Synopsis
This top-selling book has been re-released by Bear & Co. publishing with a new title, "The Lost Art of Heart Navigation: A Modern Shaman's Field Manual." This new edition includes links to downloadable audio tracks to learn shamanic journeying, and more. Order the new edition now, here on Amazon! (search by the new title)
The essential guide to following your heart, using the wayfinding practices of our indigenous ancestors.
"Jeff Nixa has written a brilliant book that is truly innovative... a road map for finding our way back into balance with nature, soul, and Spirit. I really love this book. Jeff's style of writing and story telling, his wealth of knowledge, and the exercises he shares... I highly recommend it for people who are trying to find their way."
-Sandra Ingerman, MA, author of Soul Retrieval, and Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life.
"The real creative genius of this book is the way it weaves so many useful sources and resources into a practical manual that is highly accessible for the beginner and useful for the professional practitioner as well. I wish I'd had such a manual for my own clients and apprentices."
-C. Michael Smith, Ph.D., author of Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue.
Veteran spiritual guide Jeff Nixa teaches you the Path of the Heart, a step-by-step approach to personal growth, healing and transformation rooted in the earth-honoring spiritual practices of world shamanism.
When he walked away from a promising law career in his late 20s, Nixa was seeking a more soulful life aligned to his heart. For the next 25 years he moved through different careers and faith communities, groping in the dark to find the elusive path his heart seemed intent on. Then one day in 2009 Nixa met a Cherokee shaman-psychologist in the woodlands of Michigan, and all the lights went on:
"Laid out before me was the way home," Nixa writes of the approach he learned, "a luminous path of self-discovery, healing and power." He left a successful career, dove headfirst into a seven-year shamanic apprenticeship, traveled to the Amazon, volunteered with Lakota Indians, and trained with world-renowned shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman. As he slowly mastered the wisdom of his elders he began to teach these skills to others. Unable to find a good book for his students that collected the most helpful information and practices he had learned in one place, he wrote his own.
A Modern Shaman's Field Manual is that book, a treasure trove of rare information, soul psychology, hands-on exercises, ceremony, case studies, illustrations, and troubleshooting help. It's a self-help book with teeth: a no-nonsense field manual for navigating change by a man who has guided thousands of people through the most turbulent waters of life. Learn how to:
* Detect the leadings of your heart's navigational guidance system
* Quest for a real vision of your life purpose and spiritual identity
* Meet your power animal(s) and consult with your spirit guides
* Embark on shamanic journeys in the spirit world for help and information
* Clear out your self-sabotaging voices of fear and hesitation
* Create a more joyful life in balance with nature and the living earth.
If you are at a crossroads on your journey, A Modern Shaman's Field Manual is your map, compass and traveling companion for navigating the adventure of your life.
Jeff Nixa, J.D., M.Div. is a shamanic practitioner, teacher, and writer, living in Indiana. He is the founder of Great Plains Shamanic Programs, an array of counseling, healing and education services since 2010.
Review
Foreword By C. Michael Smith (Mikkal) This book that you hold in your hands is a tremendous resource, packed with lineage wisdom from shamanism, Jungian psychology, and multiple strands of influence. It is aimed at providing you, the reader or student of shamanism, with a solid base of information, principles, and powerful practices that will transform your life if you take advantage of them. The real creative genius of this book is the way it weaves so many useful sources and resources into a practical manual that is highly accessible and user-friendly for the beginner and useful for the professional practitioner as well. I wish I'd had such a manual for my own clients and apprentices early on. It takes a lot of creative thinking and intuition to write a book like this. Jeff Nixa has honored me in this book, as his first teacher on the shamanic heart-path, and in doing so, has honored my own traditions and lineages, the Quechua Taita Iachak and the Cherokee path of my own teachers, but also other teachers and traditions Jeff has become exposed to and experientially worked with. These include the modern Mexican Toltec system and the Lakota Red Road wisdom, as well as mentoring in soul retrieval and leadership with renowned shamanic practitioner Sandra Ingerman. Jeff's own interest in a contemplative life, and in wild nature, finds expression outside of shamanism in his Zen meditation and his love of the life and work of the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Jeff has conducted many contemplative retreats, and Gethsemani Abbey and the fruit of all of these influences are woven into this book as well... Jeff continually applied what he learned to himself, courageously doing his own initiatory wounded healer work and moving into an advanced stage of apprenticeship centering on leadership skills. Jeff became a respected Crows Nest elder, known as a wise, solid, and generously accessible presence with a big heart, and everyone in the community loved and trusted him. He came to facilitate our powerful Sacred Breathwork™ ceremonies and journeyed with me to the Peruvian Amazon to study plant medicines and enrich his knowledge with learning about Amazonian shamanism... I am delighted to recommend to you this book and Jeff Nixa as a shamanic healer and teacher. I know that whoever comes to Jeff for guidance, soul healing, for or a workshop or retreat, is in the steadiest of hands, for Jeff has a heart full of love, empathy, and compassion, and a clear mind filled with wisdom. The reader will find that this book is chock-full of stories, examples, analogies, autobiographical vignettes, and step-by-step instructions. It is a multi-level tapestry that reflects the creative synthesis of a variety of important shamanic topics organized around the central theme of the Heart Path, and how living from it brings forth your true self, with vision, love, and service. Jeff has been among the very best of my apprentices worldwide, and I know he is a real gift to the world as a shamanic healer and teacher in his own right. I know you will be blessed to receive his teachings. C. Michael Smith, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Mikkal) C. Michael Smith is a practicing psychologist trained in medical anthropology and Jungian psychology. Through his teaching membership, the Cercle de Sagesse, he has worked for many years with more than one hundred forty shamans from eighty-five indigenous cultures. He is author of the acclaimed books, Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue and Psychotherapy and the Sacred, for which he won a NAAP Gradiva Award in 1996. He is also the director of the Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies, which are teaching-learning communities operating in several countries. They originated in southwest Michigan before spreading to France, Belgium, Switzerland, and South Africa.
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