The Three Hidden Obstacles to Communicating With Spirit – Free Class with Michael Mayo
Trying harder to connect with spirit can sometimes create the very tension that makes communication feel less clear. When desire, distraction, and expectation take over, it can become difficult to tell the difference between what you are receiving and what your thinking mind is producing.
Medium Michael Mayo offers a simpler approach rooted in surrender, feeling, and trust. After more than two decades of developing and teaching mediumship, he has found that clearer communication often comes not from adding more techniques, but from recognizing what interferes with your natural receptivity.
You’ll explore why Michael describes mediumship as an art of feeling and how clairsentience can become a practical foundation for spirit communication. You’ll also look at the three common habits he says can quietly create tension: desire, distraction, and expectation.
Michael will guide you through a gentle attunement designed to help you notice subtle sensations associated with the presence of a spirit guide or loved one. The emphasis is on relaxed awareness, partnership with spirit, and allowing communication to unfold without forcing an experience.
Why Attend “3 Hidden Obstacles to Communicating With Spirit”
Mediumship can become frustrating when sincere effort turns into pressure, second-guessing, or constant mental checking. Michael Mayo suggests that the deeper issue is often not a lack of ability, but the tension created when you try too hard to make communication happen.
His approach focuses on three habits that can interfere with receptivity: desire, distraction, and expectation. By learning to notice these patterns, you can begin exploring a different relationship with mediumship that places less emphasis on forcing results and more on relaxed awareness.
Michael’s teaching is grounded in the idea that mediumship is fundamentally an art of feeling and a partnership with the intelligence of spirit. That perspective can be useful if you want a simpler framework for developing clairsentience, trusting subtle impressions, and approaching spirit communication with less pressure.
What You’ll Learn
In this session, Michael will introduce the three sources of tension he has found can interfere with spirit communication, so you can begin recognizing when desire, distraction, or expectation is shaping your experience. You’ll explore why releasing some of that effort may create more room for genuine receptivity.
You’ll start with Michael’s view of mediumship as an art of feeling, which means giving more attention to clairsentience and the subtle sensations through which communication may arise. He’ll also explain why simplifying your approach can help you focus on what matters rather than accumulating more techniques.
And then Michael will guide you through a gentle attunement intended to help you sense the presence of a spirit guide or loved one through feeling. You may notice warmth, tingling, pressure, or a change in the atmosphere, so the practice gives you an opportunity to explore communication through direct sensation rather than waiting for a dramatic vision or voice.
- Why trying harder can sometimes create tension that interferes with spirit communication
- How desire, distraction, and expectation can quietly affect your receptivity
- Why Michael describes mediumship as fundamentally an art of feeling
- How strengthening clairsentience can give you a more experiential way to approach communication
- Why simplifying your practice may be more useful than adding increasingly complicated techniques
- How shifting from striving toward surrender can change the way you relate to mediumship
- Why Michael emphasizes partnership with the intelligence of spirit rather than carrying all the pressure yourself
- How subtle sensations such as warmth, tingling, pressure, or atmospheric changes may be noticed during practice
- A guided attunement for exploring the felt presence of a spirit guide or loved one
Who This Is For
This event may be especially useful if mediumship sometimes feels natural and clear, yet at other times seems difficult to access when you most want a connection. It is also relevant if you find yourself overthinking impressions, striving for certainty, or assuming that stronger concentration and more techniques are always the answer.
Michael’s practical approach can speak to beginners as well as people who already practice mediumship and want to strengthen their foundation. It may also be relevant for intuitive practitioners who are interested in clairsentience, evidential mediumship, spirit guides, communication with loved ones who have died, or a less complicated approach to developing receptivity.
- Beginners exploring mediumship and spirit communication
- Developing mediums who want a stronger practical foundation
- Experienced practitioners who notice pressure or inconsistency in their readings
- People who tend to overthink or second-guess subtle impressions
- Those interested in developing clairsentience and sensitivity to feeling
- Intuitive practitioners drawn to a grounded, evidential approach
- Anyone curious about simplifying their mediumship practice and relying less on effort
About Michael Mayo
Michael Mayo is an internationally trained medium, astrologer, and spiritual teacher whose work brings a practical, grounded, and evidential style to mediumship and spiritual development.
He developed his mediumship in the United Kingdom under mediums Gordon Smith through the School of Intuitive Studies and Eileen Davies at the Arthur Findlay College. He has taught and studied in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
Michael graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior and a BA in Drama. He is also a second-generation astrologer with more than 18 years of experience understanding astrological theory and has taught workshops in the United States and abroad.
Across his work, Michael emphasizes practical development, supportive learning environments, and helping people recognize both their strengths and the patterns that hold them back. His mediumship teaching is focused on helping students develop a clearer relationship with spirit while building greater trust in what they receive.
Endorsements
“This course changed how I view mediumship. I learned how to connect in a way I had not considered before, discovered different aspects of why mediums do what we do, and learned really easy-to-do exercises. I loved Michael’s grounded and practical approach. All the sessions built upon each other, and if you do everything in order, you will benefit a great deal! I use each exercise every day, and I’ve made new connections meeting new people in the course and deepening my connection with spirit. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to start or deepen their connection to spirit! Thank you to Michael for teaching this course, and to everyone at The Shift Network for providing this course!”
“This course was amazing! As a beginner, I was surprised by how much I learned, and the hardest part was overcoming myself. Michael was so patient and addressed all our insecurities in ways that made it easy to connect to spirit.”
“Michael Mayo’s courses are great if you want to try and verify that you can contact your guides and loved ones. He is a great teacher who makes you feel things you’ve never experienced before. I recommend this course, even for the skeptics.”
“If you want to learn how to do or improve your mediumship, I highly recommend Michael Mayo! Michael taught me how to build a much stronger foundation. My clairsentience has already become stronger and I can see an improvement in my practices. He explained the basics of mediumship in such a clear way that I had several aha! moments. I wish I’d taken a class from him sooner!”
“Michael helped me believe in what I thought was impossible. He helped me find strength in myself, in my future, and in my present. He’s a wonderful, gifted, and healing man who has honestly changed my life after one reading. I highly recommend Michael for anyone seeking healing and guidance.”
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- Aug 15 2026
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- Date: Aug 15 2026
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