What Happens in a Session?
Trying something new can always seem a bit scary, but working with me is really nothing to worry about! I have worked online with many very small children, (7-8 years old) and they have been perfectly fine, so you will be too. But I understand that its reassuring to know what to expect, so I thought I would set that all out for you here!
The first thing you really need to understand is that shamanic healing is the oldest form of healing on the planet, and I love it because it is the only form of healing I know of that really gets to the root of the matter. And getting to the root of the matter is what is most important for you in your healing journey, because often we have a problem that presents itself, let’s say for example, you have a painful skin condition due to an autoimmune disease. While the medical profession, and probably other alternative healers will focus on the healing of the skin condition, a shaman knows that the rash and the accompanying disease is the body’s way of communicating, and that it is telling us that there is something within us that needs serious attention and healing, – for example, the source of the rash might be a traumatising past life experience that is unhealed, or an ancestral line that needs healing, or a blocked energy field, and once we heal at the root, the body can then heal the symptom, ie the rash, itself.
Therefore, within a session I communicate with your soul and your body and my guides in various different ways to obtain information to help you to heal at the deepest level. This then, is what happens when you book a session with me, if we are working together – ie on the phone together. There is also the option of me working completely remotely, which is needed for people who are very ill, cannot speak English, are autistic and non-verbal, or simply some people just prefer to work completely remotely, and after the session I provide all the details on WhatsApp voicenotes for them to listen to at their convenience. How you work is up to you, both are just as effective. We discuss this when booking the session. Everything that is described below happens whether we speak or whether the session is completely remote.
I start working on you about five days before your appointment with me, normally while you are asleep. I do this to make your session easier on your body and to create a relationship with it before your session, so that it trusts me. I liken this to the old days when we had milk delivered in glass bottles- the cream, (the heaviness), would slowly float to the top of the bottle. So this is what I am doing in the five days before your session, bringing your heaviness up to the surface, and then in the session it is easier to effectively skim it off, if this makes sense. If you are a sensitive person, you may be aware of this – for example, you might feel more tired or emotional than usual, if you have a physical condition the symptoms might slightly increase, you might see me in your dreams or sense me around you, or you might have some funny dreams. Really, though, it’s nothing to worry about, we are just
getting you ready for your session.
Then on the day of your appointment, you call me, usually via WhatsApp audio. I will be ready for you, and we spend a little while chatting and I might ask you for more detail on the information you provided on your client form (you send one to me in order to set up the appointment, the forms are on the Appointments page of my website, or I can email you one if you prefer that. Also on the Appointments page of my website, you can find some Helpful Notes that provide all the detail you need to prepare for your session).
I do use cards as divination tools to help me to gain insight into what is really going on with you and where we need to focus. I don’t use them as a ‘reading’ – I won’t tell you your fortune! But because I need to look for the root of your issues, the cards are very helpful to me. I go through them all with you.
Then we have a little break, we get off the phone for around 10-15 minutes. I use this time to communicate with my guides as to how we can best help you, I also often receive pertinent information for you at this time, or general spiritual teachings that can help you to heal more deeply and to move forward in life with more understanding of yourself and your journey.
I also check you for a number (about 35 at the last count!) of different things which could be bothering you. Included in this is blocked chakra system, wounded inner child, past lives or ancestral issues, power loss and soul loss, the need for energy exchange (when someone has taken some of your energy), if you are grounded, if your energy bodies are healthy, if you are being impacted by negative subconsious beliefs (these create your everyday reality so its important they are corrected to the positive!) – I even check to see if the energies in your home are affecting you! You exist on many levels of your being, not just one, so if something has happened to you, ALL those levels with be affected and all will need to be healed. So therefore, I check to see what levels of your beingness or your consciousness I need to focus on.
In the break, you will have made yourself comfortable and warm on your bed or sofa. When I have all the guidance I need, I text you and you call me back. I tell you about the guidance I have received and relay any messages to you. Then we start working together. I am always guided as to what needs to be done first, – this work is a little bit like building you a house, we cannot rush to do the nice things – like the decorating – without making sure that we have very strong foundations in first to ‘hold’ the rest of the work we will do in future sessions. We (my guides and I) start by working on clearing up trauma, whether in this life or past lives or experienced by your ancestors, before we start to look at ‘rebuilding’ you with power retrieval and soul retrieval which will return you to wholeness. Your body is highly intelligent and knows exactly how much it is comfortable in clearing. Then after your session, your body needs to reintegrate everything we have done, and process everything, hence the reason why there is normally a gap of a month between sessions. We will have to work with your body, and at the pace your own body wishes to work at. This is why I cannot answer the question ‘ how many sessions will I need’ as everyone is different, but there are improvements after each session.
Before we start the work, we get you nice and relaxed. You will be in control at all times, however, you will not be in a trance. (I do not utilise plant medicine). This is why preferably you need to make sure you will not be disturbed during your session. An empty house is best, if possible! And it’s nice for you to have some time for yourself afterwards, rather than getting straight up and getting on with your day. And never fear, if you need to break for the loo, just say!
During the actual work, we will guide you in meditative types of journeys, both inside your body and outside of it. It is very, very easy, in fact the more you relax and trust the deeper you can go. Some people can try too hard or think that there are ‘right’ answers but really it is best to just trust the very first thing that comes into your head as that is normally right. And you don’t need to worry if you normally struggle to visualise, because I am watching and feeling everything too so I know if anything needs correcting, and please remember, if need be I can do everything for you, all the shamanic journeys, while you relax.
On some occasions, such as when soul retrieval journeys, I do those for you as you cannot access those areas of consciousness for yourself. And if we are correcting negative subconscious beliefs, we will be using muscle testing and for this you will stand up. But I will make it clear as we start working what we will be doing in the session so again, there is nothing to worry about. It really is quite simple and easy.
Regarding the timing of sessions, I believe in giving my clients the time they need, so I will never cut the session short and leave you in a vulnerable place. I leave extra time between client sessions in case I run late, so you will not be rushed in anyway.
You will find that the more sessions you have the more easily and quickly your body relaxes, and the more information and guidance you receive. The natural state of the body is health and it longs for this state, so your body will be very grateful to you for clearing the burdens it has been carrying for many years! Your body knows when you have booked in for a session and it will start organising itself prior to your session – before I even start working on you. This is why sessions are always booked in advance; it reassures your body that it will receive the healing that it needs.
After your session we will bring you gently back to present day reality and make sure you are back in your body and alert before ending the call. It is important to understand that shamanic healing is very deep healing, proper healing. We are not just putting some nice sparkly energy into you (although we do do that!) so you feel nice for a few days and then go back to normal. We aim to get to the root of the matter and for the healing to be permanent. Please bear in mind that whatever has gone ‘into’ you, (trauma, experiences, losses) have to come out of there. We are not ‘bringing it up’ from nowhere, you have been walking round with it all this time, sometimes as with past life trauma, for thousands of years! If something is in you, it
has to come out in order for you to be fully healed. Therefore, sometimes, after a session you might have some sadness coming up for a few days. People are sometimes surprised that they may feel worse after a session, but the body needs to clear and release the trauma and this takes it a few days. Remember it might have been carried around in your energy field (which you take with you from lifetime to lifetime) for thousands of years! I do provide ‘homework’ to lessen the impact, however it is naïve to think that you can heal something at a very deep level and not feel impacted by it for a little while. However, this only lasts for a few days, and then you will feel even better than before. Of course, as a rule most people feel marvellous and ‘much lighter’ immediately after a session and that is great, but the body has to do ‘its own thing,’ and if it needs a few days to process then please just
allow it to do that.
So really, that is it. It might sound complicated but really its very simple. A chat, a short break, then down to work where you will be nice and relaxed.
I really hope this helps!
Blessings,
Dawn