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.

Felicitas D. Goodman, Prof. Ph.D., born in 1914 in Hungary, and died in 2005. She worked in the fields of linguistics and psychological anthropology; she conducted workshops throughout Europe and the U.S. Her books include: Where the Spirits Ride the Wind; Ecstasy; Ritual and alternate reality; Speaking in Tongues; The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel; How about Demons?; Maya Apocalypse - 17 years with the Woman of a Yucatan Village. She discovered and researched the shamanic technique of ritual body postures and different methods of achieving non-ordinary states of consciousness.