Animal Instincts
Drumming Journeys for
Inner Guidance
A self-paced video course in shamanic drumming journeys, shadow work, and inner guidance - for empowered decision making and trustworthy leadership. Watch on your own time, at your own pace.
"Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a person succeed when their thoughts tell them that they are defeated. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity."- Carlos Castaneda
A self-paced course, built to fit your schedule.
This self paced class allows you to work through the modules in your own timing with lifetime access to all the lessons.
Enroll & Get Instant Access
The moment you enroll, all 4 modules unlock. Nothing drips out week by week - the entire course is yours from day one.
Watch On Your Own Time
32 pre-recorded video lessons across 4 modules, ready to watch the moment you enroll.
Journey at Your Own Pace
Each module's drumming journey is a recorded audio track. Press play when you're ready - pause, rewind, or repeat a journey as many times as you need.
Keep Returning, For Life
Lifetime access means this isn't a one-time watch. Revisit any module, journey, or worksheet whenever your practice calls for it.
Your animal instincts hold the wisdom you've been looking for.
In a world that prizes overthinking, this course reclaims something primal - entirely on your own schedule. Through pre-recorded shamanic drumming journeys, reflective shadow work, and a private community of fellow students, you'll learn to decode your emotions, dissolve ego defenses, and access an inner guidance system that is always available to you.
Each module blends video teaching, a recorded drumming induction, and guided journey instructions you can revisit as many times as you need.
The drum is the oldest technology for inner travel.
Four Modules. Four Layers of Awakening.
Each module builds on the last, moving you from clarity of intent through the depths of the unconscious - and back into your life transformed.
Via Positiva & Via Negativa - Clarifying Your Intent
Intent is the rudder of your ship. We don't just focus on the positive - we have the courage to look at the shadow side, where real power is held.
- Awakening Your Animal Instincts: Reconnecting with Your Inner Guidance
- Module One: Clarifying Your Inner Compass
- The Power of Clear Intent: Guiding Your Inner Compass
- The Power Hidden in Your Challenges
- Meeting the Shadow with Courage
- Allyship: Awakening Your Inner Guidance System
- The Role of Allies in Healing
'Allyship' - The Inner Guidance System
Trauma severs our trust in ourselves and others. Learn to rebuild that sacred connection through trusted allies - human, animal, elemental, and divine.
- The Return of Imagination
- Gathering Personal Power
- Remembering the Forgotten World Within
- When Imagination Becomes Fear
- Becoming Aware of Your Thought Patterns
- The Pathway of the Drumming Journey
- Guided Relaxation Instructions for the Drumming Journey
- Guided Drumming Audio
- Post Drumming Journey Guidance
- Write Out Your First Drumming Journey
- Animal Guides Cheat Sheet
- Animal Instincts Workbook
Reactivating the Imagination
Your imagination is the diving board to the deep unconscious. Learn to use it as a tool (not a stress machine) to access the dreamtime.
- The Three Realms: Upper World, Middle World, and Underworld
- The Realm of Higher Wisdom
- Why We Start in the Underworld
- Fear, Ego, and the Animal Instinct to Be Right
- Breaking Free from Habitual Perception
- Recognizing the Patterns That Shape Your Life
- Second Drumming Journey
- Write Out Your Second Drumming Journey
Integration - Trusting Your Animal Knowing
Bring everything together. Learn to distinguish real inner guidance from ego fabrication - and carry these skills into your leadership and daily life.
- Drumming, Trance States & the Dreaming Body
- Hemispheric Synchronization & The Power of the Drum Journey
- Gathering Your Power Through the Drum Journey
- Uncovering a Power Animal Through Dreams
- The Journey to Completion: Shadow Realms & Inner Transformation
- Power Animals, Duality & The Path to Wholeness
- Preparing for the Drum Journey: Intent, Relaxation & Connection
- Guided Drumming Audio - Final One
- Walking in Your Power: Connecting Dreamtime & Ordinary Reality
- Bonus Material
Everything You Need for the Path
This is a complete, self-contained course kit - recorded teaching, original ceremony audio, and printable companion materials, all included in your one-time enrollment and yours to keep.
11 Hours of Video Teaching
20 pre-recorded video lessons across 4 modules, ready to watch the moment you enroll - no waiting on weekly drip content.
4 Recorded Drumming Journeys
Captured live during our ceremonial Zoom sessions and included in every module, so you get the full audio induction and journey - play it as often as you'd like.
Animal Instinct Journey Workbook
A printable, guided companion for written reflection, dream journaling, and shadow inquiry alongside each module's teaching.
Power Animal Cheat Sheet
A quick-reference guide to common power animal allies and their symbolic meanings, to consult after every journey.
Further Reading & Resources
A curated list of books, teachings, and resources for going deeper into shamanic practice, shadow work, and dreaming on your own time.
Private Community Access
A members-only space to share journey reflections, post questions, and connect with fellow students and instructors at any hour - no live calls required.
Lifetime Access
Revisit any module, journey, or worksheet as many times as you like, for as long as you like - this course never expires.
Meet Your Instructors
Nisha
Nisha has spent years working at the intersection of consciousness, the subconscious mind, and emotional healing. Her work began with lucid dreaming and expanded into the deeper territory dreams inevitably reveal: our inner guidance systems, our relationship patterns, and the stories we carry about who we are.
Her entry into this work was anything but ordinary. During a sleep paralysis episode, she found herself seeing two realities simultaneously - her ordinary bedroom through one eye, and the luminous dream world through the other. A voice told her clearly that this was part of her purpose: to see both worlds at once, and to teach others to do the same. She has been doing exactly that ever since, and her recorded teaching carries that same warmth and respect for the pace of each person's unfolding.
Norma
Norma brings deep expertise in shadow work and trauma-informed healing to this container. Her practice is built on the understanding that what we most need to heal is often what we've most carefully hidden - from others, and from ourselves. She is the founder of the Journey to Completion shadow work and trauma healing modality.
She specializes in guiding people through the parts of themselves that have been exiled: the grief that never had space, the anger buried under "keeping the peace," the self who learned too early that love had conditions. Her recorded teaching holds space for the shadow side of the journey, where the most transformative power - and real inner knowing - begins to emerge.
Begin Anytime
One payment, instant access to the full self-paced course.
- 4 modules · 32 lessons total
- 32 video lessons + 4 recorded drumming journeys
- Animal Instinct Journey Workbook
- Power Animal Cheat Sheet
- Further Reading & Resources guide
- Private community access
- Instant access to all modules - no drip schedule
- Lifetime access - revisit anytime
Common Questions
Fully self-paced. Every lesson and drumming journey is pre-recorded, and all 4 modules unlock the moment you enroll.
None at all. This course is designed to meet you exactly where you are. The recorded drumming and guided imagery make the journeying process accessible even for complete beginners - all you need is a willingness to explore.
A quiet space, a comfortable place to sit or lie down, headphones for the best audio experience, and an eye mask if you have one. The drumming was captured live during our ceremonial Zoom sessions - you simply press play and let it carry you.
For life. Once you enroll, all four modules - plus the recorded journeys, workbook, cheat sheet, and resource guide - are yours to revisit whenever you'd like. There's no expiration date.
Yes - you'll have access to the same private, members-only community as our live cohort. You can post journey reflections, dream journal entries, and questions anytime; replies happen asynchronously rather than on a fixed weekly schedule, since this is a self-paced format.
This self-paced course includes the same four-module curriculum and the same drumming journeys, recorded live from our Zoom ceremonies - so you get the full teaching and journey experience, worked through on your own schedule instead of across four live Saturday sessions. If you'd prefer real-time group sharing and live drumming, the cohort-based version of Journey to Completion is also available.
Your instincts have been waiting for you.
A complete self-paced course: 4 modules, 32 lessons, 4 drumming journeys, a workbook, a cheat sheet, and a community of fellow students - all unlocked the moment you enroll, all yours for life.
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