If you're still leveling trash will be dying so fast throwing down totems won't matter much. For leveling I would just wait until boss fight to put them down, or at the higher levels when trash pulls are larger or more difficult/live longer.
After a while it becomes instinct to put down totems all the time, at least for me. There doesn't seem a lot of point of not putting down totems whenever you stop unless you're undergeared and their mana cost is really hurting you. Though leveling as a shaman, you probably won't bother with totems much at all until you get the skill that lets you put down all four at once.
This was going to be my suggestion; I wouldn't bother with more than say healing stream until you get the ability to drop all four at once. I keybind mine to something my left hand can hit easily (with the recall totem as the next button over) and drop them for trash, but my shaman is level capped and has been for a long time. :)
My shaman is level 84, halfway to 85. I drop my totems as much as possible, unless we are going REALLY fast. It gets much easier when you can drop them all at once, tho.
I have two restos and the totems I usually use are flametongue, strength of earth, healing and wrath of air. I'm one of my guild's main healers, though, so I drop healing totem because might covers mana totem (may want to use this while you're leveling or in lower level 85 dungeons when your regen is lower). I use wrath of air because it gives me 5% spell haste. If there's a boomkin or a shadow priest, I put down windfury, though, because they provide the 5% spell haste. Totems are pretty much adjustable, at least at 85, depending on what buffs other classes bring but those four are my defaults. Strength of Earth doesn't really do anything for a healing shaman, but we have enough pallies where Devo (stoneskin totem) is usually covered. If we happen to be without Devo, I throw down a stoneskin totem.
I almost never drop SotE. It's extremely rare for me to be in a group or raid devoid of another provider of the buff whereas a solitary pally can swap to Ret Aura (or Resistance if for whatever reason I wasn't talented for it) and more bases get covered.
I'll always do healing unless there's no might, in which case I'll always do mana.
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i also like the sound that's made when i drop the totems so maybe i put them down more than i need to.... *grin*
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I'll always do healing unless there's no might, in which case I'll always do mana.
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