Shamanic journeying
You are the dreamer and the dream itself
✨ Expand your awareness
✨ Harness your imagination
✨ Receive the messages
What is it?
A shamanic journey takes you from one state of consciousness to another, using a drum to navigate.
Your imagination will get you everywhere!
Engage your childlike sense of adventure and allow the beat of the drum to guide you down the rabbit hole of your inner world.
Discover open portals and alternate realities, where soul parts, elementals, spirit guides, animals & ancestors all vie for attention.
Probe, play and explore! The more focused your intent, the deeper the drum will take you and the bigger the insights you’ll receive in return.
The real challenge however, is opening to the possibility of grounding these insights for use in the everyday.
“The secret is embracing flow, not attaching to states. Diving into the shadows can be fun too!”
- Rob Calcutt.
Is this for me?
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Drumming makes you feel good!
A frequency of 180 beats per minute can slow brain waves to around 8 cycles per second, mimicking Earth’s frequency (7.83Hz). Attuning to the familiar tone of the planet naturally kickstarts the process of cellular renewal, allowing the body to regenerate.
Drumming also vibrates the visual cortex of the brain, inducing significant trance states and inner landscapes. It also stimulates theta brainwaves, which can stir deep, ancestral memories – trippy!
“I am the weaver, I am the woven one…I am the dreamer, I am the dream!” - Shekhinah Mountainwater
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No – arrive as you are. I have it covered.
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A shamanic journey is a focused ceremony held by a drum beat. This managed container allows you to surrender, stop time and touch another dimension.
In doing so, we move away from our physical body (bones and solid matter), towards a lighter, more flexible, energetic body, where emotions, thoughts and visions reside.
From this platform, we can access our vital essence, soul or spirit body and rub up against life’s mysteries to seek answers on our own terms.
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Modern science now suggests that our collective thoughts create the physical world around us.
There’s medicine to be found in surrendering to the abstract! Your thoughts, feelings, dreams and visions are your own to define: whether you believe in them or not is immaterial.
“Stop being childish.”
“It’s just your imagination.”
Many of us are fed these statements as we prepare for the responsibilities of adulthood. Our imagination is a place of innate wisdom, so often ignored by the outward-facing distractions of modern life.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
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How long have you got?
On a basic level, it’s great for relaxation and stress relief, but for those ready to go deep, a session can get right underneath your trauma and neuroses, offering valuable insights to shift addictions, habits, physical ailments and behaviour patterns from childhood (dis-connection creates dis-ease).
Shamanic journeying provides an opportunity to befriend and re-integrate the outcast parts of ourselves, so we can discover our unique power and become energised and whole once more.
It can also bring healing to a specific situation, allowing you to take stock and press the reset button.
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Typically an hour which will allow time either side to form an intent and share insights.
Tailored packages to navigate the urban jungle
Coming soon!
My other services
Rebirthing breathwork
Gong bathing
Tarot coaching
Online
I now work online and have clients as far flung as the Scottish Highlands.
or
Alternatively you’re welcome to visit my cozy, North London gong room.
In-person
Health studies
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Sound therapy
The juncture between Alpha and Theta brainwaves, reached by sound therapy, is often called the crossover point by neuroscientists. Here, subjects have experienced “seemingly miraculous resolutions of complex psychological problems”[3] including a significant reduction in anxiety levels[4].
Sound therapy has also found success in shifting patient anxiety before an operation[5].
Breathwork
Vagus nerve stimulation (a process, naturally activated by breathwork), actually changes the expression of genes associated with stress, immune function, energy metabolism and insulin secretion[27].
“It’s almost like yin and yang,” says Mladen Golubic of the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative Medicine. “The vagal response reduces stress. It reduces our heart rate and blood pressure. It changes the function of certain parts of the brain, stimulates digestion, all those things that happen when we are relaxed.”[28]
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Breathwork is extremely effective in treating depression. It has even shown success among those resistant to antidepressant medications.[30]
Neurons in the brainstem are constantly monitoring our breath patterns. Studies show that if these neurons are surgically removed, our natural stress responses are bypassed and we feel much calmer[31]. Changing your breathing rhythm has a similar effect, tricking the brain into shifting your mood.
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Sound therapy
14 out of 15 patients with acute migraines (and 5 out of 6 with chronic migraines) underwent a course of ‘brainwave entrainment’ sound therapy and experienced a complete relief of symptoms in just five minutes! So a single session may be enough.[6]
Breathwork
In a recent study of 40 chronic migraine sufferers, vagus nerve stimulation (a process, naturally activated by breathwork), applied for four hours a day over three months, showed a 50% reduction in persistent headaches[29].
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The part of the brain called the amygdala[32] is strongly linked to emotional processing. Studies show that stimulating the amygdala with a large inhale will allow us to identify fearful objects much quicker[33]. It therefore corresponds that when we’re in a panic state, our breathing naturally becomes faster to help us cope with dangerous situations.
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When we drift off to sleep on our journey to the unconscious, our brains pass through various brainwave cycles. The act of inducing Theta brainwaves through sound therapy can shortcut this process to achieve deep, altered states; perfect conditions for stress reduction and sleep[7].
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Clinical studies of vagus nerve stimulation (a process, naturally activated by breathwork) have shown to prevent weight gain in response to a high fat diet[39].
The vagus nerve plays an important role in controlling metabolism and a calorie rich diet has been shown to reduce its efficiency.
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Sound therapy
Neuroscientists trained a group of alcoholics to enter Theta brainwave states (a process naturally activated by sound therapy). These participants showed a much greater recovery rate than those in a separate control group[8]. Thirteen months later, the group demonstrated “sustained prevention of relapse”, these findings were again confirmed after three years[8].
Breathwork
Vagus nerve stimulation (a process, naturally activated by breathwork) may help addicts overcome substance abuse. A groundbreaking study in VNS and cocaine use lead to a significant decrease in drug seeking behaviours among participants[40].
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Breathwork, along with the relaxation response of vagus nerve stimulation, reduces cytokine production[45][46].
Eh? 😉 In English, cytokines are substances secreted by immune system cells, which connect with other cells, in search of assistance, causing buildup and inflammation.
Trials of vagus nerve stimulation (a process, naturally activated by breathwork) were carried out on 14 patients with treatment-resistant fibromyalgia. Five reported pain relief and improved physical function after just three months, twelve reached this point at eleven months and two were pain free![49]
In a separate study, three multiple sclerosis (MS) patients displaying routine symptoms of postural cerebellar tremor (PCT) and dysphagia showed sustained improvements over the course of three months[50].
Contact me
rob@urbanhealer.co.uk
07810 267778
London, N15
@roburbanhealer
