Totem Readings

I was first introduced to Rachel at Sat Nam Yoga during her initial shamanic journeying workshop series last year. I was intrigued by her endless knowledge of topics, ranging from: Tarot, Astrology, Mythology and the like. Rachel is realness. I have learned so much from her workshops. I am very grateful for the introduction into journeying I had with her, because it has opened up a floodgate of possibilities in my life. I think of Rachel as someone who has found her passion and that is a magnetizing thing to be around. I definitely encourage others to attend one of her workshops and see for themselves what lies beneath the surface.

Earlier today I had a phone reading with Rachel; to be more specific, it’s called ‘Shamanic Soul Part Consultation’. Honestly, I had no idea what this was but I am so glad I went for it! I went into this reading looking for answers, hoping to clarify and bring resolution to things I have been struggling with. Her accuracy amazed me. I have had many phone and in-​person readings before, but she has been the only one to pin point exactly what the root of a lot of my problems are. But most importantly, the information she brought up enabled me to look at everything entirely different. She made me realize that a lot of my worries are in my control and by simply having a new perspective, I could change where things were heading. She also recommended many different things to try that would work specifically to help my weaker chakras and situations in my life. She even encourages you to keep in contact after the reading and email her questions whenever you have any. As much as I’m complimenting her work, none of these words are able to truly describe how empowered I feel after this reading. It’s like a weight has been lifted off of me. If you need in depth clarification and soul work, I highly recommend Rachel!

Rachel is friendly, sincere and never deceiving. I like seeing her because she doesn’t sugar coat it and will give you sincere & honest guidance. I’ve seen her twice and she’s 2 – 0.
Highly recommended!!!

Rachel is awesome! I loved my reading. She confirmed things that I have been planning without knowing about them! I’m hoping I will definitely be back for another reading. I totally recommend her readings to anyone! You won’t be disappointed! Thank you Rachel, you’re truly amazing at what you do besides been an awesome sweet person!

In a nutshell Rachel is the
! I’ve been a seeker of all things metaphysical for as long as I can remember. I love to immerse myself in the esoteric arts and Rachel’s workshops fit the bill. I have taken several of Rachel’s shamanic journeying workshops and I walk away with the gift of a deeper knowledge of myself each time. Rachel’s experience is invaluable and she explains the process with a compassion and eloquence of a true master of her craft. Highly recommended!

Highly recommend — Rachel is fantastic! This was a ‘bucket list’ thing for me but I will definitely be back.

Wow, there are so many good things to say about Rachel & her practice! She is a very talented and insightful spiritual healer and teacher, and she just tells it like she sees it with very little personal information. I first went to see her over two years ago for a tarot reading that blew my mind and have seen her several times since. Each reading has been spot on and has helped me identify road blocks & opportunities in my life.
I’ve also have attended her shamanic journeying workshops, since attending these workshops I’ve gone from a person who likes the idea of journeying but was never able to focus enough to do it, to a person who has powerful and vivid journeys. I’ve journeyed with totem guides such as ospreys and jaguars and each journey has provided with greater clarity and tools to handle life’s challenges and gifts. Through journeying, I’ve let go of issues that no longer served me and embraced new opportunities fully such as a new and better career.
If you need guidance and support to get your life in motion with renewed energy & confidence, Rachel is your guide with a kick ass personality!

I first met with Rachel back in September for my first ever tarot reading. Three months later, now approaching the new year, I never thought I’d be in the place where I’m at right now, and I can be nothing else but grateful.
TOTEM isn’t just a one-​time tarot card reading. This is something way more, way deeper, of course, only if you allow yourself to go deeper.
I started off here in an insecure place. I moved across the country back home to Chicago, had gotten out of a 3.5 year relationship, an had no f’ing idea who I was anymore, or really, what my value was anymore. I wanted to find comfort and change, as I’m sure we all are to an extent. Found TOTEM on Unilocal & scheduled a meeting with Rachel. I’ve gone to psychics in the past so I had a notion of what I’d be walking into.
Rachel exceeded those expectations. She’s totally normal and is pretty hilarious. Not only did her reading give me guidance for what was to come, but I especially appreciate the fact that you can email her at ANY time, with any question or crazy yet beautiful life things you need to share with someone.
Now, if you truly want to dig deeper, even the least bit (and I’m sure you all do if you’re reading this already), I strongly recommend for all of you to take part in TOTEM’s Shamanic Journeying workshops hosted at Sat Nam Yoga in Chicago. This, my friends, is the difference between TOTEM and any other typical psychic/​medium/​astrology etc. work. TOTEM provides the constant support & foundation to grow wherever you are at in your spiritual journey.
Each workshop series has a different theme/​focus. For example, October’s was a past life reconnection, December was focused on healing, and this upcoming one in January which I’m SO excited for is to channel your inner divine goddess/​god. And I promise you do not need any previous experience or even need to know what the f to do walking in, because I sure didn’t. You are welcomed by Rachel, Sat Nam, and the beautiful community this place and these workshops attract. Such a diverse crowd from all walks of life, coming together to experience your individual journeys together.
There is only so much I can say. You really just need to experience this for yourself. Long story short (but not really), the more one & whole you are with yourself spiritually, the more the universe will provide. I’ve been able to heal the deepest of wounds I’ve repressed for the longest, I’ve excelled my spiritual journey, not only found stability but am kicking ass at life – I’ve been promoted at work, I’m meeting amazing people and creating loving & genuine friendships and relationships, and every single day I am constantly finding out more things about myself.
This is all in just three months, friends. Allow yourself to receive what you deserve. Hope this helps. :) Thank you Rachel, TOTEM, Sat Nam, & community.

My reading was better than I even hoped it would be. I didn’t tell her anything about why I wanted to have a reading but within the first 5 minutes, she knew exactly why I was there. Rachel was extremely accurate and knew things that were going on in my life. She is an extremely talented person who has a wonderful way of putting things into perspective. She offered a new outlook on old problems. I left there feeling refreshed and like I had just sat there with an old friend. I highly recommend her and I am looking forward to attending the upcoming TOTEM workshops.

I went to Rachel’s recent shamanic journeying workshops at Sat Nam Yoga Center, and had such an amazing experience. Not only am I new to shamanic journeying, I am also new to meditating in general, so I was more than a little nervous. Rachel is so warm, funny and NICE, however, that I was immediately put at ease. Good news: you get to lay down for this meditation practice! I’ve always been turned off by the idea of sitting on the floor for long periods of time — that doesn’t seem very healthy to me at all — so I was happy that we could lie down, and make ourselves comfortable for these workshops. They began with Rachel providing information about what we were doing, and what we might experience. And let me just say this — Rachel is hilarious! I consider her to be the Amy Schumer of shamanic practitioners. She is also very professional, and makes an effort to be prompt, and to make every single person feel welcome and important. If you don’t get a chance to share your experience with the class at the end of the workshop, Rachel asks that you email her to get her feedback (at no charge!). She is a gem. As for the actual experience — it’s so enlightening and interesting. As Rachel says, «You may wonder if you’re just making this stuff up – and so what if you are?» Exactly. Whether you take the experience literally, or just use it to gain deeper insight into your subconscious self — you will definitely get something positive out of attending her workshops. Highly recommend checking her next workshop out, or going to see her for a tarot reading. She is a very talented, bright, and insightful young woman, and you will be happy you met her. I know I am!

I’m not typically the kind of guy that would have their tarot cards read but I took a chance with Rachel and she delivered. She’s a very friendly and amazing woman who offered insight on several things in my life. Our reading went very well and I’m looking forward to seeing how it all plays out; some of it already has.
If you’re looking to have a tarot reading I highly suggest Rachel. She does a great job!

Rachel truly has a gift. I rarely write reviews, but after my amazing experience with Rachel I felt I had to. I found Rachel through a recommendation from a friend, and then checked her Unilocal reviews and was blown away. I mean– a tarot reader with all 5 star reviews? Wouldn’t someone say it was waste of money or she was a hack? I decided to schedule a reading even though the price was higher than I had expected. From the instant I met Rachel it was humorous how on-​point she was. It was like she knew me already. After the awesome in-​person reading she sent me a detailed follow-​up email that I continue to refer to. All the issues we talked about in the reading are coming true and it’s still really blowing my mind. Rachel is amazing and I HIGHLY recommend her.

I rarely, if ever, write reviews. I felt compelled to however, after my amazing reading with Rachel. Words can not begin to describe the awesome experience I had with her. The reading itself was so spot on it seemed impossible, but true. Rachel delivered the reading in a funny, friendly, professional way. She is an amazing talent and truly gifted.
I can’t wait to go back!

Rachel is the shit.
If I had one sentence in which to describe her abilities and attributes it would be that. But Unilocal gives me a bit more room so heres my in-​depth opinion: I have had many tarot card readings and i have never left feeling more moved and motivated by the experience than with her. She has inspired me to be proactive about situations through her readings and also helped me understand many outside forces that have affected me and continue to affect me. She always emails me the reading afterwards which has helped greatly since sometimes after talking with her for an hour you can forget some stuff. Rachel is incredibly gifted and knowledgable about her craft, and she has helped guide me throughout tough situations with her readings. When I have questions, she explains things in a manner which i can completely relate to. You wont walk into a hokey spiritual place that reeks of wanna-​be who you will waste your money on. She is brutally honest, with your permission of course (which is HUGE for me) and takes her craft extremely seriously. She is friendly and easy to talk to and she has helped me with many different subject matters. After my first session with her I left thinking that she was just like one of my favorite girlfriends and i absolutely loved her! I have such faith in her abilities that I have brought some of my family to see her too! I have had 4 sessions with her now and I will continue to go back for years until she’s sick and tired of me! Needless to say… shes my go-​to gal. Hands down.

Rachel is terrific — very insightful, engaged, and warm. Like other reviewers, I was a bit nervous about getting my cards read. Rachel immediately set me at ease and offered really interesting insights into my life and trajectory. I highly recommend her.

I grew up in a strict religious environment that believed tarot readings were a form of witchcraft. When I got older, I realized that tarot was stigmatized by people ignorant of its practices, yet still never got a reading myself– just outta laziness I suppose.
I was interested in Rachel’s services as a shamanic healer since that’s a minor obsession of mine, and she gave me a past life tarot reading as part of the service. BLEW… MY… MIND. I told some of my friends about my reading, and they mentioned that some people might not be able to mentally handle a past life reading, so I think it’s fair to warn you to get a past life reading only if you’re comfortable with yourself.
Rachel is extremely knowledgeable and can speak freely between different modalities without hesitation. During our session, we talked about shamanism, yoga, Taosim, and ancestral worship with even some semi-​casual discussion on subjects like corgis, «Cowboy Bebop,» and jazz music (actually — all three of those are semi-​related to between themselves. Whatever). Things I don’t think I would be discussing if I got a tarot reading from one of those storefronts with the neon signs you see randomly in the city.
Rachel will impress you as a human being, and I believe that’s what will really make your reading pleasurable and worth your while. If it wasn’t for Rachel as a person, I probably wouldn’t have gotten a tarot reading, and that really would have been a missed opportunity and ultimately a tragedy.

Rachel is AMAZING!!! She exudes a professional yet spiritual view of your life through her vast knowledge of metaphysics and tarot. I highly recommend her if you would like to delve into your spiritual life and then some!

I’ll be seeing Rachel again.
This was my first Tarot reading and I’m glad that it was with her. I’m not a very chatty person, but she didn’t need me to talk a whole lot about myself. I never felt like she first went fishing for information and then «magically» came to a conclusion that was spot on. Instead, she just delved in and was able to hone in on the issues that were the most pressing to me. Her reading of my current position in life, where I wanted to go and what might hold me back, were all incredibly insightful and were definitely appropriate for me. Most importantly, her reading was incredibly personalized and I left feeling as if I was better equipped to face whatever is to come.

I had my first Tarot reading EVER by Rachel a few years ago. Isn’t she so special? :)
I was cautious about getting my cards read, but not because Rachel herself was reading them, but I wondered if I really needed to know the future — isn’t the future supposed to be a mystery?
However, I’m glad I got this reading. i’ve been in the process of transformation for some time and Rachel’s reading gave me some insight to the whole process — of what past influences that brought me to this present moment and and was surprisingly accurate (she mentioned that my recent past has been a constant flux of 2 steps forward, one step back) and what my present situation will lead towards. Whatever it is, it’ll involve sex (Lover’s card), death (Death Card), love (Lovers card once again as well as King of Cups and 10 of cups) and power (8 of Swords) — the hallmarks of dramatic storytelling and why not have that in my life as well? :)
I was a little concerned with getting the 8 of Swords as the final card which is the overarching theme that the whole reading leads to — the grand finale. The card shows a female blindfolded and bound with 8 swords behind her in jailhouse fashion — I’m all about female oppression? But Rachel reassured me that the card was tongue in cheek — that she may seem imprisoned, but she’s that way b/​c she has power, not because she’s powerless. And it’s her own mind that she binds herself from seeing her own potential.
Rachel gave me alot of information during the reading — a little too much to absorb towards the later cards. She emailed me a few days later with the cards and her interpretations in my situation and it’s even more fascinating and eerie reading about them a few days after the fact in how accurate they are. I highly recommend Rachel!

Rachel is an extremely adept spiritual guide. She has given me one of the best tarot readings I’ve gotten. Without knowing or discussing any real personal details, she spelled out the issues I was having and explained what events and options were in my grasp. The reading was so personal and real, it nearly brought me to tears. Without needing me to explain personal issues, she was able to dial in on them quickly and provide extremely helpful insight for the ways I could work through them and improve upon them in my future. I have no doubt that her shamanic skills are to the same caliber and cannot wait to have the chance to experience them!