We are so grateful when our participants take the time to recount their experience with SYI.
Below is a small sample of reflections from our students, past and present.
Over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to experience the Medicine Wheel, YTT, and Blackstone Mesa Mastery trainings through the Shamanic Yoga Institute. Each of these trainings reflects decades of wisdom and are designed with such integrity, love and intentionality. They offer an experience you can return to again and again, each time unlocking deeper parts of yourself and your consciousness. They have become a meaningful and foundational part of my journey of re-membering and I hold deep gratitude for my teachers (Chris and Rochelle) for creating the sacred container that invited me to foster a deeper connection to myself and Pachamama.
Amanda Dewar
I highly recommend this training. This was a deep dive into learning shamanic rituals for doing energy healing. You will learn how to do prayers and ceremony with an open heart and humility to honor and request the knowledge and blessings that nature can bestow. These teachings foster a reverence for the spirits of animals, plants, earth, sky, wind, water, and fire.
There was a high level of professionalism to the teachings from beginning to end. That included the family of shamans providing the teachings, the content of the classes, and the administration of the details of the daily schedule and registration, and the interpreter who provided translations with love and reverence for the teachers.
D. Callender
The Shamanic Yoga Institute hosted the Apaza family from the Incan Medicine School in Peru and it was such a touching, magical experience. Having studied Peruvian Shamanism for 20 years, I have never had the opportunity to go to Peru. It was such a gift to be taught by Don Alejandro Apaza along with his son and daughters, and their translator Beti. His family has been holding these teachings for as long as memory serves. There was so much loving kindness and joy and simplicity in the teachings. I learned things during the 7 Nustas healing that have been leaving me breadcrumbs my whole life. This was an incredible homecoming for me. And I didn't have to work to deserve, or earn to be in this work. I simply need to humbly present myself to the spirits, and build a relationship to work with them. Whenever I have the opportunity to immerse myself in this work and sit with my teacher, Dr. Christine Selda, I'm reminded of the simplicity of it all. Go outside and connect. Remember yourself into the land. Live in right relationship with all things and most of all be loving. Life is really that simple. My heart is full of so much gratitude today and always. And to feel as though I belong, really matters for my sense of wholeness. I'm just so full and feel so blessed. And it can be so simple to live in this way. Hiyaya Victory of the Heart.
Cindy Stockdale
“This wheel changed my life. It has made me a better person as I worked towards my truth with accountability, love and support. I felt held, challenged and guided. I was reminded of what I already knew but kept having excuses to forget. It is the most important work I have done thus far. It will help me be a better mother, wife, sister, and daughter. With great gratitude and respect, I wish to say thank you.”
J. Rivet
“I leave this training with such reverence for what it means to be a student and filled with excitement and pride to be learning for life.”
K. Young
“Shamanic yoga has helped me to rise from the stories I've told myself and been stuck in. Doing the work has helped me to move forward in my life and choose a new path for myself. Although my work has just begun, I am now better able to serve others.”
C. Douglas
“I heard this call and did not know what I was embarking on, but now I am grateful a thousand times over that I said yes to the experience. Those called to this path are fortunate and blessed. Thank you, Shamanic Yoga Institute for showing me a more beautiful perspective on life than I could have ever imagined was possible.”
S. Harris
“Whether coming into this training with wounds exposed or with a clear focus on achieving a tangible goal of yoga, you will feel safe, you will feel seen, you will feel vulnerable, but so gently held and deeply protected. You will feel wholeness, invicible and gracious. The Shamanic Yoga training was a sacred pilgrimage for me. At times, it was hard, at others exceptionally moving and beautiful, and all within myself. The journey was so humbling and blossoming. I feel more whole, more my truest self, more open and surrendering in all my life aspects. No words can express fully how much gratitude I have for the teachers and ayllu community. Nothing feels better than finding your self and your tribe.”
C. Green
“This training is transformational in the deepest of ways. Highly recommended for anyone who has the courage to walk the path of finding out why you are really here. It's more than I could of ever hoped for.”
K. Dowie
“If you love and appreciate all that nature has to offer. If you love your family. A must. Do this journey not only for your self-healing, but of all nations. Moving beyond the fear, attachment and judgement has been transformative.”
T. Hopkins
“This wheel helped me to see my medicine body, and recognize and develop a vision of myself as a healer. It shook me from my position within my story, many aspects of which have held me fast to positions that were draining, misshapen, and false. It has turned me toward outside, toward above and beneath and a humble intent to fill these medicine shoes in a good way.”
K. Wells
“Thank you for honoring my ancestors and gifting me this experience.”
L. Williams
