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Our Visits To Traditional Healers
On the Adventure, each traveler will have several individual healing available to him or her. Some healers will be Tibetan Buddhist Rimpoches. Many will be available from indigenous healers that are from the lineage of “the village shaman”, part of an ancient line that continues to flourish today in traditional societies around the world. In the U.S., a good example would be the Hopi Indians, along with many other Native American tribes.
In Nepal, shamanism is very much in the mainstream of daily life. It’s as matter-of-fact as your HMO primary care physician. It’s probably tough to think of Blue Cross, Kaiser and a Shaman in the same thought, but in Nepal, shamans are consulted every day by Prime Ministers and peasants alike.
Travelers often ask “To receive a healing, do I first need to be sick?” You don’t, and it’s just like receiving a therapeutic massage when you feel fine to begin with. A traditional healing is an amazing experience. The Shaman intercedes between our physical world, and the “unseen world” of spirit. Since it’s a spiritual healing, the healers work on that level. Which is to say he works on the spiritual (non-physical), rather than the physical situation.
 Here's an example. In the U.S., if a person has a stress headache, the doctor gives him or her an aspirin. (“Take two of these and call me in the morning.”) In Nepal, since the doctor (shaman) performs a spiritual healing, he works on the non-physical dimension, releasing the inner conflict that’s causing the discomfort. So “shaman” can translate not simply as “doctor, but also“ psychologist”. Shamans also seek to assist people in releasing any baggage they carry, that’s not their own true self. In our culture we’d call that “negative thinking”, “old programming”, or “self-trashing tapes”.
A particular focus of shamans is baggage to release, that might include a non-useful spirit guide.
The shaman is aware of what an individual is ready to let go of at that moment, and helps him or her with that release. And that’s why travelers say they felt happier, lighter and more free afterward.
Like all the activities on the trip, people participate as much or as little as they wish. And it’s also quite okay for a person to watch a few of the other travelers experience a healing, and then give it a try themselves.
In the one hour seminars, before the Adventure, the leaders will talk to the group about shamans, and how they help a person release what he or she is ready to let go of. There’ll also be a guest speaker and time for your Q&A.
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