Workshops, Retreats and Courses
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This is a year long journey of self-discovery, compassion, and mindful living. This immersive experience guides you through monthly practices that expand awareness, deepen connection, and foster personal transformation. Each month focuses on a powerful theme—practical, spiritual, and transformative tools to help you live authentically and contribute meaningfully to the world around you.
Dates: Jan-Dec 2026
(First Wednesday of every month)
Time: 6:00 PM–8:00 PM PST
Format: Online via Zoom
Cost: $100 per month (+GST)
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This powerful four-day immersion Course is designed for Full Mesa Carriers, Doctors, Therapists, Yogis, and Martial Arts Experts seeking mastery in shamanic practice. Learn 12 transformative soul retrieval techniques to restore wholeness for yourself and others. Develop your professional shamanic or energy medicine practice in a deeply experiential environment. Located in Courtenay. B.C.
Dates: January 16-19. 2026
Time: 10:00 AM–8:00 PM
Format: In person only (12 ppl max)
Cost: $3,000 + GST
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Join Shaman and Author Nikki Hainstock for a year-long online mentorship and community space designed to support your spiritual growth and transformation.
Gather monthly to explore teachings, practices, and perspectives that will help you “see differently” and reshape your reality.
Dates: January–December 2026
(First Tuesday of each month)
Time: 7:00–8:30 PM
Format: Online (via Zoom)
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The Healer, The Warrior, The Teacher, The Visionary. Explore the sacred Medicine Wheel Teachings and the four directions that shape our journey through life. Develop an advanced understanding of how to orient yourself in the world and in your relationships through learning and integrating the profound tools and techniques, energy medicine practices and cosmology of shamanic teachings.
2026 SCHEDULE
• The South – The Healer: April 4–5 (10:00 AM–8:00 PM)
• The West – The Warrior: June 13–14 (10:00 AM–8:00 PM)
• The North – The Teacher: September 5–6. (10:00 AM–8:00 PM)
• The East – The Visionary: November 7–8. (10:00 AM–8:00 PM)Format: In person only
Location: Courtenay, BC
Cost: $3,000 + GST
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Spend your Valentine’s Day working on all of your relationships. A mastery training in how shamanic practices and perspectives can transform your life and relationships. Clarify your understanding of Self and Other through this profound, experiential two-day journey. Experience how this training can change the way you see, live, and love. A minimum number of registrants is required.
Date: February 14–15, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Cost: $600 + GST
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This intensive ‘spiritual bootcamp’ is an in-person training offering powerful tools and practices to enhance your life and relationships. Through the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, you’ll gain profound insight into personal transformation, healing, and balance.
Dates: March 6–9, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM–9:00 PM
Cost: $1,500 + GST
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The Mesa Advanced Mastery Training is a focused training for full Mesa Carriers ready to deepen their relationship with their Mesa. Learn advanced techniques for energy clearings (limpias), Mesa interpretation, client readings, and constellation work for systemic healing and change. Limited spaces available.
Dates: May 2-3, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Format: In-person or via Zoom
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Join Shamans Alfredo, Puma Quispe Singona and Nikki from Spiritwalk Retreats for the adventure of a lifetime! This sacred and joyful shamanic journey explores some of Peru’s most revered and energetic sites, combining ceremony, connection, and breathtaking natural beauty. Guided by his grandfather since childhood, Puma Quispe Singona walks the ancestral path of the Andean medicine man. His voice carries the echoes of the mountains and the wisdom of the elders, touching hearts across the globe as a keeper of ancient knowledge.
Highlights include: Cusco, Sacsayhuaman, Temple of the Moon, Temple of the Condor, Salkantay Trek, Machu Picchu, Huayna Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Pisac, Chinchero, Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies, Maras salt mines, weaving tours, and family interactions.
Dates: October 4–13, 2026
Location: Sacred Valley & Cusco Region, Peru
Cost: Single Person: $4,600 USD
* Save $500 each per person when you book TWO people (double occupancy - $4100 USD each.)
Includes: All internal transport from Cusco (private buses/trains/trekking), entry and site fees, 4-star accommodations for 8 nights, 1 night camping, all meals except 7 dinners, multiple ceremonies, and cultural experiences.
Surrogacy Workshops
Surrogacy work is used in a variety of therapeutic models. What do we do and how do we obtain closure when an exchange of energy is needed with someone we couldn’t or shouldn’t exchange with? ( ie someone who has passed on-parent, child, partner, enemy or an ex-partner, friend, colleague that we no longer choose contact with.) The techniques taught in this workshop show us how to channel for others, so that we can represent our Selves and our Needs without having to re-engage in relationships that wounded us. How do you say what you need to say to a rapist or perpetrator? How do you share what you need to with parents who are no longer living, who don’t agree with us, or who we don’t want to hurt? How do you communicate with someone no longer part of your day to day life? Surrogacy work allows a person or a place or piece of nature to act as a surrogate for whatever energy body you are needing to create closure or beauty with. It is work that brings liberation, completion, freedom and closure. Must have some training to attend these workshops. Contact me for details.
Affinity Removal Workshop
Why are we such habituated creatures and why do we get stuck in patterns and relationship themes that we can’t seem to get away from? When we find ourselves repeating patterns we might even know are not good for us, we likely have affinities for these events, lodged or coded into our spine. Affinity removals are an ancient Peruvian technique that remove these “magnet-like” affinities from our spinal column so that we can be supported in breaking free from damaging patterns, relationships and belief patterns. Contact me to find out more information.
Warrior Workshop
These workshops explore the archetype of the Warrior and teach us the techniques and practices of how to live without enemy, how to live without battle. In our day to day lives, we create so much battle, resistance and disharmony. We do this through small, daily, banal ways, but also through addictive behaviors and patterns, violent thought programs and behaviours, our own fears and insecurities. The greatest warrior has no fear of battle because no one will take them on, in effect, they walk in peace. How do we accomplish this, so that we are no longer in battle with ourselves, our families, our histories, our cultures, our partners, our children, our colleagues, our enemies? The teachings of the Warrior and all Warrior workshops guide us on this path. The primary teaching of all Warriors is how to be in “right use of power”. How to become clean and powerful, clear and brave and to face all our fears before we manifest them into physical form. This work is critical for any marginalized group or individual, as the resonance of trauma is often reverberated through inappropriate use of power. It shows up as hate, anger, violence, poor decision making, trauma based behaviours, addiction, victimized thinking. We act in ways we do not feel we control. We have lost power to our perpetrators and our experiences rather than be empowered by them, even with trauma based events. The Peaceful Warrior walks without enemy, battle, or victims. They leave light when they walk through darkness.
Contact me to find out more information.
Grief, Death & Loss Workshops
Death and loss, the one guarantee we have in life, is something that our culture has a very strange relationship with. We suffer and struggle with so many forms of death: divorce, leaving a job, moving, change after trauma, ending or changing of relationships, loss of country or culture, and the actual deaths of those we love. Shamanism teaches us that there are two things we know in this life: one, that we will die; the other, that we won’t. What does this mean and how do we navigate the world when our terrain or landscape changes through loss? Death is as beautiful as birth, and over the years of working with those who have legitimately passed over medically speaking, I have learned that when we dissolve back into only energy (when we leave the physical form), it is the purest joy, love and union, anyone I’ve met has known. In fact, I have been told numerous times, that it is so hard to come back into the physical form because the other side is just so dang great. So why do we fear death and loss so deeply? Our culture operates from a linear model, with a beginning, middle and end. Shamanism understands life through a circular model, astutely understanding the scientific principle of “energy doesn’t die, it just changes form.” The teachings, practices, and rituals of shamanic practice give us tools to navigate the terrain of death and loss, change and transformation, so that each of our life experiences feeds from the compost and bullshit of life, guiding us in how to create beauty from these challenging two legged experiences. Whether you’ve lost loved ones, your Self, ended relationships, or changed jobs, these courses will equip you to handle life’s transitions with grace, dignity, understanding and immense growth. Contact me to find out more information.
The Teacher, The Guru, The Fool
I don’t believe in guru’s. I do believe in teachers. Shamanism operates out of horizontal, not vertical, hierarchy. Inside each of us is our own greatest teacher. We are the only ones with our Selves at all times. When we have mastered our archetype of Teacher, we are detached from the outcome of events, accepting of what is, as it is, where it is. Yet we have the simultaneous skill of dreaming the world into being. How do we master the duality of this, being unattached to what happens while still dreaming our dreams into reality? Every one of us has been impacted throughout our lives by teachers, those who are both good at what they do and those who leave negative imprints that we might deal with for life. How do we walk the path of teacher with integrity, not just for ourselves and our students, but to serve the greater world at large? This course is designed to help us chart and navigate the routes towards being a masterful mentor. The responsibility of the teacher is great, as are the rewards of their fruit. Contact me to find out more information.
The Four Elements Mastery Training
We are made of earth, water, air and fire. The food that we eat is the body of the earth. The air that we breathe, the exhalation of the plants. The fire is in every chemical connection, idea, in our bodies, and we are made of 72% water. We are surrounded by these four elements working in a synergy together and yet we rarely study them, their relationships or how they affect and impact our lives.
Fire ceremony is the oldest ceremony on earth. We have gathered for thousands of years around fire, learning and listening to the stories of our creation. Each day, we are kept alive by the simple and profound act of breathing. Each time we cry, the rivers of our bodies show us our own waters. When we dance, work out, use our brains, we are firing-think of the word we use for neuron or motor use-firing! How is it that we have such essential and yet unconscious relationships to elements that govern our bodies and our world? This 2, 4, or 8 day course, takes us into deeper relationship with all these sacred elements. We learn tools, techniques, practices and ceremonies that bring us into right relationship with each of the four sacred elements. We learn how to read these elements and track the messages they send. Shamans understand the entire world as a living energy system. As we come into a masterful relationship with each element, we learn to further master the living energy grid that is all life. Get to know and understand the immense teachings, joys, powers and understandings that come thru these great elemental teachers. Contact me to find out more information.
Wunderkids Workshops
This is a shamanic course designed for parents, educators or anyone who loves or works with children. I often say that I can’t believe we do not learn the teachings that are shamanism in school, understanding the way I do, that these teachings are a tool box to use for living in right relationship. I wish with all of me, that I had been gifted these teachings when I was a child as they would’ve served me deeply and detoured me out of years of therapy. Our children are our lives. They become the reason for our breath, our greatest joy, and our deepest fears and sorrows. How can we serve them, as their stewards, guardians, and teachers? The teachings shared within this workshop are practical applicate daily and will change not only how you parent and see but also your child’s lived experience.
Fun, engaging, unique and refreshing, these tools draw from Indigenous Parenting Models, the Expressive Arts, shamanic practices, play therapy, traditional tools, to give parents and educators new and old dynamic techniques, tips and tools to help our children live lives of joy, right relationship, balance and reciprocity-essentially to guide our children into AYNI, a Quechua word that means all of those things. However you might show up for children in your world, this course will rock you, providing insight, joy, play and wisdom to be shared and shared and shared and shared. Contact me to find out more information.
