On-Line Shamanic Practices
Certification

Currently offered on-LINE VIA Zoom only

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

TO REGISTER STUDENTS MUST BE AT LEAST 18 WITH A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA.

HCH Institute is accredited and sponsored by the International Board for Regression Therapy for the training of Hypnotherapists and Regression Therapists.

• Approved for Clinical Hypnotherapy Training by the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists and the Professional Board of Hypnotherapy.

• All students enrolled in any HCH  program are Sponsored Student Members of the International Board for Regression Therapy. Sponsorship is free  for one year or extends to graduation if the program is longer than a year. 

These courses meet the qualifications for CEUs approved by CA Association for Marriage Family Therapists #124720 and for Continuing Education Hours by the CA Board of Registered Nursing #CEP 6875. Each hour of classroom time equals one CEU. This course is appropriate for licensed and non-licensed students.

The framework for this course of study will be 4 modules correlating to the Medicine Wheel of the four directions, elements, and seasons. The cost per direction is $700.
The cost for repeating graduate students is $350.00
We will meet one full Sunday from 10:00 to 5:00 each month for four months, studying each direction.

The Modern Shamanism Training for certification at HCH is a 16 month, life changing  immersion into traditional core shamanism from ancient cultures around the world and modern light-workers’practices of transformation and healing for ourselves, our communities and our planet.

Working in a supportive community we will do the important life changing work we are called to do to transform ourselves so that we may assist in the transformation of consciousness our clients and in the collective consciousness on the planet. Through a series of experiential exercises of the heart, mind, body and soul you will be assisted in finding your true path as a modern practitioner of shamanism and spiritual wisdom.

This is a highly individualized course of study open to people at all levels of shamanic practice from beginner to certified practitioners. This is the opportunity to begin and/or deepen a life-long practice of living in relationship with and in sacred reciprocity to all things and to each other. 

With a committed and supportive cohort of students meeting monthly, we will create a family of Shamanic light-workers coming together to make it through the challenges and joys that life presents to us. 

Other supports available to you will be a private Facebook group of past and present HCH shamanic practices students and the option of two additional shamanic meet ups each month to practice what we learn in class.

Areas of shamanic practices studies covered in each 4 month course will include:

• Calling in the four directions, creating sacred space.

• Smudging creating, clearing spaces and energies.

• Keeping and creating appropriate boundaries and protections.

• Shamanic journeying and working with power animals.

• Working with particular animals and energies of each direction.

• Create relationship with ancestors and divine light-workers to assist us in healing ourselves and others.

• Creating ceremony. 

• Drumming and singing.

• Creating your Medicine Shield.

• Creative processes to anchor in and express clearing, healing and new commitments.

• Informing your tools through working with allies.

• Creating  and working with your mesa or medicine bundle.

The ways in which these practices will be presented in each workshop will be through the lens of each
Direction-element-season-moon phase. All students will have the opportunity to practice and become comfortable
with all aspects of these practices through class time, mentorship and personal experience and revelations. 

SOUTH
FIRE/SUMMER
FULL MOON

We will work with energies and spirits of the south to shed the past, releasing all that no longer serve us so that we may begin to live in this present miracle that is now. 
We will clear our energy field through learning and practicing the healing tools of illumination and fire ceremony. We will discover our stories and create new ones.

• Learn and practice the illumination process as self-care and sacred healing for others.

• Identify and learn your own story and how to create the story you want.

• Storytelling as healing tool.

• Manifesting. 

• Fire as ally.

• Fire ceremony.

• Full moon energy.     

Learning Objectives

• To understand the importance of shedding the past and letting go of personal stories to be more present in the now.

• To facilitate the Illumination process to clear imprints, disease patterns and karma from the energy body.

• To obtain intuitive information through power animal journeys, sand paintings and divination.

WEST
WATER/AUTUMN
WANING MOON

We will work with the energies and the spirits of the West to step beyond fear, drama and heavy energies that block our experience of living life to the fullest.  We will release toxic relationships in our life, embrace our shadow and turn it into an ally and move beyond  fearing death. We will create appropriate boundaries and find peace in our new awareness. 

• Identify and transform inner critic and limiting beliefs.

• Meet and illuminate your core wounds.

• Learn how to meet and be in relationship with life's challenges.

• Go beyond death: write your own eulogy.

• Identify and Extract intrusions and unwanted energies. 

• Spirit releasement.

• Water ceremony. 

• Shapeshifting.

• How to be seen and receive love. 

Learning Objectives

• To understand the importance of healing ancestral lineages and how those lineages have affected our lives.

• To know how to use Shamanism to extract spiritual intrusions, release entities and transform shadow aspects of myself and others. 

• To draw upon Shamanic Practices to facilitate the releasing of fears and awaken empowerment in myself and others.

NORTH
EARTH/WINTER
NEW MOON

We will work with the energies and the spirits of the North to release who we thought we were to become who we were meant to be. The roles that we have played in our lives will be released and replaced by roles that we choose going forward. 

• Meet and release the ego the idea of self so that you might be free to become something new.

• Learn to sing your own song and to hear and sing healing songs for others.

• Learn to see the unseen, in waking trance. 

• Exploring Soul loss: why, how, when, and where?

• Soul retrieval (4 techniques). 

• Integration after soul retrieval.

• Working with your ancestors releasing old agreements and  making new ones.

• Work with light energy as a daily practice.

Learning Objectives

• To dis-identify from the ego self in support of living in more peace with creation.

• To heal original wounding and traumas with soul retrieval practices.

• To use Shamanic Practices for myself and others in letting go of fear and to choose one’s destiny.

EAST
AIR/SPRING
WAXING MOON

We will work with the energies and the spirits of the East to manifest our dreams. Looking to the past and future we will create new understandings and beginnings so that we might create the life we desire. Learn practices for getting out of our own way and letting the light shine through.

• Deep work with our ancestral lineage.

• Seeing and cutting cords which are energy drains.

• Breathe work.

• Assisting those who are dying.

• Symbolic Dismemberment as a Shamanic transformational process.  

• Bringing heaven to earth.

• Journeying: standing, walking, drumming, dancing.

• Meeting celestial parents.

• Meeting  your future self.

• Projecting into the future.

Learning Objectives

• To experience and learn shamanic practices for self and clients to manifest using dreams, and intentional focus.

• To experience and learn the shamanic practice of assisting those who have passed to heal and move on after death.

• To begin to step out of fear into empowerment, and to use Shamanic Practices to assist clients in doing the same.

Annie Blackstone
Shamanic Practices Instructor

“My goal is to offer students a strong foundation in shamanic practice while creating a supportive community where we can learn, practice, and grow together.”

Annie Blackstone is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher, and Ancestral Healing Practitioner who has spent more than three decades exploring healing, consciousness, and the ways people create meaningful relationships with themselves, their communities, the natural world, their ancestors, and the unseen.

Annie began her professional practice as a hypnotherapist in the early 1990s. Her work with hypnosis, meditation, imagery, and non-ordinary states of consciousness became an early foundation for what would eventually develop into a much broader spiritual and shamanic practice.

Over the years, Annie has studied with teachers from a variety of contemporary shamanic, spiritual, therapeutic, ancestral, and earth-centered traditions. Rather than teaching the ceremonial or spiritual practices of any particular Indigenous culture, her work at HCH focuses on accessible shamanic practices that students can learn through direct experience while approaching the cultures and traditions that have influenced this field with respect.

Her teaching includes shamanic journeying, working with helping spirits, ceremony, energetic healing and extraction, soul loss and soul retrieval, ancestral healing, reciprocity, and developing a grounded relationship with the natural and unseen worlds.

Annie is also a Reiki Master Teacher, EFT practitioner, and Brainspotting practitioner. Her experience with these approaches, along with her work in ancestral healing, informs her understanding of healing while her shamanic teaching remains rooted in helping students develop their own direct experience rather than asking them to adopt a particular belief system.

At HCH, Annie teaches the Shamanic Practitioner Certification program and advanced classes that explore the integration of shamanic practices with hypnotherapy and other healing modalities. She particularly values the community that develops through this work. Students are encouraged not only to learn techniques, but also to explore how they live in relationship—with themselves, with one another, with the natural world, with their ancestors, and with the mysteries we cannot fully explain.

For Annie, shamanic practice is less about claiming a title and more about cultivating relationship, curiosity, responsibility, reciprocity, and the willingness to listen.

“The practices of journeying, ceremony, healing, reciprocity, and learning to ask for and receive guidance have brought tremendous richness to my life. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these practices with the HCH community
and to continue learning alongside the people I teach.”

Annie draws on a variety of cultures, teachers and traditions which all stem
from an understanding of working in relationship with the unseen forces that shape our world.