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THE ART OF HEALING

website of Imelda Almqvist

Shamanic Practitioner & Shamanic Painter

Shamanic Practitioner, shamanic healing,spirit-led paintings

 "Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature but only in contradiction to that which is known to us in nature" St . Augustine

 Is getting well ever an art? Or art a way to get well?  Robert Lowell, poet

 

 I am a shamanic practitioner and spirit-led painter based in South East London, UK. This website is all about my shamanic work. To see my paintings, please visit my art website:    www.imelda-almqvist-art.com

 

Healing - My Personal Vision

Recently I was asked three times to define my own personal vision of what healing is, of what occurs when I do shamanic healing work. So here goes...

It is my belief that the true nature of everything is pure energy and that the Divine Light (or Light of Creation) burns inside all of us and all that exists. I also believe that every human being has a Higher Self that exists outside space and time. This Higher Self can be consulted about an individual's soul's path and about spiritual reasons for serious challenges we encounter in life (loss, pain, illness). If we make changes on the level of a person's energy blueprint - reality will and must catch up with those changes given time and determination.

My healing work is compassionate and spirit-led. By compassionate I mean: I draw on my own experiences of suffering and healing to reach out to others who are suffering. By spirit-led I mean: I work with the great compassionate spirits that come forward to heal - witthout them I would just be a 'London housewife with good intentions but little power' as I say to many of my clients. For me doing healing work is about "hollowing out" (i.e. pushing my ego and 'self' aside completely) and allowing the great luminous healers on the other side of the veil to come forward and bring healing, Divine Light, powerful transformation, a greater connection to The Divine. This helps people clear long-standing blocks and release old patterns of behaviour in their lives. Ultimately I encourage all my clients to be willing to 'shed skins' and uncover their authentic self, to walk their soul's path: to do what they came to do here on planet earth (whatever that may be!)

Another point I make to all my clients is that healing is about 'bringing change' and that this means making and embracing changes in their lives. Basically what I do with people is deep energy work, a spiritual intervention - but HEALING IS THE SACRED PATH THE CLIENT WALKS. I am an instrument in that process, but ultimately any healing that occurs belongs to the client - they must own it and do integration work. I encourage all my clients to reflect on what brings passion and meaning back into their lives and on what unique Divine gifts they bring to Mother Earth at this particular time. Ultimately walking your soul's path means being power-full and radiant and seeing problems as exciting challenges and seeing every loss as preparation for the great transition that is our own death - once we do that we trigger our innate ability to heal.

Serious illnesses or conditions often act as great teachers in our life. Therefore it is not always possible, or indeed appropriate, to remove (pull out)  those. We can only do so if all lessons are learned fully and wholeheartedly - then a miracle occurs as a gift from Spirit. Other times we can work on changing perceptions of illness and changing our attitude to the things that slow us down or make us change direction. Usually we can alleviate symptoms and lift someone's mood and energy level. That too is healing. Just like helping people prepare for what we call 'a good death' in shamanism is a form of healing.

Basically my work is very much like parenting: encouraging independence and 'painting myself out of the picture' as soon as possible! The thing that I LOVE about this work is that I literally see miracles occur in my healing work. I see people drop into the arms of their spirit allies and becoming the person they were always meant ot be, before layers of social  and family conditioning covered their inner knowing and inner radiance. I have the most privileged job the in the world!

 

Education & Training

I am Dutch but based in London, UK. I have completed the shamanic practitioner training with Simon Buxton/ The Sacred Trust here in the UK.  I have trained in compassionate de-possession work with Betsy Bergstrom . At the time of writing this (Autumn 2011) I am enrolled in the Arte Triptych Melissae Training with Naomi Lewis and Kate Shela. In 2012/2013 I will do the Two Year Shamanic Teacher Training with Sandra Ingerman in Santa Fe (USA). I did Art (Psycho) Therapy training here in the UK.  I went to Art School in Amsterdam, Holland, where I did a degree in Fine Art & Art History and became a qualified art teacher. I am a mother of three young children and I work during their school hours and in the evenings.

Some clients ask me about my own journey of healing and answering the call to do this type of work. I think that is a fair question and you will find a brief summary of significant events on the page titled MY JOURNEY.

Languages:  I work with people all over the world and from every possible cultural background! I am trilingual (that is to say completely fluent in English, Dutch and Swedish), but I also speak some French, German and Spanish.

 

My Shamanic Practice

As a shamanic practitioner I offer the following services:

 

A few definitions of key words before you explore other pages on this website...

What is a Shaman?

Most clients who come to see me ask this question! Basically a shaman is someone who walks between worlds to bring healing and guidance from spirit allies into our 'everyday world'. Here are some definitions of a shaman:

-   “A shaman walks between worlds”
-   “Someone who restores harmony on an energy level”
-   “Someone who can look inside people and situations using so called “x-ray eyes”. Those same ex-ray eyes can be used to look into the past and the future.
-  "Shamans are Technicians of the Sacred"
-  Shamans bring healing and information through contacting the spirit world and working through altered states of consciousness
 

 

What is shamanism?

 Shamanism is the world's oldest spiritual practice. It is not a religion. It is all about contacting the spirit world for guidance and healing. It has been said that it is the oldest technique for problem-solving known to mankind.

 

What is spirit?

Spirit is the original life force, the creative force. Shamanism teaches that everything has spirit: trees and rocks and stories as well as human beings, animals and other life forms.

 

So then what is health, as defined by shamanism?
 
Unlike the more ‘modern’ notions of health, in shamanic societies health is not the absence of feeling, nor the absence of pain, Health is seeking out all of the experiences of Creation, turning them over and exploring their multiple meanings. Health is expanding beyond one’s individual state of consciousness to experience the ripples and the waves, the gifts and blessings of the Universe
(from 'Imagery in Healing' by Jeanne Achterberg)
 

Imelda Almqvist  (last updated November 2011)

 Shamanic Practitioner, shamanic healing,spirit-led paintings

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