Ecstatic Body Postures

Ecstatic Body Postures, a shamanic technique for traveling in the Alternate Reality. Based on more than 20 years of research by anthropologist Dr. Felicitas Goodman, and carried on by Barbara Hand Clow, Ecstatic Trance is powerful.

The results of Dr.Goodman’s research are amazing. She asserts that certain body gestures and movements, when properly worked with, actually trigger us into accessing altered states of consciousness. Through Goodman's research she found that these specific body postures reappear in art and artifacts of world cultures, even those widely separated by time and distance. Dr. Goodman discovered that people who assume these postures while in trance report strikingly similar meditative experiences.

Sometimes an ecstatic experience takes place in occasion of contact with something or somebody perceived as extremely beautiful or holy. It may also happen without any known reason. The particular technique that an individual uses to induce ecstasy is usually one that is associated with that individual's particular religious and cultural traditions. As a result, an ecstatic experience is usually interpreted within the context of a particular individual's religious and cultural traditions. These interpretations often include statements about contact with supernatural or spiritual beings, about receiving new information as a revelation, also religion-related explanations of subsequent change of values, attitudes and behavior (e.g. in case of religious conversion).

Peak experience is a term developed by Abraham Maslow, the way-ahead-of-his-time author of the wonderfully insightful book Toward a Psychology of Being, about being, need, peak experiences, love, self-actualization and cognition. The term peak experience is used to describe certain extra-personal and ecstatic states, particularly ones tinged with themes of unification, harmonization and interconnectedness. Participants characterize these experiences, and the revelations imparted therein, as possessing an ineffably mystical (or overtly religious) quality or essence.

Ecstatic Body Postures enables any person to travel into the Alternate Reality, which is structured into the Lower, Middle, and Upper worlds. Discover how the postures facilitate healing, how they can be used for divination, and how we can use them to celebrate life with the spirits.

Catherine had the pleasure to be trained in Ecstatic Body Posture by Barbara Hand Clow, and it has shifted Catherine's life. She is very excited to introduce a profound and powerful means of connecting to our higher self. We invite you to come and explore these amazing tools of healing.

Ecstatic Body Postures is one of many Healing Techniques that can be used in Individual Counseling and in Sacred Circles.