Gatherings and Teachings

BEGINGS SEPTEMBER 22 2026

Walking the Living Path is a year-long deepening in traditional Northern Siberian shamanism, held by us, Seranku and Syrada. For the first time, we are opening a journey of this length, gathering weekly through Zoom and committing ourselves to walking with the same group throughout an entire year.

Rather than moving through a fixed curriculum, we will return again and again to seven living roots: Spirit, the Living Land, Blood, the Human Heart, Practice, Healing, and Life. Through teachings, questions, traditional understanding, and gentle invitations between our gatherings, we allow the work to deepen slowly and become part of ordinary life.

This journey is for those who wish to move beyond shorter courses and individual teachings and remain with the path long enough for something deeper to unfold.

THE PATH

Some paths reveal themselves only through time.

They cannot be hurried, because they grow together with the seasons, with the land beneath our feet, with our ancestors, and with the ordinary days that slowly shape a human life. The shamanic path has always belonged to this kind of knowing. It unfolds over years, often over decades, sometimes over an entire lifetime. Every birth, every loss, every illness, every meeting, every landscape, every mistake, and every joy become part of the teaching. Eventually, we come to realise that life itself has become our greatest teacher.

Throughout the year, we will gather each week through Zoom, allowing the teachings to deepen gradually, one step at a time.

We, Seranku and Syrada, were both born into traditions where the shamanic path was never something separate from life itself. The knowledge we share is not something we simply studied. It has grown through lived experience, through family and those who walked before us, through the lands that have shaped us, and through decades of walking this path. Our work continues to be guided by traditional northern Siberian shamanic worldviews, by the relationships we hold with our teachers and elders, and by the understanding that tradition remains alive only when it is lived.

At the heart of what we carry together is a living thread connected to the Ngamtusu’o clan of the Avam Nganasan, a lineage remembered through generations of shamans. The name Ngamtusu’o has been translated as “generous” and “the one who fed”, while within the family another meaning has been remembered: the person who gave their last piece of food to someone who was hungry. Perhaps this, too, speaks of something essential within the path. Knowledge is not carried for oneself alone. What has been received carries responsibility.

Over the years, we have held shorter courses, gatherings, ceremonies, and teachings together. Walking the Living Path is the first time we are opening a deepening of this length and committing ourselves to walking with the same group through an entire year. It gives us something that shorter gatherings cannot: the time to remain with the teachings, to return to them as life changes, and to allow understanding to deepen slowly through experience.

Every gathering follows its own natural rhythm. Some evenings we may deepen into the traditional understanding of the soul and the many layers of the human being. At other times we may explore the relationship between the visible and unseen worlds, traditional shamanic journeying, drumming, dreams, ceremony, healing, plants and herbal wisdom, or the responsibilities carried by those who choose to walk this path. Sometimes the questions that arise naturally lead us somewhere entirely unexpected. We do not force the teachings into a fixed structure. We listen carefully to life, to spirit, and to what is needed in that particular moment, allowing each gathering to unfold with the respect and patience that this work deserves.

There will always be space for questions, yet there is never any expectation to speak or to share personal experiences. Some people learn by asking. Others by listening. Both have always belonged to the path.

From time to time, when life, distance, and circumstances naturally allow, there may also be opportunities for those who wish to gather with us in person. These moments are not part of the weekly journey, nor are they expected of anyone. They simply arise when the path itself invites us to meet.

Between our gatherings we will offer gentle invitations that allow the teachings to continue in the quiet rhythm of everyday life. Sometimes this may mean sitting beside the same tree through changing seasons, listening differently to the wind before beginning the day, paying closer attention to dreams, learning to recognise the language of birds, meeting a plant through time, or slowly rediscovering your relationship with the land beneath your own feet. These are not tasks to complete. They are simple invitations that allow the teachings to become part of ordinary life, because traditional shamanism has never been separate from the way we live.

Throughout the year we will gradually deepen into the northern Siberian shamanic worldview. Together we will explore the soul and the human being, spirits and relationship, ancestors and bloodline, traditional shamanic journeying, drumming, dreams, healing, illness, plants and herbal wisdom, ceremony, reciprocity, death, the changing seasons, and the living relationship between people, the land, animals, and the unseen world. Some evenings we may remain with one subject longer than expected because life itself asks us to. At other times, an unexpected question may open an entirely new doorway. That, too, belongs to the tradition.

More than anything, we hope this year allows each participant to deepen their own relationship with life. To recognise the living presence of the world around them. To walk with greater balance, greater responsibility, and greater humility. To discover that the path does not begin when the drum is lifted or when ceremony begins. It begins each morning when our feet meet the earth, and it continues with every choice we make throughout the day.

We look forward to walking this path together with you.

Seranku & Syrada

THE LIVING ROOTS

Throughout this year we will return again and again to seven living roots.

We call them roots because roots are never separate from one another. Beneath the surface they grow together, nourishing the same living tree. One root cannot thrive without the others. The deeper they reach into the earth, the stronger the whole tree becomes.

The shamanic path unfolds in much the same way. Wisdom is not gathered by collecting more teachings. It deepens through relationship. A teaching returns at another time in life and reveals a new layer. A ceremony speaks differently after grief than it did before. A place on the land that once seemed ordinary suddenly becomes alive because we ourselves have changed.

For that reason, we will not move through the year as though one subject is finished before the next begins. We will return to the same roots again and again, allowing them to deepen naturally. Sometimes one root may accompany us for several weeks. At other times, life itself or spirit may quietly lead us into another. We do not force this movement. We listen to it.

The roots are not a curriculum.
They are living relationships.

The Root of Spirit
The lifelong relationship with the spirit world through listening, prayer, discernment, dreams, silence, helping spirits, and the responsibilities that arise when spirit becomes part of everyday life.

The Root of the Living Land
Relationship with the land beneath our feet, sacred places, ancestral landscapes, mountains, waters, animals, plants and their wisdom, the changing seasons, reciprocity, and learning to recognise that the world has always been alive.

The Root of Blood
Bloodline, ancestry, birth, death, initiation, illness, memory, women’s blood, sacrifice, responsibility, and the living thread that continues through generations.

The Root of the Human Heart
Trust, courage, fear, humility, love, grief, relationships, responsibility, and the quiet work of becoming more deeply human.

The Root of Practice
Traditional shamanic journeying, drumming, ceremony, prayer, offerings, sacred objects, ethics, discernment, and allowing practice to mature through lived experience.

The Root of Healing
Balance, illness, suffering, healing, death, accompaniment, service, humility, herbal wisdom, and the understanding that healing begins with relationship.

The Root of Life
Bringing the path into ordinary life. Family, work, children, ageing, gratitude, joy, and discovering that the deepest teachings often reveal themselves in the simplest moments.

A tree does not ask which root is the most important. Each one quietly nourishes the same life.

We hope this year allows your own roots to reach a little deeper into the earth, so that whatever winds life may bring, you continue to stand with greater balance, greater humility, and greater trust in the path beneath your feet.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Walking the Living Path is a year-long journey. We gather live once each week through Zoom for approximately 1 to 1½ hours. Throughout the year there are natural pauses that follow the rhythm of life, including a longer break during the Christmas season and several weeks during the summer, allowing time for rest, family, and integration.

Although we hope participants are able to join the live gatherings whenever possible, we understand that life sometimes makes this difficult. Every session will therefore be recorded and made available through our online learning platform.

Each participant will receive their own personal login to our course platform, where all recordings, teaching materials, practical invitations, and additional resources shared throughout the year will be collected in one place. This allows you to revisit the teachings whenever you wish and to continue deepening your understanding at your own pace.

Access to the complete course platform will remain available throughout the programme and for an additional six months after the year has concluded, allowing time for reflection, integration, and returning to the teachings.

Walking the Living Path is open to participants aged 21 and over.

INVESTEMENT

Please reach out to us for more information.

serankusyrada@gmail.com