Life, Soul, and Beyond

Support your transition shamanically

Isao is a wonderful shamanic practitioner, and has helped me out on multiple occasions, most notably with the fast and successful removal of entities, intrusions and psychic attack. Isao has also helped me heal several health issues, clearing ancestral trauma, soul retrieval and some of extremely helpful divination’s. During both in-person and online sessions I’ve found his work to be absolutely spot on. He has a huge amount of integrity, doesn’t cut any corners, and works for the highest good of all his clients. I can’t recommend him highly enough.

– Frances Carrington

A Remarkable Healer Who Transforms Lives from all realms
Isao is not just a healer; he is a beacon of compassion and expertise. His commitment to his clients goes beyond mere duty—it springs from the depths of his heart.
Isao listens intently, understanding not only the physical ailments but also the emotional struggles. His healing sessions are infused with genuine care.

Isao’s professionalism treatments have unraveled knots of pain, restored balance, and ignited hope. Isao’s healing isn’t just about curing ailments; it’s about awakening life force, igniting resilience, and fostering growth.
In the tapestry of healers, Isao stands out—a luminary who illuminates the path to wholeness. He isn’t just a healer; he’s a miracle healer.
Sherry Winata

I was very fortunate to experience a shamanic healing with Isao. At the time, I was experiencing a pervasive and chronic stomach ailment. Isao was able to get to the spiritual root cause of the ailment and provide me with invaluable information and healing that helped me immensely on my healing journey. Isao is both extremely power-filled and compassionate, and I highly recommend doing a healing with him if you ever have the chance.

Melissa

 

I am grateful to Isao for his grounded, open and capable approach to the healing session and to the whole process of the healing. Isao listened with care and was able to diagnose things with accuracy. I sensed the healing he offered viscerally and change occurred very rapidly over the course of a few days. I appreciate the information he shared before and after the healing. I felt supported throughout the process and highly recommend Isao’s shamanic divination and healing work. I am in gratitude to Isao for offering this important and transformative work.
Charmaine B

I had the opportunity to experience shamanic healing with Isao Kato through a virtual call via Zoom, and I am incredibly grateful for the journey. My sessions included a psychopomp healing for my aunt, followed by a session focused on my own healing.

Rosan

I wholeheartedly recommend Isao Kato for anyone seeking shamanic healing. His expertise, combined with his compassionate approach, makes for an enriching experience that can truly change lives.

Rosan

Upon first meeting Isao, I was mightily impressed with his professionalism.

Couple this with an emotional intelligence, insight and clarity of mind hard to find in a world of smoke and mirrors, one finds a man well equipped and prepared to go places where many fear to tread.

What he shares as a teacher and healer he does so with deep humility, integrity and generosity.

Jo Fey Duncan

Isao is the real deal. In a space with so many pretenders – Isao’s work is absolutely sincere, genuine, and powerful.
Insights that have been garnered through work with Isao have drastically helped me to navigate the complications of life in the 21st centiruy. For anyone who is interested in genuine shamanic wisdom and healing – I would not hesitate to work with Isao, a gentleman in the truest sense of the word.
Saul Tregger

As Isao’s client for many years, his dedication to his work and to getting the best outcomes for me is why I keep coming back to see him. He is a trusted confidante who delivers messages from the spirit worlds clearly and without bias. We’ve worked both in-person and remotely together and he has done everything from clearing, soul retrieval, divination and more for me. His support and care have got me through many challenges over the years and I consider him an important part of my health team – he sees and addresses the spiritual issues that ordinary doctors just don’t have the skills to deal with. Isao is a highly experienced shaman who also regularly supports advanced training with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, so you know he is endorsed as a skilled practitioner. I would highly recommend anyone looking for spiritual support and healing to connect with his honest, ethical, and powerful services
Camilla

Life = Endless Crossroads

Change has two sides, just like a coin. One side says it is the only constant in life. Everything and everybody changes, perhaps obviously nowadays more than ever. And the other side says we hate it. We would do anything to avoid changes, so that we don’t have to do anything. I propose we look at changes from a different angle. Rather than a harbinger of chaos, we can accept change as “transition.” We are simply moving from one state to another. That is to say, we are constantly shifting into a new way of being. It sounds much better than saying we are always getting older, too. 

Transitions, or changes, are like onions. They are layered. They support and nourish us. They are sweet as well as bitter. But unlike onions, we cannot cut our transitions to the core easily. We need to peel off the layer of truths one by one, oftentimes making our eyes misty (like an onion, I’ll stop here). It is tedious work, plus conveniently we have an abundance of distractions with our cellphones and Netflix. Therefore, we tend to be carried away by the tides of transitions, oftentimes losing the insights they bring and the ability to navigate them.

That is where I offer my service: counseling and facilitation for your transition. Working with helping spirits in the non-physical world, I act as a liaison between you and your higher self (more about this later) to help you gain clarity about the transitions (What is going on?). Then I will also bring in the necessary energetic shift and healing to best aid your transition (What can we do about it?).

Meet Your Other Self

 

We have our conscious as well as our subconscious self. The former is tangible while the latter is not, and also unrecognized in many cases. The latter is also enormous. If we were an iceberg, the conscious self is similar to the visible portion above the water, and the subconscious self, the submerged part, is the majority. 

The so-called higher self refers to this subconscious part, that is the core essence of who we are as an energetic soul. Your higher self is whom I will be meeting and interacting with when I work with you as a shamanic practitioner.

I listen to you talk about what has been going on in your life, and then perceive what your higher self says/shows, which always contains a deeper perspective. I will also discuss what could be done to improve your situation – let go of unnecessary energies, bring back portions of your soul that have been forgotten or abandoned, etc. I bring all of this information to you and update throughout our session. The purpose here is to align your conscious self and higher self, to dissolve inner conflicts and accelerate integration.

How I work

Drumming Shamanism

Based on the ancient traditions and modern framework popularized by FSS (Foundation of Shamanic Studies), I use drums and rattles to call in and collaborate with helping spirits from the non-physical world. When I drum and rattle, I enter the so-called shamanic state of consciousness, where I perceive the non-physical world while retaining the awareness of my physical state. This process is called shamanic journey. There, I meet my helping spirits and my client’s higher self to receive information and work with energies.

The Process

In my typical shamanic session, the client (you) shares your intention – situation, issues, questions – on any of the physical/emotional/mental/spiritual levels. You lie down, eyes closed and heart open, and I enter the shamanic journey and meet your higher self to perceive their perspective on what is going on, and discuss what can be done. I then share my findings with you so you can align with your higher self, and then work on your energy. The session is followed by a remote checkup as an aftercare, and/or the next meeting for deeper work.

Tailor Made and Flexible

Even though the process is somewhat streamlined, the type and content of shamanic work I offer are custom made for each case, since it all depends on your personal situation and permission. There are several types of energy work involved, as outlined in the following sections, but what is employed depends on the outcome of my interaction with you and your higher self.

I can also offer my work flexibly, time and distance-wise: face to face, online meeting, or completely offline. The spirits, the real teacher and worker here, operate in the world without physical boundaries or linear time.

Work with The Living

 
Energy work with the living (you as a client) goes roughly in two directions: Letting go (Extraction), or taking in (Retrieval), as explained below. Which work is used depends on the outcome of initial divination.

Sometimes the work with the deceased souls (explained in the following section) also comes in. Everything will be clearly explained during the session.

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Let Go of Energy That No Longer Belongs to You
At the end (or beginning) of the day, we need to clean our body. We remove dirt, old skin cells, and bacteria from the surface. We flush our body internally using natural fluid movements, emotional release, meditations to clear our mind, etc. Sometimes a medical procedure is involved, such as detoxing and surgical removal of cancer and parasites. Energy works with the same principle, and in shamanism, this removal of unnecessary energetic attachments is called Extraction. With my helping spirits, I let go of energies/entities that no longer belong to you: it can be light (cleaning) or deep (surgical) depending on the situation.
Take in Energy that Belongs to You
When we encounter a painful or shocking event, it is natural to dissociate ourselves from that moment or period – try to forget, move on, cut off, etc. It is a necessary coping mechanism to survive, but in order for us to stay wholesome, sometimes we need to engage with the traumatic event and embrace that part of our life in a graceful manner, which is what counseling and therapy are about. We offer similar work in shamanism, which is called Soul Portion Retrieval. With my helping spirits, I collect the energy of your dissociated memories and events and bring them back into you, to help you become wholesome.

There is another type of retrieval, which is to invite a helping spirit that will support you in a variety of ways. Some are your guardian spirits who have been waiting for an opportunity to consciously connect with you. Some are newly acquainted spirits to help you for specific issues. They take a variety of forms: animal, human, plant, even inanimate objects like tools. With my helping spirits, I bring them into your energy body so your higher self can collaborate anew, or deeper than before.

Work with The Dead

 
I work with the deceased souls too. We are all essentially souls with a physical body. We come into this big, super-realistic dream called physical life, and when we “graduate,” we wake up on the other side, where we came from – the source, universe, or afterlife.

This transition from human life to afterlife might not go smoothly. Some souls dwell on the physical world even though their body is gone. I help them move over to the afterlife, a practice called psychopomp in the world of shamanism.

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Let Go of Lost Souls
Some deceased souls may attach to the living, causing unusual sensations, emotions, even physical activities. They might be your family members or friends who passed away, or complete strangers. The deceased souls are usually not aware of what they are doing, and therefore can interfere with the living’s life in undesirable ways. I meet those souls, help them realize their situation, and guide them toward the afterlife.

Or you might just be wondering how your close friends and family members who passed away are doing – have they moved on peacefully? Are they still here (in physical world)? With your permission, I meet them at their current realm. If they haven’t transitioned to the afterworld, I guide them there. Either way I eventually meet them in the afterlife, observe and describe how they are doing, and relay messages between you, the living.
Clean Up Your House
Have you noticed unusual sensations or activities in your house? You might be encountering spooky feelings, strange smells, unusual sounds around some areas, and wondering if someone else is in the house beside you and your family. Sometimes wandering dead souls can attach to a house, stay under the same roof as the living and even claim that the living people are the true intruders. I can check the house remotely or on-site and if I notice the presence of non-physical guests, I offer them a much bigger and more comfortable real estate: the afterlife.

Isao Kato

A nomad shamanic practitioner operating in Asia

I offer divination and healing based on ancient shamanic practices using drums and rattles. My work is based on, and evolved from, indigenous shamanic techniques taught by FSS (The Foundation of Shamanic Studies) founded by Dr. Michael Harner.

Disclaimer

My service does not constitute medical procedure or advice in any form. If you need professional medical support, either on the physical or mental level, please consult with relevant experts.

Isao Kato
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My pre-shamanism years are summarized in one word: misfit. I was born in Japan, but spent several years overseas by the age of seven. I never felt I fit into my community, home, neighbors, school, clubs. No matter what I did or said, something was “off” while others could navigate the world smoothly by reading the “signs of expectations” everywhere that were written by inks invisible to me. I compensated by being a straight-A student. As long as I kept getting good grades, the world approved of my existence. That facade crumbled at my first job where university degrees did nothing about solving real-world problems, which meant I had to “read the signs.”

Life started to turn upward gradually when I found my place in the English-based corporate culture where the “signs of expectations” were visible, but the discomfort of a misfit remained, so I kept pushing boundaries until I found myself living in a foreign country (Taiwan) as a freelance worker. Then I was invited to a plant medicine ceremony that shook my worldview. I had always been curious about the nature of reality, but never had an altered state of consciousness, not even a smoke of weed. I asked what that was all about. They said it was “shamanism.”

I started taking sound based (rattles and drums) shamanic training under the modality of FSS (Foundation of Shamanic Studies). Initially it was mostly pretending. Without the aid of external substance (ex: plant medicine), getting into the altered state of consciousness was challenging to say the least. But when it came to the training of psychopomp, the art of guiding deceased souls transition to the afterlife, I was suddenly surrounded by dozens of souls, all asking for help. Because the gap between the previous “faking it” states was so big, I figured out there was something for me.

As I explored and expanded my shamanic practice using that profound moment, I gathered proficiency in other modalities, such as divination and healing. In hindsight it became clear that my formative years of being a misfit was a perfect training ground to communicate with the dead souls, because they too, are “misfits” – not finding a place in the world, lost and confused. I now live my life with a deep gratitude that things were meant to happen.

I share more stories and insights on Substack.

Confidentiality and Permission

I respect the following two principles at the highest order.

  • Practitioner-client confidentiality: Everything that is shared and happens during our work stays between us.
  • Explicit permission: Everything I do is based on your permission. At any point in our work, you just need to say “no” to withdraw your consent, physically and energetically.

Everything I offer is done only with clear and verbal permission from you. In order for effective energy work, we need to have an open minded state. Your permission opens the door to your inner world so that your higher self and my spirit helpers can work together. You always have the power and key, and your permission reinforces them.

Disclaimer

My service does not constitute medical procedure or advice in any form.
If you need professional medical support, either on the physical or mental level, please consult with relevant experts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can you work on other people?

I only work with people who have given me explicit permission. Exceptions are:

  • The person is a minor, and you are their legal custodian.
  • The person is an adult family member of yours whose cognitive capability has diminished (coma, dementia, etc.)
  • You want me to work with your pets, plants, and belongings (like a house).
Can you call in dead people?
Calling deceased people into my body and letting you communicate with them is called channeling, and I do not offer it. I communicate with deceased souls only to help them move on peacefully to the afterlife. However, I can deliver and receive messages between them and you as part of that process.
Do I have to believe in shamanism to work with you?
Not at all. Shamanism is a methodology, not a belief system. The client needs to offer permission and be open in order for the work to be effective, but otherwise all beliefs and religions are welcomed.
What is higher self?
I consider higher self to be our unconscious self in shamanic view. Using icebergs as an example, the conscious part of who we are (the “I know who I am” part) is akin to the tip that is visible above the surface. The vast majority is invisible, as is our unconscious part / higher self. I explain how I work with it here.
How long does the session last and how much does it cost?

One session typically lasts from 90 minutes to 2 hours. I receive a fee as an exchange. For details, please contact me.

What do I have to prepare before the session?
For face to face sessions, just yourself. For real-time online sessions (for example using Zoom), a private space where you can completely relax, either sitting up or lying down.