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Christian Bonvin

Move it to Intent

Move it to Intent. If you had asked me what the cornerstone of the maker tradition is, I would say that, at this point, it is your intent—not mine, not even the intent of the tradition itself. Our intent is what matters most, and that is very different from many other traditions. So your path is shaped by who you are and who you intend to become in the world. In that sense it isn’t a belief system; it is a living, breathing system that emanates from your intent. This makes the expression of your
Christian Bonvin

On Seeing

On Seeing As I continue my personal work, I’m shifting toward more “seeing” practice this fall. I’m still working with the same thread, and this morning I began to recap its seeing. It was a very expansive recap—traversing the movement of death, erasing myself completely until my energy could connect with and perceive everything around me. What does the tree see? What does the dirt see? What does the earth see? You have to disappear entirely for true seeing to occur—a difficult movement for me,
Blogs By Holly Emmer

Jack of All Trades

When I first started my journey in the Maker tradition, I was determined to go through the whole training program and be the best shamanic practitioner — the best seer, the most finessed healer, the most… well, everything. I envisioned myself as being a beacon of shamanic expertise, effortlessly mastering every technique and practice, confidently wielding wisdom like a mystical Swiss Army knife, ready for every possible question a student may bring up. Turns out, I’m not a master of anything in
Blogs By Holly Emmer

Ancestral Threads

Like many, my knowledge of my ancestral heritage is a bit fuzzy. On my mother’s side, I know about the healers who quietly performed miracles in their attics and left behind a grimoire filled with Christian references that masked a touch of mystery. I even inherited the family’s crystal ball while clearing out the old farmhouse. Over time, I found myself naturally connecting with my ancestors -- especially through simple herbal remedies that proved invaluable when I was a young adult helping fri
Christian Bonvin

Healing moves from an old maker

This morning I started recapping with a view of the top of a wooden cupboard. It was beautiful wood, an antique for sure—very tall, and at the top, there were some papers, some rolled together. I did not try to look at them or read them; I didn’t think about doing that until just now, but there might be some information in them that could be useful. The room was on the second floor; there was grass outside, and a donkey was eating it. The space was very poorly lit—no electricity for sure. It was
Christian Bonvin

Self-Healing and Pain

My name is Christian Bonvin, and I am a teacher at the CaveShamans school. I have been teaching for a while now and would like to address something I’ve observed throughout my teaching and personal practice. This might be useful for you, the blog reader, or it might not, but shamans are accustomed to seeing patterns in people’s energy. Our job is to understand those patterns to help create a different path out of them. Think of most lives as living the same day over and over (at least mine was).
Belle Lantin

Finding my passion

Looking back when I took my first class here in CaveShamans where we need to set our biggest intent, it was a no brainer for me then, it was clear, I felt it and it does look easy to imagine, that was May 2015. 9 years have passed I have graduated lol all the Makers classes, healing, dreaming, moving, time travel and much more.. then teaching, helping new students find their path and most importantly their own healing. As student it did seem to me that the path was set for me to follow and it co
Belle Lantin

What Do I Want?

I thought this question had a very straightforward answer, let alone to experience it, but I found it’s not. Many years ago, while training on shamanism in the Maker tradition, one of the exercises we had was to practice how to affect an outcome. Reading the exercise looked doable, and I was so excited knowing that affecting and having the result of whatever we ‘want’ is the completeness of that desire. However, as I practiced it every day, I bumped into a realization which was a bit disappointi
Belle Lantin

What comes first: thoughts or emotions?

It reminded me of a classic question I heard as a kid: What comes first, the chicken or the egg? A question I still don’t have a clear answer to. Just a few minutes ago, I stumbled upon a Facebook post—someone promoting a product about self-healing. His bold claim? He could teach people to self-heal in under five minutes. I have to admit, I was tempted to buy the book. It sounded promising. I’ve been on my own self-healing journey for the last ten years, and I still wonder: is there really an en
Belle Lantin

Perception... we are at its mercy

I've come to believe that we are constantly creating our own world — each of us living in a private reality, occasionally overlapping with others. Some resonate with our version; others reject it. What feels real to one may seem like delusion to another. Most of us — myself included — spend much of our lives inside our own heads. The mind seems to have a mind of its own. We live on autopilot — what many call the unconscious state. In a class called Shamanic Mind, I learned something that changed

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