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Awaken - Unburden - Create
Jan Engels-smith
narrates these profound meditations beautifully, gently, and
powerfully. Three delightful guided meditations bring me back
to my truth by cleansing and restoring my spirit, power, and
radiance.
I love these cds
and use them 3-4 times a week and on a purely practical level,
they work! With each use of the cds, I am more relaxed, happy,
clear, focused and full of the truth of my own power and magnificence
and am thus more effective in my endeavors.
I am on a path
of self improvement however I still fall into the old pitfalls
of previous programming. This is when the Awaken-Unburden-Create
CDs help me to lift the veils of the illusion that was once
my unhealthy and unproductive reality. The guided meditations
have aided me in coming back to myself and remembering that
I am co-creating my life and I am not a helpless victim. Here
is to becoming who you truly are! Thank you Jan and all the
helpers for sharing these magnificent truths with all of us.
Virginia Moayyad
These are simply
the most powerful guided meditations I have ever used, they
go deep and make me whole each time I listen!
Ruth Frances Greenberg
"Awaken,
Unburden, Create" is a gift Ms. Engels-Smith has given
to the field of guided imagery. A beautifully crafted and
spiritually transformative experience that has lifted me into
a heightened level of self awareness and creative freedom.
Thank you, thank you!
Neville Bayly
Drumming
CD
Take Your Body with You
I want
to let you know that I have started an experiment with the
take your body with you CD. The other day I was motivated
to listen to the CD while cleaning the house. Then the idea
came that I should try to journey while doing this task. Though
I was able to do both task at once it will require more practice.
It was interesting to be journeying with your eyes open, holding
two separate focuses, moving and functioning. I was not able
to do this the entire time a cleaned. I did it for the length
of time it took me to wash dishes.
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The Journeying
CD take your body with you is truly an unique journeying CD.
Whenever I listen to it my whole being engages in the experience.
I use this CD to help me when my Cat was ill. This CD was
the only thing that allowed me to communicate with her in
a clear manner. By journeying to this CD my cat was able to
tell me that her right kidney had an infection. This allowed
me to disregard the Vet's address of putting her down. We
were able to give her antibiotics and she came home three
days later. This is an amazing tool to help work this out
here on the Earth plan. Thank you so much to everyone who
had a part in creating this wonderful rhythmic transformative
tool.
Thanks,
Colette
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"I
now exclusively use 'Take Your Body with You' CD by Jan Engels-Smith
for all my healing sessions. Even clients with no journey
experience are able to have profound engagement with Spirit
when this music is the foundation of a session. The aboriginal
blend of pulse, sound, and calls opens doorways to other realms
that beckon spiritual seekers of all abilities."
Maila T. Davenport PhD Spiritual Practitioner
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When
I first listened to the finished product, Jan's TYBWY CD,
I have to admit I was exceedingly skeptical about whether
this would be a useful journeying tool for me. This response
surprised me, given that I was one of the people who helped
channel and create this piece of work in the studio.
Like many of us
western journeyers, I was so engrained in the "typical"
rapid drum beat we have been conventionally trained with that
the unique earthy quality felt so unusual as a vehicle for
journeying. Then, one of my colleagues and I (another collaborator
on the CD) were doing some work together and decided to use
TYBWY. I had one of the most extraordinary shamanic journeys
that led to a whole different style of journeying for me.
Jan's
CD creates a powerful energetic field that draws the journeyer
into a very organic, earthy, indigenous essence. Right from
the very beginning, with Jan's ethereal calling in of the
spirits, you know you have stepped into a very different realm
of journeywork. It compels moving journeys, not the usual
basic lay-down-on-the-floor journeys-- dancing swaying active
journeys. For me, it propelled me into a realm where I had
new access to benevolent earth and ancestor spirits that showed
me things kinesthetically, allowing their wisdom and healing
power to come in through the movement of the body, accompanied
with the rhythms of spirit. A connection with an ancient,
universal power, a visceral walking, dancing with the spirits
is inspired by this CD. Fresh wisdom feels immediately accessible,
in a way unlike any other I have experienced.
Lauri Shainsky
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A
very unique and wonderful shamanic drumming style. I use this
CD for all my shamanic journeys now but especially like it
for working with Nature Spirits. The CD seems to open different
portals that align with extra ordinary reality in a much broader
way! The rhythm gets the creative juices flowing. If I use
the CD for classic journey info, meaning I ask a question
and journey for an answer, I often sit up and start to write.
I highly recommend this CD.
Terry Kem
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I
personally use the CD to enhance creative ability. I put it
on when I am writing, driving, or sometimes just listening
in the house. It stimulates creative thinking! The CD seems
to open different portals that align with extra ordinary reality!
The rhythm gets the creative juices flowing. If I use the
CD for classic journey info, meaning I ask a question and
journey for an answer, I often sit up and start to write.
The information just pours out from my pen onto the paper.
If I have it on in the house playing as back ground music
I find myself moving my body and relaxing. I also get many
new ideas flowing through me, it is amazing! I love this CD!
It feels good!
J.G.
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Take
Your Body With You is a 5 star for sure. I love the different
rhythms and sounds. It is so different. It took me a little
while to get used to it, I was so used to the single drum
sound. But after a while it became my new favorite! It is
so different and I love the way it makes me feel. I find myself
more relaxed all day long after I use it in the morning. Thanks
for trying something different! I needed that!
L.V.
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This
CD was recommended to me by Amazon.com because I also bought
the book Becoming Yourself: the Journey from Head to Heart,
by the same author Jan Engels-Smith. I loved the book it has
become a resource guide for me, I refer to it often, and I
love the CD. I don't journey much or at least the way that
Jan describes in her book, but I talk to nature and feel that
I get answers. When I listen to the CD this communication
that I feel becomes easier and happens spontaneously. I listen
to the CD daily. Jan said to "take your body with you"
and I do. I journey walking around in nature. I even have
it downloaded on my Ipod and listen to it when I hike. It
is rad.
G.E.
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The
first time I heard the CD was to journey. The rhythm of the
drumming was different than other recordings I had used. The
images I had were much more vivid and alive. Then I put the
recording onto my iPod and I thought my ears were playing
tricks. I heard chanting in the background, as if I was in
an ancient circle surrounding a fire and the ancestors were
in ceremony. Tears came to my eyes, not in sadness, but in
comfort and joy. I asked Jan about it the next time I saw
her and she said the participants had not made those sounds,
that they were picked up in the recording studio. The ancestors
had apparently made an appearance. I listen to the recording
while I'm walking or hiking, while I'm driving, writing, creating,
and even when I'm cleaning the house. It always takes me to
places far beyond and at a much deeper level than my typical
thoughts.
Thanks, Marilyn Schwader
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Review
of Take Your Body With You
In the Middle World, the Earth is dreaming us. The dreaming
Earth and our souls communicate, and that creates the life
we experience in Ordinary Reality.
Quote from Jan Engels-Smith, LightSong Healing Center
The Middle World
is wondrous place, but one not often frequented by those who
practice traditional shamanic journeying. It has a reputation
for being confusing to humans---a place inhabited by those
who have died but not yet found their way to the Light.
The Middle World
is being rediscovered as a place of great potential by a group
of shamanic practitioners led by Jan Engels-Smith of LightSong
School of Shamanic Studies. As part of their exploration,
Jan and her students have released a new drumming CD that
guides the way to the Middle World along a path of rhythmic
drumming. The drumming on Take Your Body With You does not
just guide; it transports attuned listeners to a different
way of being-in-the-world.
In the shamanic
tradition, non-ordinary reality consists of three realms,
an Upper World, a Lower World and a Middle World. Both the
Upper and Lower Worlds are populated by enlightened beings.
One reaches these worlds through shamanic journeying, a kind
of waking dream or intentional meditation. Teachers such as
ancestors, spirit guides, angels, and ancient ones reside
in the Upper World. The enlightened beings of the Lower World
take on the forms of power animals who act as helpers, such
as Coyote, Wolf, Raven, Bear, Dragonfly, Turtle and their
companions. Shamanic tradition holds that the enlightened
beings of the Upper and Lower Worlds love us humans and have
our welfare at heart. While sometimes the truths one learns
from enlightened beings feel harsh because these ones do not
themselves experience emotion, the lessons are offered with
love.
The Middle World
is a different place altogether. While those who have not
yet passed over to the Light do reside there, so do nature
spirits and fairies. Since she began exploring it in earnest
three years ago, Jan has found the Middle World to be a place
of tremendous potential. Occurrences that appear in Ordinary
Reality to be serendipity, good fortune or even a miracle
can originate in the Middle World, and they are sometimes
the work of the compassionate fairies or nature spirits who
live there.
"Take Your
Body With You" helps one to move into the Middle World.
Getting there is less a matter of journeying and more of a
matter of allowing oneself to shift into a new dimension.
Things may look the same, but one's senses are heightened
and the potential exists to connect heart to heart with others
there. When you go to the Middle World, your whole self goes,
hence the name of the CD.
The CD opens with
an other-earthly calling in of the spirits by Jan. What follows
are fifty-five minutes of inspired drumming, whoops and calls
by Jan and her students that conclude with a call-back. Jan
says that the CD was created with the intention of opening
different portals of reality not reached by ordinary steady
drumming. The drums on this CD seem to have a life of their
own.
For me, the CD
works on two levels. I use it in my shamanic practice for
intentionally shifting into Middle World reality and for journeying
to the Lower World. I also use it to help me wade into Middle
World reality while working on a variety of creative endeavors
by playing it as a kind of background music. Using it this
way does not so much mean listening to the CD as letting the
sounds play with you. It reminds me of walking around in the
Gulf of Mexico when I was a child at my aunt's summer camp
in Waveland, Mississippi---you can feel the surges of waves
pulling on you, but they are not so strong that you pay attention
to them. Instead, you shift to their rhythm and move in a
different way. At night, while lying in bed, your body still
feels like it is surging forward and back to the rhythm of
the waves.
Some have used
this CD while drawing or painting. While I am not endowed
with gifts in the visual arts, I have found it to inspire
other kinds of creative endeavors. My friends can attest to
some spirited and festive dinners resulting from my cooking
with Take Your Body With You on in the background. Perhaps
a bit of fairy dust found its way into the okra ragout. Andree
Tremoulet
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