Event Ecstatic Dance

Ecstatic dance has existed for thousands of years in many cultures as an important ritual connecting the community and also nowadays it has become a very important safe space that creates an opportunity for us to connect to ourselves, free up energetic blocks, connect deeper to our heart, and expand our consciousness beyond the barriers of the mind.

Through the movement warm-up we will ground ourselves and get more into our bodies so that we create the best ground for delving into a spontaneous dance and invite our inner guidance to take over. Finding the balance between surrender and structure, we will be surrendering to a rollecoaster ride of different music genres, tempos and emotions to discover all the different aspects within ourselves.

Dance yourself into ecstatic states of awareness, release old patters & paradigms and all conditioning that no longer serves you and come resting in the stillness of your authentic being. Feeling the music, becoming the dance, moving without thinking, free from time and space, in this state, dance is one of the greatest healers.

You are welcome as you are. For some people this could be an experience of releasing supressed emotions, for others it will be a dance of celebration and joy, and for some it will feel like an active or even still meditation. All of this is welcome. You will be embraced in all of your aspects.

At the end we will have a chance to integrate the whole experience with a grounding sound healing. 

To keep the clean & safe energetic space Ecstatic Dance there are a few things to keep in mind:

• We dance barefoot and without words on the dancefloor. As little as possible inner mind dialogue as well as outer dialogue helps to dive deeper into your own journey.

• Together we create a safe space where we support each other in authentic self-expression without judgement. Dance as a universal language will help us express and connect even more deeply with others.

• We can connect to others while reading their signals and respecting their boundaries.

• No drugs or alcohol on the dancefloor.

Event Cacao Ceremony

Ceremonial grade cacao is a sacred plant medicine that is celebrated as the “Food of the Gods” and has been used in Shamanic ceremonies by the natives of Central and South America for thousands of years. This connecting, heart-opening medicine is nowadays still used for ritual, healing and shamanic journeying. Raw cacao is one of the most dense superfoods, and is the highest source of magnesium on the planet. Additionally, it contains anandamide, a so-called “bliss chemical” Anandamide that works with the heart’s ability to expand, supports emotional clearing, and deepen the connection with self and with life. It is believed that the spirit of cacao has the power to reveal and unlock the secrets of the soul, bringing forth our ultimate truth in a way that is soft, immediate and lasting. It with enhance our heart energy and helps us to get more in touch with our deeper selves, access inner wisdom, clear intentions and guidance for the year ahead.

Cacao, also known as Raw Chocolate, is a sacred plant medicine that is celebrated as the food of the gods and has been used in Shamanic ceremonies by the natives of Central and South America for thousands of years. This connecting, heart-opening medicine is nowadays still used for ritual, healing and shamanic journeying.

Raw cacao is one of the most dense superfoods, and is the highest source of magnesium on the planet. Additionally, it contains anandamide, a so-called “bliss chemical” that works with the heart’s ability to expand, supports emotional clearing, and deepen the connection with self and with life. It is believed that the spirit of cacao has the power to reveal and unlock the secrets of the soul, bringing forth our ultimate truth in a way that is soft, immediate and lasting.

Sacred Cacao was bypassed in the ‘60’s resurgence of medicine-plants because it does not act like a psychedelic. It does not take you on its trip, but facilitates your own.

Working with ceremonial grade cacao, singing, chanting, movement and journaling, this ceremony will focus on enhancing the heart’s energy as well as getting more in touch with our deeper selves and clear intentions. 

Together we will set intentions and partake in this heart opening ceremony to access inner wisdom and guidance for the year ahead. 

All the great civilisations used to meet in ceremony to come in tune with themselves, come in resonance with the others in the community, come in resonance with the Mother Earth and lastly, come into resonance with the whole universe. In this way we are tuning ourselves to be aligned with our higher self, with the the intentions of the planet etc.

In every tradition, people came together at particular moments (when the sun and moon were at a certain place) to their sacred place, their local magical hill or tree….and they would come there with their family, their community, their tribe…at these particularly important moments of time, they would tune together.

Workshop Ecstatic Partner Dance

In this workshop, we will play with different ways in which we can start an intuitive dialogue with movement. We will explore the expressive possibilities of the body in the relationship to the space, place, people and our inner landscape. Starting from afar, we will dance with our eyes, coming closer we will start to initiative an energetic movement dialogue and finally, getting to physical contact in dance. We will explore different principles of movement grammar & syntax, which will allow us to understand each other more clearly, yet still stay settled in the freedom of our individual and unique expression. Afterwards we will explore the story we co-create together with dancing partner in our movement dialogue. Next, we will explore possibilities of making dialogue with our inner world and imagination, letting our body to step inside our imagination and to express it in the movement dialogue. In the final dance jam, we will get a chance to  integrate all the techniques into a spontaneous movement dialogue.