Jan 05

Why You Should Blend Shamanism and Reiki

By Debbie Philp Blog, Shamanism and Reiki

I had had fifteen years of Reiki experience already when I discovered Shamanic Reiki. I did not need more Reiki training to continue serving as I had been, but I was drawn to the aspects of shamanism that were incorporated into Shamanic Reiki. My first training weekend experience marked a pivotal point in my work – and my life. Here…

Nov 23

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Sitting with Squirrels as a Meditation Practice

By Debbie Philp Blog, Spiritual Ecology

If your idea of meditation is sitting comfortably on a cushion in a softly lit, quiet room, with an hour-long recording of Tibetan singing bowls streaming on your tablet while incense smoke curls around you, sitting with squirrels is not the practice for you. If you are ready to be fully present to what is true now, even if what…

Aug 13

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Broken Turtles and Spiritual Journeys

By Debbie Philp Blog, Spiritual Ecology

“Follow the turtle home,” repeated the box turtle, as he danced across the night sky. Each step sent a cloud of stardust flying, which left a sparkling wake behind him. “Follow the turtle home,” I heard again and again. When the drumbeat stopped, I came out of my first shamanic journey experience confused. What could that message mean? In the…

Apr 22

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Earth Day 2020

By Debbie Philp Blog, Spiritual Ecology

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, I’m awake at 4:00 a.m. after another restless night during the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to think of a reason to say, “Happy Earth Day.” In 1970, the first Earth Day wasn’t a celebration, but a protest. Sparked by an oil spill, backed by a U.S. Senator, and organized from the ground up,…

Apr 16

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Perceiving Interconnectedness Through Touch

By Debbie Philp Blog, Spiritual Ecology

On a Tuesday in September 2017 I had a Shamanic Reiki client in the afternoon, so my parents picked my son up from school. I arrived at their house to claim him as they were finishing dinner. When my father started to push his chair back, I said, “No, stay there. We have to run.” I missed out on a…

Feb 20

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Spiritual practices and self-examination

By Debbie Philp Blog, Spiritual Ecology

I am a month into the year-long Shamanic Reiki Evolving Master Teacher program and still feeling a bit lost. I took a break from my personal Shamanic Reiki development in 2017 to focus on business. It was a valuable learning experience, although what I learned was not exactly what I had intended to when I started out a year ago.…

Dec 07

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Nobody said being a healer was easy

By Debbie Philp Blog, Shamanism and Reiki

I’ve been following the coverage of the latest wildfires in California with a heavy heart. If you pay attention to the news, it seems like the whole world is on fire, literally and figuratively. To be alive at this time, especially for those of us who have been called to be healers, is no easy feat. There is just too…

Feb 20

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Breathing with Trees

By Debbie Philp Blog, Spiritual Ecology

I ventured out, alone, in my snowshoes, on a quiet trail through the woods. We had had the first substantial snowfall of winter a few days before, and I came to a part of the trail that had not been broken since the storm. I’m not experienced on snowshoes and it was only my second time out this season, but…

Feb 05

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In the Season of Hope

By Debbie Philp Blog, Wheel of the Year

A couple of days ago, Americans acknowledged the festival of Imbolc (or Candlemas) by practicing the art of weather divination. In other words, some folks woke up a groundhog and, because the groundhog saw his shadow, declared there will be six more weeks of winter bleakness. For the most part, I don’t mind winter and enjoy the snow, but sometimes…

May 01

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Sacred Spirals and Breathwork

By Debbie Philp Blog, Spiritual Ecology

“…no circle is ever closed. We walk ever in spirals.” ~ R. Scott Bakker Do you feel like you’ve been here before? We see time as linear and circles in the patterns of nature. And so spring comes around again. Or does it? During the past two moon cycles I’ve been quiet. Introspective. I’ve become aware of many patterns repeating…

Debbie Philp

Why You Should Blend Shamanism and Reiki

Sitting with Squirrels as a Meditation Practice

Broken Turtles and Spiritual Journeys

Earth Day 2020

Perceiving Interconnectedness Through Touch

Spiritual practices and self-examination

Nobody said being a healer was easy

Breathing with Trees

In the Season of Hope

Sacred Spirals and Breathwork

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