Soul Retrieval & the Guiding of Souls (In Person and Live Stream)

Soul Retrieval & the Guiding of Souls is a shamanic gathering at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, California, led by Isa Gucciardi. It is offered both in person and by live stream, so people can take part from the East Bay or from home. It suits anyone drawn to shamanic work with loss, grief, and the passage of the dying, and to the idea that parts of the self can be brought back into wholeness.

About Isa Gucciardi

Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., is a hypnotherapist and the Founding Director of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, a non-profit school for consciousness studies in Berkeley, California, founded in 2002. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis, a therapeutic model, and the author of Coming to Peace.

Her path into this work began early. She spent most of her early years in other countries before moving to the United States as a teenager, and she was struck by how little people around her wanted to talk about death. Reading Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying in the early seventies came as a relief. Years of volunteering in hospice settings, including the Zen Hospice Project, led her to a view she still holds: everyone grieves in their own way, and the most helpful thing is often to sit quietly and offer a non-judgmental space.

The Setting

The event is held at the Sacred Stream Center in Berkeley, California, the home of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream. Those who cannot travel can join through the live stream.