Because it is not an organized religion as such, but rather a spiritual practice, shamanism cuts across all faiths

and creeds, reaching deep levels of ancestral memory.

~John Matthews, The Celtic Shaman

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Registered in 2023 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable and educational organization, Colorado Institute of Shamanic Studies was founded by a group of highly-experienced and long-practicing shamans to meet the diverse shamanic needs in their respective Colorado communities.

 

The Institute is committed to providing rigorous shamanic training, high-quality yet affordable services, and general outreach and support to Colorado’s shamanic community.

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Our Mission

• Expanding awareness and knowledge of shamanism as a beneficial spiritual practice.

• Offering instruction in shamanism for all levels of lay students and professional practitioners.

• Maintaining a shamanic healing clinic where non-members may experience shamanic healing and advanced students may conduct supervised shamanic healing sessions.

• Conducting public ceremony.

• Organizing community service offerings such as hospital and prison visitations and end-of- life services to the shamanic community, a severely under-served segment of the population.

• Conducting and publishing research on the application of shamanism in modern society.

• Ordaining and licensing qualified individuals, both graduates of Colorado Institute of Shamanic Studies and those of have studied with other qualified teachers and schools.​​

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