About the Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange

Our MISSION is to perpetuate Indigenous spiritual and shamanic wisdom, culture, and traditions.

We SUPPORT projects that are conceived, implemented, and led by the Indigenous communities that they directly benefit.

We SUPPORT Indigenous led events, projects, and learning experiences that promote the continuation of Indigenous healing practices, ceremony, song, dance, art, language and wisdoms.

We SUPPORT connecting Indigenous healers of different cultures to honor the exchange of beliefs and ideas.

We BELIEVE that by honoring and supporting Indigenous people in the perpetuation of their spiritual practices, we will inspire humanity to connect more deeply with our spiritual roots.

Shaman is a word derived from the Tungus word şamān “One who sees in the dark,” the German word Schamane and Russian word šamán “Traditional Healer.” There may also be ties ...

to the Chinese word shāmén, “Buddhist monk.” and sanskrit word śramaṇa, “ascetic, monk, devotee.” Shaman has become a blanket word referring to indiginous ceremonial leaders, medicine people, and healers. Shamanic belief systems are characterized by common attributes, like the recognition that all things are connected, and people that use non-ordinary consciousness to ‘travel’ or commune with the unseen aspects of reality or spirit world in order to gain knowledge, wisdom, and power. In this way, shamanism dates back at least 40,000 years with each Indigenous culture or tribe expressing its own unique and individual cosmology and epistemology.

Shamanic education from the perspective of the CSEE is about demonstrating to Western culture the validity and critical importance of indigenous knowledge and philosophy....

We strive to demonstrate that the contributions of Indigenous philosophies of the world has yet to be fully explored and appreciated, and we seek to lift up and amplify Indigenous voices. With the understanding that shamanism is a blanket term, we work to support each tribe in its own unique identity and lineage. We collaborate with these tribes as they determine their own course of preservation and dissemination of knowledge.

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