Leopard Medicine Healing Journey
Remember your soul. Awaken your medicine. Walk your true calling.
A mentoring journey with elder Shaman Sangoma John Lockley involving 8 sessions for those who sense a quiet longing for deeper meaning and soul connection in a fast-moving world.
Many people who feel drawn to this work notice a subtle disconnection from their inner guidance or a feeling that something more is wanting to emerge. Life may appear “fine” on the surface, yet there’s a yearning for greater depth—more soul, magic, vitality, and purpose.
This journey is for you if you find yourself wondering:
What is my true calling?
What medicine do I carry for this world?
Why do I feel disconnected from spirit, dreams, or guidance?
How do I bring soul back into my life?
Each session gently restores your relationship with spirit, dreams, ancestors, and the deeper intelligence that knows why you are here.
1 - Divination (spiritual diagnosis)
Name the deeper story shaping your life
John uses his skill as a diviner and ‘throws the bones ‘in the traditional sangoma way to reveal the hidden truths, magic and obstacles in a person’s life. This ancient technique is invaluable in helping people recalibrate themselves to a life with more purpose and meaning.
When meaning is lost, people often feel confused, stuck, or blocked without knowing why. Through traditional divination, John looks beneath surface struggles to reveal the spiritual and ancestral forces influencing your life.
How this helps you:
Gain clarity about your spiritual calling and innate medicine
Understand why certain patterns, fears, or stagnation keep repeating
Identify subtle ancestral or spiritual dynamics that may be draining your vitality
Feel seen and understood beyond psychology—at the level of soul
This session help to bring relief through understanding the subtle forces in your life.
2 - Intention
All journeys start with a clear intention. This session is an opportunity to discuss your dreams, hopes and intentions with John. It is also an opportunity to discuss your challenges and what you might feel is holding you back.
In a fast-paced, soul-poor world, many people feel scattered—busy but unfulfilled. This session helps you slow down and listen inward.
How this helps you:
Clarify what truly matters to your soul—not just your ego or conditioning
Articulate your deeper longing for meaning, fulfillment, and vitality
Identify what is blocking your calling from emerging
Create a clear intention that aligns spirit, heart, and life direction
Purpose begins when intention is rooted in soul, not pressure.
3 - Creating a Healing Shrine
Restore your roots so your life can grow meaningfully
It is very helpful to have a physical structure, like a shrine to help focus your mind and spirit. John will go through a simple ritual to help open your path. A core part of this session will involve looking at ancestors. What does your ancestral practice look like or do you have one at all? All humans regardless of creed or culture need to water their roots in some way.
In sangoma tradition, disconnection from ancestors and spirit helpers often leads to soul sickness—a loss of vitality, intuition, and belonging. This session addresses that root issue.
How this helps you:
Reconnect with your ancestors and spirit guides (even if you’ve never done this before)
Restore a sense of belonging—to family, lineage, and humanity
Create a physical anchor for soul connection in your daily life
Feel supported by forces larger than your individual self
When roots are nourished, life regains strength and direction.
4 - Plant medicine for healing and protection
In traditional cultures like in South Africa the start of a spiritual journey always begins with invoking our ancestors and doing a ceremonial plant cleanse. This session will involve a plant cleanse. You (as the client) will be instructed by John before the session about what medicinal plants to purchase and how to prepare them. The plant cleanse will take place in the one-hour session. John will chant and invoke the ancestral world to help ‘open the road’ for you.
(NB: Non-hallucinogenic plants will be used as an external wash).
Clear whatever blocks your magic from flowing
Many people feel weighed down by invisible burdens—emotional residue, fear, or spiritual heaviness they can’t name. In traditional cultures, cleansing is essential before deeper spiritual work.
How this helps you:
Release stagnant or heavy energies that dull intuition and vitality
Restore energetic protection and clarity
Feel lighter, clearer, and more open to guidance
Prepare your spirit to receive vision, dreams, and insight
5 - The Art of Dream Tracking – Restore your direct line to spirit and soul
What kinds of dreams are you receiving? In this session you will take a deep dive into your dream life. It is a good idea to have a dream journal and bring a few dreams to share with John. This will help him get a sense of your dream life and the underlying spiritual forces around you. John will share some teachings about the three levels of dreams; mundane, egoic and mystical. What does the landscape of your dreams look like? If you are struggling with your dreams then this session will be very helpful. John will also go through some techniques to stimulate dream recall and ways to boost your dreaming.
In the sangoma tradition of South Africa, not dreaming—is a sign of soul sickness. Dreams are not random; they are messages from the part of you that does not die.
How this helps you:
Understand why your dreams may be absent, upsetting, or purely ego-based
Learn to access deeper, spiritual, and shamanic dream states
Strengthen dream recall and clarity
Receive guidance directly from spirit, not just the thinking mind
Dreams reconnect you to your soul, your community, the natural world, and greater humanity—the same source that guided leaders like Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.
6 - Developing a Stillness practice
John will go through a few mindfulness practices to help still the mind and clear the spirit. A core teaching of his revolves around the heart-beat. He will transmit these teachings to you. What is your relationship like with stillness? Do you see this as wasted time? John will also go through a chanting practice including percussion and how to use a drum and rattles to enter an altered state. This is very helpful to let and experience deep relaxation. As we surrender our ego we find our spirit!
Create space for intuition, vision, and epiphany
Many people long for guidance but never slow down enough to receive it. This session restores your relationship with stillness—not as emptiness, but as listening.
How this helps you:
Calm mental noise that blocks intuition
Access altered states safely through rhythm, chant, and heartbeat awareness
Open the channel for vision, insight, and spiritual epiphany
Experience deep relaxation and nervous system healing
When the ego quiets, spirit can speak.
7 - Nourishing your soul
This session will explore how you nourish yourself on a deeper level. What techniques and practices do you maintain to help you connect with your deeper self? Our soul is seen as that part of ourselves that doesn’t die, our intrinsic immortality. What are your beliefs around this and how do you connect to this part of yourself? In John’s sangoma training this is central to the practice. As our soul is sick or distant from us, so we suffer and feel powerless in the world.
Restore vitality, meaning, and inner authority
A crisis of meaning is often a crisis of soul connection. When the soul feels distant, life loses color, vitality, and direction.
How this helps you:
Reconnect with the immortal aspect of yourself—the part that carries purpose
Understand what truly nourishes your soul (and what drains it)
Restore a sense of inner power and belonging
Feel more alive, grounded, and meaningful in the world
When the soul is nourished, life regains depth and direction.
8 - Prayers for the Road
Step forward carrying your medicine into the world
What prayers can you offer to open the road for yourself? How can you let go of self-limiting beliefs? John will talk you through a simple ritual to open the road for yourself and let go subtle shadow energies that might be holding you back.
This final session helps you release self-limiting beliefs and subtle shadow energies that keep you from fully living your calling.
How this helps you:
Let go of unconscious blocks to purpose and expression
Strengthen faith in your path and medicine
Integrate the journey into daily life
Walk forward with clarity, humility, and spiritual support
This session marks a return—not to who you were, but to who you are meant to be.
The Deeper Promise of This Journey
This work is not about escaping the world—it’s about bringing soul back into it.
As Viktor Frankl taught, meaning is what allows humans to endure, create, and serve.
This journey helps you rediscover your meaning—so you can live with vitality, humility, and purpose, carrying your medicine in service to life.