The Beginner's Guide to Spirit Animals: New Shoe Press

Introduction
CHAPTER ONE:
THE KEY TO INNER-WORLD
EXPLORATION
The Journey
Meditation: One Means to Travel Deep
The Importance of Journaling
Meet Your Lifelong Animal Guide
Dreaming
Meeting Spirit Animals in the
Dream World
Waking in Your Dream,
Dreaming While Awake
CHAPTER TWO:
THE KEY TO RELATIONSHIPS
AND COMMUNICATION
Establish a Connection with the
Natural World
Communicate with Animals
Build Bridges
Notice Everything
CHAPTER THREE:
THE KEY TO CLEAR
INTERPRETATION
Is it Real?
Shadow Animals
Consider Everything
Sample Interpretation: Hello Bear!
Your Dog is Not My Dog
CHAPTER FOUR:
THE KEY TO SPIRIT ANIMALS
AND THEIR TEACHINGS
Large Mammals
Bear: Black and Brown
Bear: Panda
Bison/Buffalo
Camel
Cow
Deer
Elephant
Giraffe
Gorilla
Horse
Kangaroo
Llama
Lion
Moose
Puma (Cougar, Panther,
and Mountain Lion)
Reindeer/Caribou
Tiger
Wolf
Zebra
Small Mammals
Badger
Bat
Beaver
Cat
Coyote
Dog
Fox
Goat
Monkey
Mouse
Pig
Porcupine
Prairie Dog
Ram
Rabbit
Raccoon
Skunk
Squirrel
Wolverine
Birds
Blue Jay
Chicken
Dove/Pigeon
Eagle
Flamingo
Goose
Gull
Hawk
Hummingbird
Ostrich
Owl
Parrot
Peacock
Pelican
Penguin
Raven
Stork
Swan
Vulture
Woodpecker
Insects & Arachnids
Ant
Bee.
Beetle
Butterfly
Dragonfly
Firefly
Grasshopper
Ladybug
Mantis
Mosquito
Moth
Scorpion
Spider
Reptiles & Water Animals
Alligator
Crab
Dolphin
Frog
Goldfish
Hippopotamus
Jellyfish
Lizard
Manatee
Octopus
Otter
Salmon
Seahorse
Seal
Shark
Snail
Snake
Turtle
Whale
CHAPTER FIVE:
THE KEY TO INTEGRATION
Deepening Relationship
Integrating Animal Guidance
in Everyday Life
The Teachings of Turtle and Tiger:
A Sample Guide to Integration
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
Credits

Discover your spirit animals and embrace the wisdom all around you

Spirit animals provide guidance and wisdom, and can help you to lead a happier and more fulfilling life. We all have one or more spirit guides—the key is to learn how to communicate with them. Adapted from Key to Spirit Animals by Dawn Braumann Brunke, Beginner’s Guide to Spirit Animals provides an overview of animal guides and includes interactive exercises that allow you to attune to animal wisdom and form a meaningful relationship with your spirit animals.

Perfect for beginners, this book assumes no prior experience with shamanistic communication and provides a basic but detailed overview of all the common spirit animals, what they symbolize, and what a particular spirit animal tells you about yourself. Activity-based lessons and exercises help you discover and understand how to approach and communicate with your personal animal spirit guides.

Beginner’s Guide to Spirit Animals features:
 

• Exercises for discovering and attuning to your spirit animals—Learn to engage your spirit animals consciously through meditations and dreams, and fine-tune your observational skills to learn to interpret the subtleties of what animal encounters mean.
• Reference entries for over 100 different spirit animals—Discover the power and spiritual significance of a multitude of individual animals, birds, insects, and reptiles through concise descriptions of each animal’s expertise along with questions, suggestions, and recommendations to benefit their teachings.
• Practical ways to deepen your spirit animal relationships—Explore how to share consciousness to experience reality from an animal’s perspective, integrate animal teachings into everyday life, share your experiences, and give back to life in heartfelt ways.

Beginner’s Guide to Spirit Animals also provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting an abundance of signs and omens from nature that you might not otherwise take notice of.

Open your mind to the inherent wisdom of the animal world by following the guidance in this truly simple guide for beginners.