Harner Shamanic Counseling™ was developed as a way to help people to work on problems in their lives.
Like a canyon wren, your soul perches on edge of an ancient wall, ready to fly. But something holds you back. It’s sunny and there is no wind, yet you feel directionless and confused, lost and isolated. As a result, you turn within to seek answers. But self doubt, fear and perhaps even shame prevent you from stretching your wings and flying along a new path.
Harner Shamanic Counseling™ (HSC) combines traditional shamanism with modern technology to adapt spiritual healing practices to Western society. Modern shamans use a sonic driver – the fast rhythmic beating of drums or rattles – to stimulate theta brainwaves. When this happens, the mind travels within to explore different levels of consciousness. Consequently, it becomes open to new realties – and new possibilities.
You learn how to journey to the spirit world.
In one-on-one counseling sessions, you will learn how to journey to the realms of non-ordinary reality. In the Spirit World, you have direct access to spiritual wisdom, guidance and healing.
During a series of five journeys, you will perform specific journeying tasks.
- Journey to the Lower World to meet a helping spirit in animal form.
- Journey to the Lower World to ask the animal spirit a question.
- Journey to the Upper World to meet a teacher or helping spirit in human form.
- Journey to the Upper World to ask a teacher or helping spirit a personally important question.
- Journey to the Upper or Lower World to seek advice on how to work the wisdom gained in previous journeys into your daily life.
During sessions, you’ll describe your journeying experience aloud, as it happens. Journeys are digitally recorded for review, reference and analysis. They may be repeated, as needed.
Learn how to interpret your experiences in the Spirit World.
Your witness, technical consultant and interpretative guide
As a trained Harner Shamanic Counselor™, I teach you how to journey and help you to improve the journeying process. I will help you to form open-ended questions to ask before each journey to clarify your intentions. Your journeys are narrated (spoken aloud) and digitally recorded. During journeys, I take notes and write down in-the-moment behaviours, such as facial expressions or gestures. Together, we combine notes with digital recordings to get a more complete idea of what happened on your journey. During playback, you will review, evaluate and begin to interpret each journey, keeping its intention in mind and figuring out what stood out for you. I will point out classic shamanic experiences, remind you of any forgotten material, and advise you how to improve your journeying technique. A journeying session usually lasts 60 to 90 minutes.
Free consultations! I am now offering a free consultation to help you to determine if Harner Shamanic Counseling™ is right for you. Contact me with questions or to schedule a free consultation!