Kia ora koutou. Short intro: as a second generation Pakeha of Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud, my people are from England on both parents sides, with some French Huguenot ancestry threads on my mother’s side. My daughter as a future ancestor adds Te Aupouri / Te Rarawa to our line.

With gratitude to my shamanic teachers over the years: John Broomfield (NZ) , Kevin Turner of the Foundation of Shamanic Studies (Bali) , Mohan Rai (Nepal) ,Elisabeth Madarasz (NZ). Online teachers – Christina Pratt, Maris Bergrune and Daniel Foor (USA).

Workshops are held with a maximum of 8 participants. The venue is The Lotus Yoga Centre in Paraparaumu. From 9.30 am -3.30 pm, the cost is $135, early bird $120 if paid 1 month prior.  Payment is due at the time of booking to secure your place. Places will not be held due to demand. Use the Appointments page on this site to register, or email Pauline  adamashealth@gmail.com.  For Terms and Conditions please scroll down.

Kindred Ways of Knowing – finding soul in fairy tales.  Sunday March 15th 2026 

Reconnecting with childhood wonder and imagination, we will explore a selection of fairy tales that reflect personal, familial and cultural patterns. Using shamanic journeying to step into the worlds of story: navigating the labyrinth of “growing up”  from child aspects of self to those of adulthood, and the psychic challenges met with on the way.  Riding the rhythm of the drum, shamanic journeying invites entry into the mysteries of old tales: enter the forest, meet with helpers, tricksters and foes.

While journeying is personal, it also reflects wisdoms relevant to all, intuitive knowings to guide us safely through the whorls of one’s life. Gain insight to any repeating life patterns (helpful or tricky); retrieve soul parts which may be still hanging out in the woods or the wolf’s belly, and dialogue with both positive and not so aspects of shadow figure, search for antidotes to poisons and retrieve one’s ‘sealskin’.

“Fairy tales only seem to be innocent stories. They are so profound that one cannot explain them superficially. they require that one dive into deep waters”   Marie Louis Von Franz 

Shadows and Shady Dreaming – Sunday May 17th 2026. 

A deep exploration into shadow work, via the portal of dreams; with compassion to our tricky, shapeshifting shadowy figures. Archetypes of victim, saboteur and addict (think distracting away from life’s essentials) are to be befriended so we may step into the potent  / potentials these times are calling us to walk.

Honing clear vision, those blind spots we turn away from in our dreams, ignoring them as meaningless because they appear nonsensical. Too trifling to pay attention to, when it is those enigmatic images that often hold true gems. If you think you have your dream figured out, then you most likely have missed its point. Sitting in the shadows,  what stands out as unusual draws the gaze in – portraying depth and perspective unnoticed previously, continually calling for awareness unearthing shunned emotions or hidden talents. Dream work  creates confidence to look under ego’s defences to find where the true message lies.

The day will include a shadow retrieval and integration – a deep dive into healing those parts we have buried, covered up / over or exiled.

Death and Beyond – Sunday June 21st 2026 tbc

A workshop to become familiar with the 3 shamanic worlds as understood by Core Shamanism practice. Crucial in accessing spirit guidance (and in daily living) is the setting of personal boundaries to ensure one’s space is clear of any non-beneficial energy. Tools to clear, remove and maintain adequate protection are essential in relating with the other-worlds. To disentangle and clear any attachments that negatively impact on one’s well being is a necessary prelude to healing and ancestral work. Exploring these realms necessitates clear focus and intent, enhancing intuitive perception and ongoing discernment of safe practice.

The day invites you to explore personal approaches to death and the ‘inter’ and ‘after’ worlds as transitional stages of being. Shamanic journeying experiences will include attending to any unfinished business, so the journey ahead when it arises may continue well in the spirit of healing intended. Journeying with spirit permission, experience in psychopomp journey work as a skill to guide others to transition with ease, brings the worlds close with heart, and sometimes ache to be never forgotten… “Death is a drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.” Carl Jung

Getting Down and Earthy – Shamanic Middle and Lower-world Explorations – Sunday August 2nd 2026

Shamanic journeying will take us to meet with the inhabitants of the Lower and Middle -worlds, power animals, gnomes, pixies, and ancestral spirits to inspire and revitalize. Listening in to the element earth and her inhabitants, checking in with those who share your home space, clearing any stagnant energies, offering healing in these beneficial, reciprocal relationships. A divination practice to highlight where our attention is being asked to focus transitioning into Spring. As we emerge from the depths of our winter, what may we call to transform, bringing any shady elements into light?

The day will rest within the energy of the base chakra, the earth element grounding and balancing. What is being composted, creating nourishment so new growth may occur?  Experience a dismemberment to release what is no longer serving, return renewed and cleansed to emerge into the new season with a spring in one’s step, embodying more of one’s true self.  An exploration of the underworlds would not be complete without a psychopomp journey, energies asking to be moved on in a spirit of forgiveness and acceptance.  Contained in a ritually safe space, experience the joy of release with these transitional stages.

Healing Ancestral Lines Sunday November 1st 2026

A day spent in accessing the realms of your wise and well ancestors to bring healing and transformation for the living and deceased.  

Bring healing gifts into the present from past generations, while seeking healing for those recently passed if in need.  Unravelling the past from the present – when the pain of repeated patterns doesn’t fit with your own personal life experience and points to ancestral pain – calling for compassionate, non- judgmental healing and release.  Shifts may reverberate from the personal, through familial to cultural as past harm is held in the container of compassion and sensitivity.

Shamanic Dream Portals 

Experience shamanic journeying and the multi-dimensional worlds of shamanic “dreamtime.”  A day spent exploring the elusive language of our dreams. We will be using shamanic techniques to communicate directly with your individual dream symbols, identifying their essential message and bringing their creative energy into consciousness. Journeying will take you to the Lower World for a power animal retrieval, the Upper World for guidance and the Middle World for dream re-entry. Emphasis is given to creating sacred space, maintaining protective boundaries to ensure your journeying is held compassionately and securely. Raise your spirits and spend the day learning new ways to access your deeper sources of inner wisdom.

Dreams guide us to re-connect with soul, to confront illness and heal, to transform our demons into allies and bring our shadows into the light of day. Our spiritual traditions teach us to heed the significance and insight transmitted through dreams. Shamanic journeying to the dream source empowers the dreamer to be their own shaman – to reveal the dream’s message, offering solutions to then decide on an appropriate course of action. Dreams are Psyche’s gifts,  when listened to they respond with profound teachings, guiding us to live our wisest knowing. The experience of the shamanic journey is an easy to learn tool allowing a deepening of connection to self and spirit, to then feel free to ‘try this at home’.

Feedback from the Dream : “I have experienced such a sense of freedom, re-connection and well-being within myself since the workshop with you. It feels like there’s been a deep fundamental shift that I can’t understand or put into words except to say whereas I felt I was being drowned by the wave before, now I feel I’m riding the wave again.” HW

The Element Air – a shamanic flight.  

This workshop invites in the element air to blow your way. Using shamanic drumming to enter a light trance state to journey shamanic flight paths. Accessing our Middle World that gifts us with life giving air, our breath, our voice and the wisdom of sound and speech as we walk in beauty.

Communication travels on the airwaves, and the winds. Listening to these airborne voices, a breeze gently clearing the way or a stormy tempest of unexpected change? How may we tune in to their messages?

Journey to the Lower World to connect with winged power animals, bringing their guidance to your life, messengers from the spirit world. You may meet with fairies, dragonflies, sparrows or falcons; each have their own voice and personal communication.

Journey to the Upper World to connect with those who inhabit this realm, mythological beings such as Phoenix and Pegasus, or possibly Angels,  winged deities or flying deer. These three shamanic worlds ask you to take notice, and listen in to their insight and wisdoms. Take off with the element air, use the breezes to soar with these winged protectors and guardians, returning with messages personal and relevant to you at this time.

Healing Ancestral  Lines II – tbc 

For those who attended an Ancestral I learning or have been working with me in 1-1 sessions healing ancestral legacies… to consolidate, check in, encourage, the completing of the healing work – these relationships are ongoing and regular tending brings the blessings.

Aiming at attending to where each is at in the work – some may be still working on individual lines, others exploring the gifts they bring, perhaps the elemental or plant energies of each line. This work expands out wide, really beautifully to show our relationship with so much more than our human ancestors.

Spirit Communication –  Embodying  Presence tbc 

Otherworld communication and embodiment – inviting in the presence of the ancestors and spirit guides, both felt and witnessed. We will practice connecting and attuning via shamanic journeying and mediumship practice so one’s communication is vital and relevant. The intention is to re-invigorate your shamanic journey practice, and enliven and reawaken connections with both old and new allies.

Inviting in the wise and well ancestors, trusted power animals and guides to “read” and “download” messages for self and the group field. Practicing and finetuning your dominant (or not) clairs, sitting with sensing and knowing…to enhance confidence in spirit communications.

The workshop also focuses on energy body maintenance and boundary setting while navigating the shamanic and ancestral worlds. Crucial in accessing spirit guidance is enhancing the clarity of the ‘clairs’ (think clairvoyance, clairsentience etc. ), maintaining healthy boundaries to ensure safe communication and wise transmission. Crucial in accessing spirit guidance (and in daily living) is the setting of personal boundaries to ensure one’s space is clear of any non-beneficial energy. Tools to clear, remove and maintain adequate protection are essential in relating with the other-worlds. Learning to access your wise and compassionate spirits is crucial to bring in spirit protection.

The Shamanic Worlds; a Call to Adventure  tbc

 “The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero….” Joseph Campbell.   Like a phone that keeps ringing, it will keep on until you finally answer the call.

An introductory and  playful exploration of the shamanic worlds via the portals of classic fairy tales.  The day is based on the structure of Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s (and heroine’s) journey.  Follow the white rabbit  to the timeless worlds of  power animals and spirit guides. We negotiate the smooth and rough terrain of the heroic pathway. Stepping through the portals of childhood stories –  where magic happens, meeting allies to guide and light the way. Discover parts of oneself previously hidden, avoided or perhaps lost.  Dialogue with characters that show up in new ways – spellcasters, monsters, giants and the little folk; shining light on hidden aspects of self,  that when listened to enhance and teach in unexpected ways. To return renewed like the phoenix, with an elixir of insights to quench us for the way forward..

Brave up and drop in to source deeper meanings to illuminate one’s path. Using repetitive drumming to enter a light trance state, and so enable safe connection with the Inner and Otherworlds.

A kaleidoscope of portals of discovery to enhance one’s natural intuitive “bent” and develop skills to access the worlds of inner guidance available. Inviting communication with one’s most compassionate helping spirits to receive wisdom and bring healing, an opportunity to dip your toes in, and open up to other ways of knowing within.

Trickster and Shadow – keys to transformation    tbc

When trickster shows up, watch out! Life is calling out for change, trickster turns things on their head, and creates laughter in the absurdity of the melee. When we don’t heed the nudges and the signs – life springs trickster magic to get us to listen up. How to be with ourselves gently, to get honest with ourselves – hopefully avoiding inconveniences that deter us from the route to our unfolding destiny.

Using shamanic journeying, the day explores trickster archetypes, and unearths shadow at play – those blind spots bumped into time and again while continually denying they even exist. Exploring via dreams and stories the trickster animals and shadow creatures that speak to us from deep and even hidden inner recesses….A surprise package of personal hidden gems to integrate and  bring to life.

Soul Retrieval -Restoring Lost Life Force 

This day of experiencing Soul Retrieval delves deep into experiencing the shamanic worlds, with the intention of becoming more fully ourselves to express our true creativity. Engage with helping spirits to journey to recover lost soul portions, return the soul’s light to experience vitality and powerfull-ness.

Various experiences may contribute to soul loss; from minor shock to deep trauma, soul parts may leave (disassociate) to survive. These energetic forms may be trapped in that life event, and restoring them to the present brings healing, vitality and wisdom to be lived in the now. Whether an accident, separation, loss of a loved one, or job; soul parts may remain in the past, or with the situation – the job, a country, a childhood home etc.  Common signs of soul loss are feeling dis-spirited, lost, empty, lacking energy; experiencing low self-esteem, and addictive behaviours.

Soul retrieval, where the dissociated aspect of self is ritually returned in a journey session is a profound method of integration.  Often once soul parts have been returned others follow; a period of welcome and realignment is asked for in subsequent weeks to ensure the continuation of restoration and healing.

The day includes journey practices to unravel any tangled energies with others. Energies that may remain and drain vitality – unhealthy attachments, by involvement in abusive relationships, or jealousy, and even over- identification or dependency with another. All benefit when these sticky connections are released, the push and pull no longer exhausting both parties.

Soul Retrieval once experienced may be repeated as needed, it is not just distant events that retain one’s energy, it may be a recent situation that asks you to call a part home. This workshop offers a supportive environment to journey to retrieve soul parts, gaining experience to be confident to continue as needed for further self- healing.

Feedback from the Soul Retrieval “I have attended both workshops with Pauline and can highly recommend them. The wonderful revelation of both these workshops is that anyone who is called to venture into the shamanic worlds can do so. The experiences can be ones of joy or ones of healing, and they are certainly very deep learning events. Pauline supported us throughout the day with her knowledge, her learning, her passion and her humour. I always felt safe and nurtured whilst in her classes and can highly recommend them”. JH.

Shamanic Divination and Nature Spirits tbc

Shamanic divination techniques portray in poetry and metaphor messages from the natural world regarding your inner questing. Playful, yet profoundly relevant information is accessible for guidance for oneself and others. Shamanic journeying will take you to the Lower World for a power animal retrieval, the Upper World for celestial experience and the Middle World for divination and nature spirit communications.  Merge with an element, communicate with the spirit of frankincense…..listen in and enjoy nature’s messages in synchronicity and wisdom by receiving direction from the hidden realms. When acknowledging the voices of the nature spirits, they respond with distinct navigational signs for one’s own journey.

At this time in our planets history we are called to deepen connection with all peoples – two legged, and four, finned and feathered, mountains and waters. Shamanic journeying techniques give access to visionary sources, teaching us to flow with nature’s cycles and listen for earth’s heartbeat as we walk our sacred path.

Terms & conditions: Withdrawals etc.

If a workshop is cancelled, your exchange is returned in full. Not, however, if you cancel within 3 weeks of the date due to room hire and admin costs, or if you fail to show up or leave early. Transferring to another day in the same year is possible if 3 weeks notification is given. A minimum number is required for the day to go ahead.