Course Description: Soul Retrieval is an ancient shamanic healing practice. The shaman retrieves and returns lost parts of a person’s soul to the them for healing and empowerment.

Participants will be trained in how soul loss occurs, how to track and find the lost soul, retrieve it shamanically and return this lost essence to the individual.

Soul loss can keep us from feeling our connections with others, prevent us from creating healthy relationships, and from living the life we really want to live. This weekend workshop focuses on the methods of soul retrieval – the techniques and practices regarding soul tracking and retrieval. Participants will be trained in how to work with the issues of soul loss from a shamanic perspective:

• recognizing the need for soul retrieval
• methods of the diagnostic journey
• exploring causes of soul loss
• healing soul loss

Each participant will experience the roles of both shaman and client. You will learn the techniques of soul retrieval, perform a retrieval for another as well as have the opportunity for lost parts of your own soul to be returned to you.

After soul retrieval, life changes. Integration work helps complete the assimilation of the retrieved soul, ensuring the success of the soul retrieval itself. The integration work involves vital shamanic journeys, rituals, and ceremonies. These practices help to restore wholeness and “set the cure” of the retrieval itself.

You will also gain a solid foundation for working with clients in their soul retrieval process. Some of these themes include:

• integration techniques for returned soul essences
• preparing a client for soul retrieval
• performing long-distance soul retrievals
• using healing words (word doctoring)
• moving forward and creating a positive, balanced future for life

The workshop also includes some ceremonial time outside in the foothills of the Cascade and Siskiyou Mountains.

This training is designed for those who may want to bring shamanic healing work into their practice with others.

Read Beth's article "Soul Retrieval: Singing Your Soul Home Again"

Prerequisites: All participants must have taken the Way of the Shaman: The Shamanic Journey, Power and Healing or similar introduction to the shamanic journey.

Las Vegas, NV on March 3-4, 2012 Sacramento, CA on April 14-15, 2012 Ashland, OR on May 5-6, 2012

In order to register for this course, you must have good shamanic journey skills and success in contacting your power animals and spirit teachers in nonordinary reality. Please make sure you feel confident about your shamanic journey skills before applying for this workshop.


Location: Our retreat center for this workshop is located in the gorgeous Hidden Springs Community Wellness Center in Ashland, Oregon. A full coffee and tea service will be provided on our morning and afternoon breaks.

A full coffee and tea service will be provided on our morning and afternoon breaks.

About the Instructor: Beth Beurkens, M.A. has been a teacher of shamanism, a shamanic practitioner, and a vision quest guide for 22 years. She has worked extensively with clients and soul retrieval healing for the last fifteen years. Beth leads dynamic life-changing seminars in America and in Europe and has a shamanic healing practice in Ashland and Europe. She has studied extensively with Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman. She is an instructor at Rogue Community College, faculty at The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and a creative writing teacher. Her first collection of poetry, Shaman's Eye, was released in 2009, as well as her Shaman: Spirit Walker 2011 wall calendar.

Email: beth@shamanicuniverse.com
Website: www.shamanicuniverse.com
Phone: (541) 708-0473

Application Process: To apply for this training please email me and I will send you an application.

Applications must be accompanied by a minimum check deposit of $300. Or, applications using PayPal can be made for the full tuition amount. If you are not accepted into the training, your payment will be refunded in full (minus any PayPal fees).

We recommend early application as enrollments are limited.

Registration: Early registration, up to one month prior to the workshop, is $455.00. Sign-ups after July 25, 2012, will be $525.00. Debit and credit card payments may only be made for the full amount on either Visa or Master Cards.

Tuition payments may be made by check or online with PayPal using credit or debit cards.

Make your payment online via PayPal here:

Ashland - Soul Retrieval Training

before July 25, 2012 $455.00 USD after July 25, 2012 $525.00 USD

PayPal payments may only be made for the full amount. If you choose to use PayPal, be sure to also print, fill out, and post the application form via USPS to Beth.

Balance Due: Please send any balance due by August 1, 2012 so all tuition matters are complete before arriving at the workshop.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations will be processed as follows: notification received prior to July 25, 2012: full refund minus $60.00 administration fee; notification received prior to August 1, 2012: 50% refund minus $75.00 administration fee. No refunds on or after August 1, 2012.

To register for this course:
Please send the following via postal service to:
Beth Beurkens
P.O. Box 483
Ashland, OR 97520

1. Application
2. Liability Release Form
3. Include payment, if you are paying by check, or use PayPal online.

Lodging in Ashland: This is not a residential workshop. You are responsible for your own travel, lodging and meals. Please note the refund and cancellation policies for airlines and hotels. Travel insurance may be advised. There is a vast range of accommodations here in all price ranges. I've included a few less expensive options. Please make your own lodging reservations. 

You can also go to the Ashland Chamber of Commerce website for more lodging information or call them at (541) 488-5495.

An Ashland lodging, directions, and what-to-bring packet will be mailed or emailed to you upon receipt of your tuition payment and registration.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to sharing the Soul Retrieval training with you.

Painting by Cathy McClelland