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
Jez is the founder of Second Sight. He has studied shamanism intensively for over twenty years with various teachers, from both contemporary shamanism and indigenous elders across the world.
Anja
shamanic practitioner
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
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.
Kate
shamanic practitioner
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 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
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.
Maya
Shamanic 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.
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.
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.
