A Long Road to This Work
In 1996, Scott walked away from a career as director of a private trade finance company — and spent the next two decades discovering what he was walking toward. A graduate of Duke University, he left the corporate world for Kauai in 1999.
What followed was a decade leading wilderness expeditions deep into Kauai's backcountry, years of his own healing across multiple traditions, and the slow integration of shamanic practice with Taoist internal arts into one coherent method. In 2015, he founded Shamanic Spirit Medicine.
Today Scott is an international shamanism teacher with students on 6 continents and over 30 countries. He is a plain-speaking teacher — grounded, practical, no vague spirituality — focused on work that is immediately applicable to daily life.
What I Teach, and What I Don't
That Which Belongs to All
I teach only that which belongs to all people — every person's sovereign birthright: direct connection with Creator, the reclaiming of your spiritual sovereignty, grounded spiritual practice, and the cultivation of your own health, vitality and balance.
I never impose my interpretation on your vision. I will not "guide" your journeys or suggest what Spirit is communicating. I teach you how to find the answers for yourself — without distortion.
That Which Belongs to a Culture
I do not teach or practice culturally specific ceremonies such as the sweat lodge. These belong to the cultures from which they originate and should be led only by someone trained and initiated within that culture.
When culturally specific work is offered through this platform, it is always in collaboration with someone trained within that tradition. And I never use or advocate drugs or psychedelics — they are unnecessary, and often a hindrance.
The Missing Link in Their Training
Healers with decades of experience consistently describe Scott's work as the missing link in their practice — a unifying methodology that combines with every other modality rather than competing with it.
What makes it distinct: Shamanic Spirit Medicine is the only shamanic training that treats the cultivation of vitality, longevity and energetic immunity as an essential companion to healing work. Drawing on Scott's background in Taoist internal arts, it balances the grounded necessities of physical reality, the compassion of the heart, and the inspiration of spirit — developing all three in balance.
This is why self-mastery comes before advanced technique. Many programs teach soul retrieval and extraction without a foundation in self-mastery — which quietly limits the work and leads practitioners into depletion and burnout. Scott requires proficiency in self-mastery first, so that every student becomes a sustainable practitioner with a long, healthy, balanced career.
From Kauai to Six Continents
What began on one island now reaches Students on 6 Continents and Over 30 Countries
Normalizing Shamanic Consciousness
Just as nearly all humans dream, all humans can access shamanic consciousness and the Spirit Mind. After centuries of repression, it is time to normalize this ancient, effective path — to help heal the wounds carried by humanity and by Mother Earth.
Scott's mission is to help humanity return to balance and right relationship: empowering each person to heal trauma, replace self-limiting scripts, and step into their natural role as a caretaker of the Web of Life.
"Creator, allow this good medicine to ripple through the Web of Life and bring harmony, healing and balance to all things."
Why I Teach
"My passion is to empower others to heal. Learning Shamanic Spirit Medicine gives you the tools to unlock your own healing and growth — and then, if you choose, to apply the method professionally to help others. As we live this work in our daily lives, we continue to heal and grow. My goal is to give you tools that serve you for the rest of your life, and for you to embody these teachings and adapt them in the way that is best for you."
— Scott SilverstonCommanding Your Dreaming
Over years of practice, Scott developed the method he calls Commanding Your Dreaming, a protocol for identifying the hidden agreements beneath our patterns and rewriting them at the level where they actually live. Along with the Energy Body Mastery Series that Scott created, Commanding Your Dreaming is part of Scott's original teachings that make Shamanic Spirit Medicine a Powerful Model for Healing in the Modern World.
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A Teacher Who Students Trust
"Out of all the things I’ve done - my degree, teacher training, masters in writing, yoga qualification - this is where I can stop searching and continue deepening."
Emma J. - England"I feel completely supported and guided throughout my apprenticeship — connected with the physical world and bridging it with the spiritual in a totally natural, loving, empowering way."
Katerina F. — Florida"I really enjoy the way you help us unfold journeys and answer questions, leaving space for self-discovery. I've received so much insight through these courses."
Katie M. — Texas"Taking your courses is shifting so much in me. The transformations have been very fundamental — I can now access my full potential."
Seda E. — London"I am astounded every time by my experiences in these journeys. Very powerful. This work goes very deep — I'm grateful for all the lessons and insight."
Corinna H. — Germany"I want to thank you for what you have done for me, and for being a light to those lost in the darkness."
Kyle L. — PennsylvaniaBegin the Work
Every path through Shamanic Spirit Medicine starts in one place: learning to journey safely and meet your own spirit helpers. That's Level 1.
Start With Fundamentals → Curious about the full path? Explore the 4-Level Apprenticeship