Our Team
Authentically-trained and practicing shamanic practitioners
Those who walk the shamanic path soon realise that, having received so many blessings and gifts of power from the spirits, there then comes a responsibility to give back, to be of service. The most direct way of doing this is to allow the spirits to work through us for healing. We then become, as we call in modern terms, shamanic practitioners.
Jez Hughes
Founder
Shamanic teacher/ healer
Jez is the founder of Second Sight. He has studied shamanism intensively for twenty five years with various teachers, from both contemporary shamanism and indigenous elders across the globe.
Kate
shamanic practitioner/ facilitator
Kate is a healer, musician and mother living in Sussex on the South coast. Having completed her training with Second Sight in 2020 she has been working with individuals and groups to help facilitate healing and a reconnection to their innate ancient wisdom and practices.
Anja
shamanic practitioner/ facilitator
Anja is a shamanic healer, facilitator and tarot reader. She has worked as a full time shamanic healer in both 1-1 healings and group ceremonies and has participated and assisted in multiple ceremonies with a variety of indigenous elders, western shamans and others.
Huw Mackin
shamanic practitioner/ facilitator
Huw supports and guides new initiates through the initiation and training process. Huw’s profession is as a child therapy practitioner and he is an international mountain leader, a rock climbing instructor, a natural horse handler, and a bushcraft and survival expert.
Jez has worked full time as a shamanic healer and teacher for fifteen years, cultivating and grounding his experiences. Outside of shamanism he has followed a varied path including working for Friends of the Earth, The Prince’s Trust, as a professional actor and a published poet. He is also a practising astrologer and tarot reader. Jez’s work has been documented in the national press, including magazines: Sacred Hoop, Natural Health, Kindred Spirit, Soul & Spirit etc and local and BBC radio. His first book- ‘The Heart of Life- Shamanic Initiation & Healing in the Modern World’- was published in November 2015 by Moon Books, followed in 2021 by ‘The Wisdom of Mental Illness- Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of the World’, published by Watkins Publishing. Jez’s initiation into shamanism began when he was a teenager, he experienced a fit that propelled him into an altered state of consciousness. The fit initiated physical and mental disturbances in Jez, and what followed was a 17-year journey through various healing and spiritual traditions and all across the earth, to cure himself.
His training is ongoing and for the some years he has worked closely with the Wixarika (Huichol) nation of northern central Mexico, hosting many senior Marakames (shamans) as they have shared their ceremonies, culture and medicine with Europeans for the first time in their history.
Anja completed her shamanic practitioner training with Second Sight in 2016. In addition to her training, her work is informed by her close work with the Wixarika (Huichol) tribe and Marakames from Northern Mexico, (with whom she has worked closely for nearly 8 years in ceremony, pilgrimage and with their community) and her extensive experience with plant medicines/teachers, as well as her own lineage of Polish medicine women, female medium healers, and native European ancestry.
In her healings, Anja works with the drum, rattles, various divination tools, dreaming, sacred elements and rituals, and incorporates spirit extraction, psychopomp, ancestral healing, soul and power retrieval, power animals and repair of the energy body.
Passionate about being of service and helping people, Anja’s style emphasises compassion, integrity, openness and honesty, and providing a non-judgemental space where anything and everything can be explored. She specialises in ancestral work, family trauma, abuse, illness, working with people who identify as ‘outcasts’, shadow work, secrets and taboos, and welcomes any issue you bring.
Together with her husband, Uli, she facilitates shamanic dreaming circles, ceremonies and workshops in Brighton, where they live with their teenage son, wolf and ginger cat. Anja loves nature, animals, cooking and foraging. She practice yoga and loves to dance.
Since 2014, Huw has worked as a freelance guide and outdoor instructor. During this time he led bushcraft and survival multi-day camps with large groups of children for schools all over the country. As well as leading expeditions all over the UK and Alps, Huw spent several years leading groups in a range of conservation projects in natural reserves in Tanzania, in addition to leading expeditions up Kilimanjaro.
Alongside his outdoor work, Huw has spent decades working with emotionally traumatised children, young people and adults for local authorities as well as other institutions. Inspired by the shortcomings of these institutions, Huw merged his professions together, creating courses and long-term immersive wilderness-based programs for local authorities focused on rehabilitating children and adults deemed ‘unreachable’ – with great success.
This journey eventually led Huw to deepen the work and embrace his calling as a healer. He went on to be initiated and trained as a shamanic healer by Second Sight. After completing his training and undergoing an apprenticeship, Huw became a full member of the training team, supporting and guiding new initiates through the initiation and training process. Above all, Huw is a devoted father to his beautiful daughter.
Uli
shamanic practitioner/ facilitator
Uli is a shamanic healer, group facilitator and tarot reader. Growing up in Eastern Europe, Uli has been immersed in spiritual folk practises since a young age having descended from a long line of medicine women including his mother, from whom he learned tarot.
His Journey into Shamanism began with the Wixarika (Huichol) shamans from Northern Mexico in 2015 and the completion of his shamanic practitioner training with Second Sight in 2017. Since then, he has been working full time with shamanic healings. Worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lines and lineages, pilgrimaged and acted as fire keeper with Wixarika Marakames in Mexico and Britain, as well as sharing his own practise through running work shops, ceremonies and group shamanic circles in Brighton with his wife, Anja.
Uli’s healings incorporate the use of drum, rattles, dreaming, sacred elements and rituals, and he uses spirit extraction, psychopomp, ancestral healing, soul and power retrieval, power animals and repair of the energy body. His approach is informed by his unique syncretic study, from his native European ancestry and upbringing, to his training, living and working with British land, to his work and study of Central American shamanism.
He specialises in working with sickness, trauma, addiction, depression and any psychological, spiritual or physical struggle, whilst also offering space and home cleansings with Anja.
He lives in Brighton with his wife and family, and in his spare time enjoys cycling, road trips and hiking with his wolf, Arina.
She has studied Shamanism for 9 years, undergoing her shamanic training in the traditional model of apprenticeship and experience beginning with assisting on the practitioner training since 2016 before completing the training herself in 2020. Over the last 9 years she has worked with various Amerindian indigenous shamanic cultures including the Mazatec, Aztec and Shipibo of Mexico and Peru, working especially closely with the Wixarika tribe of northern Mexico.
Her background is in psychedelic parapsychology research with Greenwich University, specialising in exceptional human experience and entity encounters on psychedelics, and as an artist. She publicly lectures on the subjects of psychedelics and shamanism, and produces art on the subjects informed by her research and experience, including films, performances, writing and immersive worlds. She has performed and exhibited at the Tate Britain and Breaking Convention and is the creator and host of Psychedelicacies, an online lecture series.
Walking between the worlds of art, psychedelic science and shamanism she works to bridge them and uses each as investigatory tools to inform and articulate each other as tools for healing the self, society and the environment.
He has also worked with Victor Sanchez and AVP ( The Art of Living Purposely ) in Mexico and Britain, following the ancient Toltec Knowledge of living in harmony with the seen and unseen worlds, that we are a part of. He travelled extensively throughout those lands during this period of his life, living in a simple way, immersed in the natural world.
He has recently completed three years training with Jez Hughes and the Second Sight team, which has brought much healing into his life and a true sense of belonging to these lands of Britain with their mysteries.
His intention is to follow the Earth’s evolutionary dream, creating an authentic dialogue with Spirit/Nature, seeking to deepen his connection and guiding others to the ancient pathways of this land and the healing that this brings forth, working closely with the Sacred Yews within the South Downs.
He has been passionate about shamanism for over twenty years and moved from devouring books on the subject to working with Jez over the last 10 years including completing the four seeds and practitioner training.
He is also grateful to have worked with Marakame from the Wixarika nation of Northern Mexico, for the last six years.
“For me my work in the woods has been an amazing personal healing journey, and helps me bring myself more fully to my work in the world, my family and all my relationships. I am very grateful to work with Jez and the Second Sight team, and it is a real honour to help hold sacred space for others. I love the approach of re-dreaming the old pathways of this land, where we lost our traditions so long ago, it’s so needed.”
Ali
shamanic Practitioner
Leah was a practising Shamanic healer and the wife of Jez who passed over from cancer in 2019. Without her wisdom, profound support and vision, Second Sight Healing wouldn’t exist. She supported the trainings in the woods for ten years as they grew from an organic and slightly chaotic beginning into what they are today.
The Woods
shamanic practitioner
Wolf Pack
shamanic supporters
We have many who are on the shamanic path themselves who support the delivery of our shamanic training and our practitioners. Our ‘wolf pack’ help with everything from cooking nourishing foods from the earth, to preparing spaces for learners to work.
She also spent many years working and developing a close friendship with the Wixarika nation and was passionate about sharing their medicine and helping their cause; finding great joy and connection visiting the communities and on pilgrimage in Mexico and in Britain.
Leah wrote a blog, Something beginning with c, which outlined her journey with cancer inspiring thousands of people as she shared her warmth and incredible, life affirming wisdom in the face of such difficult circumstances. She used her previous platform as a well known and popular actor to bring the power of her connection to spirit and how it helped her in facing her death in a dignified and loving way, to assist many others. She was also passionate about the environment and the legalisation of plant medicine’s to assist those with life threatening illnesses.
Her legacy lives on as strong as ever and she shapes and guides all the work we do at Second Sight Healing, from her place with her ancestors in the spirit world.
https://somethingbeginningwithc.com
His Journey into Shamanism began with the Wixarika (Huichol) shamans from Northern Mexico in 2015 and the completion of his shamanic practitioner training with Second Sight in 2017. Since then, he has been working full time with shamanic healings. Worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lines and lineages, pilgrimaged and acted as fire keeper with Wixarika Marakames in Mexico and Britain, as well as sharing his own practise through running work shops, ceremonies and group shamanic circles in Brighton with his wife, Anja.
Uli’s healings incorporate the use of drum, rattles, dreaming, sacred elements and rituals, and he uses spirit extraction, psychopomp, ancestral healing, soul and power retrieval, power animals and repair of the energy body. His approach is informed by his unique syncretic study, from his native European ancestry and upbringing, to his training, living and working with British land, to his work and study of Central American shamanism.
He specialises in working with sickness, trauma, addiction, depression and any psychological, spiritual or physical struggle, whilst also offering space and home cleansings with Anja.
He lives in Brighton with his wife and family, and in his spare time enjoys cycling, road trips and hiking with his wolf, Arina.
Alongside his outdoor work, Huw has spent decades working with emotionally traumatised children, young people and adults for local authorities as well as other institutions. Inspired by the shortcomings of these institutions, Huw merged his professions together, creating courses and long-term immersive wilderness-based programs for local authorities focused on rehabilitating children and adults deemed ‘unreachable’ – with great success.
This journey eventually led Huw to deepen the work and embrace his calling as a healer. He went on to be initiated and trained as a shamanic healer by Second Sight. After completing his training and undergoing an apprenticeship, Huw became a full member of the training team, supporting and guiding new initiates through the initiation and training process. Above all, Huw is a devoted father to his beautiful daughter.
His Journey into Shamanism began with the Wixarika (Huichol) shamans from Northern Mexico in 2015 and the completion of his shamanic practitioner training with Second Sight in 2017. Since then, he has been working full time with shamanic healings. Worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lines and lineages, pilgrimaged and acted as fire keeper with Wixarika Marakames in Mexico and Britain, as well as sharing his own practise through running work shops, ceremonies and group shamanic circles in Brighton with his wife, Anja.
Uli’s healings incorporate the use of drum, rattles, dreaming, sacred elements and rituals, and he uses spirit extraction, psychopomp, ancestral healing, soul and power retrieval, power animals and repair of the energy body. His approach is informed by his unique syncretic study, from his native European ancestry and upbringing, to his training, living and working with British land, to his work and study of Central American shamanism.
He specialises in working with sickness, trauma, addiction, depression and any psychological, spiritual or physical struggle, whilst also offering space and home cleansings with Anja.
He lives in Brighton with his wife and family, and in his spare time enjoys cycling, road trips and hiking with his wolf, Arina.
Alongside his outdoor work, Huw has spent decades working with emotionally traumatised children, young people and adults for local authorities as well as other institutions. Inspired by the shortcomings of these institutions, Huw merged his professions together, creating courses and long-term immersive wilderness-based programs for local authorities focused on rehabilitating children and adults deemed ‘unreachable’ – with great success.
This journey eventually led Huw to deepen the work and embrace his calling as a healer. He went on to be initiated and trained as a shamanic healer by Second Sight. After completing his training and undergoing an apprenticeship, Huw became a full member of the training team, supporting and guiding new initiates through the initiation and training process. Above all, Huw is a devoted father to his beautiful daughter.
