My clients routinely experience immediate and significant relief from their challenges… physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Don’t just treat symptoms — pull out the roots!
Shamanic healing is now part of my “Energy Healing & Spiritual Guidance” service. This also makes other helpful modalities available to you. The cost is the same, and you can still focus entirely on shamanic healing if you wish.
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Shamanic Healing
Shamanic healing works by eliminating or harmonizing the challenging spiritual energies at the root of a problem. Once this is done, harmony is naturally restored at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
Shamanic healing might include parts work influenced by my Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) training. Many of my clients have experienced powerful and permanent healing of old traumas, in just one session, using this approach!
Parts work shows that each of us has many subpersonalities, or “parts”. All our parts are good and necessary.
An emotional or psychological problem can be caused by one of these parts carrying a burden. My parts work blends psychology, shamanism, and spirituality to gently help these wounded parts release their burdens and reintegrate with you. This can help you eliminate chronic challenges and increase your vitality, joy and zest for life.
My shamanic healing work has helped clients gain relief from …
- Agitation
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Apathy
- Depression
- Fear
- Indecision
- Lack of Purpose
- Physical issues of all kinds
- PTSD
- Stress
- Traumas from this life and past lives
- Worry
Shamanic healing might include …
- Parts Work
- Depossession
- Extraction
- Chakra Clearing
- Soul Retrieval
- Space Clearing
- Land Clearing
- And More!
Shamanic healing uses spiritually based therapeutic technologies, proven and refined over thousands of years. Clients usually feel immediate and significant relief from their symptoms by the end of their session.
If appropriate, your session will include fast, simple and effective invocations for healing and/or embodied awakening. You can use these anytime to clear challenging energies and enjoy ever-increasing wholeness, peacefulness, power, and divine love. I want your life motto to be the same as mine: “It always gets better than this!”
The longer the session, the more helpful your experience of healing and awakening can be!
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The Great Onion of Consciousness
The Great Onion of Consciousness is a helpful metaphor for understanding how shamanic healing works. At the core of this onion is absolute bliss, ease and peace. This is your natural state.
Around this luminous core are dark layers that dim your awareness of your natural divine ecstasy. Each layer is formed by an unhealed trauma or pain from the past. Your current awareness is just beyond the outermost layer, looking in toward the core.
Each time you experience a challenging emotion or physical sensation, it’s the outermost layer of this onion saying, “Please peel me!” If you do, you’ll be done with that layer of pain forever. If you don’t, it will keep bothering you until you do heal it.
If a trauma is too painful to heal all at once, your higher self will divide it into manageable layers. You’ll never feel overwhelmed during my shamanic healing work, or when using a self-regulating tool such as my Healing Invocation.
More About AstroShaman Shamanic Healing
During shamanic healing sessions, I act as a conduit for divine energy. I connect with your higher self and follow its guidance. Some sessions are low-key, with most of the work done quietly and subtly. Others can be quite dramatic! Sessions are equally effective whether they’re done long-distance by Zoom or phone, or in person in Asheville, NC.
Even when I ask for the healing of a particular issue, I always include a “karma-free safety clause”: let this take place only if it serves highest good.
Some of the information in these next three paragraphs may not be easy to accept, but it’s critically important.
Some challenges are chosen by the soul for an entire lifetime to facilitate soul growth. Other difficult conditions can be healed. You must ultimately address the core issues that attracted your symptoms to prevent similar challenges from recurring.
A shaman can clear negative energies and alert you to important personal growth areas. But it’s your responsibility to learn and integrate the life lessons that the challenges came to teach you. Once you’ve learned those lessons, the symptoms have served their purpose and will no longer bother you. If you haven’t learned, they’ll keep returning until you master the situation.
Because of this, I can’t guarantee any particular outcome. However, my clients have been very pleased with the results of their shamanic healing work. Read their testimonials!
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Shamanic Healing FAQ
What Happens During Shamanic Healing?
I do shamanic healing at a mesa, which is based on ancient healing technologies. It consists of a cloth on the floor supporting a powerful energy grid of stones, crystals and other sacred items. The mesa also includes rattles, tobacco, elixirs, musical instruments, and more. My divine allies fine-tune the mesa’s divine frequencies to give you the best possible support during your session.
I activate the mesa by calling the directions in Q’echua, the ancient power language of the Incas. I then energize the mesa by calling in archangels, ascended masters, and other benevolent beings from many spiritual traditions.
I act as a conduit for divine energy during healing work. I follow the guidance of the client’s higher self, as well as my inner direction.
Some sessions are low-key, with most of the work done quietly and subtly. Others can be more dramatic. Either way, I strive to help each client receive the maximum long-term benefit from their shamanic healing experience.
What is Benjamin’s Shamanic Background?
I’ve done energy healing for 45+ years, and have been a professional shamanic healer since 2012. I was called to this work by ayahuasca, the living spirit of a powerful sacred plant medicine. For thousands of years, ayahuasca has been used for healing and spiritual awakening by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
I’ve traveled to the Peruvian jungle five times to participate in deep-immersion ceremonial work with ayahuasca. As of November 2025, I’ve done 350+ plant spirit ceremonies with ayahuasca and other plant spirit teachers.
This profound work has turbocharged my healing and awakening process, and has been central to the development of my shamanic healing abilities. As a result, I easily and reliably partner with the spiritual dimensions to assist my clients.
I began my healing plant spirit work in 2006 by attending several San Pedro ceremonies. I spent many years cultivating the healing power of the Pachakuti Mesa, based on indigenous Peruvian healing traditions, and have also studied Sandra Ingerman-style Core Shamanism. I’m an ordained Shamanic Minister and a certified Shamanic Breathwork™ Facilitator.
I also did an intensive multi-year personal apprenticeship with two powerful shamanic teachers. These days, I’m mainly taught from within by ayahuasca and my divine allies.