Shamanic house cleaning

My story with old houses

Shamanic house cleaning – for me this topic opens a door to a room filled with stories …

When I moved to the country in 2012, we rented an old farmhouse from 1907. As soon as I was renovating, I felt that I wasn’t alone in the house. I constantly saw two shadows in the room watching me painting, building the fence and cleaning. At that time I was still a little afraid of ghosts and wanted to get rid of these troublemakers as quickly as possible and tried to apply energetic techniques that I had learned in courses. Unfortunately without success. I did these techniques with more fear than love.

I asked a friend for help – she knew a traditional shamanic house cleaning. On a sunny Saturday we did all the cleaning and the next day we concluded the ceremony with a despacho for the house and grounds. A week later I was woken up by the souls at night: “We’re going now,” they said. And hey presto, they disappeared in the hallway in a gigantic pillar of light. Three weeks later, the owner sold the house and land – he had grown up in it and his parents had lived there for a long time. His mother was ill with cancer for ten years and died there. Both parents had not let go of the house and with it their old lives. How do you get souls into the light?

Is it even possible to “get rid of” souls?

With house cleaning we released all her emotions and memories, all unresolved feelings and unhealed experiences in the house. Only then was the luggage of the souls so small that they could go into the light.

Last February my friend who had moved into an old house in the country asked me if I could do a cleaning with her and her partner. The previous owner was clearly noticeable in the house – they just didn’t really settle into their new home. It was very difficult for her to gain a foothold. The week after the cleaning, the homeowner died in the nursing home. He too was finally able to let go when we had healed and resolved all of his stored experiences. Also, all of my cleanings in business premises and workplaces have profoundly transformed the companies I have worked for. 

Shamanic house cleanings are equally healing for all system participants – they enable freedom, new beginnings and healing.

We leave energy wherever we are

What binds us to matter is our feelings. They are what we put into an object like our home. We fill things with soul – so they say. We bring our energy, our feelings, the meaning that a thing, a place has for us. This energy remains unless we consciously release or purify it. I recently sold my car that I had driven for ten years. I had a really hard time parting with it and when a buyer was found to collect the car I felt an emotional hole opening up in me. 

What was going on? Wasn’t it just a car? It was as if part of me had been taken.

I meditated on the situation and saw that with the car had gone my energy, my joy, my relationship with the car, my sense of security, gratitude – my Munay on the matter. In the truest sense, I lacked some of my energy.

So I energetically cleaned everything that belonged to me from the sold car and got my energy back. So the car went neutral again and my sense of loss went away immediately. (You will learn how something like this works energetically with me at the Mesa school.) 

We do exactly the same thing when we live in a house or apartment. We bring our energy to the place every day and blend with it. We interact with him. In historical places it is often said that the “zeitgeist”, history or a former artist permeates the place. That is certainly the case. 

That’s why, from my perspective, it’s important that we take our energy with us when we leave a place. During our lifetime, this approach allows us to keep our energy contained and not scattered in many places or in many objects. (Living minimalism also has some merits from a shamanic perspective—every item in your possession requires interaction with you).

Conscious farewells and conscious letting go in the respective stages of life are therefore important steps. Imagine missing out on saying goodbye to life stages and objects – at the end of your life you have a lot of energy to work off before you can go.

Most of the solution processes take place in the dying phase, but there is not always enough time in the physical body for processing.

We then find what remains in the buildings of our predecessors.

How do I recognize that a shamanic house cleaning is necessary?

A strong symptom could be that the occupants of a house are often ill, age faster or are permanently exhausted. Our previous tenants in the old farmhouse had gotten a lot of gray hair in three years.

(Of course, geomantic factors can also play a role here, such as faults or water veins under the sleeping place. Geopathogenic interference fields are not my specialty, I only have marginal knowledge about them. You can get help on this topic from dowser clubs.)

If you feel that there is another presence surrounding you, then there could be souls still in the house.

When you go through a lot of strong emotions in your new home and there are always crises in your life. Then old hucha, heavy energy, could be a reason for that.

If you have the feeling that you live in (family) structures that no longer suit you, that have had their day, then it is time to release the energies of the past from your home.

If you have the feeling that you want to clean your long-term home properly, want to get rid of old things that cannot be changed with a few incense sticks, then a house cleaning is just right for you and your family. 

What does a shamanic house cleaning do?

An energetic cleansing clears heavy energy, hucha, from the site. Old stored feelings and behaviors are released and drained into the earth where they are transformed. You get a sense of relief and freedom to bring yourself and your energy into the space. Souls of the predecessors can finally let go (living souls or deceased souls – both). Basically, you don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. A cleansing and release is always for the highest good of all involved in the interaction – you, your family, your landlords, your neighbors – whatever. I have experienced more than once that terminations of the premises or sales can also be a result. Sometimes you get better landlords, sometimes you find yourself a new place that suits you even better, and sometimes couples split up or reconcile. Everything is possible. You have no control over it. Everything that happens is the best for the individual development of each soul involved. Trust. 

Shamanic House Cleansing Guide

I have created a guide for you by explaining the shamanic house cleaning in detail. Cleaning a house requires a lot of energy. It demands a lot of effort and time from you – and what you get is worth twice as much!

(I am happy to share my experience with you if you are already experienced in energy work, but I do not offer bookings for shamanic house cleanings.) 

Your attitude towards house cleaning

As with any shamanic work, your intentions and feelings that you produce within yourself during the purification are the core of your healing work.

Feelings of “wanting to get rid”, “doing away”, “anxiety” are neither helpful nor healing.

Your compassion – your Munay, your love and acceptance for what is, is the core medicine of any shamanic work. Your purification is about doing each handshake mindfully and with a sense of inner well-being and peace with yourself.

Your inner alignment, your level of self-love and motherly care, as a feeling and your healing acceptance of the heavy energies bring healing.

At each stage of the cleanse, please remind yourself that it is not about “taking away” or “getting rid of”.

Put your love into work. Realize that the heavy energy in the house is the result of a lifetime or even multiple lifetimes and families. It’s only respectful when others have done their best to appreciate it.

You release a lot of energies with your cleaning – you free old structures – because NOW is a new time in this place.

Your inner stability and grounding are your basis for clear feelings that spring from your heart. Please prepare yourself. Cleanse yourself, ground yourself, provide sufficient relaxation and rest prior to a house cleanse so that you have sufficient capacity to experience the cleanse.

You will have a lot to process that your system subconsciously perceives during house cleaning.

It is not beneficial if, after a stressful week, you want to process all the stored feelings of a house in addition to what you have experienced.

You will overwhelm yourself and do more harm than good to yourself.

It is also part of your inner attitude that you let go of the end result, the outcome. As I mentioned before, you cannot control what will happen after the purification, what will change. It’s important to rein in your mind, which is always afraid of the unknown, and to stay grounded. 

Only do a house cleanse when you are truly ready to accept and go through whatever the cleanse will trigger in your life.

This attitude is essential for all shamanic energy work. I never focus on an end result, but cleanse what the system needs and help the soul to unfold.

Just bring love to your work – that’s the best you have to admit. And with that, the best will come back to you too. 

Utensils for a shamanic house cleaning

• A large stick of white sage
• For each additional person who takes part, an incense, e.g. also sage or a bowl with coal and copal, frankincense or palo santo shavings.
• Sea salt to wash your forearms
• 1 bell per person
• A tealight/candle with a small bouquet/flower for each room (corridor, basement, attic, toilet are also rooms)
• Prepared snack/sandwich, tea for a lunch break outside – no food is prepared or eaten in the house during house cleaning – all groceries are stored well in cupboards and in the fridge. Eating and drinking is only outside.

The 3 phases of house cleaning

The shamanic house cleaning is divided into three phases.

1st phase – clapping

2nd phase – smoking

3rd phase – blessing

Each phase is a complete tour of the house. Starting on the left of the front door, along all the walls, counterclockwise. The entire cleaning takes about 6 hours for a 180 sqm house (without Despacho).

1st phase – clapping

In this first phase of house cleaning, all energies are brought out of the walls, the door frames, the corners and rooms, set in motion and stirred up. Here you clap your hands and start to move and bring out the stuck energy with your sound. 

You start on the left of the front door and move counter-clockwise through the entire house – floor by floor. You smack the walls from bottom to top and from top to bottom. Especially the corners and all the door frames before you step through them. So you move from the entrance, into the hallway, take the first room, go through it and follow the course of the wall until you arrive at the entrance again.

This procedure is strenuous and demands your hands.

If you hear a dull sound, clap at that point until the sound becomes clear and resounding. A dull sound is an indication of stuck energy in that corner.

Hold on and then clean your entire forearms with sea salt and water.

Depending on how heavy the energy is in the house, you may experience weird feelings, headaches, or nausea. Don’t worry, this will go away with the cleaning. It’s a good sign that you’ve moved a lot, which is now floating around in the room. 

2nd phase – smoking

Now it’s time for the second phase. This time you go around the whole house counter-clockwise again and smoke the walls, the corners, the door frames with sage.

Be sure to turn off the smoke detectors before and inform your neighbors. It’s getting really smoky. It is important that you now clean room by room on your tour.

Enter the first room and close the door. Smoke it off completely. Then open the window and release the old energies.

You can say, “Thank you for everything that’s been here so far. Now it’s time to go. A new era is dawning. Here, through the window is the exit. Anything old goes now.”

Then leave the room, close the room door behind you and go into the next room, which follows your tour counterclockwise.

You can do the hallway, from which all rooms usually lead, last and then open all the room doors. In the end, all windows and doors are open everywhere in the house and all the smoke escapes.

This is a good moment for a break. Take a lunch break. Outside you have already prepared a snack and drinks. Please do not prepare any food in the house now! 

3rd phase – blessing

In this final phase, each room is blessed with bells. You start again at the front door and work your way through room by room in an anti-clockwise direction.

You bless every wall, every corner, every door frame with your little bell. Ring the bell until the sound is clear. Then set up your flowers and a candle. Light the candle and bless the room. Tell the house what this room is for and what energies and qualities should be at home here. In the bedroom, for example, this can be: rest, relaxation and eroticism. In the study, for example, this could be: creativity, enjoyment of work, lightness and financial security. You say out loud what this room is for: “I bless this room. This is a space for lightness, sensuality and me time.”

This is how you work your way room by room. Let all the candles burn out. (That’s why tea lights in a glass are good). Then you’ve made it – your house cleaning is complete. Time to relax and digest everything you have experienced. 

Despacho for your home