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The Lost Art of Heart Navigation: A Modern Shaman's Field Manual
Discover your soul’s purpose by following the shamanic path of the heart
• Explains how to engage your heart’s navigational guidance system to access your spiritual core directly and find your life purpose and spiritual identity
• Includes shamanic practices to meet your power animals, consult with spirit guides, embark on journeys in the spirit world, slay your inner dragons of self-sabotage and fear, clear emotional wounding patterns, and find your personal spirit song
• Offers case studies and troubleshooting help for common pitfalls and obstacles on the heart-centered shamanic path
• Includes access to 4 guided audio journeys narrated by the author
Each of us has a vision for our lives, our soul’s purpose awaiting release in our hearts. The most important task we have is to learn what that purpose is and then bring it into the world. In our world of endless busyness and “hurry sickness,” many people are experiencing soul loss as they live out dreams of endless motion, empty tasks, anxiety, and negative thoughts. But you can change your world and discover the shamanic heart path that activates your wildness, your power, and your soul’s purpose.
Blending earth-honoring shamanic practices and modern depth psychology, Jeff Nixa explains how to practice the lost art of heart navigation to help you find your life purpose and spiritual identity, conquer the fear, doubt and criticism that stand in the way of that vision, and become a shamanic shapeshifter of your life. Providing heart-opening exercises to slow your mental racing and detect your heart’s navigational guidance system, he shows how to awaken your wild and free heart, access your spiritual core directly, deactivate trauma-based emotional patterns, retrieve vital energy, work with your dreams, and become an artist of the soul. You will learn how to meet your power animals and consult with spirit guides, embark on shamanic journeys in the spirit world for help and information, slay your inner dragons of self-sabotage, find your personal spirit song, and create the joyful life that your heart is attuned to seek out.
Offering case studies and troubleshooting help for common pitfalls and obstacles on the heart-centered path, this shamanic manual provides hands-on practices and ceremonies--including access to 4 guided audio journeys narrated by the author--as well as wisdom from the author’s own journey and the powerful teachers he has worked with, including Sandra Ingerman, Mikkal, spiritual elders of the Oglala Lakota people, and plant-spirit medicine shamans of the Amazon jungle. Allowing you to understand the precise contours of your authentic self and your visionary heart, this book offers a map to a vibrant new life aligned with your soul and deepest calling.
• Explains how to engage your heart’s navigational guidance system to access your spiritual core directly and find your life purpose and spiritual identity
• Includes shamanic practices to meet your power animals, consult with spirit guides, embark on journeys in the spirit world, slay your inner dragons of self-sabotage and fear, clear emotional wounding patterns, and find your personal spirit song
• Offers case studies and troubleshooting help for common pitfalls and obstacles on the heart-centered shamanic path
• Includes access to 4 guided audio journeys narrated by the author
Each of us has a vision for our lives, our soul’s purpose awaiting release in our hearts. The most important task we have is to learn what that purpose is and then bring it into the world. In our world of endless busyness and “hurry sickness,” many people are experiencing soul loss as they live out dreams of endless motion, empty tasks, anxiety, and negative thoughts. But you can change your world and discover the shamanic heart path that activates your wildness, your power, and your soul’s purpose.
Blending earth-honoring shamanic practices and modern depth psychology, Jeff Nixa explains how to practice the lost art of heart navigation to help you find your life purpose and spiritual identity, conquer the fear, doubt and criticism that stand in the way of that vision, and become a shamanic shapeshifter of your life. Providing heart-opening exercises to slow your mental racing and detect your heart’s navigational guidance system, he shows how to awaken your wild and free heart, access your spiritual core directly, deactivate trauma-based emotional patterns, retrieve vital energy, work with your dreams, and become an artist of the soul. You will learn how to meet your power animals and consult with spirit guides, embark on shamanic journeys in the spirit world for help and information, slay your inner dragons of self-sabotage, find your personal spirit song, and create the joyful life that your heart is attuned to seek out.
Offering case studies and troubleshooting help for common pitfalls and obstacles on the heart-centered path, this shamanic manual provides hands-on practices and ceremonies--including access to 4 guided audio journeys narrated by the author--as well as wisdom from the author’s own journey and the powerful teachers he has worked with, including Sandra Ingerman, Mikkal, spiritual elders of the Oglala Lakota people, and plant-spirit medicine shamans of the Amazon jungle. Allowing you to understand the precise contours of your authentic self and your visionary heart, this book offers a map to a vibrant new life aligned with your soul and deepest calling.
- GenresSpirituality
274 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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About the author
Jeff D. Nixa
4 books5 followersJeff Nixa J.D., M. Div., CMT is the founder of Great Plains Guide Company, an array of nature-based spiritual healing programs including individual counseling, seminars, outdoor retreats, and wilderness trips. Jeff began walking the heart path in 2009 after a life-changing vision quest in the wilderness of northern Michigan.
A veteran spiritual guide, Jeff’s work has spanned over thirty-five years. He first earned a law degree, then made a shift into spiritual care and counseling working for two-plus decades as a university campus minister, professional hospital chaplain, pastoral counselor, and board-certified massage therapist. After the vision quest above he threw himself into the study of Indigenous healing practices, apprenticing with C. Michael Smith, traditional healers in the Peruvian Amazon and Andes Mountains in South America, Cree Nation healers and elders in Alberta, Canada, and Oglala Lakota teachers and spiritual elders on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. On Pine Ridge he volunteered for several years with Re-Member and Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center and led his own program in conjunction with both organizations. Jeff has been a professional associate with Crows Nest Center for Shamanic Studies USA and is a graduate of Sandra Ingerman’s shamanic teacher-training program. He published his first book The Lost Art of Heart Navigation in 2017 (Bear & Company.)
After raising his family for over twenty years in an inner-city neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana, Jeff and his wife Regina moved in 2021 to a simple home on Christiana Creek in southwest Michigan. There he is leading his fire-talk counseling sessions, hosting clients and visitors in a guest cabin, and raising his three-year-old grandson. For more information on Jeff’s programs or to contact him directly see his website at www.GreatPlainsGuide.net.
A veteran spiritual guide, Jeff’s work has spanned over thirty-five years. He first earned a law degree, then made a shift into spiritual care and counseling working for two-plus decades as a university campus minister, professional hospital chaplain, pastoral counselor, and board-certified massage therapist. After the vision quest above he threw himself into the study of Indigenous healing practices, apprenticing with C. Michael Smith, traditional healers in the Peruvian Amazon and Andes Mountains in South America, Cree Nation healers and elders in Alberta, Canada, and Oglala Lakota teachers and spiritual elders on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. On Pine Ridge he volunteered for several years with Re-Member and Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center and led his own program in conjunction with both organizations. Jeff has been a professional associate with Crows Nest Center for Shamanic Studies USA and is a graduate of Sandra Ingerman’s shamanic teacher-training program. He published his first book The Lost Art of Heart Navigation in 2017 (Bear & Company.)
After raising his family for over twenty years in an inner-city neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana, Jeff and his wife Regina moved in 2021 to a simple home on Christiana Creek in southwest Michigan. There he is leading his fire-talk counseling sessions, hosting clients and visitors in a guest cabin, and raising his three-year-old grandson. For more information on Jeff’s programs or to contact him directly see his website at www.GreatPlainsGuide.net.
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January 27, 2018
Don't have time to write a detailed review now, but it is an excellent book. Easy and engaging read but also serious and absorbing. Jeff is very practical in his approach and this is wonderfully refreshing. Perfect for someone who may carry some skepticism about some of these concepts. Jeff is very related to people who may be more grounded in conventional faith traditions.
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