Shamanic Practitioner & Energy Healer Course
HYBRID: ONLINE/ON-SITE RESIDENTIAL TRAINING
Certified IPHM Accredited Training with Sue Holmes
In-Person Course: Location: Osho Leela Centre, Dorset, UK.
Dates: Level One: ONLINE & Level Two: Oct 13-18th 2026.
Optional Masterclass ceremonial retreat 2027.
Does This Sound Like You?
- You’re longing to embark on a magical vocation that aligns with your purposeful mission in life as a healer
- You wish you could connect and work in powerful relationship with your spirit guides.
- You know you have healing gifts that just need to be fully awoken and channelled through techniques.
- Or perhaps you already work with some modalities and are ready to take your skills to the next level, when the right course and teacher appears.
- You want to train in-person, on-site at a residential retreat…If so, then you are in the right place!
THROUGH COMPLETING THIS JOURNEY COMBINING ANCIENT WISDOM AND ENERGY HEALING SCIENCE, YOU WILL:
- Awaken & develop your shamanic and energy healing gifts and share them in divine service, fulfilling your soul’s purpose and being a part of the change that humanity needs so much.
- Experience tremendous self-healing throughout the course – integrating the wounded healer, so that you are a shining inspiration to others as you embody the transformation and hold space for theirs with compassion and wisdom.
- Build a practise that you can put your heart and soul into – a vocation that really makes a difference in the world, and supports a beautiful life-style that you love, working independently as your own boss, on your own terms.
- Become part of a supportive healing community of life-long friends.
- Be eligible to attend our in-person Masterclass ceremony retreats and reunions.
We’re your shortcut to success as a Healer!
The Powerful Healing techniques you will be able to facilitate:
LEVELS ONE & TWO are the Practitioner Course to be booked together
LEVEL ONE: 14-19th April 2026
Module 1 - FOUNDATION: Channelling Healing Energy & Shamanic Journeying
Facilitate healing for yourself and others – hands on, online or remotely. Infusion of earth and heavenly energies, working with the 7 main chakras. Shamanic journeying to connect and receive wisdom and ‘medicine’ from spirit guides.
Module 2: Energy Extraction & Intrusion Removal
Clear toxic energetic blockages and ‘intrusions’, letting go of ‘baggage’ to make space for more light and authentic power. Healing & strengthening the Energy Body that affects wellbeing in the physical. Working with the 7 layers of the aura: etheric, emotional, mental, astral, template, celestial & causal bodies.
Module 3: Sound Healing & Chakra Toning
Using your voice as an intuitive, precision, sound healing tool with toning, to powerfully assist with extraction & infusion techniques, supporting energy releases and assisting the chakras and energy field to come back into harmony – strengthening the whole system.
LEVEL TWO: 13-18 October 2026
Module 4: Hara Line & Intention Alignment And Power Animal Retrieval
Restore your client’s alignment with earth & the cosmos, their true self, life purpose and soul’s path in life. Power animal retrieval – bring back a spirit guide that can restore someone’s unique gifts and ‘medicine’, in the form of a power animal.
Module 5: Organ & Spine Energy Regeneration
Work with the five elements to cleanse and tonify the energy of the spine and major organs into harmony. This can support the release of old emotions such as repressed anger, hatred, stress, grief and fear & encouraging more balance with kindness, joy, calm, courage and trust.
Module 6: Relationship Cord Healing
Clean the energy of your clients’ relationships with other people, their ancestral lines and things they may have issues with – such as abundance. This tends to support relationships and individuals to be lighter, more free and harmonious.
After attending 2 residential modules & completing your assignments you can certify and start practising professionally.
- During this in-person, residential training, you will watch a live demonstration of each healing technique by the teacher Sue Holmes and then facilitate and exchange each method.
- Each day you will learn a new technique that builds and combines with the previous techniques. On the last day, you will consolidate all of the methods.
- Outside of teaching sessions you can fully relax, enjoy the sauna, swim and take time to be peaceful in stunning nature or socialise with your classmates.
- On the last day you will exchange healings in a beautiful cacao ceremony.
- There are a maximum of 20 participants, so it’s a small intimate group, with plenty of individual support.
- Through method notes, healing demonstrations, live Q&A and supervised healing exchange sessions, you will gain all the training, guidance and experience to launch your career as a professional shamanic practitioner and energy healer.
- You will have ongoing support and monthly Zoom meetings with Sue in a 6-month container, for sharing, coaching and Q&A.
- To achieve your accredited certification, you will then need to submit 12 written case studies and a creative project.
- You will receive 1 x 1 hour personal mentoring session with Sue Holmes and 2 x 1 hour mentoring sessions with another team member.
- You will also have the support of the group in an ongoing Telegram group.
- The course is certified and accredited by the IPHM (International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine)
NEXT ON-SITE RESIDENTIAL TRAINING at the Leela Centre, Dorset, UK
- Practitioner Course:
Level 1: 14-19th April 2026 + Level 2: 13-18 October 2026 - Advanced Course: (After Completing Practitioner Course)
Level 3: Spring 2027 + Level 4: Autumn 2027
Our next (optional extra) residential ceremonial Masterclass in Spain for our current students and graduates are:
- 5-day Retreat in May in Wales
- 7-day Retreat in September in Spain.
2 x residential modules include:
Teaching material
- Printed manual with method notes
- Assignments eg personal journeys/meditations
- 12 x Marked Written Case Studies
6-hours a day of group training sessions:
- Group teaching, coaching and Q & A sessions
- Healing exchanges – exchange and practise the healing methods with other participants with our guidance & supervision.
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On-going Support:
- Participate in a private Telegram group with your student community
- 3 x 1-hour Group Zoom sharing and Q&A meetings.
OPTIONAL BONUS ACTIVITIES:
- Ceremonial Masterclass retreats with other Modern Shamanism student and graduates.
During the Practitioner course, you can decide whether you wish to progress onto the advanced modules:
This will expand your skills and certification to 'Advanced Shamanic Practitioner & Energy Healer'.
LEVEL THREE: Spring 2027 (dates tbc)
Module 7 - Shamanic Extraction & Energy Field Cleansing
Extraction using shamanic seeing to scan the body and then sacred tools, such as a crystal, feathers, plant essences, sound tools and/or a sucking technique to cleanse their energy body, remove toxins, stagnant energy and energetic ‘intrusions’. This liberates the client to fill up with more light, authentic power and true essence.
Module 8: Soul Retrieval
Perform a shamanic journey for your client, through time and space, to retrieve lost parts of their soul that left during times of trauma, shock or compromise – restoring their true unique essence & gifts, supporting them to be more full present, embodied and engaging with life to the full.
Module 9: Regression Therapy
Facilitate a guided deep hypnosis journey for your client to heal the roots of current issues – which may be found in childhood or a past life experience. You gently encourage them to be directed by their own innate wisdom and truth and so reclaiming their power and transforming the issue in the present.
LEVEL FOUR (Autumn 2027 (dates tbc)
Module 10: Auric Repair & Psychic Surgery
Reweaving the template layer of the auric field, as the energetic blue-print of your client’s physical body, for optimum health. Deepening into shamanic trance & merging with spirit guides to perform shamanic healing and psychic repairs.
Module 11: Spirit Release & Compassionate Depossession
Facilitate spirit release (compassionate de-possession), for lost souls and suffering beings (eg. benevolent ancestors who through fear or attachment resisted moving on to the spirit realm at the time of death), so liberating the misplaced spirits to a better place and allowing your client to reclaim their sovereignty.
Module 12: Clearing of Harmful Influences (Ancestral patterns, ‘Past life’ imprints)
Safely extracting unhealthy patterns eg. limiting beliefs, ancestral patterns, vows, bonds, malevolent intentions and acts of sorcery. They can be passed down ancestral lines or continue from past lives. When these energies have been defused, your clients may discover greater peace, well-being and freedom.
Shamanic Practitioner & Energy Healer
On-site Residential Training – Tuition Fee
Early Bird (Until 30 Jan 2026 ) Investment Options:
Practitioner Course (6 Modules)
Levels 1+2 Tuition Fee in 12-month container (Pay in Full)
£2400
Practitioner Course (6 Modules)
Levels 1+2 in 12-month container (Payment Plan Total £2500)
£625/4
Advanced Course (12 Modules)
Levels 1,2,3+4 Tuition Fee in 2-year container (Pay in Full)
£4950
Advanced Course (12 Modules)
Levels 1,2,3+4 in 2-year container (Payment Plan Total £5100)
£510/10
WHY TRAIN WITH ME?
I have decades of training and ceremonial experience with renowned teachers, tribes and spiritual traditions from around the world. I have witnessed the empowerment that comes with stepping up as a space clearing and geomancy consultant and the challenges that can arise too. I have the openness and compassion to support you in navigating any issues that may arise for you, walking beside you, holding space for your personal journey of becoming the neo-shaman you were born to be. So I want you to know you’re going to be supported by a woman who not only knows her craft but has the ability to pass it on to you!
I’m your shortcut to success as a Healer
HERE ARE SOME OF THE UNIQUE GIFTS I BRING TO THE COURSE:
- A world-renowned teacher and mentor: for practitioners rising into their gifts as shamanic energy healers. I am considered a ‘master healer & teacher’ by my peers, through the strength of my experience, expertise and integrity.
- An experienced and respected elder of 57: A healer, teacher and consultant for over 25 years. I bring a wealth of ceremonial experience from several different tribes, paths and traditions from around the world.
- Featured on TV shows & the press: My work has been featured on Channel 4’s Trish’s Packed Lunch; ITV’s Dancing on Ice’ (which is an old WW2 RAF base); Channel 5’s ‘Aemonn & Ruth’s Sleep show’ and More 4’s: ‘Location , Location, Location’. I have appeared in The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Spirit & Destiny magazine, Dowsing Today and numerous other publications & radio stations since 2007.
- A healer & facilitator for thousands of people:- it is important to me to serve a diverse range of global clients, inclusive of all backgrounds, colours, cultures, genders, sexuality and walks of life.
- Best-selling author – of ‘Becoming a Healer – For Yourself & Others’
- Keep it real – I am down-to-earth, unpretentious, friendly and fun – what you see is what you get!
What is unique about this in-person residential training and why you’ll love it!
- The training takes place in-person at a retreat centre in Spain, where each day, you will watch Sue Holmes demonstrate how to carry out each technique and then be supervised and guided as you facilitate 7 x in-person healing sessions.
- It weaves together shamanic healing and energy healing – like 2 courses in one. You will gain a comprehensive and magical toolbox of healing skills.
- Since you receive a healing session each day of the course, you also have the opportunity for phenomenal personal healing and transformation, so that you are an inspiration to others as to the effectiveness of the healing techniques.
- You receive guidance on facilitating distant healings, which mean you can offer your healing sessions to people all around the world.
- After a rest day, you can participate in an optional bonus 2-day ceremonial training, exchanging healings in 2 x grandmother ceremonies.
- Experience the joy of being together at a beautiful full-baord retreat centre in Spain, with a pool, sauna, garden, walks, group meals, dancing and quiet time meditating and enjoying the expansive mountain views.
- We also share our experiences and guidance on how to build, grow & run a professional practice as a healer.
- You will have the support of the group between modules in a private telegram group, and the opportunity to become part of a close tribe of trusted friends for life.
- You have the opportunity to join our Masterclass ceremonial retreats in community with myself and the Academy of Modern Shamanism crew.
- You will receive 6-months ongoing support and guidance, with monthly Zooms for sharing, coaching & Q&A.
- It is accredited by the IPHM (International School of Holistic Practitioners) so that you can get professional insurance and display your certificate.
- You can choose whether to continue with the advanced course (6 more techniques) which will also be run as a residential training retreat.
FAQs
WHAT EQUIPMENT DO I NEED ?
For this training, you can of course purchase extra books and sacred objects. This is a guideline for the minimum required:
- A rattle.
- A shamanic frame drum.
- Candles.
- A spray or liquid of your preference infused with cleansing herbs to clean your hands and tools during and after sessions eg Agua de florida, Agua de kananga, or combination cleansing essences such as rose, palo santo, nettle, bramble, wild garlic, rosemary, yarrow, sage etc.
- ‘Mindfold’ or bandana for journeying.
- An A4 file to store your method notes and personal notes in.
- A white/cream healing outfit
Optional extras include:
- Books from the recommended reading list.
For the Advanced Course, these extra tools will be needed:
- Other sound healing tools (optional)
- Smudging tool eg smudge stick, feather, or bee-smoker.
- crystals for soul retreival and extraction (for the advance modules)
- Basket or box to hold your sacred objects.
IS THIS SUITABLE FOR BEGINNERS OR ESTABLISHED PRACTITIONERS?
Both. You can join the training at whatever level you currently are and it will take you to your next level. If you are already a practitioner, the techniques Sue shares will develop and expand your skills and services. If you are new to energy work, then Sue will guide you safely into the practices. Either way, you are welcome to this amazing journey.
WHAT HAPPENS IF I MISS A 'LIVE' SESSION?
You can book a private 1 to 1 session with Sue, so that you can complete the full training. There is an additional fee of £140 per hour (it usually takes 30mins-1 hour to catch up when speaking 1 to 1).
IS THIS COURSE ACCREDITED?
Yes, this course is certified by The Modern Shaman Academy and accredited by the ‘International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine’. This accreditation will be on your certificate so that you can get insurance to practise professionally all over the world.
On successful completion of 6 modules, this course certifies you as a ‘Shamanic Practitioner & Energy Healer’ and after the 12 module training, as ‘Advanced Shamanic Practitioner & Energy Healer’.
NB: This is a necessary part of the world we live in. But looking at the bigger picture, what’s much more significant than that, is what your heart and spirit guides communicate to you about your work – which will be part of the curriculum.
CAN I SPREAD THE FEES OVER MORE PAYMENTS?
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a different payment plan to the ones offered above, indicating how many monthly payments you would prefer to make. The total fee does increase slightly with more payments. Payments can be set up using any credit or debit cards.
NB Payments must be made in advance not in arrears.
WHAT IF I MISS THE START OF THE GROUP TRAINING, CAN I CATCH UP?
It may well be possible. get in touch asap and we will see how you might be able to join a small group to catch up with the modules you missed and then join the main cohort.
‘The shamanic healing course is so enriching, nourishing and empowering, it shocks me to feel how much more of me is awake, present and open to embracing life. Sue brings a wealth of experience and knowledge with such a light and fun atmosphere. Thank you Sue’.
‘The course with Sue was magical. Full of new teachings, healing, support and lots of fun and love. I have been always impressed with how authentic Sue is, she has a huge heart and is an amazing healer and teacher.’
‘I have the pleasure and the opportunity to have Sue Holmes as my teacher and guide for the last year during Advanced Shamanic Practitioner & Energy Healer course. My personal growth during this period has been incredible, moving me mentally, emotionally, physically and of course spiritually to another level of existence.
The course has been the main key to this growth. It’s an epic, fast-moving, energetic journey, in an amazingly held space!
I am so grateful for the knowledge and integrity of this beautiful teacher & now friend, Sue Holmes.’
‘Sue’s course goes into great detail and depth on how to speak with and hold space for clients who have had severe trauma.
She provides a clear framework for the healing methods. I had done some shamanic training previously, but I definitely feel more prepared and confident to work with clients now.
The course assignments also encouraged me to express myself creatively, so this important aspect of my shamanic practice has flourished.’
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