Laura Perry - author, artist, creator

I've decided to tidy up my online presence a bit. With that in mind, I'm moving my blog from its longtime location here on Blogspot to my website . I'll be leaving the Blogspot site up - the book reviews and a few other posts, anyway. If you have any particular posts you'd like me to migrate over, please let me know. As always, I'll announce Minoan Path blog posts  on my personal blog as well, for those who prefer to keep up with only one blog. Time for new adventures...

Today I'm reviewing another great book by Elen Sentier  - you can check out my earlier review of Elen of the Ways as well. Today's review is of the follow-up book titled Following the Deer Trods . Both books are part of the Shaman Pathways series by Moon Books , the lovely people who were so kind as to let me publish Ariadne's Thread . This is the best kind of sequel:  Following the Deer Trods  picks up where Elen of the Ways  leaves off, giving the reader more information about this fascinating spiritual path. While Elen of the Ways  introduces the major concepts of native British shamanism, Following the Deer Trods  provides an in-depth set of practical exercises that guide the reader along the way to learning how to practice this tradition on a daily basis. Like the other Shaman Pathways titles, the book isn't terribly long but it is meaty, full of information and instructions that you can really use. The descriptions of the worlds and directions ...

Shamanism - that's the strange thing that people used to do a long time ago in Siberia, right? It doesn't exist any more, right? Wrong. If you're interested in shamanism, there are multiple ways to approach the practice, and books are more accessible for many folks than workshops and classes. If you're like me and your heart calls to a particular part of the world, perhaps one of the places your ancestors came from, then you might want to investigate the shamanic practice that is native to that region. What place calls to me? Britain (among others). What book would I recommend to anyone who wants to learn about British shamanism and test those waters? Elen of the Ways by Elen Sentier. Yes, that's a reindeer on the cover. Long ago, when the ice sheets covered much of Europe and the shamans worked their magic in caves and small settlements, there were reindeer in Britain (and there are once again, in the Cairngorms in Scotland !). Though Elen appears to pe...