Are you feeling dispirited, disconnected or
spiritually distressed?

Here are 3 ways spiritual distress may have left you susceptible to illness:

Some of the shamanic methods I use include:

For a detailed description scroll below

SELF-REGULATION THERAPY (SRT) is a mind-body therapy to help resolve and clear excess energy and feelings that may remain in the nervous system following traumatic or overwhelming events. SRT is a gentle and non-cathartic modality ensuring retraumatization does not occur. Although every individual's experience of trauma is different here are a some circumstances that can cause dysregulation in the nervous system:

Motor vehicle accidents

Medical and dental procedures

Abandonment, shaming, bullying or abuse of any kind

Natural disasters

Falls and accidents

Sudden loss

HOW DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?

SRT and shamanic healing work in partnership to heal distress and trauma in the body and restore the spirit. Generally, healing sessions include SRT and shamanic extraction techniques woven together to help clear excess and unwanted energies from the nervous system and light body. Now a more settled and resilient container, the physical body is in a more resourced state, allowing lost soul parts, returned through soul retrieval, to return home and comfortably integrate back into the whole. The result is a grounded and more authentic sense of self, accompanied by feelings of joy, hope and aliveness.

Moving Forward Into Life:
R. Michael Fisher, Ph.D.
After several life crises I noticed my lungs were continually flaring up and I was short of breath, while the rest of my health was quite good. Intuitively, I knew my depression and grief from past and current losses was involved with this symptom and I had to find ways to "clear" negative energies and distractive attention from my soul. They were keeping me from living in a refreshed state of being. With relatively few sessions, Angela helped me regain my life-force, as my lungs cleared up substantially, and I learned how to let go and move on with my life, experiencing greater zest and a sense of opportunity. Through use of deep metaphorical stories and archetypal symbols from our shamanic journeying, Angela offered unwavering support and validation for my gifts that had not been accepted or had not grown to my satisfaction in the past. Most importantly, she taught me useful skills to access the empowering levels of my own soul "engines" when they get drained.

SESSIONS WITH ANGELA

Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval

Do you feel as though part of you is missing?

Have you never felt the same since...

Are you struggling to unhook from someone?

You only need to look into another's eyes (the windows to the soul) to see who has a lot of soul and who is missing soul. When we die, our soul leaves our physical body and goes onto the next part of its journey. When we are alive however, we can lose touch with parts of it and this is called soul loss.

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?

It is the natural coping mechanism of the soul to relieve the overwhelming emotional, psychological, or physical pain caused by trauma.

SOUL LOSS CAN RESULT IN:

Disassociation

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Emptiness Inside

Addictions and other compulsive behaviours

Unending or complicated grief

Depression and/or anxiety

Chronic fatigue or other illness

The parts of our soul essence that leave also contain essential qualities and abilities. Not only are we left missing our soul essence but we could also be missing our ability to feel emotion, our self love, creativity, confidence, sexuality, ancestral wisdom or decision-making. With this loss comes less energy and vitality and less inner resources to cope with life.

If you feel as though you are experiencing the loss of your soul essence, please continue reading.

THE BENEFITS OF SOUL RETRIEVAL:

Feelings of wholeness because more of you will be present

Healthier relationships

Ability to make more authentic career choices

Freedom from unhealthy relationship hooks

More vitality and feelings of aliveness

The Road to Recovery from Breast Cancer:
Val's Healing Story
When diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, I turned to Angela Prider for shamanic spiritual support. Through the drumming, journeying, and space cleansing, we created a solid base on which I could stand while facing my diagnosis. The space cleansing was amazing, and calmed me down immensely, while creating my home as a healing environment. The drumming was a way to increase my immune response. Her calm, and centered way of being, brought a great peace to my first steps along a difficult medical journey. I recommend anyone facing health issues, especially cancer, to seek out Angela as an adjunct therapy to their medical regime. All in all, the shamanic services I received from Angela were one of the key pieces to my now full and robust recovery.

WHEN CAN SOUL LOSS OCCUR?

• During or after sudden or ongoing traumatic incidents. Some of these may include: surgery and injuries, mental/emotional/spiritual/sexual abuse, accidents, immigration processes, emotional loss, birth trauma, grief and loss, relationship breakups, to name a few.
• When we can't or won't live with a life choice that's not true to our soul
• When we banish a soul part
• When we give a soul part to someone else or we allowed them to take it

WHERE DO THE SOUL PARTS GO?

• To a safe place in another reality
• To a place in our body where they are walled up and separated from the rest of our essence
• They are stuck in the moment in time during which the trauma occurred
• They are stuck with another person

A Firefighter's Journey from PTSD & 911
After working 30 years in emergency services as a firefighter, I had been dealing with issues and behaviours related to previous trauma that I didn't understand and couldn't control. I was also carrying unresolved grief related to 9/11. Since receiving shamanic healing and developing a shamanic practice, my symptoms of post traumatic stress have almost been eliminated. My life feels as if it has been restored and my ability to focus and find inner peace have returned. There is no doubt that if it wasn't for my work with Angela, I was destined for disaster.

WHAT DOES SOUL RETRIEVAL LOOK LIKE?

Soul retrieval is a powerful and life-changing ceremony where I work with Helping Spirits to track and bring home your missing soul parts. During the process I work with your parts to facilitate as much healing as possible in other realities. This prevents you from being overwhelmed with the feelings or memories associated with the original trauma or reason why the parts left. I then tell you the story and provide you with a recording as well as instructions to ground and begin to work with the soul parts. Your role during the process is to hold a steady and strong intention for soul retrieval and to become willing to make changes in your external life that will reflect your internal changes.

INTEGRATION AFTER SOUL RETRIEVAL

The next stage of the healing process involves soul integration. In contemporary shamanism, integration has become a fundamental and essential aspect; it can also be the most complex. In shamanic cultures, community members or family would be able to spot soul loss within a very short period. In our culture however, some of us have been missing soul parts for decades. With soul parts being gone for so long, we have made decisions and built lives based on a partial soul presence. These decisions may have included relationship patterns or career choices. After soul retrieval therefore, we are called to make external changes to our lives to reflect our new internal changes. During this process, I provide coaching, counselling and ceremony to clear any negative core beliefs, perceptions or behaviour patterns that may be blocking your process to wholeness.

SOUL RETRIEVAL SERVICES AVAILABLE BY DISTANCE

Power Animal Retrieval

Are you feeling vulnerable and disempowered?

Lacking energy or direction?

POWER LOSS CAN RESULT IN ENERGETIC VULNERABILITY LEADING TO:

Recurring illness

lack of self confidence and motivation

ongoing misfortune (streak of bad luck)

Personal power and protection loss can occur when we give our power away or give up on ourselves or our life. Power animal retrieval is a way of reconnecting with the protection and wisdom volunteered to you from your totem animal spirits. These benevolent spirits in animal form, bring their instinctual strength and power while enjoying the experience of once again walking the Earth. In addition, they bring the unique wisdom of their species as a way of teaching you about qualities and abilities that you need to develop in order to become energetically empowered.

WHAT DOES POWER ANIMAL RETRIEVAL LOOK LIKE?

During Power Animal retrieval I will ask you to set a steady and strong intention to call your Power Animal to you. Then I will travel to another reality and find the animal who will be volunteering to come and help you. I will then teach you to journey yourself so that you can continue the relationship and receive the help and guidance you are looking for.

Power Retrieval in the Midst of Illness:
Michael's Return to Health
I had the misfortune of falling very ill and the prognosis I was given was the worst possible. I had been admitted to the hospital for pancreatitis, and for the following 6 months after initial treatment, I was still in hospital battling organ failure along with several other life threatening complications. Mentally I found myself sinking fast and unable to think clearly. I had shut off my emotions, diving so deep into my own blackness that I cut myself off from all feeling and was consumed with total fear and panic. My wife and I struggled with this impossible situation in the midst of what was supposed to be the happiest time of our lives - our son had been born 12 days before I was admitted to hospital.

Angela helped me find my way back to the surface by teaching me skills to remove blocks of terror that were disabling me more than my illness. Part of my focus was to concentrate on my Power Animal, which was significant as it was how I could potentially see myself during good days. My Power Animal gave me something to focus on when I could feel blackness threatening to take over. When I finally came home, which was frightening due to its distance from all things medical and emergency, Angela helped with a house clearing which was like turning over a new leaf.

Having the support of my Power Animal and Angela was the key I needed to help me through the experience of illness. Her work during this time of complete crisis was immensely beneficial.

POWER RETRIEVAL SERVICES AVAILABLE BY DISTANCE

Shamanic Extraction

Do you have localised pain or seem unable to shake off an ikky feeling?

Are you sensing you may be cursed?

Have you experienced a loss of spiritual power?

WHAT ARE SPIRITUAL INTRUSIONS?

Illness in the form of spiritual intrusion means that your body and energy bodies have been penetrated by energies that do not belong with you and have now become spiritual baggage. When intrusions are not addressed they can lead to an accumulation of blocked energy resulting in localized pain, discomfort, illness, and a loss of vitality and energy.

These can happen through conscious or unconscious projections from others in the form of:

• negative thoughts
• hostile words
• emotional states

Or from yourself through:

• Physical injuries or surgery
• Negative self talk and negative self perceptions
• Stuffing or repressing negative emotions

Shamanic extraction can leave you feeling much lighter and free. Afterwards, we work on prevention by addressing patterns in thinking and behaviour that may have led to self-intrusion.

Curse Unraveling

Curse unraveling is a method used to clear energetic chords that were initially created with a lot of energy and ill intent. Sometimes these can be multi-generational and manifest with families who experience possible challenges likes: illness, lack of success with relationships, ongoing financial hardship, or bad luck. As with self-intrusions, curses can also come from unconscious or conscious things ways we treat ourselves.

Unraveling the Energies After Divorce:
Gerald's Story of Renewal
I moved to Vancouver in April 2007 as part of some major lifeshifts which included divorce. After 18 years of partnership, moving to a strange city knowing no one was particularly difficult for me. Angela worked with me in a gentle and yet powerful way to both remove unhelpful energy from my field that was making it difficult of me to let go of my previous relationship (curse removal) and to retrieve a lost aspect of my consciousness that was making it very difficult for me to be alone (soul retrieval). I felt the effects of this energetic work immediately in my waking life. Her work helped empower and settle me so that I could act to create a more healthy and joyous life for myself. In fact, immediately after my session with Angela I quit smoking and have since given up tobacco entirely. Angela's work is compassionate, powerful and effective.

SHAMANIC EXTRACTION SERVICES AVAILABLE BY DISTANCE

Compassionate Clearing (Depossession)

Do you feel overshadowed, drained, paranoid or foggy?

Does it feel as though something is draining your energy?

Sometimes when we experience soul loss or other traumas we may become susceptible to being overshadowed by suffering beings or other energies. These attached beings can plague us, living off our life-force energy leaving us drained and influenced in a variety of ways.

SYMPTOMS MAY INCLUDE:

Depression

Lethargy

Uncharacteristic negative self-talk

Substance Misuse

Ongoing Illness

Phobias

Emotional problems and mood swings

Suicidal ideation

These beings are often people who have experienced a compromised death experience such as suicide, or a sudden and tragic death. For many reasons they have not successfully completed their journey to the Light. Compassionate clearing (depossession) is a heart-centred and non-adversarial therapy that leaves both the host and the suffering being complete and free. This treatment is best followed by soul retrieval and/or power retrieval to ensure future protection and prevention.

Psychopomp

Are you or is someone you know facing spiritual distress in the face of loss or a life-threatening illness?

HOSPITAL AND HOME VISITS AVAILABLE

Besides facilitating healing for the living, I also provide psychopomp (meaning "conductor of souls") services for those who have a serious illness, or may be transitioning out of this realm. Psychopomp provides an opportunity to address, and possibly reconcile, any feelings of spiritual distress while comforting and supporting the soul and loved ones.

If you or a loved one is facing a life-threatening illness our goals are:

• To get to know each other
• Explore and express the deeper meaning of your life and the role of the illness
• Bring emotional and spiritual loose ends to resolution and help you understand and amend past mistakes
• Retrieve any of your missing soul parts and return any soul parts belonging to others
• Help you develop a deeper sense of connectedness to your own spiritual resources

If your physical body is dying and you are preparing to cross over I will help you:

• Become familiar with the sensation of leaving your body and the territory on the other side
• Learn to courageously trust your individual experience of the Divine and become familiar with the helping spirits who are there to aid in guiding you across. These are often spirits from your religion or spiritual practice or other deities such as animals, angels or benevolent ancestors

In addition:

• I will be present and provide comfort and protection to your soul should your body become unconscious
• I will accompany your soul across with the aid of the Helping Spirits and provide assurance to loved ones left behind

Helping Her Mom Cross Over: Eileen's Journey
In 2006 my Mom was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer. During the period when I was caring for her, I asked Angela to journey for me and ask for help. We discovered that my Mom had a lot of spiritual help and wasn't alone. My Mom was Catholic and as it turned out Mother Mary had come to help her. This really helped me because I had felt so helpless and hopeless about everything. When my Mom was moved to the hospice, she quickly lost the ability to communicate with us and slept nearly most of the time during the last 10 days we had together. Angela came to visit and also journeyed by distance. She received information from both my Mom and Mary about where she was going and how she would be helped with that process. We also saw that my Dad (who had passed away in 2000.) was there in spirit to support my Mom too. All this helped to guide me in ways to reassure my Mom during her process of letting go and crossing over. The journeys gave me a much needed sense of peace during this most excruciatingly difficult time of my life. A few days after my Mom passed, and later after the memorial service, Angela journeyed to check on how she was doing and saw that she was at peace and moving onto the next stage of her soul's evolution.

Shortly after the anniversary of my Mom's passing, I had an opportunity to journey and reconnect her with the support of Angela. This experience was an immensely important part of the continued process of healing the grief and loss I have felt this past year and a half and I am grateful in so many ways. Although my relationship with my Mom is not in person anymore, I know that she is there for me should I ever need to journey
and connect with her.

Did someone you know experience a sudden or tragic death or commit suicide?

If you are concerned or sense that someone you care about has not been able to find peace, I am able to use shamanic divination techniques to check on your concerns. If we find that they did not cross over successfully, we can work with them to resolve anything that may be incomplete and holding them back before helping them come to peace and helping them cross over.

Space Clearing

Does the energy in your home, work, or community space feel heavy and stagnant?

Has there been health challenges amongst family
or co-workers?

Is there residual negative energy left over from
unresolved conflict?

Are you having problems selling your home?

Space clearing ceremony is found in many cultures around the world and is shamanic in origin. It is a very proactive way of transforming energy from stagnant, dank or threatening into clear, relaxing, and vibrant. Besides working elementally, psychopomp work is often included in the process to clear any souls of those who may have died but not crossed over.

Margaret's Successful House Sale
I had my house listed for sale for a longer period of time that I ever imagined possible, given the current real estate market. Inquiries had dropped off significantly and there were several weeks between showings. When Angela did a distance clearing, she discovered a lost and confused spirit in my house. Since I was only the third owner of the house, I was able to ask my neighbour about the original owner. She verified that Angela's description accurately portrayed her elderly friend who had died several years before I had taken possession. Angela toured the house to identify negative energies and elemental imbalances in each room. She identified problem areas and provided instructions about clearing the negative energy. Some of these instructions included: increasing the air element by opening up the house before showings and using citrus based essential oils. We followed through on these instructions.

My visit to Angela took place on a Thursday and two days later my realtor had two requests to show the house. We scheduled an open house for the following weekend but I was warned not to get my hopes up. (The purpose of the open house was to increase exposure.) During the weekend, approximately 20 parties viewed my home and by Sunday evening, an offer was made and accepted.

SPACE CLEARING - THE PROCESS:

Through shamanic journey I will check in on the nature and severity of the problem, and then we will proceed with one or more of the following strategies:

• Self Clearing: You will be provided with instructions to clear the space yourself
• Distance Clearing: I will provide a clearing by distance with instructions for you to follow through on
• In-person Group Clearing: I will attend your space and with the help of yourself and other supportive friends or family, we will perform a clearing ceremony together
• In-Person Solo Clearing: I will attend your space and perform the clearing alone
• In-person Assisted Clearing: I will attend your space with shamanic assistants and we will perform the clearing together without you present

For a complimentary 10minute phone session call Angela: 604-374-0259 or email to arrange an appointment

westcoastshamanic@shaw.ca