a meditative state of consciousness achieved by the use of rhythms such as drumbeats or rattles

an altered state of consciousness achieved with the use of rhythms such as drumbeats, rattles or click sticks

a sacred journey it's intention is to hold the energy so that you can find the place within you that needs to be healed

a spiritual experience in which the healer, using the trance inducing qualities of drumming or rattling, travels to the Lower or the Upper World to seek guidance from the healer's power animals and/or teachers

in changing awareness and shifting consciousness, the soul leaves the body in order to enter nonordinary reality. It is the soul that does the traveling in the shamanic journey. The shamanic journey is at will.