Cat is an intuitive artist with over 40 years of experience. She facilitates ecstatic trance-forms, rituals, workshops, sacred circles, private intuitive ancestral readings & experiential Reiki sessions. Cat is a Reiki Master & a priestess of the Divine Feminine, the Dark Goddesses & Women’s Mysteries, a natural intuitive & an experienced instructor of earth-honoring & energetic healing practices. Her work respectfully blends ancient spiritual practices with creative expression, awakening transformational states of consciousness from within. She has learned that Art & Ritual, when used with sacred intention & integrity, are powerful gifts & tools for bringing art & healing to life, offering profound opportunities for recognizing greater potentials & giving deeper meaning to our experiences.
Health Benefits of Ecstatic Trance-Forms:
- Releases beta-endorphins (bodies own opiates) responsible for states of rapture & intense euphoria
- Blood pressure drops
- Pulse heightens
- Heightened sensual awareness
- Expands consciousness naturally (without drugs) allowing one to leave our secular experience and enter into a sacred one
- Aligns the left & right hemispheres of the brain resulting in whole brain functioning
- Realigns the body for healing to take place
(Sources: “The Ecstatic Experience” By Belinda Gore, “Ecstatic Trance: A Workbook” by F.D. Goodman & N. Nauwald, & personal experience)
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Health Benefits of Creative Expression:
- “Art filled occupational voids, distracted thoughts of illness”
- “Improved well-being by decreasing negative emotions and increasing positive ones”
- “Improved medical outcomes, trends toward reduced depression”
- “Reductions in stress and anxiety; increases in positive emotions”
- “Reductions in distress and negative emotions”
- “Improvements in flow and spontaneity, expression of grief, positive identity, and social networks”
(Sources: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/make-more-art-the-health-benefits-of-creativity_b_8868802 & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/
Links for further research:
Recommended Reading:
“Where the Spirits Ride the Wind” by Dr. Felicitas Goodman
“Ecstatic Body Postures – An Alternate Reality Workbook” by Belinda Gore
“The Ecstatic Experience; Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys” by Belinda Gore
“Ecstatic Trance – A Workbook” by F. Goodman & N. Nauwald
“Healing With The Arts” by Michael Samuels, MD & Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD
“Shakti Woman” by Vicki Noble
“The Four-Fold Way” by Angeles Arrien, PhD