Sacred Paths Shamanic School
This is not a course. It's a circle.
A two-year initiatory journey into the heart of the living world, rooted in Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism. Online, with your own land as the practice ground.
Tending this Fire Circle School since 2012.
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Since 2012
They remembered people back to themselves.
Hundreds of students from across the world have walked through these doors. Some came seeking healing. Some came seeking purpose. Some came because something in them was burning and they didn't know what to do with the fire.
All of them left changed. Not because I changed them, but because the practices did what they have always done.
The two-year arc
The online format carries the teaching. Your land carries the practice.
The school is rooted in Andean Cosmology, one of the oldest and most complete spiritual traditions on Earth, alongside Norse Shamanism, European ancestral practices, grief tending and animist wisdom. It is taught mainly online, for students anywhere in the world.
This is not passive learning. Every student practices, works with the land they stand on, and builds relationships with the more-than-human world in their own place.
There are chances to gather in person: retreats and ceremonies at La Ferme du Cerf Bleu in Burgundy, and for those called, a journey to Peru to sit with the Andean elders in the landscape where this teaching was born.
Enrollment closes once the circle begins. The circle starts together, walks together, and completes together. That is how real initiation works.
Two years, two thresholds
EarthWalker, then FireKeeper
Year 1
EarthWalker
Learning to walk on the Earth with your eyes open
The foundation stone. Not the easy stuff first and the hard stuff later: the real stuff from day one. For those arriving on the shamanic path for the first time, or walking it alone and needing a lineage, a community and a teacher. You need a body, a willingness to be honest, and the courage to feel what you have been trained to numb.
What you will learn
- The Andean Medicine Wheel, as a living map for understanding yourself, your relationships and your place in the web of life.
- The Three Worlds: UkuPacha, KayPacha and HananPacha, as lived realities you learn to move between in ceremony and daily life.
- Offerings and reciprocity: the Andean despacho, and the animist understanding that all relationship begins with giving.
- Self-healing practices: energy work, emotional release and grief tending. You cannot hold space for others until you can hold it for yourself.
- Signs, dreams and the language of the living world. Discernment, not wishful thinking.
- Spirit allies: real relationship with spirit animals, guides, plant teachers and the intelligence of the land.
- Protection and sacred boundaries: how to open and how to close.
Prerequisites: No prior experience required. Only sincerity.
Year 2
FireKeeper
Learning to tend the fire and carry it for others
You have walked the earth. You have learned to listen, to offer, to grieve, to read the signs. Now comes the harder question: what do you do with what you have been given? This is where the path shifts from personal practice to service. You learn what it means to hold a fire for others, and what it costs the one who holds it.
What you will learn
- Advanced shamanic healing: soul retrieval, cord cutting, energy clearing, extraction. Not techniques to collect. Responsibilities to carry.
- Ceremony leadership: creating sacred space, reading a room, holding what arises when people open to the unseen.
- Shamanic tools: drums, rattles and traditional instruments as extensions of your intent.
- Plant dieta and vision quests: guided plant medicine work and extended solo time in nature.
- Client work and community service: supervised practice with real people. Service is the point.
- Land guardianship: what it means to be a guardian of the land you live on.
Prerequisites: Completion of EarthWalker, or equivalent experience confirmed through application.
Beyond the school
When you are ready, you will be invited.
The journey does not end when the two years are done. For FireKeeper graduates who are called to continue, Angell offers advanced mentorship by personal invitation.
Not a third year with a curriculum. An apprenticeship in the old sense: sustained, intimate, shaped by the needs and gifts of the person in front of him. This is how the old traditions always worked.
Your teacher
Angell Deer
I raised forty million dollars in the corporate world. Then I walked away from every cent of it. I am a trained veterinarian. I have 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 began again on an old farm in France at midlife, with a young family.
For over twenty years I have studied and practiced within Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism, working closely with indigenous teachers, elders and wisdom keepers. At La Ferme du Cerf Bleu I am rewilding twenty acres, planting trees and tending bees along the old stone walls. The land is not a backdrop to this teaching. It is a teacher in its own right.
I do not create followers. I create sovereign practitioners who can stand on their own ground.
What makes this school different
This school is not for everyone.
It is for the ones who feel the call and have not been able to silence it. The ones who know that the life the empire handed them is not the life they were born for. The ones who sense that the more-than-human world is alive, intelligent, and waiting for them to show up. The ones willing to do the slow, unglamorous, sometimes painful work of becoming who they actually are.
It is not for spiritual tourists looking for another credential. It is not for people who want to consume indigenous wisdom without the accountability that comes with it. And it is not for anyone looking for a guru.
The teaching comes from over twenty years within the Andean and Norse traditions, from indigenous elders and wisdom keepers, from tending land, from sitting with grief, from failing and starting over. It is not theory. It is a path walked with my own feet.
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Step toward the fire.
The School works by application. Tell us about your path so far and which year is calling you. Every application is read and reviewed before acceptance.
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