That's where Simon's Shamanic background comes in, bringing in the perspective on life that is called animism. It's the most ancient, original way that humans have been seeing and experiencing the world. You can still find it among different indigenous cultures to this day. It's the idea that everything around us has spirit, soul and consciousness, even trees, animals, stones and the four elements. It's not just us humans that have consciousness and a soul.

Everything is alive and self-aware in its own way. We can expand our understanding of what's alive and conscious. It can include the natural world around us, which connects to the masculine and feminine energies. Taking us into a deeper view of ourselves and our connections to everything in the world, can start to help us see a map of our soul. It's about finding that balance, not just within ourselves, but also in how we consciously relate to the natural world around us.

This connection with nature is really essential to the Soul Bath practice. It's all about tapping into those powerful energies and forces of nature, the earth and the sun for deeper energetic healing and transformation.

The practice is simple. It's designed it to be quick, something you can easily integrate even if you have a really busy schedule. Because not everyone can carve out a whole weekend, a full retreat or even just an hour every day for elaborate practices.

There are currently three different workshops on rotation and each one has the Soul Bath practice at its core. Men's Initiation, Men's Alchemy and Conscious Relationship. The last one is not just for men but also for women.

Soul Bath - Men's Initiation is about the activation of the harmonious masculine energy by clearing and healing the wounds that create recurring behavioral patterns in our lives. It's a way for men to come into their fullness and inner strength through the self-healing aspects of Soul Bath. Additionally, it's about the men's initiation through a shamanic journey that is then repeated in its short form in your Soul Bath practice on your own. As well has healing, it's about self-empowerment.

Soul Bath - Men's Alchemy delves into the tantric knowledge of how to transmute sexual energy, so this energy can be made available in a transformed way in all areas of life such as creativity, manifesting goals, mental acuity, health, longevity and of course being able to guide sexual energies during love making. It is a huge emancipation from the sinus curve of energy build up, frustration and then depletion, which many men suffer from. It can liberate all those energies that were previously locked in a seemingly inescapable cycle.

Soul Bath - Conscious Relationship is about taking responsibility for recurring patterns that stem from old wounds. Rather than projecting on the other, we can take responsibility when we are feeling triggered and openly communicate that we need time to investigate what is coming up as a layer. We can then prioritize the healing of this layer by integrating the healing process into our Soul Bath practice. Rather than trying to delve deep once and for all, we can start to heal layers that come up from the past bit by bit in a daily short form shamanic healing. For soul parts that are frozen in an old pain this approach can actually have more effective results. The Soul Bath practice can help both feel emotionally safe in a relationship in which each one takes responsibility for their unconscious behavioral patterns and prioritizes healing them.

Simon breaks the Soul Bath practice down into three phases.

Phase I

It starts with grounding yourself, connecting with the earth's energy, by speaking your intention to connect and by then visualizing roots extending from your energetic root center down into the earth. Speaking your intentions while being in your own meditative state powerfully connects the energies more than just meditating on them connecting. Words are powerful in how they shape our energetic field. Especially words and intentions we repeat in a daily practice.

After connecting with the earth you visualize any negativity, stress, anxiety, anything that's weighing you down, to be cleared out of your body, with powerful phrases that you use during this phase. It's a guided shamanic meditation that you learn to do in the workshops, private sessions and online classes.

It's about really engaging with the earth and the sun as conscious beings in this process. asking for their support and clearing out those old energies and making space for healing. It's a very different way of thinking of our relationship with nature.

Phase II

In the second phase you connect with your most subtle innermost being and your own access to source, letting the source energy flow through you, activating your self-love for healing the soul part you are working with and prioritizing for a few weeks.

Phase III

In the third phase it's about receiving the sun's energy, feeling it kind of wash over you, revitalizing you, re-energizing your whole being, giving you time where you are consciously bathing in the energies of the earth and the sun. That's the intention, for it to be a daily spiritual cleanse. Remarkably, you don't need any special equipment or years of training to do this. You can literally do it anywhere, anytime after learning it and following the guided meditation.

With this grid as the basis for your daily practice you can then slot in any topic you encounter in your daily life, that needs healing. Apart from that you can start to incorporate the transmutation of sexual energy, the healing of behavioral patterns, disentanglement practices, building up of positive energy and coming more and more into your inner strength. Shedding energies of pain, frustration, anger and sadness you may have accumulated over time can be methodically cleared out and the corresponding soul parts bathed in healing energy every day.