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Are you ready to step into the world of shamanism?
Introduction into Shamanic practices - what are the Upper, Middle and Lower Worlds
Why shamanism is important to humanity during these unprecedented times and its history
Protection, discernment, basic journeying guidance
Connect with and meet your spirit animal
Receive a certificate 'Foundations of Shamanism' (IPHM)
Introduction
Your introduction to shamanism
Are you ready to begin your shamanic journey? Foundations of Shamanism is a self-paced, online course designed specifically for beginners. It offers lifetime access, allowing you to learn and grow at your own rhythm. This entry-level programme is the perfect way to step into the world of shamanism, spirituality, and inner wisdom without having to commit to full-scale training.
You will receive an essential introduction to Shamanic practices, and begin a journey that will provide an opportunity to deepen your connection with nature, animals, and the spirits of the land, and to find a deep sense of trust in yourself and the earth.
This programme may be for you if...
- You are new to shamanism, spirituality or just want to find out more about the shamanic path
- You are not ready to commit to a full shamanic training (yet) but want to understand more about shamanic magic
- You may have a deep connection to nature, animals and spirits of the land
- You may have a heightened sense of intuition
This programme may not be for you if...
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Programme structure
Programme structure
We begin by tuning into the cycles of nature, and planting seeds of intention. We'll dive into shamanic concepts such as The Medicine Wheel and The Four Directions which you will learn how, in your own unique way, to ‘call in’. Receiving this wisdom through medicine walks so you can experientially reconnect to nature and your intuition.
Deepen your connection with nature and the Medicine Wheel through spirit dances for each Direction:
- East & The Mind: spirit of the wind dance and kundalini meditation (40 day practice for this part of the course)
- South & The Body: sacred fire, sacred anger
- West & Emotions: spirit of the heart dance & emotional release
- North & Spirit: ancestral dance & grounding
This part of the programme is full of embodiment and grounding practices, exploring the 'Lower World' and becoming your animal body. You will receive vital somatic tools such as nervous system state tracking and regulation techniques to bring your spiritual experiences back down to ground.
- Embodied Lower World journey: connect to your power animal
- Deepening into your animal body through stalking & predator/prey embodiment
- Breathwork & somatic practices
- Connect and embody your Shadow animal
We begin by tuning into the cycles of nature, and planting seeds of intention. We'll dive into shamanic concepts such as The Medicine Wheel and The Four Directions which you will learn how, in your own unique way, to ‘call in’. Receiving this wisdom through medicine walks so you can experientially reconnect to nature and your intuition.
Deepen your connection with nature and the Medicine Wheel through spirit dances for each Direction:
- East & The Mind: spirit of the wind dance and kundalini meditation (40 day practice for this part of the course)
- South & The Body: sacred fire, sacred anger
- West & Emotions: spirit of the heart dance & emotional release
- North & Spirit: ancestral dance & grounding
This part of the programme is full of embodiment and grounding practices, exploring the 'Lower World' and becoming your animal body. You will receive vital somatic tools such as nervous system state tracking and regulation techniques to bring your spiritual experiences back down to ground.
- Embodied Lower World journey: connect to your power animal
- Deepening into your animal body through stalking & predator/prey embodiment
- Breathwork & somatic practices
- Connect and embody your Shadow animal
How to prepare
Programme structure
Programme structure
What will I learn on the programme?
What will I learn on the programme?
- How to connect to and embody the medicine wheel
- Re-connecting to lower world and upper world guides and middle world elementals
- How to connect to your power animal
- Deepening into your animal body through stalking and predator/prey embodiment
What else is included in the programme?
- 'Shamanic Roots - Foundations' certificate (IPHM)
An introduction to your guide
I’m Dawn Love (real name!).
I am a mother, nature lover, shamanic teacher/facilitator, energy/oracle healer, breathwork facilitator, consent and somatic practitioner, and kundalini yoga teacher.
I lovingly guide people to remember their unique gifts, their soul's magic and who the fu*k they really are.
I live in North East England, love travelling, being in nature, wild swimming, dancing.
Since being little I have always been interested in spirituality, and qualified as a Reiki Healer back in 2012. However, it was never fully embodied as I struggled to switch off the mind.
My shamanic awakening (which I believe is your soul coming 'online') began as a Kundalini activation in 2018 which manifested as a mental health breakdown/spiritual emergency.
I quit my corporate job and began to piece myself back together, determined to understand what was happening to me so that I could help others. This led me to the magical practices of shamanism and breathwork...
Before this I was a functional alcoholic, full of social anxiety, imposter syndrome and a people pleaser… it's still a work in progress!
Ever since being a child I was drawn to the magical and mystical. I had awareness of my gifts and abilities but what I lacked was a supporting teacher to help me understand and develop these.
As someone who often has my head in the clouds, going around the medicine wheel with has helped me to ground, feel safer and more connected to nature and spirit than I ever thought possible.
My confidence has grown and the anxiety I once had has been replaced with a deep sense of trust in myself, and the earth.
Dawn is a fantastic guide who brings these ancient teachings to life and a simple yet magical way. The course has transformed my everyday world!
She was embodying a whole new version of herself, stepping up and into a greater level of courage and confidence as she has invested in herself and is showing up for her daily practices and focusing on her self-healing.
Saw a massive shift in her energy. She started a new job a week into the course, this helped give her confidence to stand in her power and not be afraid of stepping up into this new role, and be in her truth and face everyday challenges. She connected more to her intuition, her spirit and being able to trust her magical experiences (and quiet the left brain).
Was setting boundaries and stepping more into her power, but also releasing judgements and ego and being from compassion and her heart to communicate more of her wisdom and her magnetic truth.
The highlights of being a mentor and participant on Embodied Shamanism is to truly witnessing people stepping into their own power. It's truly magical.
The feeling of really being with spirit and the connection with Spirit is life changing.
I'm so deeply grateful.
I'm a Reiki master and masters teacher and also a quantum healer. And this is just completely different dynamics. But I guess really what I've learnt is that there's so many similarities between each of the modalities that I use.
And I guess lots of surprises have particularly been around, things that I was struggling with on the shamanic core. So for example, going up to the upper world, and I was really struggling mentally to get my head around that.
And then I actually realised that when I'm doing all of my healing sessions for quantum healing, I'm actually operating in the upper world. So, that kind of helped challenges for me. I've been on a practical basis, just around getting to lessons cause I've got other stuff that I teach myself at night time.
But it's been absolutely amazing to be able to have the recordings, to watch afterwards. So that's been super helpful for me, on a personal basis. Biggest surprise for me was when we started to facilitate doing journeys for each other. And I haven't fully appreciated what that was gonna entail, but how much I would really enjoy it.
Just a total privilege, a massively heart opening, when I did that. So absolutely amazing. So I teach which school, and in my, level 3 course that I am pulling together at the moment, I was going to be spending a period of time on shamanism, but that's gonna take a larger proportion cause I guess I really want to share now what I've learnt, and be able to enable people, to go and do the same thing.
So hopefully make some further instructions to Dawn as well. It's a fantastic course. Dawn's an amazing teacher and she makes everybody feel, cared about, heard. And the structure of the course is great.
You've got time to be able to go away and do your further research yourself if you want to, and to really take it to whatever level you want to take it to. So it's a fantastic course, highly recommended. That wasn't as scary as I thought it was gonna be.
I was blown away from my session with Dawn. She is such a nurturing and caring healer, yet was fierce with the energies coming through.
She really took her time with me as she tuned in and gave what was needed.
She began with prayers and the drumming while bringing in all the guides and using light language.
I was purging so much of what needed to be released, then was shocked by how much was coming up to be cleared. It was so helpful with her magic touch and to see all my blind spots. She cleared out implants, thought patterns and distortions as well as memories of past partners in my field. I felt more energy in my body and the energy felt more clear for divine union.
I felt the divine guardians helping us and angelic energy, especially Melchizedek and the emerald dragons.
It was a very deep healing and I felt so much lighter.
A love interest also sent me a message in the middle of our session!
I was very grateful for such a powerful, beautiful session and for feeling much more secure with myself. Thank you!
The Shamanic Initiation process has been beautiful, enlightening, and empowering. It has been a deep dive into reconnecting to myself and the spirit of all things.
Dawn is an inspiring and thoughtful teacher who weaves the magic of shamanism into a safe and supportive container for growth and learning.
Developing these practices has changed my perspective, helping me to feel calmer in daily life, to be true to myself and to find out who I really am.
It's the adventure of a lifetime and I'd recommend this to anyone looking for more of a sense of meaning, fulfilment and magic in their lives!
What graduates are saying...
Testimonials
The last 2 years have been the most transformative of my life, peeling back layers of trauma that has needed to be healed. Dawn creates a safe space where you are able to do the hard work including shadow work and inner child work, welcoming all parts of ourselves with an open heart and without judgement. If you are ready, then you couldn’t have a more supportive, beautiful, authentic, creative, knowledgeable teacher and guide than Dawn.
The last nine months have been beautiful, enlightening, empowering into shamanic practice. Developing these practices has changed my perspective, helping me to feel calmer in daily life and to find out who I really am. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for more magic in their lives!
Practical details
| Start date | Autumn Equinox 2026 | |
| End date | Winter Solstice 2026 | 21 December 2026 |
| Delivery method | Self-paced online learning |
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FAQs
What is Shamanism and what's the difference between Shamanism and other practices such as witchcraft or druidism?
This is something I wondered myself earlier in my journey.
Shamanism (we were called Awenydd - or the one who knows) in ancient Briton is very connected to nature, the earth's cycles.
We create our own rituals, meditations and practices. It's a path of service to the earth and communities.
It's also at its root about humility, owning our shadows and not giving our power away to structures, systems, people, teachings.
Becoming connected to Great Spirit (God) and Mother Earth. Holy Mother, Holy Father.
The Shamanic Path also involves the process of ego death, many cycles of death and rebirth!
Remembering the old ways, connecting to the elementals and elemental magic, the original joy and innocence of life
Ancient Britons were revolutionary, independent, wild and connected to the Earth, the earth grids. Wisdom keepers of the earth, the dragons, the golden serpent energy.
Wicca/Witchcraft
Modern Witchcraft/Wicca teaching can involve set rituals, spells and may draw from practices via Gerald Gardner the 'grandfather' of modern Wiccan.
Green/Hedge/White Witchery is different, deeply connected to the earth, the goddesses, elementals, herbs and shamanism.
Many of us (myself included) will have had past lives or ancestors who were persecuted/killed as witches, just for our connection to nature, midwifery, or practising herbal medicine so may feel affected by 'The Witch Wound'.
Druidism
Druidism is an ancient pagan religion, connected to the Earth, the wheel of the year and many ancient practices. There are many similarities with Ancient Druidism to Shamanism.
Modern Druidism began to develop about three hundred years ago during a period known as the ‘Druid Revival’
Shamanism
It is not a religion. It's a way of life that follows no doctrine, no guru, no hierarchy and gives you the tools and helps you open yourself up (in a very safe way as protection is paramount) to find your own connection to magic, Great Spirit, Mother Earth, our gifts, the land, the sacred places.