Ecstatic Trance

The Groundwork to the Ritual Body Postures and the Trance-Experience Ritual Body Postures combined with sound and rhythm are door openers to manifold worlds of consciousness. The anthropologist Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman (1914-2005) came to this insight through more than 20 years of research work. Nana Nauwald carries on this research for 25 years. By combining a quick rhythm with special body postures found in different cultures and ages, reaching back up to 40,000 years, body and mind are stimulated to a conscious and creative interplay that leads into a heightened alert state of consciousness. The experience in the intentional induced state of trance can be a path to gain healthful insights. They can also open the doors to the potential of one's own creativity, one's own inner wisdom and strength and stimulate self-healing processes. This workbook and reference book contains 65 Ritual Body Postures with extensive descriptions to take up a posture. It also includes pictures of ancient statues from which these postures originate and their historical and cultural background. Detailed drawings and photographs of the postures complete the practical instructions.

Authors Nana Nauwald, born in 1947, is an internationally known visual artist. Author of many books, and lecturer. For about thirty years she has researched shamanism worldwide: Peru, Columbia, New Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Siberia. After completing extensive studies with Dr. Goodman, Nana Nauwald became a certified trainer and facilitator in Europe, presenting and teaching ritual trance workshops in many European countries. She is the founder of the German Felicitas-Goodman-Institute, and she also initiated the Russian Felicitas-Goodman-Institute. She lives near Luneburg in northern Germany. www.ecstatictrance.com