You keep getting the signs.
And you keep talking yourself out of them.
For those who feel called to healing work but keep pushing it away. Take your first grounded step. On your own terms. Without walking away from who you already are.
Take the First Step Hybrid self-paced + live calls · Starts with one audioIt happens on an ordinary day. Nothing special. You're between clients, or between calls, or driving home.
And it gnaws at you again. That feeling that something bigger is out there for you. Not a fantasy. Not a midlife thing. A pull. A knowing you can't fully explain.
You've gotten the signs. The dream that stayed with you for days. The stranger who said something they had no way of knowing. The moment your hands knew what to do before your mind did.
And every single time, you push it away. You tell yourself you're not that person. That's not who you are. That's not how you were raised. That's not what people like you do.
But the signs keep coming.
So you look in secret. Late-night searches. A workshop page you close before bookmarking it. A training you almost signed up for until you imagined telling your family. You've started and stopped more than once. And you have no one to talk to about any of it.
The cycle just goes around and around.
It's not that you haven't tried. It's that everything you tried asked for the wrong thing first.
The trainings wanted months of commitment before you felt a single thing. The workshops spoke a language so esoteric you needed training just to understand the training. The new age spaces felt so foreign you couldn't relax enough to stay.
- They asked you to commit before you had proof it was real.
- They asked you to become someone new before you felt safe as who you are.
- They asked you to speak their language before anyone spoke yours.
- They asked you to believe before you were allowed to feel.
Every approach you've tried asked you to earn belonging before you felt it.
The First Step Healing Journey reverses that.
Here, the felt experience comes first. Grounded. Safe. Undeniable. In your own body, in your own home, with nothing asked of you.
The identity comes after. The direction comes after. Not because someone told you it would work. Because you felt it yourself.
Small steps. No performance. No foreign language. No wrong room.
The First Step Healing Journey
A 6-week hybrid journey. Self-paced healing audios and practices, with live calls and personal responses from Anthony woven throughout. Three phases. Eight milestones. One real step forward.
The Ground Beneath You
This phase has one job: give you a direct, private, felt experience of grounding before anything else is asked of you. No commitment. No identity shift. No performance.
You give yourself permission to pause and check this out. You finish something healing-related without shutting down — for the first time. And you feel, in your own body, that grounding is real and available to you.
The question of "can I even do this?" closes. Not because someone told you it would work. Because you felt it yourself.
- Healing Audio 1: a grounding and centering audio that brings your nervous system to stillness and delivers your first direct experience of energetic sovereignty
- Healing Audio 2: a boundary and energy clearing audio that helps you distinguish your own energy from what you've absorbed from others
- One reflection prompt after each audio: What did I notice? Not homework. An honest check-in with yourself.
- A tangible personal marker: one thing you've been struggling with — a relationship tension, a stressor — that loosens after a few days of listening
The Seeker Comes Forward
Now that you've had the felt experience, you're ready to claim something and say it out loud. This phase moves you from private, secret seeker to someone with a declared identity, a witnessed declaration, and a named gift.
The liberation of saying something you've been hiding is the engine of this phase. And for the first time, your questions are heard by someone who has lived this path — in a space that is genuinely safe to ask anything.
The gnawing feeling that has been nameless for years gets a name. The secret search becomes an open one. You are still exactly who you are — but something hidden is now visible.
- The Grounded Seeker Declaration: a written declaration you complete, post in the community, and send to Anthony as a voice message — witnessed, received, and acknowledged
- A personal voice memo response from Anthony confirming you are seen and heard in this space
- The Healing Gift Inventory: a guided reflection that surfaces what has always moved through you naturally — the thing you do effortlessly that shifts people around you
- A creative image exercise: give your healing gift a visual form before it has a perfect name
- Weekly call or personal voice memo Q&A with Anthony where your specific questions get a direct, personal response
The First Step Is Taken
The final phase converts everything that has shifted inside you into one real, visible action in the world — and anchors your grounding practice permanently, so you don't slide back into the old cycle.
By now, the ground beneath you is solid. The next step doesn't feel like a leap into the unknown. It feels like the natural continuation of something already in motion.
You take the step. And you stop waiting for outside permission to keep going.
- The Next Step Clarity prompt: a simple decision framework that identifies the one visible action that is yours to take right now — the workshop, the session, the conversation you've been avoiding
- Your Personal Grounding Practice: a short, repeatable daily practice built from the healing audios you've been using, customized to your life and schedule — yours for good
- A closing reflection: What do I now know that I didn't know before? What is my next step, and when am I taking it?
- Your named healing gift — practiced enough times through the journey that by now, it comes naturally, without hesitation
Eight milestones. One grounded step at a time.
This is the exact path you walk over six weeks. Not theory. Not someone else's testimony. Your own direct experience, milestone by milestone.
You stop dismissing the signs.
Every signal used to get pushed away, explained away, buried. You don't fully trust it yet. But you stop running from it.
You complete something healing-related without quitting.
For the first time, you finish. You listen to the audio all the way through. You don't shut down. You don't tell yourself it's too weird. You stay.
You stop wondering if grounding is even possible for you.
The question of "can I even do this?" closes — because you felt it in your own body.
You declare yourself a Grounded Seeker.
Not healer. Not shaman. Just: I am someone who is grounded enough to look. The secret search gets a name and a direction.
You start asking questions out loud.
The inquiry moves from private searches at midnight to something you're willing to say in front of another person.
You name your healing gift for the first time.
Even tentatively. Not perfectly. Not permanently. But the gnawing feeling that has been nameless for years gets a name. This is the moment the cycle breaks.
You take one visible step you've been avoiding.
You register for the workshop. You book the session. You tell one person what you're exploring. Something that lived only in secret tabs at night becomes a real action in the world.
You stop needing outside permission to keep going.
No more waiting for family approval, credentials, or a sign big enough to be undeniable. Inner peace, inner strength, and patience are no longer something you're seeking. They're something you're operating from.
The people who walk this path keep walking.
This journey is not for everyone. That's the point.
This is for you if…
- You're a credentialed professional — therapist, healer, EMS worker, educator, trained practitioner — who is good at your work and knows it
- You keep getting signs you're meant for healing work, and you keep talking yourself out of them
- You've looked in secret — late-night searches, trainings you almost joined — and nothing felt right
- You want to feel it for yourself before you commit to anything
- You're ready to reveal your true healing purpose and gifts — on your own terms, without walking away from who you already are
This is not for you if…
- You're browsing healing modalities with no intention of taking a real step
- You want someone else to hand you certainty before you've felt anything yourself
- You're looking for "love and light" spirituality that skips the honest work
- You expect transformation without taking one visible action in the world
One journey. One grounded step.
The full 6-week journey — all three phases, every healing audio, and the live calls, with personal responses from Anthony woven throughout.
First Step Healing Journey
- All 6 weeks · all 3 phases · all 8 milestones
- Every healing audio, yours to keep
- The Grounded Seeker Declaration — witnessed and acknowledged
- A personal voice memo response from Anthony after your Declaration
- The Healing Gift Inventory + creative image exercise
- Live group calls throughout the 6 weeks
- Weekly call or personal voice memo Q&A with Anthony
- Your Personal Grounding Practice template
- Community space inside The Shaman's Journey
Anthony Rios has stood at this exact threshold.
Anthony is a shamanic healer and teacher rooted in curanderismo lineage. But before any of that, he was a man carrying what he calls the wound of belonging — the fear that stepping toward his gift meant stepping away from everyone he loved.
His own healing took twelve years. Twelve years of starting, stopping, hiding the search, and pushing the signs away. What he built from that journey is a way of teaching that gives you the felt experience first — grounded, plain-spoken, and free of the esoteric language that makes so many spaces feel like the wrong room.
No spiritual bypassing. No performance. No pretending the hard parts of life aren't hard. Just real grounding, real sovereignty, and a guide who remembers exactly what it feels like to stand where you're standing.
Founder of The Shaman's Journey · anthonyrioshealing.net
The questions you're already asking quietly.
Isn't it too late in life for me to start this?
This is the most common fear, and it's worth answering directly. The professionals who do this work best are the ones who arrive with a life already built — trained hands, real experience, people they've already helped. Your years are not the obstacle. They're the foundation. The journey doesn't ask you to start over. It asks you to take one step from exactly where you stand.
What if this just isn't who I am? It's not how I was raised.
You don't have to become someone new. That's the core of this method. You stay exactly who you are — the professional, the parent, the person your people know. The only thing that changes is that something you've been hiding becomes visible, first to yourself, then to one safe witness. Nobody is asked to abandon their upbringing, their faith, or their life. Grounding doesn't have a dress code.
What will my family and friends think?
Here's the honest answer: for the first phase, they don't need to think anything. Phase 1 is completely private — you, an audio, and your own body. Nothing to announce. By the time anything becomes visible, you'll be moving from your own certainty instead of seeking their approval. That's a very different conversation than the one you've been dreading.
I've tried trainings before and quit. Why would this be different?
Because every training you quit asked you to earn belonging before you felt anything. Months of commitment before proof. A foreign language before a felt experience. This journey reverses the order. The first thing that happens is you feel grounding in your own body — no commitment, no performance, no identity shift required. People don't quit things they've already felt work.
Is this religious? Do I have to believe anything?
No. This work is rooted in curanderismo lineage, but it asks for zero belief up front. It asks you to listen to an audio and notice what happens in your body. That's it. Whatever you feel — that's your data, not anyone's doctrine. Many people in this work hold their own faith traditions and find this deepens them rather than competing with them.
How much time does this take? I have a demanding career.
It was built for people with demanding careers. The healing audios take minutes, not hours. The reflections are one honest question, not homework. The live calls are there when you can make them, with recordings and voice memo Q&A when you can't. This journey fits inside a full life — because walking away from your full life was never the assignment.
What happens after the six weeks?
You leave with a grounding practice that's permanently yours, a named gift, and one real step already taken. For those who feel the pull to go further, The Shaman's Journey and Anthony's deeper trainings are there — but there's no pressure and no upsell treadmill. The First Step Healing Journey is complete on its own. The next step, if there is one, will be yours to choose from solid ground.
The signs are not going to stop.
The question is what you do with the next one.
You've circled this long enough. One grounded step. On your terms. Without walking away from who you already are.
Take the First Step 6 weeks · Hybrid self-paced + live · $297