by Tamarack Song
There is a tried-and-true trauma recovery method that has been honed and refined over countless generations. Its shamanic practitioners come from a long, unbroken line that has continually passed the tools and techniques down to the next generation. This book holds those teachings.
Here we go in-depth into the full range of trauma release gateways available to us. Each is rooted in the body and the limbic process because our trauma memories themselves are wordless and stored in our somatic self, which exists in a wordless reality. It is only by entering the trance state that we can become our somatic selves and access the trauma memories to heal them.
Talk removes us from the physio-emotional center of our experience by forcing us to translate visceral sensations into specific, subjective words. In the trance state, we can be with our trauma memory and not judge or react, just observe. We can then gain the perspective to realize that even though it was something terrible, it does not have to derail our lives. Even if we carry the memory of a trauma episode with us forever, we do not have to remain traumatized by it.
Trance-trauma release means freeing ourselves from the shackles of trauma, rather than from trauma itself. When we are no longer held in victimization by our trauma story, our trauma memory can take its place as a beneficial component of our life’s teachings. That is the precious pearl of the classic shamanic trauma recovery approach. The Trance-Trauma Release table of contents spells it out:
Part I The Sorcery of Trauma Healing
Chapter 1 Voyage to the Soul
Chapter 2: The Shaman
Chapter 3 The Shaman’s Craft
Chapter 4 Trance Journeying: The Shamanic Gateway
Chapter 5 The Mind on Trance
Part II The Six Shamanic Tools for Trance-Trauma Release
Chapter 6 Breath: The Core Rhythm
Chapter 7 Reaching the Soul Through Fire
Chapter 8 Awaken the Body With Dance
Chapter 9 Empower Trance with Drum
Chapter 10 Release Pain Through Chant
Chapter 11 Enter the Dream-Trance
Part III Rituals to Imprint the Ecstatic
Chapter 12 The Feast: Cradle of Support
Chapter 13 Storytelling: To Infuse Another Reality
Chapter 14 Banishment: To Exorcise the Trauma
Release date: Spring 2025
