TESTIMONIALS

Sacred Path Apprenticeship

 Poem for Chetna and Rahima
 
You are the black which dresses the night
Giving us courage to trust without sight
You are the gold which adorns the day
Observing its rhythms to steer our way.
 
You are the pillars standing tall and true
Keepers of teachings, old and new
You are the beacons casting the light
Creating safe space in which we unite.
 
You are the drum from which beats the pace
For walking with Spirit, in oneness and grace
You are the beauty from which we unfurl
With you raven-haired tresses and corn-gold curls.
 
You are the storm that laid bare the path
To loose our chains from ancient wrath
You are the moments of rest and calm
The in-breath, the out-breath, the steadying arm.
 
You are the Summer, the Winter, the Fall
The Springtime of promise to our questioning call
You are the garden in which we have grown
We are the fruits of the truth you have sown.
 
These are the truths to which we shall cleave
As empowered, rejoicing we take our leave
You’ve been our teachers, our guides and our friends
To whom we give thanks as this one journey ends.

A gift from the SPA Graduates 2017-2019

The two year practitioner course truly changed the course of my life!!  The teaching and support (which is on-going) surpasses any other training I have undertaken, it is truly authentic and from the heart, the training in itself is intense, if that is what you want, if a true connection and grounding with spirit and shamanic practice is what you are endeavouring to discover, you need look no further, Chetna is amazing and has a wealth of knowledge which she readily shares with in an honest and loving approach, lest we forget a sense of humour.  This training gave me the information, clarification, support and confidence in myself, the spiritual path, and to trust Existence, I became a better practitioner and truly know myself, two years of self-discovery on a deep level, it gave me the ability to teach others to journey, hold a monthly journey circle and share my love for shamanic trance dance.  The guidance and support of these two beautiful women, Chetna & Rahima shows no bounds, its a gift for your soul, take that leap of faith
D. Kidd

"Deep gratitude to you two ladies – your sharings and open hearts really hold the sacred space to unload and crash the gears a bit whilst learning the new skills and application of gifts and knowledge…  truly blessed to have found you both – I feel you are holding the doors wide open to the realms of higher frequency and our route maps for finding our true roles here on the blue planet"
D.R.

You both held the space beautifully that I felt able to let go and journey far, as I knew that the centre was strong and compassionate. I also felt able to ask any question I needed to. It was very wild and powerful but also very down to earth at the same time, and there was a lovely combination of theory, practice and then integration in nature.
P. McBeth

 I thoroughly enjoyed the course.  I am glad it was run over 2 years in order to allow time to practice and digest the work.  Each module was full of very interesting and fun topics and taught professionally in a very relaxed friendly atmosphere.  Some modules stretched the mind, while others were either relaxing or creative which was fun.  Students were allowed to rest if they found the day too tiring, no one was pushed beyond their comfort zone as some days were long when ceremony was involved, which was so profound and beautiful. 
I personally believe the course to be good value for money, as Chetna crammed in as much as she could of her vast knowledge.  I gained so much from each module learning different methods of healing.  I enjoyed being in circle and ceremony, as it is so supportive, and felt part of a community.   I feel blessed to have been allowed to learn this work as it is a wonderful experience which I can work with clients on. 
I would not hesitate in highly recommending this course to anyone who has the “calling” to shamanic work. 
D. Tyrell

"This course is beautifully crafted and carefully tailored by Chetna and Rahima .  It is bespoke to the participants and their evolving development requirements on multiple levels.    These two gifted individuals and their teams create a safe space to explore and develop a huge range of
energy and vibrational medicine.  Their kindness and compassion, signposting and willingness to share their wisdom to support you in finding your way make this course a positively life changing experience .  Step in with a heart and mind curious and willing to open - You will be amazed at the expansive support and harmony that awaits"
D. Rivers

Doing the Shamanic Practitioners Apprenticeship with Chetna has been life changing for me, both personally and professionally. I have been tremendously empowered and filled up by Chetna's depth of knowledge, passion and energy. Words cannot do justice to the experience I have had over the last two years. I have made huge leaps in my own self development and worked through many layers with the knowledge and tools I have gained. I am pleased to say that my own healing practice has also been taken to the next level too and I am now offering Shamanic Healing to my clients. Working with the Colour Rays also adds a dimension to the work that you will not find anywhere else.
If you are considering doing this Training for your own self development or to Practice, I would say jump in with both feet, you will be hugely rewarded.  Chetna is so full of light, a true shaman.   
R. Ferguson
www.rahimaferguson.co.uk

Over the last 7 years I have been a student of Chetna’s on various training programmes and workshops and also a recipient of one to one healing from her as a client.
What I value most about Chetna’s approach is her ability to draw upon her immensely broad and varied spiritual experience gained over many years.   Whilst teaching the disciplines of shamanic practice in a very clear, focused way with complete integrity, she is also able to make links to other spiritual practices.  This very inclusive approach has helped me put into context my other spiritual experience and weave it into my shamanic practice. Chetna honours and embraces other spiritual practices rather than taking the view that there is only one way.
Her workshops and training programmes are powerful and life changing but also great fun.  Most importantly I have always felt completely and utterly safe with Chetna’s  training and healing and never have any hesitation in doing whatever she asks of me to the best of my ability because I trust her totally even when I’m out of my comfort zone!
Her joyful energy holds groups together with great gentleness and supports people in exploring difficult areas for their personal development. She encourages her students to push their boundaries but always in a totally supportive way.
On a personal level, I also value Chetna for being very human, very honest and very down to earth. She never sets herself apart from her students or gives herself any special treatment, but is always there for all of us with our questions, concerns and crises along the way. A rare commodity in spiritual teachers.
I would thoroughly recommend anyone who wants to learn shamanic practices either for their own development or to help others and who is thinking of undertaking training in this area, to sign up for one of Chetna’s workshops or programmes. Chetna is also a very powerful and effective healer.
A. Gamblin
www.alisongamblin.com

The SPA has been amazing. My outer life and my inner vision, have both been expanded, extended and enriched with all the many wonderful experiences over the last 2 years, and I am building and returning to a deeper and more trusting relationship with my own wisdom. I am now feeling more rooted in my individual practice, with a more profound and explicit connection to spirit. Chetna has been truly 'with' and 'alongside' us every step of the way, with her wisdom, her commitment and her loving support. Deep Gratitudes. 
A. Sheppard
Shamanic Practitioner  
Integrative Arts Psychotherapist  

Chetna is a teacher who is authentic and honest, she speaks her truth, walks it.... says it like it is.... her knowledge and ability to share this with others is her true gift.  Her compassion, laughter and mischief guides you to find your true self... she is a gift to Earth and it’s been my honour to walk this path with her 
D. Kidd

The SPA led me on many wonderful journeys- to realms of magic, wisdom, beauty and joy. It brought me in touch with my true self and made me laugh in the radiance of the laughing rainbow and sing with the brightness of orange chorus.
Thank you Chetna for making these wonderful things possible.
M. Toorkey

Individual Healing Sessions

[....] I met with Chetna for the healing session I mentioned earlier. WOW!!
As a Kundalini Yoga teacher, I have experienced the energy of many healers from a number of traditions, but none were more powerful then what I experienced today. Chetna's presence, and work are simply Amazing!!
Let me give you a brief description of the experience.
I was on a massage table, and felt very much as if I were in the hands of a Native-American Medicine Woman, as she went into a trance-like state using a hand drum and rattles at times, invoking spirits and visions within not only herself, but me as well! It was calming, loving, supportive, and, like I say, amazing!
I highly recommend her to you!!
I encourage you to contact her.[ ...]
Again, I feel her work is quite illuminating and well worth the investment.
Dev Atma, Florida, USA

May I just say that I have felt pure joy since I left you - the way I always used to - something inside has knitted back together literally! I have a whole new meaning of the words ‘soul retrieval’ because I have just experienced it.
Magic!
A.S.

Colour Athenaeum

Thank you dear Chetna.  You are a great beacon in this world, and your path has enriched my own.  Much blessings and love to you!  
S.C. 

Thanks once again for a fab course. For sharing you wisdom freely with love. Deep gratitude for creating and holding the safe and sacred space with our NOR families element directions and beyond. Loved the calls the journal work and additional tips.
Liked the pre advice on who we were journeying for and the kind reminders ref call later etc. Particularly like your personal experiences as this helps as a reference point(s) for us newbies from 3D on our travels.
I feel I need to revisit mauve band and thank them all again for their patience and understanding gifts and advice and apologise for wriggling so much. I feel I understand why thanks to their generosity and your support. Bigggg hugs to you both and deepest gratitude for all
D.R 

This was the my first online course. I enjoyed the conference call each week and found it useful that it was recorded so that I was able to listen to it again. The colour rays were broken down into manageable segments each week and found the advice and information invaluable.
I thought the Earth Band Athenaeum course would be very gentle and subtle but found it very intense and the course very challenging. The colour rays are starting to integrate into my treatments and I am really pleased I decided to do the Earth Band Athenaeum course.
Thank you to Chetna and Rahima and to the Masters and Mistresses of the Colour Rays and to the ongoing journey!
Blessings!
Janet

I can find no words that define this body of work, if you are lucky some of the rays are also covered within the SPA training, otherwise an 8 week online community is the best way to explore this beautiful gift.  It is no secret that I struggled with connecting and accepting the colour ray masters or mistresses, it has taken me a while, a few years to understand and appreciate the wealth of healing, knowledge, expansion that this work teaches us.  Chetna's enthusiasm for the colour rays pours forth in the video chats and conference calls. The sharing of information is tenfold, the depth of this work is up to the individual and is ongoing. Your chart is both a gift, and annoying if you have a few rocks, it’s a snap shot of who/where you are at that point in time.... It is in my experience that the colour ray masters/mistresses are here to help us become the best version of ourselves.... to share them with the collective, with your clients if you are a healer or practitioner..... they drop in when you need them most.... Thank you all for sharing this amazing gift
D. Kidd

Colour Energy Medicine

It was a pure pleasure to attend Chetna and Rahima's Colour Energy Medicine workshop.
I felt held in a loving space, which enabled me to look honestly at events in my life which may have disrupted my Root Chakra.
There was an opportunity to revisit painful experiences and soothe them with a blessing. In looking without judgement at all the various soul lessons which had challenged my root, I was able to deepen my sense of self respect. I felt renewed power that I had survived and learned from these lessons.
I learned methods of rebalancing the root chakra using yogic positions, sacred chants and colour ray healing. I was able to receive messages and symbols, whilst on shamanic journeys and use these to facilitate healing.
In sacred space, we dipped in and out of the Red colour Ray's, allowing them to support us and teach us which gifts they brought to help balance our roots.
A beautiful and soulful weekend amongst friends in the stunning Dorset countryside.
V. Hall

This was an opportunity to explore the energy centres/chakras through meditation, journeying, crafting.... the root being the first weekend, this weekend was experiential, deep and beneficial, digging into those nooks and crannies of self, truly enlightening to discover those parts of shadow that still remain hidden, bringing them out to show them the light, as the weekend progresses through sharing, caring and sisterhood you begin to truly connect to your root and Mother Earth, this work is a true gift to self, for self-discovery and connection.  Both Chetna and Rahima bring a wealth of experience, love and compassion, which make you feel held, safe and supported, a beautiful weekend of sisterhood or brotherhood... for delving in deep 
D. Kidd

Medicine for the Earth

I have returned a few days ago from 'Medicine for the Earth'. My learning experience was awesome. Chetna has a deep understanding of the subject and her teaching is totally spirit driven.  The workshop was very fluid, allowing each one of us to deepen into the work at our own pace. It has had a profound resonance in me.
I loved being in a small group and being together all day sharing food that was just a divine experience, truly wholesome.
Throughout the workshop I felt held in a safe and nurturing space by Chetna's assistance, Rahima, who made sure we had all our needs met.
M. Niccolai 

Ancestral Healing

I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. Extremely powerful. It is amazing how we are all connected leaving and not beings and how strongly and deeply healing can happen.
I still feel strong energy around me and healing happening at my head level at the moment... Which is highly appreciated.
I was touched by the integrity and good intentions of everybody in the room, and touched by both Chetna and Rahima's genuine desire to help everybody's (and beyond) healing process with great respect. I felt very safe. You both have great gifts. Thank you !!!
On the practical level, I appreciated that we knew from the beginning that we were going to have a constellation or not. Everything was clear from the start, there was no drama and the closing meditation was amazing. In the past I left workshops with the feeling of unfinished business and carrying something unhelpful...not this time. I just feel my and ancestors healing/process is continuing in a helpful way.
+ The food was delicious! The venue welcoming & peaceful.Thank you!!!
With all my best wishes and love,
R.P

It’s hard to put in to words the power of healing experienced during these weekends. I have been a representative in many constellations and during a number of AH weekends. I am always blown away by the relation to my own line and sometimes what is going on for me personally at the time of doing the constellation. I can feel things shifting and healing and recalibrating themselves. My ancestors sighing with relief and feeling balance and peace being restored.
There have been a few times in my own experience when I have received deep healing, the placement I have been representing has opened an avenue of immense resonance. It is quite bewildering. It has a way of putting you in touch with the oneness, seeing that we are all truly connected and nothing is separate. 
A.R

I have found Chetna's Family Constellations to be an incredibly healing experience.  When representing a family member, I'm always dumb-founded by the accuracy to my own family line - it seems to co-incide exactly with what I need to face in my life in that moment!  The knowing-field seems to magically provoke and unravel.... it is always spot-on!  Being part of the constellation is such an invitation for whole-hearted unveiling and for harmonious re-wiring and healing.  I cannot recommend them strongly enough.
M.J.J.  

"I’m home and I wanted to let you know how much I have appreciated this weekend.  You are an amazing teacher, your connection to the ancestors, all spiritual teachers is really something.  I am always totally confident that you are able to transmit whatever is needed and trust you completely.
I look forward to when we meet up again"
L. Breene

Wow, wow, wow - this weekend is my favourite - I have explored this in its many forms, within the Tuesday group as a one-to-one, which left me coming away knowing for the first time in 43 years that I truly deserved to be here, that I did belong and I do exist, a deep healing!  It was the beginning of my love for this healing, since then I have attended several of these weekends, to have a constellation and to represent, and to take friends - you cannot truly define the knowing field, of how this works... Chetna holds the space and directs the healing with gentleness and knowing...  the use of ceremony builds a true grounding of the work.  You come away feeling humbled, healed, having shared yourself, your family with strangers, and yet coming away feeling you have just extended your family.... if you have family issues, unanswered questions, this weekend is recommended.... it fills the gaps, you come away feeling whole, with an appreciation of your ancestors and the bearing the gifts of the line 
D. Kidd