We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the star seeds finally growing up and accepting spiritual responsibility for our lives and our planet. It is time for us to remember who we really are and our soul’s true purpose. It is not by accident that we find ourselves here now at this time of planetary shift in consciousness. We all signed up for this job. It is divine destiny that we are here now.

We use the words “shamanic psycho-spiritual” to describe our programs. “Shamanic” refers to the death of the old self and rebirth of the new. “Psycho-” describes how this experience is deeply rooted in our psyche and psychological processes. “Spiritual” expresses our belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Our programs offer a variety of teachings and methods for shamanic transformation.

Our main tool is the Shamanic Breathwork™ Process, birthed through Venus Rising’s founder, Linda Star Wolf. Every turn of the great wheel of life requires an ego surrender to Great Mystery. Rebirth can only occur after a symbolic death and release of the old forms that no longer serve us. This journey often requires moving through a “dark night of the soul.” We step willingly into the void and spiral around to the next octave of incarnation while still remaining in this physical body. As we spin through this transformational vortex our hearts are broken wide open and we shift from our ego’s agenda to our soul’s deeper purpose. We open to the lessons hidden deep within the intelligent heart, or the “heart/mind.” Soul extraction (letting go of our old “stuff”) and soul return (lost pieces of our soul reuniting with our physical, emotional and mental bodies) result in a new and richer perspective. Opening to this process over and over is the shamanic path and those who walk it embody shamanic consciousness in their everyday lives.

Our program provides participants with shamanic wisdom teachings and principles that support the integration of the ego, soul and spirit. The process begins by remembering that we all walk the “spiral path” – an alchemical map of conscious co-creation and change. This map consists of five archetypal and elemental cycles – known as nature spirits or neteru – Water, Earth, Fire, Air and Spirit or Great Mystery. Awareness of these five cycles of change awakens our inner knower and way shower who then leads us through the shamanic portals of death and rebirth.

We at Venus Rising believe that we are being given the challenge and opportunity to consciously move through the shamanic portals of initiation, both personally and collectively. It is not too late to change. As we heal ourselves we heal the world around us. Every inner shift in consciousness that we make individually informs and transforms the collective consciousness. It is not too late to open to love, to our heart's wisdom and to simply do our part.

The Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts is a 501c3 non-profit shamanic psycho-spiritual organization offering wisdom teachings and tools for personal transformation. We offer Shamanic Psycho Spiritual programs to Awaken the Shaman Within at Isis Cove in western North Carolina, as well as other locations in the USA and around the world.