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Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide Paperback – June 1, 2008

by Sandra Ingerman MA (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 973 ratings
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Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the invisible worlds beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in every area of our lives from spirituality and health to work and relationships.

With Shamanic Journeying, readers join world-renowned teacher Sandra Ingerman to learn the core teachings of this ancient practice and apply these skills in their own journey. Includes drumming for three shamanic journeys.

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  1. Print length
    96 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Sounds True
  4. Publication date
    June 1, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    6.18 x 0.31 x 7.98 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1591799430
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1591799436
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“An interactive tool kit for those who want to experience a journey similar to those that traditional shamans have taken for centuries.” ―SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH MAGAZINE

About the Author

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is an award-winning author of 12 books, including Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins, Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life, and The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred in Everyday Life. She is the presenter of eight audio programs produced by Sounds True. Sandra is a world-renowned teacher of shamanism and has been teaching for close to 40 years. She has taught workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods to our modern culture, addressing the needs of our times.

Sandra is known for gathering the global spiritual community together to perform powerful transformative ceremonies, as well as inspiring us to stand strong in unity so we do our own spiritual and social activism work while keeping a vision of hope and being a light in the world.

She is passionate about helping people to reconnect with nature. Since the 1980s, thousands of people have healed from past and present traumas through the classic cross-cultural shamanic healing method Sandra teaches called Soul Retrieval.

She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional mental health counselor. She is also a board-certified expert on traumatic stress. Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine honored Sandra by including her on its 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People of 2020.

She was awarded the 2007 Peace Award from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicines. Sandra was chosen as one of the Top 10 Spiritual Leaders of 2013 by Spirituality & Health magazine.

Sandra joined in partnership with Renee Baribeau to do a weekly 30-minute podcast, The Shamans Cave. For more information, visit shamanstv.com.

www.sandraingerman.com
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sounds True; PAP/COM edition (June 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591799430
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591799436
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.18 x 0.31 x 7.98 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 973 ratings

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Sandra is known for gathering the global spiritual community together to perform powerful and transformative ceremonies as well as inspires us to stand strong in unity as we do our own spiritual and social activism work while keeping a vision of hope and being a light in the world.

She is passionate about helping people to reconnect with nature. Since the 1980’s thousands of people have healed from past and present traumas through the classic cross cultural shamanic healing method Sandra teaches called Soul Retrieval.

She is the award winning author of twelve books and eight audio programs that are all sold on Amazon.

Sandra also created Healing Your Thoughts app which provides easy tools using words, blessings, photos, affirmations to help us to observe what we are thinking about right now and how to change our thoughts that feed ourselves, all of life, and the planet with love.

Sandra Ingerman is one of the most highly regarded teachers of shamanism today.She has been teaching and practicing shamanism for 40 years. Sandra teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.

Sandra was chosen by Watkins Body Mind Spirit Magazine as one of their 100 Most Spiritually Influential People of 2020.

Sandra was also chosen as one of the Top Spiritual Leaders of 2013 in the November/December 2013 issue of Spirituality and Health.

Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management.

To read articles written by Sandra, to listen to interviews, and to read her monthly column The Transmutation News please visit www.sandraingerman.com. Her training schedule is also posted on this site. Sandra teaches many online courses that can be purchased digitally to work on in your own time.

To find a local shamanic practitioner or teacher in your area who trained with Sandra please visit www.shamanicteachers com.

To watch her weekly podcast The Shamans Cave with Renee Baribeau please visit ShamansTV.com.

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gypsygirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple but not simplistic. You can be journeying within a day.
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018
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I love this little book. I have a number of books on Shamanism, and in almost every case, its practice is made to sound so complex and fraught with cautions that one is left feeling that it's too difficult, complicated, or dangerous to take a shamanic journey. I appreciate the wealth of detail in these other books, but they are more like scholarly references than how-to guides.

Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide gets you going right away. The author, Sandra Ingerman, even includes a CD of recorded Shamanic drumming with the book, so you can try journeying before investing in a drum, rattle, or other instrument. In fact, the book is so short that you can be journeying within a day!

The book is simple, but not simplistic. While providing the "basics" of Shamanic Journeying, it is also rich in real-life examples and practical suggestions. You will eventually want to read other, more complete books on Shamanic journeying from different perspectives and traditions, but this book beautifully achieves its goal: to give you the essentials and get you started in journeying.
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Daniel Benor, MD
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a lovely book
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2010
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This is a lovely book which instructs the reader in how to explore the lower, middle and upper realms of shamanic journeying. Sandra Ingerman, a very gifted Harner -trained shaman and shamanic teacher, is also a gifted writer. Her discussions are clear and concise, well illustrated with examples from her practice, and sensibly empowering readers to explore and learn to trust their own experiences and judgment.Spirit guides frequently present images or make suggestions that may have diverse interpretations. I was particularly taken with the following example of caution needed in interpreting the language of metaphors:

...the Aramaic language - the language of Jesus... was highly metaphorical and poetic. When the Bible was translated from Aramaic into Greek and then into English, the metaphors were translated literally, often changing the meaning of the words. One example is that there is no word in the Aramaic language for either 'good' or 'evil.' The most comparable words in Aramaic were 'ripe' and 'unripe,' referring to how everything is part of an ongoing, organic process. But when the Bible was translated into Green and then English, the words chosen to represent 'ripe' and 'unripe' were 'good' and 'evil.' This mistranslation alone shaped the evolution of Judao-Christian culture such that human nature became perceived as something separate from the natural cycles of readiness and unreadiness. (p. 43-44)

A drumming CD to help shift consciousness for journeying comes with the book.
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Jeremy Garber
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Guide to Journeying Outside Ordinary Time
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2019
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Earlier this month, I took my first shamanic journey. There were twelve of us, lying on blankets or yoga mats in the cold concrete back room of a metaphysical bookstore. Our guide talked to us for almost an hour, outlining how we might encounter time outside of ordinary time, what we might encounter, and the safety of our journey. I lay back with a silk cloth tied around my eyes, and she drummed us outside of time. I danced with my spirit animal for the first time and began what I intend to be a lifelong practice and relationship.

Ingerman provides a practical outline to just such an experience, based on years of veteran shamanic journeying. She is careful to stress that she is not a shaman, since that role is explicit to particular communities. Nor is she an unobservant dilettante or cultural appropriator. Instead, she merely passes on the wisdom she has gained through experience. Ingerman describes the Upper, Middle, and Lower Worlds, and different images and metaphors to journey there. She describes both power animals and teachers in human form (remember, the animal you find may have significance only to you!). Ingerman also provides guidelines for asking questions of your spirit helpers, healing journeys, and divination, as well as guidelines for practicing in groups. Finally and importantly, this slim and helpful volume provides a three-track CD with drumming of various lengths to aid you in your own guided journeys. This was a perfect companion to an experience I had, and I imagine it would be helpful to someone experimenting on their own. Try it soon – and meet your own loving and powerful spirit guide!
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Urano
4.0 out of 5 stars Grounded basic information. But the book might need to explain how to listen to the drumming.
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2019
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I've tried listening to the drumming many times. I just imagined, allowing imagination to unfold by itself. But I really doubt whether it's just imagination, because I didn't went through any trance entering sensations (like entering lucid dream, or a shallow meditation state), I actually didn't feel any of the transfer of conscious state. And in the same way, I tried to go to the "middle world", which is this world, I tried to confirm what I saw in the journey (like numbers on a car plate, scratch on the wall, etc.), but non of those match with the physical reality.
On the other hand, if I stop imagining and focus on the drum beats, I would just hear drum beats all the way to the end.
I think I'm not doing it right.
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Cheryl W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2015
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This book was so easy to read and understand. Being a beginner myself, I learned some things and Sandra confirmed things that I already knew. I love the fact that is accompanied by a CD with drumming so that you can truly start journeying immediately. I do believe that there are certain rules to be followed, but as our civilization evolves, I believe that practices evolve also. Just like when I started energy healing years ago, I was taught a certain way to do it, but over the years it has evolved because I have allowed spirit to guide me and now, it looks nothing like when I first started.
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Jes_074
5.0 out of 5 stars A recommended beginners to upper level Shaman’s
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2015
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This book was recommended to me by my Shaman teacher who had personally studied with the author years ago. I found it a great source of basic, intermediate and advanced knowledge. I would like it more if at the end there were all the journey’s that had been dispersed throughout the book. This way I can go back and do them easily.

Throughout the books I did the journeys and I learned a lot from them while enjoying them. I also liked all the information that was imparted as it filled in some gaps that had developed in my own practice which happens to everyone.
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Laura L. Cochard
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, very little introductory book
Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2022
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I really like Sandra Ingerman, she explains shamanism in a very approachable way. This little introductory book is great for those that know close to nothing on shamanism and that have never attempted shamanic journey. For anyone with a little bit of acknowledge, or that has travelled already, this book is too short, too introductory, too simple for them. I was wishing for a more in depth guide, but being shamanism as complex and deep as it is, this 88 page book feels almost like a pamphlet. I will keep it even if I already know almost all the content, it seems like a nice gift to someone that's just starting to read on the subject.
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Laura L. Cochard
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, very little introductory book
Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2022
I really like Sandra Ingerman, she explains shamanism in a very approachable way. This little introductory book is great for those that know close to nothing on shamanism and that have never attempted shamanic journey. For anyone with a little bit of acknowledge, or that has travelled already, this book is too short, too introductory, too simple for them. I was wishing for a more in depth guide, but being shamanism as complex and deep as it is, this 88 page book feels almost like a pamphlet. I will keep it even if I already know almost all the content, it seems like a nice gift to someone that's just starting to read on the subject.
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cristina prinner
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, but...
Reviewed in Germany on March 8, 2022
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It will not replace a training, live or virtual, with her or someone else. Sandra’s drumming is excellent (to be purchased separately). I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know what shamanism is basically about, an overview. An excellent one. Can someone journey based solely on this book with help of her music? Yes. Would I necessarily recommend it this way? No.
Book is excellent though.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Clear and simply written book
Reviewed in India on October 27, 2019
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One of the best go-to books for basics of shamanism. Sandra explains in detail and with much simplicity.
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Laura
5.0 out of 5 stars Claridad y sencillez
Reviewed in Spain on August 11, 2019
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Me parece una excelente introducción al viaje chamánico, que explica con gran sencillez y claridad los elementos básicos del método y que aclara muchas de las dudas que tiene quien se inicia en este camino como principiante. Sería fantástico que se traduje se al castellano!
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5.0 out of 5 stars New beginnings!
Reviewed in Australia on February 29, 2020
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Awesome book, & arrived when it was supposed to. Love the survice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars New beginnings!
Reviewed in Australia on February 29, 2020
Awesome book, & arrived when it was supposed to. Love the survice.
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