#insight timer

I am pleased to announce the publication of my first online course, Your Guide to Shamanic Drumming, on Insight Timer. Insight Timer is a free smartphone app and online community with over seven million meditators, making it the most active meditation community on the planet. The meditation app made Women's Health and Time magazine's list of best apps. Three thousand meditation teachers publish free guided meditations, music and talks on the app. With 130,000 free guided meditations, including six of my shamanic drumming tracks to support your shamanic journeys, you can meditate on Insight Timer for as long as you want without ever paying a cent. Please note that courses are a premium offering and require either an individual purchase or an active subscription. You can purchase my course for $19.99 or start your 7 day free trial then subscribe to unlock all 1,871 Insight courses, playlists and premium features. Download the Insight Timer app here.

Course Description

In this four-part audio course, best-selling author Michael Drake teaches about the power of shamanic drumming to improve well-being, promote spiritual growth and deepen our understanding of the inner self. Shamanic drumming is a form of repetitive rhythmic drumming. Its purpose is to induce ecstatic trance states in order to access innate wisdom and guidance. The essence of shamanism is the experience of direct revelation from within. Shamanism is about remembering, exploring and developing the true self. Shamanic practice heightens the ability of perception and enables you to see into the deeper realms of the self. Once connected with your inner self, you can find help, healing and a continual source of guidance. To practice shamanism is to reconnect with your deepest core values and your highest vision of who you are and why you are here.

Anger is a valid emotion. It tells us to protect ourselves, that something is hurting or harming us. It’s valid, it’s useful. It motivates us to make change. But when used to fuel actions it can be incredibly destructive.

I should be focusing on my assessment for tomorrow, but this feels more important. Repairing and rebuilding always feels more important. So tonight now needs to be for repair and rebuild. And also dealing with the shame of it all.

Repair… Apologising for how awful I was.

Rebuild… Grounding and rebuilding my (healthy) defences. A thicker skin so that everything feels less like an attack or less like it’s setting my skin on fire. Self-care and compassion - this was an emotional situation. I did the best I could. I also need to try harder. I need to be better.

Starting with some mindfulness and reflection…