testimonials

‘Thank you for the beautiful work you are doing and being in service. I know you have helped many’. Sandra Ingerman Shamanic Teacher, Author and healer.

”Maxine is the punk shamanic teacher! She’s rock and roll and brought so much fun to my sacred questing, having boundaries, experience and honouring of where you are at. She takes no bullshit, as she said to me ‘never blag a seer’. The love she will hold you in to heal is palpable. Do her courses, take a leap!”. B, indie musician and former pop star in 90’s.

“Maxine Smillie is a deeply accomplished healer having built  a bridge between the most time-tested practices in the world; namely the shamanic arts and Chinese medicine. It is my pleasure to warmly recommend her to you so that you experience her wisdom, authenticity and potency of her work, ever tempered with integrity and compassion. You are in good hands.”  Simon Buxton  Founder/Director, The Sacred Trust

“Maxine brings to her work a subtle grace, married with a palpable sense of the sacred, a rare combination which enables the delivery of profound healing. She is a very fine practitioner embodying the work in all its fullness and colour ”  Naomi Lewis – Founder, The School of Animal Spirit Medicine

“Maxine  is a wonderful  Teacher of the old ways. I felt welcomed,  safe, supported and a space to be Me from the very 1st circle. Maxine has given me  many tools to work with and  gave me  the  confidence to  reach deeper inside myself  which  has brought profound changes on many levels to my life. Thank you for helping me to grow, reconnect &  smell the roses once again.”

Dawn, 2020 – Journey Circle and Transfiguration attendee

“The introduction to shamanism with Maxine was a beautiful experience. I have done a few. Shamanic courses that have been really good. Maxine’s approach was by far the most explorative and informative shamanic introduction where I learned a world more on the beauty of this wise and loving tradition. Maxine shares a wealth of knowledge and emanates so much love, the essence of who we are. I would really love to explore more of the shamanic traditions with Maxine.” Siobhan Swider – 2019 course attendee

“I did the Introduction to Shamanism course this year with Maxine. It helped to deepen my insight greater,  into doing a full one year practical course with Maxine. A one year course will give me the support and guidance, as well as the gifts, of journeying and all that shamanism is, and how I can use it in my every day to day life and moving forward, deepening my connection with nature and how I am interconnected in this web of life.  Maxine has a warm, loving approach steeped in her teachings and is deeply connected to her teachings. This shines through her” Christley Jones, 2019 course attendee

“I am now able to relate more consciously, to release old patterns of behaviour, and to live with greater ease. This healing has catalysed more integration within my self and without, affecting those I am with, and the environment in which I exist.”  Clare Parry-Jones

“I have attended several of Maxine’s courses, all of which have deepened my knowledge of Shamanism. The Practical Shamanism Course gave me a greater insight into Shamanism and it’s practices. But, it’s the Three Year Shamanic Healing Practitioner Training that has really taken me by surprise. I have finished the first year of the course and I’m eagerly awaiting the start of the second year. Working with Maxine is life changing: your life will change! I can tell you this from my own personal experiences. Yes, we go through Death and Re-birth, this is the Way of the Shaman, to shed layers of our in-authentic self. But as we heal ourselves, with Maxine as our guide: our connection to our true self and Spirit grows. ”  Gary Evans

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