Soul Retrieval

It is very common for people in our society to experience soul loss. It can be caused by a traumatic experience, abuse, a long illness, a car accident, years of self-blame or a number of other things. There can also be a case of unintentional soul stealing, which is common after a break-up or divorce.

Symptoms of soul loss can be severe depression, chronic illness, a feeling of being disassociated or not in one's body, grief that won't end or post-traumatic stress. People can feel a loss of energy and general apathy towards life. Like one's life is a movie.

A soul retrieval is a ceremony where the shamanic practitioner goes on a journey to the Otherworlds, with the aid of their helping spirits, to seek your lost soul part or parts. The soul pieces are then blown back into your body. Information is also brought back about what gifts this part of your soul bring to you. It can take a year or so to fully integrate your soul piece(s).

My own soul retrieval was the biggest, most transformative experience I have ever had. My entire life slowly changed direction for the more positive. Ever since then I have felt a growing light in my life.

This is very powerful ceremony for which you may to consider inviting your loved ones to witness and welcome you home.

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Please Come Home

(a beautiful poem about soul retrieval by Jan Hooper)

Please come home. Please come home.
Find the place where your feet know how to walk
And follow your own trail home.

Please come home. Please come home into your body,
Your own vessel, your own earth.
Please come home into each and every cell
And fully into the space that surrounds you.

Please come home. Please come home to trusting yourself,
And your instincts and your ways and your knowings,
And even the particular quirks of your personality.

Please come home.
Please come home and once you are fully there,
Please stay home awhile and come to a deep rest within.
Please treasure your home.
Please love and embrace your home.
Please get a deep, deep sense
of what it's like to be truly home.

Please come home.
Please come home, and when you're really, really ready,
And there's a detectable urge on the outbreath,
then please come out.
Please come home and please come forward.
Please express who your are to us, and please trust us
To see you and hear you and touch you
And recognize you as best we can.
Please come home.

Please come home and let us know
All the nooks and crannies
that are calling to be seen.
Please come home and let us know the More
That there is that wants to come out.

Please come home. Please come home.
For you belong here now. You belong among us.
Please inhabit your place fully
so we can learn from you,
From your voice and your ways and your presence.

Please come home. Please come home
And when you feel yourself home,
please welcome us too.
For we too forget that we belong and are
welcome,
And that we are called to express
and fully be who we are.

Please come home. Please come home
You and you and you and me.

Please come home. Please come home.
Thank you Earth for welcoming us.

May we wake up and remember who we truly are.

Please come home.
Please come home.
Please come home.

Ho

- Jane Hooper (July 5, 1950 – June 14, 2002)

Article on post-soul retrieval: http://tasara.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/after-a-soul-retrieval/

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