Take Your Body With You: Shamanic drumming and journey CD.

Jan Engels-Smith (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 11, 2004)
• Original Release Date: March 11, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Isis Rising
• ASIN: B000309YSG
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #388,855 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 73-Minute Drumming, with calling to the spirits in tribal language

2. 55-Minute Drumming

3. 44-Minute Drumming

4. 33-Minute Drumming

5. 22-Minute Drumming

6. 15-Minute Drumming

7. 11-Minute Drumming

Editorial Reviews

Take Your Body With You is a shamanic drumming journey CD. Shamanism is based on healing of self and others, mysticism, directing energy with intention, traveling into the worlds beyond the veils, invoking power, inviting our helping spirits into ordinary reality, understanding the transitions of life/death and using magic.

Journeying is the foundational tool for shamanic study and healing, and provides the passageway that has been used for centuries to obtain information from other dimensions, realms, and realities. Through the journeying process, you can connect with your power animals and spiritual teachers. Information, knowledge and wisdom becomes available to you, which you can utilize for solving problems, gaining clarity about life’s circumstances, or simply to build your awareness and understanding of the different worlds beyond. Journeying is a perfect way to learn what needs to unfold in your life, and then actively integrate this information to help you maximize your happiness and wholeness.

Journeying is typically taught by lying down, covering your eyes and listening to a drumming CD. This is a great way to journey; however, many indigenous shamans took their bodies with them. Shamans journeyed while dancing and singing using their body as a vehicle to contact spirit. As you listen to this CD, experiment, move your body, slightly close your eyes, sing if you like, and see what happens.

Jan has included a "calling to the spirits" sequence at the beginning. This is done through whistling and songs that invoke spirits to assist you during your journey process.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aboriginal pulse, sound, and calls, September 11, 2006

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Maila Davenport "PhD, Spiritual Practitioner" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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I now exclusively use "Take Your Body with You" CD by Jan Engels-Smith for all my healing sessions. Even clients with no journey experience are able to have profound engagement with Spirit when this music is the foundation of a session. The aboriginal blend of pulse, sound, and calls opens doorways to other realms that beckon spiritual seekers of all abilities.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting But Disappointing, April 5, 2006

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Donald W. McFarland (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Let me say first that the rattle work in this effort is excellent. Strong and steady, very competent. The drumming, however, comes across as amateurish at best. The various drums never seem to be quite in synch with each other and that creates a bit of stress for the listener who is left waiting in vain for the drummers to pick a rhythm they can all agree on.

Given that its stated purpose is to get people up and moving, it may work better in a group environment with a lot of room to move around. But for a more satisfying experience I would recommend people give "Shamanic Journey Drumming" by Spirit Passages/Evelyn Rysdyk a try before this one. Peace.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ancient Voices, September 11, 2006

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Marilyn Schwader "Writing Coach" (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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The first time I heard the CD was to journey. The rhythm of the drumming was different than other recordings I had used. The images I had were much more vivid and alive. Then I put the recording onto my iPod and I thought my ears were playing tricks. I heard chanting in the background, as if I was in an ancient circle surrounding a fire and the ancestors were in ceremony. Tears came to my eyes, not in sadness, but in comfort and joy. I asked Jan about it the next time I saw her and she said the participants had not made those sounds, that they were picked up in the recording studio. The ancestors had apparently made an appearance. I listen to the recording while I'm walking or hiking, while I'm driving, writing, creating, and even when I'm cleaning the house. It always takes me to places far beyond and at a much deeper level than my typical thoughts.