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.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman is a highly regarded expert in anthropology and linguistics. She has researched and explored ecstatic trance body postures for many years and is the author of such well-received books as Where the Spirits Ride the Wind and Speaking in Tongues. She lives near Columbus, Ohio.
Nana Nauwald, an artist and teacher, has researched and practiced ritual body postures for more than 20 years. The author of two fascinating studies about present-day shamanic practices, she lives in Germany.
Nana Nauwald, an artist and teacher, has researched and practiced ritual body postures for more than 20 years. The author of two fascinating studies about present-day shamanic practices, she lives in Germany.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Ecstatic Postures,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Ecstatic Trance: New Ritual Body Postures (Paperback)
As a person with a Maya archaeological backround, using the maya statues and pictures out of context was annoying. The writing was so easy that I wondered who the targeted audience was.
Other than that, it's an interesting book, many postures to try. So far, I haven't had any luck with the postures that my age and arthritis will allow, but I haven't stopped trying.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
With a suitcase full of questions about classical shamanism and the feasibility of shamanic techniques in our modern urban society, I set off in the summer of 1992 to visit Felicitas Goodman at her educational institute in Cuyamungue, New Mexico. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ritual body postures, trance postures, ritual postures, shamanic worldview, trance experience, rhythmic stimulation, bird mask, thumb close, medicine bear, shamanic techniques, alternate reality, ritual trance, bend your elbows, feet parallel, thumbs close, snake woman, spirit journeys, closed fingers, ecstatic trance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olmec Baby, Central America, Felicitas Goodman, Mexico Sit, Monte Alban, North America, New Mexico, Ecuador Sit, Woman of Cholula, United States, Cuyamungue Institute, Mexico Stand, Nana Nauwald New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
With a suitcase full of questions about classical shamanism and the feasibility of shamanic techniques in our modern urban society, I set off in the summer of 1992 to visit Felicitas Goodman at her educational institute in Cuyamungue, New Mexico. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ritual body postures, trance postures, ritual postures, shamanic worldview, trance experience, rhythmic stimulation, bird mask, thumb close, medicine bear, shamanic techniques, alternate reality, ritual trance, bend your elbows, feet parallel, thumbs close, snake woman, spirit journeys, closed fingers, ecstatic trance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olmec Baby, Central America, Felicitas Goodman, Mexico Sit, Monte Alban, North America, New Mexico, Ecuador Sit, Woman of Cholula, United States, Cuyamungue Institute, Mexico Stand, Nana Nauwald New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 14
books:
See all 14 books this book cites
- Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung by Richard Katz on page 7, and Back Matter
- Maps and Dreams by Hugh Brody on page 77, and Back Matter
- Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences (A Midland Book) by Felicitas D. Goodman on page 7, and Back Matter
- The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature by Rupert Sheldrake on page 78
- Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook by Belinda Gore in Back Matter
See all 14 books this book cites
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
