Shamanic Healing Hinckley

Shamanic Healing and Soul Retrieval at Peace of Mind Health, Hinckley

There are experiences that leave a mark that ordinary healing cannot quite reach. Losses that go deeper than grief. Trauma that did not only wound the mind and body but fractured something more essential. A persistent sense of being only partially present — of going through the motions of life while part of you watches from a distance, unable to fully arrive. A hollowness that has been there so long you have almost stopped noticing it.

These are not failures of therapy or resilience. They are, within the framework of shamanic understanding, the recognisable signs of soul loss — and soul retrieval is the ancient, cross-cultural healing practice specifically designed to address them.

At Peace of Mind Health in Hinckley, Therapeutic Shamanism is offered by Jeni — an Air Shaman initiated through the element of Air, working with the medicines of breath, sound, frequency and dream — as a profound, compassionately held and deeply transformative healing experience. This work honours both the ancient wisdom traditions from which it comes and the modern therapeutic understanding that informs how it is practised.

No plant medicine, psychedelic substances or drug-based practices are involved in any session.

What Shamanism Is — and Where It Comes From

Shamanism is the oldest healing system known to humanity. Across every continent and every culture — from the Siberian tundra to the Amazon basin, from the Celtic traditions of the British Isles to the indigenous peoples of North America — human beings have understood that illness and imbalance are not only physical or psychological phenomena. They are also energetic and spiritual. And that healing, truly, requires attending to all of these dimensions simultaneously.

The shaman — the word comes from the Tungus people of Siberia and means “one who sees in the dark” — acts as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds. Through entering altered states of consciousness, facilitated by drumming, sound, breath and focused intention, the shaman is able to move through what indigenous traditions describe as non-ordinary reality: the realms of spirit, ancestor and energy where the deeper causes of suffering live, and where healing at its most fundamental level can take place.

Anthropologist Michael Harner, who dedicated his life to documenting and practising core shamanism, described these techniques as “the first intentional use by human beings of altered states of consciousness for healing purposes.” Modern neuroscience has now identified the specific brainwave states associated with shamanic journeying — primarily theta waves, the same frequency associated with deep meditation, dream states and profound healing — providing a physiological framework for what shamanic practitioners have understood experientially for thousands of years.

Soul Loss — Understanding What Has Happened

Within the shamanic worldview, and increasingly within the language of trauma psychology, there is a recognition that when something overwhelmingly painful occurs — particularly in childhood, but also at any point in a life — a part of the self can dissociate. Can retreat. Can go elsewhere for safekeeping, because to remain present in that moment would be too much to bear.

This is not metaphor. Dissociation — the psychological process through which the mind separates parts of experience that are too overwhelming to integrate — is well documented in trauma research. The part of the self that dissociates does not simply vanish. It continues to exist, carrying the weight of what happened, frozen in the moment it left. And the person it left behind often spends years — sometimes a lifetime — carrying the felt sense of its absence without fully understanding what is missing or why.

Common signs of soul loss include:

A persistent sense of incompleteness or of not being fully yourself
Feeling detached, disconnected or only partially present in your own life
Chronic depression, flatness or an inability to feel genuine joy
Memory gaps or difficulty accessing certain periods of the past
Feeling like part of you never quite grew up or moved on from a particular event
Addictions or compulsive behaviours used to fill an emptiness that cannot otherwise be named
A loss of purpose, passion or sense of who you are
The sense of watching your life from the outside rather than fully inhabiting it

Soul retrieval is the shamanic practice of journeying to find these lost parts, understanding what they experienced, and — when they are ready — inviting them home. Not to relive the trauma, but to restore what was taken, and to bring back the gifts, qualities and vitality that left with the soul part when it went.

Jeni’s Work as an Air Shaman

Jeni’s shamanic practice has evolved through initiation and direct spirit guidance into the path of the Air Shaman. She works with the medicines of the element of Air — breath, sound, frequency, vibration and the invisible currents that carry healing energy through all living things. This elemental specialisation gives her work a particular quality of lightness and movement: a way of shifting what has become stagnant, of restoring flow where energy has been blocked, and of carrying transformation on the breath of spirit.

As an Air Shaman, Jeni journeys with the breath of spirit — working with the unseen currents of sound, vibration and dream to track, release and transform energies that have become fragmented or frozen through trauma, stress or life transitions. She works with spirit guides, power animals, ancestral wisdom and the elemental forces that have been understood as healing agents in every indigenous tradition on earth.

Sessions are guided entirely by what arises — by what the spirits direct and what your soul calls forward. No two sessions are the same, because no two souls carry the same story.

What a Shamanic Healing Session May Include

Each session begins with a quiet, grounded conversation — an opportunity to share what you are carrying, what you sense is missing, and what you are hoping to heal. From there, Jeni works intuitively and in partnership with her spirit guides and helpers, using a combination of:

Shamanic journeying — entering expanded states of consciousness to travel to non-ordinary reality on your behalf
Drumming and rattling — the rhythmic pulse that shifts brainwave states and opens the doorways between worlds
Sound healing — voice, toning, chant and sacred sound as vibrational medicine
Soul retrieval — journeying to find and return lost soul parts, bringing back the vitality, gifts and qualities they carry
Energy extraction — clearing intrusions, heavy energies or non-beneficial attachments from the energy field
Power animal retrieval — connecting you with spirit allies whose qualities and medicine support your healing
Feathers, crystals, herbs and sacred smoke — for cleansing, protection and energetic clearing
Ancestral healing — working with inherited energetic and soul-level patterns carried through the family line
Breath work and frequency healing — using the element of Air in its most direct forms

You rest fully clothed throughout, held in a peaceful and carefully prepared space. The work is done on your behalf — you receive rather than actively participate, though your awareness, intention and openness are part of what makes the session possible.

Therapeutic Shamanism — Where Ancient and Modern Meet

What makes the shamanic work at Peace of Mind Health distinctive is the integration of ancient practice with modern therapeutic understanding. Jeni holds deep training in psychotherapy, somatic therapy, trauma-informed practice and multiple healing modalities alongside her shamanic lineage. This means that the soul work is held within a clinical and compassionate framework — one that understands the psychological dimensions of what surfaces, knows how to support integration, and is capable of working with whatever arises without overwhelm or abandonment.

Soul retrieval is, in many ways, the shamanic equivalent of what trauma psychology calls integration: the return of dissociated experience into the felt wholeness of the self. The language is different. The cosmology is different. But what is being addressed — the fragmentation of the self in response to overwhelming experience, and the restoration of wholeness — is recognisably the same.

Clients often find that shamanic healing reaches places that other approaches, however skilled, have not been able to access. Not because those approaches were insufficient, but because what was lost was held at a level deeper than the cognitive, the emotional or even the somatic — at the level of the soul itself.

What Shamanic Healing Can Help With

Shamanic healing is particularly suited to those who sense that their healing requires something beyond conventional frameworks — who feel the shape of what is missing even if they cannot name it. It is also deeply valuable for those working alongside other therapeutic approaches who wish to address the energetic and soul-level dimensions of their experience. Commonly supported experiences include:

Trauma — particularly where conventional approaches have not fully resolved the sense of fragmentation
A persistent sense of incompleteness, emptiness or of not being fully yourself
Grief and loss — of a person, a relationship, an identity, a sense of possibility
Life transitions and the loss of self that can accompany them
Spiritual awakening and the disorientation it can bring
Feeling energetically depleted, heavy or burdened by something you cannot identify
Ancestral and family patterns that repeat across generations
A loss of connection with purpose, joy or the sense of being alive
Recovery from illness or significant physical events that have left an energetic imprint
The desire to reconnect with a deeper, more authentic sense of self

Shamanic Healing Works Beautifully Alongside

At Peace of Mind Health, shamanic healing often forms the deepest layer of a wider therapeutic journey. It works powerfully alongside Somatic Therapy, Reiki Energy Healing, Sound Healing, Theta Healing and Matrix Reimprinting and EFT. For those ready for a deeper immersive experience, the Shamanic Healing Immersion Day offers a full day of bespoke, soul-level healing work.

Aftercare

Soul-level healing continues to unfold long after a session ends. In the days that follow, we recommend:

Drinking plenty of water and nourishing yourself with grounding, wholesome food
Resting and allowing space for stillness, reflection and integration
Spending time in nature where possible — the element of Earth is deeply grounding after soul work
Avoiding alcohol and stimulants for at least 24 hours
Journalling any insights, dreams, emotions or shifts that arise
Being gentle with yourself as integration continues — it may take several days for the full effect of the work to settle

Some clients experience significant emotional release, vivid dreams, unexpected clarity or a temporary intensification of feelings in the days following a session. All of these are signs of the work continuing. Full aftercare guidance is provided at the close of every session, and support is available between sessions if needed.

Please note: if you experience fainting, vomiting or diarrhoea following a session, please seek medical advice.

Ready to Begin?

If you feel called to this work — if something in what you have read has spoken to something you recognise — Jeni would welcome a conversation. There is no obligation in making contact, and the first conversation is entirely confidential.

Please get in touch for a confidential chat, or read what clients have to say here.

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