This is a Guided Meditation to help you connect to the wild ones inside of you and surrounding you in the natural world.

This was recorded live during an online workshop entitled 'Animal Communication & Dreaming into the Animal Kingdom', hosted by the College of Psychic Studies.

Meditation To Connect To The Wild Ones.WAV

John was interviewed by Bhima from East West bookshop in Seattle about 'Ubuntu 101'
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30 / 04 / 2021 - The EastWest Bookstore - Ubuntu 101 With John Lockley

John recently took part in an online summit, the Shamanic Dreamkeepers from May 4-7th 2021 with over 30 Healers, mystics and shamans from around the world.

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4 - 7 / 05 / 2021 - Shamanic Dreamkeepers Summit 2021 - The Prophet's Dream

John spoke on a Ram Dass Fellowship livestream about healing ‘hungry ghost’ energy or rampant consumerism evident in the modern world.

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5 / 04 / 2021 - The Ram Dass Fellowship -  Healing Hungry Ghosts With John Lockley

John was interviewed by Renee Baribeau, the author of The Practical Shaman. Renee interviewed John as part of the December 2020 IAM Solstice Symposium.

22 / 12 / 2020 - IAM Symposium

John Lockley is a shaman trained in the Xhosa tradition of South African shamanic culture. He is one of the first white men in  history to become a fully initiated sangoma in the Xhosa lineage. He is the author of the book Leopard Warrior. Find him at www.johnlockley.com

Hear John discuss:

How he experienced the invitation to shamanism, why the path opens through invitation, not choice, and why his training was essential for the recovery of his health after years of illness. “Part of taking your power back is realizing, I am in complete control of my own healing.”

How apartheid delayed his training, and what it has meant to be a white man trained in the Xhosa tradition.

His Xhosa shamanic name and its indication of his role as a bridge between the spirit and physical worlds, and between the Xhosa African and western worlds.

How he distinguishes between shamanic illness and soul sickness, why he believes soul sickness is now so common in the western world, and how he believes it can be healed.

Ubuntu: ‘I am who I am because of who we all are.’ And what it means now for humans and Earth, given ubuntu’s presence in world religions, not only African understanding.

“We as human beings are the custodians of mother Earth—we have a responsibility to look after the plants, the soil…”

“We have to learn the language of the wilderness in order to save the wilderness, and the language of the wilderness is the language of the heart.”

Humans & Earth Podcast: Earth Care & the Language of the Heart

John Lockley returns with Raghu at the Mindrolling podcast for a conversation on overcoming inner apartheid, learning from animals, dream tracking, and finding your edge.

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

Dream Tracking & Finding Your Edge w/ John Lockley on Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

John joined podcast host Duncan Trussell for a lively and in depth conversation spanning a wide range of interesting topics.

John Lockley on the Duncan Trussell Family Hour #528

A guided meditation to connect to your soul and your Ancestors.

Meditation to Connect With Your Soul

A guided meditation to help people reconnect to their soul, life purpose and Ancestors. 

The meditation starts with a few simple breaths, calling on participants to feel their heart-beat and connect with their soul. 
It then moves to a picture of a mountain top and visualising ones' ancestors down your Mother's side and your Father's.

This meditation can be performed whenever you are feeling ungrounded and unsupported. The idea is that we are always connected to the breathing life essence of the people before us, our Ancestors; as well as the breathe of life that connects all things.

Connecting with Life purpose, Soul & Ancestors

Connecting With UMoya.WAV

A soothing lullaby of chants, drumming and words to help people to accept their lives and open up to new opportunities.

Accepting your Life Story

John speaks to Michael Stone about his work 'The Way of the Leopard', helping modern people connect to their 'indigenous spirit' or natural instinct. 

John also discusses his latest published book, 'Leopard Warrior' , published by Sounds True in Boulder Colorado.

Michael talks about John's background as an army medic after the war in Angola as well as his Zen Buddhist history and time as a Zen student under Zen Master Su Bong in South Korea in the early 1990's. 

John's Biography:

John Lockley is a senior Sangoma in the Xhosa lineage from South Africa. He is also known as a traditional healer, diviner or spirit doctor. Sangomas are traditional African Shamans, who are called by the ancestors to apprentice under another Sangoma to receive transmission or the gift of healing. John is founder of 'The Way of the Leopard' teachings; a unique teaching system to help people from non-shamanic cultures to reconnect to their inner wilderness, bones (ancestors), dreams, and the natural world.

Trained in both the mystical African arts of divination, herbal medicine and dreaming, as well as contemporary Psychology, Buddhism and Yoga. John trained with Zen Masters from the young age of 19 in South Korea; and, following his Sangoma calling, proceeded to train, apprentice and mentor with some of Southern Africa's top Sangomas and traditional healers. 
www.johnlockley.com

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21 / 11 /  2017 - Conversations With Michael Stone - John Lockley ~ The Way Of The Leopard.

Michael and John Lockley discuss cultural appropriation.

John discusses his background and his Mother's journey from Dublin Ireland to South Africa. 

John is a senior sangoma in the Xhosa lineage from South Africa. He is also known as a traditional healer, diviner or spirit doctor. Sangomas are traditional African Shamans, who are called by the ancestors to apprentice under another sangoma to receive transmission or the gift of healing. John is founder of 'the Way of the Leopard' teachings; a unique teaching system to help people from non-shamanic cultures to reconnect to their inner wilderness, bones (ancestors), dreams and the natural world. www.johnlockley.com

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10 / 02 / 2018 - Conversations With Michael Stone - John Lockley ~ The Way Of The Leopard, part 2

John Lockley is one of the only modern white men to be initiated as a sangoma — one of the traditional shamanic healers of the Xhosa people of South Africa. He now teaches African shamanic wisdom across the globe. With Sounds True, John recorded the practice-centric audio course The Way of the Leopard: Meditations and Shamanic Practices from the Heart of Africa. In this excerpt from that program, John describes "the seven senses" —the five we all know, plus the senses of intuition and dreaming. According to John, when we connect fully with our abilities to intuit and the endless possibilities of dreams, we come into a much deeper and truer understanding of our inner selves. Commenting on this week's selection, Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute says, "Seamlessly combining John's background as a Zen practitioner with his training as a traditional medicine man. . . these teachings on fully inhabiting our bodies, our lives, and our world are a vital and important message for the contemporary spiritual seeker. "

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Sounds True: Producer's Pick

29 / 11 / 2017 - Sounds True - Tami Simon talks with John Lockley about his book, 'Leopard Warrior'

John talks to Rosangel Perez on the Cafecito Break Podcast about being a Sangoma on his 2013 trip to New York.

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27 / 9 / 2013 - Cafecito Break - Rosangel Perez - John Lockley in NYC

John appeared on BBC Radio 4, Saturday Live Show on Sept. 5, 2009. Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings extraordinary stories and remarkable people. John spoke about his journey in becoming one of the first white men in recent history in South Africa to become a Xhosa Sangoma / medicine man.

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5 / 9 / 2010 - BBC Radio 4 - SATURDAY LIVE

He was born, in 1971, into a divided Apartheid South Africa, with the mark of the sangoma on his face – a band of white birth skin around the eyes. At 18, John was serving in the South African army as a medic (during the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa sangoma. He immediately began to suffer from the thwasa, a severe period of ill-health that is inherent in all ancient shamanic cultures which can only be cured through apprenticeship to a shamanic teacher. Because of the restrictions of Apartheid (which ended in 1994) it would take John seven years to find a Xhosa teacher. During the early days of his calling he trained as a Zen student under renowned Zen Master, Su Bong, completing an intensive three-month kyol che in a Buddhist monastery in South Korea. He was then invited by the Grand Master Dae Soen Sa Nim to join his “monk army”, but the strength of his sangoma calling drew him back to South Africa.

John with his teacher, Mum Ngwevu and her husband.

Eventually, post-Apartheid, John met Mum Ngwevu, a well-known Xhosa Sangoma medicine woman, in one of the poorest townships in South Africa. She had foreseen his arrival in a dream and began his 10-year apprenticeship, giving him the initiated name Ucingolwendaba, meaning messenger or connector between people and cultures.

John now splits his time between South Africa, Europe and the U.S.

For more info visit http://www.johnlockley.com/. Find out more about John’s work and read first-hand accounts from John’s students and clients worldwide.

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Original audio:
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12 / 12 / 2018 - Society For Shamanic Practice - Jose Stevens Interviews - John Lockley

White Sangoma, John Lockley makes it weird!

We discuss his latest book: 
Leopard Warrior: A Journey into the African Teachings of Ancestry, Instinct, and Dreams

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19 / 9 / 2018 - You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes - John Lockley

Mark is joined by John Lockley (johnlockley.com), exploring how we can help our Earth’s environment come back into healthy balance through recovering connection with our own inner nature. 

John Lockley is one of the first white men to become a fully initiated sangoma in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa. He is also a Zen teacher trained by Zen master Su Bong from South Korea. He is the author of the book “Leopard Warrior“ as well as the audio collection of John’s core spiritual teachings, “The Way of the Leopard“.

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26 / 10 / 2019 - SantaFeRadio - MatterofTheMind - SavingtheEarthThroughConnectingtoourInnerNature

Irish shaman and author John Lockley reveals his journey in the Xhosa tradition of South Africa

https://www.mixcloud.com/WellbeingforEverydayLife/shaman-and-author-john-lockley-reveals-his-journey-in-the-xhosa-tradition-of-south-africa/

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19 / 5 / 2018 - DUBLIN SOUTH FM - Maeve Halpin -  Well Being For Everyday Life - John Lockley

Traditional South African shaman, John Lockley, offers his wisdom and insights in this powerful episode. We open with John guiding a beautiful meditation. He then describes his background and call to be a sangoma (traditional South African shaman). He advises on how to listen and call on dreams as well as improving the listening capability via interaction with nature. We talk about embracing spirituality beyond "love and light" to enhance development, including accepting our shadow and vulnerability. He gives advice on tapping into the power of the natural world regardless of surroundings, connecting to ancestors and coming to peace with any shame connected to lineage, and expressing kindness to ourselves.

John is the author of the spellbinding book The Leopard Warrior, which gives a detailed account of his upbringing as a white, middle class youth in South Africa during apartheid, his time as an army medic, the call to shamanism, his ten year apprenticeship with a Xhosa medicine woman, the years spent immersing himself in his maternal homeland of Ireland, and so much more.

John has also created meditations and shamanic practices in the form of his audio teachings, The Way of the Leopard.

John's book, The Leopard Warrior, and audio teachings, The Way of the Leopard (both produced by Sounds True), can be purchased via his home page 

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20 / 02 / 2020 - The Meditation Conversation - John Lockley - The Leopard Warrior

John joins host, Christina Pratt, for the first of our series of Society of Shamanic Practitioners sponsored shows.  
Christina speak to John about 'Destiny' and his 'calling illness' , the call to become a traditional shaman, and how this manifested in his physical body and dreams leading him to find his indigenous teacher from the Xhosa tribe (the nation of Nelson Mandela).

John discusses the traditional South African philosophy of 'Ubuntu' meaning humanity and how it is a spiritual force binding people of all races together. 

Through these monthly shows we explore how contemporary shamans are meeting the challenge of their world where the relations of things—the living and the dead, the humans and nature, and Western Way and the spirit world—are profoundly out of balance.  It is the ancient role of the shaman in all cultures to tend the balance of things. How are these shaman meeting this extraordinary need today?

John Lockley, a senior shaman in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa is our guest this week. John is one of the first white men in recent history to become a fully initiated Xhosa Sangoma, meaning seers, dreamers or prophets – they are the traditional healers of South Africa.  

John explains, “My journey is about reconciliation and part of my job is to help heal the past. When people are more connected with their own spirits, there is less of a desire to destroy or put down another. I don’t intend to bring Xhosa or South African shamanic culture to the West as such, but rather to use its essence – the techniques of prayer, dream work and connection to nature – to help people connect with their own ancestors and spiritual traditions.”

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21 / 9 / 2010 - Why Shamanism Now? with Christina Pratt - John Lockley, UBUNTU Means Humanity

Adam Evans talks to John Lockley about his book 'Leopard Warrior' and the work he does as a traditional African Shaman or Sangoma.

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7 / 10 / 2019 - We The Aether - EP60 - Leopard Warrior With John Lockley

18 / 05 / 2020 - Maeve Halpin - Wellbeing for everyday life

Shaman, John Lockley, returns to Mindrolling Podcast to speak with Raghu about the history of racism in South Africa, healing cultural wounds through listening, and decolonizing the mind.

https://beherenownetwork.com/mindrolling-raghu-markus-ep-355-decolonizing-the-mind-with-john-lockley/

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24 / 08 / 2020 - Mindrolling with Raghu Marcus - Ep. 355 – Decolonizing the Mind with John Lockley

South African shaman John Lockley returns! In this episode, John brings us stories from the bush and tales of the inner landscape. “Radical mindfulness is radical listening. Without judgment, without ego, just listen.” – John Lockley Raghu and John talk about the self, the spirit world, and the interconnectedness of mystical traditions. 

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09 / 09 / 2016 - Mindrolling with Raghu Marcus - Ep 163 - John Lockley Returns

A guided meditation to drop deeper into dreaming. A helpful way to remember your Dreams, and thereby connect more deeply to your Spirit.

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Dropping Into Dreamtime

Fresh from spending many weeks in the wilderness of the Kalahari Desert, traditional South African shaman John Lockley dives deeply into the wisdom he has cultivated through spiritual practice involving nature, the elements, and his ancestors. In this episode we explore:

The mystical story of how he was guided to a tracker in Botswana, who was in intuitive communication with a leopard calling for John's presence. This culminated in the creation of the Kalahari retreat.
Using dreams to connect with your inner tracker and ancestors.
Viruses work through nature in the wilderness to balance populations of species when needed, and how this is now illustrated at the human level with coronavirus.
Contrast in cultures regarding coronavirus. John's work in South Africa often deals with death and suffering. For many in the US death is not in the forefront of life which has allowed for denial and detachment from the natural cycle of life.
What he learned as an Army medic in the Angolan War, as he observed black African special forces soldiers healing at more than three times the rate of their white counterparts when the treatment was identical.
Animal world is watching us with intelligence and communicates with us.
Visit johnlockley.com to purchase his amazing book, The Leopard Warrior, experience his audio meditations, The Way of the Leopard, book a private online session, sign up for monthly webinars, or donate to his ubuntu fund.

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Meditation conversation with Kara Goodwin. https://themeditationconversation.com/20200515-john-lockley-returns

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meditation-conversation-podcast/id1442136034#episodeGuid=172abaa0-f5ae-4523-8ac2-c2554c445d2fSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SXvKQiu5Wm9q63fEBM17V?si=bcKGhdYDRxmQgxU6eJ24kAStitcher: tinyurl.com/unqdwrnDirectly: www.themeditationconversation.com

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23 / 05 / 2020 The Mediation Conversation John Lockley Returns

This meditation was recorded on a special weekend ceremony dedicated to 'Energising the feminine, Protecting the Dream'.

Guided meditation to connect to our Ancestors & Guardian spirits

Here John is interviewed by Caiyuda Kiora of Bird Song and we discover how traditional healers or shamans (sangomas) of the Xhosa People of South Africa use sacred ceremonies involving herbs, songs and trance rhythms to connect with the ancestors and the natural world and encourage a profound remembering and honouring of the human spirit. 

John is unique in being initiated in three timeless traditions: African Shamanism as a Xhosa Sangoma, Yoga and Zen Buddhism, and he also holds a degree in Clinical Psychology. 

BirdSong with Caiyuda Kiora 
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Birdsong with Caiyuda Kiora

7 / 12 / 2020 - The Medicine Path - Wilderness Connection with John Lockley

John Lockley returns to Mindrolling Podcast to speak with Raghu about the history of racism in South Africa, healing cultural wounds through listening, and decolonizing the mind.

24 / 08 / 2020 - MindRolling With Raghu Markus - Ep. 355 – Decolonizing the Mind with John Lockley

John Lockley is a traditional healer known as a Sangoma, from South Africa.

Popular tracks by John Lockley