The journey is a way of contacting Spirit, and the method is simple.  The journeyer starts by imagining, or remembering, a place in nature they feel connected to.  He or she listens to a rhythmic drum beat - a sound which connects our ancestors across the centuries and across the continents.  He asks a question that he needs help with, such as:

• How will I know which career is best for me? 
• Please help my relationship with my mother.  

He starts to imagine meeting with his Spirits on the land, below the land or above the land - the so-called middle, lower and upper worlds of the traditional shamanic journey.  These Spirits can take the images of animals, people, mythical beings or objects.

"The other change in my life which has also happened within 2 weeks of my first journey, is that I have found what I need to balance my life and that is to breed alpaca's.  I went on a introduction day with alpacas, which was amazing, but when I left I felt very emotional and cried, but the tears were not those of sadness, but joy: through my journey I discovered that the balance I need in my life is animals and the alpacas is the start."                                                                                                                      

Julia S, Benson

At some point these imaginings - the journey - gather their own momentum, a bit like a dream or visualization.  The Spirits takes him on a journey of sight, sound, touch, smell and even taste.  The pictures he sees take on their own meaning - so much so that he laughs in surprise, or may not initially understand....the journey has gone beyond the imagination to the Realm of Spirit. After the journey the teachings or healing is brought back into his ordinary life.  

Everything that happens on the journey is part of the answer to our question - literally or captured in the quality or the essence of the journey.  

The insights and teachings demonstrate their power as events unfold and allow their truth to resonate with us in our ordinary, everyday lives.