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.

Nana Nauwald: 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 Felicitas D. Goodman: 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.