Soul Shamanism Retreat - A Weekend with Your Soul - Catskill Mountains
2026-08-28 14:00 - 2026-08-30 14:00 UTC | Art Farm, Fawn lane Accord NY, NY, United States
“I accept the great adventure of being me,” Simone de Beauvoir.

A SACRED INVITATION
This is a profound opportunity for spiritual growth, awareness, and connection beyond anything you might have experienced. Universal wisdom allows students from all traditions to relate to, experience, learn from, transcend, and move deeply into their lives today.
3 Days 2 Nights, Follow-up Zoom Class for integration and completion.
I Love teaching on retreat as everyone has space to relax, receive, enjoy, and process.
Tuition $625. Lodging $130. = $755. by 8/18
Deposit $250 holds your place. Class size limited to 12 participants.
Join us on this journey to you. Imagine learning a direct process to know exactly who you are and why you are here now. Experience yourself on the most grounded human and spiritual levels to begin to know and live your authentic Self.
We learn to heal and trust ourselves on all levels as one divine human.
In this Ancient Siberian practice, advanced-level awareness, practice, healing, clearing, and manifesting occur as we release all that interferes.
Janet guides us with refined spiritual practices that help us move into this higher experience. We dive into our Spirit Lake, a territory that reflects our body and life in direct ways, informing us about what is occurring in our life, health, energy field, relationships, purpose, and more.
In this divine dimension, we feel at home. Next, we meet our Soul, called the Spirit Twin. Immediately, we feel connected, supported, and loved, and we begin to join body and Soul.
As we learn to navigate this territory and ourselves, and learn how it works, we align with universal laws and release ego limits. With continuous practice, we continue to grow and find that our daily life transcends our trained limitations, allowing us to live our authentic selves.
Our Soul twin is our divine Self, who loves us unconditionally, knows our personality, agreements, contracts, and lessons, and offers us wisdom in everyday life. In this practice, we begin to learn to walk our human and spiritual path with direct experience and understanding.
From this day forward, you will never feel alone. You will be empowered by the depth of who you are and all the spiritual connections and tools you’ve gained from this accelerated experiential class.Teaching seekers from children to elders has been exciting to experience and witness the deep personal connections and growth as they come home to themselves in myriad ways. You learn to trust your innate knowing, intuition, and Soul’s wisdom rather than struggle.
Who Is This For?
This Soul Shamanism Training has been developed for healers, teachers, therapists, coaches, yogis, and all seekers. Long-time Shamanic practitioners discover how this advanced spiritual practice empowers more direct healing and knowledge.
Offering this training in a retreat setting allows participants to integrate and relax away from daily responsibilities. This nurturing spiritual container of the Himalayan Institute supports our journeys.
This comprehensive training includes:
• All-new levels of teaching and experiences to deepen your journey.
• A Soul Shamanism Divine Playbook to support your practice.
• A recording of teachings with two practices to begin.
• Lecture, discussion, shamanic journeys, and other practices.
• Extended Hours post-retreat. Follow-up sessions on Zoom, allowing for full integration of this profound practice (Entire class sets dates for evening classes.
• Recordings of the class journeys and new practices to work with independently.
After completion, you can join an ongoing group of practitioners on Zoom for growth, learning, and practice to continue your education and journey. There will also be further classes to experience more levels of the practice.
Practical Details
Tuition: $625. Lodging. $130. Deposit $250. Balance Due by August 18. Limited to 12 participants. Join after August 18, if there is space.
Total cost: Tuition and housing $755.
Preparation Suggestion: A meditation practice — any style — is supportive.
Listen and practice the recorded class and preparation materials Janet sends you when you sign up.
Suggested, not required. Read the book “Entering the Circle” by Olga Kharitidi, MD, a psychiatrist and shaman, which references information about this practice and its lineage.
Illusions by Richard Bach is a great read. Fun story full of related wisdom.
Registration for this course is at the bottom of this page.
For a free introductory consult with Janet:
call 973 647 2500 or email Janet@BeTheMedicine.com
ART FARM RETREAT SPACE

We enjoy walks in the woods, bonfires at night, a star-filled sky, an outdoor soaking tub, visiting horses, and a nature-spirit-filled property. Janet also leads us through advanced Shamanic practices.
OUR RETREAT SPACE:
Art Farm is a farm converted to a retreat space in the Hudson Valley in the Catskill Mountains, west of New Paltz, off the NY Thruway and Route 209. Janet rents the cabins and acres of property for privacy. We have a main cabin and smaller cabins, each equipped with linens for sleeping and working together. A pine forest campground has a flush toilet and an outdoor stone-lined hot shower for tent campers. We provide our food and have an ample, fully equipped kitchen, along with indoor and outdoor seating options. It is suggested that we prepare something simple to make the most of our time.
THE WEEKEND:
We gather Friday afternoon, settle in, and enjoy a communal dinner. Friday night’s welcome ceremony marks the start of the weekend. We meet in learning and journeying sessions throughout the weekend, with space in between to integrate the energy and information we experience directly. We leave on Sunday, before or after lunch, as you decide. Our last session ends before noon. A follow-up evening of practice, integration, more learning, and healing will be held on Zoom on a night we all agree on.
A lovely community of people is always a delight to relax and be ourselves in this natural space. Dress comfortably with layers. Past students love this place for its homey feel.
Testimonials. Healing professionals and advanced seekers.

“This weekend workshop with Janet StraightArrow is a weekend with your Soul. With humor, wisdom, honesty, and compassion, she guides you back to your true Self. It is an amazing experience that must be felt! And I can tell you, you will never be the same. You will be transformed on a deep level; you will open to your gifts, your strengths, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery. This powerful first workshop with Janet blew me away. Be prepared to laugh, because being with Janet is like being with a wise, trusted friend. Be prepared to see things in a new way; her techniques are magically transforming and healing. I had a blast! PS. Janet teaches you in a way you don’t realize you’re being taught – the information amazingly flows into you. It is awesome!” Mary Nag. Reiki Master Healer-Teacher
“Working with the Spirit Lake and Spirit twin is a beautiful complement to all the healing work I do. It allows me to delve deeper into other work and experience healing that is both immediate and enduring. Janet teaches in a way that is sacred and safe, with wisdom and discernment that creates profound, lasting results.”
“The weekend was a learning about perception – moving out of my head and into pure experience. The tools of the art of perception were shared with clarity and power by Janet, and I was able to use them immediately to access life lessons during my Shamanic Journeys. Janet is truly a gifted teacher.”
“This class brought me to a place of being more centered with myself. The personal insights gained from practicing newly learned journeying and breathwork techniques were a magnificent gift to myself, assisting me on my healing journey. These techniques are easy to learn and invaluable to all!”
“My weekend with Janet was all about opening my mind, heart, and Soul. She created the space with her gentleness, insight, and warmth, allowing this opening to unfold naturally. I appreciate how she can cull wisdom from ancient practices and apply it to each student’s experience. A powerful workshop.”
“This workshop was a bringing together of me, a way to access me and be with me. A very safe space to speak my truth without judgment, shame, punishment, or shove. It solidified for me what the next step on my journey will be and provided a path toward it. Not only will this work support me on my journey, but it will also impact all the Patients and clients I work with.”
From Janet, “I have been honored to be a midwife to thousands of people in this practice. When I introduced my 80-year-old mother to this practice, she was in bliss and said,” I feel at home for the first time.” Everyone has a Spirit Lake and twin. From here, our journey is limitless.”
THE REAL DEAL “I have been working with Janet StraightArrow’s Soul Shamanism program for the past 5 years. Up until that point, I had accrued many accomplishments in the Healing Arts: three Master Reiki certificates, four courses of study with big-name Shamans, Theta healing, hypnotherapy, and many others. There is absolutely nothing out there at the level of what Janet is teaching! She has brought me forward in my life and healing practice in an expanded, beautiful way and upleveled me after many years of healing modalities that only brought me so far. Today, my life flows as I live in alignment with my authentic self, with the pain and traumas of the past transmuted and no longer playing out in my life. Janet is the real deal. Honest, with kindness and integrity. She is a powerhouse healer while still being compassionate and accessible, and very much in touch with her own humanity and story. This allows for vulnerability with safety and Love, which equals deep Healing on all levels. I am well beyond grateful and highly recommend her programs.” Kim M. Roche, Astrologer, Reiki Master, Shamanic Professional
JANET STRAIGHTARROW LINEAGE
“Janet’s teachings disintegrate the old neural pathways and create new ones to break out of old patterns that have been the default way of operating and living for generations and lifetimes. Her work lays the foundation for a new road for humanity’s future by merging ancient traditions with higher wisdom. Allowing the Soul and ego to work in harmony and unveiling the truth of being.” Tara Villani, Astrologer, Energy Healer, Shamanic Practitioner.
REGISTRATION

Upon registration, Janet sends you a 75-minute recording with teachings and practice to prepare you for the weekend. This is a deep-level experience that you can grow with for the rest of your life.
You will also need to complete a student form.
Call Janet before signing up, 973-647-2500, or email
Sign up early and secure your spot with a $250 deposit. Tuition: $625. Lodging $130. Final payment by August 18. Class size limited to 12. Join us if there is space in the class after August 18.
Tuition includes the entire weekend course.
A private in-person or Zoom session with Janet is recommended, but not required, to help prepare for the weekend.
Zelle 973-647-2500 Janet StraightArrow
Venmo @janet-straightarrow 973-647-2500
www.PayPal.me/JanetStraightArrow
Checks, reach out to Janet at 973-647-2500 or Janet@Bethemedicine.com
Please reach out to Janet with any questions.
YOUR GUIDE, AND THE JOURNEY TO SOUL SHAMANISM
“To have a true teacher who can communicate to everyone from different backgrounds the ‘truth’ of ‘love’, loving ourselves and loving each other, is a rare and miraculous gift. She knows when you have a question and need to express yourself, even if you’re afraid to. Janet kindly helps you reframe your words about yourself, your feelings, and others to better align with love and truth. What a genuinely amazing experience and teacher.” Claudia Barish Teicher, Yoga Teacher

Janet StraightArrow is a Master Shaman, Healer-Teacher, Sage, Yogi, and Astrologer.
As a Shaman, Janet holds a big energy of love and delight. She is honored and grateful to support the journeys of each person who is called to work with her. Six decades of focus and study on spirituality and healing have led her to experience and explore traditions and unexpected places worldwide, offering people an exciting journey.
Janet’s lifelong search has been to study and live the wisdom of the sages. She was born with the gift of discernment and the knowledge of Ancient Knowledge. Seeing the truth and illusions of what was happening in the world made it difficult for a child to understand.
In 1967, at the age of fifteen, she was given a dire diagnosis, without any hope. After recovering from shock, she remembered the divine truth inspired by Jesus’s example and teachings. She knew we could heal ourselves and decided to learn how to do so, becoming happy and healthy into old age.
Her life’s mission, Be The Medicine, was born. She has been inspired to develop a universal path to help others become their own medicine. Now, at the age of seventy-three, Janet has reached the first stage of her goal. The next phase of the journey may be the best, as she brings the journey’s fullness into the world.
Janet’s life has been a progressive journey of study, practice, and living through each stage; new questions have always led to answers. There was always another book, teacher, master, or practice to glean more clarity and wisdom. Janet relates to the spiritual healing and becoming journey as an adventure. Each step opened more truth and light to embrace. Her entire life has been extremely challenging, marked by resilience and accompanied by enormous gifts.
Janet’s focus has always been Universal; many paths became one as she honored and integrated all the foundational wisdoms of many traditions. Her studies with 150 teachers worldwide and her reading of thousands of books gave her information, tools, and many perspectives to learn from.
In 1981, Janet opened her first healing business, The Whole Foods Cooking School. She taught women how to heal and nourish their families with whole foods nutrition. She also taught tasty ways to prepare healthy meals with pure ingredients.
That same year, Janet began her yoga and meditation studies with the Himalayan Institute. She has always honored this lineage and is happy to bring her work to the Institute.
SHAMANIC CALLING

In 1992, Janet StraightArrow found her Shamanic calling after twenty-five years seeking complete healing of body, mind, and spirit. No one was more surprised than herself, a white woman from New Jersey, to accept and understand her true Self as a Shaman.
Her gifts and past-life memories have been continuously awakened since that moment of discovery. Janet experienced many spiritual initiations and energy risings as she continued her deep work with Shamans, Masters, Gurus, and Renowned Teachers.
In 1995, Janet began practicing and teaching healing and Shamanism, Reiki, and other spiritual healing modalities, and has offered continuous individual and group healing, coaching, and teaching in seven states, NYC, and on Zoom. Teaching has been a huge learning experience, too. She has mentored ongoing groups of students since 1999.
Soul Shamanism was born in 2003, when she was introduced to a Siberian Shamanic lineage. She was guided to grow this path into its wholeness, bridging refined levels of universal wisdom and healing mastery, along with embodied teachings and accelerated practices.
Teaching Soul Shamanism for 23 years has allowed the fullness, ongoing potential, and profound results to manifest into grounded spiritual experiences in how to live our innate power and truth. Continuous journeys into higher dimensions of healing and wisdom, from the sixth to the thirteenth, have been extraordinary.
Janet has several books in progress, and more workshops, training sessions, and online offerings are being scheduled. Yearly Vision Quest Ceremonies and other unique, transformative ceremonies and retreats help people deepen their personal journey and live their true selves.
More information about Janet, Be The Medicine, and Soul Shamanism is available on her website. www.BetheMedicine.com.
“A retreat with Janet is coming home. Janet’s teachings emerge from a place of unconditional love. You come away with you and your life forever changed. Making a choice to work with Janet is giving yourself the most beautiful gift in the world.” Beth Mund, Master Healer, Medium, Channel, Author, was mentored by Janet for several years.
REGISTRATION

Upon registration, Janet sends you a 75-minute recording with teachings and practice to prepare you for the weekend. This is a deep-level experience that you can grow with for the rest of your life.
You will also need to complete a student form.
Call Janet for a consult before signing up, 973-647-2500, or email
Sign up early and secure your spot with a $250 deposit. Tuition: $625. Lodging $130. Final payment in full by August 18. Class size limited to 12. Join us if there is space in the class after August 18.
Tuition includes the entire weekend course.
Total cost $755, tuition and housing.
A private in-person or Zoom session with Janet is recommended, but not required, to help prepare for the weekend.
Zelle 973-647-2500 Janet StraightArrow
Venmo @janet-straightarrow 973-647-2500
www.PayPal.me/JanetStraightArrow
Checks, reach out to Janet at 973-647-2500 or Janet@Bethemedicine.com
Please reach out to Janet with any questions.

Soul Shamanism - New Level - Deepening the Journey - Catskill Retreat
2026-10-23 14:00 - 2026-10-25 14:00
Enter a Deep Space of Higher Potentials & Possibilities.
Journey with higher-level guides and dimensions.
Learn to access deeper Healing and wisdom.
ARE YOU READY FOR A MORE PROFOUND ADVENTURE TO YOU?
“After 23 years of practice and teaching this work, I found so much more depth and breadth to explore, heal, and know how to be us as ascended beings in this world..I look forward to working with whoever is called to join us. Where we go, and what we learn, is always an adventure.” Janet StraightArrow
3 Days 2 Nights, Follow-up Zoom Class for Integration and Completion. I Love teaching on retreat as everyone has space to relax, receive, enjoy, and process.
Now that you have been practicing the first and more levels of connecting to your soul and inner space in the sixth dimension, we move into more experiences, higher dimensions, guides, and learning. Joy meets us as we experience so much more to learn and ascend with.
In this class, you will join more fully with your timeless Self-Soul and gain a clearer understanding of your life and soul purpose. We explore new dimensions of ourselves in higher realms and discover our true nature as divine humans, with solutions always available. Health, happiness, truth, beauty, light, Love, goodness, oneness, and peace are always within us, guiding us to live them today.
“I find that people who begin this journey can use and appreciate deeper teachings and ways to use this practice. I will advance all students and initiate them into higher dimensions as they learn to journey, heal, and be who they are on subtle and real levels. I will take the group and each participant to the next level in themselves.” Janet StraightArrow
Janet brings forth more profound teachings as you move more strongly into communion with you. Learning to move through any blocks into wholeness, health, happiness, truth, beauty, and light allows your entire life to transform into its perfect alignment.
Learn to know and heal yourself in simple, profound ways. Exploring deeper regions of the Lake and Twin, and ways to develop a daily practice, unfold. Working together helps us gain a better understanding of ourselves and others.
StraightArrow teaches you how to awaken your gifts and expand your perception in all areas of your life. Establishing a greater understanding and experience in the Spirit Lake and with the Spirit Twin offers you a unity of self that is a strong foundation for moving clearly in the world.
ART FARM RETREAT SPACE

We enjoy walks in the woods, bonfires at night, a star-filled sky, an outdoor soaking tub, visiting horses, and a nature-spirit-filled property. Janet also leads us through advanced Shamanic practices.
OUR RETREAT SPACE:
Art Farm is a farm converted to a retreat space in the Hudson Valley in the Catskill Mountains, west of New Paltz, off the NY Thruway and Route 209. Janet rents the cabins and acres of property for privacy. We have a main cabin and smaller cabins, each equipped with linens for sleeping and working together. A pine forest campground has a flush toilet and an outdoor stone-lined hot shower for tent campers. We provide our own food and have an ample, fully equipped kitchen, along with indoor and outdoor seating. It is suggested that we prepare something simple to make the most of our time.
THE WEEKEND:
We gather Friday afternoon, settle in, and enjoy a communal dinner. Friday night’s welcome ceremony marks the start of the weekend. We meet in learning and journeying sessions throughout the weekend, with space in between to integrate the energy and information we experience directly. We leave on Sunday, before or after lunch, as you decide. Our last session ends before noon. A follow-up evening of practice, integration, more learning, and Healing will be held on Zoom on a night we all agree on.
A lovely community of people is always a delight to relax and be ourselves in this natural space. Dress comfortably with layers. Past students love this place for its homey feel.

REGISTRATION.
Tuition $625 for the weekend, plus Zoom follow-up night.
$130 for lodging. Tuition and lodging together are $755.
Deposit to hold your place. $250.
Balance or payment in Full by October 14.
You can join the class after this date if there is space.
Sign up with Janet 973-647-2500 Email
Zelle Janet StraightArrow @ 973-647-2500
Venmo @janet-straightarrow 973-647-2500
Or use PayPal http://www.Paypal.me/janetstraightarrow
Please send checks in advance. Ask for details.
Join us in our ongoing Zoom community, before or after this class.
ONGOING STUDENT TESTIMONIALS

THE REAL DEAL “I have been working with Janet StraightArrow’s Soul Shamanism program for the past 5 years. Up until that point, I had accrued many accomplishments in the Healing Arts: three Master Reiki certificates, four courses of study with big-name Shamans, Theta Healing, hypnotherapy, and many others. There is absolutely nothing out there at the level of what Janet is teaching! She has brought me forward in my life and Healing practice in an expanded, beautiful way and upleveled me after many years of Healing modalities that only brought me so far. Today, my life flows as I live in alignment with my authentic self, with the pain and traumas of the past transmuted and no longer playing out in my life. Janet is the real deal. Honest, with kindness and integrity. She is a powerhouse healer while still being compassionate and accessible, and very much in touch with her own humanity and story. This allows for vulnerability with safety and Love, which equals deep Healing on all levels. I am well beyond grateful and highly recommend her programs.” Kim M. Roche, Astrologer, Reiki Master, Shamanic Professional

“Janet’s teachings disintegrate old neural pathways and create new ones to break out of default ways of operating and living that have been the norm for generations and lifetimes. Her work lays the foundation for a new road for humanity’s future by merging ancient traditions and higher wisdom. Allowing the soul and ego to work in harmony and unveiling the truth of being.” Tara Villari, Astrologer, Healer, Shamanic Professional

“Janet brings a rare blend of grounded wisdom and lightness to her teachings. She makes the deep work feel accessible and real, never too heavy or too precious. She doesn’t lead from a pedestal — she walks with you. Her presence is steady, spacious, and refreshingly human. Through her Soul Shamanism practices — which blend guided journeys, spiritual mentorship, and energy alignment — I’ve learned to return to my center again and again. Her work is rooted, clear, and practical. Over the years, her teachings have become a companion to all the modalities I work with — not the backbone, but a trusted ally. And to me. Her support has reminded me again and again of my own agency — the power I hold to welcome, release, and return to what’s true. I’ve come home to myself through this work many times — with more clarity about the role I play in my own life, and the Love I want to lead with. With deep gratitude, Jocelyn, Healer, Therapist, Artist, Coach
“Working with Janet StraightArrow has been life-changing for me. Her insights have opened up my eyes in ways I never dreamed possible. She uses humor and direct communication that bypass my natural defenses. Janet is the real deal. I am grateful to have crossed paths with her.” JN. Psychotherapist, Soul Shamanism Practitioner.

“I’ve been working with Janet for the last two years, and I recommend her highly. I have attended some of her workshops in person, met with her individually, and I attend her ongoing shamanic journeying groups. Janet is definitely the real deal, a true shaman. She is a very skilled and experienced guide. My life has changed rapidly since working with her, as I have navigated big life transitions with her support. Our work together has facilitated a far deeper relationship with my own soulful depth and has made room for me to connect to my ancestors and guides on my own. Additionally, I use many of the tools I have learned from her daily; they have allowed me to quickly clear myself energetically and be so much more present, as I can quickly center myself and clear thoughts that get in the way of being truly aligned with myself. After benefiting from many years of solid psychotherapy and Healing, Janet has taken my journey to the next level. She has been a powerful spiritual guide and teacher to me and continues to be. As a Psychotherapist myself, this work has deepened my ability to guide my clients on their own psycho-spiritual Healing journeys. “SB. Psychotherapist, Soul Shamanism Practitioner.
