Shamanic Reiki Drumming: Intuitive Healing with Sound and Vibration

by Fay Johnstone, Carol Day (Foreword by)

Overview

A complete guide to shamanic drumming for enhancing Reiki practice

• Shares Reiki drum techniques and step-by-step shamanic practices to strengthen the potency of Reiki symbols and treatments and bring empowerment, healing, connection, and clarity to you and your clients

• Looks at selecting a drum, attuning to its unique power, and how to use it for self-healing and for work with clients

• Explains the essence of shamanic journeying with a drum, including how to set intentions, access and navigate the three shamanic worlds, meet spirit guides, and connect deeply with your intuition

Combining the drum with reiki allows a practitioner to deepen their practice by integrating vibrational sound and shamanism. In this guide, reiki master and shamanic teacher Fay Johnstone explores reiki drum techniques and step-by-step shamanic practices to bring empowerment, healing, connection, and clarity to you and your clients.

Exploring the magic of the drum, Shamanic Reiki Drumming explains the essence of shamanic journeying, including how to access and navigate the three shamanic worlds, meet spirit guides, and connect deeply with your intuition. Outlining different techniques of drumming for yourself and others, the author presents a shamanic reiki treatment fl ow protocol for the basic structure of a session, whether in person or distant healing. Simple, practical exercises are offered to help restore connection to our true self through drumming with nature, exploring the cosmos, and honoring the ancestors. The book includes guidelines for conducting ceremony and holding drum circles or reiki shares for group healing and shamanic journeying.

Welcoming all reiki practitioners into the rhythm of the drum and the path of shamanism, this guide will inspire you to journey deeper into the unseen web that connects us all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644118849
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	08/15/2023
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	479,284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

FAY JOHNSTONE combines 20 years of reiki practice with herbal and shamanic training to assist us with our personal transformation through the healing power of nature. The author of Plants That Speak, Souls That Sing, Fay offers treatments and training on reiki and plant spirit connection across the UK. She lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Carol Day is a visionary teacher, psychotherapist, artist, and director of Creative Earth Ensemble in Scotland. Also the founder of the systemic story therapy, she runs a private practice and is involved in projects centered on creating community and connecting people back to the land. Carol lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

Table of Contents

Foreword

The Beat Starts Here — Reiki, the Drum, and Me

1. Reiki and Shamanism
Let’s Start with Reiki
Introduction to Shamanism
Non-ordinary Reality and the Journey

2. Sound and Symbols
Healing with Sound
The Drum through the Ages
Other Instruments
Ways to Use Reiki and the Drum

3. Journeying with the Drum
What Is Journeying Like?
Three Worlds: Accessed from the World Tree
Shamanic Reiki Journey Preparation
Intentions and Motivation Shamanic Journeying with Reiki and the Drum – Technique
Note-Taking and Journaling
Guides and Allies
Get to Know Your Spirit Guides
Shamanic Reiki Drum Journeys to Explore
Tips for Your Shamanic Reiki Journeys

4.Personal Healing — Restoring Power
Releasing in Order to Receive
Protecting Your Frequency
Reclaiming Your Power
Charging Your Goals and Vision with Reiki and the Drum

5. Drumming for Others
What Happens When We Drum for a Client?
Shamanic Reiki Treatment Flow
Distance Healing with Reiki and the Drum
Distance Healing with the Shamanic Drumming Journey
The Drum in the Reiki Share
Drumming and Reiki in the Workplace

6. Connecting Heaven and Earth
Drumming with Nature Ceremony and Ritual
Healing with the Elements of Nature
Drum Circles
Drum Circles: Where to Start
Drum Circle Guidelines
Ideas and Themes for Healing Drum Circles
Developing Your Drum Practice
Self-Care
Journeying Deeper
The End of Life
Soul Pieces

7. Drum Circles
Drum Circles: Where to Start
Drum Circle Guidelines
Ideas and Themes for Healing Drum Circles

8. Developing Your Drum Practice
Self-Care
Journeying Deeper
The End of Life
Soul Pieces
Practitioner Skills
Healing Animals

The Beat Goes On — Final Thoughts

Appendix
Shamanic Reiki Journey Checklist
Shamanic Journey Journal
Shamanic Reiki Treatment Flow
Reiki Techniques

List of Exercises

Recommended Books

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Another beautifully written book by Fay Johnstone, full of insightful practices that bring reiki, drumming, and shamanism together. Crafted in a way we can all understand and benefit from, Shamanic Reiki Drumming serves as a guide for ourselves, our students, and our community. I am looking forward to working with many of these wonderful practices and sharing them with others. Thank you, Fay, for your inspiration.

reiki master teacher and holistic practitioner Lorna McLean

What I love about Shamanic Reiki Drumming is the beautiful way Fay integrates key healing elements into her practice. Connection to Spirit and being the ‘hollow bone’ are what allow and encourage healing to occur. Fay explains these basics very well and then guides the reader into deeper realms of drumming work, including its evocation of altered states to enter the Universal. Always present, and absolutely essential, are the constant currents of intuition and intention so the reader can access potent and lasting healing. You will enjoy this well-written and knowledgeable book.

Sharon E. Martin