ANIMIST PRACTITIONER APPRENTICESHIP
Your Harmonizing Presence in the World
MY INVITATION TO YOU
I wanted to let you know why I’m offering this program
and the short answer is timing!
Now in my 25th year of offering Spiritual Healing (shamanic) in my private practice, I cannot believe the hundreds of lives I have seen transform. It’s been such an inspiring journey.
Now, with our world facing deeply complex and overwhelming times I’m seeing a yearning for meaning and a call for soul healing like never before. There is a growing awakening of consciousness and a search for that which has stood the test of time. So, it is these times that have inspired me to share what I have learned and practiced over the years.
The Practitioner Apprenticeship is a deep and rich weaving I have developed from working with ancient technologies such as: plant spirit medicine, old Celtic folk healing, Andean energy medicine, Core shamanic practice, somatic processes, dreamwork, earth rituals, and wisdom teachings. This unique synthesis has proven to be both mystical and practical, providing embodiment, harmony, and powerful spiritual and energetic support to both client and practitioner.
I believe it’s deeper than what is mostly available to the general public possibly because all students are required to first complete The Essential Revolution where over the course of the year, we come to know each other and establish trust. This opens the way to a much deeper experience allowing students to understand the joy and responsibility of initiatory wisdom while being a harmonizing presence in the world.
The Practitioner Training is offered via two streams of Apprenticeship depending on your needs. Check out the one that’s right for you. Whether you apply for Stream One or Stream Two, I am excited to share the depth of this path and its extremely practical and life-changing ways.
In warm connection,
About the Training:
The Animist Practitioner Apprenticeship is a life-changing empowerment and initiation into the fundamentals of animist and shamanic spiritual healing and consists of:
Three 4-night in-person immersions of intensive training each with one medicine ceremony. These are held on a beautiful secluded island 1 hour outside of Vancouver
Deep, rich learning within community which involves spiritual growth and empowerment involving commitment on all levels
Practice and embodiment of spiritual healing skills through exchange sessions, client case studies, and self reflection
An opportunity to apprentice with a highly skilled and experienced teacher and somatic counsellor with over 25 years experience of spiritual healing with hundreds of clients
THE PROGRAM
Is NOT an informational course where your learning lasts for a short period of time. It is an initiatory experiential year which will benefit you for the rest of your life and ripple into the lives of those you love.
Participation and completion of either streams of the program will not make you a Shaman
Is NOT a training for trainers and does not teach you how to teach
Is NOT a training for facilitating circles or plant medicine ceremonies with groups or individuals
Throughout my entire journey studying with Angela, I have been encouraged and taught to facilitate my connection with my Guides, Archetypal Energies, Sacred Interdimensional Locations and more. I have learned how to develop a relationship with my Helpers & Guides. Once I entered the Practitioner Program I was taught how those long standing relationships with my Guides & Helpers could function to support others, not simply myself.
Angela held an intimate space where she shared methods of how to support clients as well as openly discussed her personal experiences in different situations and what she did in order to accomplish specific goals such as Psychopomp, Soul Retrieval & Extraction and Curse Unravelling.
Angela Practitioner Program was a deep dive into tasks that could be accomplished with the abilities and skills that I have been developing with her tutelage over many years. I am very thankful to have these advanced skills and to be able to refer back to my course content and inquire with my teacher, Angela, for additional support when necessary. She has been very supportive over the years and I am extremely thankful she offered her practitioner program and that she chose me to attend.
— Courtney Carnrite, Intuitive Arts Practitioner and Integrative Herbalist
The Practitioner Apprenticeship is a life-changing CATALYST that initiates a deeper level of personal power and an expansion of presence. Coupled with the fundamental shamanic skills taught and practiced in the program, your capacity to access the Medicine and work alongside your spiritual allies will become easeful and harmonizing.
Key Practices
The Medicine
Hearth
Your sacred Medicine Hearth, sometimes known as a Bundle, Mesa, or Mála is one of the most powerful tools in our healing work. You will learn to use your Hearth for divination, energy clearing, soul retrieval, and protection. This central altar is the microcosm of the macrocosm and your ally when working with others. It is also your guide in self-care and grounding to ensure you remain steady and enlivened in your work.
Spirit
Journeying
The Spirit Journey or Shamanic Journey is the fundamental skill practiced extensively and in depth over the course of the Practitioner Apprenticeship program. You will learn to create and hold an energetically safe space that invites clients into presence as you navigate the continuum of living energies with intention. You will also learn how to move back and forth between the realms, gather guidance, and then translate the guidance in a trauma-informed, harmonizing, and therapeutic way.
Soul Work and
Energy Medicine
This program supports development of your unique gifts of sensing and calls you to deepen your relationship with your own healing journey and your unique medicine. Each of the modules and home practices takes you deeper inside your own soul work, expanding your capacity to hold space for others appropriately. You will also learn in-depth practices for soul and power retrieval, through knowledge and extensive practice.
What’s right for you?
Stream One • Practitioner
Three 4-night in-person immersions of intensive training each with one medicine ceremony
10 case studies and reports
10 self reflection entries
10 online case review sessions with your apprenticeship community
6 online content review Q&A sessions
2 mentorship sessions with Angela
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Completion of Animist Apprenticeship, Year 1 and 2 or completion of Yr 2 during the Practitioner program
Preference will be given to those who have completed (or are registered in) a minimum of Basic Counselling Skills
Attendance of at least 10 personal therapy/coaching/healing sessions or equivalent
Stream Two • Anam Cara
Three 4-night in-person immersions of intensive training each with one medicine ceremony
10 self reflection entries
6 online content review Q&A sessions
1 mentorship session with Angela
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Completion of Animist Apprenticeship, Year 1 and 2 or completion of Yr 2 during the Practitioner program
Preference will be given to those who have completed (or are registered in) a minimum of Basic Counselling Skills or equivalent
Attendance of at least 6 personal therapy/coaching/healing sessions or equivalent
Angela conducts workshops with an eye to a safe experience for all who attend. She is superb at conveying complex concepts simply and effectively. Her skilled intuition, as well as her deep knowledge of shamanism and ceremony, invite the individual on a unique journey of self-discovery. Participants learn how to bring old patterns to light prompting new possibilities and insights that enrich one's life. These gifts make her a most remarkable teacher.
— Margaret Tucker, MA, RCC, SEP, CSAT (cand)
Curriculum Details
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THE TRAUMA-INFORMED LENS
Triune brain, three cauldrons, three worlds
Welcoming the felt sense
Overview of the Nervous System & the Living Energies
ENERGY CLEARING & EXTRACTION
Power & Medicine Review
Assessing heavy energy and intrusions
Energy clearing & extractions
Saminchukuy & Hucha Mikuy
CLEARING PRACTICES
Sound, Medicine Hearth, Tobacco, Flowers and Plants, Florida Water
Sealing in & Protection
Remedies & Prescriptions
POWER LOSS & RETRIEVAL
Assessing power loss
Retrieving power
Power animal retrieval
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SOUL LOSS & RETRIEVAL
Soul loss & fragmentation
Contraindications for soul retrieval
Soul retrieval
Soul regeneration
Soul remembering
Shadow retrieval
Archetypal healing
Soul midwifery
Dismemberment & transfiguration
Supporting Integration
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GATES OF BIRTH
Pregnancy & Birth
Empowering the mother
Soul work between Mama & Baby
Preparing for birth
GATES OF DEATH
Dying & Death
Holding space as Anam Cara
Death as a healing
Supporting the family
MIDDLE WORLD OVERVIEW
Curse Unraveling
Obsession & depossession overview
Ancestral Healing
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ADDITIONAL TEACHINGS:
Scope of practice
Boundaries
Ethical considerations
Transference and Counter transference
Appropriation and holding the teachings with integrity
MENTORSHIP:
Unlimited Mentorship with Angela through Whatsapp, as well as the Community Whatsapp group. (Streams 1 & 2)
Additional 1:1 sessions are available at a reduced rate. (Streams 1 & 2)
PRACTITIONER MANUAL:
The Practitioner Manual includes handouts for each module
(Streams 1 & 2)STUDENT SPACE:
The online student space includes any additional recordings and handouts
EXPERT WORKSHOPS: (more TBA)
(Stream 1)
Expert Workshops come after the completionBusiness Guide and Mentor
Website Developer
Social Media Consultant
IMPORTANT DATES
FOR 2025 INTAKE
STARTS: MARCH 27, 2025
FINISHES: APRIL 21, 2026
IN-PERSON IMMERSIONS
(Held on a secluded island 1 hour from Vancouver)
March 27 - March 31
July 10 - 14
October 9 - 13
TUESDAY ONLINE CLASSES
Starts Tuesday, April 08 | 6:00-7:30PM
Last day of classes: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
YEAR 2 ESSENTIAL REVOLUTION
Starts Tuesday, Feb 11 | 6:00 - 8:30PM
Working with Angela in the Apprenticeship has changed my life in profound ways. When I began, my actions and thoughts were causing me a lot of suffering. I was not completely unhappy but I was struggling. Almost 3 years later, I am content with my life. I have learned so much about being at peace with myself and the world around me. I am deeply fulfilled by the practices I've learned and the Animist way of living in sacred reciprocity - especially with nature. I feel myself as a part of the magic of life around me and feel supported by it. I am deeply grateful for being given the skills to awaken the medicine in myself and this beautiful practice.
— Jessie Phoenix, RTC, Vancouver Island
Angela is a fantastic spiritual teacher and healer. The spirits are strong with her, but she does not carry them heavily or loudly. I was delighted to find that she is very powerful, very knowledgeable, and has a ton of information to pass on to students. Her years of experience with spiritual leadership and counselling shine through her teaching.
— Sky Goodwin, Folk Medicine, Shamanic Practitioner, DJ
Your Investment
Tuition covers:
Three 4-night retreat intensives (Thurs 2:00pm - Monday 1:00pm)
All accommodations and meals
10 online case review sessions (Stream 1)
6 online content Q&A sessions (Stream 1 & 2)
1:1 mentorship sessions
Ongoing mentorship through online community
Practitioner Manual
Online Student Site with updates
Instalment Plan
Once your deposit is paid, you are welcome to pay the remaining tuition all at once or via monthly instalments. Please understand that once you start the program, should you choose to discontinue, there are no refunds and your monthly instalments will continue.
FAQ:
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Good internet connection. A space at home where you are undisturbed and can sit or lay down, dance and move. You’ll also need a small area for your altar space. Additional items include: A list will be sent upon registration
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Yes. Please ensure you have compled the one-year Essential Revolution Apprenticeship. If you completed this before 2023 and after 2026, please ensure you complete the Year 2.
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The nature of the apprenticeship program is experiential and community oriented. Please ensure you can attend all classes. A recording will be available for a week after each online session to give you space to catch up
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I usually stay on the Zoom call to answer questions for 15mins afterwards . We also have a Whatsapp group for questions, and you are welcome to send me an email.
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This is a journey to work with clients in sessions on a 1:1 basis providing Spiritual Healing (shamanic). It does not cover psychedelic facilitation, teaching or facilitating circles or courses. All course materials, information, ceremonies, and wisdom-teachings fall under the copyright laws of Canada, and are not to be reproduced in any way for commercial use.
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