Trance Dance

Trance Dance uses ancient and modern methods to bring people to an altered state of consciousness. These methods are practiced in order to create the conditions under which a person can have profound spiritual unions, activate healing potential of their own intelligence, and understand a deeper truth about the nature of existence and the cosmic theater of creation.

The Trance Dance program uses special breathing techniques, dance movements, blindfolds, and music in order to internalize the mind and allow you to become one with the dancing spirit of creation.

Shamanic cultures believed that the universe was an eternal dance of creation, destruction, and spirit. Originally used as a form of divine communion, prayer, and spiritual growth processes, dancing has been practiced since the beginning of human history. By dancing a person would join the spirit of Maya and be able to become possessed by animal and nature spirits, bringing out various desired qualities such as bravery and visions. Historically, in order to allow dancers to internalize their minds more easily, trance dances took place at night and were almost always accompanied by chanting or musical instruments. This specific version of trance dance allows the entire body to loosen up, thus also loosening up the mind and letting it delve deep within one's own inner world.

TRANCE DANCE RITUAL - FACILITATOR TRAINING

The Trance Dance Ritual is a training retreat for professionals and semi-professional individuals who want to:

1) Enrich their spiritual development through the ritual use of Trance Dance, Soul Hunting and a variety of 'body-centered' Shamanic healing techniques.

2) Explore and experience the transformative effects of music, sound, and percussive rhythms on the body and mind.

3) Learn the history of ritual dancing and its ability to bring out mental, physical, and emotional healing.

4) Study safety techniques for working with people in altered states of consciousness.

5) Use modern Trance Dance techniques to enrich an already established therapeutic body and mind centered health program.

6) Learn to conduct and organize the mechanics of the Trance Dance Ritual Program.

THE PROGRAM

The Trance Dance Ritual Facilitator Training Program is taught in an 'experiential' format. Participants will explore the following topics:

Trance Dance: Experiencing Your Body/Mind Consciousness

Rites of Passage: The 12 Mystical Stages of our Physical and Spiritual Evolution

Soul Hunting - Finding Your Soul

Ethics of working with people in altered states of consciousness

Understanding 'spiritual evolution' and health

The differences and relationships of 'mind' and 'brain'

The history of Shamanism and the trance dancing ritual

Contemporary Shamanism and the use of trance inducing dances

Comparing Possession Trance and Shamanic Trance

Using Organic Music to induce Trance States

Breathing techniques to stimulate altered states of mind

Inducing 'lucid dreaming'

Sensory withdrawal and the Holographic Mind

How to responsibly conduct a Trance Dance Ritual Program

The "Faces Of Time" Trance Journey

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