Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures, including Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner. She was priveleged to share her extensive knowledge of shamanic and compassionate depossession with students on behalf of both of these earlier mentors. She has been trained by a number of indigenous shamans and healers in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the United Kingdom who have encouraged her and shared with her their wonderful teachings. She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and Scottish ancestry. Betsy is an international teacher of Middleworld shamanic healing practices including heart-centered Compassionate Depossession, which she has taught for more than a decade. She also pioneered Shamanic Mediumship and Curse Unraveling classes for shamanic practitioners. Her calling is to work in partnership with the Compassionate Allies, to help the living and the dead. She says, "...the feedback from my classes has been that the teaching of Heart-Centered Shamanic Compassionate Depossession has defused much of the fear that many people felt in approaching the extremely powerful work of depossession.”
“My own experience, working with over a thousand cases, as well as those of my colleagues and students over the last decade have shown the efficacy, the beauty and the widespread healing that is achieved through this work. One of my goals, to make sure that this work was safe for my students and practitioners, is readily accomplished by partnering with the living and compassionate light of the Creator, as well as the tremendous number of psychopomp beings who have aided this work for eons. These beings, known in some cultures as the Lords and Ladies of Death and Transition, are invaluable allies in this sacred work. Protection and healing for everyone involved occurs when practicing compassionate shamanic depossession, aided by initiations with the light itself, and the psychopomp allies. The beautiful thing about working with the compassionate light of the creator is that it creates a win-win-win situation which includes healing of the client, the suffering being (aka: possessing spirit) and the practitioner."
Sandra Ingerman, author of "Soul Retrieval", says,
"Betsy Bergstrom is a brilliant teacher and healer. She is clear, grounded, authentic, and teaches from a place of integrity. Betsy is a true shaman, and I highly recommend her work." Of her depossession training, Sandra Ingerman writes, ‘Betsy is the one I would train with in de-possession. I think she is a brilliant teacher.’
For Appointments with Betsy please contact Betsy's office.
“My own experience, working with over a thousand cases, as well as those of my colleagues and students over the last decade have shown the efficacy, the beauty and the widespread healing that is achieved through this work. One of my goals, to make sure that this work was safe for my students and practitioners, is readily accomplished by partnering with the living and compassionate light of the Creator, as well as the tremendous number of psychopomp beings who have aided this work for eons. These beings, known in some cultures as the Lords and Ladies of Death and Transition, are invaluable allies in this sacred work. Protection and healing for everyone involved occurs when practicing compassionate shamanic depossession, aided by initiations with the light itself, and the psychopomp allies. The beautiful thing about working with the compassionate light of the creator is that it creates a win-win-win situation which includes healing of the client, the suffering being (aka: possessing spirit) and the practitioner."
Sandra Ingerman, author of "Soul Retrieval", says,
"Betsy Bergstrom is a brilliant teacher and healer. She is clear, grounded, authentic, and teaches from a place of integrity. Betsy is a true shaman, and I highly recommend her work." Of her depossession training, Sandra Ingerman writes, ‘Betsy is the one I would train with in de-possession. I think she is a brilliant teacher.’
For Appointments with Betsy please contact Betsy's office.
Betsy Bergstrom
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