Shamanic Healer in West Sussex
A sacred shamanic healing practice that works with spirit to restore balance, clear what is heavy, and return you to wholeness.
Do you feel stuck in patterns you cannot seem to shift? Is there a heaviness you carry that has no clear explanation, or a sense that something is missing at a level that talking alone cannot reach? Perhaps you have been through something significant, a loss, a rupture, or a period of profound change, and you sense that part of you has not fully returned.
If any of this feels familiar, you may be ready to receive shamanic healing.
I'm Lee Cuddis, and I have been walking the shamanic path for over 10 years, trained through a three-year initiatory programme with Second Sight Healing, where I learnt to work with compassionate spirits, ancestral wisdom, and the healing intelligence of the natural world.
This path chose me as much as I chose it. What I carry into every healing session is not just technique, but a deep reverence for the sacred relationship between practitioner, seeker, and spirit. Each session is unique, guided not by a fixed formula but by what spirit reveals is needed for your highest good.
I work from a traditional Mongolian yurt in West Sussex, a space held in ceremony and intentionally kept separate from the noise of everyday life. Here I offer three core healing practices: shamanic extraction, soul retrieval, and psychopomp work. Ancient practices, held in a modern context, offered with care and without judgement.
You do not need any prior experience of shamanism to receive a healing. Simply arrive with open heart, mind, and soul.
Duration
2-3 hours per session
3 sessions recommended
Cost
£150 per session
£30 off if 3 sessions booked
Location
West Sussex, UK
Format
In-person at the Yurt
Think of a shamanic healer as someone who works at a level that most conventional support doesn't reach. Not a therapist. Not a doctor. Something older than both.
The word 'shaman' comes from the Tungusic peoples of Siberia and North Asia, where shamanic practice has existed for tens of thousands of years. It is thought to mean "one who knows" and that meaning still holds today. Shamanic traditions have appeared independently across cultures on every continent, from the indigenous peoples of the Americas to the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, each with their own language and approach but sharing the same underlying understanding: that human beings need more than physical care to be truly well.
The shaman enters an altered state of consciousness, often through the rhythm of the drum, to travel between worlds and direct spiritual energies toward healing. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, shamanic healing looks at the whole person and what may be out of balance at a deeper level. It works to restore what has been lost, clear what does not belong, and bring the person back into alignment with their own wholeness.
What is a Shamanic Healing?
Shamanic healing isn't what most people imagine when they first hear the words. It's not performance, not theatre, and not something you need to believe in to benefit from.
At its simplest, it's a practice that works on the understanding that we are more than our thoughts and our bodies. That some of the heaviness we carry, the exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix, the sense that something is missing, the patterns we can't seem to shake, has roots somewhere deeper than the conscious mind can easily reach. We can achieve that by shamanic extraction, psychopomp work, soul retrieval, and many other practices.
A shamanic healing session creates the conditions for something to shift at that deeper level. Using techniques that have existed across cultures for thousands of years, including rhythm, stillness, and intentional inner work, it addresses what may be out of balance beneath the surface.
This is not a passive experience. The person receiving healing is an active participant, and the work that happens in the session continues to unfold in the days and weeks that follow.
You don't need to be spiritual to benefit. You just need to be open to the possibility that there's more going on than you can currently see.
Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt the tension in it? Or spent time around someone whose mood seemed to physically affect you? Most of us have had experiences like this without having a name for them.
In shamanic understanding, energy is real and it moves. Emotions, stress, and difficult experiences don't just pass through us and disappear. They can get lodged in the body's energetic field, where over time they contribute to feelings of heaviness, stagnation, low mood, or physical discomfort that doesn't seem to have a clear cause.
Shamanic extraction is the practice of locating and removing this displaced energy, what shamanic traditions call intrusions. These aren't understood as evil or malicious. They're simply energy that doesn't belong where it has settled, and because it doesn't belong there, it creates imbalance.
During an extraction healing, I enter a focused state of consciousness and work with helping spirits to sense where the energy is sitting and draw it out. Once removed, it's neutralised and transformed, and the space it leaves is filled with healing energy so nothing is simply left empty.
People often describe feeling noticeably lighter after an extraction, sometimes within the session itself, sometimes in the days that follow. A persistent tension they had stopped noticing. A physical heaviness that finally lifts. A renewed sense of being themselves again.
Most of us have a moment we can point to. A loss. An accident. A relationship that broke something in us. A period of life we got through but never quite came back from.
In shamanic understanding, this is not just emotional memory. It's a fracture in the soul itself.
When we experience trauma, shock, or profound loss, a part of our essential self can leave the body as a protective response. It's not weakness. It's survival. The psyche knows its limits, and soul loss is its way of shielding us from the full weight of an experience we weren't equipped to carry.
But what protects us in the short term can leave us diminished in the long term. The signs are recognisable: a persistent feeling of not being fully present, a numbness that doesn't lift, a sense that part of you stayed behind somewhere. Difficulty feeling joy. A vague but unshakeable sense of incompleteness. Going through the motions of life without fully inhabiting it.
Soul retrieval is the compassionate process of journeying to locate those lost parts and bring them home. Working with helping spirits, I travel into non-ordinary reality to find the fragmented essence, understand what caused it to leave, and gently restore it to the person it belongs to.
What people experience after soul retrieval varies. Some feel an immediate sense of return, a solidity, a warmth they'd forgotten was theirs. For others the shift is quieter, unfolding over days and weeks. What almost everyone describes is a renewed capacity to be present in their own life rather than watching it from a distance.
The word 'psychopomp' comes from the Greek, meaning "guide of souls". It is one of the oldest and most universal roles of the shaman, found across cultures from ancient Egypt to indigenous Siberia, always carrying the same essential purpose: to help souls that have not fully transitioned find their way.
In modern life, death is something we tend to sanitise and move quickly past. We don't often talk about what happens to those who remain behind or to the energy of those who have left. But anyone who has experienced a prolonged or unexplained grief, a heaviness in a home that doesn't shift, or a sense of presence that feels unsettled will know that death doesn't always resolve itself neatly.
Psychopomp work is called for when a soul appears to be earthbound, still attached to a person, a place, or an unfinished situation, rather than having moved fully into its next journey. This can manifest as a lingering heaviness in a building or piece of land, grief that feels unusually prolonged or stuck, or a sense that someone who has passed is still close in a way that doesn't feel at rest.
The work itself is quiet, careful, and deeply compassionate. I journey into the spirit world to locate the soul, understand what is keeping it tethered, and gently guide it toward its transition. This is not communication with the dead in the way most people imagine it. It is simply offering a passage, with reverence and without force, to something that hasn't yet found its way through.
For those left behind, this work can bring a profound sense of relief and closure. Grief often softens. Spaces feel lighter. Something that had no name settles.
This is for you if...
You carry a heaviness, an exhaustion, or a numbness that doesn't seem to shift no matter what you try.
You feel stuck in patterns that keep repeating, and you sense the roots go deeper than talking alone can reach.
You have been through something significant, a loss, a trauma, a rupture, and part of you hasn't fully come back.
You sense a presence, a lingering energy, or a grief that feels unusually heavy or prolonged.
You are open to something older and different, and willing to arrive with curiosity rather than certainty.
This may not be right for you if...
You are looking for a quick fix or expect complete resolution in a single session.
You are currently experiencing acute psychiatric distress (please seek a medical professional).
You are deeply uncomfortable with stillness, silence, or turning inward.
You need clinical evidence before you can engage with a practice.
The Fruits of the Work
A Sense of Coming Back to Yourself
That quiet but unmistakable feeling of being more fully present in your own life, more solid, more here, as though something that had been missing has quietly returned.
Heaviness That Finally Lifts
A release of what has been sitting in the body or the energetic field, sometimes for years. People often describe feeling noticeably lighter, clearer, and more like themselves within days of a session.
Grief That Finds Its Shape
Whether your own or connected to something unresolved around you, grief that has felt stuck or unusually prolonged often begins to move and soften after this work. Something settles.
Renewed Capacity for Life
Energy returns. Patterns that felt fixed begin to loosen. People find themselves making choices they couldn't make before, feeling emotions they had forgotten were available to them, and moving forward in ways that had previously felt blocked.
Your Guide
I have been walking the shamanic path for over 10 years, trained through a three-year initiatory programme with Second Sight Healing. What that training gave me wasn't a set of techniques. It gave me a way of seeing, an understanding that so much of what we carry as heaviness, stagnation, or a quiet sense of incompleteness has roots that ordinary life rarely gives us space to address.
Shamanism chose me as much as I chose it. My own healing journey brought me to this work, and that experience shapes how I hold the space for others. I know what it is to carry something you can't name. I know what it feels like when something finally shifts.
I work from a traditional Mongolian Yurt in West Sussex, a space held with intention and kept deliberately separate from the noise of everyday life. I have been offering shamanic healing through Ancient Voices since 2011, and I approach every session with the same care: no judgement, no agenda, simply a commitment to working with what is present and allowing spirit to guide the healing that is needed.
SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER
Lee Cuddis
Ready to take the first step?
Questions & Answers
Do I need to believe in shamanism for it to work?
No. Many people who come to me carry scepticism alongside their curiosity, and that is completely welcome. You don't need to hold any particular belief system. What helps is simply an openness to the process and a willingness to be present. The work meets you where you are.
Is shamanic healing a replacement for therapy or medical treatment?
What should I do after a session?
