The Past Life Session

You were born into this life with a spiritual backpack. The backpack that you came into life carrying represents the energy that you hold from your soul’s previous experiences (in other lifetimes, plus what has been transferred down your ancestral/generational line). You build onto this backpack with your experiences in this lifetime.

Your ancestors built the foundation of which you stand on today. There is belief in some cultures that your ancestors are actually a version of you from another time. Either way, you inherit your ancestor's triumphs, struggles, woundings, blessings, curses and life experiences - This directly impacts and influences the quality of energy that lives within your body and life today.

There is belief in some cultures that if you're unable to understand and integrate the soul lessons that you've been asked to learn... Then when the time comes, there is an increased likelihood of being chosen by Source/Creator/God/Great Spirit to reincarnate into the next life to try (again) to learn, grow and ultimately heal what's in your backpack!

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Reincarnation is a common spiritual belief that spans across many cultures. It means that souls endure many lifetimes…in different bodies...through various periods of time...and experience their life uniquely with each "go round".

Some subscribe to the idea that we reincarnate within a familiar family of souls, and that each soul has a chance to experience a different role in the dynamic (ex. daughter to mother, lover to friend, heartbreaker to heartbroken, etc.).

Have you ever felt like someone was extremely familiar upon your first meeting with them? As if you've already known them and feel comfortable around them? If yes, this person was likely connected to you in a past life.

Once we have left our physical body behind, our soul transitions into the non-physical afterlife - The home of our spirit. As our soul is ready and able to continue its journey onward, we integrate the experiences from the earthly plane into the spiritual plane. This is possible with help from our compassionate allies that support and care for us, who may be our ancestors, religious figures, teachers in spirit form, beings of Light, etc.

Each life, we practice remembering who we really are and what we’re here to do as human beings and spiritual beings living on Planet Earth.

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In shamanic practice, there's an understanding that we hold imprints of the past on the quality of our present-day soul.

Modern psychology agrees that the intricacies of the mind, including beliefs and behaviors, are rooted in childhood. Both of these therapeutic lenses understand that environment directly affects functioning and development.

Since ancient times, shamans have worked to connect the physical with the spiritual, including the presence of a limiting or negative transference of energy from a previous generation or lifetime(s). Soul imprints can develop through experiences in this life, through ancestral experiences or through that of a past life. Soul imprints can inspire us, direct us and challenge us to continue our rightful evolution, or they may actually limit or restrict our ability to continue on. This is karma. 

Karma is so much more than “Do good, receive good” …or “Do bad, receive bad”. In this life, we carry the karma of our soul, meaning we carry with us the imprint of every previous experience, lesson, hardship, blessing, piece of knowledge gained and more - from our soul and the souls of our generational lines. 

Sometimes we carry imprints in our backpack that are negative, limiting, unfavorable or no longer necessary. These can occur for a variety of reasons and most always limit our potential or dictate our destiny in an undesirable way. By nature, this can create resistance, stuck-ness, murky-ness, perpetuating fear, repeating patterns, and much more. The good news is it doesn't have to!

Sometimes the weight/imprint is in fact necessary for a period of time. This is so we have the opportunity to find our own resolution that IS a part of our destiny. As the soul lesson is integrated and completed, the karma is complete, then the soul is freed to continue blossoming onward.

This aspect of energetic, intuitive and shamanic healing can be implemented on past experiences from this life and other lifetimes, along with the transference of energy down an ancestral/generational line. To resolve an unnecessary imprint or unfavorable karma, the process typically includes journeying back in time to its place of origin. With the help of healing allies, we can dissolve the energies that first created the imprint...therefore completing and clearing the slate of karma on a spiritual and energetic level.

There are countless ways that karmic imprints develop. Also, there are countless ways that they manifest symptomatically. (You may or may not be aware of them!)