Journey To Meet Your
Personal Power Animal
When: September 18-20, 12-5pm each day
Where: Zen Shiatsu Chicago, 818 Lake St, Evanston IL
Fee: $600.00
Registration: Reserve your spot.
About this 3-Day Class
Meeting your Personal Power Animal—also called your Power Animal or Spirit Animal—is a profound and intimate experience. It connects you more deeply to your essential self and to the Great Mystery of Creation’s Source—Creator, Spirit, God, Goddess, or however you name the awe-inspiring intelligence that animates all life.
Cultivating a relationship with your Totems brings self-knowledge, healing, and direction. It strengthens intuition and awareness, restores stamina in mind and body, and promotes peace, confidence, and integrity in the heart and soul. This wisdom is timeless—just as meaningful and transformative today as it has been for countless generations.
An Ancient Relationship Remembered
Long ago, human beings lived in close relationship with the animal world. We were more connected to their wisdom and their teachings. By observing them, we saw our own qualities reflected, both our strengths and our challenges. Animals spoke, and offered guidance on how to live in balance and harmony. We knew how to listen.
Some indigenous cultures never lost this awareness, and many are actively bringing it forward for us today. While this wisdom is accessible through all ethnicities and ancestral roots—European, African, Asian, and every other—the most commonly preserved pathways in our culture come through Native American traditions.
Your Place on the Medicine Wheel
Many Indian Nations teach that you enter this life at a particular place on the Medicine Wheel to learn specific lessons. Creator provides helpers to support you in this learning. One of the most influential of these helpers is your Personal Animal Totem.
Walking with Your Totem
When you cultivate the bond between yourself and your Totem, you discover how to use its wisdom to remove barriers to your personal and spiritual development. You become a “true human being,” one who lives in a good way. As you develop your unique gifts and talents through this relationship, your life becomes a benefit . . . not only to yourself, but to your community and to the Earth Mother for generations to come.
Discovering Your True Power Animal
So, how do you identify your Personal Power Animal? And how do you make its acquaintance? Sometimes an animal appears repeatedly—crossing your path, entering your dreams, or showing up in unusual ways. These encounters may be very meaningful, but they do not necessarily indicate your true Totem. The traditional and reliable way to meet your Personal Power Animal is through Journeying—a shamanic practice that opens access to direct, experiential knowledge.
This training offers a time-honored, grounded and respectful way to make that introduction.
Course Structure
Day One
Sacred Circle
The Four Directions
Mother Earth & Father Sky Meditation
Journey to Innocence
Journey to the Shaman’s Tree
Day 2
Journey of the Four-Legged Ones in Nature
Journey of the Winged Ones in Nature
Day 3
Journey to Meet Your Four-Legged Totem in Another Realm
Journey to Meet Your Winged Totem in Another Realm
A Living Relationship, Not a Symbol
This training is not about adopting a symbol or learning animal meanings from a book. It is about entering a living, reciprocal relationship with a spiritual ally. The bond you form here can continue to guide, protect, and teach you long after the course has ended.
A Teaching Brought To Completion
In many traditions, knowledge is revealed in stages. This training offers the final teaching in a sequence meant to be lived, embodied, and carried forward.
It completes a progression of practices designed to help you embrace all of who you are, reclaim your inner resources, and walk sure-footedly along your life’s path with greater clarity, balance, and purpose.