harm within the spiritual and personal development community. Following up on episode #121 (Gaslighting, Narcissism, Manipulation and Abuse in the Spiritual and Coaching Community) and episode #46 (Predators in the Spiritual Community), Michelle and Katherine share what they have observed when supporting people after leaving cults and abusive practitioner relationships. 

Michelle and Katherine discuss the recovery process, how to assess your energy body for unwanted attachments and implants, and offer support for re-matrixing your relationship with Spirit and your spiritual practice in a healthy, sovereign way.

If you or someone you know has experienced harm at the hands of a spiritual practitioner, coach or facilitator, we believe you. What happened was wrong, and it was not your fault. There are resources available to help you.

National Resources for Sexual Assault Survivors and Their Loved Ones: https://www.rainn.org/national-resources-sexual-assault-survivors-and-their-loved-ones

Psychedelic and entheogenic medicine work have been emerging in the western world as powerful spirit allies for healing and guidance. The spectrum of “medicine work” includes the western clinical pathology model, the traditional church, the ceremonial shamanic devotional experience, the recreational trip and more.

Big reveal in this episode! Introducing the Shaman Sisters mushroom temple (not the actual name, but tune in to find out about this temple and what we’re offering).

What’s the difference between a traditional church, trip sitting/psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and a ceremonial shamanic medicine experience? Which option is right for you? What are some things to consider when pursuing medicine work for your healing journey?

Michelle and Katherine open up about their path with medicine work and share their perspectives on these different paths. This episode also includes a sneak peek at their work with serving psilocybin, their shamanic mushroom ceremonies and upcoming shamanic training experiences that include medicine work, mediumship and mystical devotion and healing practices.

The spiritual, personal development, coaching community has narcissists, abusers, sociopaths and shitty people in it, just like everywhere else. Unfortunately, these people are very skilled at distorting and manipulating spiritual teachings, language and practices to take advantage of and harm clients who come to them for help. These abusers may be so good at hiding behind spirituality that they could have harmed many people over the years, or even decades.

This is wrong. This is out of integrity. We will not stand for this in our community.

It can sometimes feel hard to tell if a practitioner is safe or not, especially if you’re new to the path or new to a particular community. Following up on their episode #46: Predators in the Spiritual Community, Michelle and Katherine go over the dangerous red flags to watch out for, and green flags to look for in a practitioner, teacher or medicine facilitator. Please use careful consideration whenever choosing a practitioner. While there may be some truly horrible abusers in the spiritual and coaching industry, there are plenty of safe and wonderful teachers as well.

If you or someone you know has experienced harm at the hands of a spiritual practitioner, coach or facilitator, we believe you. What happened was wrong, and it was not your fault. There are resources available to help you.

National Resources for Sexual Assault Survivors and Their Loved Ones: https://www.rainn.org/national-resources-sexual-assault-survivors-and-their-loved-ones

Many of us struggle with self-trust. Maybe you have trouble making  decisions, you are easily swayed by the opinions and expectations of  others, or seem to put your own needs and desires last. If so, you’re  not alone. We live in a world that systematically undermines our  connection to inner wisdom and guidance, and unless we actively learn  the skills to cultivate self-trust, we’re stuck in self doubt.  

Relax! We’ve got you covered. Join Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird for  some real talk about how to trust yourself, including perspective from  their own journeys of self-trust, ways we can get stuck in doubt and the  top three tools you can use to build rock-solid trust in yourself.

Spiritual initiation cycles often bring up a lot of resistance. You’ve probably experienced this: initiations can be uncomfortable, confronting, challenging and triggering. But, as Michelle and Katherine discuss in this powerful episode, “resistance is fertile.” Resistance shows us where there is potent energy available for transformation, and when we understand and work with resistance, it can help catapult us forward into the next cycle. 

Join the Shaman Sisters for a very real look at resistance through initiation cycles (and get a peek behind the scenes at some on-air epiphanies as they discuss their own resistance experiences).

Michelle and Katherine love judgment. Join them for a conversation about the “anatomy of judgment,” why judgment is essential for your spiritual practices and tools to cultivate and trust your excellent judgment.

Michelle and Katherine talk about their experiences with compassion fatigue and offer tools for working with compassion in action so you can stay connected, grounded and empowered.

Creating sacred healing tools, tinctures and elixirs, visionary art, jewelry, talismans and totems are all ways to anchor powerful energy into the Earthly plane through physical objects. These sacred totems, crafted with intention, prayer and guidance, can work with shamanic energies, alchemical correspondences, elemental frequencies and energies encoded for specific healing and initiation. When working with these sacred objects, we cultivate a powerful relationship with those frequencies and receive the gifts encoded in the items.

Michelle and Katherine share some of their sacred tool creations, inspiration behind magical art, and offer guidance and tips to create your own objects of power.

Michelle and Katherine share their understandings of transformation and how to best support that in their clients. 

What happens when our practice changes so dramatically? How long do these shapeshifting phases take? What are the effects on other areas of our lives?

Michelle and Katherine are both in shapeshifting phases now, so this episode is supercharged with their immediate wisdom and experience! Join the Shaman Sisters for a powerful conversation about what it’s like to completely shapeshift your service, and how that impacts every part of your life.

As a practitioner, it’s easy to build programs and offerings in our business that we think “should” be there, either because we’re trying to fit our work into a traditional business paradigm, we’re coming from the place of just trying to make money, or we’re modeling our work after others (teachers, colleagues, others in the field). As a soul-aligned practitioner, these offerings usually fail. Not because there’s anything wrong with a traditional business paradigm, trying to make money or the work of others, but because all of those things pull our offerings away from the true, soul-aligned essence of our practice. 

What does a soul aligned offering look like? How do we know if our practice is aligned with our soul essence? How do we as practitioners create powerful, soul-aligned offerings that serve our communities effectively?

Michelle and Katherine continue the conversation from last episode (Your Healing Business). They share some potent examples of soul-aligned offerings in their work and give you some powerful tools and takeaways to audit your own practice to make sure your offerings are coming from a soul-aligned place.

If you’re self-employed as a healer, chances are that you’ve tried to fit your business into traditional entrepreneurial models (even ones aimed at coaching) and found that it doesn’t work for you and/or feels super icky. You are not alone. There are some really good reasons why your healing business needs a unique approach and expression.

Michelle and Katherine dive into “new paradigm” business and entrepreneurship in the healing industry: what works, what doesn’t, what’s total BS, and what your healing business truly needs to thrive and evolve. Regardless of where you are in your healership business journey, this episode is for you!

Who were you before the world told you who to be? Before social conditioning, before trauma, before you ever tried to make yourself small to fit in?

Your Wild Self holds the keys to your connection, freedom and belonging. Your Wild Self is waiting for you to set it free. Your Wild Self is calling. Can you hear it?

Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird discuss the Rewilding movement and explore its implications on not only society at large but on your personal practice as a spiritual being. Are you ready to unlock the power of your Wild nature?

If you’re not fully grounded and inhabiting your physical body, you’re more likely to feel disconnected, distracted, anxious and stuck. You’re also less likely to be fully effective and empowered in your energetic practice.

Relax. You’re not alone. We live in a society that conditions us to be disconnected from our bodies and distracted by everything from social media and the news to alcohol and climbing the corporate ladder. 

The good news is that there is a very simple solution: get out of your head and into your body. When you’re embodied, you’ll feel connected, empowered, grounded and alive. Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird share personal stories of embodiment, and offer their best tools and practices for you to reconnect with your body.

Ah, the new Gregorian year/decade. That arbitrary time when people all over the world magically shift into a different reality, set goals and make plans to be bold, take action and make their dreams come true!!! 

Cringe. Anyone else super tired of goals, resolutions and action plans that don’t actually work? We’ve all been there. But the reality is that most of these goals and action plans are based completely in the mind and looking at your calendar like a 2-dimensional entity, and have absolutely no foundation in how energy and the Universe actually works. Ever wonder why most people’s “plans” for the year fail? It’s not necessarily that you didn’t do it right--it’s actually most likely because the plan itself didn’t take into account personal and universal cycles of energy, expansion and contraction, and all the multidimensionality of your infinitely complex Be-ing.

Relax. There is another way. Join Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird as they look at year planning for 2020 through the lens of Shamanic and energetic practice. You’ll feel confident and empowered to set some plans in place for the year that are far more likely to succeed as a result.

What predominant energies (personally and collectively) were at play in 2019? What energies are coming in 2020? What are some useful astrological and energetic cycles to keep in mind? What can they tell you about your personal year ahead?

Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird walk you through some reflections of 2019, and forecast for 2020. Predictions for the year: you heard it here first, people!

Did you catch the last episode on why you don’t have an entity or attachment, and no one is attacking you? If not, start there. If you’re all caught up, join us for this next episode on what is actually happening if you do have an entity or attachment. 

What are the telltale signs of entities and psychic attacks? How do we end up with attachments? Are all entities bad? What do we do with them?

Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird address these questions and more in this powerful episode! Join the Shaman Sisters for an in-depth discussion on the fine details of energetic attachments and psychic attacks. They offer their best tools and insights for working with these energies in a healthy way and coming into your own sovereignty and authentic mastery.

Maybe you’ve heard about entities, energetic attachments and psychic attacks. Maybe someone has even told you that you have an entity, or you’ve wondered if you were a victim of psychic attack. After all, it would explain why everything in your life is falling apart, right???

Nope! We are happy to tell you that having entities and attachments is actually very rare. Rather, there is a far more likely explanation for what you’re experiencing, and it has to do with mastering your own energy body and stepping fully into your empowerment. Are you ready for that?

Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird give a look inside why you probably don’t have an entity or attachment, and no one is attacking you. They offer some powerful insight into what is most likely going on in your energy field, and share their favorite tools and practices to come into your most empowered Be-ing.

Katherine and Michelle both enjoyed travel to sacred sites this past year (Katherine has been on pilgrimage for one full year!) and by special request from a listener, they open up about their experiences.

How do we engage with pilgrimage as an inner and outer journey? What makes a site sacred? Join Michelle Hawk and Katherine bird as they share some of their favorite takeaways from the pilgrimage experience.

You have probably already had soul activation experiences... but do you know what to do with them? Throughout the awakening journey, we receive many Soul Activations as direct transmissions from Spirit. They can come in many forms and expressions, and if you don't know how to work with them, they can kick your ass.

Join Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird as they break down for you what Soul Activations are, why they're vitally important to your process (even when they're uncomfortable) and offer some of their favorite tools for context and integration. This episode is a must for anyone who receives "divine downloads!"

At some point in your healing journey, you will want to say f*** it and quit. Whether you're receiving healing work or offering it to others, at some point, you will want to walk away from your practice and never come back.

...and you're not alone in that. This path contains many pitfalls that are common to both recipients and practitioners. Good news for you: Michelle and Katherine have been doing this for a long time, so they have both experienced all of these and guided other people through their own moments of wanting to walk away!

This episode is a must for anyone, regardless of where they're at in their healing journey. Join Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird for a discussion on the most common pitfalls of the healing path and receive their best tools and practices to work through them when they inevitably come up.

Integrity: the core foundation of any practice. What does it mean to be in integrity with yourself, with others and with Spirit? How do you know when you're in integrity? How do you know when others are acting in integrity?

In a world of instant gratification, curated social media and glorified "personal development," many people present an image which is out of integrity with their personal and professional practice. We're at a point where integrity is more important than ever, and requires not only honesty but radical alignment with our path and with the energies moving through us.

This topic is a favorite of the Shaman Sisters. Tune in with Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird as they offer their best advice, tools and awareness practices to help you learn to create (and recognize in others) full integrity with your Self, your path and Spirit.

As we move through our awakening cycle, we experience activations and initiations into various lineages and teachings. Working with lineages can be incredibly powerful, but it's important to cultivate a conscious, dynamic relationship with these bodies of knowledge.

How can practitioners come into right relation with their lineages? What does it mean to work with lineages, mystery schools and collective fields and thought forms?

Michelle and Katherine continue their conversation from the previous episode as they dive into our relationship to lineages and what it means to steward sacred teachings into the modern world.

There are so many Spiritual teachers out there representing myriad lineages, realms of expertise and practices. As you go through your own rites of passage, activations and initiatory experiences, it's vitally important to find the teacher that's right for you.

What are the most important things to consider when choosing a Spiritual Teacher? What are the dangers of choosing a teacher who is not in integrity?

Join Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird as they offer tools and insights to help you choose the best Spiritual Teacher to support you on your path.

For practitioners! How to Choose Your Clients
In our previous episode, we discussed from the client perspective how to go about choosing which Shaman to work with. However, it is just as important for practitioners to carefully curate their client base in order to work with the people who are most aligned for their practice!

Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird offer their best advice, tools and practices to practitioners who want to make sure they're working with the clients who are most aligned. Join us for a discussion on the business side of spiritual entrepreneurship and the importance of carefully choosing your clients.

Receiving healing and guidance is a very personal, intimate process and it is vitally important to make sure you have the right person in your corner. When you work with a Shaman, you're inviting another person into your process and energy field.

What are the most important considerations when choosing a Shaman? How can you tell if they're authentic, and if they'll be the most supportive for you?

Join Shamans Michelle Hawk and Katherine Bird for a powerful discussion on how to choose a Shaman that's the best fit for your path.

As spiritual practitioners, we inevitably end up interacting with the Spirit realm. The Veil is especially thin this time of year, and more energy, information and magical connections become available to us... if we are open to them.

What does it mean to work through the Veil? How can we safely interact with the Spirit Realm? How can we use this powerful time in the Earth cycle to connect more deeply with energies and guides?

Join Michelle and Katherine for a LIVE panel discussion on connecting with the Spirit Realm and ways to peek through the Veil during this potent time.

Welcome to Shaman Sister Sessions! We created this podcast to empower psychics, empaths, energy healers, Shamans and all those on the path of awakening. We offer a deep look into our personal and professional experiences as healers and Universal seekers, along with tools for navigating the expansion of human consciousness, cultivation of psychic and Shamanic gifts and living a fulfilled, uniquely expressed life of service. Michelle and Katherine’s visionary work inspires spiritual seekers and practitioners of all modalities to step fully their roles as catalysts for social evolution and global change.

More and more lightworkers are being called to serve in a professional capacity that takes their work from the realm of "calling" into the land of "livelihood." Together, Michelle and Katherine have lived a combined 15+ years as entrepreneurs. As we close this special September theme of Healing in Business and Finances, we'll wrap this month with a discussion on Conscious Entrepreneurship.

What is the role of the entrepreneur in the evolution of a new Earth? How can we maximize our business platforms to effectively pioneer change? What does it mean to not only do our work inside of our business, but to use our business itself as a tool of conscious awakening?

Join Michelle and Katherine for a LIVE panel discussion on conscious entrepreneurship and how to use your business to be an effective power of change in the world.

Michelle and Katherine are delighted to welcome special guest Christine Wilborn for a conversation on Sacred Finances!

As we continue this special September theme of Healing in Business and Finances, we are excited to jump in and tackle one of our crunchiest topics yet: MONEY. Everything that we do to cultivate our identity as practitioners is a skill, and money is no different. And yet, when it comes to our finances, most of us treat this part of our work with avoidance, shame, anxiety and stress.

In this special conversation with money and neuroscience expert Chris Wilborn, we'll discuss:
-The neuroscience of money
-Money stories and beliefs
-What it takes to be "good with money"
-How to come into right relationship with our finances
-Finding Spirit in the spreadsheets

Walk away from this episode with greater understanding, as well as some simple, tangible, functional tools to master a financial skill set and apply this to your lived experience and spiritual practice.

Please make sure to tune in LIVE to ask questions! ***Bring a journal and pen!***

Christine Wilborn helps creative entrepreneurs open their bank accounts and love what they see. She uses Neuroscience and Psychology of Personal Transformation to help practitioners understand why their financial goals and plans don’t come to fruition, and why they feel resistance and avoidance with their money. Chris combines her experience as a Master Life Coach, Master NLP Practitioner, and Degrees in Behavioral Psychology and Applied Neuroscience to help entrepreneurs transform their money habits to build an unstoppable business.

A lot of discussion takes place in the healing community regarding "Prosperity Consciousness" vs "Poverty Consciousness." And frankly, some of it is downright bullshit.

What does it mean to be in right relation with our finances? How can we gracefully integrate financial health and well-being into a thriving healing practice? What is the role of Prosperity Consciousness in the evolution of a new paradigm of business and entrepreneurship, as well as healing?

As we continue our special September theme of Healing in Business and Finances, in this episode we'll pick apart some of the biggest ideas and misunderstandings around:
-The Law of Attraction
-Manifestation
-Wealth Mindset
-Abundance and Prosperity Consciousness

Please make sure to tune in LIVE to ask questions! ***Bring a journal and pen for some prompts and practice!***

Join Michelle and Katherine for a live panel discussion on Prosperity Consciousness and what it means to bring this not only to your practice and business, but your life.

Many of us who are called to the path of healing work are stepping into not only offering this work as a calling and a service, but as a business. As we Soulpreneurs step into the realm of economy, we are redefining not only what it means to be a healer, but a businessperson.

As Soulpreneurs, Michelle and Katherine have come to intimately understand not only what it means to serve, but what it takes to serve from a place of entrepreneurial integrity. In this episode, we'll discuss:
-How to bring healing into the realm of business in a healthy way
-Redefining the archetypes of the Healer and Businessperson
-Setting up your business and practice to support your healing work
-And more! Please come with questions.

Join Michelle and Katherine for a live panel discussion on the business of healing and taking this next step in the evolution of what it means to serve on the path.

In the modern consciousness of literal communication and linear thinking, we lose the magic of nuance and metaphor. We learn future-thinking and striving to push forward, and are taught to avoid "dwelling on the past."

However, we are the Heroines and Heroes of our own Personal Mythology. Our lives weave together a complex tapestry of meaning, personal history, ancestry, tragedy and adventure. During this episode, we'll discuss:
-What is the role of mythology in the modern context?
-How do we connect with our personal mythos?
-How can owning your Personal Mythology support you on your path?

Please join Michelle and Katherine for a live panel discussion on Personal Mythology and claiming our places as the Hero/ines of our journeys.