Earthwalks for Body and Spirit

by James Endredy, Víctor Sánchez (Foreword)

A workbook of simple walking exercises to quiet the mind, expand consciousness, and rediscover our sacred relationship with Earth.

• Foreword by Victor Sanchez, author of The Teachings of Don Carlos .

• Includes 45 walking techniques that were developed from the author's work with Huichol Indians of western Mexico.

• Explores the power of moving meditation for achieving new levels of spiritual awareness through connecting with elements of the natural world.

• Includes group and individual exercises.

In Earthwalks for Body and Spirit , a workbook of 45 simple walking exercises, author and workshop leader James Endredy shows us how the act of walking can be a catalyst for personal transformation by teaching us to develop our attention, quiet the mind, expand our consciousness, and rediscover our sacred relationship with Earth. Each of the exercises, many of which are based on the author's work with the traditional indigenous practices of the Huichol Indians of western Mexico, offers step-by-step instructions and comments that will help you to gain the most from the walk. Additionally, the author focuses each group of exercises on a different aspect of transformation?there are walks of attention and awareness; group connection; connection to the nierikas (powers) of Sun, Water, Wind, Fire, and Mother Earth; connection to the energies of animals, trees, and places of power; and finally, as a way of honoring both your new understanding of Self and your deepened relationship with Earth, walks of offering and vision.

Genres: Spirituality, Nature, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

James Endredy is a practicing shaman of Hungarian descent who learned his craft from formal initiations with the peyote shamans of Mexico and through 30 years of living with and learning from shamanic cultures in North and South America. He is actively involved in preserving historic alchemy texts as well as the world’s indigenous cultures and sacred sites. The award-winning author of several books, including Advanced Shamanism, Teachings of the Peyote Shamans, Ecoshamanism, and Earthwalks for Body and Spirit, he lives in California.

Reviews

[Heidi Wiechert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Earthwalks for Body and Spirit is a handbook of sorts for a shamanistic experience of nature. Endredy, through various exercises for both the solo and group walker, crafts a system through which the reader can get in touch with nature and, he believes, heal the world through this relationship. It's an interesting idea.

I've always enjoyed the outdoors for its healing aspect. I'm more of a sun bather than an avid walker but I think that the general principle is the same. If you're in a funk, go outside for awhile. It clears the clouds from your mind so to speak.

Actually, this is one of the first books I've ever read that goes into actual shaman practices. It's worth the read just for that, really.

If you enjoyed Earthwalks for Body and Spirit, I'd recommend The Flying Witches of Veracruz: A Shaman's True Story of Indigenous Witchcraft, Devil's Weed, and Trance Healing in Aztec Brujeria by James Endredy or The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse by Robert Moss.

[Janet]

This is not a book just to read; it is to be experienced. Will go back to, I am sure.