The Sacred Ecstatics Guild
The Guild is an outskirts online community devoted to ecstatic mysticism. Together we practice the art of climbing the rope to the fire of divine love that can set the soul ablaze. Then we return ready to implement odd-for-God interventions that warm cold relations, transform stuck situations, and radiate the
sacred vibration.
Sacred Ecstatics follows the original healing way: getting spiritually cooked by the higher fire, then bringing the embers down to spark change on the everyday ground.
The Primary Practices of Sacred Ecstatics
Ecstatic Sound Movement™
Climbing Up, Catching Love Extreme
Our foundational practice is Ecstatic Sound Movement, an elusively simple but profound means of catching sacred emotion and getting spiritually cooked. It tunes the body, sparks an inner fire, and inspires soulful expression—the energetic dynamics behind your climb.
ESM uses spiritually engineered audio recordings to guide a special kind of spontaneous movement, enabling a sha-sonic journey to the higher spiritual altitudes. It’s based on over fifty-five years of exploring the synchronized acoustic and kinetic phenomena behind ecstatic spirituality.
We conduct ESM during Spirit House meetings, at our annual intensive, and at home as a daily practice. Go here for basic instructions and sample audio tracks, and here to read more.
Being Odd-for-God Agents of Higher Intervention
Climbing Back Down, Changing the World
Ongoing trips to the spiritual fire transform you into a spiritually cooked agent of higher change. Throughout the Guild season we launch mystically charmed and ecstatically charged interventions into daily routines and situations in need of transformation.
Mentored by an ecology of saints On High, we melt frigid ideologies, rigid dualisms, and tepid phraseologies that hinder the passion to celebrate and nurture all people. With a fire lit within, we help outwardly warm the spiritual climate.
The Guild conducts experiments to illumine challenging existential conditions and loosen Trickster’s self-centered stranglehold on humanity. Serving the whole ecology of relations, we work to be odd for God in these “get even” times.
The Guild Season Trajectory
The Guild is a 10-month experience that begins every October and concludes in July. Though we generally move through the following timeline, visionary dreams and guidance from our pantheon of saints make every season unique and unpredictable.
October-December: Building a New Mystical Reality
During the first three months, dreams arrive to set the stage and guide the forthcoming journey.
In past seasons we’ve remade hearts with 12th century Sufi mystics, distilled mezcal for the soul, learned to musically fly in Madame Chaloff’s Boston piano salon, traversed the six stations of a forgotten 19th century woman mystic’s journey of awakening, traveled to Arizona with Edgar Cayce to build an altar to azurite, learned a new angular way to dance from modern artist, Piet Mondrian, and circled Saturn’s rings with
Afrofuturist musician, Sun Ra.
We follow the mavericks who built new worlds that soar beyond popular convention, seeding ground-breaking creative invention, and harvesting transformation.
January: Developing Your ESM Chops
January is a special time for honing your Ecstatic Sound Movement practice. 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 develop your ability to catch sacred emotion and amplify it as the means of climbing the rope
to the fire On High.
February: Experimentation with Odd-for-God Intervention
This month brings an emphasis on mystically tinkering with the world around you. We implement innovative ways of infusing spirit-charged action into everyday routines, busting narrative addiction, implementing room expansion, and launching transformation by tactical-practical-theatrical means. We guide your transition to higher changes in perception, cognition, inspiration, and interaction with others. Here the context of your identity shifts from self-psychology to divine pyrotechnology.
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, fiery force of creation. The n/omastery arrives not to remove us from the world but to open the door to the universe. This profound interaction with the numinous sets in motion an ecstatic chain reaction. N/omastery Month culminates in a special 24-hour “fission fast” where we retreat from the everyday to magnify our relations with the saints of Sacred Ecstatics. 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 release any lingering grip on room-shrinking norms, monotonous forms, joy-chilling interruptions, humor-blocking notions, and self-inflating potions. 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.
June-July: Camp Ouro
Welcome to Camp Ouro! Here we re-curse back in time to revisit some of the season’s most poignant teachings with awakened mystical senses, expanded minds, and risen hearts. Our camp mascot is Ouroboros, the dragon of recursion and circular transformation that swallows the past to change the present and set new future possibilities in motion. During this summer camp experience, Ouro lifts the veil and reveals previously unnoticed jewels of mystery.
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, but schedule is subject to change with advanced notice. Always recorded for later viewing!)
Monday Ecstatic Restarter
Every Monday we post an Ecstatic Sound Movement audio track along with practical movement instruction for concentrated action. 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, pictorial teaching, or whatever else comes down the spirit line – it’s a surprise! These may include stirring renditions of visionary teachings, absurd medicines for an overserious mind, sonic tonics for an icy 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, in-depth discussions of material from our Mystical Library, or something unknown we cannot yet describe.
In addition to the weekly schedule…
Current Guild members are granted complementary admission to our annual in-person intensive!* Usually held in May, 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 July 31, 2027.
The membership fee for the ten-month season is 3,750. USD.
As a Guild member you receive:
Ten months of live Spirit House Meetings and original audio, video, and written teachings in the art of ecstatic mysticism, 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.
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