Working with the Five Spirits Part 2
Nondual Cosmology, Chinese Medicine & Amazonian Shamanism
10 Category 1 CEU hours
approved by the California Acupuncture Board available on 5/15/26, Provider #1805
Human beings receive life from blood and qi (xue qi 血 氣) and from the vital spirits (jing shen 精 神) in order to fulfill their natural destiny (xing ming 性 命).
…Will and intent (zhi yi 志 意), direct the vital spirits (jing shen 精 神), gather hun and po (souls), regulate hot and cold, and harmoniously blend (he 和) elation and anger. …
When will and intent are in harmony, then the vital spirits (jing shen 精 神) are concentrated and correct, hun and po are not dissipated, regret and anger (hui nu 悔 怒) do not arise, the five zang organs do not receive perverse (influences, xie 邪).
(Huangdi Neijing Lingshu chapter 47)
The 5 Spirits – the Hun, Shen, Yi, Po, Zhi and their associated 5 Zang organs – the Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidneys – together constitute an all-enfolding continuity of transformation and coherence. This can be discovered throughout the diverse holistic dimensions of the human experience, from the embodied to the immaterial.
Through this comprehensive 10 hour journey, we continue here in Part 2, delving through the inner dimensions of the 5 Spirits, traversing the 5 Skandhas and 6 Hell Realms of Tibetan Buddhism.
We’ll observe how these concepts can open our understanding of illness and psycho-emotional suffering within the human condition, while simultaneously providing a means of transforming and transmuting shadow and pathology into light and wisdom.
We’ll take a deep dive into Animism and the Shamanic Path, working with Master Plants in the tradition of Amazonian shamanism, exploring the fertile, fruitful wisdom of the Maestros and Maestras.
In a cross-cultural integration of profound medicine wisdom traditions, we will discuss plants from the Amazonian, Chinese, and North American traditions, to invite and cultivate them as ancient allies on the path of healing and transformation.
Finally, we’ll bring our journey into experiential practice, with guided internal alchemical methods working with the Liù Zì Jué, the 6 Healing Sounds. We’ll bring together an integration of focused, honed intention, visualization, and sound/chanting. Cultivating ritual healing practices to re-seat the 5 Spirits, heal and harmonize the 5 Zang organs, and enact an alchemical process of transformation from states of illness, obstruction and pathology into healthy, harmonious, liberation.
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We’ll observe how these concepts can open our understanding of illness and psycho-emotional suffering within the human condition, while simultaneously providing a means of transforming and transmuting shadow and pathology into light and wisdom.
We’ll take a deep dive into Animism and the Shamanic Path, working with Master Plants in the tradition of Amazonian shamanism, exploring the fertile, fruitful wisdom of the Maestros and Maestras.
In a cross-cultural integration of profound medicine wisdom traditions, we will discuss plants from the Amazonian, Chinese, and North American traditions, to invite and cultivate them as ancient allies on the path of healing and transformation.
Finally, we’ll bring our journey into experiential practice, with guided internal alchemical methods working with the Liù Zì Jué, the 6 Healing Sounds. We’ll bring together an integration of focused, honed intention, visualization, and sound/chanting. Cultivating ritual healing practices to re-seat the 5 Spirits, heal and harmonize the 5 Zang organs, and enact an alchemical process of transformation from states of illness, obstruction and pathology into healthy, harmonious, liberation.
Scroll down for more details of this comprehensive course.
What's included?
Delve deeper into the details and dimensions of this 10 hour series. 3 months access included.
Please note this seminar course was originally held in the winter of 2022 to 2023. This video has been edited to protect personal privacy. Identifying information, including names and faces, has been completely covered, and sections have been trimmed or deleted to remove personal information that was shared during the recording.
Please note this seminar course was originally held in the winter of 2022 to 2023. This video has been edited to protect personal privacy. Identifying information, including names and faces, has been completely covered, and sections have been trimmed or deleted to remove personal information that was shared during the recording.
The Spleen & the Yi
- The Spleen according to Chinese Medicine principles & relationship with the Yi spirit.
- The alchemical profundity of digestion & the clarity of intellect.
- Dysregulation of appetite, thought, and hungry ghost possession.
- Ritual methods of stabilizing the earth element, the Spleen and the Yi Spirit.
Kidneys & the Zhi spirit
- Ming men, Jing, Yuan Qi and spiritual relationship to ancestral inheritance.
- "Will" and working with fear and ego on the spiritual path.
- Fertility, conception, fetal gestation, and ancestral karma.
- Ancestral ghost possession, illness, affliction.
- Shamanic ways and methods of healing, clearing, and resolving ancestral ghosts
Animism & the shamanic path
- Shamanic Initiations into working through the path of fear and death.
- Severe illness or intense near-death experiences as heralds of shamanic apprenticeship. shamanic healing and divination.
- The Non-dual path, working with Ancestors, and practical application integrating these into daily life, health and healing.
Plant Medicine
- Deep in-depth dive into plant medicine from the Daoist, Chinese Medicine, and Indigenous Amazonian shamanic tradition.
- Discussion of singular master plants and their Qi qualities and alchemical dynamics
- Practices and methods of shamanic and ancestral healing.
The 6 Healing Sounds
- Guided internal alchemical practice in working with the Liù Zì Jué, the 6 Healing Sounds, and the 5 elements.
- Bringing visualization, intention and sound together as an integrated ritual shamanic practice to stabilize, heal, and harmonize the 5 Spirits and 5 Zang organs of the body.
Final exam and Participant Evaluation to receive your CAB CEU credit certificate
Complete your journey
Into a Path of Wholeness
Get the complete curriculum. This near 20-hour course was created as two parts of a whole comprehensive totality. Beginning with introductory foundations, then opening to interwoven dimensions of multifaceted wisdom, and finally guiding you into a fully integrated experiential practice.
We invite you to bring your Path full circle, ensuring your learning and practice has the time and space it needs to truly take root.
We invite you to bring your Path full circle, ensuring your learning and practice has the time and space it needs to truly take root.
Courses included:
Tamara Ja, L.Ac., Dipl. OM
Tamara Ja is practitioner of all eight limbs of Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Herbology, Moxibustion, Astrology, Meditation, Feng Shui, Martial Arts/Qi Gong, Diet-Nutrition, and Tui Na Massage. She has studied Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Tibetan Buddhism with various Daoist priests and Buddhist teachers for nearly 30 years. She has been a practitioner of Indigenous Amazonian Shamanism for nearly 20 years, having apprenticed extensively in the Indigenous Shipibo-Conibo lineage, as well as trained in the Quechua-Lamista tradition. She is also an Astrologer, specializing in Zǐ Wēi Dǒu Shù 紫微斗數, Polestar Astrology, and the Tōng Shū 通書, Chinese Almanac Astrology.
Tamara is the founder of Ani Bima Circle, a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Church and spiritual community dedicated to the preservation, study, and practice of Animistic Shamanism, with deep roots in the Wisdom Traditions of Indigenous Amazonian Shamanism and East Asian Animism.
Tamara is the founder of Ani Bima Circle, a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Church and spiritual community dedicated to the preservation, study, and practice of Animistic Shamanism, with deep roots in the Wisdom Traditions of Indigenous Amazonian Shamanism and East Asian Animism.
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