Evelyn C. Rysdyk
Evelyn C. Rysdyk is an internationally recognized shamanic healer, teacher, speaker, and author of Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power, Modern Shamanic Living, and A Spirit Walker’s Guide to Shamanic Tools. She is a founding member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners and a presenter for international events such as the Shamanism Global Summit and the Year of Ceremony. She enjoys living and working on the coast of Maine.
All Books By Evelyn C. Rysdyk
Shamanic Creativity
- By: Evelyn C. Rysdyk
- Narrator: Evelyn C. Rysdyk
- Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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5(2 ratings)
* Explains how creativity–or creative energy–is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life
* Explores how to use spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the “right brain,” boost imagination, and overcome anxiety and other destructive emotions
* Provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide
In this step-by-step practical guide to enhancing creative energy, Evelyn Rysdyk explains, from the shamanic perspective, how creativity–or creative energy–is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life. She explores how to use the shamanic technologies of spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the “right brain,” boost imagination, overcome anxiety and destructive emotions, and become much more creative in daily life. Examining creative energy as a natural phenomenon similar to the tides, the author provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide as well as offering shamanic techniques for dealing with insecurities related to your creative pursuits and overcoming dysfunctional subconscious perceptions.
Presenting a wealth of experiential exercises, rituals, and shamanic principles, this guide gives you the keys to unlock your own creative birthright.
The Norse Shaman
- By: Evelyn C. Rysdyk
- Narrator: Evelyn C. Rysdyk
- Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.82(89 ratings)
An experiential guide to the wisdom preserved in Europe’s far north
* Includes shamanic journeys to connect with deities and your ancestral shamans
* Provides step-by-step instructions to prepare for and conduct a seidr ceremony
* Draws on archaeological evidence and surviving written records from Iceland
* Reveals the long tradition of female shamans in northern European shamanism
Shamanism is humanity’s oldest spiritual tradition. In much of the Western world, the indigenous pre-Christian spiritual practices have been lost. Yet at the northern fringes of Europe, Christianity did not displace the original shamanic practices until the end of the Viking age. Remnants of Norse shamanic spirituality have survived in myths, folk traditions, and written records from Iceland, providing many clues about the ancient European shaman’s world, especially when examined in conjunction with other shamanic cultures in northern Eurasia, such as the Sami and the tribes of Siberia.
Reconstructing the shamanic practices of the hunter-gatherers of Scandinavia, Evelyn Rysdyk explores the evolution of Norse shamanism from its earliest female roots to the pre-Christian Viking Age. She explains how to enter Yggdrasil, the World Tree, to travel to other realms and provides shamanic journeys to connect with the ancestral shamans of your family tree, including the Norse goddess Freyja, the very first shaman. She offers exercises to connect with the ancient goddesses of fate, the Norns, and introduces the overnight wilderness quest of utiseta for reconnecting with the powers of nature. She explains the key concepts of Orlog and Wyrd–the two most powerful forces that shape human lives–and provides exercises for letting go of harmful behavior patterns and transforming simple knowledge into profound wisdom by connecting with Odinn.
Thoroughly examining the shamanic rituals of seidr, the oracular magic of the Nordic cultures, the author provides step-by-step instructions to prepare for and conduct a seidr ceremony, including creating your own seidr staff and hood, and explores the ancestral use of shamanic songs or vardlokur to accompany the ceremony. Woven throughout these exercises, Rysdyk provides archaeological evidence from Neolithic sites supporting the long tradition of venerating wise women, grandmothers, and mothers in ancient cultures and the important role of female shamans at the heart of northern European shamanism. Providing an accessible guide for anyone trying to fulfill their shamanic callings, these powerful rituals can provide personal healing and a clear path for finding our way into a harmonious relationship with the natural world.