FREEING THE SHADOW SELF: a practitioner masterclass
Join us in November…
This masterclass is for students past and present of our Medicine Wheel & Healing Tools shamanic practitioner training. The next class in the UK takes place from Friday 6 – Monday 9 November 2026 at the Ammerdown Retreat Centre, near Bath.
We consider this essential training if you’re considering working with clients – and, even if not, as we do more and more of our own personal work, we eventually find ourselves in need of a deep dive into the shadows.
“The Shadow workshop offered by Chris Waters from Spirit of the Inca is probably the most powerful courses I have ever done. I enjoyed experiential work as part of my counselling training but this workshop offered a new level of depth and embodied learning for me. The teachings come from a place of deep understanding, experience and knowledge and are offered with a lot of care and love. Chris and her team live and breathe this work and walk alongside you, holding a safe space and creating a sacred process to explore your shadow. For me it was a beautiful, moving experience that has helped me to discover and welcome back parts of myself. And I know I will be back, to walk into the cave again… to remember my essence. I would highly recommend this workshop.” Judith Bladel
Shadow work, sacred work…
The Shadow is the hidden side of our psyches, with both its positive and negative aspects.
It’s the parts of us that have been banished, mostly lives in the dark, and doesn’t come out much, except when we least expect it, and mostly when we are least able to control it!! Then we can feel as if something else has taken over our lives, someone else has taken over the steering wheel and is now driving our bus… and we can’t be sure where it will end up!!
Honoured and set free…
Our Shadow Self can wreak havoc with our health, our relationships, with our careers and keep us stuck in old patterns of behaviour that seem inappropriate and yet hard to change. Scared and pushed out of sight, where we imagine that no one can see it, our shadow is waiting to be honoured, set free, brought into the light where it can truly serve us, rather than keep us small, hidden and protected or defended from our true identity.
The cave we fear to enter…
It takes a lot of energy to keep our Shadow Self hidden, that’s how we end up with chronic fatigue/auto immune diseases and other debilitating illnesses. If we don’t hide it within and harm ourselves, we will most certainly give it to someone else to hold for us… just so we can see it… and mostly we find that those are the people who push our buttons and drive us crazy! Either way, this is what creates conflict in our lives, and is a BIG distraction from what we are here to do.
Acceptance…
We want to get to know all these orphaned parts of ourselves so that we can hold our power lightly in the world. The way to world peace is through acceptance of our differences – if we can accept the parts of us that we have come to fear, mistrust or hate, then we can find peace in our hearts and we will be a true and lasting force for change in the world. It’s an opportunity to thaw the ice, and to reach out beyond our limitations and embrace fully the potential that lives within each of us.
Finding our gold…
An experiential, lively and powerful weekend. We dive together into our shadows help them to find a place in our lives, and return with nuggets of gold: our gold.
We bring home our light and release our uniqueness, our creativity, our imagination, and our courage onto the waiting world.
