This introduction to singing bowls (also known as Tibetan bells), describes their history, and gives practical information about procuring and using them as ritual and therapeutic tools.

Everything related to Tibetan singing bowls wrapped in an aura of mystery and myths today, among which there are stories, and there are real-world phenomena. Some of them can be explained scientifically, and some cannot be explained yet. Tibetan singing bowls is a very powerful therapeutic tool and Healing Arts in the capable hands of the Master. But in incompetent hands they can cause harm to the patient or as a practice shows, to the therapist also. This book has the answers to many questions...

The use of music in healing from prehistoric times to the present.

Personal mandalas protect and adorn, express your subconscious, and bring you back to your center. The theme of the mandala -- the square within the circle, containment within the infinite -- can be found in nature as well as throughout history in cultures all over the world.

The human spirit is simultaneously fragile and resilient, and with Healing Emotional Trauma, Dr. Landry explores that delicate balance in great detail. The ability to rise above challenge is one that everyone needs to master, and this book offers compassionate, accessible, and approachable advice to inspire readers to do just that. Helen F. Williams, APRN, ANP-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN, Nurse Practitioner Manager- Boston University Occupational Health The authors professional background serves her well in the writing and presentation of this material. She clearly knows of what she speaks, and she has a confident and caring style that talks to readers without talking down to them. Thats a very good thing in a self-help book such as this. Dr. Thomas Page, Professor of Psychology Capella University Improve your health and well-being with the Landry Method. This easy to learn groundbreaking sound therapy technique will help decrease anxiety, anger and lower your blood pressure.

Ecstatic Trance contains in-depth information on 60 ritual body postures and describes them in precise, accurate detail, with clear illustrations. The first complete manual on this subject, presented here are age-old postures (one dates back 32,000 years and was inspired by a cave painting) along with newly-researched postures, published here for the first time. Learn these postures and access, energize, and integrate your creative potential. Practicing these postures also leads to new insights into healing, inner development, and rebirth. And combined with appropriate rhythmic stimulation--music and dance, for example--the postures can engender a profound change in consciousness, leading the participant to experience altered states of reality including visions and ecstatic trance states. The postures themselves do not promote any one belief system or dogma but are elements in an overall shamanic worldview.