Updated with new exercises to deepen your spiritual journey, this powerful debut from one of the world's most respected shamanic teachers leads you through healing rites and initiations along the Andean Medicine Wheel
This book follows the Shamanic journey specifically through the rites of passage and initiation that women experience. Following the thirteen moons of the year and the thirteen stones of the Andean Medicine Wheel, this book guides the reader on a healing journey alongside Marcela's own as they grow in wisdom with each turn of the wheel.
From her war-torn childhood to her complicated relationships, her training with the shamans of the Andes and the Machi of Chile to her life today as a teacher and medicine woman, Marcela's story provides the reader with real-life context for each stone, each moon, and each step on this ancient and archetypal journey. Through healing, deepening of understanding, transformation, and embodiment, the reader will learn to walk the Medicine Path to find their power and inner beauty. In challenging times, it is a gift when a teacher appears to lead us back into the light after we have been walking the hero's journey. This requires someone who knows the path and has lived it, not just studied it. In Awakening Your Inner Shaman, Marcela brilliantly shares her personal story of initiation and how she stepped into the woman of power she is now. Her journey illuminates an incredible map that will guide you into the truth of who you are and your unique gifts and destiny.
Alongside her stories of bravery and exquisite growth, she leads us step-by-step into transforming our dark night of the soul into an amazing journey of healing. This book is so timely and important for all of us awakening to the truth of our soul.
-- Sandra Ingerman, MA, renowned shamanic teacher and award-winning author of 12 books, including Walking in Light and The Book of Ceremony
This beautifully written and profound mystical memoir is a delight for all seekers on all paths. Read it and be inspired to discover the purpose and meaning of your own amazing life.
-- Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope and co-author with Carolyn Baker of Radical Regeneration
Marcela Lobos takes the reader on a profound journey from the mundane to the extraordinary, providing 13 archetypal milestones that will transform, empower, and open up a new dimension of fulfillment that causes us to become masters of our own lives.
-- Anita Moorjani, New York Times best-selling author of Dying to Be Me and What if This Is Heaven?
Follow Marcela Lobos's riveting, courageous story as she weaves her hero's journey with the Medicine Wheel to create a unique and thrilling map that leads from despair to daring. In the pages of this inspiring book, we accompany Marcela through her extraordinary, authentic shamanic initiation to becoming a Medicine Woman. She offers us hope that the abundance and magic we seek is hidden in plain sight all around us--and this book will show you how to find it. I couldn't put it down!
-- Colette Baron-Reid, internationally acclaimed oracle expert, intuitive, and best-selling author of The Map
What you hold in your hands is like a sacred talisman that offers protection on the spiritual path. Awakening Your Inner Shaman is Marcela Lobos's quest to discover wisdom and meaning when facing her dark shadows, despair, and suffering. She weaves the insights of the hero's journey together with the Medicine Wheel teachings to offer you portals to profound realizations of truth. Take Marcela's teachings with you on your spiritual journey to discover your own courage and strength!
-- Matteo Pistono, meditation teacher and author of In the Shadow of the Buddha and Meditation: Coming to Know Your Mind Marcela Lobos has been extensively initiated in the healing and spiritual traditions of the Amazon and the Andes. She was born and raised in Chile, where she leads shamanic journeys for women to awaken their ow
