A Shamanic Journey is one of the oldest spiritual healing practices in the world — yet it’s also one of the most relevant for modern times. Through steady drumming or rattling, the mind shifts into a light meditative state that opens the door to the unconscious or superconscious — the deeper layers of the psyche where healing and wisdom reside. The practice of a shamanic journey allows individuals to explore their inner landscapes, leading to profound insights and transformation.
What Is a Shamanic Journey?
The drumming or rattling can help to create a bridge between the conscious and spiritual worlds. Once across, you may meet guides, ancestors, power animals, or archetypal forces that bring guidance, healing, and clarity.
Engaging in a shamanic journey can lead to profound insights and transformation.
While ancient in origin, journeying aligns closely with modern psychology — it allows us to connect with our unconscious mind and access information that can heal, teach, or illuminate something important in our lives.
How Shamanic Journeying Can Help You
At the heart of journey work is empowerment. It’s about receiving wisdom and guidance for you in that moment, directly from spirit — rather than seeking guidance from outside of yourself. From journeying, you can receive a powerful sense of inner knowing. Issues can become crystal clear and any action needed becomes obvious.
Each journey offers something unique with will depend on your journey intention:
A teaching or image that reveals the root of a pattern
Guidance for a decision or relationship
Healing for the heart, mind, or body
A sense of reconnection to nature and the wider mystery of life
In modern terms, Shamanic Journeys can help us access the subconscious for insight and emotional release, much like deep meditation, but with the addition of symbolic language that speaks directly to the soul.
Shamanic Drum used for Shamanic Journeying in Letchworth
My Experience with Shamanic Journeying
I regularly journey as part of my own spiritual and healing practice. Every time feels like stepping into an adventure of discovery — beyond the limits of everyday thought.
Sometimes a journey brings an answer to a specific question; other times, it opens a doorway to the next teaching. Some are complete in themselves, while others unfold over weeks or months, revealing a thread of ongoing learning.
What I love most is how journeying always gives me exactly what I need — even when I didn’t know I was looking for it. It can jon dots that I hadn't realised and bring about wonderful synchronicities. I still get blown away from the journeys that I do and the discoveries that they uncover. The process builds deep self-trust and confidence, helping me bring spiritual insights into practical action in my daily life.
The Key to Shamanic Work: Empowerment
The true gift of shamanic work is direct revelation — the ability to receive your own guidance, rather than relying on someone else’s interpretation.
The drumbeat acts as a bridge between worlds, opening communication with your higher consciousness or spirit allies. Over time, this builds an inner connection that strengthens intuition, resilience, and peace of mind.
You don’t just gain insights — you learn to live them.
What You May Experience
Every journey is personal, but many people describe:
Feeling calm, grounded, and deeply relaxed
Receiving images, sensations, or words from guides
Releasing emotional tension or heaviness
Renewed energy and spiritual connection
Insight into relationships, life direction, or health
Steps for direct action or resolution around issues
Afterwards, people often say they feel lighter, clearer, and more connected to life — as though something inside has realigned.
A Modern Tool for an Ancient Practice
Shamanic Journeying offers many of the same benefits as mindfulness and somatic therapies, but through a more creative, imaginal lens. It can support:
Stress reduction and nervous system balance
Emotional healing and release
Improved intuition and inner guidance
A sense of purpose and self-trust
Reconnection to nature, ancestors, and spirit
It’s a practice that blends beautifully withYoga Therapy and Ayurvedahelping you feel more whole and in rhythm with life.
Gather Your Power – A Live Workshop Experience
If you’re curious to experience this work in community, join me for Gather Your Power — a special evening of yoga, breathwork, and guided shamanic drumming.
🕯️ What to Expect:
Grounding movement and breath to calm your body
Guided shamanic journey to reconnect to your inner power
A nurturing, sacred space to rest, release, and restore
This isn’t just a workshop — it’s medicine for modern exhaustion. You’ll leave feeling centred, connected, and ready to step forward with renewed clarity and strength.
📍 Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire 💫 Facilitated by Jodie North with Alex & Chloe from Re:connectology
Book a Shamanic Journey in Letchworth (Serving Hitchin & North Herts)
For a deeper personal experience, I offer one-to-one Shamanic Journey sessions in Letchworth Garden City, easily accessible from Hitchin, Baldock, and across North Hertfordshire.
Each 60 minute session includes:
Grounding breathwork and energetic preparation
Guided drumming or rattle journey
Reflection and integration support
Whether you’re seeking healing, guidance, or reconnection, shamanic journeying offers a safe and empowering path to rediscover your own wisdom.
Yoga has become incredibly popular, with classes popping up in gyms, studios, and community halls. But if you’re dealing with real health challenges—like chronic pain, anxiety, or the ups and downs of perimenopause—you may have found that a standard yoga class doesn’t quite meet your needs.
This is where Yoga Therapy can make all the difference.
What makes Yoga Therapy different?
While most yoga classes are designed for groups, yoga therapy is a personalised, one-to-one approach. It uses the ancient tools of yoga—movement, breathwork, relaxation, meditation, and lifestyle guidance—to support your unique body and mind.
Instead of a “one-size-fits-all” sequence, yoga therapy meets you exactly where you are. I work with you to design practices that work with your current health, energy levels, lifestyle and your health goals.
It's yoga personalised to your needs.
How Yoga Therapy can help women locally
In my garden studio in Letchworth Garden City, I work privately with women who are looking for something beyond a group class. Common reasons people choose yoga therapy include:
Back, neck, and shoulder pain that doesn’t ease with exercise.
Hormonal changes through perimenopause and menopause—hot flushes, sleep disruption, low mood.
Stress and overwhelm, especially for busy women juggling careers, families, and caring roles.
Digestive issues such as IBS or bloating.
Emotional health—finding calm, clarity, and steadiness during challenging times.
Many of my clients travel from Hitchin and Baldock too, looking for a quiet, supportive space that’s private and focused completely on them.
Why choose one-to-one yoga?
Women often tell me:
“I don’t want to feel like I’m just trying to keep up in a class. I need something that really helps me.”
One-to-one yoga is personal. It’s a safe, private environment where you feel heard and supported. The sessions are adapted for your body, your health, and your pace. And the best part? You’ll leave with practices you can use at home—tools to bring more balance into your daily life.
Benefits beyond the mat
You might start yoga therapy for a specific issue—like hip pain or anxiety—but the ripple effects go further:
Calmer sleep and more energy.
Feeling more grounded and present in daily life.
Better digestion and hormonal balance.
Stronger connection with yourself—body, mind, and spirit.
That’s why I believe yoga therapy isn’t just about solving problems—it’s about helping you feel like yourself again.
If you’re curious about yoga therapy or one-to-one yoga, I’d love to welcome you to my garden studio in Letchworth Garden City. Together, we’ll create a personalised practice that feels supportive, gentle, and completely designed for you.
If you plan to practice yoga at home, it is useful to work out how much time you can reasonably set aside to complete your home yoga practice.
Think about what time of day you will practice yoga? Will it be first thing in the morning before breakfast, before lunch, after work or before bed? These are all good times to consider.
Traditionally yoga is practiced first thing in the morning before breakfast. There is something exquisite about waking up and having a gentle stretch in the morning.
A short morning yoga practice can set you up for the day ahead and be tailored to how you are feeling. Also once your yoga home practice is done, you don’t have to worry about fitting it in later on in the day.
However, if you can’t think of anything worse than waking 30 minutes earlier in the morning to do your home yoga practice, then consider, what would be the best time for you?
Ideally you would practice yoga at least two hours after eating food. The easiest way to think about it is to practice before a meal or just before bed (assuming you aren’t eating before bed!)
Once you have worked out WHEN you can practice yoga for at home you can then consider for HOW LONG?
It’s useful to commit to a certain amount of time and stick to it. Practicing yoga for 20-45 minutes per day has so many benefits for you body (muscles, joints, posture, flexibility feeling embodied) and for your mind (calmer and relaxed moods, more energy, connected, I could go on….).
A 20 minute home yoga practice will work wonders for you if you commit to practicing five times per week. Anything less than practicing yoga three times per week for at least 20 minutes isn’t really going to give you the health and well-being benefits I think you are looking for. Although clearly three times per week is better than zero times per week!
If you really are struggling to work out how you will fit in your daily yoga practice. It might be helpful to consider splitting the practice into two parts. Maybe a short but energising 10 minute yoga practice first thing in the morning. Followed by another 5-10 minute yoga practice that same day just before bed. The focus of the bedtime practice could be more on relaxation and letting go of the day.
The beauty of a yoga home practice is that you can personally curate your yoga practice to suit when you can practice, for how long and for what purpose.
Most people think that a yoga session has to be 60-90 minutes long for each practice. This number is more to fit in with studio and gym class timetables than anything else.
In fact, you are much better off practicing yoga for 20 minutes five times per week than 60 - 90 minutes once per week. The frequency of yoga practice counts more than the length of practice if you want to progress and see an overall improvement to your health and wellbeing.
One caveat to that is doing a longer yoga practice at home or in a studio once a week ALONGSIDE your 20 minute home yoga practice can be fantastic for you too. As a longer 60 - 90 minute practice can give you the chance to stay in postures for longer, explore new postures and include more breath and meditation practices.
I hope this helps you to structure your yoga home practice so that you can fit it into your daily routine. Make the key decision of when and then for how long. You can always add in longer practices ad hoc or when you have more time and energy.
The key to remember here is that the frequency of your yoga practice is much more important for your health and progress than the length of your yoga practice.
3 Reasons to Commit to a Short Home Yoga Practice Every Day
The long-term health and wellness benefits of a short home yoga practice are much greater than a one hour weekly practice.
Here are 3 reasons why:
The effects of your yoga practice will be greater.
It's easier to fit into your day so more likely to do it.
The frequency of a yoga practice will harness a greater health and well being results compared to length of practice.
1. The effects of your yoga practice will be greater.
By doing a short home yoga practice every day, between 15-45 minutes depending on your time, the effects of your practice will be much greater than doing a 60 minute class once a week.
Your mind, body and soul will appreciate the daily movement and connection of breath to movement.
Your progress with postures will be quicker and you will increase your stamina to stay in postures.
Short and sweet but frequency is the key.
Also when you do go to the longer studio classes you will find that your practice has progressed in more ways than one.
2. It's easier to fit into your day so more likely to do it.
it’s obvious that a short 15 or 30 minute home yoga practice is a lot easier to fit into your day than a 60 - 90 minute yoga practice in a studio.
For one you can just roll onto your mat at home. You don’t need to leave the house or put on your best yoga pants to do a class.
You can arrive as you are on your yoga mat at home, do your practice and then move onto the next thing. No travel, no worrying about what you look like, no waiting around in class or trying to book into class.
A home yoga practice is quick and simple. With that in mind you are more likely to stick to a daily yoga practice by doing shorter home practices.
Just to note, I’m not against the longer 60-90 minute studio/home practices, they are still important and can be a nice break, please do fit them in once or twice a week when you can.
3. The frequency of a yoga practice will harness a greater health and well being results compared to length of practice.
I would always recommend five 20 minute home practices per week over one 60 minute practice every week.
Frequency in your yoga practice (or any other practice!) is always such more important than the length of practice.
So in short, to harness the long-term health and wellness effects of yoga one of the most important factors to consider is frequency of practice. By frequency i mean practicing yoga at least five times a week. At the very minimum three times a week.
Making your yoga practice slightly shorter than the traditional 60-90 minute class which you typically find in gyms and studios which suits their calendar, you are more likely to be able to stick to a frequent, regular yoga practice.
Lastly be practising at home, your yoga practice can become super easy and quick. I find doing yoga at home easy to fit into my day either before breakfast, lunch or dinner. Or after I wake up or just before bed I go to bed depending on what I have done that day.
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