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The Ennobling of the Heart is a love letter to the clients and students I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with during the last 24 years. Again and again, I’ve borne witness to their hearts becoming “ennobled”—uplifted and exalted—when they forge relationships with benevolent helping spirits.
Founding Instructor
Julie was introduced to core shamanism in 2000, which enabled her to begin cultivating direct relationships with compassionate helping spirits using the practice of shamanic journeying. While continuing to receive training as a shamanic practitioner and facilitator, Julie began leading workshops in 2003 in order to teach others how to use natural trance states to journey into the invisible dimensions of reality and partner with benevolent helping spirits.
Beginning in 2011, Julie expanded her offerings to include long-term trainings with the creation of The Sacred Call of the Healer, a yearlong immersion for practitioners across disciplines to increase their efficacy by engaging the power of the unseen world. In 2012, Julie developed The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation, a comprehensive training for cultivating the broad skillset, proficiency, and stability needed to provide professional shamanic healing to clients.
To date, Julie is honored to have facilitated over 60 stand-alone workshops; three cohorts of The Sacred Call of the Healer; and to have trained nearly 100 shamanic practitioners by way of three cohorts of The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation.
Julie is passionate about training committed practitioners as a way to contribute to the restoration of shamanic healing to its rightful place alongside Western and Eastern Medicine; Energy Medicine; psychiatry and psychotherapy; and hands-on healing. What distinguishes Julie’s orientation is her emphasis on spiritual healing as a catalyst for personal and collective evolution. Correspondingly, participants in Julie’s transformative circles appreciate them for their safety, depth, potency, and instructiveness.
Julie and her wife, Tami Simon, along with their two Spoodles, Raspberry and Bula, divide their time between Vancouver and Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Please note: While Julie Kramer has extensive experience as a shamanic and spiritual healing practitioner and trainer, she is not a physician, psychotherapist, or other licensed health care practitioner. Therefore, it is not to be construed that the services of Julie Kramer and/or the workshop or trainings offered on this website are the practice of medicine, psychotherapy or any other licensed health care practice.
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council
Location: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, B.C., Canada
The Signature of the Psychopomp
Location: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, B.C., Canada
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council
Location: Location: Virtual
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2019–2022)
Location: Pivoted to virtual due to the pandemic.
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2019–2022)
Location: Pivoted to virtual due to the pandemic.
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2019–2022)
Location: Pivoted to virtual due to the pandemic.
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Location: Virtual
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2017–2019)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2019–2022)
Location: Estes Park, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: two workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Location: three workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2017–2019)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Sounds True’s Year of Ceremony: Discovering Your Medicine Council: How to Activate Your Unique Medicine in Partnership with the Unseen World
Sounds True’s The Power of Shamanism: Sacred Stewardship: Tending to Your Home in Partnership with the Unseen World
Sounds True’s The Power of Shamanism: Discovering Your Medicine Council
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2017–2019)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: four workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
The Ancient Call of the Psychopomp
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
What Is Shamanic Healing?: A Complimentary Webinar
Casting the Circle: A Complimentary Webinar
Sounds True’s Year of Ceremony: The Chalice of Loss and Transition
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2012–2015)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2012–2015)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2012–2015)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Sacred Call of the Healer 2013: A Yearlong Shamanic Initiation
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: three workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
Psychopomp: The Soul’s Journey Home
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Sacred Call of the Healer 2012: A Yearlong Shamanic Initiation
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Art and Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three-Year Professional Training and Initiation
(2012–2015)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshop in Boone, NC, USA and two workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
The Mantle of the Healer: A Three-Day Shamanic Initiation
Location: Boone, NC, USA
The Sacred Call of the Healer 2011: A Nine-Month Shamanic Initiation
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshop in Seattle, WA, USA and two workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
The Art of Subtle Perception: A Training for Empaths
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
The Akashic Records: Accessing the Soul’s Story
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Art of Subtle Perception: A Training for Empaths
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Crossing Over Journey: Shamanic Tools for Assisting the Dying and the Dead
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshops in Seattle, WA, USA and three workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
Spirit Gates: Opening the Portals to the Divine
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Thresholds for Power: Clearing the Obstacles for Manifestation
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Cord Cutting: Resolving Energetic Enmeshment
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
The Convergence Between Your Biological and Spiritual Lineages
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Money and Spirit
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Past Lives: Healing Ancient Wounds and Patterns
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
The Art of Subtle Perception: A Training for Empaths
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Your True Path: Clarifying Your Life’s Purpose
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshop in Boone, NC, USA and two workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
The Convergence Between Your Biological and Spiritual Lineages
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Shine Your Light: Reclaiming Your Spiritual Power
Location: Boone, NC, USA
Drawing on the Power of Your Power Animals
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Transfiguration and Merging: Experiencing the Divine
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Cultivating Your Middle-World Allies
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshop in Boone, NC, USA and two workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
Shine Your Light: Reclaiming Your Spiritual Power
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshop in Boone, NC, USA and two workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
Shine Your Light: Reclaiming Your Spiritual Power
Location: Boone, NC, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshop in Boone, NC, USA and one workshop in Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: three workshops in Boulder, CO, USA
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Essential Shamanism
Locations: one workshop in Boulder, CO, USA and one workshop in Boone, NC, USA
Space Clearing, Psychopomp, and Blessing
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Curse Unraveling
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Mediumship
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Betsy Bergstrom’s Two-Year Compassionate Depossession Teacher Training
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Compassionate Depossession Intensive
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Betsy Bergstrom’s Wheel of Life Two-Year Middle-World Training
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Shamanic Extraction
Taught by: Ann Drucker
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Sandra Ingerman’s Two-Year Teacher Training
Taught by: Sandra Ingerman, MA
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA
Compassionate Depossession and Curse Unraveling (Level I)
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Shamanic Extraction Healing Training
Taught by: Dana Robinson (faculty member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies)
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Shamanism, Dying, and Beyond
Taught by: Julia Darnell, DDS (faculty member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Compassionate Depossession and Curse Unraveling (Level II)
Taught by: Betsy Bergstrom
Location: Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Medicine for the Earth
Taught by: Sandra Ingerman, MA
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA
The Way of the Shaman
Taught by: Julia Darnell, DDS (faculty member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies)
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Soul Retrieval
Taught by: Sandra Ingerman, MA
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA
The Way of the Shaman
Taught by: Leslie Conton, PhD (faculty member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies)
Location: Cortes Island, BC, Canada
In this video (produced by Sounds True, the multimedia company founded by Julie’s wife, Tami Simon), Julie takes viewers on a journey to discover their benevolent helping spirits. She does this by inviting us into a natural trance state through the use of rattling, whistling, singing, and drumming to access an unseen realm of existence. There, we are able to encounter “a teacher, a guide, a wisdom figure or wisdom being” who has particular qualities that can help us fulfill our soul’s purpose. Finally, she advises us what to do after we encounter our helping spirit (or spirits) in order to initiate “a shared, wholehearted, collaborative effort” with them that recognizes us as mature adults with our own inner knowing.
Countless people who have visited Hollyhock on Cortes Island, B.C., have a “Hollyhock Story” to share that describes a life-altering experience they had there, and I am no exception. In fact, in my case, three events took place at Hollyhock that shaped the course of my adult life: becoming introduced to my helping spirits and the path of core shamanism in 2000; meeting and falling in love with my now-wife, Tami, in 2001; and becoming co-stewards with Tami—as well as a gaggle of lovely humans—of a swath of forest on Cortes Island in 2004, where we have since built our sweet cottage.
After beginning a relationship with Tami, I became a transplanted Canadian living where she was based, in Boulder, Colorado, where my journey as a practitioner and teacher began to unfold. I would like to express my gratitude to the beloved beings who supported and inspired that honing process during the 21 years that we spent in Boulder.
I gratefully acknowledge Sandra Ingerman, whose early encouragement and continued mentorship have been invaluable to me. My studies with you as a little shoot laid the ground for my continued unfolding as a practitioner and facilitator. I continue to be in awe of your generativity, generosity, and capacity.
I gratefully acknowledge Betsy Bergstrom, who provided me with a spiritual vocabulary and framework that served as the foundation for my honing process. The healings, teachings, and initiations that I received from you catalyzed immense growth for me, and I’m profoundly grateful to you for helping me uncover my medicine.
I gratefully acknowledge the living memory and radiant spirit of Malidoma Patrice Somé, whose allyship was and is a precious gift to me. Thank you for naming my evolutionary trajectory in ways that I continually refer to and take heart from.
I gratefully acknowledge Devi Records, my therapist, mentor, and supervisor from 2004–2023. Thank you for consistently demonstrating impeccable boundaries, constancy, and the healing potential of the client/practitioner relationship. Thank you for providing the chalice for my healing, growth, and rewriting for 19 years. I became who I am because of you. I will carry your wise council in my heart for all the years to come.
I gratefully acknowledge Sherry Bauer, my family’s energy healer for nearly 20 years. You are the true embodiment of humble mastery. Thank you for being a boundless well of kindness and compassion.
I gratefully acknowledge my former and current clients and students. You are precious and luminous beings, and I thank you for teaching me about evolutionary soul companionship and giving me ways to share my medicine, which has been a gift beyond measure.
I gratefully acknowledge my benevolent helping spirits, those known and unknown to me, because of whom I am never alone. At some point along the way, teaching became my Teacher. Thank you for inviting me to carry your medicine in the human realm.
I gratefully acknowledge my wife, Tami Simon. Everything begins and ends with you.