About Ryan Jones (Dorje Rangdol) | The Heart Shaman Birmingham

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Ryan Jones · Known spiritually as Dorje Rangdol

Shamanic Healer, Buddhist, Mentor

Ryan Jones - known by his Sanskrit name Dorje Rangdol - is a heart-centred shamanic healer and practitioner based in Birmingham, UK. Since founding The Heart Shaman in 2019, he has guided more than 500 clients through grief, burnout, life transitions and deep emotional blocks that talking therapy alone could not shift.

He holds teachings from three shamanic lineages - Tibetan, Mongolian and Andean - and has practised Buddhism alongside shamanism throughout his adult life. His approach is warm, grounded and free of spiritual jargon. No performance. No bypassing. Just honest work with whatever you bring to the session.

Ryan works with clients in person in Birmingham and online with people across the UK and internationally.

7+ years practising

500+ clients

174 five-star reviews

3 lineages

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The Beginning

Born Between Worlds

It is said among many traditions that shamans are chosen - not by ambition or study alone, but by spirit. And that the calling often announces itself through a trial.

"My shamanic path began at the moment of my birth. I entered this world without breath, without consciousness - a near-death initiation before I had even taken my first step."

That early encounter with the threshold - the place between life and death, between this world and what lies beyond - became the first of many awakenings that shaped the healer Ryan would later become. It was not the last time the unseen world would reach into his life to redirect it.

From childhood, Ryan moved through the world with a heightened sensitivity to what most people could not see. Dreams came with unusual clarity. The natural world spoke in ways he could not fully explain. He learned, early, to listen to what was happening beneath the surface of things - and that skill became the foundation of everything he does today.

The Journey

How the Path Unfolded

The training did not begin with a course enrolment. It began long before that - in the spaces between worlds where most people do not look.

Early Life

A Childhood Lived Closer to the Edge

From an early age, Ryan moved through the world differently. Dreams carried weight. The unseen was present. He learned through visions and through the language of the natural world - experiences that could not be fully explained but could not be ignored either. What others might have dismissed as imagination, Ryan understood as information.

The Turning Point

The Amazon: Where the Door Opened

Ryan's shamanic training opened fully when he journeyed to the Amazon rainforest of Bolivia. Immersed in the wisdom of the land and the spirits that inhabit it, this was not a retreat or a package experience. It was an immersion - a confrontation with the depth of what traditional knowledge holds and a point of no return on his path as a healer.

Formal Training

Years of Dedicated Study

Ryan trained formally in Tibetan and Mongolian shamanic traditions under a lineage holder he studied with for years - not a weekend certification or online course. He received teachings across multiple lineages, each deepening his understanding of how healing actually works: not as a technique applied to a problem, but as a collaboration between practitioner, client and the wider field of helping forces.

Practice Today

Birmingham and Beyond

Since founding The Heart Shaman in 2019, Ryan has worked with hundreds of clients across thousands of sessions. He sees people in person in Birmingham and works online with clients across the UK and internationally. The range of what people bring to his practice is wide - grief, burnout, ancestral patterns, life transitions, spiritual questions - but the quality of attention he brings to each person is the same.

Training & Lineage

Three Living Traditions

Ryan's practice is not built on a single school of thought. It draws from three distinct lineages - each with its own relationship to healing, to the spirit world, and to what it means to be human.

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Andean Lineage

The Sacred Teachings of the Q'ero

The Q'ero are regarded as the last direct descendants of the Inca, keepers of the high mountain traditions of the Andes. Their teachings hold a particular understanding of the relationship between human beings and the living world - the mountains, the rivers, the wind. Ryan holds their lineage as one of the cornerstones of his practice.

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Tibetan Shamanism

The Healing Traditions of the Himalayas

Predating Tibetan Buddhism by thousands of years, the Bon shamanic tradition holds one of the most sophisticated understanding of consciousness, energy and healing in the world. Ryan trained formally in Tibetan shamanic practice - work that sits alongside his Buddhist practice and informs how he holds space for the depth of what clients carry.

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Mongolian Shamanism

Ancestral Connection and Spirit Communication

Mongolian shamanism has one of the oldest unbroken lineages on earth. Its particular gift is the knowledge of ancestral patterns - the ways in which what was left unresolved by those who came before us continues to move through families and bodies. Ryan draws on this tradition when working with inherited grief, generational trauma, and the deeper roots of a client's experience.

The Work

How Ryan Works

The healing Ryan offers is not technique applied to a symptom. It is something closer to a conversation - between you, Ryan, and whatever forces are present in the room. Every session moves differently because every person is different.

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Partnership, not performance

Ryan works in collaboration with the spirit world - not as a show, but as a genuine working relationship built over years. The helping spirits he works with bring their own expertise to each session.

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No jargon, no bypassing

Ryan's sessions are grounded and direct. He does not dress up difficult truths or use spiritual language to avoid the real thing. If something uncomfortable comes up, he stays with it alongside you.

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Physical, emotional and spiritual

Shamanic healing works across all three dimensions. Some sessions focus predominantly on one; most touch all three. Ryan will explain what he is doing and why as the session unfolds.

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In person or online - both work

Sessions are available in Birmingham and via Zoom for clients across the UK and internationally. The spiritual work does not require physical proximity to be effective.

In His Own Words

A Note From Ryan

"I did not choose this path in the way that most people choose a career. It chose me - and for a long time I did not fully understand what that meant. Over the years, and through many of my own initiations, I have come to understand that the work is not mine to own. I am a channel, a bridge, a collaborator. The healing belongs to you.

What I can offer is a space that is genuinely safe - not the carefully managed safety of a therapy room, but something older and more alive than that. A space where whatever you are carrying can be met honestly, worked with properly, and released.

I look forward to meeting you."

- Ryan Jones (Dorje Rangdol)

A Life Walked in Shamanism