Meet the Maker
Jack Antony
Creative Animist · Ritual Craftsman · Shamanic Practitioner
I’m a ritual craftsperson and animist practitioner whose work explores the relationship between spirit, craft, and the natural world.
For more than a decade, I have followed a path rooted in animism, spirit work , and earth-based spirituality. Over time, this has organically evolved into more than personal study and has become a way of relating to the world. My work is deeply guided by a reverence for life's cycles and the alchemy that occurs within them.
A central aspect of my practice involves working with bones and ethically sourced animal materials. Through this, I seek to honour death with respect, tending to what remains beyond form and recognising grief as essential.
I believe spirituality must be spacious enough to hold both light and shadow, offering an honest and embodied relationship with the full spectrum of human experience.
My foundation training in Core Shamanism provided an initial framework for my practice, which I have since expanded beyond through continued study and independent exploration. From this base, my work moves into trance states, folk traditions rooted in my own ancestral lineages, and engagement with the otherworlds as understood through ancient European cosmologies. My lineage includes Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Cornish, Dutch, and Scandinavian roots, which inform an ongoing refinement of my practice.
I’m also acutely aware of the histories of harm, extraction, and appropriation that exist within spiritual and esoteric fields, particularly where practitioners engage with closed practices of other lineages. This awareness informs my commitment to ethical responsibility and cultural humility in how I approach spirit work.
My intention is to move away from extractive frameworks and towards practices grounded in reciprocity and relational integrity, with collective liberation as my guiding orientation.
Alongside this, I am trained in therapeutic Total Yoga Nidra, a lineage-informed practice in which permission and transmission have been received through my teachers. This work informs both my daily devotional personal practice and the spaces I facilitate. I work with Yoga Nidra as a gateway into deep states of awareness and attunement to the spirit realms.
My Teachers, Trainings & Creative Lineage
Over the past decade, I have followed threads of shamanism, animism, ritual practice, and ancestral craft, weaving them into both my life and my work. My formal trainings have provided deep foundations and practical tools:
Therapeutic Total Yoga Nidra with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli & Nirlipta Tuli & Yoli Maya Yeh, offering a grounded, trauma-informed approach to deep rest and inner journeying.
Shamanic Practitioner Training with The Healing Tree, which introduced me to core shamanic frameworks and practices for working with the spirits, land, psychopomp, healing techniques and elemental wisdom
Grief Tending Facilitator Training with Francis Weller, teaching me how to hold space for grief, guide ritual, move towards collective liberation & cultivate soul
Alongside these structured trainings, immersive experiences and creative inspirations have shaped my work profoundly:
Sacred Familiar – Spirit Doll Pilgrimage Course - whose magical creations & teachings continue to inspire my own craft.
Mara June – Tears of the Gods, a deeply potent exploration through plant, myth, death & grief
Ancestral Crafting & Skills at SALA gathering, where craft, storytelling, and hands-on connection to materials continue to infuse my practice.
Six years of intensive self-directed learning in drum, rattle & ceremonial craft, experimenting with materials & technique.
I am also guided by the teachings of remarkable voices and thinkers whose wisdom continues to ripple through my work:
Sophie Strand, Nicholas Breeze-Wood, Gabor Maté, and Carl Jung, whose writings and ideas inspire reflection and deepen my understanding.
This lineage of training and mentorship is an ever-evolving process.
