Shamanic Healing
Alvaro Romao is currently living and seeing clients in Saugerties, NY
Al has moved his practice from NJ to the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions of New York state. As a result he is no longer seeing clients out of his New Jersey location.
Due to Covid-19. Alvaro is not seeing clients at this time.
Alvaro does not work with, facilitate, organize any form of Plant Medicine.
Shamanism is a school of spiritual techniques that have been used by indigenous cultures since before written history. Many indigenous cultures that survive today continue to utilize shamanic practices within their community.
When used for healing, shamanism offers a venue for deep work to happen. Primary focuses include the restoration of personal power that has been lost or depleted, the removal of harmful energy that may be imbedded or attached to a person, and the balancing or fortification of our soul. The primary goal is to affect the proper spiritual shifts so that emotional, physical, and mental healing can take place.
It is important to remember that the practitioner is simply a
facilitator of healing; they are a willing vessel for the healing
spirits to move through. The true healing happens through the client
and through the healing spirits that are invited in for the work.
Healing Modalities that Al
offer's: (All listed below)
Shamanic Healing Ceremony
Shamanic healing ceremonies can assist a person with all facets of
life, spiritual, physical and emotional healing. The spirits
guide Al to what type of healing work may be needed for this session
with a client. A Shamanic healing ceremony may encompasses many
Shamanic Healing modalities of sounds and song and prayer.
Extraction Healing
Extraction healing is the shamanic technique of removing unwanted
energy within a person's auric field and within their person.
Al uses different types of extraction tools to help remove any
unwanted energy that may be within a person.
Through our lives and our daily contact with the physical world we
are bombarded by energies and thoughts that do not belong to us.
These energies can attach themselves and take up residence in our
being. This foreign energy can then create blockages and imbalance
that leads to physical illness, emotional blockages, and a lack on
mental clarity. Through the process of Extraction Healing I connect
to my helping spirits and scan a person on an energetic/spirit level
to detect where these energy intrusions reside. I then let my
helping spirits draw out these energy intrusions from a person so
that they can be returned back to the universe and go where they are
needed.
Soul Retrieval
Soul Retrieval is a process of returning fragmented, stifled, or
"lost" aspects of a person to them to restore wholeness of the soul.
Through trauma, extended neglect, or mistreatment we may suffer from
what is known as Susto or Soul Loss. This is a sense of feeling like
part of us is missing or no longer accessible. We may feel "dead" or
"numb" inside, apathetic about life, or as if we are a passenger in
our own body. Through Soul Retrieval a shaman enters a trance state
to find these missing or fragmented parts of the soul and return
them to a client with the aid of the healing spirits.
Sound Healing Therapy
Sound healing therapy can be extremely beneficial to a person who
is experiencing forms of sleep loss, nightmares, a loss of
connection to a person, place or thing. Or needing to go deep within
their soul's core for healing and transformation. I use all
types of sound healing instruments throughout this process.
Tibetan Singing bowls, African tongue drums, cymbals, rattles,
drums, chimes to name a few.
Throughout this session, let the sound bathe you in its vibrations
to help purify the mind, body and spirit.
Sound Healing Therapy sessions are 1 hour in length
and cost $80.
They do not include counseling.
Shamanic Counseling - Via
Phone, Skype or in person
This new offering is for those clients who are established
that are seeking counseling from a distance. These sessions
can be through either Skype or Phone and scheduled in advance.
The Shamanic Counseling sessions do not include any form of Shamanic
Healing, it includes divination and verbal communication to assist
you in your life.
Power Animal Retrieval
In most Shamanic cultures a person is accompanied throughout their
life with their personal power animal. We are all born with
this companion, but not always connected to our animal spirit.
During this ceremony, a person will be reunited with their Power
animal and rebirthed together to walk this life with o
ne another.
Each person receives a stone that has their personal power animal's
essence blown into for them to carry with them as a reminder of
their animal companion.
Psychopomp
Psychopomp is the process of assisting a spirit or soul to cross
over to the spirit world. In this healing ceremony, I will
help to assist a person or animal to "find the light" and to cross
over to the spirit world to be reunited with loved ones.
Gemstone Healing Therapy
Gemstones have incredible energy, spirit and life to them.
During this ceremony, I will use the many different gemstones and
sacred rocks that I have been gifted with to help in ones healing
process. Gemstone Healing can be very beneficial in assisting
a person with balancing their auric field, extracting unwanted energy
or to be filled with healing power of the intention used for the
specific stone. I will use a gemstone grid of anywhere from
10-30 stones, placing them on and around your body.
Lympia
This is a purification technique to cleanse a persons energy and
aura. We most commonly work with a fan of dried leaves from the
jungle called a chacapa. The leaves are shaken like a rattle and
used to sweep a person down, drawing harmful energy away from them
as this is done. The process is commonly accompanied by challay,
which is the ritual spraying of a person with flower waters.
Sometimes eggs are also used in this process to draw illness from
the body into the eggs- which are then burned or buried after the
ceremony.
Chumpi "Apu" Stone Healing
The word Chumpi translated in the "Quechua" language to the word
Belt. The word "Apu" translated to the word Mountain. In
Peru, a Curandero or Chumpi master uses these very unique healing
stones to create what is called the "bands of power" around a
person. This process can create bands of protection around a
person to shield them from any unwanted energy they may encounter
during their every day to day life.
Chumpi stones are also used in balancing a person's Chakra's.
I use 12 chumpi stones to balance all of a person's Chakra's.
I recently worked with a Shaman in Peru to receive the rites and
initiations to work with this very ancient healing ceremony.
Personal Power Retrieval
Throughout our daily life, we can be a like a sponge and absorb a
lot of energy that we may not need. Throughout this process, I
help to "ring you out" so that that heaviness one may be carrying
around is no longer present within your auric field. This process
assists a person in feeling their personal power and to feel whole
again.
Healing Rhythm's Drum Circle
During this evening, all participants will be joining together in a
beautiful circle of sound healing. Each circle is different
each month. Healing Rhythms encompasses sound healing, group
drumming and partnered work. See the calendar for an up and
coming drum circle near you.
Infant Blessing
Throughout many Indigenous cultures, upon a child's birth the tribe
Shaman would perform a blessing and ritual for the baby to help them
be protected with love, health and prosperity throughout their life.
In this ceremony, Al works with the infant with a power animal
retrieval and soul retrieval to assist the child in starting out
their beautiful life as pure as possible and to be connected to
their animal spirit to walk their life with them.
With this ceremony, I can travel to the home of the child or the
child with the parents may come to my healing space.
Shamanic healing and
Counseling for Gay men
Many gay men seek a place of safety, comfort and trust.
Sessions with another Gay man can assist in that process.
Opening your heart and soul to another man who understands.
Shamanic Healing for Adults with Autism or special needs
In the past couple of years I have been introduced to very specific
healing spirits that assist in helping a person who is Autistic.
I travel to the spirit worlds to meet them in their world to
communicate with the client and to work with healing techniques
within the spirit world. I also incorporate a lot of sound
healing within these sessions as the brain connects to the
vibrations of sound and healing.
Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied with their adult
guardian during all sessions.
Fairy Stone Healing Ceremony
Fairy stones are not to be thought of as connecting to the Fairy
realm or the Sidhe, this is a nickname for these specific stones
given by the Native Indians of Canada.
These stones are from the pacific Northwest Indian nations of the
United States and Canada and have been used by the native people's
for centuries in healing ceremonies and offerings to the spirits.
I work with these specific stones to assist a person in connecting
to their higher self, spirit and the creator. During this
ceremony, I will place the 12 Fairy Stones on or around you and use
sound therapy to activate the healing power within each stone to
bring power, healing and connection to the client. They can
also be used to assist a person in re-connecting them to their spirit
helpers.
Shamanic Divination
Shamanic Divination is a timeless tool that helps a
person seek healing and guidance through the casting of Sacred
Stones. This process
helps to bring the past, present and future together to aid and
empower a person to find the guidance they may need, to assist in
shifts and change within their life.