SHAMANIC HEALING
Shamanic Healing at Numala
Shamanism is one of humanity’s oldest healing traditions - rooted in the understanding that true well-being comes from restoring balance between the body, mind, spirit, and the natural world.
In ancient cultures, Shamans were not only healers, but also teachers, guides, and keepers of wisdom - holding space for individuals and communities to heal, evolve, and reconnect with their deeper purpose.
Today, even science is beginning to validate what shamans have long known: that our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs shape the energetic patterns within our bodies - and that these patterns deeply influence our physical and emotional health.
At Numala, our Shamanic Healing sessions draw upon these time-honoured teachings - particularly those of the Amazon and Andean shamans. Using ritual, energy clearing, intention, and guided energetic work, we support you to:
• Clear stagnant or intrusive energies
• Restore harmony to your energy field
• Reconnect with your true self and inner wisdom
• Release pain, trauma, or emotional blockages stored in the body
• Realign with your life path and spiritual essence
Each session is intuitively guided and tailored to meet your energetic needs - offering you a sacred space to heal, release, and remember who you truly are.
What Tools Does A Shaman Use?
Shamanic healing is deeply intuitive and ceremonial, often involving sacred tools that help shift energy, anchor healing, and create a bridge between physical and spiritual realms.
At Numala, our Shamans use a variety of traditional tools—each one chosen with intention to support your healing journey.
Sage, Drum & Rattle
These instruments help the practitioner enter an altered state of consciousness, connecting with the spirit world for insight and guidance. The drum, in particular, is a powerful tool for shifting brainwaves into a theta state—a space where intuition deepens, healing begins, and a sense of wholeness is restored.
Healing Mesa
A sacred medicine bundle containing 13 healing stones, each infused with energy from the shaman’s personal healing path. These stones help clear stuck or unsupportive energy and hold sacred space during your session.
Crystals, Feathers & Fire
Used to cleanse, direct, and harmonise energy - crystals offer vibrational support, feathers help sweep and shift blocked energy, and fire symbolises transformation and release.
Essence Water & Earth Elements
Infused waters, herbs, and elements from nature may also be used to purify your field, awaken the senses, and support emotional or spiritual clearing.
Each session is uniquely guided by your energy and intention—creating a sacred, powerful experience that is both ancient and deeply personal.
What To Expect From Your Shamanic Healing
Healing is never one-size-fits-all. At Numala, we honour that each client’s journey is unique - and your session is intuitively tailored to meet you exactly where you are.
Our experienced Shaman works closely with you to identify your core challenges - whether physical, emotional, or spiritual - and co-create a path forward using ancient practices and energy-based tools.
Each session may involve:
• Energy clearing and realignment
• Soul retrieval or release work
• Guided journeying or breathwork
• Sacred ceremony or ritual elements
A combination of other healing modalities, as needed
Sessions are 90 minutes in length and can include a blend of modalities depending on your needs and intentions. While some clients may experience powerful shifts after just one session, lasting transformation often unfolds through a series of sessions over time.
We offer single sessions by request, following a consultation to ensure it’s the right fit for where you are in your healing process.
At its core, shamanic healing is about returning to wholeness - gently, respectfully, and in your own time.
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Meet Our Shaman
Karen Pattie
Karen Pattie is a deeply experienced shamanic healer, teacher, and founder of Numala Wellness Retreat. With decades of training and practice, she has guided countless individuals on transformative journeys to healing, empowerment, and self-discovery.
Her shamanic journey began under the guidance of renowned teachers, including Scott Silverton in Kauai, Hawaii, and continued with advanced studies with Alberto Villoldo of the Four Winds Society and Sandra Ingam. Karen’s expertise lies in her ability to integrate ancient shamanic practices with modern approaches to healing, creating profound connections between the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms.
At the heart of Karen’s work is her passion for helping individuals navigate life’s challenges, release deep-seated wounds, and awaken their inner wisdom. Her teachings emphasise ethics, ritual, and the sacred protocols of shamanism, empowering clients and students to safely explore non-ordinary realities for healing and guidance.
With a strong foundation in modalities such as Reiki, Kiatsu, reflexology, and quantum healing, Karen’s holistic approach blends the best of traditional and contemporary methods. Her programs, including modern-day shamanism training, focus on fostering a deep connection with nature, personal growth, and spiritual transformation.
Karen’s rich corporate background and personal healing journey further deepen her understanding of the complexities of modern life, allowing her to bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and today’s needs. Whether through ceremonies, one-on-one healing, or empowering her students, Karen is dedicated to holding space for profound change and growth in every individual she works with.
Reiki Master | Shamanic Healer | Holistic Integrative Practitioner |
More About Shamanism
What are the modalities of Shamanic Healing?
Our Shamanic practitioners employ a variety of methodologies during healing sessions, and a session may incorporate a single modality or a blend of modalities for a more comprehensive approach.
Journey
A core tool of the Shaman is the journey. Shamans are explorers of doorways from ordinary reality into non-ordinary reality (NOR) through portals leading from the physical to the spirit world. They move between these two worlds to bring about a balance between the physical and spiritual worlds.
The Shamanic Journey is a way of finding answers, information, healing, wisdom, knowledge, and guidance or help with your life. During the Journey, the Shaman meets with spirits who may be ancestors, elders, gods, goddesses, deceased shamans, spirit guides, power animals, and angels. These are beings seen to possess great wisdom and power and are willing to help guide the living, as the Shaman allows you into their intimate relationship with spirit, the invisible and mysterious place of non-ordinary reality.
A Shaman enters a deep altered state, sometimes using a drum or rattle, and then actively navigates non-ordinary reality to retrieve the client's missing aspects from the spirit world or source the healing remedy for the soul.
Illumination
In Shamanic healing, illumination is a powerful process designed to bring light and harmony to the body's energy field by focusing on the balance of the chakras, the energy centres within the body. By connecting to spirit and exploring non-ordinary reality the Shaman identifies the affected chakra/s linked to an issue or trauma.
The Shaman then works to clear that energetic imprint by placing medicine stones on the body combined with intentional energetic infusion. This proactive approach aims to prevent emotional and traumatic energies manifesting as physical illness or injury.
This session goes beyond targeted healing and encompasses a broader energy balance across all the chakras. The overarching goal is to revitalise and optimise the vitality and flow within the entire energy field. The illumination process is a holistic method that harmonises energies, contributing to overall well-being.
Energy Extraction
At times, we inadvertently pick up and then carry unwanted and non-supportive energies. These energies can become toxic and affect our well-being if not identified and removed. With their profound connection to spirit and exploration of non-ordinary reality, Shamans can discern and extract these intrusive energies, and then balance the energy field to promote overall well-being.
Soul Revival
Soul loss is a phenomenon that can occur in the wake of trauma or profound loss and may lead us to disconnect, causing fragments of our once-healed self to retreat and leave behind the wounded self. Using a Shamanic Journey on your behalf, the Shaman delves into the depths to unveil and retrieve these lost soul parts leading to soul integration and the commencement of the healing process.
Ancient Stone Reading
A stone oracle reading is an opportunity to read destiny and to change it! The Shaman ‘casts the stones' three times, then analyses their shape arrangement, energy, movement, and pattern to read the underlying energetic form of an issue or illness. With meticulous care, the Shaman interprets the stones and then guides the natural flow of destiny toward a more positive outcome.
Protection Rites
During a Shaman's journey from initiation to becoming a practitioner, they receive numerous protection rites that have been handed down through the ancestral line of Shamans and healers preceding them. These rites, laden with ancient wisdom can be extended to clients to provide additional layers of prayer, blessing, and protection.
Fire Ceremonies
Sitting around a fire is something our ancestors have done for thousands of years. The Fire Ceremony is a sacred ritual using the transformative power of the fire element where prayers for healing, change, empowerment, and protection are offered and celebrated.
Connection to Spirits & Helpful Guides
The Shaman can support a client's connection to spirit with a retrieval of animal guides and a connection to the Lords of the Upper, Middle, and Lower worlds.