Soul fragmentation is what happens when trauma or big changes in our lives cause important parts of our inner selves to break apart or disappear. Also we carry past life traumas or generational traumas; that’s why we may even be born with missing soul parts because we still have karmic lessons to learn that connect us to other beings from past lives or even other realms of existence. For instance, a newborn may have a deep-seated fear or phobia that has no clear cause in their current life. This could be a sign of unresolved trauma they bring with them from another life. Another example is a child who shows a level of empathy or wisdom that is way beyond their years. This could be because they have a soul connection to experiences or relationships from past lives.
Or we can have premonitions about a future event.
We are multidimensional beings experiencing past, present, and future lives right now, and even with different variations.
This is something that many spiritual, cultural, and psychological traditions agree on. We need to get back these lost parts and feel entire again in order to heal for good.
Before I talk about my comprehensive approach to soul retrieval, I want to make sure we all understand some basic principles about these missing soul parts and the difference between spiritual and psychological fragmentation.
Sandra Ingerman says in her book that soul retrieval is a spiritual ritual led by a shaman who will find and restore the lost components.
Some shamans, who act as intermediaries between dimensions, can retrieve soul fragments. They enter trance states using drums, chants, or plants as they travel to the spirit realm to find the lost fragments and return them to the person’s main soul body.
Long ago, I tried this method but I didn’t resonate with the facilitator’s interpretation. I didn’t want just to believe, I wanted to see myself and understand the whole process. That´s why I started investigating and practicing diverse techniques to do it myself.
Carl Jung said that individuation is a lifelong process that makes us entire, integrated creatures. Accepting our dark side or shadow, which are parts of us that didn’t match with our self-image. We get back to our true selves by accepting and incorporating these “exiled” parts.
David Hartman and Diane Zimberoff, in their book Soul Migrations: Traumatic and Spiritual, clarify the difference between spiritual soul fragmentation and psychological Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Soul loss is a spiritual departure, while dissociative identity disorders include subpersonalities or alters as a response to trauma.
These two types of fragmentation are completely different in nature, one is spiritual and other one is psychological.
Western and Shamanic techniques coincide that healing is an integration process vs escaping pain trying to be perfect.
About My Soul Retrieval Workshop
True healing is a forever process´s journey, not a quick fix. It demands time, commitment, and patience, with both progress and setbacks along the way. That’s why my workshops follow a carefully designed sequence to genuinely support this ongoing process.
A very important technique to reach the most traumatic wound is through the Regression to Childhood workshop. This first step helps uncover why our soul fragmented, and when.
The Spirit Releasement workshop focuses on clearing attachments, entities or foreign energies and making space to bring our own pieces.
My approach blends shamanic, psychological, and spiritual practices into a method anyone can learn. Rather than relying only on what a practitioner tells you, you’ll be shown how to use your own skills to find and heal lost parts of your soul.
We practice exercises to expand our limited world of certainties, being playful and curious to allow the new. I used a light hypnotic trance state to diminish the critical mind. In this state people follow my instructions.
There are very common obstacles, some people—especially those who tend to be analytical, controlling, or perfectionistic—may need extra time and multiple sessions to break through mental blocks and get comfortable with uncertainty.
Others may experience low tolerance to frustration, when comparing with others’ performance. The only way to go deeper is at your own pace, embracing your uniqueness, through a path of self-discovery and awareness expansion.
I guide participants into a light hypnotic trance to identify why and how the soul parts separated, how to find them, and how to put them back together. Some people experience immediate results, while others need more practice to deepen the process. Even those who didn’t immediately receive clear messages or images can spontaneously experience surprising results with the same technique later in the ceremony, in a deeper trance.
A combination of persistence and compassion during the ups and downs of the process is essential to ultimately gaining confidence in one’s own abilities, letting go of dependence on external approval, and achieving sovereignty.
Author: Argentine psychotherapist Silvia Polivoy, Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Specialized in modifying states of consciousness, co-founder of Spirit Vine Retreat Center in Bahia, Brazil.