“Bradford Keeney invites us to go beyond modernity to the oldest culture on Earth to find true magic and power. May those who take this journey with him surrender to their own ecstatic dance, and in so doing, find their way back home.”

MALIDOMA PATRICE SOMÉ,
author of The Healing Wisdom of Africa and Of Water and Spirits

How many times are we told, “Get still” or “Just watch your breath” or “Relax”? The benefits of the relaxation response have been medically proven – perhaps because they are so easily measurable. But how about arousal?

The complement to relaxation is arousal, or the arousal response. And heightened arousal – whether through wild movement, spontaneous jumping, or body shaking – is as valuable a healing and transformative practice as sitting quietly in a lotus position.

Enter shaking medicine. Historically there has been a taboo that has pushed the spiritual shaking of the Kalahari Bushmen (and the rest of the African Diaspora), Quakers, Shakers, and almost every other spiritual tradition into the shadows.

It wasn’t that long ago that the practices of yoga, meditation, and acupuncture were relatively unknown. Now the elders of shaking medicine want the world to know about the world’s first medicine. Whereas relaxation rests the mind and body, shaking medicine wakes up creative expression, tunes the whole being, and brings forth the mysterium tremendum. Now is the time for shaking medicine.