Shamanism. Yoga. Expressive Arts. Social Change.
The Shamanic Yoga Institute is a small grassroots business, female owned and run. We are a collective of teachers and mentors committed to training practitioners in the technologies of the soul. Our intermodal, experiential, nature-informed programs invite students to participate in their own healing and grow their capacity for leadership.
This work will change your positionality, your perspective, and the way you engage with life.
It is time to step out of your limiting beliefs and begin to create a new story, where you are living a life of purpose and connection. SYI trainings and mastery programs are strong containers designed to activate personal transformation. Our innovative curriculum, crafted by our founder Christine Selda, Ph.D., weaves together the principles and practices of yoga, expressive arts, and shamanism. You can expect within these initiatory processes to receive tools for accessing your worthiness and creativity, reclaiming ceremony and personal power, and applying your gifts as an advocate for change.
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Connect with a global community of leaders, masters of ceremony, change-makers, and artists.
Connect with a global community of leaders, masters of ceremony, change-makers, and artists.
Only by having a lived experience are we able to transform knowledge and understanding into something we can share – wisdom.
By living the truth of personal, direct experience, leaders are then able to hold a sacred, brave, and loving space for others to unfold, let go, and discover their own capacity for transformation.
Upcoming Offerings
Camp Fircom Community Retreat
Camp Fircom Community Retreat
During this weekend, participants are invited to begin activating a Black Stone Mesa. Your medicine bundle will become a toolbox filled with plumbing stones for shamanic soul retrieval for our human and more-than-human family. Come and breathe new life into your spiritual inspirations, nurture yourself and strengthen your capacity to be a catalyst who can hold a sustained vision of wholeness – the Healer’s Cosmology. Aligned with out last retreat, we are holding the vision in action for collaboration, community, and connection. Self-selected or Spirit-selected, YOU are absolutely invited!
Outdoor Medicine Wheel
Outdoor Medicine Wheel
Join us for this transformational journey unlike any other. This four-part initiation into Mountain Shamanism guides participants on a personal healing path and re-connects us with nature. In this transformative energy work, you will learn alongside the natural world and invite a dialogue with Her, receive ancient rites of passage and build an altar of your heart in the form of a medicine bundle, or mesa. We will explore cross-cultural medicine practices including ceremonial fires, journeying, energy healing and shamanic breathing and incorporating modalities of yoga and expressive arts to facilitate immense personal reclamation of power and grace. Step into the circle and trust that your understanding will follow your experience.
This course will lead you to remember who you are and how you serve. Activate your gifts as a leader, a change-maker, an artist, and master of ceremony. It is time to claim the life that is waiting for you.
Space is limited! Registration now open!
Sept. 9 - 11 - SOUTH
Dec. 9 - 11 - WEST
March 17 - 19 - NORTH
June 16 - 18 - EAST
Salute the Sun - Sayulita Retreat
Salute the Sun - Sayulita Retreat
An hour from Puerto Vallarta, Sayulita is nestled on the Central Pacific coast of Mexico, hemmed in by jungle covered mountains. Come explore all that Sayulita has to offer. Join creatrix of the Institute, Christine Selda, Ph.D, for 7 days and 6 nights of Shamanic Yoga in the sub-tropics. At Hotelito Los Sueños, accommodation includes, chlorine and salt-water pools, a breakfast buffet, and complimentary bikes. Come exploring the land and sea alongside our wonderful community.
Mastery: Black Stone Mesa
Mastery: Black Stone Mesa
