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Temple of Awen

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)

Self-paced
Online

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

Bite-sized learning for maximum transformation
Opening: What Is Shamanism? Why is it important for humanity?
Rooted: Becoming the animal body/exploring the Lower World

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
Opening: What Is Shamanism? Why is it important for humanity?

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
Rooted: Becoming the animal body/exploring the Lower World

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

Bite-sized learning for maximum transformation

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!

Dawn wearing a red shawl and walking up from the beach

I’ve really loved the course. Dawn holds space with warmth, humility and wisdom. there is room to experience the path for ourselves within a supportive container. The small group is nurturing and encouraging.

There’s opportunities to go as deeper with the shamanic year and I know this is just the beginning of my journey with shamanism.

I feel so much more connected to myself, my embodiment and my intuition, and to the world around me. Open to messages coming through and open to living in a spiritual way daily around my ‘real’ life.

The highlights have been learning to journey and connect with the upper and lower worlds, guides, clan, animal guides and spirits. Feeling confident enough to do this myself.

Claire McP

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!

Carly

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.

C

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).

Sophie

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.

Ingrid

The highlights of being as a mentor on, the shamanic embodiment was, the transformations that have taken place for everybody that has, participated on the course.

Just watching those transformations, the depth of it, the flourishing of their own sort of magic coming through. The magic is just being absolutely divine to watch unfold.This being really lovely.

What challenges have you faced as a mentor? Oh gosh, I think it's the exhaustion, the exhaustion, it's constant.It's that devotion to spirit and letting it move through you in every way and really getting out of your way that's what you I can't came close to the things that was asking me to let go and to really, step in to, the letting go of phase was the most challenging through the whole light.Is it like it, there's things that happen before the actual ceremonies take place every week.

So it's the things that surprise me is the rapidness of it. Cause I'm a therapist myself, so I could be sitting and put with people for 12 months before they come up with their own, their own agency.It take, that takes time where I feel like with the shamanic horse, it's the rapidness of people's transformation.

That's really surprising to be part of.I don't know if the word surprise and it kind of fits that. But that's the thing that really strikes me where I'm like, whoa, how did they get from that to that in by themselves? It's like that real stepping in of their own power.

Things I'll be taking into my own life diversion, the feeling, of what embodiment feels like. It's truly, it's magical. The, the diversion of really being with spirit and the connection with it.I always say, I think when is that sort of anticipation, you feel like you've got a call in and there's an anticipation like that. That's probably the time that you supposed to step in. It's when it feels more scary.

Yasmin

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.

Sarah

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!

Jennifer C

The last nine months have been beautiful, enlightening, empowering into shamanic practice. 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!

Claire
Student 2022, mentor 2023

What graduates are saying...

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Testimonials

Claire McP

Dawn holds space with warmth, humility and wisdom. there is room to experience the path for ourselves within a supportive container. I feel so much more connected to myself, my embodiment and my intuition. I know this is just the beginning of my journey with shamanism.

Claire McP
Jo W

The way Dawn holds space for people is unique and genuine. You can tell she is really there to help empower you and support you on your journey. The ceremonies, journeys, meditations, yoga and everything in between have been absolutely magical. Transformational. I am so very grateful to be on this journey with Dawn.

Jo W
Diane F

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.

Diane F
Claire

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!

Claire
Student 2022, mentor 2023

Practical details

Start dateAutumn Equinox 2026
End dateWinter Solstice 202621 December 2026
Delivery methodSelf-paced online learning

Your investment

Pay in full

£144

Monthly payment plan

£75 per month x2

+ BONUS

FAQs

This is something I wondered myself earlier in my journey.

Shamanism (we were called Awenydd) 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.

I hold a a BSc in Environmental Geology and an MSc in Design for Sustainability. I spent over 15 years in construction, project management, sustainability and environmental management in a corporate environment.

After a spontaneous Kundalini awakening which began in 2018, I've been on a fast track healing and activation. It's been intense!

Since the awakening I trained as a Kundalini Yoga teacher, completed a 300 hours of trauma-informed Breathwork Facilitator training, and did a 9 month long apprenticeship in Core Shamanism in 2020 (online), plus other shamanic modules with different teachers in person and online. I have trained with five different shamanic practitioners in various courses and programmes, taking from various lineages.

In 2022, I joined another transformational programme (Oracle of Sophia) which was a next level initiation! This helped me understand about False Light and helped me reconnect to God/Great Spirit and put my shamanic skills in a wider multidimensional awareness of the world and understanding of the planet.

I bring the magic of everything I have learned along the way, as well as my own medicine, journeys creations, rituals, downloads and inspiration from Spirit.

Are you ready?

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Autumn Equinox 2026
23 September 2026
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