Mixed media drawing with pen and Copic markers.
W 42 x H 56.2 cm.
In shamanic practice, soul retrieval is the most fundamental ceremony. Whenever we suffer physical or emotional trauma, part of our soul flees our spirit body in order to survive the experience. With every cut and wound, our essence and vitality grow weaker. This process is called “soul loss.” Soul loss is also known, in psychological terms, as dissociation. It’s what happens when we become disconnected from the very core of ourselves, the source of our vitality, our soul. Soul retrieval is the reintegration of the lost soul parts back into a person to create healing. In soul retrieval spirit animals and plant spirits (like the Dracocephalum Moldavica) are of great help. They help to find the lost parts and show how to put them back into the big construction of the soul. This always manifests in additional newfound energies that are there to help to cultivate the healthy choices that support wholeness, confidence and (self) love. This work is an appreciation of the energies of the soul, birth, death and transformation. The way how we come to this world, how we born, all our experience and transformation, and death ultimately is a miraculous process, either we don’t look at these things or we just plain blind of them or take them on a very superficial level, but even just sitting in a yellow armchair, in the living room, while a baby is in the womb, and our soul is rooted in deep levels of reality….it is a mundane event, but if we look closely it is unbelievably beautiful and miraculous.