My Review Of Hearth & Spirit's Spirit Animals 101 Class
07/09/2023: Hearth and Spirit is a local paranormal investigator and a friend of ours.
He has recently started teaching a number of classes at a local metaphysical shop called “The Hippie Butterfly“.
Today was his first ever “Spirit Animals 101“ class.
To show our support and to learn more about how to connect to our spirit animals, Ashley and I made sure to attend.
This blog post is a quick and digestible review of my “Spirit Animals 101“ experience.
Highlights
Learning more about Hearth and Spirit:
Throughout the class, Hearth and Spirit shared a number of details about his own metaphysical experiences and beliefs.
The class really gives you the opportunity to get to know him as a person and to know more about his metaphysical background.
Open Q&A Format:
The format of the class allowed for people to ask questions at anytime, allowing for participants to shape the class around their specific interests related to the topic at hand.
I imagine that this makes each session of the class unique, as different participants would lead to different questions and tangents.
Group Spirit Guide Channeling Session:
The class ended with Hearth and Spirit leading us through a guided meditation for contacting our spirit guides, followed by an open discussion of what each of us experienced during said guided meditation session.
This is helpful for anyone who didn’t already know of a method for contacting spirit guides, and for anyone who has ever wanted to participate in a group meditation session in which everyone involved is trying to communicate with spiritual entities.
Big Takeaways
Keep a spirit guide journal:
Whenever you encounter a spirit guide during a dream, meditation session, or in your everyday life through some chance encounter with a spirit messenger, a physical phenomenon meant to communicate spiritual wisdom to you, you should take note of it so that you can review the details later.
How to connect with your spirit guides through meditation:
Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and quiet your thoughts while in a comfortable position.
Imagine yourself in a natural location or a location from a story that resonates with you, and immerse yourself in said location by imagining with all five of your senses.
With the expectation of a spirit guide coming to you, invite your spirit guide to come to you with light and love, and wait for your spirit guide to appear.
When your spirit guide makes themselves known, greet them like an old friend and ask them for their name.
Try to get to know your spirit guide and to ascertain what they’d like you to learn from them.
When you are done, say your goodbyes and ask that your spirit guide go forth filled with light and love.
Interpretation is an important part of working with spirit guides:
Spirit guides will not always communicate clearly with you, and it is important to try and take note of every detail of your experience with a spirit guide to analyze and interpret later.
Find meaningful correspondences, in the details of the experience, in order to best make sense of what your spirit guides are trying to communicate to you.
Constructive Criticism
The guided meditation session felt rushed and the class could have benefited from having the session at the beginning of the class rather than at the end:
I had trouble contacting my spirit animal during the meditation session and by the time I finally did, the session was essentially over and I didn’t really have a chance to talk with my guide as much as I would have liked to.
If the meditation session was closer to the beginning of the class, then we likely would have had more time for everyone involved to really connect with their spirit guide before the session was over.
Who Would I Recommend This Class To?
Anyone interested in the opportunity to ask a person well versed in the nature of spirit guides any questions you may have about the nature of spirit guides and how to contact them.
Anyone looking for a method to receive and understand messages from their spirit guides, who is unfamiliar with spirit guide meditation and doesn’t know how to decipher cryptic messages.
Anyone wanting to talk with a like-minded group of students about their interactions with spirit guides.
Anyone wanting to contact their spirit guides in a group setting, where they are free to openly share and discuss their experiences with others.