Ecstatic Trance: New Ritual Body Postures

by Felicitas D. Goodman, Nana Nauwald

Ecstatic Trance contains in-depth information on 60 ritual body postures and describes them in precise, accurate detail, with clear illustrations. The first complete manual on this subject, presented here are age-old postures (one dates back 32,000 years and was inspired by a cave painting) along with newly-researched postures, published here for the first time. Learn these postures and access, energize, and integrate your creative potential. Practicing these postures also leads to new insights into healing, inner development, and rebirth. And combined with appropriate rhythmic stimulation--music and dance, for example--the postures can engender a profound change in consciousness, leading the participant to experience altered states of reality including visions and ecstatic trance states. The postures themselves do not promote any one belief system or dogma but are elements in an overall shamanic worldview.

Genres: Spirituality

178 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Trunatrschild · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not sure how much Felicitas Goodman really contributed to this book as she's getting quite old. An interesting topic for me, but I think it was written in a) 5th grade level and b) for the new age crowd.
Shallow and new agey.

[k8beeZ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a pretty darn good book..if you are interested in pursuing journeys with posturing, pick this book up along with Belinda Gore's workbook. Felicitas, who is now crossed over, was the mother of bringing Postures to the West. This book is just a little different than Belinda's workbook, but I still like both books alot and recommend them both in tandem.

[Spider Goddess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. I have yet to experiment with the postures, but look forward to doing so quite soon.

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