Sandra Ingerman, MA, is the author of eight books including Soul Retrieval, Medicine for the Earth, Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide, How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, How to Thrive in Changing Times. and Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation. She also recorded four audio programs with Sounds True including "Shamanic Meditations: Guided Journeys for Insight, Vision, and Healing."
Sandra is one of the most highly regarded teachers of shamanism today. She teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. She is devoted to teaching people how we can work together as a global community to bring about positive change for the planet. Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management.
To read articles written by Sandra, to listen to interviews, and to get more information on Sandra’s work you can visit her website at www.sandraingerman.com.
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NEW
How to Thrive in Changing Times:
Simple Tools to Create True Health, Wealth, Peace, and Joy for Yourself and the Earth (Weiser)
There has been a quite bit written about how to use different methods to manifest what you want for yourself. In How to Thrive In Changing Times Sandra Ingerman encourages us to use spiritual methods of creation to gather our energies together as a global community to create positive change for the
planet and all of life.
She teaches us how to release blocking beliefs that impact our ability to truly tap into our creative potential. She shares with us how to focus our thoughts in a way that weave together a fabric of reality for the life we want to live and for a healthy planet. Sandra shares with us different ways to work with creation and manifestation and how to release disappointment when things just don’t work out the way we had envisioned.
This little book is filled with ways that we can join together with others around the world to create a world filled with love, light, harmony, peace, joy, and abundance for all.
"This book could not be more timely. Intended to assist people living in industrialized societies, How to Thrive in Changing Times takes readers through step-by-step self-evaluation procedures as well as practical mind/body exercises to recognize and change self-limiting beliefs. I admire Sandra Ingerman's skill in helping people identify how words and thoughts can be sources of power, especially those learned early in life from one's family and society. In these uncertain times, her book is especially useful in helping people break free of their internal and external limitations. Societies can constantly sabotage intentions and beliefs that attempt to lead people to greater creativity; Sandra Ingerman teaches her readers how to break these habits and remain free from them as they begin to live more creative, fulfilling, and meaningful lives."
--Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-author of Personal Mythology and professor of
psychology at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
New !
“Shamanic Meditations: Guided Journeys for Insight, Vision, and Healing”
(Sounds True March 2010)
The first meditators in history were the shamans, whose practices for contemplation and connecting with the divine are echoed in virtually every spiritual tradition today. On “Shamanic Meditations”, Sandra Ingerman invites you to return to the source of human spirituality—and experience for yourself the enduring power of these ancient practices for healing, guidance, and awakening. With seven guided meditations—called “journeys” in the shamanic tradition—from a renowned author and teacher, this two-hour program features:
• An overview of shamanic principles—understanding journeys, the three spiritual realms, and your helping guides
• Encountering your Power Animals—companion spirits from the Lower World that offer healing, protection, and support
• Meeting your Upper World Teacher—a spirit in human form who provides insights and higher wisdom
• The shamanic initiation into oneness, connecting to nature through the Middle World, learning to see through “spirit eyes,” and more
As Sandra Ingerman explains, the surging interest in shamanism in the West arises from the personal, intimate relationship with spirit that these practices offer. “An increasing number of people feel a deep need to connect directly to the web of life,” she explains. With “Shamanic Meditations”, listeners now have a complete guided program for beginning their own exploration of the shamanic path—and tapping into the spiritual field of awareness that unites all living beings.
New !
Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation
by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman (Sounds True February 28)
The word “shaman” means “the one who sees in the dark.” To practice shamanism is to open your vision to a world that is hidden from normal view so that you may enter the deeper reality of the unseen universe. With Awakening to the Spirit World, teachers Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman join a circle of renowned Western shamanic elders to present a comprehensive manual on the oldest and most reliable human technology for accessing the realms of spirit. The core of shamanism is the experience of direct revelation—to communicate first-hand with your spiritual allies and discover your own power.
Awakening to the Spirit World takes you through each step of developing a personal connection to your helping spirits to receive wisdom, insight, and healing energy. From an overview of shamanism, to your first journeys and encounters with your power animals, to expanding your skills and insight through long-term practice, here is an in-depth resource for the shamanic arts that includes:
-Creating rituals and ceremonies for healing and transformation.
-Reconnecting with nature to heal ourselves and the planet.
-Working with your dreams, songs, and artistic vision to strengthen your practice.
-Traditional wisdom for children—healthy rites of passage for each phase of a child’s journey to adulthood.
-Honoring the cycle of life and death—shamanic practices to prepare for and celebrate our final transition in this life.
-Building a shamanic community based on support and shared purpose.
- Insights and practices from renowned shamanic teachers Sandra Ingerman, Hank Wesselman, Tom Cowan, Carol Proudfoot-Edgar, José Stevens, and Alberto Villoldo.
-A CD of drumming as well as other shamanic instruments to facilitate your shamanic journeys.
“In an era when chaos, confusion, and uncertainty take center stage, the ancestors, focused on balancing the energies of life, call forth calm, clarity, and pragmatic direction for accessing the medicine needed to heal the individual and collective psyche. In this moment in time, we are invited into Awakening to the Spirit World where we are reassured that we are not alone. We are in good company, indeed.”
Malidoma Patrice Some, PhD, Author of Of Water and the Spirit, The Healing Wisdom of Africa, and Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community
New ! How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation
(Sterling 2007).
How to Heal Toxic Thoughts teaches readers how to identify toxic thoughts, transmute negative energy, and shield themselves from the harmful influences others project out of ignorance. Filled with pragmatic tools for coping with negative thoughts and emotions, Ingerman helps readers transform toxic thoughts into feelings of peace, harmony, and love.
"Sandra Ingerman beautifully explains how our thoughts create our lives
and impact others. All the while, she restores the light and magic from deep in
our souls." Carol Schaefer, author of Grandmothers: Counsel the World.
Miracles for the Earth.
This is a package containing two CDs. The first CD includes a lecture on the Medicine for the Earth priniciples. The second CD contains guided visualizations, meditations, and exercises to use as spiritual practices to bring the work into your life. This does include a guided visualization for transfiguration.
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide
In this book I give all the instructions needed to journey to the Lower World, Upper World, and Middle World to meet up with your personal helping spirits. Through journeying you can retrieve information for change in any area of your life – from spirituality and health to world and relationships. I had the opportunity to share what I have learned from studying and teaching shamanism over the last twenty years. The book includes case studies and a chapter on suggestions of journeys that you can take for guidance and help. The book includes a 60 minute practice CD with three drumming tracks for shamanic journeying.
You can order this book from Sounds True: www.soundstrue.com or call 800-333-9185 or 303-665-3151 or by going to www.shamanicteachers.com.
“Sandra Ingerman’s great gift is that she skillfully teaches us how shamanic journeying can be used for guidance, empowerment, renewal, divination, and healing. This is an exceptional resource and guidebook, accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime!”
Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., author of the The Four-Fold Way and Signs of Life.
Soul Retrieval; Mending the Fragmented Self (Harper San Francisco 1991).
In this book I describe the ancient shamanic healing method of soul retrieval and how I have applied it to our culture today to heal emotional and physical trauma.
“Through the shamanic framework of ‘soul loss’ and ‘soul retrieval’ Sandra Ingerman offers us a window through which some of our myriad nonphysical interactions can be recognized, understood and honored.” Gary Zukav, author of The Seat of the Soul.
New edition with added Afterword
Welcome Home: Following Your Soul’s Journey Home (Harper San Francisco 1993).
This book is the second part of Soul Retrieval. I focus on life after healing. After we have worked with what happened to us in the past, it is now time for us to see that we have new options to create a positive present and future. I show some steps to walk down this new path.
“Healing is a passionate process of transforming our woundedness into wisdom. When the insights are integrated and the treasure claimed, we might ask, ‘so what’s next? Where do I go now?’ Read and enjoy as Sandra Ingerman leads you down the path of creativity, joy and integration.” Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind.
A Fall to Grace (Moon Tree Rising productions 1997).
This book is a visionary fiction describing my spiritual journey over the last 20 years. I have created a workbook for this book on this website, which you can go back and review.
“A Fall to Grace is a teaching story about the healing power of love and the spiritual transformation available in the gift of intimate relationships-” Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., author of The Four- Fold Way and Signs of Life.
“Sandra Ingerman’s novel is delightful, poignant, and sure to inspire courage in us all.” Jamie Sams, author of Medicine Cards and The 13 Original Clan Mothers.
“Sandra Ingerman has somehow found words for the wordless. Read and remember.” Eliot Cowan, author of Plant Spirit Medicine.
Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins (Three Rivers Press 2001).
Drawing on the wisdom of ancient and modern-day mystics, I explain how to tap into this knowledge and use it to solve the problem of pollution and other maladies plaguing the planet.
“Ingerman is a gifted healer, visionary, scholar, and teacher. This book is urgently needed.” Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine and Healing Words.
A masterpiece of alchemy with practical ways to transform and heal our lives and the earth.” Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., author of Shaman, Healer, Sage and Dance of the Four Winds.
“In this beautifully written book, Sandra Ingerman shows us how work with our spirit allies to restore the health and vitality of degraded natural environments. A major contribution to the integration of shamanic procedures with radical ecology.” Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., author of Green Psychology.
"The Beginner's Guide Guide to Shamanic Journeying" Sounds True 2003.
This 70 minute CD includes a lecture on shamanic journeying as well as instructions on how to meet spiritual helpers and journey to the Lower World, Middle World and Upper World. The CD concludes with a ten minuite drumming session to use for shamanic journeying. You can order this CD from Sounds TRue at 800-333-9185 or 303-665-3151. You can also order from the Sounds True web page at www.soundstrue.com
The Soul Retrieval Journey (Sounds True 1997).
This lecture includes a general discussion on shamanism, illness from a shamanic perspective as well as a talk on the information in Soul Retrieval and Welcome Home. You can order this CD from Sounds True at 800-333-9185 or 303-665-3151. The catalogue number is #A342.
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