Community Shamanic Journey Circle - Gold Coast

Welcome to the Gold Coast Community Shamanic Journey Circle! Join us for an evening of spiritual exploration and connection at Sports House at Varsity Lakes. This in-person event is a unique opportunity to experience the power of shamanic practices in a supportive group setting. Whether you are new to shamanism or a seasoned practitioner, all are welcome to come together and embark on a journey of self-discovery. Let's dive deep into the realms of the unseen and uncover the wisdom that lies within. Don't miss out on this transformative experience - reserve your spot today!

Your host is Naythan Thorpe. Naythan is a certified Shamanic Partitioner and Mesa Carrier, and Sound Therapist. Originally from America he apprenticed under an American shaman for a number of years going through many healing ceremonies and initiations making his way through the Andean medicine wheel learning the traditional energy medicines of the Q’ero people of Peru to become a Mesa carrier.

During this weekly Shamanic Journey Ceremony. You will experience a opening invocation to open sacred space, mini energy clearing/smudging, breathing exercises and some other exercises to start the process of leaving the Ordinary Reality we live in and to set into Non-Ordinary Reality or The Dream Time as you many know it.

Naythan will then use the drum or rattle to “hold space” and lead various journeys for things like retrieving power animals, and connecting with other spirit guides. Journeying to the different realms. The lower world, middle world and upper world.

After our journeys we will have time to write down, share our experiences and have a Q & A.

Event Details/What to Bring:

- Journey journal and pen or pencil

- Open heart and mind

- Eye mask or eye curtain (optional)

- Online bookings are essential

- Prepaid/Online booking only (Limited spaces available)

- Tickets are non-refundable

- Children and pets are not permitted

- Come early, doors close at 6pm sharp

Shamanism: A Brief Overview from Sandra Ingerman

“Shamanism is the most ancient spiritual practice known to humankind. Many anthropologists believe that the practice dates back over 100,000 years.

The word “shaman” comes from the Tungus tribe in Siberia and it means spiritual healer or one who sees in the dark. Shamanism has been practiced in Siberia, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Greenland, and native North and South America.

A shaman is a man or woman who uses the ability to see “with the strong eye” or “with the heart” to travel into hidden realms. The shaman interacts directly with helping spirits to address the spiritual aspect of illness and perform soul retrievals, retrieve lost power, as well as remove spiritual blockages. The shaman also divines information for the community. Shamans have and still act as healers, doctors, priests and priestesses, psychotherapists, mystics, and storytellers.

Shamanism teaches us that everything that exists is alive and has a spirit. Shamans speak of a web of life that connects all of life and the spirit that lives in all things. Everything on earth is interconnected and any belief that we are separate from other life forms including the earth, stars, wind, etc is purely an illusion. And it is the shaman’s role in the community to keep harmony and balance between humankind and the forces of nature.

There are a variety of ceremonies that shamans perform. They lead ceremonies to welcome children into the world, perform marriages, and help people transition to a good place at the time of death. They lead ceremonies to mourn the death of loved ones. There are important initiation ceremonies performed to mark certain transitions in a person’s life such as from moving from childhood into being an adult.

One of the major ceremonies a shaman performs is called a shamanic journey. A shaman is a man or woman who goes into an altered state of consciousness and travels outside of time into the hidden

realms that many term non-ordinary. I see non-ordinary reality as a parallel universe to ours. The Australian aborigines call non-ordinary the Dreamtime. It is also referred to as the Other World in Celtic traditions.

In these hidden realities there are helping spirits, compassionate spirits who offer their guidance and also their healing help in behalf of all life on earth.

Typically shamans use some form of percussion, especially drumming or rattling, to go into an altered state that allows the free soul of the shaman to journey into the invisible worlds. In Australia you also see shamans use the didgeridoo and/or click sticks. Some traditions use sticks or bells. The Sami people of Lapland and Norway also use monotonous chanting called “joiking”.

Scientific study has found that when we are in an ordinary state of consciousness our brain waves are in a beta state. But when the shaman or shamanic practitioner listens to a rhythmic or monotonous drum beat, the brain waves slow down, first to an alpha state, which is a light, meditative state of consciousness, and then into a deeper state called a theta state. And that’s the state that allows the shaman’s free soul to journey into the invisible worlds having access to helping spirits.

When one looks at shamanic traditions around the world there are three common levels that are spoken about and also depicted through different paintings and other forms of artwork. The hidden worlds that the shaman travels to are known as the Under World or Lower World, the Middle World, and the Upper World. There are numerous levels in both the Lower World and also in the Upper World and they are outside of time.

Shamanism is a system of direct revelation. All shamans might describe experiences differently. And how the different experiences are interpreted and seen by others is how beautiful they all are.

In the invisible realms of non-ordinary reality there are a variety of helping spirits that can help the shaman with healing individuals, the community, and the planet.”