Care for the Soul, Re-enchantment for Life
ABOUT MY
WORK
I guide deep transformational healing and awakening in nurturing group settings. I am a Shamanic Practitioner, Internal Family Systems Practitioner, and Systemic Family Constellations facilitator. I began my career as a psychiatrist and later left psychiatric practice to follow a shamanic calling focused on the deeper foundation of healing and wholeness.
I am passionate about guiding people’s journeys to heal and to awaken to the depths of their own soul—to discover their own intuition, passion, creativity, and power. Healing goes beyond symptom relief, addressing the foundational sources of imbalance, transforming limiting beliefs, patterns, and traumas. It also means embracing the nature of your humanity - its contradictions and complexities - while opening to your soul’s essence. This fosters a deep and real connection with inner wisdom, vitality, love, and purpose.
When I speak of awakening, I do not mean an ethereal transcendent state of living. I mean discovering the truth of the innate deep beauty and magic within and around you, seeing your true self and the alive nature of the universe, and experiencing yourself as an intimate and necessary part of creation - while grounding this knowing in your body, your daily life, and your connections with community.
I have a strong calling to support the healing of ancestral and cultural burdens that we all carry, and to facilitate this in community through deep sacred group processes. I believe this is how we are meant to heal and grow – together. Witnessing and sharing healing experiences with others empowers each person’s own journey as well as building like-minded community.
From my own experience, I understand the vulnerability and courage it takes to open to these kinds of transformational processes, especially in a group setting. I am honored to hold space for you to dive deep and to facilitate processes that support your journey. I offer a variety of group events including single sessions, class series, workshops, and retreats.
For more information on my past training and experience, click here.
EVENTS
Systemic Family Constellations
Healing, Connecting, Belonging
Shamanic IFS Healing Circle
Sacred Healing in Community
We all unconsciously carry emotions, trauma, beliefs and patterns from our family system and ancestors. Oftentimes, issues or patterns we struggle with originate there, whether emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, or relational. Systemic Family Constellation work brings awareness to these hidden dynamics that block the flow of energy and love, then brings about more freedom and flow. This releases burdens and can also open you to ancestral strength, resiliency, and love.
• Date: February 28, 2025
• Where: 18 Springs Healing Center, Winston-Salem NC.
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Enter a sacred healing circle where all your parts are welcome, where you can open to the wisdom and compassion of your deepest essence, where you can be held by Nature, Spirit, and community. These Healing Circles combine the power of Internal Family Systems (IFS) with the power of deep
sacred group work. This 3-hour group will be experiential and include guided meditation, parts mapping, an
embodied group sculpting, and a shamanic journey.
In-person: May 9, 2025, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, Winston-Salem NC​
or Online: May 14, 2025, 1 - 4 pm ET via Zoom
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IFS Healing Circles
~ 6-week group series ~
Community Shamanic Journey Circle
~ Sacred Gathering with Nature, Spirit, & Community ~
IFS Healing Circles combine the power of IFS with the power of deep sacred group work. IFS is a deeply compassionate model that helps us connect with the parts within us that need tending and develop a relationship with them that helps our whole system find more clarity, peace, joy, and love. This 6-week series will include guided meditations, parts mapping, and embodied group sculpting in a small group format.
Tuesdays, Jan 21 - Feb 25, 2025, 7-9 pm
18 Springs Healing Center, Winston-Salem NC​
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Come together in a sacred circle for a shamanic drumming journey! Gathering with community to deepen relationship with oneself, nature, shamanic realms, and spirit guides empowers healing and transformation for ourselves and our world. After the journey, there will be a sharing circle where you may share your experience.
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 2 – 3:30 pm
18 Springs Healing Center, Winston-Salem NC
Cost: Donation
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I will be offering additional classes in the future. Here are links to some past courses. Let me know if you want to be on my email list to be notified when new classes are planned (and please specify if you want to be on the list for all classes or - if you live at a distance - just online + retreats).
TESTIMONIALS
Sandy is a gentle soul and a woman of great vision. She has the unique ability to be totally present without judgment, for those of us wanting to go deep within to inquire and learn more about our personal, communal and universal selves. I highly recommend Sandy's workshops -- they are unique in that they allow each of us to open up to unique possibilities that may not be present in our day to day living that encourages us to be creative and inspired to truly live our best lives. ~Lynda - Executive Director of a local nonprofit
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I began working with Sandy as a shamanic healer when I separated from my husband of many years. She has been a wise guide and mentor as I’ve awakened. She has helped me claim parts of myself I had denied over the years out of fear or in the name of keeping peace in my life and family. I’m still on the journey of reclaiming all of me and am learning to nurture and love myself.
Sandy listens in a deep, caring way. I feel safe with her and her questions are always right at the heart of what I am not seeing clearly. The shamanic work is very powerful and has helped me heal in the deepest part of my being. I feel blessed to have her as a trusted helper on my journey. ~Pat C., Waynesville, NC
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Sandy’s Shamanic healing was very powerful for me. She was able to dive deep beneath my conscious mind and spoke directly to my soul. It was like finally experiencing water after having been out in the desert for a life time. The healing transcended time and space as Sandy acted as a bridge between my physical reality and the reality that on a soul level I knew to be "home". After the healing, I felt altered. I was empowered, strength was restored, and a connection was experienced that words would not do justice to describe. ~Shirin M., Reston, VA
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I've had the great pleasure of working with Sandy Phocas in many ways: past-life regressions, Holotropic Breathwork, individual healings, and overnight vigils. Sandy is a powerful healer, and incredibly compassionate. She creates a space for growth that is simultaneously challenging and supportive. Her work is her calling, and I found every experience with her to be incredibly transformative and helpful in my own process. I highly recommend her! ~Cyndi Briggs, PhD, Winston-Salem, NC
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I spent many years working with counselors seeking help with healing. It hasn't been until I have worked with Sandy that I have felt true progress along my journey toward improvement. She truly understands, knows the right questions to ask and works wonders. If it's true healing you seek, look no further. You will not be disappointed. -Melissa Vickers, Winston-Salem NC
It is difficult to describe in words the profound impact Sandy’s Shamanic Healing course had on me. I feel much more deeply connected to the physical and spiritual beings and worlds around me. Shamanic journeying is a powerful and deeply personal, spiritual practice. Sharing this experience with a group of others, I believe, only adds to its power.
Sandy is a gifted and humble individual. In her teaching style, she honors the fact that each person’s experience is unique and not subject to interpretations from others. The environment she inspires during the workshop is one where group members can mutually support and share with one another. I highly recommend this workshop, or individual work with Sandy, to anyone at all interested! -Nichols Mabry, Charleston, SC
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Sandy Phocas and her healing work has truly changed me and my life for the better! I highly recommend any of her workshops, Systemic Family Constellations, or individual healing sessions. Her dedication, professionalism and integrity creates a safe environment where you are free to be yourself and vulnerable while treated with the upmost care, privacy and respect. I can’t say enough great things about Sandy, her profound work and positive impact on our community ~Brittney Biggs, Winston-Salem, NC
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I find it hard to put into words the depth of experiences I have had in the work. I have cleared so much trauma, pain, confusion, negative energy stuck in my body, mind and psyche. This left a big space in my being, to fill with love, inner peace, and healing. I feel it has lead me to discover my authentic self and live every minute of every day from that place. I feel I am able to live in the present with great gratitude. This is the healing I prayed for, longed for, many confusing, suffering misguided years of my life. I found my way through this work. When Sandy works with me I feel safe, cared for, held. She knows how to create and hold a healing space for whatever presents. She has done and continues to do her own work which is crucial to be an excellent facilitator and healer. ~Patricia, RN, Maryland
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Sandy pays attention, I mean REALLY pays attention, so much so that my little timid parts show up for healing sessions with her. That’s when the magic happens! -HMF, Greensboro, NC
Sandy has laser-like focus and an innate ability to see the heart of the situation clearly. She focuses on understanding precisely what you mean and what you are experiencing. Sandy uses her insight to select the healing technique best suited to you at that moment. There are no pre-packaged cookie-cutter treatment packages. Sandy's healing activity centers on you and your needs. ~V Birmingham, Baltimore MD
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I have been a Licensed Professional Counselor for over 20 years. Last year, I was looking at major transitions in my life and felt an overwhelming desire to do Shamanic Journeying. I found the right person with Sandy Phocas. Her knowledge, experience and gifts are amazing. The minute you are in her presence the energy is inviting and safe. This work moves one very fast to shedding the blocks and finding the truth. She helps you to remember the person you wanted to be! ~Amanda, Nathans Creek, NC
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I have experienced many of Sandy’s modalities; past life, journeying, Holotropic Breathwork and shamanic healing --all of which have facilitated my healing and helping me connect to a truly deeper part of myself. Her work and support has held the space for real transformation in me. It is truly an extraordinary experience to work with Sandy. She has a great capacity to tune in to what I need at the moment and yet I also feel that I can choose what it is that I might need help with at the moment. Her workshops are a safe and grounded space for which I am able to let go and process deeply. I am very grateful for her work. ~N.D., New York City, Financial Analyst/Singer-songwriter
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Sandy is a wonderful Healer! I have enjoyed many sessions with her and each journey, I learn something new about myself; how to accept, embrace and overcome any obstacles that may present itself, to become a better person. She is with you each step of the way and truly understands your feelings to help you achieve optimum results! I would highly recommend Sandy and her amazing work!
-Troy Hurst, Winston-Salem NC
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Sandy's work with me has been powerful. Breathwork and Shamanic Journeys have been just what I needed to address the non-verbal aspects of my healing. Sandy is so grounded herself, very intuitive and compassionate, and her work is deep and tracks right with what your "growing edge" is. I highly recommend her work. ~Amanda Zabel, M.A.Ed., LPC
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Testimonials are greatly appreciated! To submit, send them via email here or add on Facebook.
Contact
Sandy Phoenix (she/her) (formerly Phocas)
433 West End Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27101
sandysatchi@gmail.com | 336-287-0061 (prefer email)
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Please specify ‘all classes’ or (if you live at a distance) ‘just online + retreats’.
I am not accepting individual clients - only groups.
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