Ecstatic Trance: New Ritual Body Postures

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.

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.