This lasts about two or three hours. We use music and breath to activate this experience, as an induction for the experience. We spend the rest of time having people use art media to symbolize what they're experienced and then to integrate what came up. It's as a highly experiential process. It involves some focused bodywork, but like I said, the maps themselves are less important than the experience.
Experience is the teacher.
You can describe for a hundred years, but one must experience to know. It's a healing state, going into the altered state. I think we've learned this from shamanic awareness and the neo-shamanic movement in the culture, that the altered state heals. I tend to emphasize the sacred aspect when we're doing this experiential work. Sometimes it's quite a joyful and powerful, blissful experience.