The Men's Work the World Actually Needs (And Why You Might Be Called to Facilitate It)
Beyond talk therapy and weekend workshops: training the next generation of men's coaches who work at the energetic root level
A few years ago, a client named Christian came to me after decades of intensive practice in Tibetan Buddhism and many forms of psychological therapy.
He'd done the work. He understood his patterns. He'd analyzed his childhood wounds thoroughly.
And yet—he still felt stuck.
Within three private sessions using shamanic methods, he experienced a breakthrough that years of other modalities hadn't provided.
His question afterward was simple and profound:
"How can it be that I worked through my topics for seven years in talk therapy without much progress—and now I've had a major breakthrough after just three shamanic sessions?"
The answer reveals why the world needs a new kind of men's work—and why you might be the one called to facilitate it.
To understand what makes this facilitation work so powerful, it helps to first grasp how Soul Bath™ dissolves emotional blocks at the energetic root —because this is the foundation you'll be teaching others.
You've felt this.
Your clients are searching for something deeper than what traditional coaching or therapy can offer.
They don't just want to talk about their problems. They don't want another analysis. They want to actually feel something shift—for good.
And maybe you've felt it too—that there's a layer of transformation you can't quite reach with your current tools. A depth of healing that remains just beyond what conventional methods can touch.
What if the missing piece isn't another technique to learn—but adding another paradigm?
Why Experienced Practitioners Are Seeking Shamanic Training
Over the past decade, something significant has shifted in men's development work.
Men are no longer satisfied with sitting in circles talking about their feelings (as valuable as that is, as one part of a multi-layered process).
They're not looking for more discovery and analysis of their childhood wounds —they actually know them well by now, through work they've already done.
They know they're neither "toxic" nor in need of being "fixed."
They're looking for connection. To some deeper part of themselves they can't quite define.
AND -whether they know it consciously or not, they're looking for initiation—what used to be a natural part of maturation, of self-development, for our pre-patriarchal ancestors.
And as practitioners, we're collectively feeling the call to offer something more potent. Something that creates real, energetic shifts—not just cognitive understanding, relief or emotional self-management.
This is where core-shamanic techniques become transformative additions to your existing practice.
Not as a replacement for what you do—but as the catalyst that makes everything else you offer exponentially more effective, by adding the perspective that sees the energetic layers as something that can be transformed, cleared and healed: the ancient shamanic paradigm.
The Problem With Most Men's Work
Here's what I've observed after 30+ years of spiritual practice and 5 years of shamanic practice:
Most personal development approaches work at the mental level.
They help men:
Understand their triggers
Discover and analyze their childhood wounds
Reframe their limiting beliefs
Set better boundaries
Communicate more effectively and empathetically
This is VERY valuable work, of course. Becoming more conscious is very important.
But understanding doesn't dissolve the energetic deposits of pain that live in the energy body and fragmented soul parts.
You can talk about your pain for years. You can understand its complexity intellectually. Many of our clients already have, of course.
And still carry the energetic weight of it every single day.
Why Energetic Work Changes Everything
In shamanic healing and initiation journeys, I experience unhealed wounds not as thoughts or memories, but as plasma-like energetic deposits in the energy body—and as frozen emotions in fragmented soul parts.
As we know, when trauma occurs, part of us literally freezes in that moment.
An 8-year-old version of you, staring at a shouting parent, overwhelmed by energy he couldn't process.
A teenager who experienced rejection and decided love wasn't safe.
A young man who failed publicly and decided to play small forever.
But these are not just memories. These soul parts are still there —split off from the current adult self and frozen in those moments.
And until they're identified, healed and brought back, there's literally less of you available in the present.
What Actually Heals at the Root Level
During literally hundreds of shamanic journeys, I've discovered what creates lasting transformation:
1. Energetic Clearing
Working with power animals in the spirit world to actually scoop out plasma-like deposits of compressed pain from the energy body.
Not just understanding pain. Dissolving it.
2. Soul Part Retrieval
Connecting with frozen soul parts related to that pain, holding them with adult self-love, and helping them thaw, release old emotions, and heal.
After methodically repeating this action consciously in the Soul Bath™ practice, integrating the healed soul part into the present, what I like to call the “now cohesive self”.
When this happens, men describe feeling "fuller"—like there's just more of them in the here and now.
I have experienced this in clients and in feedback from others about myself.
3. Energetic Initiation
Connecting men directly with ancient ancestral strength, collective healing fields, and pre-patriarchal harmonious masculine power.
These aren't metaphors. Men are meeting actual collective beings in the spirit world who remember how masculinity worked before the patriarchal distortions began 6,000 years ago.
4. Daily Integration Practice
The Soul Bath™ method—a 20-minute daily practice that keeps men connected to these healing and initiatory energies.
This is what most programs miss: One powerful weekend isn't enough. The old patterns reassert themselves without daily energetic practice.
With the Integral Men’s Initiations™ you introduce men to supportive energetic powers and with Soul Bath™ method you teach them the tool that helps them reconnect to those fields to keep on clearing and healing, even after your workshop or private sessions.
The Missing Piece: Facilitators Who Can Actually Do This Work
Here's the gap I see in the men's work landscape:
Thousands of men need this level of healing.
But very few facilitators are trained to deliver it at the level described above.
Most men's coaches work with:
Talk-based coaching
Accountability groups
Mindset work
Archetypes and shadow work (important, but incomplete)
Very few are trained in:
Shamanic energetic discovery, clearing and healing
Soul part retrieval and integration
Facilitating authentic energetic initiations
Teaching daily practices that sustain transformation
This creates a massive opportunity.
What Makes a Powerful Men's Facilitator
After training men to become certified facilitators, I've identified what actually works:
1. You've Done Your Own Healing First
You can't take men somewhere you haven't been yourself.
The most powerful facilitators are men who've:
Experienced their own energetic clearing
Retrieved and integrated their own soul parts
Received the initiations they'll facilitate for others
Established their own daily Soul Bath practice
You teach from lived experience, not theory and men can feel this when you facilitate and teach.
2. You Work at the Energetic Level
You understand that:
Emotional blocks aren't just mental constructs—they're energetic structures
Soul parts can be frozen in time—and consciously brought back
Ancestral strength is intact in the now and is accessible through shamanic journey work
Daily practice methodically rewires the energetic body over time
You're not just talking about transformation—you're facilitating it energetically.
3. You Offer Sustainable Daily Practice
You don't just give men powerful weekend experiences that fade.
You teach them the Soul Bath method—a 20-minute daily practice that:
Reconnects them with healing fields you have initiated them into
Continues dissolving old patterns
Integrates soul parts over time
Builds sustainable inner strength
You create noticeable, lasting change for men, not temporary highs.
4. You Hold a New Paradigm
You understand the archaeological evidence Steve Taylor presents in The Fall:
For at least 200,000 years, humans lived peacefully in egalitarian tribes—with harmonious relationships between men and women, consensus decision-making, and no warfare.
Only 6,000 years ago did hierarchy, domination, and patriarchal distortion appear.
This changes everything about men's work.
Instead of working with King/Warrior/Magician/Lover archetypes (which carry 6,000 years of shadow, conflict, and domination patterns), you connect men with:
Pre-patriarchal harmonious masculine power
The Four Soul Powers™ (Earth, Fire, Air, Water) —accessing elemental strength without patriarchal distortion
Ancestral healing fields that remember wholeness before the wound
You're not helping men "manage their inner warrior."
You're helping them reclaim peaceful power related to the energetic field of the fire element—the original masculine strength, that existed before hierarchy colonized and traumatized our world.
So, the most powerful facilitators are men who've experienced their own energetic clearing and retrieved and integrated their own soul parts. This means mastering the Soul Bath™ daily practice and tantric energy transmutation in your own life first.
The Opportunity: Why Now?
Several forces are converging to create unprecedented opportunity for men's facilitators:
1. Men Are Seeking Deeper Solutions
Talk therapy and mindset coaching aren't enough anymore.
Men are discovering that:
Understanding their triggers doesn't dissolve them
Weekend workshops create temporary highs that fade
Positive thinking doesn't heal ancestral trauma
They're ready for methods that work at the energetic root level.
2. Shamanic Practice Is Going Mainstream
Core shamanism (Michael Harner, Paul Francis) is being recognized as legitimate healing work across the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and Europe.
Men are seeking shamanic facilitators—but few are trained specifically in men's work.
3. The Masculine Wound Is Being Named
Books like The Fall by Steve Taylor and archaeological evidence are revealing:
The broken fatherline caused by 6,000 years of warfare
How hierarchy disrupted harmonious masculine-feminine relationships
The collective trauma every man inherits
Men are waking up to this wound—and seeking facilitators who can actually heal it.
4. There's Room for High-Value Facilitators
Men's work that creates real transformation commands premium compensation.
Certified facilitators trained in this modality can offer:
Private shamanic healing sessions ($200-500+)
Men's initiation workshops ($500-2000+ per participant)
Ongoing men's circles ($100-300/month per member)
Festival workshops and retreat facilitation
Corporate leadership coaching (reframed as energetic work)
This isn't side-hustle work. This is professional-level facilitation.
What the Training Actually Involves
The Integral Men's Initiations™ Facilitator Certification is a 14-month comprehensive program designed to:
Heal you first (you receive all 6 initiations yourself)
Train you systematically (learn shamanic journeying, energetic clearing, facilitation skills)
Certify you professionally (official certification to facilitate the complete system)
Level 1: Foundation & Immersion (3 Months)
Your Personal Initiations:
Father Soul Initiation (Lower World Journey)
Mother Soul Initiation (Lower World Journey)
Introduction to the complete 6-Phase Initiation System
Your Facilitator Training:
Fundamentals of holding space
Introduction to shamanic drumming
Basic Soul Bath™ facilitation
Foundations of men's circle leadership
What You Gain: Your first two initiatory healings + basic facilitation skills
Level 2: Activation & Coaching Mastery (6 Months)
Your Personal Initiations:
Four Soul Powers™ Initiation (Earth, Fire, Air, Water elements)
Ancestral Strength Initiation (Collective Field)
Daily Soul Bath™ resonance practice with your chosen soul power
Your Facilitator Training:
Mastering shamanic journey drumming
Leading shamanic journeys for private clients
Teaching the Four Soul Powers™ framework
Supervised practice with feedback
Leading men's circles with mentorship
Trauma-informed space holding
Ethics, boundaries, and legal basics
Business foundations for healers
What You Gain: Power activations complete + qualified for private coaching & men's circle leadership
Level 3: Mastery & Certification (5 Months)
Your Personal Initiations:
Resolution of entanglements with parents and former partners
Mature Man Initiation (Establishment Ceremony)
Complete mastery of the 6-Phase Initiation System
Your Certification Training:
Facilitating dissolution and liberation processes
Guiding others through Mature Man Integration
Working with complex cases
Professional ethics & standards
Business coaching for positioning and pricing
Marketing your work as leadership coaching
Official Integral Men's Initiations™ Facilitator Certification
What You Gain: Complete healing journey + master all 6 phases + full certification to facilitate:
Men's initiations
Group facilitation
Four Soul Powers™ seminars
Private coaching sessions
Shamanic healing work
What Makes This Training Different
Unlike other men's coach certifications:
✅ You heal yourself first (6 personal initiations before facilitating for others)
✅ You learn energetic work (not just talk-based coaching)
✅ You receive systematic training (14 months, 3 live sessions/month, daily practice)
✅ You get a complete system (Soul Bath™ + Integral Men's Initiations™ + Four Soul Powers™)
✅ You're taught a NEW paradigm (pre-patriarchal harmonious power, not traditional archetypes)
✅ You can earn professional compensation (this isn't a side hustle—it's a career path)
No one else is offering this combined approach:
Systematic shamanic healing training
Men's initiation facilitation certification
Daily practice methodology (Soul Bath™)
Pre-patriarchal masculine framework (Four Soul Powers™)
This is a category of one.
Who This Is For
This training is designed for men who:
✅ Have Done Significant Inner Work
You've been in therapy, meditation, or spiritual practice. You understand yourself. But you're ready to go deeper—and help others do the same.
✅ Feel Called to Men's Work
You've experienced how powerful it is when men support men. You want to create that container professionally.
✅ Are Ready for Energetic Training
You're open to shamanic practice. You understand that real healing happens beyond the mental level.
✅ Want Professional-Level Skills
You're not looking for a weekend certification. You want comprehensive training that qualifies you to facilitate real transformation.
✅ Are Willing to Commit 14 Months
3 live sessions per month (2.5 hours each) + 20 minutes daily practice + study time. It's manageable—but it requires commitment.
✅ Want to Earn Meaningful Compensation
You're building a practice that serves men powerfully—and compensates you accordingly.
The Application Process
Because this training involves deep personal healing and professional certification, there's an application process to ensure:
You're ready for the depth of this work
You're aligned with the approach and paradigm
You're committed to the full 14-month journey
We're a good fit to work together
The process:
Submit initial application
Schedule discovery call with Simon
Discuss your journey, readiness, and questions
If aligned, receive invitation to join next cohort
Real Results: What Facilitators Experience
Thomas (Germany):
"Simon brings shamanism to life with his Soul Bath technique. I was able to experience my own male initiation and reconnect fully with my masculine power. I feel powerful, courageous, and have more clarity. I can now offer this to other men with confidence."
Yan (International):
"I felt strong resonance with the material and the way Simon embodied what he taught. He approached the process with integrity, always honoring our sovereignty. The shamanic journeys allowed me to connect with parts of myself I couldn't reach through other practices. One month after the course, I'm enjoying healthy skin again after years of chronic issues—and I continue the Soul Bath practice daily. I'm now beginning to facilitate this work for others."
Andreas (Switzerland):
"Simon, hearing your voice and feeling your excitement, it's clear something deep has come alive in you. Your compassion has brought me peace I can't fully describe. I truly don't believe I'd be where I am now if you hadn't come into my life. What happened was nothing short of a miracle. I'm now training to offer this to men in my community."
The Vision: 20 Years From Now
If this work scales globally—through you and other trained facilitators—here's what becomes possible:
Healed Men
Men who've dissolved ancestral trauma, retrieved soul parts, and reclaimed peaceful power.
Healthy Families
Children growing up with emotionally available fathers. Partners feeling truly supported. Harmonious masculine-feminine relationships.
Transformed Workplaces
Businesses becoming sacred spaces of co-creation. Consensus decision-making. Leaders who've healed their shadows.
Restored Communities
Men contributing from wholeness, not woundedness. Collective decisions made with empathy. Indigenous wisdom reintegrated.
This isn't utopian fantasy.
Archaeological evidence shows we lived this way for 200,000 years—before hierarchy disrupted it 6,000 years ago.
This healing is remembering. This power is reclamation.
And it starts with facilitators like you—trained to work at the energetic root level, holding the container for men to come home to themselves.
The Question
Are you one of the men called to facilitate this work?
Not just for yourself (though your healing is foundational).
But to serve the men in your community who are ready for transformation that actually works.
If this resonates—if you feel the call—the next step is simple:
Apply for the Integral Men's Initiations™ Facilitator Certification.
Apply for Practitioner Training →
Schedule Discovery Call with Simon →
Learn More About the Program →
Simon Sanud is the author of "The Peaceful Power of the Initiated Man" and creator of the Soul Bath™ method and Integral Men's Initiations™. After three decades of intensive spiritual practice—including Siddha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, and more than 500 shamanic drumming journeys—he now trains select men to become certified facilitators carrying this work forward.
