The Sacred Ecstatics Guild
The Guild is an online community that annually embarks on a seven-month journey into the heart of ecstatic mysticism. As hunter-gatherers of fire-born jubilation, passionate artists of reality invention, and spiritual engineers of higher sensation, we cultivate creative communion with the divine.
Led by the Keeneys, the Guild season begins every October and concludes in April. During this time we offer weekly online Spirit House Meetings, musical audio tracks for ecstatic movement, mystical experimentation, online discussions, intensive immersions, a celebratory in-person gathering,
and other surprises along the way.
Every season is an uncharted new adventure where visionary dreams bring freshly sourced numinous nutrition, higher inspiration, and renewed guidance for the art of sacred ecstatic living.
“If one person dreams alone, it’s just a dream.
If many dream together, it’s the beginning of a new reality.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The Guild Season
October-December: Building a New Mystical Reality
During the first three months our visionary dreams lead us to a spiritual locale that is unique each year. There we build a “Big Room” that will host and stage the mystical teachings that will unfold.
One year we entered the poetic universe of 12th century Sufi mysticism, and other seasons we distilled spiritual mezcal, learned to concentrate in Madame Chaloff’s Boston piano salon, followed the six stations of a 19th century woman mystic’s journey of awakening, built an altar to Edgar Cayce’s azurite, and learned a new way to dance from modern artist, Piet Mondrian. We’re always excited to find out what the next season will bring!
January: Electrical Grand Rounds
Electrical Grand Rounds provides a special time for coaching in the art of conducting spiritual electricity through Ecstatic Sound Movement (more on this practice below). We address the fine-tuning of body movement responsivity, higher whole-body listening, developing a movement repertoire, establishing circular patterns of tension and release, and opening the capacity to be somatically surprised and improvised. The goal is to expand your ability to catch sacred emotion and embody what evokes, excites, sustains, and amplifies the electrical current. (Read more about the visionary origin of Electrical Grand Rounds here.)
February: Mystical Experimentation with Reality Alteration
This month brings an emphasis on experimental interventions that change your relationship with the world around you. We implement innovative ways of infusing spirit-charged action into your everyday routines and sending soulful reverberations of reality disruption, expansion, and transformation into the social field. We guide your transition to the vast existential space or “Big Room” required for changes in perception, cognition, inspiration, and interaction with others. Here the context of your identity shifts from self-psychology to a relational field that circulates spiritual electricity.
March: N/omastery Month & Fission Fast
March is when the Guild enters the n/omastery—a virtual monastery saturated with n/om, the Kalahari Bushman word for the vibratory, electrical force of creation. This profound interaction with the numinous sets in motion an ecstatic chain reaction within the Guild. N/omastery Month culminates in a special 24-hour “fission fast” where we retreat from the everyday to magnify our relations with the Sacred Ecstatics pantheon of saints. We come out of the fast ready for April’s explosive celebration. (Read more about our fission fast here.)
April: N/om Fest!
After the fast comes the fest! In April we let ‘er rip and release any lingering grip on static forms, limiting expectations, electricity-dampening habits, humor-blocking notions, and self-inflating algorithms. Every day the Guild celebrates the transformations underway, gleefully tapping into past or present inspirations from the Sacred Ecstatics treasure chest. We blend, mix, and shake to share libations at the higher bar. In the spirit of a true fire station party, we re-dedicate ourselves to serving new potions of light, love, and joy.
The Primary Practices of Sacred Ecstatics
Ecstatic Sound Movement™
Our foundational daily practice is Ecstatic Sound Movement, a simple but profound means of catching sacred emotion, tapping into the life force, and sparking an inner fire. ESM involves effortless body movement aligned with unique, spiritually engineered music. It’s based on over fifty years of exploring the complexly paired acoustic and kinetic patterns that evoke spiritual electrification and mystical sensation.
Ecstatic Sound Movement offers a daily retreat to the higher playground of spontaneous movement—a joyous surrender to the natural body wisdom that lies beyond the reach of conscious mind. Go here for sample audio tracks, and click here to learn more.
Mystical Experimentation
The road to ecstatic transformation is paved with creative action and interventions that interrupt stuck habits of convention. Throughout the Guild season we explore uncommon means of infusing the numinous into our everyday routines. Here we melt frigid paradigms and interrupt rigid dualities, constantly inventing new ways to keep the fire lit within as we outwardly warm the spiritual climate. Mystical experimentation is essential to expanding our capacity for spiritual ignition, soulful combustion, and relation-altering wisdom. We tinker to change our existential condition and advance experiments that loosen Trickster’s self-centered stranglehold on humanity.
TeSTimonialS
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for these teachings. I am moved by them on all levels. This morning, something opened up, and my world became bigger and brighter. Grateful does not seem a large enough word, but it
will have to do.”
Owen, Ireland
“Cartwheeling into the heart of Mystery! I’m falling in love more each year with Sacred Ecstatics. How can each season be so much more electric than the last? It’s incredible. Can’t wait for next October!”
Amy, Colorado
“Thank you for everything. Every day a prayer. Every day a song. Every day drinking from a tiny cup of love. What a way to live! Thank you for this experience. See you next season!”
Susan, Maine
“The N/omastery Month and fission fast went deep.
I can’t even put words to it. The room changed—that is all I can say. I take a deep bow of gratitude for the two of you, for the saints.”
Linus, Sweden
“Your words are like a deep drink of holy water that shakes me to my core! Thank you!”
Maria, Arizona
“Loving all the unexpected jewels that suddenly appear in the green beneath my feet and in my heart. One special point of gratitude is your gift of live music. Thank you so very much for the musical leavening that takes us to heaven.”
Robert, Australia
Guild Weekly Schedule
Expect new offerings on Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays, with more frequent bursts of activity in March, April, and whenever higher inspiration strikes. Read on for details ▼ ▼ ▼
Saturday Spirit House Meetings
On Saturdays we meet live over Zoom to serve the main weekly feast. We deliver the visionary news, offer instruction in the art of ecstatic transformation, conduct Ecstatic Sound Movement, launch new experiments, turn up the spiritual temperature, and keep the mystical wheel turning. (Meetings take place at 4pm Central European Standard Time. Always recorded for later viewing!)
Monday Ecstatic Restarter
We start off the week by turning on the spiritual electricity! Every Monday we post an Ecstatic Sound Movement audio track along with practical movement instruction for experimentation. The Monday Ecstatic Restarter helps further sustain Saturday’s teachings and maintain a felt presence inside the mystical reality theme recently unveiled.
The Wednesday Surprise
On Wednesdays we post an audio, video, essay, or pictorial teaching – it’s a surprise! These may include stirring renditions of visionary teachings, absurd medicines for a stuck mind, sonic tonics for a frozen heart, consultation for personal guidance from the saints of Sacred Ecstatics, mojo drawings that help heighten spiritual concentration, advisory tips for Ecstatic Sound Movement, exemplary healing sessions with commentary, uncommon oddysseys to the spirit lands, or in-depth discussions of material from our Mystical Library.
In addition to the weekly schedule…
Current Guild members are granted complementary admission to our annual in-person intensive!* Usually held the end of April, exact dates and location will be announced well in advance. Attendance is optional.
JOIN THE NEXT GUILD SEASON!
Details and application info
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DETAILS
The Guild season begins October 3, 2026 and concludes April 25, 2027.
The membership fee for the seven-month season is 3,750. USD.
As a Guild member you receive:
Seven months of live weekly Spirit House Meetings and original audio, video, and written teachings in the daily art of ecstatic mysticism and transformation, direct from Brad & Hillary.
Multiple transformative, online immersive experiences in sound + movement + sacred emotion.
A large playlist of Ecstatic Sound Movement audio tracks for daily movement practice.
Complementary attendance at our annual Sacred Ecstatics Intensive (in-person gathering).
Access to a small global community of other mystical enthusiasts hosted in our own private online network. Artists, lawyers, writers, thespians, body workers, herbalists, grandparents, therapists, doctors, outer space fanatics, button collectors, pigeon photographers, mountaineers—you name it, they’re here!
How to Apply
To apply, please fill out this brief form.
Once submitted, you’ll receive an email confirmation with further enrollment details.
Space is limited, and we fill every year. We look forward to you joining us!
Please reach out to us at keeney@sacredecstatics.com with any questions, big or small.
*A reasonable fee may be required to cover the cost of venue, meals, and lodging. Applies only to the season in which you are enrolled.
Art used on this page: Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lucy Hunnicutt.