The Most Powerful Session I’ve Ever Had With My Shaman

Photo by Lê Tân

I was instructed to take three deep breaths, each deeper than the last. In my mind’s eye, I saw myself on the back of my newest imaginary friend, Phoenix.

We soared up and up and up with the first two breaths and on the exhale of the third breath, Phoenix dove down and down and down and down — deep into my heart center — into the part of my soul shrouded in mist.