The Joyful Shaman
Talking About Practical Shamanism For Everyday Life! Sharing Stories Of Hope, Transformation, Meditation & Spiritual Connection With Laughter..And A Little Bit Of Cussin'. Hey Y'all! I'm The Joyful Shaman.
The Joyful Shaman
Finding Balance in a World of Constant Change
Birthday reflections merge with spiritual revelations as the Joyful Shaman marks her 38th year – a master number of 11 (3+8) cycle symbolizing sacred collaborations with spirit, earth, and humanity. This milestone brings gratitude for how far she's traveled on her healing journey, both professionally and personally, finally feeling that state of flow with spirit that manifests as deep inner peace.
Life has flung open doors of abundance with spiritual retreats blossoming worldwide. The Mount Shasta journey has sold out completely, leading to an exciting series of sacred adventures: Glastonbury and Bath in September (her first journey across the pond), Taos in October for horseback riding and ceremonies with Pueblo people, and Isla Mujeres in November to connect with the energy of Mayan goddess Ixchel. This flow of opportunities reflects years of inner work and alignment with divine timing.
Amidst these celebrations comes a profound personal revelation – after nearly twenty years serving others, it's time to answer a different call. Summer 2026 will bring relocation to the American West, with Bend, Oregon emerging as the frontrunner. The desire for four seasons, mountain energy, and a different pace of life feels like the next evolution of her soul journey. "I've manifested everything I wanted in my career. Now I'm ready for new adventures, including finding sacred partnership," she shares, emphasizing that remaining open to spirit's guidance has transformed dreams into reality. For listeners feeling that same internal nudge toward change, her message rings clear: "This is the ultimate green flag for taking aligned action. Spirit has got you, my friend."
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Welcome to the Joyful Shaman Podcast. I am so glad to be back with you guys on this beautiful day. As I am recording this, it is after my birthday, which is June 13th, which was Friday, the 13th Divine feminine number. Fridays ruled by Venus. Divine love, sacred feminine love standing in your power. It was my 38th birthday and that carries a very significant numerological importance to me, and I am, in numerology, in a life path one. So I'm starting a new cycle now. 3 and 8, 11. That's a master number. 1 and 1 is 2, sacred Collaborations, unions and Partnerships, you know, with spirit, with people, with the earth. So I am just grateful to be in this place in my life where I feel that a lot of my soul purpose dreams, as I call it, are coming into play. Okay, so a little bit of catch up.
Speaker 1:Last time I left you it was earlier in May, I believe, and it was before I was going to Seattle with Cassie, my business partner. Well, we went. It was a wonderful surprise. Cassie was very much surprised when I revealed the birthday trip for her, and we had a wonderful time. I love Seattle. It's been about eight years since I went and I was able to see so much more and experience so much more. I will say that our friend that lives in downtown Seattle, although not forever, it was very overwhelming and overstimulating for me. So if I were to ever consider the PNW which I'll have some information about that as a potential relocation place, it would not be downtown Seattle, maybe a suburb of Seattle, and I actually really, really enjoyed the brief moment that we were in or on Whidbey Island as well.
Speaker 1:So that's the update with that. It was a personal trip, no retreat, just really wanted to have fun and celebrate Cassie. I was supposed to be actually in New Orleans back home for my birthday, but I'm just having some health things that I want to get checked out right now and focus on getting ready for my sold out retreat to Mount Shasta. So I decided to postpone that trip to a later time. But yes, I have sold out Mount Shasta. In fact I even have people on a waiting list if anybody backs out last minute or something. But we have a full group of ladies that are going to be joining us so far seven ladies, possibly eight ladies, and we are really excited to be able to go up to Northern California at the end of July. We have a great chef, we have an idea of the locations that we'd like to experience and hold sacred ceremony there.
Speaker 1:As far as retreats go, life has really been opening doors up for me. I'm so grateful, honestly. Every moment of every day that I get to live my dream and spirit is really pouring abundance and blessings into my life. So, after Yalapa was wonderful Jenny's like let's get started with the new one Sold out Mount Shasta.
Speaker 1:Wonderful news for my friends across the pond in England I am coming in September to. Well, I'm flying into London, but I'm going to Glastonbury out in Somerset, and this will be my first time crossing the pond to the UK and I am very, very excited. So those of you that listen, this is when I will be in the area. I'm going to be making my way to Glastonbury September 12th and I'll be there September 12th through the 16th. The reason I'm going is that Jenny Carmel, the person I was a facilitator at at Yalapa, mexico Retreat, has tickets for the one-day spiritual psychic festival, the Heart Gathering.
Speaker 1:She follows one of the channelers that has a huge following on social media for a very long time and is very excited to see him in person and to hear him do some live channeling and to play his music. And so she was kind of fangirling and she had invited me because she had an extra ticket and she bought her plane tickets to spend some time in England and asked me if I would come along and I said, absolutely, 100%, what an incredible opportunity. And then she said, well, why don't we make it like a mini retreat, and not really so much as a retreat, as we're inviting three people to join us on this sacred pilgrimage, as we're going to receive as much healing? We're not going to be facilitating as much, so to speak, as it is. We're traveling and learning and experiencing together. So that is in play. We have one woman signed up and we're looking for two other people. It doesn't necessarily have to be women, but it is really exciting.
Speaker 1:So I'm actually going to be in England September 11th through the 20th. I'll be once again Glastonbury the 12th through the 16th and then we're going to be traveling to Bath for two days because of course, I need to see the monolith, I need to experience it, I need to be in that medicine, I need to be in the energy, and then after that we will say goodbye to our friends and spend the last two days, just Jenny and I in London. So if you are listening, please send me an email of what I should see in London. I know two days is nowhere near enough really, but you know, as a first timer with a short amount of time with someone who hasn't been either, send me an email at naomi at joyfulshamancom of the must-see places if you would like to share, or places in Glastonbury or places in Bath. We're going to be going out to restaurants, doing some excursions we don't know where yet because we're not quite close to September, but any and all referrals and recommendations would be totally awesome for us. Had a little bit of a brain blip there.
Speaker 1:And then after that we have planned a beautiful retreat called the Feather in the flame in Taos, new Mexico. So I'm heading back to New Mexico again in October around the same time. I was there last year around the same time that I met Jenny. We are going to be leading a powerful, shamanic experience. We're going to be doing horseback riding, we're going to be doing gem mining, we're going to be going to the natural Springs, we're going to be immersing ourselves with the Pueblo people and just really being part of the land. After that I'm actually going to be partnering with someone that was on the Yalapa Mexico retreat for another retreat in Mexico, in Isla Mujeres, this time centered around the Mayan goddess, ixchel, and that's going to be a week-long retreat in November called Wisdom of the Goddess, and I'm working on that webpage right now. It'll be on my website shortly on joyfulshamancom, but that's what I've got so far is like all the amazing things, but I just want to reflect on my birthday and I also want to talk about the things that are happening in my country. If you are listening in the U? S, and even if you're listening outside of the U? S, I made a video yesterday.
Speaker 1:I like to do live Instagram readings of Oracle cards as my way of, you know, posting on social media because it's more authentic. I like I'm an external processor, obviously, as I'm using the podcast as well, and so I was just really sharing my thoughts and my feelings as to what has been happening over the last six months, and so I'm just going to start with my birthday first, because I want to be in a grounded state before I share my thoughts and feelings here with you all. So I am really proud of myself for how far I've come in my healing journey, how far I've come, not just professionally and in my career and as an entrepreneur, but as a healer, as a human, as a person, as a soul, and I am absolutely at peace, full of joy, full of happiness, and even when my world on the external can seem heavy at times, internally I feel so grounded, I feel loved, I feel like I'm finally in that state of flow with spirit and I'm learning to do that to the best of my ability every day. So I am grateful to have breath of my body, to age gracefully and to continue along my journey. I really feel that life is starting to begin for me in ways that I only could have imagined and I'm grateful for the journey thus far, even the really, really hard times, even the painful times, even the heartaches and the heartbreaks. I'm grateful for all of that. So those are my thoughts about my birthday. I'm grateful I got to spend it with my dad, who always gives me sweet little cards and writes little messages for me. I love those and I will always cherish those cards. Went out to have sushi with my sister, although there was some shadow moments with my sister because she wasn't feeling well and being in public is socially hard for her at times.
Speaker 1:I will say I was really reflective of my responses and how grounded I am because I really could have overreacted and been like this is my birthday, I get to do what I want to do. But I didn't. You know, I stood my boundary with love and respect, but it's also not my responsibility to navigate people's emotional responses to their own insecurities. You know I can state things with love, but I'm also going to keep my boundary as well. That's just who I am and I'm proud of myself for not placating to appease other people's insecurities, you know.
Speaker 1:So let's get into what's happening in the country. I can tell you that sometimes in my human 3D mind I'm like this place is absolute shit and also I recognize from the higher self that it is necessary for the evolution of people here and also throughout the world. There are things that are just going to be happening more and more, that are just going to seem unreal, like out of a movie, like can you even believe this? And that is because the earth is completing an 18 year cycle where it is regenerating itself, it is realigning, it is reforming, it is part of its own transformation from the physical and that energy is going to vibrate up through humanity and, because of the vibrations of people all over the world, are really imbalanced. There's just a lot of lower level energies, there's a lot of darkness, there's a lot of evil that's created from hatred, from fear that's just been brewing and brewing and just spilling over. And it's unfortunate because we have the power to stop this. We have the power to heal and control and to find balance and equality for all people, without hate, without fear of others and the way that they want to live and the way that they want to be. And you know, it's so hard, because my prayer is for humanity to wake up, to see that, for more people to, you know, not be so divisive, to stand together and to take arms with one another. You know that is, of course, the dream. Will that be the reality? No, you know, there's light and there's dark. That's just the way it is. But it's my prayer that darkness will not continue to grow and grow where we, on rented, borrowed time on this planet, are going to have to bear the effects of that fear. When we are operating from a place of love, it is my truest feeling that love will always supersede fear will always overcome unbalanced fear, but right now it's super overwhelming.
Speaker 1:I am the daughter of an immigrant, an immigrant that came in the 70s to the United States, actually twice, like the first time, went back and then came back again and was sponsored and took my dad 20 years to become a citizen and he became a citizen in 1992 along with my grandma. I didn't like it the first time, went back and then came back again and was sponsored and took my dad 20 years to become a citizen and he became a citizen in 1992, along with my grandma, his mom and my dad's been in this country 50 years and he's a proud American, you know, and he is having a hard time, at almost 75, to understand why things are happening. Why is it happening this way? You know, we understand that there are rules and policies in place, but I also feel like maybe the immigration process needs to be revised. In people that are actually doing the process and doing it correctly and following the rules, why are they being canceled and denied and taken away from their families? Why are people being stalked at their workplaces, off the street, in hospitals, at schools? And it's really upsetting to me because we are treating people less than human. Families are getting stripped away, children are getting stripped away, everything and it's so painful because also US citizens are being detained and are being mistreated and they're also seeing what other people are, you know, experiencing, and so I feel like this is now becoming a race war and I think it always has been against people of color.
Speaker 1:And my dad is afraid to leave the house. He drives around with a copy of his US citizen certificate and God forbid he ever gets stopped and you know my dad would be nervous but he would be taken. And my dad doesn't know our numbers and he barely knows how to work his cell phone and it would be really hard and it would be scary. And so my dad doesn't like to leave the house unless one of us is with us, because he doesn't like speaking English. He's still embarrassed, it's not the best, even though he's been here a long time. But you know he makes his way, but still my dad just doesn't comprehend how government works, how law works and how I really feel it's the lawlessness sometimes that is within this country, you know.
Speaker 1:So I feel that as people listen to this, this is technically going to be on June 14th. It's the no Kings protest In my local community. It's pride in the park, you know, and I have huge, huge love for the gay community. You know, love is love for me and I support all people and how they express their love and how souls connect to one another. You know, who am I to judge? Because there is no judgment. Souls are souls with pure energy, you know. You know, and I live in a very conservative city with a lot of ignorant people and a lot of people that just have a lot of hate in their heart as well, which is really unfortunate, and it's also going to be our community's no Kings Protest Day as well, in the late afternoon, depending on if we don't get ringed out, you know. And so I am going to be going out, because I love going to Pride in the Park, and I'm going to be visiting some friends that are taking me out for a birthday lunch, but then I'm going home because I want to meditate, I want to pray for the people that are out there all over the United States, you know, that are protesting because it's their right to protest, and that's the thing.
Speaker 1:We are having a crisis, not just of the constitution, but on basic human rights, and it has been for a long time and it's just really escalating. And I feel because I'm going to be honest I feel that God gave me the vision of the riots back in January and I kept telling my family, I kept telling people watch, there's going to be riots, it's going to possibly get to the point of like the Rodney King riots, like it was in the nineties and I grew up watching that on TV, you know, and it just happens to be California, you know, is one of these main places right now that is really being attacked, but it could be in other places too, you know, and it's just like it has to get to a point where people are going to be like enough is enough, you know, and we're going to stand up and we're going to march and we're going to push back because, let's be honest, the government cannot do its things without us. We have control. We vote them into place. They need our vote, they need our agreeance.
Speaker 1:If we were to say no a huge majority of us they would have no choice but to back off and to make changes, you know. I mean, what are they going to do? Wipe us all out? They can try. They can try, but we'll keep coming back and you know that's scary and I don't even want to think about that or put energy towards that. But that is a possibility, everything's always a possibility, you know, in the world. But we have the power to push back, and I am against crimes against humanity, you know, it's not about which political party is right, because they're both in the wrong.
Speaker 1:Let's be honest, you know, I wish there was a just a unification of people, of beyond hate, of beyond lack of knowledge, lack of education, you know, and willful ignorance, everyone that doesn't believe that other people should be here or they need to be here legally. Hello, you're all immigrants, your ancestors were immigrants and not to be, you know, truthful. But my people, my lineage, are part of the original people. So, if anything, I am the original person, my lineage is original to this land. You are on my land, but I would never think that, because land is meant to be shared by all people and, in fact, we are all indigenous to the earth, something that my shamanic teacher says when teaching on her shamanic practices.
Speaker 1:And so that is my hope, that is my prayer, that is what I feel, but it's time to stand up. It's time to stand up. It's time to rally together. Government is not going to have your back. There is going to be a separation from the government because eyes are being opened, truth is being revealed. You cannot put your trust in these groups. You have to put your trust in your heart. You have to connect to spirit, connect to the earth, connect to love. All of this is a calling, a plead to go back to love, and that is the truth. So I wanted to, just you know, give you an update, share a message that I'm here, that I'm watching, that I'm praying and I'm doing my part as well.
Speaker 1:I said in my video you know, I'm not a frontline activist and it's not because I don't want to or I'm afraid, it's just that's not my purpose. My purpose is to be a healer. My purpose is like the medical recovery ward in a war zone. You know you're coming to me when it gets so overwhelming, when you're coming to me when you're tired of it. You're coming to me when you're tired of it. You're coming to me when you're feeling so overwhelmingly helpless that maybe, through some of the practices that I offer and I teach, we can help you find your way home to strength, to love, to courage, to re-energizing yourself, because it's very human to be drained by all of this. You know it's on the news, you're having conversations, it's all over social media. You can't get away from it. That is the reality. So what are we going to do to find the strength to stay balanced? That's where I come in in this rising, in this revolution that we are in in this age of Aquarius, you know, and so I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 1:I'm grateful to be able to use the shamanic teachings as a warrior for humanity. So these are my reflections on my birthday and at this time and yeah, I just wanted to give you an update that I will be traveling, actually every three to four weeks until the beginning of January, you know, and I'm just grateful to have these opportunities. More and more opportunities are presenting themselves and I'm just really excited to be in the medicine, I'm really excited to be able to share teachings, to meet new people, to see new places in the world that I could, I was dreaming of and manifesting, you know, and it's happening and it's because I feel it. You know, I feel that groundedness, I feel that love and support from God, I feel that love and support from my ancestors and from my guides and from my community. Now the last little bit is for my people that are here in Florida that listen to me. We have entered, cassie and I have entered the last year of our sublease. It started June 1st and it will go until the end of June of last year.
Speaker 1:It is in my heart and I don't know if this will change or not as far as timing, but it is in my heart that it's time for me to leave Florida next summer. And that is more than just for professional reasons, although that does play a big part of it. It is truly for personal reasons. I am nearing 40. I'll be 39 next year and I am nearing 40. And I feel like I am nearing that midpoint in my life where it's time for me to start living for me.
Speaker 1:I have worked my ass off for over 20 years doing for others and it's time for me to receive as much as I put out. Don't get me wrong. I am receiving in a lot of different ways, but I want a different pace of life. I don't necessarily need this big brick and mortar or this huge operation or doing 10,000 things at once. My heart is in travels. My heart is in retreat work and my heart is in one-on-one work. I want to be in a place in nature that supports what my physical body, my soul body, my mental and emotional body needs. And it's not Florida, it never has been. And I've been here for my family and I've been here because it was a place for me to start ideas and to heal truly heal and to look at the mirror, at myself. That it's time for me to expand and to go beyond.
Speaker 1:I am looking to move out West. I know my friends in Sango and socal would love for me to go out there and they're, you know, getting me to go out there and I am going to go visit quite a bit out there, um, but I know san diego is not the place for me. And then my friends um, up in seattle would love for me to go and be up in northern washington and maybe for a season, maybe not in the heart of seattle, but maybe for a season, you know, just in the heart of Seattle, but maybe for a season, you know, just to have some experience. I'm actually looking into Oregon. So, if you live in Oregon and you listen to me, I'm actually looking into Bend, oregon. I think it has a similar vibe to Lakeland, like that homey small town feel, but not quite small town. But there's four beautiful seasons, something I don't get to experience in Lakeland and I'm away from hurricanes, which I'm really tired of. I've been growing up with hurricanes my whole life and it really puts a detriment because the coasts are constantly getting destroyed. I don't enjoy going to the beach out in Florida. You can't do retreats here. It affects my local community, it affects our economy and it's a constant thing that happens every year.
Speaker 1:I'm really wanting to end that cycle and I want to go be in a place where there's desert, there's lakes, there's mountains, there's snow. I could still go to the coast if I wanted to. I could still go down to Shasta, I can still go down to different parts of California that I love and I can still go down to Shasta. I can still go down to different parts of California that I love and I can still go up and explore Washington as well. I just feel that Oregon is calling me. I'm excited.
Speaker 1:I'm going to plan a trip to Bend next year to check it out and see and if it's in alignment for me, I'm going to ask Spirit to open doors for work opportunities for me out there, at least, you know, as a contractor at first, and I'm sure I'll end up with clients and have a little practice too, while I continue my retreats as well. And I'm also calling in my sacred beloved. You know it's time for me to find that sacred partner. That's the adventure that I haven't had yet. I've manifested everything that I've wanted, and maybe not wanted in my life, but still lessons and growth, and especially in my career. You know I'm expanding and growing and trying new things and I need to be open to this and I feel like I'm ready. I'm not pushing it, it's not like the reason why I'm going, but I feel that there's someone out there that's waiting for me and it's about me journeying within myself to elevate myself to that alignment and that vibration and to the call. And I feel it. And, um, you know I'd love to have a partner that can support me and I can support them along this journey. And maybe they're out there in Oregon, maybe they're listening to my podcast and maybe we'll meet each other, you know, but that's for next summer. You know, I'm evaluating. I don't know what that means for a Lakeland presence. You know, maybe at first I might do six months in Oregon, come back and do a couple months in the winter in Florida and then go back out again. I don't know, but for right now you can access me via podcast.
Speaker 1:I do some online work. You can see me in one of the retreats that I offer and, for my people in Lakeland and Florida, come and see me now. You've got a year. Yes, I'm traveling every three to four weeks, you know, but I'm here and if you want to work with me and if you want to experience some healing sessions and learn some things, take advantage of the offerings that I have.
Speaker 1:I am going to be stopping group gatherings in my healing house just because it's a lot of work for me and Cassie to do together and with my travels and planning and meetings, I simply do not have the energy and the capacity to do all of that, which takes several hours to do one event, and I want to be able to honor that. When I do gatherings, I need to be there a hundred percent and it's just easier for me to do mobile gatherings at other businesses, at other pop-ups, than set up the whole healing house, because we share the house with an acupuncture doctor and attorneys. It would be different if it was just our own place entirely. Yes, I would continue gatherings because I would leave a sanctuary space set up, but that is not the case and that's not where spirit is calling me and I have to answer the call as it evolves and changes, because that's part of my soul journey and I need to honor that and I am trying to be a living example, to continue to encourage and inspire people to do the same for themselves, even when it's scary and hard in the unknown. I'm doing scary hard in the unknown things right now as well and it's happening really, really fast. So that's where I'm at with life right now.
Speaker 1:I do plan on doing, you know, maybe one or two more podcasts. I know I haven't put up the spring breathwork journey, but you know, life's taking me in a different direction and I've put some breathwork journey music up here that you can listen to. But I will try my best. I can't guarantee I'm not holding myself to that, but I will try my best to put it up there at least before I go to Shasta. But I'll be doing some other podcasts on some other topics and things. But I just wanted to give you guys an update that I'm traveling. So I'll be in Northern California, mount Shasta, at the end of July. I'm going to San Diego in August because a friend and a private client has invited me to go and stay with them for almost like a week and a half in San Diego that's where Jenny is as well, and you know just spending time exploring, doing some things, doing some healing, getting some energy, work and healing myself out there.
Speaker 1:September I will be doing London, glastonbury, bath and back to London again. September 11th through the 20th October I will be in Taos, new Mexico, and there's definitely still space for that retreat October 21st through the 26th, if you want to check that out on my website and I will be in Isla Mujeres, mexico. November 5th through the 12th is the retreat, but I'll be in Mexico before that and that is Wisdom of the Goddess and that is going to be put out when I create the webpage in a little while. Live on the website, probably by Monday, and then on December I told my friend that lives in Seattle that I would go and cat sit for her while her and her sister are in London for two weeks for Christmas. So I'm going to be spending Christmas alone in Seattle, and I need that to decompress, as my retreat schedule and travels will begin again in February, with a small retreat in Florida, but really in March, and then after that we're looking at a relocation move sometime in the summer, in the later half of 2026, which I am really excited about. So that's what I've got for you.
Speaker 1:Just wanted to check in and tell you how I'm feeling in celebrating my birthday with all of you that listen and just really grateful for the love and the support of my local community and people all over the world, and how grateful I am to spirit to be able to really live my dream and to be in my sole purpose.
Speaker 1:And I hope that if you're listening to this and considering the things that your heart is telling you, to go for it, because right now, the energy right now is of Gemini season and we will be moving into cancer season. We'll be watery and more emotional, but with the Sagittarius full moon that we have right now, that energy still in place, go for it, because this is the ultimate green flag of being bold and taking aligned action, because spirit has got you, my friend, if you are listening. You are a beautiful soul. There is a purpose for you and believe in yourself. Love yourself. I love you, even though I may not know you yet, if our paths should cross on this rock that we call earth. But you are loved and you are needed and you are beautiful and you are seen and you are not alone. Take care of my friends, and until we meet again, sat Naam Bye.
