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About Joy

Joy Ellis is a Shamanic healer and practitioner of the oracular arts, an artist, counsellor and Homeopath with over 20 years of experience www.homeopathy4all.co.uk .

I first encountered the spirit world as a child where I could see, sense and feel different energies. This was compounded when aged 11 years my mother died. It was during this time I was visited by the spirit world and could see the spirits very clearly in this reality that came to visit and knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was protection and love in this experience. It was this that comforted me after losing my mum – the knowing that there was more to life than most people realise and that the spirit lives on. The legacy that my mother passed on to me was her love of plants and trees. It was during my childhood that I developed a love of art and textiles and would ‘lose myself’ in the escapism of the wonderful world of creativity.

After becoming a mum at the young age of 16 and going on to have a large family of five children and studying qualifications in accountancy, I stepped away from my spiritual insights for many years whilst immersed in the busyness of family life and working, although throughout all those years my love of plants, trees, gardening and art remained consistent. However as things come full circle and through synchronicities that I couldn’t ignore the spiritual realm re-emerged in my life 22 years ago which led me to train in Homeopathy.

I subsequently studied core shamanism in Ireland, Scotland and England, initially completing a two year classical shamanic practitioner training in Ireland followed by a three year classical shamanic practitioner training at The Sacred Trust in Dorset, UK followed by many other trainings and experiences. My love of art and creativity led me to complete a two year Sacred Art training with Imelda Almquist in London in 2016. I am an initiate of the Path of Pollen and for the last few years have undergone in depth training within the Lyceum of the oracular arts of the Melissae and the priestesses of Delphi with Pythia.

Whilst bringing up my children, it was always my intention to go off backbacking to far away places when my children grew up. With going straight into motherhood from school at such a young age I had never experienced travelling far. So four years ago after a major life event and the shock of a sudden bereavement I decided to just go for it and set off to backpack around Peru. Living deep in the Amazon for a while I was hoping to meet a local shaman however every time I got in the boat to visit his village, his wife would tell me he’d gone fishing and would be back shortly only he never materialised so I figured it just wasn’t meant to be!! Although it was certainly an experience and I’m glad I went, it took this experience to make me realise that my roots lie on British and Irish soil and that I no longer had that desire to travel to far flung parts. Sometimes it takes one to go off to realise that what it was we are looking for is right under our nose all the time!

More recently for the last three years I have been completing a three year apprenticeship in Sacred Plant Medicine in Ireland working with the Celtic medicine wheel and plant spirit medicine native to the British Isles and Ireland which has been an absolute joy and led to a deeper immersion in the life of plant spirits and allies.

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Shamanic Healing

What is Shamanism?

Shamanism is the most ancient of healing methods going back more than 40,000 years plus. In other cultures and indigenous tribes every village had their own shaman to bring about healing and information from the spirit world. Shamanism is tuning in to the ancient knowledge of the universe, to the energy, frequency and vibration of the cosmos where there is a deeper consciousness that animates all life. Shamans recognise that everything is alive and everything has spirit. The basic principle of shamanism is partnership with the spirits.

Shamanic healing focuses on the spiritual aspect of the malady and the aim is to restore harmony and spiritual power to the client so they are ‘powerful’ rather than ‘powerless’ and thus able to step fully into their sovereignty and reconnect to spirit. The source of revelation comes from the spirits and it is they that reveal what the sacred prescription is. It is a way of life and being, working in deep harmony with nature.

Shamanic healing can encompass any or all of the following:

Soul Retrieval

Energy object extractions

Power Animal Retrievals

Ancestral Healing

Path of Pollen Method

Soul Retrieval

Soul loss can occur at anytime throughout someone’s life through trauma or shock when part of the soul fragments and leaves the body. In counselling or psychotherapy it is commonly known as disassociation. Soul loss is a self protective mechanism as it is deemed to painful for the soul part to stay. Soul parts can sometimes return spontaneously or through different healing modalities, one such method is Shamanic soul retrieval. During a soul retrieval the shamanic healer working in partnership with the spirits tracks the soul part and brings the pure essence of the soul part that left back to the client to help them heal and move forward in their lives fully empowered.

Energy Object Extractions

Spirit intrusions or spiritual blockages is energy in the wrong place that does not belong to us which can lead to disharmony or dis-ease in the body. The shamanic healer identifies and removes these blockages to restore balance and harmony.

Power Animal Retrievals

Power animals are spirit beings that have taken the form of an animal to assist us in our lives. They can be with us from birth throughout our lives or some may be present for certain periods to assist us with something specific. It is very common in our lives to lose some power due to various reasons ie. lifestyle, stress, illness, giving our power away etc. During a power animal retrieval the power animal is returned to the client for protection along with the gifts and strength of that animal so that the client becomes empowered or ‘power-full’ rather than ‘power-less’.

Ancestral Healing

Our ancestral field shapes our lives and connecting to our ancestors known and unknown helps us move forward in our lives. We can have gifts that have been passed on by our ancestors and we can also have problems and issues that we have acquired from our ancestors. This can be in the form of for eg. limiting beliefs, traits that no longer serve us, imprints that have passed down generations etc. During Ancestral Healing work unresolved issues and imprints are unravelled and healed and attention is given to honouring the ancestors.

Path of Pollen Healing

The pollen method is an ancient form of energy medicine, shamanic healing and seership working with the restoration and remembrance of the true self and reconnection to source. It is womb-centric and Its roots lie in ancient European bee shamanic practices and the potency of the feminine mysteries. There are a number of distinguishing factors to this shamanic practice:

Its practitioners are exclusively female due to the importance the womb plays to the method, being an agent and vessel of intelligence able to see, scan, witness and inform the practitioner.

The majority of work takes place in semi darkness. Darkness being an important ally and teacher in the working of this practice, better able to reveal the luminosity of the client to the practitioner and client alike.