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Coldspring Healing Arts
Santa Cruz, CA
Narrye Caldwell, L.Ac.
 Welcome to Cold Spring Healing Arts. Over the past 30 years I have developed expertise in a number of traditional healing methods that I now offer in my private practice and teaching. My early training was in Traditional Chinese Medicine and martial arts, and these still inform my view of what it means to cultivate health, beauty, and wisdom in the modern world. I also have in depth training and advanced initiations in core shamanism with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. I am currently on the FSS faculty, teaching the full complement of in-person and online workshops in core shamanism.
I invite you to reach out to me through the contact form on this site. Let me know what you’d like help with, or what you’re curious about. Also check out my classes and workshops, or put yourself on my mailing list (click on the photo at the bottom of the column on the right) to receive announcements about new offerings.
Thanks for visiting, and I hope to meet you soon!
Workshops in Core Shamanism
“After having personally practiced shamanism, shamanic healing, and shamanic journeying for more than half a century, I can say that there is nothing I have encountered in reports of the spiritual experiences of saints, prophets, psychedelic drug experimenters, near death survivors, avatars and other mystics that is not commonly experienced when following classic journey methods using a drum.” — Michael Harner
As a faculty member with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, founded by Dr. Michael Harner, I teach the full complement of online and in-person workshops in core shamanism.
Way of the Shaman: Shamanic Journeying, Power, and Healing, is the prerequisite workshop for all in-person advanced shamanic healing trainings. The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge and Power followed by Divination in Practice, are the prerequisites for more advanced online workshops. Check out the Getting Started page on the FSS website for more information about trainings in core shamanism.
NEW ONLINE WORKSHOPS
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The Shaman as Psychopomp™
A Live Online Workshop
Taught by Narrye Caldwell
March 4, 5, & 11
1:00-4:30 (pacific) each day
Tuition: $225 (FSS members $210)
Shamans are concerned with the human soul, with healing during life and assisting the soul’s passage out of the Middle World after death. Familiar with the realms of the dead, a shaman can act as a psychopomp – a conductor of souls. A trained shamanic practitioner is able to guide the soul of a deceased person out of the Middle World to a place where the soul can receive help in taking the next step on its path. The focus of this training is on learning and practicing the psychopomp method.
In this fully experiential workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
- Explore what happens for human souls from a core shamanic perspective after they leave the body – the “destiny of human souls” in the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds
- Learn and practice the psychopomp method to help the souls of the deceased out of the Middle World to a better place
- How to locate a soul in the Middle World that may be stuck and in need of help
- How to obtain the soul’s permission to offer shamanic assistance
- How to guide the soul to a place in the Upper or Lower World where it will be helped to continue on its journey
Prerequisites: This workshop is the second in the Online Shamanic Healing Program. Participants must be able to successfully journey in the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds, and have a strong relationship with a Power Animal and/or Teacher from the Upper or Lower Worlds. You must have completed the following workshops to register:
- The Basic Workshop: The Way of the Shaman (in-person workshop)
- OR The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge & Power AND Shamanic Divination in Practice
- AND The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive (available online only)
- AND Shamanism, Spirits, & Healing (available online only)
10.5 FSS Continuing Education (CE) Credits available. Completion of the entire workshop (10.5 hours) is required for credit.
For details & registration click HERE
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Shamanic Extraction Healing Method™
A Live Online Workshop
Taught by Narrye Caldwell
July 8 & 9, 2023
10:00-4:00 (pacific) each day
Tuition $225 (FSS members $210)
Shamanic extraction healing is a powerful practice for treating localized pain and illness resulting from spiritual factors. “The shaman works to remove things that interfere with the health of the body, such as spiritual intrusions, and extract them. This is not done through journeying. It’s done through working here in the Middle World in an altered state of consciousness.” Michael Harner, Shamanic Healing
In this fully experiential online workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
- Learn methods to build spiritual power to prepare for extraction practice
- Sense and see spiritual intrusions, which may be causing localized illness
- Practice with other participants to safely extract (remove) spiritual intrusions
- Re-empower a client after a shamanic extraction to fully restore health and well-being
Prerequisites (available online now):
Note: Participants must be able to successfully journey in the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds, and have a strong relationship with a Power Animal and/or Teacher from the Upper or Lower Worlds.
- The Basic Workshop: The Way of the Shaman (in-person workshop)
- OR The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge & Power AND Shamanic Divination in Practice
- AND The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive (available online only)
- AND Shamanism, Spirits, & Healing (available online only)
- AND The Shaman As Psychopomp OR Shamanism, Dying, and Beyond (in person)
- Recommended, not required: Inspired Shamanic Practice
10.5 FSS Continuing Education (CE) Credits available. Completion of the entire workshop (10.5 hours) is required for credit.
For details & registration click HERE
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Power Soul Retrieval Method™
A Live Online Workshop
Taught by Narrye Caldwell
October 7 & 8, 2023
10:00-4:00 each day (pacific time)
Tuition $225 (FSS members $210)
Soul loss due to trauma – such as emotional pain and shock, accidents, long term illness, constant stress, overwork and even the loss of connection with nature – is a spiritual illness, recognized by shamans cross-culturally. A missing soul portion can be thought of as part of a person’s vitality and essence that they can no longer access, leaving them diminished and lacking in power. Soul retrieval is a classic shamanic method in which the practitioner, with the assistance of their helping spirits, in an altered state using rhythmic drumming or rattling, makes a shamanic journey to locate and return any missing portions of a client’s soul.
In this fully experiential online workshop, participants will be trained in the core elements of soul retrieval, including:
- Definitions of the soul and soul loss
- The importance of spiritual power to effective soul retrieval and exercises to build power and strong relationships with your helping spirits
- How to find and bring back a lost soul portion for a client
- Practice with other participants offering and receiving soul retrieval to help restore wholeness, personal vitality, and health
Prerequisites: (available online now):
Note: Participants must be able to successfully journey in the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds, and have a strong relationship with a Power Animal and/or Teacher from the Upper or Lower Worlds.
- The Basic Workshop: The Way of the Shaman (in-person workshop)
- OR The Shamanic Journey: Pathway to Knowledge & Power AND Shamanic Divination in Practice
- AND The Shamanic Worldview: Everything is Alive (available online only)
- AND Shamanism, Spirits, & Healing (available online only)
- AND The Shaman As Psychopomp OR Shamanism, Dying, and Beyond (in person)
- AND Shamanic Extraction Healing Method OR Shamanic Extraction Healing Training (in person)
- Recommended, not required: Inspired Shamanic Practice
10.5 FSS Continuing Education (CE) Credits available. Completion of the entire workshop (10.5 hours) is required for credit.
For details & registration click HERE
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New In-Person workshop coming in the spring
Michael Harner’s
Way of the Shaman®
Shamanic Journeying, Power, and Healing
This course is currently full. Please use the contact form to let me know if you would like to be on the waiting list.
The Basic Workshop in Core Shamanism
Taught by Narrye Caldwell
March 18-19, 2023
Novato, CA
10-5:30 Saturday, 10-5:30 Sunday
Details sent to registered participants
Tuition: $295 ($275 early bird until Feb. 17)
During the Basic experiential workshop, participants are introduced to core shamanism, the universal, near-universal, and common methods of the shaman to enter non-ordinary reality for problem solving and healing. Particular emphasis is on the classic shamanic journey, one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream. Participants are initiated into shamanic journeying, aided by drumming and other techniques for experiencing the shamanic state of consciousness and for awakening dormant spiritual abilities, including connections with Nature.
Practice includes comparisons by participants of their discoveries in shamanic journeys as well as being introduced to shamanic divination and healing. They are also provided with methods for journeying to meet and study with their own individual spirit helpers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Participants learn how to utilize the journey to restore spiritual power and health, and how shamanism can be applied in contemporary daily life to help heal oneself, others, and the Planet
13 FSS Continuing Education (CE) Credits available. (Link for information on how to verify acceptance of FSS CE credits with your approval board.)
Please note: At this point the FSS is highly recommending, but not requiring, Covid vaccinations for all participants at in-person workshops. Be prepared to wear an N95 or KN95 mask throughout the workshop. This recommendation will be updated as local conditions evolve.
For details & registration click HERE
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Michael Harner’s
Shamanic Divination Training
Taught by Narrye Caldwell
April 29-30, 2023
Soquel, CA.
10-5:30 Saturday, 10:30-6:00 Sunday
We will be gathering at a beautiful retreat center just minutes from downtown Soquel (Santa Cruz area.)
Tuition: $295 ($275 until Mar. 31)
One of the classic tasks of the shaman is to journey into nonordinary reality to obtain answers to questions, both at the request of others and for oneself. Participants in the workshop have the opportunity to engage in divination journeys for each other as well as for themselves and to gain experience in using various time-tested shamanic divination techniques. In the shamanic search to become persons of knowledge, they learn, as shamans have from time immemorial, how to converse with plant and animal spirits, how to learn about the use of quartz crystals, and how to seek and receive revelatory knowledge from visionary sources.
Prerequisites:
- The in-person weekend Basic Workshop: The Way of the Shaman; OR
- Three one-day online workshops, if in-person Basic Workshop has not been completed:
13 FSS Continuing Education (CE) Credits available. (Link for information on how to verify acceptance of FSS CE credits with your approval board.)
Please note: At this point the FSS is highly recommending, but not requiring, Covid vaccinations for all participants at in-person workshops. Be prepared to wear an N95 or KN95 mask throughout the workshop. This recommendation will be updated as local conditions evolve.
For details and registration click HERE
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Michael Harner’s
Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature
Taught by Narrye Caldwell
July 22-23, 2023
Santa Cruz, CA.
9:30-4:30 Saturday & Sunday
We will be meeting at the beautiful UCSC Arboretum. Details sent to registered participants.
Tuition: $295 ($275 until June 23)
From ancient times, shamans have worked with the spirits of nature for healing, survival, and knowledge. By learning from the plants and animals, from the rocks and mountains, from the winds and waters, and from the sun, moon, and stars, shamans helped their peoples live in harmony with the universe.
In a world now out of balance, the way of the shaman can teach how again to respect nature, our Planet, and its inhabitants at a deep spiritual level. As our ancestors everywhere once knew, our survival depends on the survival of the other species. By working together intensively through shamanic journeys and other spiritual experiences, we will dedicate ourselves to working in both non-ordinary and ordinary reality to restore and maintain a living Planet.
Prerequisites:
1. The in-person weekend Basic Workshop: The Way of the Shaman; OR
2. Three one-day online workshops, if in-person Basic Workshop has not been completed:
13 FSS Continuing Education (CE) Credits available. (Link for information on how to verify acceptance of FSS CE credits with your approval board.)
Please note: At this point the FSS is highly recommending, but not requiring, Covid vaccinations for all participants at in-person workshops. Be prepared to wear an N95 or KN95 mask throughout the workshop. This recommendation will be updated as local conditions evolve.
For details and registration click HERE
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