Urban Shamans Academy | Şehirli Şamanlar Akademisi

Only when you forget who you are

your shadow can seduce you

About

Urban Shamans Academy is the fruit of a dream dreamt decades ago.
The intention is to guide the ones that have set on their own journeys and to train masters of life.
It’s formation of guidance to whom intent to come back together at the fire of life and live the medicine in urban life.

About

Felis Kohen

Felis has started her own journey in many places of the world on modern and ancient wisdoms and working on her own. She had combined the techniques she was taught with her own experiences over the years and shared them through circles, workshops, ceremonies and one-to-one sessions.

She had received mastership on NLP and Chinese Quantum Methods in Germany, and worked with local medicine people of Bali and India. Alberto Villoldo, Berta Kühnel, Don Francesco and Peter Bonaker are some of her masters.

Felis blended the wisdom of her roots with her own wisdom of transformation and founded Urban Shamans Academy to bring up medicine women and medicine men. She conveys the art of healing to those who want to change themselves and to be the practitioners of that wisdom.

Along with the circles and workshops, she does one-to-one sessions,collaborates with national and international colleagues and organizes custom made individual and corporate workshops.

Felis Kohen

Circles & Workshops

Workshops conveying the ancient traditions, healing methods,

and rituals are open to all individuals seeking personal growth.

CIRCLE OF LIFE

Circle of Life is the sacred journey of transformation of the individual. Attendees might continue with Advanced Medicine Wheel if they wish to. It is a journey of authentic living leaving the pain or the said destiny behind. Circle of Life offers us a chance to honour our own wisdom and to create our own reality in our spaces on this world and beyond. The Circle of Life calls for its own students and turns them into individuals who achieve beyond their potentials. During the journey, each direction is a pathway to clear the obstacles and gives us enriched experiences and ceremonies to honour our lives. The Circle of Life turns our pain into healing that empowers and nurtures us, thus changes our perception of our life and earth.

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CIRCLE OF WOMEN

It is a circle of women all around the world, where they witness the stories of the others, dress others’ wounds and experience to hold themselves and celebrate their femininity.

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

These are the workshops hold in Peru, Israel and Bali during specific times of the year. Sacred places that have been home to ancient wisdom are visited, ceremonies are held and wisdom is passed on through traditional ways.

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CIRCLE OF MEDICINE

People who have completed the Circle of Life, start the Advanced Medicine Wheel if they want to get deeper into techniques and wisdom to be a practitioner. People who have completed the Circle of Life, start the Advanced Medicine Wheel if they want to get deeper into techniques and wisdom to be a practitioner. Advanced Medicine Wheel trainees are educated with great attention and discipline. During the training, each one conducts one-to-one case studies to gain experience and enhance their knowledge. Some do the case studies abroad. When the trainee completes the Advanced Medicine Wheel, successfully passes the test, they start to do one-to-one sessions.

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CIRCLE OF MEN

Nature-related self-awareness in the annual cycle with a group of men. It is redeeming and insightful to experience how the natural forces of departure and growth, of abundance and maturity, of retreat and silence can also be experienced as movements of our soul. In the same way as nature, dealing with the men's issues of longing and lust, fear and anger, love and loneliness is much more. So relates self-awareness, self-competence and feelings - for oneself, for others, for creation and for our nation. We work with physical exercises to make us fully come true; with changing feedback from man to man to include our downsides; with down-to-earth rituals and shamanic perception exercises in order to belong to us with the following cycles of nature; drumming together to lose your mind and share joy; our wise deep self with meditation, trance attitudes and journeys in the otherworld in order to sense who we can be and who we want to be.

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CIRCLE OF GUIDES

Only Advance Medicine Wheel graduates can attend. Individuals that complete the Circle of Guides are then entitles to deliver many workshops and ceremonies, Circle of Life being the priority.

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SACRED TRANCE DANCE

It is a form of ancient tradition of dance done with free body movements; performed in a special sacred space with special music. Sometimes the drum accompanies in the ancient trance dance. The dancers attain a trance like state reaching a different feeling and body awareness, and taste the sacred experience of being in different dimensions and out of time.

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Services

Our guides

Amaç Öner

Circle of Life
Guide

As a person who grew up as an engineer and tried to solve every aspect of his life with a system approach, he received the first signs that life could not be perceived in this way during his university years. In the following years, he was interested in information and teachings from different sources in order to understand life.

The process that opened with his meeting with the Munay Ki teaching deepened his journey into himself. Afterwards, he completed Felis Kohen's Circle of Life and Advanced Medicine Wheel studies. He realized that life is not for understanding, but for living by feeling. He continued with the Circle of Guides in order to be instrumental in helping others experience the transformation in her life. He believes that with each circle, people are transformed, healed and life is balanced and the balance is formed with individual sessions, Men's Circle and Circle of Life.

Caner Öngay

Circle of Life and
Circle of Medicine Guide

Started his professional life with his childhood dream, interior architecture. Years later he realized that something was not quite right in his life. This search led him to cross paths with his mentor, Dona Felis Kohen. In the journey he started to transform his own troubles, he saw that the road became brighter as he also shared. Thus, right after completing the Circle of Life, he continued his journey of transformation and service with Advanced Circle of Medicine. After that, he took one step deeper more in the knowledge and completed the Guide's Circle. Lastly, he received the authorisation of guidence for the Circle of Medicine and started to train masters of live also hold space for the Great Circle, which unites all circles. Currently, he is holding space for the Great Circle, the Circle of Life, the Circle of Medicine, private sessions and various workshops.

Nida Şahin

Circle of Life
Guide

Bahar Akyuz

Circle of Life
Guide

When she realized that the same science exists all over the world and accepted the valuable teaching of life, she started to get to know the valuable guides and masters she came across one by one. In 2007 , Tai Chi with Master Ng , after the Yoga Sadhana practices she did on holiday in the same year, she felt the desire to go deeper in ancient sciences and continued. She met Felis Kohen in 2017, became his student; She graduated from Life and Medicine Circles. When she got stronger in wanting that everything she learned, knew and developed in the name of goodness and beauty should be a sound, she finished the Circle of Guides and took a hand from her teacher. She gives individual sessions, workshops and Circle of Life at Urban Shamans Academy as a yoga instructor, Ayurvedic counselor, Storytelling Therapist, Personal Transformation Guide with Nature, Medicine woman.

Eda Hecebil Donmez

Circle of Life
Guide

I have been an exercise instructor since 2005 and have always adopted a holistic approach in this journey. My belief that the soul, body and mind should work together and as a whole has led me to various energetic and spiritual studies and trainings. I have deepened my knowledge in this field with methods such as Reiki, Recall Healing and Access Bars. My encounter with the women's circle in 2021 was an important turning point in my life. This experience encouraged me to progress even further on this path. I completed the circle of life under the guidance of my master Dona Felis Kohen and stepped into an endless transformation journey. My decision to continue the circle of medicine was shaped by my desire to shed light not only on my own transformation, but also on the transformation of others. This journey began with a burning desire inside me, just like making and feeding bread. Now I have taken my place on this path by providing guidance. By combining individual sessions and life circles with exercise, I continue my path with this holistic understanding. As my master Dona Felis Kohen said, "I started this path to convey this knowledge by taking the light behind me." With every step, I experience the happiness of sharing and spreading this light.

Pelin Buğra

Circle of Life
Guide

The journey that started with music turned into an adventure of self-discovery. Once she had the pleasure of learning and teaching, she received different trainings on spiritual matters. The biggest step she took in her journey of deepening was the participation of her master Felis Kohen, whose name she heard in a conversation in 2019, in the Circle of Life. She continued with the Advanced Medicine Wheel to touch the lives of others after the circle that transformed her whole life. At the same time, she received Cocoa Apprenticeship Training from Kübra Saatçıoğlu. Now she gives cocoa ceremonies accompanied by her own music. As she transformed in knowledge, she listened to the incoming call and completed the Circle of Guides training. She now gives individual sessions and Circle of Life to contribute to the transformation of other lives. We know; If you transform, the world transforms.

Berna Yoğurtçugil

Circle of Life
Guide

She discovered in her 40s that the language that her soul understood was called Shamanism. But since childhood, she had already been living those special moments in nature—among trees, in the embrace of Mother Earth, and with the birds in the sky. Her healing came from nature and that harmony. The desire for self-discovery was always strong within her. She walked many paths and embraced many identities. She continues to carry her roles—daughter, sister, engineer, mother, researcher, consultant—with love and freedom. She is grateful for the journey that led her from the solitary times of the mind to the essence of her being. There was no other way. As she walks her own path, her door is open to anyone she can extend a hand to. In truth, there is only one reality, and all paths lead to it. And this is only possible together. She is deeply thankful to all her teachers. Currently, she is a life apprentice at Urban Shamans Academy under the guidance of Felis Kohen. She offers individual sessions and is progressing on her path to guiding life circles.

Neriz Başıran

Circle of Life
Guide

After the first shamanic session she experienced in 2017, she joined the Circle of Life; Her own transformation, the transformations of the friends she walked with, and the guidance she received from her master, Dona Felis, affected her deeply. After the Circle of Life, she completed the Advanced Medicine Wheel and then the Circle of Guides to become a practitioner. While experiencing the excitement of sharing what she has learned so far and her experiences with people who are spiritually seeking for their own transformation and who want to experience an alternative method, through individual sessions and the Circle of Life, she continues her own journey.

Zeynep Dönmez

Circle of Life
Guide

She met shamanic science in 2019. From that moment on, that science became an integral part of her life. At first while she was struggling between her profession, family responsibilities and what she knew as "I", the science melted them all in one pot and built a one and complete life, and continues to do so... After experiencing the transformative power of the Circle of Life, she completed the Circle of Medicine and Guide's Circle. With the excitement of sharing knowledge, Zeynep gives individual sessions, acts as a Circle of Life guide and organizes ceremonies.

Our Guides

Thank you

Sumak kawsay reminded me that I should love as much as I privilege. I thanked myself for surviving these simple but powerful truths, and perhaps for the first time in a long time, I showed contentment and kindness towards myself. I would like to thank you, our masters, for this teaching and for sharing it with us.

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Deren Çıracıoğlu

Communications Coordinator

Deren has been trained on Eastern Philosophy and modern techniques after doing research on traditions of the ancient period during her archeological degree. To dive deeper into ancient teachings, she had completed the Circle of Life, then Advanced Medicine Wheel with Felis Kohen, and became a practitioner. She still attends special workshops of Urban Shamans Academy that conveys different teachings of the wisdom, she gives one-to-one sessions, and also uses her techniques in her works with animals.

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