British Columbia, Canada
The Path of Power 

PRACTITIONER TRAINING

Empowerment - Healing - Growth - Transformation

Next Initiation starts early 2024

Some of the proceeds (donations received) from this course  are donated to First Nations Organizations.

We would like to acknowledge the spirit of the First People who are here and the ancestors who inhabited this land long before any foreign presence reached these shores. This land is the unceded territory of the WSANEC (Sannich People) the Hul’q’umi’num, the Tsawout and Penelakut. We gratefully offer thanks for the permission and support to live on this land and to do ceremony.

Elaine Hyde, Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher

"Elaine is a very gifted Shamanic practitioner, healer and teacher. I am so thankful to have worked with her and to have received her unique guidance through the process of learning ceremony, circle, journey meditations, deepening my own becoming and remembering of who I am. She is insightful, compassionate, supportive, and shares great wisdom. Learning from her has been a life changing experience. I know that those who are called to have an opportunity to work with her on their path will look back and consider it a critical aspect to completing their initiation. She helps in gently bringing forward the gifts of others by sharing her own with deep humility so that they can be better healers for others. I feel so much appreciation for Elaine."

–Rebecca Johnston, Energetic Practitioner, Return to Wholeness

When you join, here is what you get:

• Over 12 Days of intensive healing training
• A complete, high quality education in spiritual healing - not just participation in ceremonies - you also learn the fundamentals shamanic spiritual healing skills.
• Learn from an experienced, dedicated teacher with over 25 years of practice in spiritual healing and soul retrieval.
• Experience powerful group ceremonies with like-minded people where you will enjoy gentle growth in a safe, supportive environment...immerse yourself in learning that will last a lifetime.
• Make a connection with the sacred and learn practical skills.
• Experience a return of personal power.
• A life changing, unforgettable, rich and transformative experience.

Please ask about the details of how to apply.

Please email Elaine:    hereandnow.elaine@gmail.com

Testimonials - video about the 1 Year Program in Shamanic Healing

Click here to see the 26 minutes video giving more details and testimonials about the 1 Year Program in Shamanic Healing or click the photo below.

Next set of initiations starts early 2024

The pre-requisite for the training is a soul retrieval ceremony with Elaine It is also recommended to take the One Day Workshop introduction to see if you are able to journey or take an on-line class with Sandra Ingerman.

One Year Together

The same group of participants will work together for one year. You will develop a general knowledge of a variety of healing techniques and skills and an in-depth knowledge of the journeying technique. You will receive nearly 100 hours - 12 days - of intensive training spread over 5 weekends. This is a non residential training program.  Out of town participants must find their own accommodation.

Your Journey

Discover and learn how to use the trance journey for many purposes, to work with your spirit animals and spirit helpers. Discover how to use the technique to help you in your daily life or with creative projects and to do healing work with others.  The basic method of the trance journey is a form of meditation using drumming where you learn to soul travel, commune with the unseen reality and compassionate healing spirits for the purpose of receiving guidance, information and healing. Scientific studies show that repetitive drumming alters brain waves patterns in a way that is comparable to deep sleep and deep meditative states. In this states, the journeyer obtains information and healing visions which have direct application to ordinary reality.

Support

You will be supported in discovering your own gifts and apply them to help others and yourself.

Focus

Deepen your connection with life and experience healings that bring fundamental shifts and align you with your higher purpose. Foster a sacred way of living life in harmony with nature and the Earth.

Certificate

After completing the initiations, you will receive a certificate from The Medicine Circle as an acknowledgement that you have fulfilled the requirements and attended all sessions, completed your 20 cases studies and handed-in your case study reports.

Topics

The 1 Year Program is about connecting to the unseen reality where people can meet and interact with healing, compassionate spirit helpers to help restore balance in themselves, others and the environment. It is a path that causes personal growth and a holistic approach to all aspects of everyday life. Walking the path is a process of re-empowerment, self-healing and a path of knowledge where a person learns to work with spirit helpers to effect desired results for healing and restoring balance and living in harmony with all of creation.

Sessions spread out over a one-year period as follows:

TBA

Weekend ONE 

Journeying using drumming & rattling, Power Animal Retrieval, Meeting your Spirit Helpers, working with your helpers, Merging with your Spirit Helpers, Power Animal Dance, Divination, reading signs, interpreting messages, grounding received teachings, taking action on advice received.

Weekend TWO

Extraction, Psychopomp, working with, guiding and healing the spirits of the dead, Working with the spirits of place, nature and doing healing for places and physical spaces. Introduction to working with your healthy ancestors.

Weekend THREE

Soul Retrieval - PART ONE Soul Retrieval - The definition and method

Weekend FOUR

Soul Retrieval - PART TWO The stolen souls and ceremony for returning the stolen souls, Soul Remembering, Soul Retrieval for past lives, After Soul Retrieval - self care, process, integration and the healing crisis, Intro to PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] from a shamanic perspective, Contraindications for Soul Retrieval

Weekend FIVE

Empowering and blessing your healing tools (ceremony), Shadow work & awareness about power games, Fire Ceremony, Distance Healing, How to work with your Power Animal, transformational journeys.

REQUIREMENTS

• Participants must commit to attend all initiations – all occur on the weekend Friday evening, Saturday all day and Sunday all day.
• Participant must fill out an application form, sign a waiver and provide a one-page handwritten letter describing yourself with a brief explanation as to why you want to participate.
• Participants must do homework practice sessions between weekend trainings and hand-in short case study reports on their experiences [20 case studies].
• To book your space into the course you need to go through an interview and healing session with Elaine and submit a letter describing yourself and why you feel called to do this training.
• PLEASE NOTE: This is a non-residential training.

You will also need to make a drum and a rattle for this training - elders and resources will be suggested.

Not everyone is admitted to this training. Please email us and we will send you an application form.  

Supplies for the course – FOR EVERY SESSION PLEASE BRING:

• You will need to bring your own drum and rattle to each session (except for the first retreat – if you do not have your drum or rattle at the first retreat, that’s fine. But you will need them for all other 4 sessions)
• a notebook and pens
• cushion
• blanket to lay on for journeying
• eye bandana to cover your eyes during journeying

Please let me know if you have any existing conditions whether physical, mental or emotional.

Disclaimer:

These initiations will teach you shamanic healing skills.  Taking and graduating from this course does not make you a healer or a shaman.

Please note:

The Medicine Circle does not hold plant medicine ceremonies. Elaine teaches healing using the journey process using percussion, dancing, singing, storytelling.

Daniel Leonard, Helena Frank, Elaine Hyde and The Medicine Circle reserve the right to cancel the participation of anyone, at any time for any reason and to cancel any workshops at any time and for any reason. If the case may be, donations (if any) offered in advance will be given back.

Testimonials from people who have completed the 1 year initiations with Elaine

My shamanic training with Elaine was A+. She is an accomplished shaman practitioner. During our training and beyond she was kind, humble and generous in her care and in tune with our needs and feelings. It was a great addition to do some personal group circles to refine our knowledge and experiences through her guidance. I will recommend to work with her as much as you have time as she will help you grow and ground yourself.

–Berenice Nelson, animal communicator and intuitive healer

“Elaine is a kind and open spirit who effortlessly guides groups to connect with beings and energies on this plane and elsewhere. Her supportive and non-judgmental vibe allows you to ask questions and feel safe and protected as you dive deep into spirit’s medicine and your own. Elaine is also a gifted clairvoyant and brings visual poetry to her teachings. A beautiful teacher through and through.”

 —Anastasia Koutalianos, former Medicine Circle shamanic student (deer alumni) and wolf workshop participant

Elaine is a very gifted Shamanic practitioner, healer and teacher. I am so thankful to have worked with her and to have received her unique guidance through the process of learning ceremony, circle, journey meditations, deepening my own becoming and remembering of who I am. She is insightful, compassionate, supportive, and shares great wisdom. Learning from her has been a life changing experience. I know that those who are called to have an opportunity to work with her on their path will look back and consider it a critical aspect to completing their initiation. She helps in gently bringing forward the gifts of others by sharing her own with deep humility so that they can be better healers for others. I feel so much appreciation for Elaine. 

–Rebecca Johnston, Energetic Practitioner-Return to Wholeness

Learning from Elaine has been a great joy! Her teaching style is extremely easy to understand, and she makes sure the group has grasped the concepts before continuing with more. She is extremely respectful of others’ belief systems. Teaching practices that do not negate any experiences people enter the workshops with. 

In short, Lainey is the best!

–Matt, dedicated climber and spiritual guide

"Doing the shamanic training certificate program, through the medicine circle in 2022 introduced me to Elaine. I have subsequently done a wolf medicine workshop with her. 

Elaine has a gentle feminine energy. Her connection and ability to see, sense and feel spirit all around her is what draws me to her. She balances beautifully, her light filled being, with an in depth wisdom, that is truly inspiring. Communicating so easily with other realms Elaine brings through messages from spirit in the midst of teaching. She has a sensitive open heart and has the innate ability to make one feel very safe in a group."

Sincerely,

 –Brid, Irish author of, Between Worlds - Shared Reflections of a Spiritual Midwife 

"Elaine has a deep, lifelong connection with Spirit and is a gifted and compassionate teacher. I have had the privilege of sitting in Circle with her as both a participant and an assistant. Her deep relationship with nature and mysticism,and her capacity and understanding of it, continually amazes me.

Her 1:1 sessions have helped bring clarity and insights which help me move through blocks and old patterns.  I especially appreciate how she holds me accountable while I find my way forward.  Elaine has a way of shining light in the darkness and empowering others to shine their light in their own unique way. 

–Jacqueline, End of Life Guide, Joy and Grief Coach

I have enjoyed journeying with the guidance of this woman very much. Elaine has a lovely presence, she felt there with me, caring, while not being overinvested personally. There have been so many gifts; clarity, strength, connection, lost pieces of self retrieved, energy restored, and trust, a feeling of being the eye in the storm - centered. Oh, and so much curiosity! I love how Lainey will answer any questions I have, And leave room for personal experience too. I so look forward to adventuring through the realms with this studious guide again.

–Jessie Rain

Elaine is a beautiful and talented Shamanic healer. Her gifts come from lifetimes of training and she is a powerful woman and an excellent friend. She knows how to hold excellent space and makes sure you feel safe and comfortable. Journeying with her is a blessing and an honor, she knows how to navigate the many realms. I am eternally grateful for the medicine that she shares and feel honored to receive a session from her. I would highly recommend her to any and all of my friends and a empowered lightworker capable of cultivating transformational experiences!

–Austin Rygh

Elaine  has a bright and warm spirit that translates to her practice. Before our meeting, I did not know what to expect, as I had limited knowledge but an abundance of curiosity about shamanism. She was thorough and enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge with humility and explaining concepts with accessible language and terms. I was totally comfortable during our session, and the experience was profound, especially in the days that followed. Lainey was very clear on what to expect and how to practice self care in the following days. She made sure to manage expectations and to emphasize that personal work is involved to continue the personal healing process. Our conversation about the journey was compelling, enlightening and resonated deeply. It was incredibly helpful in my life, as it has allowed me to work through some very deep emotional pain that would have otherwise stayed dormant or overlooked. I am excited to learn more and to work with Lainey again when the opportunity presents itself once again. I look forward to seeing Lainey continue to grow and help others in her practice. It was an absolute honour and pleasure to work with her.

–Anna Noury