Category Archives: death, dying and rebirth.

Shamanism on Death & Dying Workshop

Shamanism on Death, Dying
And Rebirth
With Gary Gent of Shamanic Connection
July 18, 2015 | 10 am to 5 pm
Energy Exchange – $ 190
($50 non-refundable deposit due by 6/19/15)
Private Residence, Mt. Laurel, NJ

Life is a continuous series of deaths and rebirths. We experience the physical death of friends, family, and pets throughout our lives. We also experience the death and birth of relationships, careers, and of aspects of our personality. “Dying” is a way to remove what no longer serves us so that we may truly live.

This powerful workshop explores your views about death and dying. You will delve into your belief system, exploring your fears about death, the process of dying, loss of control, and your views about “life after death”.

The core of this workshop is a powerful guided journey through the death process, crossing over to Spirit, experiencing the birthing process and growing to your current age. The day concludes with sharing your experiences and a discussion of the Shamanic view of the death and dying process.

Join us for these experiential days in the healing ways of the shaman.

Please wear comfortable clothes as we will be playing on the floor.

More info and to make deposits online

For more information or to register for these playshops or private sessions contact:

Debbie Overholt at 856-722-9777 or E-mail

Shaman as Deathwalkers – Part II

As promised, we’ll continue where we left off before we were so rudely interrupted by Life. We were discussing the role of the shaman as a “Deathwalker” assisting those who are preparing to make their transition to Spirit or those who have already transitioned.

Sometimes when a death occurs, the Soul is caught unprepared. Sometimes the Soul may not understand what happened or that they are dead. This Soul’s natural journey back to its spiritual home, is then interrupted. The Soul needs help, it cannot continue the journey on its own. This is where a shaman can assist the Soul to continue it’s journey home. Continue reading →

Shaman as Deathwalkers – Part I.

To follow up on our topic of a shamanic view of death and dying, we move on to the role of the shaman as a “Deathwalker” or “Psychopomp” (from the Greek word psychopompos, literally meaning the “guide of souls”).

As a shaman, we may be called to assist those who are making their spiritual transitions or those who have already left the physical body that need help completing their transition and returning to their spiritual home.

The shaman may wait with and comfort the soul of a person who is dying and guide them across at the moment of death. Or they can also be with a person who is dying, when they lose consciousness and communicate with them. This is the time when the person who is about to leave the dying body is mostly on the spiritual side but is still anchored to the body. The shaman can ask the soul where it wants to go, then show them where this place is, so they have an idea about which way to go after death. Continue reading →

Shamanism, Death and Rebirth

First, to those of you who keep checking out BLOG and finding that we’ve been out of touch for almost two months, we apologize. Life has been extremely busy. Gary’s wonderful 90 year-old mom took ill and we spent many days away from home assisting his sister and brother-in-law with her care. We were caring for her around the clock in her home as she stood at the doorway of death and decided it was not her time to pass through. It has been a tiring but enlightening time for us.But, this brings us to the subject of today’s BLOG – Shamanism, Death and Rebirth. Continue reading →