How often do you think about the position in which you journey? Do you always use the same position, or do you vary it? Do you listen to a drumming CD or do you drum or rattle for yourself? Do you move around or stay still?

When I learned shamanic journeying, I was offered (initially) two possibilities; lie down, or sit up (other options did come later). There was no pressure, no pushing or pulling in any direction. At the time I was, like many (probably most) people who learn shamanic journeying, working full time at a demanding job with an additional two hours of commuting per day and doing my journeying sessions in the evenings. There was no contest; if I laid down I would most likely fall asleep, so I elected to sit up. It was several years later that I started attending shamanic workshops, with the intervening time filled with happily journeying mostly sitting down, occasionally standing up or kneeling/crawling on the floor.