The Medicine Is You. This Practice Helps You Remember.
A 21-day guided companion to Becoming the Medicine — daily audio teachings, embodied practices, and journal prompts to close the gap between reading about shamanic wisdom and living it.
Begin the PracticeYou’ve felt it. That pull.
Something ancient moving under the surface of your busy, overscheduled, empire-approved life.
Maybe you read the book. Maybe you’ve been circling this path for years, picking up a practice here, a teaching there, never quite landing. Maybe you keep saying “someday” while the days stack up like unanswered letters from your own soul.
Here’s what I know after twenty years of walking this path, sitting with students, tending land, and holding ceremony: knowledge alone doesn’t change you. Practice does. Not the Instagram kind. The kind with dirt under your fingernails and silence that makes you uncomfortable and mornings where you show up even when you don’t feel like it.
This is that kind of practice.
Twenty-one days. Your feet on the ground. My voice in your ears each morning from La Ferme du Cerf Bleu, where the old pear trees and the bees and the Burgundy fog are as much a part of the teaching as anything I say. One embodied practice per day. One journal prompt to sit with. No special tools, no prerequisites, no spiritual performance required.
Just you. The elements. The ancestors. The animal at the edge of your awareness. And the slow, fierce remembering that the medicine was never out there. It was always in you.
What This Is
This is not a course. It’s a practice container.
Twenty-one mornings of audio teaching drawn from Becoming the Medicine, distilled into the essential truths your body can hold and your hands can work with. Each day offers one short teaching, one embodied practice you can do in five to fifteen minutes, and one journal prompt that goes deeper than the comfortable answers.
Three weeks. Three spirals. One transformation that doesn’t ask you to become someone new, but to remember who you’ve always been.
The Three Spirals
Week 1
GROUND (Days 1 to 7)
Before you can travel between worlds, you must know where your feet are.Â
You meet the living current of energy. You walk with the elements. You build sacred space. You listen to the Four Directions. By the end of the first week, the ground beneath your feet will feel different. Not because the ground changed. Because you did.
Week 2
RELATE (Days 8 to 14)
You are not alone. You never were.
You call on the ancestors. You meet your animal guides. You listen to the green world. You stand at the threshold between worlds and learn to trust the descent. This is the week where the practice becomes relational, where you remember that you are held by a web of intelligence far older and wiser than the one empire built.
Week 3
BECOME (Days 15 to 21)
The medicine was never out there.
It was always in you.
You move your body as prayer. You listen to the drum inside you. You tend your dreams. You face the vision you’ve been avoiding. You create something with your hands. And on the final day, you return to where you started and discover you are not the same person who began.
What You Receive
21 audio teachings
recorded in Angell’s voice from La Ferme du Cerf Bleu. Three to five minutes each. Intimate, direct, drawn from the book and from the land. Each one ends with your practice for the day.     Â
A downloadable journal companion
(PDF). One page per day with the practice, the prompt, and space to write. Plus weekly reflection pages and guidance for carrying the practice beyond Day 21.Â
Lifetime access.
Come back to the practice whenever the world gets loud and your soul gets quiet. Walk the spiral again. It will meet you differently each time.
Who This Is ForÂ
You don’t need to have read Becoming the Medicine to begin this practice
(though the book and the 21 days are powerful companions to each other).Â
You don’t need experience with shamanic work, meditation, or any spiritual tradition.Â
You do need a willingness to show up for twenty-one mornings. To sit in silence when it’s uncomfortable.
To feel what you’ve been avoiding. To let the land, the elements, and your own body teach you something your mind alone cannot.Â
If you’ve been circling the fire for a while now, wondering when you’ll feel ready... this is your invitation to stop wondering and sit down.
$67
Lifetime access. Begin whenever you’re ready.
You don’t walk this path to become someone new.
You walk it to remember who you’ve always been
The fire is lit. There’s a seat.
About Angell Deer
Angell Deer is a medicine man, animist teacher, author, and sacred disruptor. Trained as a veterinarian, he spent twenty years in ceremony and corporate fundraising before walking away to devote his life fully to the path.
He is the author of Becoming the Medicine (Balboa Press / Hay House), founder of Sacred Paths, and host of the Sacred Paths podcast. He writes the Substack newsletter Rituals and Rebellion to over 12,000 subscribers.
He lives with his family at La Ferme du Cerf Bleu, an 18th-century farm in Burgundy, France, where they are rewilding 20 acres. He teaches from a lineage rooted in Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism, with over 20 years of study and practice.
He has spoken at Harvard Business School, the French Embassy in New York, and international conferences.