York_UK_shaman_shamanic practitioner_Nathalie Declunder-About Nathalie_spiritual guidance-spiritual healing-spiritual practice_Ark Healing

Our Journey: Over a Decade of Integrated Healing Expertise

Founded in June 2013, Ark Healing emerged from years of intensive study and deep personal transformation. My journey began with four years of rigorous training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, culminating in May 2012. This was quickly followed by the profound insights gained during the first year of the “Walking the Shaman’s Path Transformational Program” with Patricia White Buffalo.

Initially, my practice focused on individual energy healing sessions. However, driven by the encouragement of a cherished teacher, I soon expanded to working with small groups of seekers in what became known as the ShamYogagroup. This unique gathering seamlessly blended yoga practice with shamanic journeying, providing a holistic approach to inner work.

Over time, my passion and expertise naturally evolved towards comprehensive shamanic healing. This expanded focus now includes vital services such as:

  • Shamanic Home Clearing
  • Shamanic Land Clearing
  • Shamanic Prayer and Blessing

With over 15 years of experience in integrated healing, I combine extensive knowledge of the physical body, mind, heart/soul, and spirit. My unique skill set weaves together:

  • Mindful body movement
  • Intuitive energy healing
  • Transformative shamanic journeying & soul flight
  • A profound connection, allowing the Divine to direct my life and practice fully.

During every session, whether individual or group, the paramount focus remains on the client’s happiness and well-being. Our virtual platform via Zoom allows us to effectively cater to clients across multiple settings and diverse geographical locations, ensuring accessible healing for all. Among the powerful services we offer are:

Soul Retrieval

Ancestral Healing.

Home and Land Shamanic prayer and clearing

Embracing Inner Dimensions: The Quest for Freedom

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.

Ernest Holmes

These timeless words profoundly summarize the core of what we do.

Despite a significant career in veterinary medicine, an undeniable draw towards self-enquiry guided me. This quest led me to uncover the dormant power within us, often referred to as Kundalini Shakti or the Divine Feminine. Since my early teens, this innate divine intelligence has been a constant guide, helping me navigate life’s challenges and ultimately find my way back to my authentic self. I was a seeker, initially unaware of the precise nature of my quest, while the divine within was actively working to assist my endeavors.

Early in this journey, my focus was primarily on resolving negative life patterns – “tackling” perceived obstacles and unfulfilled desires.

Much later, I learned to shift beyond merely addressing the undesirable and began to profoundly appreciate the positive gifts and blessings laid upon my path.

I was incredibly fortunate to find the right mentors and support at every juncture, empowering me to surmount obstacles in my pursuit of contentment and happiness.

The profound happiness and deep contentment that followed years of intense spiritual advancement were unexpected and a truly humbling blessing.

Understanding the Seeker’s Path to Freedom

At Ark Healing, we recognize various stages on the spiritual journey. A “seeker” is fundamentally a person attempting to find or obtain something, often profound inner truths.

Curious seekers often find themselves at the very beginning of their spiritual journey, sometimes by serendipity or intellectual curiosity.

While fascinated by new concepts, they may initially lack the unwavering focus, perseverance, and patience that the deeper spiritual path demands.

At this stage, fascination often outweighs the understanding that true progress requires consistent inner work.

The allure of diverse external interests can easily divert one from sustained spiritual pursuit.

For those ready for deeper engagement, enquiry leads to inner development.

The revered Eastern sage Ramana Maharshi advocated Self-enquiry as the most direct and efficient path to spiritual progress, emphasizing contemplation and discernment of Vedanta truths.

In the West, inner development often falls within the domains of counselling, psychotherapy, and psychology – the “soft sciences.”

Ultimately, inner development is a deeply personal journey, with each individual stepping onto the path at their unique stage of maturity and prior growth.

While initial enquiry may be primarily intellectual, still involving the ego, it lays crucial groundwork for deeper transformation.

Ultimately, the deepest form of enquiry can become a profound question of life and death – facing one’s mortality while still alive.

At this stage, the desire to be liberated, the intense yearning for Freedom, becomes the sole, unwavering focus.

This profound spiritual clarity then makes further progress on the path effortless, as one aligns fully with the birthright of every living soul: absolute freedom.