“Learn to journey & discover yourself” – Australian Totem Course*
* 3 hours over 2 weeks online or in person over a weekend + including coaching to support integration
This is a simple and powerful course that teaches you:
- how to journey within a safe trance method
- how to divine using the symbology which is unique to you
- what your Hethna (totem) is and how that reflects your purest nature, your assets, strengths, hidden gifts, where you do best, what your needs are and when to rest, stop, integrate and so on.
Shamanic work is intimate and revealing. This Australian totem course offers a wonderfully intimacy within and many self-revelations to follow over decades. It really is a gift. This is one element from the Naturistic Shamanic Tradition.
Imagine that there is a mirror in nature that just reflects you perfectly. We mean so perfectly that it also reminds you of your difficult-ness, your awkwardness as well as your amazing hidden and known attributes, including your strengths and weaknesses. In difficult times or when you are reflecting on “what the hell happened then” or “why is this so hard”, you can look at your mirror in nature and get clarity on who you are, which helps you reliably decipher what happens when you connect with your universe. Self-knowledge that teaches you for life! Dignifying and buoying.
~ Caroline
“A totem defines you. It explains your thoughts, behaviours, likes, dislikes, fears, joys, relationships, in short, your life.”
Why this course?
This is one of the most robust self-learning courses and tools you can gift yourself with. People leave with a wonderful framework to accept who they are and learn to use their assets and natural tendencies to better meet the world.
Our Naturistic Shamanic Lineage is inspired by it’s ancestral roots, from ancient times in Siberia, way before Paganism developed. Siberia is an unforgiving place. Things needed to work or you died, so absolute clarity was needed by some, especially by the group shaman. It however does not replicate current day Siberian work, as we are Australian.
This is a course about understanding yourself with the same robust clarity. It’s about learning to do simple shamanic journeys and divining your own specific totem out of your inner universe. It’s about the journey of being the best you can be, no matter what time of life you might be in.
Hethna (Totem) examples:
Quartz (Youtube external link)
Results speak – Nine Months after the course:
“The Totem course was without a doubt one of the most meaningful experiences I have had in life. I would extremely recommend the course to everyone that is looking for some clarity about their own selves, it is a priceless journey. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks.”
~ F.S. – Queensland, Australia.
Three months after the course:
“Discovering my totem has enlarged my view of myself, my strengths and my challenges. My totem has provided a sense of coherence, a model that explains patterns in my life and my reactions to experience. My totem is both a companion, walking with me on this journey, and a teacher, helping me to find self understanding and begin to achieve a self-love that has been lacking. Being able to identify in particular the many very admirable strengths of my totem and see how those strengths are reflected in me is supporting a growing sense of self confidence and self worth.
~ J.D. NSW, Australia
In our lineage and tradition, your mirror in nature is your totem (Hethna). It is not limited to animals, it is the one thing that is able to reflect you clearly, without compromise.
As you get to know and embrace your totem, we support you to clearly conceptualise your nature and understand how to get the very best out of why you do what you do and when, and also when you don’t and when it’s time to pause, to spell, to hibernate/winter, just as an example. If you’re a deciduous tree, well you will need to winter. If you don’t you won’t have integrated the growth of last year, you might become stretched, even parasitic elements may build in your experience, as winter has not checked their growth and present in your environment.
Moving forward, you will see people treat you differently. You’ll have new clearer boundaries, and you’re aware of your ability to defend your boundaries and ideas. Others will be able to come closer to you, because you know what works better for you.
Day or Residential Course – Sydney/Cairns, Australia, or online.
The Shamanic Totem Course is directed by facilitated by Hinorayam, Shamanic Practitioner – initiated 2013. Caroline assists and enhances in residential delivered formats.
Course Outline:
Firstly you’ll be taught how to journey and divine using the trance journey method as the course develops. (Drum beat as a trance vehicle)
The course will run over 4+ sessions, consisting of three journeys either in a group or in person or Skype/Zoom/Phone and 1 private session, also over Zoom/Facebook, across a two-week period. If in a group, sessions will be designed to lead you on your own personal journey to discover your totem. The personal private session will focus on clarifying and analysing your totem and will include how your totem defines you, what its strengths and weaknesses are, and how it can support and teach you for your whole life.
The four session course format:
- The 1st session (1.5 hours) will be a guided journey meditation, to prepare the space, mind, and spirit for the divination of your totem.
- The 2nd session (1.5 hours) will be a shamanic journey that will open up the way for the totem to appear to, and commune with, you.
- The 3rd session (1 hours) will also be a shamanic journey designed to solidify the totem’s reality and check that it is your totem.
- The 4th, a private mp3 recording, responding to your questions. This is an enhanced clarity session with Brad to discuss your totem in some detail.
Each session will involve discussion and journaling.
Please contact Hinorayam/Brad for a private delivery of this course on +61 (0)401155484
Investment: $450-00 (online) $550 (in-person if local) for the 2-3 Journeys as needed, and two coaching sessions that help you integrate this amazing investment in yourself.
Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Cairns: Residential Courses – Prices are geared to venue costs, typically city venues are more expensive.
Please contact Brad to register your interest in the next course in your city.
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