Shamanic Creativity: Free the Imagination with Rituals, Energy Work, and Spirit Journeying

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A step-by-step practical guide to enhancing creative energy * Explains how creativity--or creative energy--is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life * Explores how to use spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the "right brain," boost imagination, and overcome anxiety and other destructive emotions * Provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide In this step-by-step practical guide to enhancing creative energy, Evelyn Rysdyk explains, from the shamanic perspective, how creativity--or creative energy--is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life. She explores how to use the shamanic technologies of spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the "right brain," boost imagination, overcome anxiety and destructive emotions, and become much more creative in daily life. Examining creative energy as a natural phenomenon similar to the tides, the author provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide as well as offering shamanic techniques for dealing with insecurities related to your creative pursuits and overcoming dysfunctional subconscious perceptions. Presenting a wealth of experiential exercises, rituals, and shamanic principles, this guide gives you the keys to unlock your own creative birthright.

Evelyn C. Rysdykis an internationally recognized shamanic practitioner and author of several books, including The Norse Shaman, Spirit Walking, and The Nepalese Shamanic Path. Along with her writings, she is an impassioned teacher and a featured presenter for Sounds True, The Shift Network, and other international and online programs. She finds creative inspiration and renewal on the coast of Maine.

"This book is a wonderful read and a deeply empowering way to heal our stolen creativity, and bring us back home to ourselves. Unlocking and repairing our creativity is essential work, and Evelyn puts the key to this locked, vital passion right in the palm of our hand with this book. This book is about discovering the seed of our birth right again, and about helping that seed grow into a strong and mighty tree, full of beauty." * Nicholas Breeze Wood, editor of Sacred Hoop Magazine * "Art is a process that brings nature back to people, and shamanism is a process that brings people back to nature. This soul-nurturing awareness is elegantly illumined throughout the pages of Evelyn C. Rysdyk's latest book, Shamanic Creativity, where visionary inspiration, symbolic meaning, and archetypal wisdom are given earth-beautifying ceremonial expression as spirit medicine for healing the ills of our postmodern world. Highly recommended!" * don Oscar Miro-Quesada, coauthor of Lessons in Courage * "Evelyn Rysdyk is a brilliant shamanic teacher who has helped to pioneer shamanic teachings in our time. She knows how to take some of the deeper ancient cross-cultural mysteries and share them with a modern Western culture. Evelyn performed her 'magic' again with Shamanic Creativity. This practical guide contains the support, inspiration, clear communication, and shamanic guidance you need to tap into the deepest level of your creativity. This is such a timely book as we all need to own our destiny to create our highest dreams." * Sandra Ingerman, MA, author of Walking in Light and coauthor of Speaking with Nature * "Kudos to Evelyn Rysdyk's new book Shamanic Creativity. This overdue and inspiring book offers in simple language the tools to free old energy blocks, patterns, and ways of thinking to manifest a creative and fulfilling life beyond your expectations. Read it and follow the rituals, energy work, and spirit journeys. It's a must, not just for those who practice shamanism but for anyone who wishes to rediscover and ignite their birthright's life passion." * Itzhak Beery, author of The Gift of Shamanism, Shamanic Transformations, and Shamanic Healing * "In this moment when we dearly need to access the full range of our wildhearted creativity, Evelyn Rysdyk offers us a way to do just that. Shamanic Creativity is not just for those who identify as 'creatives' but for all of us to discover how we unleash our creative superpower. We are creating the path as we walk it, and we need to course correct. Evelyn offers direct, accessible practices to awaken our slumbering creative potential to be that course correction now, to offer unique new solutions, ingenious risks, and heartfelt weaving of it all together. With the shamanic practices offered and the hope Evelyn inspires, we might just innovate our way into a future that supports the insanely, improbable, fragile, beautiful reality of life on Earth." * Christina Lee Pratt, founder of Last Mask Center * "As a teacher of sacred art I often tell my students that our own life is the greatest piece of art we ever make! We are all part of creation, and it is through our own creations (in the widest possible sense of the word) that we express the innate and divine force within us. Creativity unlocks, heals, and supports wholeness. Evelyn Rysdyk's new book presents a map and 'creative cardinal rules.' Ultimately, she tells us how to transcend conflict and contradiction, view those as fertile ground for new insights and projects, and, in her own words, arrive at homospatial thinking. Treat yourself and get started today!" * Imelda Almqvist, author of Sacred Art and Medicine of the Imagination * "The ideas and suggestions offered in Shamanic Creativity are interesting, inspirational, and supportive for anyone wanting to connect with the creative forces of the universe as well as their own. Evelyn Rysdyk is the epitome of shamanic creativity and a great guide." * Mama Donna Henes, urban shaman and author of Bless This House * "Once again Evelyn Rysdyk shares her deep understanding of shamanic practice coupled with her lifelong experience as a creative artist. You can trust her, as both shaman and artist, to guide your own creative energies into life patterns that will bring greater harmony and empowerment to your everyday life. It will be a joyous journey!" * Tom Cowan, author of Fire in the Head and Yearning for the Wind * "Creative energy is our birthright. It is life itself speaking through us. In Shamanic Creativity, acclaimed author and experienced guide Evelyn C. Rysdyk teaches us how to connect with this limitless vitality, removing the blockages and allowing it to flow unimpeded." * Hillary S. Webb, Ph.D., author of Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World *