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On the Scent
of the Shadow

Reconnect with the parts of yourself
you've been taught to avoid.
A Self-Paced Online Class with Cathy Skipper & Florian Birkmayer, MD
✦ Join a growing community of seekers, healers, and therapists exploring the gifts of the Shadow. ✦
$97 one-time payment
Sunrise over frozen landscape - On the Scent of the Shadow

What Students Are Saying

about their journey with the shadow
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Not only did I learn about the shadow self and how to work with it—I had a major breakthrough. This course opened something in me.
— Kimberley C.
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Your teachings gave me practical ways to feel and explore what I didn't have words for. Deep gratitude.
— Joanne K. Psychotherapist
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On the Scent of the Shadow

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Even if you can't see the goal, you can smell your way through the dark.

Shadow Work is more than just a mental practice. It's a journey of remembering. And the sense of smell can guide the way.

On the Scent of the Shadow is a self-paced course that combines science, psychology, and aromatic intelligence to help you reconnect with your unconscious, uncover the stories behind your patterns, and integrate what's been exiled into wholeness.

This isn't about fixing. It's about relating. With guided practices, aromatic rituals, and deep reflection, this course invites you to experience the Shadow not as something to overcome — but as a source of deep wisdom.

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Reconnect

  • Reconnect with your unconscious
  • Uncover the stories behind your patterns
  • Integrate what's been exiled into wholeness
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Relate

  • Experience the Shadow as wisdom, not enemy
  • Develop a compassionate relationship
  • Move beyond fixing into relating
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Remember

  • Let scent guide your journey
  • Access what words cannot reach
  • Remember the wholeness within

What You'll Experience

  • Aromas as allies: Learn how scent interacts with the limbic system to evoke memory, insight, and emotional release
  • Tools for self-inquiry: Use guided journaling and scent rituals to explore the patterns that keep you stuck
  • Integration practices: Create a relationship with your Shadow that fosters compassion and transformation
  • Personal myth + meaning: Access the symbolic and soulful dimensions of healing

What's Included

  • Four modules of video teachings, meditations, and integration practices
  • A private Pumble group for support, reflection, and connection
✦ Optional: Curated kit of essential oils used in the course (available for separate purchase)

What You'll Walk Away With

✦ A deeper understanding of your unconscious patterns and how to engage them consciously
✧ A personal aromatic toolbox for ongoing shadow integration
✦ A sense of being more whole, more grounded, and more at home in yourself
✧ Confidence to use scent-based practices for your own healing or with your clients
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Landscape and shadow - On the Scent of the Shadow

The Details

  • Self-paced, lifetime access
  • Community support in Pumble
  • Optional essential oil kit (recommended, sold separately)
$97 one-time investment
✦ Begin when you're ready. Return as often as you need. Let scent guide you home. ✦
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Your Guides

Cathy Skipper and Florian Birkmayer, MD

Cathy Skipper

Cathy Skipper is an international teacher, plant person and healer who brings 30 years of experience as well as her highly attuned intuition and experience of 'seeing the person within' to this work. She trained in aromatherapy in France and has worked with scent for over twenty years.

Florian Birkmayer, MD

Florian Birkmayer, MD is a former holistic psychiatrist with 20 years of experience guiding people through their challenges to a place of empowerment based on his own Wounded Healer's Journey. He began integrating the use of scent into his psychiatric practice in 2008.

✦ This course is rooted in decades of lived experience, professional practice, and devotion to healing the unseen. ✦
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