Michael R Verrilli DO

Shamanism is the most ancient of human healing and spiritual practices. It is a way of accessing the love, wisdom, compassion, and power of the spirit world in order to receive help for one's self or to serve others. One of the central teachings of shamanism is that all of the world is alive and has a spirit, and that we are all connected to each other as a result of this.

A Shaman is a person who relates directly to the spirits in order to address the spiritual aspects of an illness, who does soul retrievals, receives information about the past and future, helps the spirits of deceased people to cross over, and performs ceremonies for the community. From the shamanic perspective there are three common causes of illness.