Guided Shamanic Journey to Meet Your Power Animal

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re “making it up” during a meditative visualization, this guided shamanic journey will change how you relate to your imagination. We’re Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa, and we’re opening the door to the lower world, a grounded shamanic realm of nature, instinct, and deep support where power animals and spirit allies live. Along the way, we explain what the lower world is, how the entrance can show up as tunnels, roots, water, or a crack in the earth, and why the landscape often mirrors what you need most right now.

We’ll explore: 

• What the lower world is and why it feels earthy and grounding
• How power animals communicate through metaphor and symbolism
• Why your entrance and landscape can change from journey to journey
• How to notice sensory details to make the journey feel clearer and more “real”
• What calling in the seven directions does and how it creates energetic safety
• A guided shamanic journey to meet your power animal
• A live example journey with a black bear and the lesson of the honeycomb
• How we teach journeying inside Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki

We also get practical about power animals: why they show up as protectors, how they carry the “medicine” of their species, and why small or unexpected animals (and even mythical creatures) can be exactly right. We talk about symbolism and metaphor as the primary language of spirit animals, plus the single biggest skill that makes journeywork easier over time: releasing expectations and letting the experience unfold through your senses.

Then we guide you through a full lower world visualization to meet a helping spirit, receive a message, and return safely to your starting point. After the journey, Christine shares a vivid story of merging with a mama black bear and finding honey surrounded by bees, a lesson on going for the sweetness of life even when fear tries to keep you back. We also share how our Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki training supports students with journeying, interpretation, and a protected container for deeper healing work.

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Transcript

Welcome And Training Invitation

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Welcome back to Wisdom Rising. I'm your host, Christine Renee. And for today's show, I'm joined with Chantel Ochoa. And we are very excited to be offering this introduction to the lower world and shamanic journey. And today we're going to be actually going on a journey to the lower world through a guided visualization. And so I'm really excited to be offering this for today. Make sure that you're in a safe place to journey, somewhere quiet, where you're not driving and all of that jazz. Please note that we are currently enrolling for our Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki training that will be starting the week of March 29th. We love, love, love to really ensure that every student can come to one call a week by taking a survey upon enrollment to figure out when the time schedule will work best for you. So know that we don't have specific dates and times as of yet. We usually have that figured out about a week in advance, and we are still two weeks out before we start. We're currently in early, early bird pricing. We'll be moving to early bird pricing on March 18th. So you definitely want to take advantage. All you have to do to lock in your price is to book a call with me. So make sure you check out the show notes, grab the link to book a call. Welcome, welcome everyone, to another Whispers of Wisdom this Monday morning. I just want to um say just how excited I am for today. Um not only is it my birthday, but part of it is like, what do I really want to be doing today? And it's this, it's this. This is what I want to be doing. This is the doing the whispers of wisdom on such a regular basis and connecting with my community and sharing the wisdom that we have really does light me up. It's part of like who I am. And so I just want to say thank you for all to all of our listeners who do show up, who do listen, who do hit the like and follow button, who do um share, share the podcast with their friends. Like all of that just means so much to me. And today we're we're diving into a really special topic. So welcome to the show. I'm with Chantel Ochoa for this lovely um conversation and whispers of wisdom on journey to meet your power animal. And so, yay.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Yes. So we're very excited to be able to take you on this journey down to the lower world today to share about our spirit allies down there, the power animals and our spirit, our animal spirits and everything. So this is a fun conversation for sure. Yeah. And so they're gonna receive this meditation to go do for themselves.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Yeah. So know that, like, we're gonna we're gonna talk about things first. We even, if you're watching, know that you know, you can watch this from YouTube if you're watching the replay. Um, we're going live right now and our Facebook group, which is shamanic mystics moon rising. And part of that is so that we can really help you understand what the shamanic realms are and why this is such beautiful, important, empowering self-work. And so we're gonna dive right in. I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen, and then um Chantelle and I are gonna are gonna go through all of these different components, and I'm just really excited for that. Like it's gonna be, it's gonna be so good. All right, so journeying to meet your power animal. We're your hosts, Christine Renee and Chantela Choa. And we're gonna dive right in. So, this is what we're going to expect for today's little whispers of wisdom is we're gonna we're gonna have a real true introduction to what the lower world is and what pan power animals are before we get to the guided shamanic journey. So, we're gonna do an envisioning process with you so you can see the process along the way. And then we're gonna do a scholarship giveaway and and open it up for shares and questions. Chantelle, will you kick us off on what is this lower world that we speak of?

What The Lower World Is

SPEAKER_02 4:04

Yeah, absolutely. Um, so with the lower world, one of the the lower world is one of the three primary realms. It's the home to our power animals, our spirit animals, and mystical creatures. They often share their wisdom through symbolism and metaphor. And the lower world is a very, it's a representation, it's the mere aspect of our our earthly world, our nature here. So it's very dense and earthly energy. So when we go to the lower world, we're going there with the intention of connecting with our power animals, our spirit animals to walk through the world of symbology, to recognize how does spirit animal communicate with us? How are we able to see the symbology in our waking life in our day-to-day? How do we recognize it when we're doing this journey work? How do they communicate with us? And so, through metaphor, through symbolism and interpretation of that is really how we communicate, which is a beautiful way of connecting with the spectrum of colors, of shapes, of the animals. What do they represent? What do they hold? What is their medicine that they offer us here on earth? And so when we connect with them, we know that their medicine is with us through that day, through that journey that we're receiving our messages and knowing that we have power animals with us or our power animal from birth. And so really connecting with your power animal is it's a power move in itself because then you know I have a protector with me and I can embody that energy anytime that I need that security, that sense of grounding ourselves. So the lower world's a beautiful space to start.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Absolutely. And when we go to the lower world, we're usually looking for something that's going to bring us down into the earth. So some type of tunnel, some type of hole. Like think Alice in Wonderland. Like that was such a really crazy um uh movie that really reflected like the entrance to the lower world, this um mystical, magical place. And so oftentimes we're looking for that funnel in the water, that tunnel that's gonna give us a squeeze, something that's gonna help us journey downward. And in that journey downward, there's a shift. There's some type of something that you have to move through that's gonna really help you recognize the difference between, oh, I'm I've now moved beyond my regular middle world space, and now I'm in the lower world space. And this is the home to all of these beautiful creatures and the medicine that they have there. And so I just love the way even the journey in and of itself is teaching you something. It's teaching something about who you are, what you need. There's medicine throughout the experience, and it starts with how do I get to the lower world? And then how do I meet my power animal? And then how do I make my way back to my point of origin and knowing that all of those pieces are very specific and important to the process. And so this is just a hint of what shamanic journeying is really like. And so, with that, the journey to the lower world, we really want to open our our eyes to the possibilities that it's not gonna necessarily look like Alice in Wonderland for you. It might look like a wide array of different possibilities. And so the lower world can be very anything that's true and of nature, right? And so I've seen it be a seaweed forest, and I've seen it be like the ocean floor and the thick forests and the desert and the and the jungle and the swampy areas. It can be absolutely anything that is imaginable. And so really knowing that your lower world is going to be reflective of something that you need for yourself. What do you want to add to that, Chantel?

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Um, just on that last part, yeah. So knowing the lower world is a reflection of you and the messages that you need, right? And a lot of times it's what is hiding within our subconscious or lower energy centers, if you will, and what needs to come up. So if you're being guided and you feel like I'm not seeing that, just fill into your own space of possibility and know that whatever is showing up for you is exactly what you are needing in that moment. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Yeah. So it might be very familiar, same place every time. And sometimes it's like, no, we need it to be different because it's trying the space itself is trying to communicate something that you need, right? And so I love witnessing our students go and travel to the lower world because the medicine is so vibrant for each individual and exactly the way they need it. And so it's never the same. There's such a variety, whether you need that hot burning sun or you need the marshes and the rain and the thick swamps. And um, recognizing that your power animals might be revealed in any one of these types of places. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

And I think also the point of not all the journeys can be different. Every time you go is a different experience. So never expect it to just show up the same way.

Power Animals As Protectors

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Yeah, absolutely. That's such a valid point because they're they're there. It's not to be repetitive, it's to really show you exactly what you need in that point in time in your life. And those every day changes, just like we change every day, the things that we need to feel supported. And so sometimes there's gonna be slight variations, and sometimes there's gonna be big variations. And so Chantel hinted um a little bit about this a moment ago about what is the power animal. And I love what you said about how they're there really to help be our protectors. And I can't emphasize that enough that our power animals are gonna arrive for us since the moment that we make our first cry as a child when we come out into the world. And so it is a calling out to our spirit animal, our power animal to come forward and be like, I will protect this human because we are the weakest of the species. They want to show up for us to help us in our survival. So our power animals can be any kind of animal, real or imaginary, mythical or mystical, and that these animals are really here to defend us, support us. And one of the things I love to think about is when we were a child, there's a reason why we went to bed with stuffies, stuffed animals, right? It's because we literally had this wide array of protectors and we could see that, see it in our stuffed animals. And so it was very common for children to be very attached to their stuffed animals because they are reflections of the power animals that we are connected to in the spirit world. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

And and I love so know that anything can show up for you, right? And so sometimes we want it to be like big, bold animals, but sometimes it's like the little ones, you know, and that's okay too. There's a message for you there. And when you start to really tune into what each power animal means and does in their life, right, um, you'll see how it represents for yourself. But you might also um have dragons, you might have mermaids, you might have these mystical creatures that we consider to be mystical creatures, but they do reside in different dimensions that we just we just don't see, and we just don't have them on our planet, and that's okay. So if something like a dragon comes forward for you, or a snake comes forward, or anything that you're like, oh my gosh, that's kind of scary, it's not because that power animal is bringing what you need forward. So it's connecting with them, it's creating a relationship with them through this journey, through this process. And when you do that, you're gonna recognize how in tuned you are with them without even doing this work yet, right? Because they've been with you, they've been guiding you since birth, like we're talking about. So knowing that, as soon as you have that connection, it's an in like an instant connection with them.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Yeah. And the other really cool thing about power animals is that they're they're they can feel individualistic in your relationship, but they're representative of their entire species. So if you get tiger, for example, you're connected to the energy of all tigers and what they're they're representative of. And so when you meet your power animal, it can be very, it can oftentimes feel very familiar. Like you're not, there's there may not be a surprise element. You're like, oh yeah, I I could, I know that, I knew that beforehand. Or it can also be like, oh, that I didn't realize. And that makes sense for what I need in my life at this time. And so I love that um you can really feel into the energy of what does mouse bring forward? What does snake bring forward? What does eagle bring forward? What does elephant bring forward, or whatever it may be for you? And what are their qualities? And noticing their qualities is what you are needing to bring forward in your life. Like they're kind of helpful and showing you the missing gaps of how it is going to help for your survival, for your protection, for to make it through in our humanness, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Yeah, just really emphasizing the importance of having that connection with them because we always think of our guides, right? We're always like sharing like, oh, do you have, you know, relationship with your guys? You communicate with them, do they protect you? But really having your power animal with you through anytime you travel, you know, you've got some kind of conflict going on. Like these are hardcore like animals, like energy, this medicine that comes through to really protect us. And so it is a completely different earthy grounding energy that comes forward. So it's like when you know where they're at, you know, I have my primary is lion, but I know my lion's right here, it's always off on my left. And you know, I have so wherever my power animals are, but I can always tune into that energy. And whether it's I need to be the protector, whether I need to be ferocious, whether I need to rest and just take in, you get to see all the different elements that is represented for you.

Imagination Without Expectations

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I love that. And know that, you know, oftentimes when we think about journey work, we misinterpret like we don't want to make it up. We don't want to try to like force it. And there's this beautiful relationship between your imagination and creator source energy. And they're the creator source, divine, divine intelligence, whatever you want to call that energy, is going to utilize your imagination as a tool. So it then things start showing up and you're like, am I imagining it or am I not imagining it? And there's this beautiful shift that happens at some point where it's like, I couldn't have made that up. And so know that when you are in this trance-like state through the shamanic drum or whatever tool it is to help you get really down into that theta wave of your brain, your imagination is is the the is the vehicle that moves it, right? And so you then it's like, well, why did the red row show up? Why wasn't it blue or purple or some other color? Like you get to start getting curious about the way the journeys are unfolding and why what showed up when. And it's because it's something bigger than you is helping support your imagination unfold the way it needs to to support your growth, your to to give you the answer that you're looking for with your intention that that came forward. Well said.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

Our imagination is our tool and it's used through this journey work.

SPEAKER_02 16:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Absolutely. And so with that, it's like we need to release our expectations. We need to release, like, it's supposed to be this way. Because the more you like hold on and grasp to it, the harder it is to allow that imagination and divine source creator to kind of move the energy forward.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Yeah. So it's really important not to make assumptions about what your power animal is or to feel disappointed if they don't show up the way that you expect them to. And so going through any of our journey work is really not having expectation. It's letting show, allowing whatever is meant to show up for you to show up. And that is a big part of what the messages are. So you might know what your power animal is and already have a relationship with it, but maybe you go down and a different spare animal shows up because it has a message for you. It has some something else that it needs to offer you, right? So anytime we um have an expectation, that is a it can create a block because your mind wants to see what it wants to see. And so going through and just saying, I am open to whatever is meant to show up and truly being open to that, that is the part of the learning process. So just enjoy it and have a good time with it. Absolutely.

Calling In The Seven Directions

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Yeah, enjoy it. It's supposed to be fun. And so we're gonna switch now um over to doing the guided meditation. But before we do so, I would love. Do you want to explain what calling in the directions is?

SPEAKER_02 17:53

So calling in the directions is here we call in seven directions. So we call in the spirits of the east, the spirits of the south, the spirits of the west, and the spirits of the north, calling in each one of them and what element they bring, what animal resides in that space, and to call in for their protection. And they each have their own. So like earth is the element of air, and so that brings in new beginnings. South is the element of fire and that burns away what no longer serves. West is the element of water, and that's going representative going deep within ourselves. And then um north is the element of earth, and so that's really calling us to be the tall standing ones like the tree, to be grounded and rooted and connected to this earth element. Um, then we call in our um spirit guides, our protectors, our loving ancestors of the upper world. And then we go down to the lower world and we call in our power animals, our spirit animals, the mystical creatures, and then finally to our higher self. So coming back to the center of calling in our higher self to guide us, to lead us, to be able to help us receive the messages we're meant to receive, to release what no longer serves. And so we create the sacred container by calling in all of our um allies, our protectors of the light, so that as we are doing this work, we know we're protected. So there's nothing that's gonna come forward that's gonna attach or that's gonna disrupt you that isn't energetically aligned with um the work that you are doing.

Opening The Sacred Container

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Beautiful. Thank you for that perfect explanation. I love it. So, yeah, we're gonna go ahead and get centered in, taking a moment to bring our hands to Gasho at Heart Center, our feet to the floor. Know that if you're listening while you're driving, this isn't the best time to do a journey work. So uh make sure you keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road and know that you can return to this um when you're in a safe place. But for those of you of you who are, we're gonna invite you to take three nice deep breaths, inhaling through the nose, exhaling through the mouth to release and let go of what no longer serves you in this time and in this moment. Blowing it out like birthday candles on a cake, inhaling once again through the nose, blowing out nice deep breath. Beautiful taking through nice deep breaths, inhaling through the nose, exhaling through the nose, and your heart connection in your body elongating the spine, connecting with the above and below, beautiful with hand over heart, and perhaps facing each of the directions I call. I welcome to the circle the spirits of the east with the rising sun, the dawn of the new day, welcoming in your whispers of wisdom and catalyst for curiosity. We welcome to you to bring in those breadcrumbs to show us our trail ahead, showing us in the right divine timing exactly the next right step on our path should be. Welcoming in your intuition and the breath of fresh air, the wind at our back, helping us along our journey. And so we welcome you, spirits of the East. We welcomed the spirits of the South with her firepower, passion, and motivation to give the rise to the fire before us so that we may let go of what no longer serves us, letting it burn away, so that we may rise from the ashes, to take up space and to fully express our. Ourselves just as the Phoenix does. And so we welcome, you know, the spirits of the South. We welcome the spirits of the West with those cool and calming waters. Finding that push and pull of the tumides, finding the river, finding our flow into our alignment, awakening our spiritual gifts, the spontaneity in our life, and an opening to all that you have to offer through our intuition, allowing us to wade into waters far off from familiar shores, to dive in deep with that curiosity, knowing that we are safe, knowing that we can trust the unknown in the process, allowing us to find the playful spaces, the joyful spaces along the way. And so we welcome you, the spirits of the West. We call to the circle, the spirits of the north, with that grounded, firm, sustainable foundations with the roots of the trees and the strengths of the mountains. We call upon the spirits of the north for our integration to help us support us in our interpretation and to bring together all that we learn so that we can learn from our lessons and we can trust the wisdom of nature. And so we welcome to you, spirits of the north. We welcome to the spirits above with the moon, sun, and stars that brighten both day and night. We welcome in our spirit guides, our guardian angels, our celestial friends, all of those love and light entities that wish to join with us to support us during this journey. And so we welcome the spirits from above. We welcome the spirits from below with Pachamama and all of her friends, the two-legged ones, the four-legged ones, the furred ones, the feathered ones and the finned ones, the slimy ones, the creepy crawling ones and the slithery ones. We welcome to our power animals and our spirit animals so that we, the mythical creatures, so that we may find our way to the lower world to connect with your energy of the lower world and to meet our power animal. And so we welcome you, spirits from below. And we welcome our center. We welcome our heart space. We welcome the space in which we know that we are meant to be here in the now, fully present with our experience, letting our heart shine bright, letting us take up space, letting us own our energy and all of who we are, breathing our higher source wisdom in, breathing in our higher self, letting her, letting them be fully embodied now. And with all of the seven directions called present, this is a sacred container to do this healing work, and so it is.

Guided Descent To The Lower World

Meeting Your Power Animal

Returning And Grounding Back Home

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Closing your eyes, taking in a deep breath, breathing in through your nose, then releasing through your mouth. Let's just take three deep breaths like that. And with each release of breath, you're releasing all thoughts, emotions, and energy that are ready to be released and ready to be transmuted. Just letting go, letting your body sink into the surface beneath you, feeling it become heavy and relaxed, allowing the muscles of your face to soften, relaxing your shoulders, relaxing any tension in your belly, your hips, and your legs. And taking in one more deep breath to fully exhale and fully embody that relaxing energy. Now bring your awareness to the earth beneath you. Feel the steady presence of Mother Earth holding you, supporting you, and welcoming you. Set your intention here for you to journey to the lower world. You can state, I journey to the lower world for guidance, for healing, and to meet a helping spirit or power animal that wishes to help me here and now. And just allow your mind's eye to open, to expand, to allow imagination to come in if that needs to be, and to know that you will be guided through this visual. So just opening up, I want you to visualize a safe space, a happy place, a beautiful place for yourself. This may be a forest, a desert, a meadow, a cave. You might find yourself standing at the beach. This is a place where you feel safe, where you feel connected to the earth herself. And just take a moment to look around, to tune in to your five senses. Notice the colors that you see, notice the sounds that you hear, what smells can you smell? What's the textures around you? What do you sense? What do you feel? Allowing yourself to connect within this space. Exploring the landscape, connecting with it. And you may see a path, you may see an opening to the lower world, noting that nothing is too small, nothing is impossible. You might find a hole at the base of a tree, you might find yourself diving deep into the waters. There might be a crack in the earth. You might climb down some roots of the tree. You might just slip down into the earth itself. Just allowing yourself to explore. And when you see this place, trust whatever appears. And when you find this opening, I want you to walk towards it. And pause at the entrance, taking a deep breath and acknowledge that you are about to travel into the lower world, the realm of ancient wisdom, of animal spirits, and deep earthly knowledge. And when you are ready, you can start to descend and allow yourself to go lower and lower and lower down into the depths of the earth, down to the lower world. Moving through the tunnel or the passageway. You might slide, walk, spiral, float down. Just feel yourself moving deeper into the center of the earth. And as you travel down, you may notice, you may see the roots of the trees above. You may see stones, you may feel their textures. There may be crystals that are shining. Earth walls that surround you are glowing lights. Just continue to descend and allowing the journey to unfold naturally for you. Eventually, you will find yourself coming to a big open space. And know that you have arrived into the lower world, getting your bearings here, exploring the space around you, noticing what you see, noticing what you feel, what are emotions that are rising up for you at this time. I want you to step out into the space. Feel it, see it, know it. Notice what the lower world looks like for you. Again, it may look like a forest, a jungle, a desert, a valley, or something completely different that brings messages only meant for you. Noticing how the air feels. Is it alive? Does it feel like ancient energy? Take some time just to explore and walk through this place, feeling the earth beneath your feet, listening for the sounds of animals, noticing if there are any animals already present there for you. As you are exploring, you can call out, asking if there is a spirit animal or power animal that wishes to meet you here today. You can say this out loud or you can speak it silently to yourself. Remember not to have any expectations. Just be open to how the journey unfolds. And if your power animal does appear, allow it to approach you. Allow the animal to come close, to come near. Observe them. Notice how they move. Notice what parts of their body that you see. Noticing their eyes. Sometimes you're only gonna see a small part of it, but you can kind of tell what it is. So you might only see a paw, you might only see an eye. There only might only be a color. Just allow yourself to receive. Allow the animal to communicate with you through feelings, images, or knowing. And if you feel called to, you can ask, are you my power animal or my guide? And just listen for the message. Taking a few moments to explore with your power animal, to explore the lower world. To receive whatever wisdom is meant for you. Connecting to it, listening to it. There is anything that can help you on your journey in life at this time. What is ready to unfold for you? Possibly a fire, possibly water. Maybe it wants to show you something. Maybe it wants to be playful. So take the last few moments to give thanks to the lower world, to this experience, to your power animals for guiding you, for appearing. You may even reach in your pocket and pull out a gift. A gift to give to your power animal. A gift to give to this space. And knowing this is the place you can always return to. The same way that you came down is the way that you will return back up to the surface. And start walking back now. Whether you came down on roots and you're needing to climb back up, if you slid down, you're gonna find a staircase. The walk back up. Bringing yourself all the way back to the opening of the tunnel that leads you back to the surface of the earth. Up, up, up, traveling back through your passageway, coming all the way back to the opening of this space, rising yourself, repulling yourself back up onto the earth, moving upward, coming all the way back, seeing the light, feeling the air, smelling the sense of the surface of the earth, hearing the animals around you. You're stepping back into your natural place where you first visited, where we first began, taking a moment here now to connect, to see all that surrounds you, taking a moment to notice how you feel, what you experienced, what emotions did it bring up for you? What were you able to receive as a message? What were you able to release? Allowing yourself to reconnect with our energy, seeing those roots going deep down into the earth, grounding you and connecting you at this time. And you can start pulling yourself all the way back, taking in some deep breaths, wiggling your fingers and your toes. And when you feel ready, slowly start opening your eyes. Just take a moment to sit, to be quiet, to integrate, perhaps journal your experience.

SPEAKER_00 42:12

What a yummy journey. I know it was for me.

SPEAKER_01 42:17

We'd love to know how it was for you. So if you are back and you want to um put your experience in the comments, or if you're listening to this later on, feel free to share it with us. We'd love to know how it went for you if you have any questions. So much of the process is like then learning how to interpret. And this is something that we definitely teach inside of our Soul Rising program is not only learning how to independently solo journey to meet your power animal, but then also with months and months of support of learning how to interpret the meanings of what is showing up in that symbology and metaphor. So I would love to share my journey as an example.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

I loved it. Well, and so, you know, after journeying for well over 15 years, sometimes I get in the monotony of maybe it is going to be the same this time. And it definitely wasn't. And I'm I went down a different way. I definitely found myself climbing down roots and like having shrunk down and climbed down the roots and to this very dusty, like very thick dust, like an inch or two dusty. And I wanted to put my fingers into it. I wanted to feel what it felt like to run my fingers through this very thick, dusty dirt, very dry, dusty dirt. And so it wasn't sand, it was definitely dirt. And I just was then I started running and sifting my fingers through the dirt. So I'm like on all fours, like feeling the feelings of this dirt between my fingers until I'm like picking up speed and then I'm To stand up to run, and they have fistfuls of this sandy, dusty dirt. And I turn around backwards and I let it go to watch it poof into the air, like that dust, like bombed. And I'm now like running backwards and watching the delight of this dust in the air and it it sparkle in the sunlight. And then I realize I'm walking backwards in water, like I'm surprised. I'm like, I'm in water now. And so I realize I'm walking backwards or running backwards into a lake. And in this lake, I fall backwards and land. So I'm floating on my back, taking in the sunlight and just marveling of like, oh, and now I'm in a completely different sensory experience. And now I'm finding my stillness and the floating. And then it was you were, I was hearing you like call forward the power animal. And my power animal was sitting on this dock out stretched into the into the lake. And uh the power animal really didn't have any interest in joining me in the water, and um, but was coaxing me out at one point, like get out of the water, and I could feel where there was some tension and things going in my body, and my power animal is just kind of moving my body, like rocking my body where those areas of tension were. And and then the my power animal was like, come join, join with me, embody me. And so my my power animal is this beautiful mama black bear. And so I became one with the black bear, and I noticed her sniffing. Like I could then, my senses came alive, like my nose, the smell, just like a bear would be, like very in tune with what it's smelling. And so I'm smelling and I can smell the pine cones. And I'm like, we gotta go up here because gotta eat some pine cones. So we're climbing up the mountain, and I'm smelling like where the food is, where the pine cones are. And then all of a sudden it was like, no, there's a honeycomb up here. There's I can smell honey and um kind of diverted my path of like finding the pine cones to finding the finding the honey and and finding this tree with this honeycomb in it, and all of these bees. You know, all these bees are everywhere. And I just went for it. Like the bees didn't bother me. Like it was like these bees were there, and yet I knew that I have so thick skin that there's nothing that's gonna keep me from eating this honey and delighting in this honey and finding the joy of this honey and find like really having this oh, like just a heartburst of like, I am loving life, enjoying my full face, like stuck in this oak tree and smothering myself in the sticky honey. And then it was time to come back, and it was just this beautiful walking back down, finding my way back to my starting point and feeling the stickiness on my fur, and like then having to um embody myself again, like releasing from the the bear and like coming to gratitude for my bear for giving me this experience and making my way up. And so upon the arrival of up, then even like, okay, I've never, I've been, I mean, I have been with bear for 15 plus years, and yet we've never ate honey. It's always been berries, it's always been fish, it's always been these things, but never honey. And so I'm like honing in on that. This is this is the message of not only was there some very um sensory experience and running backwards, like I think all of those are really important, but the honey is what really kind of stood out in the end because oftentimes when we see bees, we're afraid of them. We're afraid of getting stung, we're afraid that they're going to um hurt us, and so we avoid the honey. We avoid the sweet thing in life. This is what it felt like. We avoid the sweet thing in life because of what could possibly get in the way, and those things getting in the way might be painful, right?

SPEAKER_02 48:20

The fear of the bear of the bees because you want the honey. But yeah, that's a great interpretation of that is what are you afraid of when you want to get to that sweet spot in life? What's holding us back, right? What's holding you back? And you were able just to move right through it, right past the bees, straight into the honey. Yeah. So it's letting you know, go for it. You can't.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

Well, and even like the running backwards, like not knowing where I was going, I'm running backwards and then falling and surrender and trust into this water when like I'm fine. Like often, like I am one who in real life will take probably an hour to get into any body water. Like, I will stand on the edge of the ocean before I even get my toes barely wet, trying to work up the guts to get in, right? Like, I am not one to just jump into bodies of water and here I am running backwards, going, oh, and now I'm running in water. Oh, it's getting deeper. Oh, it's freaking cold. And I surrender and fall backwards, and now I'm floating and enjoying the sparkles on the water and having no fear around it, right? And so I just um I love that even after all of these years, there's so much wisdom that we receive in our journey work, right? Yeah, how much um delight that you can take from it and going, yeah, there was parts of it where I felt like my power animal was working on my physical body, healing some of the parts inside of me. Like I had um some um menstrual cramps going on. My heart felt like and I felt bare there. And then she was like, get up, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 50:09

Let's do that. But it's also a great testimony of not having expectations. Yeah. Because, like you said, you know, you're now experiencing things. But if you would have gone in like, yep, this will be like any other one I've ever had, you know, then you would have closed off some of those opportunities to experience.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

Right. Well, and I think that's it, like just getting into the sensory, like the very first thing of getting to the lower world, I was hyper-fixated on my fingers in the earth and what it felt like. And I think there, when you had this invitation of like noticing your senses, like there, there that is uh consistent throughout the journey work, whether you are at your starting point and throughout the experience of going, what do I see? What can I hear? What can I feel? What can I taste? What can I touch? And when we can get really into our sensory experience, the journey itself becomes more and more alive. And then you just are like, and now I'm doing this, and now I feel the wind, and now I feel this, and like, and it's just one sensation after another, and it makes it feel real.

SPEAKER_02 51:16

Yeah, it does because it is, it is, it is real. It might not be this reality, but it is real. That world is just as real as this one, and the more you connect and the more you do the work with the realms and everything, it is, it becomes a part of your own truth. Yeah, that's how I receive messages. If it's not directly with my guide, I'm guiding, I'm going to do journey work so I can receive the messages that I need to know to help me get through whatever I'm getting through and to trust and to, like I was saying in the beginning, to trust what is coming, to not be in fear, but to be ready for opportunity, whatever that is.

Soul Rising Program Details And Pricing

SPEAKER_01 51:56

I love it. I love it. And so know that this is an integral part of what we teach up at our Soul Rising Shamanic Riggy training program. Like it is this experience of really learning how to journey on your own with the connective support around you. And so your mentor is there to ensure the safety of the experience, the sacredness of the experience, and to help you in the interpretation. So as you journey and you come back with like, I don't know what this means, you're you're learning how to interpret just as much as you're learning how to journey in and of itself. And this is something, like I've said, this is a lifelong gift that you can be giving yourself so that any time that you are struggling, or any time that you want to experience more joy or more aliveness or whatever your intention may be, it's there for you. So, one of my favorite things I love to say about our Soul Rising program is part of my goal is so that you no longer need a teacher, mentor, guru, because you will have this created this innate access to your own divine wisdom. And this is what we're this is how we do it. By learning how to journey to your power animal, you then have a direct source of wisdom that you can connect with for the remainder of your life here in this earthly realm. And so when you have that connection, you will have the strength, the power, the protected feelings around you and the wisdom of what they're trying to give you, just as I showed and shared in my experience. And so we'd love to invite you into our Soul Rising program. If you are watching live and you have not taken our program previously, I'm just going to automatically gift you that$111 scholarship. So I see you in the comments and it's yours. Um, I'd love to jump on a call with anyone who is interested in the Soul Rising program. Normally we would keep it on early, early bird special for one week. And I was like, I'm extending it. Why? Because today is my birthday and it's just wrong to take something off of sale. I was like, no, if what I want for my birthday is to get on calls with people to see if this is the right program for you. Because if this isn't about convincing you that this program is meant for everyone, this is meant for the people who are it's meant for, and really making sure that you're ready for this in-depth program because it is like about a three-hour commitment a week. We have added a whole month to the program because we're going through summer schedules and we know that people have vacations and people have the things going on in their life. And so we want to make sure there's some flexibility built in and that the schedule is matches your availability, that we do our very best to take surveys of our students' availability and then make a schedule based on that. So we will be talking and surveying anyone who enrolls to make sure that they can come to one call a week. Even though we might have more than one call a week, we want to make sure that we're meeting everyone's needs because this is where the work is. So, yes, you're gonna get the workbooks, you're gonna get pre-recorded lessons and videos, you're gonna get guided meditations, you're gonna have activating actions, you're gonna have all of this material to support you, as well as a group chat and community to come into. And the calls are where we're doing the most experiential learning. And we want to make sure that you can attend.

SPEAKER_02 55:33

Yeah, this is alignment. This is this work is all about alignment. So if you feel it, get on a call, chat with us, see what is being offered, and then allow yourself to really like embody that that answer that is speaking to you. Listen to your intuition, it's life-changing for sure. Do you have to say that?

unknown 55:55

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:56

And we see it in all of our in all of our students. People aren't the same, they leave our program changed in a good, healthy, loving way, and releasing things they've been carrying for the majority of their life.

SPEAKER_01 56:11

Yeah, yeah. It's definitely uh an unfolding of layers of programming, and there's unlearning happening while we are aligning to our highest truth of who we are meant to be. And it's just like for me and the bees, it's like for so long, maybe I have been afraid of the bees and not even touching the fullness of what the honey is. I'm just taking the drippings down the bark or what's falling to the earth and thinking that that's enough when the honey is available. I just need to ignore the freaking bees, like they can't hurt me, right? And so it's it's we want to invite you to have the same confidence of enjoying the sweetness of life, enjoying the fullness of life. And so I think that is my birthday wish is that everyone who listens to this really can dive in head first to that honeycomb and really enjoy the sweetness that life has to offer. And if that, if you're if you know this is uh feeling true to you, if you feel this is a line to you, know that I am available. Like reach out to me on Facebook Messenger, hit me up on Instagram, send me that email, and I'm happy to jump on a call. What that call will do will lock in the price that you are asking for the call under. So right now we're in early, early bird pricing, which means we have extended payment plans that we have discounted pricing, and that that payment's gonna, that the our payment will go up to early bird pricing on Wednesday. But if you book a call today or tomorrow, you'll lock in that early, early bird price, regardless if you sign up today or tomorrow or in a week from now, right? Like it's just locking in your price because I truly believe that people need to meditate on it, walk on it, pray on it, do what they need to do to see if this is soul aligned for you versus um sign up today, you know, like like do what's meant for you, really feel into it because this is this is a this is a it's a game changer. It's it really is shifting through all of the places and spaces that have held you back from being the fullness of who you are. And we want to make sure that you're ready for that experience. I I am, I'm all I'm always game, and I hope you are too. And yet we want to make sure that this is the right, the right space, the right program for where you're at in your life.

SPEAKER_02 58:38

Yeah. And with that, I would love to close the circle. Yes, so that we are releasing all of our support. So let's go ahead and rub our hands together, activating the energy between the palms of our hands, bringing it into gosha, and allowing that energy to flow right into our heart space, feeling into gratitude, feeling into love, giving thanks for this experience here today. I'm just taking in a deep breath on that. I give thanks to the spirits of the north, the spirits of the west, the spirits of the south, and the spirits of the east for being the pillars of the sacred circle here today. I give thanks to our guides and our loving ancestors, our protectors of the light in the upper world, and giving thanks to our power animals, our spirit animals, and the mystical creatures of the lower world and for showing up for us today, for guiding us through this experience. We give thanks to you and to our higher self. We thank you, we honor you for sitting in the center of our sacred circle, for helping us to release, release what no longer serves us and to receive all messages that were meant for us here today. We thank you, we honor you, we love you, all seven directions. We release you here today. And with all seven directions, honored, loved, and released, I call this circle now complete and closed. And so it is. Blessed be.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:13

Thanks everyone, and hope to chat with you soon. Take care.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:17

Bye, everyone.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:18

Have a great day.