VALERIJ TOPOEV

Valeriy Topoev is a well-known shaman and spiritual leader from the Republic of Khakassia in Siberia, considered one of the authorities and bearers of the traditional culture of the Khakassian people. In teaching, he uses an original method that is a combination of shamanic knowledge, psychology and shamanic psychotherapy methods.

Topoev actively popularizes shamanic traditions, practices and rituals of the Khakas and shares his knowledge of ancient rituals and sacred Khakas customs.

Trained as an experimental physicist, he holds a doctorate in psychology and is a specialist in personality transformation and healing. He also works in ethnology, folk medicine, personality psychology, psychology of altered states of consciousness and suicidology. He has attended numerous scientific conferences on religious and mystical practices and shamanism. He has been using shamanism and archaic meditation methods in his life for very many years and has been a teacher of shamanic practices for 20 years.

For many years he worked as a psychologist-practitioner, using shamanic techniques in the process. In the mid-1990s, he headed the Psychology Laboratory at Khakass State University. He titled his doctoral thesis in psychology: The influence of the motivational factor on the formation of religious-shamanic consciousness. In 2000 Topoev moved to Moscow, where he continued to study shamanism. He completed an internship at the Russian Academy of Sciences, actively joining a research group, led by Valentina Kharitonova, studying the specifics of shamanic states of consciousness. He is the author of scientific papers on shamanism, as well as co-author of texts treating the psychology of shamanism. Together with Valentina Kharitonova, he has written many articles on altered states of consciousness and psychological aspects of shamanic activity.

Topoev is currently director of the Psychological Center in Moscow and runs a psychological practice using shamanic psychotherapy methods. He continues to research the specifics of shamanic states of consciousness. He gives lectures, seminars, trainings and workshops in various countries, including Germany, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, Serbia, Georgia and Hungary.

He provides spiritual guidance and supports people through shamanic rituals such as cleansing, attracting luck, healing and communicating with spirits and forces of nature. The main goal is to teach people shamanic methods of personality transformation and healing.

Valeriy actively calls for respect for nature and preservation of cultural heritage, emphasizing the importance of harmony with the outside world and inner balance. He advocates a fusion of traditional and modern culture, which he believes helps adapt shamanism to modern conditions while preserving its essence.