The Fig Tree – Shamanic Initiation Shamanic initiation, like initiation in general, has lost much of its significance in our modern world. And yet, it still exists. As we experience it in the shamanic training at “Licht aus der Jurte Shamanic Centre Vienna”, it continues to hold profound meaning within the traditional shamanic path. Participants [...]

Peony Between Mythology and Shamanism The peony remains deeply connected to shamanism, mythology, and spiritual healing to this day. When the peonies open their heavy, fragrant blossoms around Pentecost, their beauty recalls the ancient mystery plants of past cultures.In antiquity, the peony was regarded as a sacred healing and protective plant between worlds. In Greek [...]

Shamanism and Mythology – Plants, Symbols and Spiritual Knowledge   Shamanism and Mythology Shamanism and mythology have been part of the training at “Licht aus der Jurte Shamanic Centre Vienna” for many years, both in the shamanic training and in the program Spiritual Healing – Healing Shamanism. Mythologies reveal the connections between human beings and [...]

The Meaning of Shamanism: The Snowdrop as Symbol of Transition and Renewal What is the true meaning of shamanism?Shamanism does not begin with exotic rituals. It begins with a quiet encounter with nature. This article explores the spiritual meaning of shamanism through direct experience of nature, healing shamanism, and the symbolism of the snowdrop as [...]

The shamanic center “Light from the Yurt – Shamanic Centre Vienna” has been open for 20 years to present and future spiritual matters. Year after year, with the greatest sense of responsibility and clarity, we have reflected on what we want and what our purpose is.We have carefully reconsidered the aim of our existence and [...]

Shamanic Journey – Epiphany 3 January 2026 This blog is not for those to whom love has become something ordinary. Not for skeptics and cynics who play shamanic work off against the Christ impulse. Many ask: What does the Savior have to do with Christmastide and with our current inner and worldly condition? Perhaps with [...]

Shamanism and Spiritual Reality We are approaching the end of the year, and the Christmas season is drawing near.For centuries, this time has been important to people.According to ancient custom, people sought refuge with spiritual powers. Today, our time is little more than buying suitable gifts; the spiritual content has become profane and detached from [...]

Healing Shamanism Today Humanity seems to be divided. Today, we will take a brief look at two groups Human beings have built themselves a house and withdrawn into it. Although they are very busy, they live within it in a state of high tension. Through every opening to the outside world, they learn of revelations [...]

Spiritual Healing – Training cycle Healing knowledge – healing powers – healing tools – healing goals and the power of reciprocity, the acts of remembering, the ecological consciousness. It is no longer viable to go on like before. Neither in personal, nor in global life. No one needs to seek „spiritual love“ because that is something [...]

Shamanic rock paintings and shamanism It is by no means a given that research is conducted within shamanic associations. The shamanism in „Licht aus der Jurte Shamanic Centre Vienna“ we offer is both practice and theory, each conditioning the other. This blog provides a brief insight into early epochs of shamanism and its humble relics. [...]

Spiritual Healing – Healing Shamanism Spiritual healing provides fundamental insights into the wonders of human existence. Some readers may ask themselves: ‘Yes, but what can I do with it?’ This is a good question, because it asks about the benefits. Our lifespan on earth is very short. One benefit could be to spend this lifetime [...]

The year 2025 in ‘Licht aus der Jurte Shamanic Centre Vienna’ will be a particularly healing, joyful and beneficial year for all of us. Sound psychological, spiritual and shamanic knowledge will lead individuals to a personal, constructively energised source of strength. It leads to growing uniqueness and individual power for the future. Paths of humanity [...]

The winter solstice, the longest night and the shortest day of the year is firmly anchored in our souls, despite the hustle and bustle of Advent. Meaning of the winter solstice Our ancestors, more than 11,000 years ago, had a fairly accurate idea of the length of the year. These highly educated people drew up [...]

Impressions of a journey. When we met the shaman, he was close to both the earthly and supernatural worlds. He started in a bright ray of light and wanted to support people and nature. And he succeeded. Shamanic practice Then he thought he could be even more helpful and looked for like-minded people. The group [...]

Peace and demony A lot of thinking people ask themselves, what is peace? Is it a deep hope in man? If so, what is it? Is peace a compromise? Do we also have to make peace with satanic forces? Or does peace mean a reconciliation of opposites? There are numerous questions, but we don’t want [...]

Mythical symbols, the world of myths resounds in people like a longing and like a warning. Myths are lifted out of the stream of time, the people of that time were witnesses of primeval events. This is still repeated to this day, as myths are independent of time and space. In „Licht aus der Jurte [...]

The shamaness once listened to the inner rhythm of nature, its laws and its wisdom, which she passed on in a chant-like manner. People gathered around such women, who were the mouthpieces of higher powers. Healing shamanism This blog is an enrichment for advanced shamans. Its content also reflects the shamanic work in „Licht aus [...]

The sacred heart in Nordic mythology is an enrichment for shamans today at the Shamanic Centre Austria. The shamanic work is based on the Fiölsvinsmal songs of the Edda and makes a broad connection to shamanic symbolism. Path of initiation in healing shamanism As in Goethe’s Faust, the searching soul must first „go to the [...]

Ancestors in the nordic mythology and in the shamanic work in „Shamanic Centre Europe“ It is quite easy to imagine how people walked through forests and meadows thousands of years ago. How they perceived elemental spirits, nature spirits and celestial beings. More difficult it is to conceive how they breathed these beings into their souls. [...]

The shamanic ancestral journey on 6 January 2024 is also dedicated to a great, mythical and legendary figure Frau Percht Her name can be traced back to the Germanic linguistic form. In Old High German „perchata“ means bright, shining. The shamans at the „Licht aus der Jurte Shamanic Centre Vienna“ are aware that this is [...]

„Weapons down“ (Bertha von Suttner) or the treasure of peace. Do you also count yourself among the „good people“? Are you one of those who help others, who call themselves spiritual, perhaps even call themselves shamans? Who practise yoga, who are proud of their classes to teach spirituality to ignorant humanity? Do you exclude those [...]

The shamanic journey in „Licht aus der Jurte Shamanic Centre Vienna“ is a special, great shamanic ritual and takes place at selected times. When during the shamanic journey clouds of smoke from the melting resin of the larch tree and the tears of the incense tree and other incense are rising, when the drum is [...]

In ancient schools of healing, the heart sanctuary was the focus of spiritual training. The healers saw the different bodies of the human being, paying particular attention to the „body that desires“. Imagine that this body surrounds us on all sides and, in the constant inflow and outflow of its energies, determines not only our [...]

Shamanic Chant – Shamanic Prayer Our shamanic path in prayer and chanting follows the power of the ancestors. Shamanic chant, shamanic healing song and shamanic prayer mean to be aware of the past. A short example from norse mythology In the language mysteries of the North, people were given the ability to speak. In shamanic [...]

Death and the Afterlife – Shamanism of the future Western man, with autonomous consciousness and with Western biblical monotheism, has created a space for himself that excludes death. In healing shamanism we make ourselves aware of how death was integrated into life in past cultures. This is not nostalgia, not a longing to bring back [...]

The captivity of European Shamanism In large parts of European shamanism we notice a lack of movement, a clinging to shamanic practices that have become useless tools in the spiritual. They try to create satisfaction, to offer people distractions, to lure them with special offers (certification, masters, yoga, ayahuasca etc.). This is an attempt to [...]

The challenges of shamanism We at the Shamanic Centre Vienna know that the withdrawal and clinging to the old, the worn out, promotes violence and war. We are also aware that we all live together in a tremendous potential for violence fires from spiritual sparks. We push the boundaries towards new ideals for the future. [...]

New shamanic rules This also implies that future shamans will only be accepted into shamanic training after they have completed the training „Spiritual Healing – Healing Shamanism“ and have undergone a selection process. They must be able to clearly distinguish between work in the earthly and in the spiritual. Mind, thinking and willpower must have [...]

Peace in Europe ? Interwar period in Europe Hell has come closer to us this year. „War for Europe is quietly whispered.“ The war for Europe can come as quickly as an earthquake that cannot be foreseen. An awful lot of people are already in a combat zone in one form or another, in a [...]

The media is telling us every day: „Food prices are rising. The cost of some products has doubled.“ However, it is not communicated that our food industry is in a severe deficit. Our food system is dependent on products from monocultures, industrial farmland, fossil energy, imports, fertilisers and pesticides… This creates wastelands, deforestation, species extinction, [...]