Accredited Shamanic Practitioner Training Portugal, 2026
Internationally accredited training for therapists, energy workers, yoga teachers, and ceremony facilitator to facilitate dynamic and potent spaces for ceremonies, circles and group sessions; in a safe, authentic, grounded and professional container.
Twelve modules over an
8-day in-person retreat
There are 12 modules, each one being 3 hours in duration. Beáta also facilitates a 2-hour online integration session via Zoom after the program is complete, to assess how each person is going with the work.
This program is accredited with the International Energetic Healing Association. Each participant will have to bring their own shamanic frame drum.
- 01
Shamanic Worldview: Walking Between Worlds
An outline of what Shamanism is — core shamanism as a healing system, a path of ancient wisdom, a practical philosophy, a spiritual discipline, and a way of life.
- 02
The Medicine Wheel: A Metaphor for Life
Walking the Medicine Wheel for healing, transformation, awakening and empowerment, and learning to build and work with a medicine bundle (mesa) from the Andean tradition.
- 03
Creating Sacred Space: Power, Protection and Protocols
Learning how to create sacred space in the context of sacred ceremony and ritual practices — opening and closing space as an invitation for support, protection and guidance.
- 04
Shamanic Journeywork: Earth and Spirit Allies
The importance and value of working with power animals, and how totems — plant, animal and spirit — are an essential component of all shamanic practices.
- 05
Shadow Work: Gifts of Power
The importance of shadow work in terms of shamanism and healing. The personal shadow is the disowned self — everything inside us that we have avoided and kept in the dark.
- 06
Shamanic Healing, Clearing & Extraction Work: Understanding the Energy Body
Learning to read, heal, cleanse and work with the chakra systems of the body, including extraction healing methods — how to see, sense and remove localised illness and pain.
- 07
Shamanic Tools for Transformation: Working with Earth-Centred Practices
Working with earth energies and principles of ecopsychology for divination, healing and wellbeing — reading, clearing and blessing homes, landscapes and bodies of water.
- 08
Shamanic Drum, Rattle & Voice: The Power of Sound
How to work with the shamanic drum, rattle and your authentic voice to heal, move energy, or open and close sacred space.
- 09
Ancestor Work: Healing Your Lineage
Altering family patterns passed down for generations with a healing technique called 'Ancestral Lineage Clearing'.
- 10
Cord Cutting: Releasing Emotional Attachments
A spiritual healing process that energetically severs a negative attachment between you and another person, restoring your light body to its original state of being.
- 11
Soul Retrieval: Reclaiming the Fragmented Self
Tracking soul fragments left inter-dimensionally after trauma and returning them to the person receiving the healing.
- 12
The Shaman Within: Navigating the World of the Intangible
Exploring methods of observation beyond the five senses, and the limits, potential and function of each element of body, mind, emotions and soul.
This training is a must for you
If you're a therapist, psychologist, energy worker, space holder, workshop facilitator, plant ceremony facilitator or psychedelic therapist — this training is a must for you.
- Therapists and psychologists
- Energy workers
- Space holders and workshop facilitators
- Plant ceremony facilitators
- Psychedelic therapists
You will gain confidence in integrating earth centred practices using a shamanic approach to any coaching, clinical, group facilitation or natural health practice.
Monte Velho Eco Retreat Centre
Monte Velho is located in a remote and pristine area of southwest Portugal, where the land meets the Atlantic Ocean. Surrounded by the rugged cliffs and vast natural landscapes of the Costa Vicentina Natural Park, it is 75 minutes from Faro airport, overlooking a vast natural area of hills and trees.
All meals on site are vegetarian, consisting of organic products with the principles of organic farming. You will stay in spacious rooms tastefully decorated with terraces and private bathrooms. The Atlantic ocean and some of Portugal's most spectacular beaches are just 4 km away.
Accommodation — 7 nights, 8 days, per person
- Mixed dorm (6 beds), outdoor showers & bathroom
- €35 per person / night
- Quadruple room, private bathroom
- €70 per person / night
- Triple room suite, private bathroom
- €70 per person / night
- Private suite, private bathroom
- €140 single / €180 couple per night
- Tree house suite, double bed, private bathroom
- €140 single / €180 couple per night
Rooms are given on a first come, first served basis and to be paid in cash upon arrival. Accommodation is booked separately — please email to say which room option you would like reserved. Check in: 13 September, 3PM. Check out: 20 September, 10AM.
Accredited Shamanic Practitioner Training & all meals
Investment for training: €1,880 — including all workshops and modules, plus three vegetarian meals per day (vegan options available).
€1,880
Full payment to be made by 1st August 2026
- —All shamanic workshops & modules
- —Preparations, integrations & work processes
- —Inclusive of all meals for the duration of the retreat
- —2-hour online integration session after the program
€470 + 3 × €470
A non-refundable deposit of €470, then 3 payments of €470 monthly — total €1,880
- —Same full training program
- —Deposit is non-refundable
- —Monthly instalments
Not included: flights, transport to and from the venue, and accommodation. Rooms are given on a first come, first served basis and to be paid in cash upon arrival.
Scholarships: two part scholarships are available for Portuguese locals, single parents or students — upon request.
Beáta Alföldi
Beáta is an international retreat leader, medicine woman, workshop facilitator, author, shamanic practitioner, sound healer, ceremonial leader, seer and keynote speaker with a gift for assisting individuals through deep transformation.
She created the Integral Woman program for the Awareness Institute in Sydney, where she completed a two-year diploma in Shamanic and Energetic Healing. She has also lived in Peru and studied with various curanderos (healers) of the Amazon and Andes. Beáta contributed a chapter to the book Shamanism for the New Millennium, an Amazon #1 Bestseller, and is featured in the upcoming documentary film 'Women of Heart'.
Beáta creates grounded and transformational spaces, and is used to working with the deepest wounds in people — emotional and otherwise. She is considered by many to be a 'spiritual midwife', and helps people to birth their authentic nature. She currently lives between Mexico and Europe.
"There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible."
Take the first step
Send an enquiry to reserve your place, or to let Beáta know which accommodation option you would like reserved for you. Two part scholarships are available for Portuguese locals, single parents or students — upon request.
Or book a call with Beáta