Jane Engels-Smith

Jan Engels-Smith is a master of transformation. Through decades of experience as a shamanic practitioner and tenured teacher, she has integrated and then shared with her students the essence of change and well-being. 

Jan’s mission is to provide excellence in shamanic education and to support personal growth for well-being by adapting ancient healing techniques to contemporary life in the 21st Century. Jan is a leading expert in the shamanic healing field, having personally performed the shamanic healing method of soul retrieval over 3500 times. 

In 1994, Jan founded LightSong School of 21^st Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine and has developed the first energy medicine curriculum of its kind. The accredited LightSong series of courses welcomes those with a curious interest in energy medicine through to those who would like to obtain a Bachelors, Masters, or Doctorate in shamanism. Using shamanism and skills such as journeying, focusing the mind, self-discovery, and spiritual practices, Jan has built both a school and a vibrant, active community of healers, seekers, and well beings.

Jan has written two books: Through the Rabbit Hole: Exploring Energy and the Shamanic Journey and Becoming Yourself: The Journey from Head to Heart, which won the iUniverse Reader’s Choice Award. Jan has also produced two CDs: the shamanic drumming CD, Take Your Body With You, and Awaken~Unburden~Create, a 3-CD meditation package of shamanic principles.

Jan is a featured author in Shamanic Transformation: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening, edited by Itzhak Beery, and Shamanism in the New Millennium with best-selling authors Elizabeth Chasse and Cate Montana.

Jan writes a monthly article for the Sedona Journal of Emergence, and has been published in The Journal of Science and Healing with a case study titled, Shamanic Healing for Veterans with PTSD."