What is Soul?
Soul is the part of us that goes on without our body, even though it is held by our body now. Soul is the energy to follow our passions that connect to a higher purpose. Soul is a mind that is clear of complaint, doubt and worry. It’s able to make clear choices moment to moment.
We all know a soulful person when we see one. They are comfortable in their own skin, feeling emotions fluidly as they arise and their thoughts are aligned with their higher purpose.
The soul can also leave the body during times of stress and trauma. This is what is called soul loss.
Healing the Soul
A soul retrieval is a powerful spiritual practice that heals soul loss. Soul loss can occur whenever we have trauma in our life. For example, we may experience soul loss if we are in an accident, undergo a serious operation or if we suddenly lose a close friend or family member.
From a shamanic perspective, soul loss is a common cause of illness. Traditionally, a shamanic practitioner would conduct a soul retrieval within three days of someone experiencing trauma. If you’ve experienced soul loss you may try this guided audio meditation as a step towards wholeness.
Today, modern shamanic practitioners seek lost soul parts that are willing to return from any point in life.
It’s never too late to be whole!
Working with Soul Loss
Soul loss is a helpful response in that it allows our essence to remove itself from suffering and pain. In her book, Soul Retrieval, Sandra Ingerman describes soul loss as “spiritual illness that causes emotional and physical disease…(and) losing crucial parts of ourselves that provide us with life and vitality.” A soul retrieval is a shamanic method for bringing back those vital parts.
Soul loss is the experience of an essential part of us leaving, and soul retrieval is the experience of having that essential part retrieved and returned to you. Many of us feel like we are missing an important part of ourselves or feel like we are not quite whole. Sometimes we experience soul loss as a chronic illness or face ongoing emotions such as sadness and anger.
Relationships and Soul Loss
Many people experience soul loss in relationships. As a child, we may willingly have given our soul parts to friends as part of play or had our soul parts stolen unconsciously by a family member. As an adult, we may experience soul loss in an abusive or traumatic relationship. Even the unexpected ending of a relationship may cause a loss of our vital essence. At midlife people often feel this loss and reach out to find answers.
When a person starts calling their soul parts back, gathering themselves up and having their vital essence returned, often they find that their current relationships may shift. For example, after a soul retrieval, a client recently found herself letting go of her best friend. The relationship was no longer serving her whole self. To her surprise, releasing the judgemental friendship also opened her up to two new friendships. Here is what she shared:
In the last 3 weeks I have made 2 new really great friends (former acquaintances) who approached me and befriended me!! I was totally astonished because these are both women that I have tremendous respect for and are both much more aligned with the journey of inner peace that I am on!
When we are missing parts of our self, we pull in people who are also fragmented. If we suppress our anger, we often find our self with someone who expresses it. If we give our power away, we often find our self with people who love to take it.
Once we are whole, we attract relationships with people that are also whole. Being whole, we find our self in more moments of acceptance, grace and peace. In this way, we welcome more supportive, graceful and peaceful relationships.
Ancestors and Soul Loss
Ancestors are meant to look out for us, help us heal, and encourage us not to make the same mistakes they did. In this way, they may guide us to do soul retrieval work. Additionally, we can also perform soul retrievals for our ancestors to help them be whole and well!
Our ancestors know that all healing is self-healing yet, it is arrogant to think we can heal on our own. We all need teachers, healers, and elders to support and guide us. Humans need community.
Epigenetics has shown that we inherit not only the physical DNA of our ancestors but also the emotional. If you’re feeling stuck, healing in partnership with your ancestors may help.
Preventing Soul Loss
Soul loss helps protect us in times of trauma. For example, if I’m about to be in an auto accident, soul loss helps minimize the trauma. Preventing soul loss during the crash wouldn’t make sense. However, after I survive the trauma, I need to ensure my soul parts come home to me and aren’t still hanging out on the highway. Part of preventing soul loss is taking time to heal after trauma to ensure you are whole again.
At times, our soul parts may be taken without our permission. This is more common for children and people with less power. One thing we can do to prevent this type of soul loss is to build up our mana (spiritual power) and protect people with less power.
The Piko Piko Light Meditation is a daily practice that helps build up our spiritual power.
Improve Your Relationship
Relationships change and grow over time.
Don’t let your relationship get old and break.
Soul Retrieval
Soul loss can occur at any age, and a soul retrieval can be done whenever a person is ready for transformation. Sometimes we remember specific events in life that changed us – for the worse – physically, emotionally and mentally. Then, we realize we’re ready to heal, be inspired and move on!
The results of a soul retrieval are unique for everyone. Some people will experience joy, curiosity, or expansiveness and others will feel quiet, still and sleepy after a soul retrieval. After I had my first soul retrieval, I remember going to a bookstore with my young daughter and being completely captivated by the children’s books. It was as if I’d suddenly joined the kids club and I understood the deeper magic of the stories. I remember feeling renewed captivation with the joy of life. Ultimately, you should feel as if a part of you has returned home.
Preparing for a Soul Retrieval
As with most things in life, preparation can help the whole experience of spiritual healing go smoother. Here are a few suggestions that will help you prepare for your soul retrieval:
- Choose a time for the soul retrieval where you can have time for yourself afterward
- Refrain from alcohol and other mind-altering substances 24 hours before and after your soul retrieval
- Ask for a healing dream to help you receive your soul essence the night before your soul retrieval session
- If you’d like, you can bring a quartz crystal to your soul retrieval to help catch the soul essence
- Spend time connecting to nature before and after your soul retrieval
- Think of a metaphor to help you absorb the light of your essence such as a flower soaking up the sun
- Ask someone to be present during your soul retrieval to welcome you home and also drive if needed
- Consider any looping patterns in your life that you are ready to release
- Practice Piko Piko or another light visualization/energy practice you love
Receiving a Soul Retrieval
To conduct a soul retrieval, if it has been over three days since the soul loss occurred, modern shamanic practitioners are often required to do some detective work to find the lost soul. They look for the lost soul in the spirit worlds with the help of their power animals and spirit teachers.
A shamanic practitioner may receive information that helps narrow down when, where and why the soul loss occurred. For example, they may visualize a kid riding on a bus and the soul flying into the air. Most shamanic practitioners receive an approximate age of the soul loss.
When the part of your soul is found, the shamanic practitioner and their helping spirits engage with the lost soul and invite it to come back home. At times, a lost soul may be cared for in the spirit world by an ancestor, power animal or guardian. Sometimes a lost soul has been stolen, and the shamanic practitioner and spirit helpers will negotiate its return.
The shamanic practitioner returns with the essence that is a part of you. They will return this vital essence to you by blowing it into your heart and the crown of your head. They may also blow it into a crystal or use another method to transfer the essence back to you. Rattling and other instruments are often used at the end of a soul retrieval to welcome the soul back home.
Welcome your soul back with an open body, heart, and mind. While the shamanic practitioner is retrieving and returning the soul, the recipient can use a metaphor to visualize absorbing the light of their essence.
A soul retrieval often includes a healing story or message. A shamanic practitioner may give you a healing story about the soul essence that is returning to you. It may be a strong creative force or a deep inner knowing that returns to you. It may be an excited, vibrant, younger part of you returning to life.
The shamanic practitioner will often work with you after the soul retrieval to realize the gifts returning to you and actions that will help ground the experience in your physical reality.
Adoption and Soul Retrieval
Soul retrievals can be completed for anyone who has been adopted. Often, adoption can be a source of trauma. The adopted person may feel as if there is a hole in their soul. Possibly, there is a sense that something is missing.
Additionally, the birth parents may feel like things have never been the same since their baby was adopted.
The soul retrievals completed for adopted people have been some of the most amazing spiritual healing experiences. When you’re ready to heal and be whole vital essence can be returned to you!
Long-Distance Soul Retrieval
Our long-distance Soul Retrieval is offered as two spiritual healing sessions over the phone, WhatsApp, or Zoom.
The initial session is a time for you to ask questions and for us to do an opening ceremony together. Usually, there are a few things that come up for you to do to prepare for your soul retrieval. We do the soul retrieval in the second session after you’ve had the time you need to prepare. We also close our healing ceremony together.
The cost for a long-distance Soul Retrieval is $325.00 paid upfront or $175.00 per session paid as you go.
Julie completed Sandra Ingerman’s Soul Retrieval Training in October, 2014 and has performed hundreds of soul retrievals as a shamanic practitioner.
Julie also offers personalized one-on-one sessions and teaches a Shamanism Foundations Course via Zoom.
FYI… downloaded my purchase and when I went to listen it said it wasn’t able to play due to not listed????
Where can I listen to the three meditations? Help
Aloha Bren
We are sending you an email on this.
Sincerely
Casey
I just ordered the 3 meditations. It shows out of my card but I never received confirmation to my email or received the meditations. How wil I receive this?
Thank you
Aloha Bren, If you log into your gumroad account the files should be in your library!
Hello. Since a particular event this year, I have been reiterating to others that I cannot remember who I am. That I feel like part of me died on the day of the event. I can remember all of my personal details, my family, and my memories. However, i do not have a sense of self. I’ve lost my personality. I’m essentially a shell that is operating on autopilot every single day. Trying to remember how I use to act. What I used to feel. I have never felt this lost in my life. I can go into greater detail… Read more »
Hi Kimberly, I’ll email you directly. It sounds like a soul retrieval may be helpful. We can schedule an initial session and see how you feel.
I feel like a part of me has died, I don’t know when or where. I am diagnosed with bipolar type2, boarder line personality disorder, PTSD,and ADHD. I’ve tried hospitals, medications, currently in therapy, skills coaching, seeing my doctor regularly, and because of my most recent OD on an EAP plan from my work for additional support, and have been granted several days off. I feel as if a part of me is dead, I feel nothing but numbness, my thoughts are filled with nothingness. I just sit with no drive, no ambition, no joy, no anger, just exsiting because… Read more »
Aloha Kimberly,
It sounds like you are on a healing path, and I encourage you to keep up the good work. In these situations, our health challenges are often multifaceted, so I’m glad you’re seeking various support. I’ll email you directly the information about a long-distance soul retrieval if you’d like to include this on your healing journey. In my experience, there is often a spiritual component to our healing that can be helpful.
Hello I am seeking retrieval of my soul. I was molested around age 8. And ever since then I’ve felt like something happened to me as if something was missing. I’ve had feed back from other people that points me in the direction of either fractured soul or soul loss. Would like to know with your sessions do you remove entities before retrieving the soul?
Aloha Key! Great question. My soul retrievals focus on building and connecting to power as a foundation for spiritual healing. We return lost soul parts that are willing and ready to return. I recommend Betsy Bergstrom for compassionate depossession work.
I really need my soul back .
Aloha Tabitha! I just emailed you the information to schedule a long-distance soul retrieval. Let me know if you have questions!
Do you have a calendar or spreadsheet that shows when each course is?
I have some spiritual healing and therapy experience and feel called to shamanism. I am considering whether to try one course or go all in and book the full course.
Aloha Helen, Yes, you’ll find the start date for each course at this link: Let me know if you have other questions!
I would love to do this, still trying to survive after the traumatic way I lost my dad. Just can’t seem to get out of depression or get motivated. Its been almost 3 yrs. I probably can’t afford it anyway.
Aloha Tricia! I emailed you the details for scheduling a long-distance soul retrieval with me. Please let me know if I can support you on your healing journey to be whole.