SHAMANIC SCHOOL & HEALING · LA FERME DU CERF BLEU · BURGUNDY, FRANCE
The medicine
is already
in you.
Shamanic school. Ceremony. Soul work.
Teaching rooted in twenty acres of rewilding land in Burgundy, France…
for the ones who feel the call and haven't answered it yet.
You already know something needs to change.
You've done the work. The therapy. The books. The retreats that promised transformation by Sunday afternoon. And still, the hollow is there. The feeling that the life you're living and the life your bones are aching for are running on parallel tracks… and the distance between them keeps growing.
You can feel the old world coming apart. The systems. The certainties. The stories you were handed about what a successful life is supposed to look like. Something in you knows the answer isn't another strategy. Another optimisation. Another course that teaches you to perform wellness while the ground shakes underneath.
The answer is older than that. Wilder. Closer to the bone.
You are not broken. You are remembering.
YOUR GUIDE
I raised forty million dollars in the corporate world. Then I walked away from every cent of it.
I'm Angell Deer. Trained veterinarian. Medicine man. I know the empire from the inside. I survived it, profited from it, and chose to leave. Not because I found something prettier… but because I could feel the machine eating the world. And eating me.
I've spoken at Harvard Business School and sat in ceremony with Andean elders at Lake Titicaca. I stewarded a sanctuary in the Catskills for twenty years, then uprooted everything and began again on a ruined farm in France at midlife, with a young family. I think in French. I write in English. I carry multiple cosmologies in one body. None of it cancels any of it out. All of it is true.
Now I live and teach at La Ferme du Cerf Bleu, an 18th-century farm in the heart of Burgundy. Twenty acres of rewilding land, old stone walls, beehives, an orchard that's slowly remembering what it was before the machines came. Everything I offer grows from this ground and from over twenty years of walking the path I'm inviting you onto.
Author of Becoming the Medicine (Hay House / Balboa Press) and The Sacred Web. Writer of the weekly Substack Rituals & Rebellion (15,000+ readers). Creator of Sacred Paths Shamanic School. Host of the Sacred Paths Podcast (100+ episodes). Beekeeper. Father. Sacred disruptor.
The fire does not tend itself. Neither does the soul.
More about Angell
FROM THE FIRE CIRCLE
What people say after sitting at this fire.
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I came to the Sacred Purpose Blueprint because I was successful and miserable, and I couldn't explain the miserable part to anyone in my life. Angell didn't try to fix me. He handed me a shovel and said 'dig.' Sixteen weeks later I had resigned from a career that was killing me slowly and started the work I'd been running from for a decade. I'm not richer. I'm alive.
— Michelle T. ·
SACRED PURPOSE BLUEPRINT
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I've studied with teachers who made me feel like I was always one more workshop away from being ready. EarthWalker was the opposite of that. Angell treats you like someone who already has the medicine in them and just needs help remembering where they put it. The circle held me through the hardest year of my life and I came out the other side knowing what I'm here for.
— Amanda R.
EARTHWALKER GRADUATE
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I came into the program because I struggled for years with my sacred business. Keeping it on the side, and keeping my corporate job (that I hated).
This really helped me to find my voice, and the container to grow my sacred business and finally soon be able to do this full time!
— John M.
SACRED BUSINESS MASTERY
WHERE DO YOU BEGIN?
Three ways in. One path home.
You don't need to see the whole map. You just need the next step.
"I'm Just Arriving"
You're curious. Something brought you here. You don't need a program. You need a taste of the real thing.
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The Animist's Field Guide FreeSeven practices for remembering your relationship with the living world.Download for Free →
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Becoming the Medicine: 21-Day Practice $67Twenty-one days of guided, embodied work. Where the teachings go from the page into your bones.Begin the 21 Days →
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Rituals & Rebellion on Substack Free / PaidWeekly essays. 12,000+ readers. A fire you can sit at from anywhere.Read & Subscribe →
"I'm Ready to Go Deeper"
You've been in this world for a while. You've read the essays, maybe done the Field Guide. Now you need a container. A guide. A sustained practice.
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Becoming the Mystic $197 · On-DemandFor the one who senses there is more to this life than what the empire taught them to see.Learn More →
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The Sacred Purpose Blueprint 16 Weeks · GuidedA mentored deep-dive to uncover the purpose buried under obligation and the old life. Three phases: Underworld, Middle World, Upper World.Learn More →
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Coaching & Mentoring One-on-OneFor those in transition, in crisis, or at the threshold of something they can feel but cannot yet name.Learn More →
"I Want to Walk the Path"
This is not information. This is initiation. You're called to the shamanic road, to community, to the kind of work that changes the shape of your life.
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Sacred Paths Shamanic SchoolA two-year initiatory path. EarthWalker (Year 1): ancient cosmologies, grief work, protection, offerings, dreams. FireKeeper (Year 2): advanced ceremony, healing, and the responsibilities of carrying the fire. A circle, not a course.Learn More →
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Retreats at La Ferme du Cerf BleuCome to the land in Burgundy. To write. To grieve. To mark a threshold. To let dawn and season do what no workshop can.Learn More →
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The Wild Hearth Gathering Monthly CircleTwo hours of grounded ritual, seasonal wisdom, and the small acts that change our days. Rituals and rebellion… gently, consistently, together.Learn More →
THE PLACE
Everything I teach comes from this ground.
La Ferme du Cerf Bleu. An 18th-century farm in the heart of Burgundy. Twenty acres of land in the slow, patient process of being returned to itself. Over a hundred trees planted. Beehives. An orchard remembering its wildness. Old stone walls that remember things the mind has forgotten.
This is where we hold retreats. Where the fire is lit every new moon. Where the owls arrive at 3am and the Burgundy fog fills the valley like a held breath.
The land is not a backdrop. It is a teacher.
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START HEERE
Start here. For free.
The Animist's Field Guide: 7 Practices for Remembering Your Relationship with the Living World.
A real book. Real medicine. Not a teaser, not a sales funnel in disguise. Seven practices you can begin tonight: greeting the land, making offerings, sitting with a tree, listening to the more-than-human world, tending your ancestors, and learning to close what you've opened.
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NEW BOOK
Becoming the Medicine
A shamanic guide with stories, practices, and rituals for the ones willing to walk the crooked path of remembering. Published by Hay House / Balboa Press.
This book is not something to read. It is something to live.
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