Shamanic Light Healer Apprenticeship Program: 2025

• PLEASE NOTE: THE START OF THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN DELAYED TO SEPTEMBER 2025. THE NEW SCHEDULE HAS NOT BEEN SET YET. 
• Nine-Month Intensive Program beginning February 2025-October 2025. Program ends in October with Soul Retrieval Training is a 4-day course in October 2025 (Soul Retrieval is an additional fee.) 
• Leontine is offering an online introductory class before this program begins - date to be announced soon.  
• Initial Deposit of $980 due by 2/1 with final payment of $980 due by 5/31/2025
• Also offered in One Day Modules $255 each (with the exception of the Soul Retrieval training) that can be taken individually, or you can enroll in the entire program with a discount for $1960. Soul Retrieval is a separate course with a separate fee ($595)
• Each class meets In Person from 10:00 am-5:00 pm with an hour lunch break and frequent short breaks
• Pre-requisites: Taking Leontine's recorded Walking the Shaman's Path course ( click on title to purchase) or taking an in-person or online Introduction to Shamanic Journeying class with another qualified teacher or Sandra Ingerman on The Shift Network. Sandra Ingerman’s book: Shamanic Journeying, A Beginner’s Guide, is highly recommended reading. Leontine’s YouTube video: Shamanic Drumming for Journeying -15 minutes, can be listened to while practicing journeying to your helping spirits.
• Some individual classes also require prerequisites--these will be noted in the individual classes.

Do you yearn to realize the healing gifts you were born with fully?

Are you called to be a spiritual energy healer and serve others with the guidance and support of helping spirits?

Do you want to feel connected to your inner power and the power of the love of the universe?

Do you desire to avoid burnout and see beyond formulaic methods to bring deep lasting healing to others and the planet?

Learn to have direct communication with spirit guides, bring healing energy and compassionate wisdom into your life and help others, and learn to work with helping spirits to heal the earth!

This is a powerful life-changing training in contemporary shamanism and spiritual practices that opens your consciousness and expands your awareness into connection with the light and beauty of all of life! Work directly with Leontine Hartzell, a highly experienced shamanic teacher, and practitioner (29 years’ experience) in small classes with individual guidance for your spiritual journey.

This unique, comprehensive and powerful life-changing program is being offered by Leontine Hartzell for the 29^th year!

• The course is taught with a holistic approach to mind, body, spirit, nature, earth, and community.
• This program trains people to have deep and clear connections with compassionate helping spirits and to be able to do healing work for themselves, others, and the planet.
• You will experience and explore the vast aspects of the spirit realms, helping spirits and connecting with the wisdom of the ancestors and future generations.
• You will learn to become a “hollow bone” as ancient shamans say, to bring healing wisdom and light healing energy into ordinary reality.
• You will learn to walk in two worlds - the spirit realms and ordinary reality- with the help of your spirit allies, to become a healer, seer, and medicine person.

This intensive deep immersion experience in shamanic practices and shamanic energy healing methods trains people to learn how to be shamanic spiritual light healers and community shamanic practitioners.

Why is this course titled Shamanic Light Healer Apprenticeship? All true healing is about working with aligning and empowering the divine light within a person, community, or place and the space between. All of creation is actually made up of light- both the material and immaterial aspects of creation. You are made of light. When we learn to work with light, we can bring healing and wisdom to our human lives and the life all around us.

A crucial part of this process is the transformational self-healing journey students travel as they learn to work deeply and consistently with helping spirits, ancestors, nature spirits, and other beneficent spirits.

You will receive healings in every class as classmates practice skills and methods under direct supervision. You will be guided as you progress on your personal journey of self-awareness and healing throughout each class and the course. Classes are kept small so you get individual guidance and mentoring.

The intention is that students learn to see with the heart and walk the path of light in partnership with helping spirits and with sacred intent in all aspects of one’s life.

The goal of this Apprenticeship Program is so that you will live with the direct guidance, healing, and support of fully compassionate helping spirits, discover your soul’s calling with clarity and direction, and become the most empowered person you can be to live your life with joy, ease and grace and service, aligned with your soul’s highest calling. The goal is that you will enter into a sacred relationship with all of life and live in the knowing of your beautiful connections with all of life, nature, and the universe.

What You Will Learn:

• Whether you will work on individuals doing healing work, conduct ceremonies and rituals, work privately with the spirits of the earth, or focus on enriching your own spiritual practices, this program will give you a wide basis of knowledge and practice to work with helping spirits of many kinds for healing, balance and harmony for yourself, others and the world.
• Some graduates of this program build private healing practices, some bring their insights into the business arena, some focus on doing only specific work of service, and some work only with nature. Your spirit guides will give you direct guidance as to how you are to use what you learn as you deepen your relationship with them.
• You will be guided through this process with the help of Leontine Hartzell, who has over 33 years of experience in shamanic practices, over 50 years of experience in meditation practices (she started young!) and brings to her teaching continuous channeled wisdom from her spirit guides and Ascended Masters.

Do you feel called to connect with helping spirits and help others?
In these unprecedented accelerating changing times on planet earth, more and more people are awakening to their true spiritual natures and their soul’s calling to be more connected to spiritual truths and energies. By committing to expanding your spiritual practice and knowledge you can take responsibility for your true place in your earth family and community to reveal and utilize your true soul’s gifts in this lifetime.

Are you ready to answer the call?
Leontine is excited to offer this intensive full program again. She has students and clients all over the world and is passionate about helping people realize their true calling as spiritual healers and visionaries. More and more people are answering the calling to move out of ego, to become pure channels for divine light, wisdom, and healing, or as the ancestral shamans describe it: to become a hollow bone for spirit to work with.

What is the modern shamanic path?
This is a deeply spiritual path where we live in right harmonious relationship with respect and gratitude for all of life. Learning to transcend our egoic states and align with the divine both within and all around us, is a path of transformation and awakening to divine love and harmony in all aspects of our life.

It is a path of working with the seen and unseen dimensions of reality, of working in close relationships with compassionate helping spirits to bring healing, wisdom, guidance, vision, and balance for ourselves, others, our communities, and our world. We learn to work with benevolent ancestral spirits, as well as the descendants of the future, Ascended Masters, angelic beings, nature spirits, and other helping spirits to guide and instruct us on the path of light.

What is shamanism?
Shamanism is not a religion but is a spiritual practice thousands of years old and found in virtually every indigenous culture around the world. It is a spiritual practice where all of life is viewed and experienced as having spirit. By learning to open one’s heart, one is able to communicate and learn from the helping spirits, who are part of divine awakened consciousness, in order to awaken to one’s own true divine self and live in harmony with oneself, nature, with others and access healing and wisdom.

What is Shamanic Light Healing?
Leontine teaches a shamanic course that is focused on divine light and living shamanic practices. You will learn to connect with the light that makes up all of creation, which is the light that creates all healing. Leontine teaches using techniques and methods of core shamanism (cross-cultural practices), energy medicine, meditation, and other wisdom teachings Leontine has learned from indigenous shamans and shares with their permission and also teaches what she has channeled from her helping spirits.

Students also learn about healing methods that have been used for centuries and have been adapted to our current times. The modern shamanic light healer is thus able to work with pure divine light, wisdom, and healing energies and bring these gifts to their own lives, to others, and to apply to help heal our communities and planet Earth. Joining together, we will create strong circles of light for the creation of love, light, and balance to elevate our vibrations in alignment with pure divine light and love consciousness.

Classes are conducted in sacred circle and ceremonial style and will include teachings, shamanic journeys to unseen realms of spirit, guided visualizations, class discussion, partner work, ceremony, ritual, and regular Q and A time. Practices will be conducted with shamanic drumming, rattling, singing and toning, crystal and Tibetan bowls.

Leontine has over 45 years of teaching experience teaching spiritual practices and meditation and has taught this training for the past 33 years to students from all over the world. She is continuously adapting and expanding the content to keep it relevant for our changing times! New practices taught by her compassionate spirit guides and Ascended Masters are added each year to accelerate the learning and spiritual abilities of the students in the program and to continue to adapt to changing circumstances and energies on planet earth. These classes use cross-cultural shamanic methods of shamanic spirit journeying to a drumbeat or rattle as the primary methods of accessing the spirit realms and connecting with helping spirits. We do not use drugs in any of our work.

You will experience and learn from:

• Shamanic ritual
• Powerful ceremony
• light body activation
• guided meditations
• guided visualizations
• shamanic journeying
• advanced shamanic light energy healing methods
• shamanic sound healing empowerments
• ritual and circle singing
• sound healing and toning
• ceremonial dances
• deep immersion in shamanic practices
• performing and receiving healings with classmates under supervision
• partner and small group work
• class discussion and small group sharing
• learning healing methods to use on others, yourself, and the earth
• All this and more is included in the classes in this program.

Certificates of Completion will be given to students who successfully complete the entire Shamanic Light Healer Apprenticeship Program. Certificates of Completion will be given to students who complete individual classes as well.

Dates and Content:

February 1, 2025: Shamanic Immersion with Helping Spirits

February 2, 2025: Healing with Spiritual Light

April 5, 2025: Healing with the Ancestors

April 6, 2025: Deathwalking/Psychopomp (Pre-requisite: Healing with Spiritual Light or permission)

May 31, 2025: Extraction Healing (Pre-requisite: Healing w/Spiritual Light, Deathwalking or permission)

June 1, 2025: Divination, Dreamwork and Manifesting Destiny

August 2, 2025: Work with Nature Spirits

August 3, 2025: Healing with the Elements

October 1- October 5, 2025
Soul Retrieval Training. 2-day in-person class with 3 Zoom evening meetings. Attendance at all classes is required:

• Wednesday, October 1: 7-9 pm on Zoom
• Saturday, October 4: 10 am – 6 pm in person @ Circles
• Sunday, October 5: 10 am – 5 pm in person @ Circles
• Tuesday, October 7: 7-9 pm on Zoom
• Thursday, October 9: 7-9 pm on Zoom

**Please note: This program is no longer being offered exclusively as a closed one and two-year program in order to make the teachings accessible to more people on the spiritual healing path. When this program was first offered, it was the first of its kind in the Boston area, and students had little or no prior experience in shamanic or spiritual training. Times have changed in the past 23 years! Leontine finds that more and more students have training and experience in other spiritual healing modalities. For this reason, each day-long training (with the exception of the Soul Retrieval Training) can be taken separately so students can enhance any prior experience, or take the whole series and become immersed in the shamanic spiritual path.