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Belinda Gore, who holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, has been teaching workshops on ecstatic trance
throughout the world since 1987. She is the president of the Cuyamungue Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where
she carries on the lifework of her mentor, Felicitas Goodman. Author of Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate
Reality Workbook and The Ecstatic Experience, she lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Belinda is the president of The Cuyamungue Institute, having served as vice-president for nearly twenty years
during Felicitas Goodman's lifetime. She was a close friend and colleague of Dr. Goodman, and serves as her
literary executor as well as continuing her work through teaching workshops worldwide.
Her book ECSTATIC BODY
POSTURES: An Alternate Reality Workbook introduces thirty-seven ritual postures and the method for using them, and is an essential resource for practitioners of ecstatic trance. Her new book THE ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE: Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys deepens the understanding of this fascinating and important practice.
As a psychologist and teacher, Belinda has over thirty years' experience helping people to identify and transform core issues in relationships, work life, and spiritual development. She is the founder and co-director of the Enneagram Institute of Central Ohio and a leadership development consultant and coach. All of her work emerges from a deeply held vision of supporting the evolution of consciousness in all aspects of life.
The Cuyamungue Institute.
Whether you are a scholar investigating the work of our founder, the late anthropologist Felicitas D. Goodman,
Or a therapist exploring cutting edge resources in mind-body healing,
Or a spiritual seeker who wants to experience an ancient practice of expanding consciousness using sacred postures,
Or are looking for a location for a group workshop or personal retreat,
We invite you to learn more about us!
30th Anniversary Celebration
The big event in 2009 will be our 30th anniversary celebration!
The Cuyamungue Institute was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the state of New Mexico on July 19, 1979. We will be celebrating with an international gathering at the Institute on June 18-20, 2009.
In honor of our 30th anniversary and our founder, Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman, we intend to open The Felicitas Goodman Memorial Library. Our fundraising during the next year will focus on purchasing glass display shelving to house the books and creating a database for use by scholars and others interested in Ecstatic Trance.
The Cuyamungue Institute | 20-A Feather Catcher Road | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506 | 888-428-8875
http://www.cuyamungueinstitute.com
Now Available
The Ecstatic Experience
Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys
By Belinda Gore
$20.00
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Coming May 2009
Check for new workshop offerings, "The Experience Awakening"
Awakening to the Ecstatic Experience.
The identification of a global phenomenon of sacred postures and a scientific exploration of the effect of their use in a ritual context is the heart of the work of the Cuyamungue Institute. The implications of these findings are staggering.
From our earliest history as humans, medicine women and shamans around the world understood how to establish and maintain a relationship with the world of spirit. By combining their knowledge with our highly evolved left-brain thinking, it is possible to create a bridge to a new future for humanity.
For nearly three decades, Felicitas Goodman's research revived a tradition-at least 36,000 years old-that uses the capacity of the human nervous system to alter its functioning very precisely in order to enter expanded or non-ordinary states of consciousness. Using a collection of ritual body postures from the artwork of hunter-gatherer and horticultural people as a doorway to the world of spirit, this state known as ecstatic trance is achieved through a relatively simple, safe, and teachable method. It is evidence of the amazing durability of these sacred postures that groups of urbanized and technologically sophisticated women and men can assume the same body positions shown in the artwork of Paleolithic fishermen or Uzbekistani shamans and find themselves journeying into non-ordinary states of consciousness, presumably in ways similar to these unknown ancestors.
The Cuyamungue Institute | 20-A Feather Catcher Road | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506 | 888-428-8875
http://www.cuyamungueinstitute.com
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