Crazy Wisdom
What does a shamanic practitioner do? Mimi Young: Founder of CEREMONIE
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- shamanic practice
- ceremony
- spiritual healing
- stress management
- creative work
- consciousness
- indigenous traditions
About this episode
Mimi Young is a shamanic practitioner and founder of Ceremonie, a shamanic and ritual-based brand focusing on in-person and online shamanic education, Remote Shamanic Readings, and an aura + skincare line that is made in ceremony. Mimi works with a blend of modalities including core shamanism and botanical healing, hedge magick, and Chinese shamanic modalities, with a focus on integrating the subconscious with the conscious, past lives work, divination, dream work, ancestral healing, and divine feminine reawakening.
Mimi lives in the west coast of Canada with her partner and their two boys and is also a neurofeedback practitioner and owner of Open Minds Performance, a personal optimization business using neurofeedback to enhance peak performance, release blocks, expand consciousness, and build resilience within the brain.- Ceremonie:
- Open Minds Performance:
Episode transcript
Hi, my name is Stuart Allsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto
just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them.
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Mimi Young. She's a shamanic practitioner and a founder of Ceremony. And the first question I have. Well, and welcome to the show.
Okay. To answer that, I think it's important for me to define shaman and then to define shamanic practitioner simply because I don't refer to myself as a shaman. So a shaman is someone typically passed on through lineage or through very specific ordeals that are recognized within a cultural grouping. And they function as the messenger for the group, the messenger between the spirit world and the living human world. And the spirit world, of course, can include ancestors or animal, plant, divinity, other types of entities that they are communicating with. Oftentimes they deliver messages. They may travel to the spirit worlds to bring about resolution. There may even be sort of this, like, sacred dance and sacred battle that takes place. But. But they really are serving the group. And it's more like you're born into it and called into it more so than one would choose. It's not something that, you know, you would sort of consider like, oh, what would I like to be when I grow up? And you go down that route. And like I said, it's typically the term shaman is very regionalized and it is deeply linked to indigenous cultures. And shamanic practitioner is taking either a specific region in the practices and applying in the work that that particular practitioner does, or perhaps in the case of myself, is taking what is called core shamanism. So the core, the foundational ideas that are practiced universally across all cultures and applying it in one's practice. And I do make this distinction because a, I'm not born in, you know, a direct sort of one generation above handed down to me sort of lineage. And I did enter this by choice, even though in many cases just sort of how life was steering me. One could argue that, you know, perhaps it wasn't like a total choice. It was definitely something that the spirits were urging me to step into. But I really want to be mindful and respectful of the various traditions that still hold so much reverence to the role of a shaman.
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