COURSE

Healing Trauma

Trauma is when a part of the self gets stuck or frozen in a traumatic experience. In this 10-day course, we will rescue, renew and restore the parts of ourselves stuck in historic and psychological suffering, using guided visualization, body-centered mindfulness, and the ancient tools of Shamanism and Buddhism, and animism. Connecting with elements of nature and our own best adult self brings love, compassion, and deep healing where it is needed most right now.

Divine Connection Spiritual Healing Recovery & Healing Grounded Health & Happiness Shamanism Spirituality Guided Imagery Visualization

Meet your Teacher

Renee LaVallee McKenna

New York, NY, USA

Renee LaVallee McKenna, MA, is a master soul mentor, hypnotherapist, Shamanic healer, podcaster and author. She leads workshops, groups, and individual mentorship in emotional healing, spirituality and personal growth since 1988. Spiritual Psi-Kology is her unique blend of Shamanism and Buddhist philosophy with hypnotherapy, and body-based mindfulness. Humor, irreverence, authenticity and no-nonsense Boston style permeate Renee's work and offerings.

10 Days

4.2k students

4.7 stars

13 min / day

Divine Connection

English

Lesson 1

Understanding Trauma & Soul Retrieval

Learn about this unique perspective on trauma and an overview of the healing work we will do in the next nine sessions, followed by a short grounding meditation to connect with our own best adult self.

Lesson 2

Journey To The Spirit Of Nature

Our first inner journey, or guided visualization, to connect with the peace and power available through the spirit of nature. This is a deeply healing experience and the place we will bring the traumatized parts of the self in future days. We are children of nature, and this is an aspect of our true home.

Lesson 3

Connecting With Elements For Power & Healing

We return to the safe and sacred place in nature that we discovered on Day 2 and connect with an element for wisdom, healing and empowerment. In this work all things hold consciousness, even things we usually consider inanimate, like water, earth, sun, tree, rock or wind. Connecting with the higher consciousness of elements in a direct and visceral is profoundly grounding and healing. These ancient resources provide support, guidance and unconditional acceptance as we grow in the skills and abilities to be our own healthy caregiver.

Lesson 4

Spirit Guide In Animal Form

We return to the safe place in nature to add to our resources for power and healing by connecting with a spirit guide in animal form, also known as a power animal. This is an ancient Shamanic practice for gathering wisdom, knowledge and healing that is profound and transformative. The form of the power animal is a teaching.

Lesson 5

Soul Retrieval

We connect more deeply with our spiritual guides as we step across historic or psychological time to find and rescue the traumatized part of ourself that most needs help and healing right now. Together we will bring this wounded part of ourself into present time, to the safe place in nature we discovered on Day 2. This is NOT about re-experiencing trauma. This is about getting the wounded part of ourself out of trauma and into the peace and compassion of the spirit of nature in present time. They are cared for, healed and supported by the element we connected with in day 3 and the spirit guide in animal form from day 4.

Lesson 6

Teacher In Human Form

We add to our inner resources for wisdom, power and guidance by finding a spirit guide or teacher in human form. This compassionate being comes with us to deepen our relationship and healing with the part of ourself that was traumatized. All self parts hold vital life energy. We will notice what is good about this now healing part of ourself and see if they want to remain with the spirit of nature in non-ordinary reality, or if they want to return with us into our life today.

Lesson 7

Healing Our Relationship With Self

We look at our relationship with the wounded part of ourselves. We foster a healthy internal relationship and discover that how we treat ourselves internally has profound implications for our life experience and our recovery. With the support of our guides and teachers, our own best adult self is now their healthy caregiver and they are safe in present time with the continued support of our connection with the spirit of nature.

Lesson 8

Deeper Healing: Releasing and Receiving

We deepen our healing experience by bringing the now healing part of ourselves to the spirit of nature and ask the guides to assist them in releasing any emotions, beliefs, though patterns or other energy formations that they have carried as the result of trauma. All aspects of nature are masters of energetic transformation and this part of ourself can release anything that no longer serves them and make room to receive the love, healing, compassion and life energy that they need right now.

Lesson 9

Power Retrieval & Exchange

In this work life force or personal power has a form and substance. Our spirit guides will facilitate the profound process of taking back, or receiving, any life energy that was lost, drained or stolen during the traumatic experience. We will also release anything we have taken on, consciously or unconsciously. This is a safe and empowering process with the higher self of a person who has harmed, drained or disempowered us knowingly or unknowingly.

Lesson 10

Next Steps: Layers of Trauma Recovery

Congratulations on your inner work. We recap the inner processes we have done and describe the value and practical steps to repeat the inner journeys in this course. Trauma is often a complex and multi-layered dynamic. Repeating some or all of the sessions of this course can help to integrate and heal the many parts of the self that may be dissociated, lost or stuck in trauma. Trauma recovery is a rebuilding, restructuring process and we can trust our own psyche for guidance on the order that optimal healing wants to happen.

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Recent Reviews

Shmuly

August 2, 2024

Very powerful and healing. Thank you!!

Jarmila

May 8, 2024

Thank you.

Susan

February 11, 2024

Really GREAT course! Thank you SO much! I am a domestic violence survivor and have been recently re-triggered by my sons behaviors. Caring for myself, letting go of what isn’t mine with love, trusting in my higher power, and setting and holding healthy boundaries have all been immensely helpful in this healing journey. Thank you for the reminder to ask and trust my inner guides as well. 🙏🏻😊💕

November 29, 2023

It mostly doesn’t make sense , it sounds like she’s reading instructions from a manual !

Mbrookhart

November 22, 2023

I will keep this !! Thank you for the healing I received thus far

Lori

October 22, 2023

Thank you for this course. It was so helpful. 🙏🏼🪷🙏🏼

Jocelyne

September 27, 2023

Thank you so much Renee for an amazing, insightful course. This is my second time doing the course and it will not be my last. I’ve found the journeys to be beneficial and will continue to access them to help retrieve abandoned and unloved parts of myself. 🙏❤️

Caroline

September 23, 2023

Incredible course. Took me to very old, deep places deep within my soul and to what I understood to be my unborn baby's soul that was there beside me and I never knew this soul and pain existed and was held by me and we were released from the embodied pain. So deep and moving. Such unexpected, multiple traumas and spirit guides, such an unexpected and deeply moving, healing and rejuvenating, freeing, energising and empowering place to find. With so much gratitude for this powerful, interesting and soul opening course. 🙏 💖

Kanishka

August 31, 2023

Beautiful! Got to connect with nature and my spirit animal in this course, healing is on the way! ✨🙏🏽🤍🤍🤍

Ilse-Marie

August 8, 2023

Beautiful and useful course

Ellen

July 19, 2023

Thank you

Heidi

July 7, 2023

Alot of interesting material and ideas. A bit fast.

Maria

April 19, 2023

This course helped me discover a part of myself that was stuck back 10 years in a trauma mode, and bring her safely to my present.

Amy

April 1, 2023

Great meditation with thoughtful visualizations.

Susie

March 27, 2023

Thank you. Finding this course was the light I’d been searching for

Line

March 26, 2023

It has been a very reliefing and beautiful experience - I know feel a deep connection with my inner self and my spiritual guides. I’m so thankful and will do the course again and again and keep working for my inner peace and inner parts🙏❤️👼🏼

Aria

March 13, 2023

Such a beautiful course. It has really helped me to connect with the beach we’re I feel so safe and protected. My inner child has been healing here for the past 10 days. On the first day she was shy, scared and unsure. Now she is radiating light, strength and happiness. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️

Madeleine

March 5, 2023

Thank you, I thought this was really good. I was surprised by where my mind went with it, and it felt healing. Will listen through again if allowed.

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