The Wisdom Path: Buddhist and Shamanic Practices for Healing Ourselves and the Earth
Isa Gucciardi and Robert Thurman
June 19 - 21, 2026
In a time of rapid change, uncertainty, and ecological disruption, Spiritual Wisdom offers a path to clarity, resilience, and purpose. This experiential course brings together the profound insight of enlightening practice—mindfulness of everythingness, loving compassion, and open-hearted generosity—with earth-gracing shamanic traditions that honor balance, interdependence, and the living intelligence of the natural world.
Through worldview analysis, guided meditations, shamanic journeying, simple ceremonies, and reflective dialogue, together we will learn to recognize the roots of imbalance and confusion in our lives. We will explore how fragmentation, loss of power, and disconnection can manifest as anxiety, depression, or addictive patterns—and how Buddhist and Shamanic teachings can combine to offer practical pathways toward healing and wholeness.
Together, we will examine how ancient wisdom can illuminate modern challenges: soothe collective anxiety, cultivate inner coherence, connect us better to nature and strengthen our capacity to meet challenges with presence and discernment. This course offers hands-on practice to calm the mind, open the heart, and anchor awareness with the body.
By the end of the course, you will have more tools to navigate uncertainty. This course welcomes both newcomers and experienced practitioners who seek a more integrated, grounded, and compassionate way of being in the world.
In this workshop, you will:
- Learn to recognize the roots of imbalance, confusion, and disconnection in your life
- Apply the Buddha’s teachings in modern, everyday contexts
- Discover shamanic practices to restore balance, heal power loss, and transform trauma-driven patterns
- Explore practical ways to remain centered and grounded amid personal and collective chaos.
- Learn to bring these teachings into your personal life, relationships, and community to foster positive change.
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Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., holds degrees and certificates in trans-personal psychology, cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, hypnotherapy, and transformational healing. She has spent over 30 years studying spiritual, therapeutic, and meditative techniques from around the world.
Isa is the creator of the ground-breaking therapeutic model, Depth Hypnosis, and the Founding Director of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream.
In addition to training hundreds of people to be spiritual counselors in Depth Hypnosis, she has taught thousands of students seeking personal growth in the Foundation of the Sacred Stream’s academic programs of Applied Shamanism, Applied Buddhist Psychology, Integrated Energy Medicine, and Empowered Living.
She teaches nationally and internationally and has an active counseling practice in San Francisco, CA.. Her clients include corporate executives, ministers and religious officials from all faiths, supervisors of social agencies, business coaches, psychotherapists, midwives, medical doctors, parents and everyday people seeking deeper understanding about themselves.
Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University as well as co-founder and President of Tibet House US and it's Menla Retreat & Spa. A world-wide lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, activist for the plight of the Tibetan people, translator of Buddhist texts, and writer of popular Buddhist books. He recently has been awarded the Padma Shri Award, India’s fourth highest civilian honor for achievement in enriching Indian education and literature. His most recent book is the 300 page graphic novel, Man of Peace: the Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
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