Welcome to Movement & Ecstatic Dance

This Meetup group explores Authentic and Free Form Movement (also known as Ecstatic Dance) both as sacred experience of the body and in regards to healing the body.
Ecstatic dance is defined as sacred dance that encompasses all movement that expresses or enhances spiritual experiences. It is a free form movement practice that allows you to follow your body's natural and intuitive desires to move. It is a moving prayer and a sacred healing modality. When done in a group, it is a powerful experience. It is amazing when you surrender your body to Spirit and allow it to move you, to dance you. To embody this energy through dance is to experience the heights of sensation in your body. Not only does this practice heighten Spiritual connection, it lifts the energy of the body, alleviates lower moods, increases energy. and can be extremely beneficial for body pains and for releasing toxins. There is not much involved in the process other than the creating of a sacred space to dance, a willingness to allow your body to move and a body to move in.
The current Ecstatic dance movement is heavily influenced by Gabrielle Roth's 5 Sacred Rhythms. However, human beings have been dancing as Mind, Body, Spirit medicine since the beginning of time.
The soul can only be present when body and spirit are one; it can not breathe, exist, or move disconnected from the body. - Gabrielle Roth (from Sweat your prayers)