Sazhina, Vera (RUS)
Biography:
Vera Sazhina is shaman, deeply connected with Tuvan tradition. She had been called by spirits and started her shamanic road in the beginning of 90th. She got blessings and initiations of greate honourable Tuvan elder shaman and then after his passage for eternal Taiga she inherited his abilities to do good help for people, making shamanic rituals.
Founded the shamanic community in the memory of her teacher in Ulug-Hem region of Tuva, where she works every year during several monthes and the rest time receiving clients in Moscow as shaman.
Participant of international conferences on shamanism in Italy (by invitation "Where the eagles fly" society for shamanic researches 1998, 2000, 2005), in Norvey ("Riddu-Riddu" saami festival 2002), in Hungary (Dobogoko EUROTAS 1999), in Mongolia (by invitation of Mongol shaman community "Golomt" 2006).
Does rituals of purification from evil spirits, cleaning and blessing house, shepherd camp and cattle, rituals for passage the soul of a dead person, rituals for blessing shamanic tree, also does fortune prediction by means special stones, shamanic copper mirror etc.
Workshop: "Violence and Love in Shamanic Reality".
1. About Tuvan shamanic tradition.
2. How shaman deal with anger, cruelty, violence. How they understand and purify them to restore good life for person and society.
3. Shamanic ceremony.
commentary: it is very benefitial if we do fire ceremony with juniper and milk outside. Can we arrange? We need place on ground, woods, permition to make fire. If not we still do our ceremony for participants of our workshop inside doors.