30 August 2008
Shamanic Journeying??? What the hey is this all about?
Shamanic journeying is a group process. It involves meditation, visualization exercises, drumming, and giving offerings and thanks to our ancestors and the universe.
Shamanic Journeying??? What the hey is this all about?
Shamanic journeying is a group process. It involves meditation, visualization exercises, drumming, and giving offerings and thanks to our ancestors and the universe. The person who leads the journey creates a safe space for the journey through the setting of intentions and creating energetic shields and boundaries with words, visualization, and sacred tools. The person who leads the journey then cleanses each participant using sage and sweetgrass smoke, and gives thanks, again setting the intention for a safe space, for healing and learning. Then each person participating lies down, makes themselves comfortable, and closes their eyes. The leader begins drumming. The drumming rhythm takes the participants to another level - the beat puts the brain into a waking dream state, during which the participants are able to consciously explore their subconscious levels and engage in a dialogue with their higher selves, power animals, spirit guides, and otherworldly entities. Although the shamanic journey is an embarkation into the unknown, there is no need for fear, because the space is safe. This is a time for learning.
People may feel as if they are making up what they envision in their journeys in the beginning. Exactly! This is the point. Yes, you are creating the journey. The imagination - what is "making up" the journey - is the source of your personal power and your magical self. These journeys help the individual to discover and explore these parts of themselves. The imagery can be likened to messages in bottles to your self - from other parts of your self that might not be easily heard through all the modern day noise. The group experience heightens the intensity of the experience, and serves as a unique opportunity for deep connections with our peers.
Oftentimes, part of the whole lets save the world movement that gets
forgotten is the work we do outside of the material world. We at The
Alchemical Nursery Project have found that one of the most powerful
tools in the process of promoting transformation is the spiritual
journey.
Please join us in exploring our individual and collective powers for healing and growth. You can go here to register for the next journey.
If you are interested and would like to learn more, you can read testimonials from previous journey participants below.
Shamanic Journey 8/24/08
Nick Cavanaugh
Shamanic journeying is an awesome tool. Liz has coordinated and presented it very well, by creating a safe, sacred space in which all the participants can feel free to let their minds wander into hidden spaces. I've found it personally beneficial, as something that has given me insight into my current place in life and the directions that I want to take. Doing it all in a group setting is the best part, because everyone shares their stories of their journeys and learns from each other. Often times, the journeys intersect pretty closely! I hope more people can make it in the future! :)
Sasha L. Salayda
Give thanks to the East, for she brings us guidance.
Give thanks to the West, for she shows us how we can transform.
Give thanks to the North, for she inspires us to exceed our struggles.
Give thanks to the South, for she nurtures us in time of need.
Now look to the Earth.
Feel her cradle you beneath your feet.
She is beautiful, nurturing, and strong.
She is our mother.
Descend beneath the surface,
Below the crust where our true ancestors lay; the elementals.
They provide and ground us through deep vibrations of chemical, mineral, crystalline, biological, and many other processes that occur complexly within us.
Now go even deeper.
To the core, the beginning point of all life.
She is light, she is love, she is alive.
Feel her heart beating?
She is our mother.
Now return to your center.
Your heart.
Feel it pulsating?
Its light, its love, its alive.
It is the same beat as our mother’s.
Listen to your mother.
Do you hear her?
Her heart beat?
Do you hear her crying?
Beaten, raped, poisoned, unloved.
Look at what we have done to her.
Our own mother.
She gave us a gift.
Which came with great responsibility and trust.
And we have betrayed her.
Our own mother.
She is light, she is love, she is alive.
Feel her heart beating.
She wants to live, for us,
Because she is our mother.
Our mother needs healing.
And we, her children, are killing her.
Our own mother.
She is strong, and will cure herself with the only medicine she knows.
Water.
Our mother is all knowing, loving, just,
and will be granted redemption.
She will call upon the rain to cleanse her.
She will gather the ocean’s waves and caress her skin.
She is very thirsty, and will drink plenty.
She will release years of deep pain, and many tears will follow.
Days of high waters are coming.
If a mother cannot survive, how will her children?
Listen to your mother.
Beautiful, nurturing, and strong.
She who gave you the gift of life.
Listen to her heart beating.
Do you hear her crying?
Remember where you came from; righteous pure light energy.
The source.
Give thanks and praise to the source.
The one who cradled you, protected you, and nourished you when you were young, weak, and defenseless.
Beautiful, nurturing, and strong.
Light, love, all knowing, and just.
Righteous pure light energy.
Listen to your mother.
Do you hear her crying?
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