Trance Drumming and Intuitive,
Self-exploration Workshop

This four hour workshop explores working with trance awareneses, intuition, and setting intention. We will explore individually and collectively our own unconscious and higher consciousness potentials.

We will use the sounds of the drum and the rattle as well as other conscious mechanisms for exploring and experiencing trance. Through trance we gain access to deeper parts of ourselves and of our collective group energy for insight, clarity of purpose, healing, and even personal transformation.

Trance - formation is already happening... 

As we start thinking about trance now, we begin activating the energy we will experience with the sound of the drum. The intention for trance drumming is to create a container where we can share in a communication with the unconscious, and through that, higher consciousness parts that we are connected to. We will do this with the intentional use of trance. Working as a hypnotherapist I have come to understand that trance occurs anytime we focus our awareness in such a way that our normal orientation to reality changes. In this sense we go in and out of trance every day, sometimes many times in a single day. For example, when we daydream or experience a strong emotion we are in trance. This ability to focus allows us to immerse ourselves in our focus and absorb more information without conscious resistance.

We usually don’t pay attention to these day-to-day trances though, since they are an accepted part of who we are.
    The meaning of trance can expand though in more profound directions. It’s linguistic roots are connected to words like; passage, vision, to go over or across, and even to die. This is not a physical crossing over, but a release from normal consciousness. This release can be experienced as a passage or a journey, which is why this kind of trance work is often called journeying. Most indigenous cultures use some form of trance to get a clearer perspective and understanding of reality. It is more than can be contained in conscious awareness. In trance-drumming we are intentionally using the sound of the drum as an entry point into a deeper trance. By deeper, I only mean more altered from normal awareness. The further we go, the more we leave the limitations of our conscious beliefs behind and enter into other ways of knowing.
     
    You are also generating the energy of your future trance experiences by thinking now about our intentions. You don’t really have to do anything consciously to make it happen, that’s the beauty of working with the unconscious. But you can ‘sense’ your personal trance experiences, outside of time, and move towards them with fuller conscious intention in the present. 

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