Shamanic Journey

The Shamanic Journey is a type of meditation exercised in order to receive guidance, answers, solutions, information, and visions from the spirit world. It is a guided meditation where you just relax and go on a spiritual journey. You will be guided on a fun and healing journey to Sacred Mountain to meet the Animal Spirits who are guiding you on your path at this time. Then they will take you on a journey to see or experience something your soul knows you need to experience to fulfill something within you. during this time I will be drumming at 180 BPM (beats per minute) Same as eagles heart. This allows you to go into a deep relaxation so you can have a good journey. Then you will be guided to visit one of your ancestors for a powerful message and gift. From here the animals take you back into Sacred Mountain where I will safely walk you out and return to the current time and space. Most people experience seeing multiple animals and receive a good message to carry out on their earth walk. It can be fun, simple, healing, validating and powerful.

The first thing you will need is a good Native American hand drum. I use an 18″ elk hide drum. The larger the drum, the deeper the sound.

Get to know your drum. Sit with it, play it, and make sure to oil it so it never dries out and cracks. Treat it like an animal, likes it’s alive! Name it if you want. I name all of my drums.

I have a morning ritual where I will burn sage and drum when the sun comes up. It’s a peaceful way to honor the sun, the new day, and say a gratitude prayer for my life.

Keep in mind that no matter where you are in an exercise, it is always a good time to drum. If you feel like drumming, then do it!

Shamanic Journeying can be guided or it can just be pure drumming. Guided imagery is a mild form of hypnotherapy and pairs well with shamanic journeying. We have included a section on guided imagery in this training.

How long should you drum? As long as you want. Keep it intuitive and organic. Trying to set a timer or any other organized processes may not always work. Each client will be different and move through their experiences at different paces.

You can do this for individuals and groups.

When working with groups, it’s a good practice to incorporate using the talking stick. This allows everyone to share and equally. The Talking Stick is a tool used as a Native American Tradition when a council was called. It allows all members to present their sacred point of view and assures that all participants get to speak their voice. The Talking Stick is passed from person to person, traditionally left to right or sunwise. Only the person holding the talking stick is allowed to talk during that time period. It allows all others to listen with respect, not that they have to agree with what they are saying, but to at least give them the opportunity to feel like they have been heard.

We have included a few subjects that are associated with Shamanic Journeying such as, soul retrieval, animal totems, spiritual diagnosis, guided imagery and more. Use whatever tools, techniques, and modalities that you wish in your own practice. Make it your own!


The Lower World is the realm of nature, animals, trees, plants and rocks. Here lies the root of our deepest thoughts and emotions. This is where we meet and connect with our Power Animals. This type of vision is usually reached by some form of a tunnel that leads into the earth. This is the best place to start for beginners.



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