Bay Area Ecstatic Dance Expansion Meetup

Welcome Dancers to 2025!!! As we move into the New Year, we shift into an earlier timeframe for dance from 6:30-9:30pm. Mini Workshops will be a deep dive into various modalities - Our Ecstatic Djs will spin a two-hour Dance Wave - After sound healing, you’re invited to hangout and connect with the community.

6:30-7pm : Mini Workshop
7-9pm : Ecstatic Dance Dj Set
9-9:30pm : Sound Healing + Hangout

See you on the Dance Floor!!
Cash + Venmo are accepted at the door $25/drop in. Circle Passes are valid thru Feb 2025.

Ecstatic Dance Fairfax is now Organized & Hosted by Geneva Bybee.

AfterWelcome Dancers to 2025!!! As we move into the New Year, we shift into an earlier timeframe for dance from 6:30-9:30pm. Mini Workshops will be a deep dive into various modalities - Our Ecstatic Djs will spin a two-hour Dance Wave - After sound healing, you’re invited to hangout and connect with the community.

6:30-7pm : Mini Workshop
7-9:30pm : Ecstatic Dance Dj Set
9:30-10pmpm : Sound Healing + Hangout

See you on the Dance Floor!!
Cash + Venmo are accepted at the door $25/drop in. Circle Passes are valid thru Feb 2025.

Ecstatic Dance Fairfax is now Organized & Hosted by Geneva Bybee.w

Arrive when you wish:
9:45am - Doors Open
10:00am - Contact Improv Class
10:50am - Opening Circle
11:00am - Ecstatic Dance
1:00pm - Sound Bath / Closing Meditation
1:11pm - Good Day Everyone!

Ticket available at the Door

@ Sacred Heart Church (of 8 Wheels)
554 Fillmore St., SF, CA
Street Parking

Ecstatic Dance is a Freeform Conscious Dance. As soon as you enter the space, you are invited to let go of judgements and expectations, and allow yourself to feel your emotions, sensations, body, mind, and spirit. Because this is a safe space for movement and expression, we do request that you follow the three main guidelines: no shoes (and wear comfy clothes!), no booze (or any other drugs), no talking (body language only!). All freedom of expression is welcomed, and there is no ‘right and wrong’ here. Trust in the journey and move through everything that arises.

The soundscape is provided by professional DJ’s who mix the music and facilitate the journey. Most sets will include a variety of musical genres, sonic wave of all tempos, a full spectrum of emotions. At some dances you will find the vibe to be more organic and tribal, and at others more electronic, futuristic, or urban. No set is ever the same!

The Ecstatic Dance community welcomes people of all ages/genders/religions/ethnicities. This is a cross-generational community, so often you will see dancers between the ages of 18-80 enjoying the space together. We are a non-denominational community, where we come together for the joy of moving and dancing together. This means that some people come simply for the exercise, some come for the social connection, and some come to use the dance as a form of therapy, emotional catharsis, spiritual practice, or prayer. Whatever your reason for wanting to move, you are welcome at Ecstatic Dance.

Many Dancers come to dance by themselves in the Group Field. Some Dancers also enjoy dancing with others, with or without physical contact. Below is a guide to help your experience at Ecstatic Dance.

All are Welcome, Without Restrictions or Limitations.
We only ask that you refrain from:

1. Talking on the Dancefloor
2. Using your Phone
3. Wearing Shoes or Scents
4. Using Substances (Be Yourself!)
   Thank You for Respecting the Space so that everyone may Move, Celebrate, Heal, & Pray in their own unique way... Together.

Drop-In: $25 (Cash / Card / Venmo)
Circle Dance Passes: $20 each (sold in packs of 5 for $100)
Available at the Door.

@ Sacred Heart Church (of 8 Wheels)
554 Fillmore St., SF, CA

Sweets' Ballroom is Back!

Timing:
9:45am - Doors Open
10am - Contact Improv
10:45am - Opening Circle
11am - Ecstatic Dance
1pm - Sound Healing / Meditation
1:11pm - Good Day! - Time for Picnic

Tickets:
Available at the door with Cash / Card / Venmo
$25 Drop-In
$20 Circle Passes sold in 5 packs ($100)

Website:
https://ecstaticdance.org/dance/oakland-ecstatic-dance-sunday-morning/

After Dance Picnic is held next to Lake Merritt by Whole Foods on Grand Avenue & Harrison.

Ecstatic Dance is a Free-Form Conscious Dance, allowing you to Be and to Move as You Wish. A two hour Electronic / Organic / World Music Journey will be created by a skilled DJ to elicit all of our Emotions through various Tempos, Genres, and Intensities. No Cameras, Shoes, or Talking allowed on the Dancefloor. This helps us to Dive Deeper into Ourselves, and our Communion with All that Is.

A Contact Improv class is offered before Ecstatic Dance if you would like to learn how to Dance with another person, flowing together in the moment.

Opening Circle is led to remind us of the Guidelines, and for us to set our Intentions for the Dance.

Meditation is offered at the end of Dance in order to Connect with our Eternal Nature, and to Ground our Experience.

Come and Move Yourself.
Be Yourself.

Heal. Connect. Commune. Celebrate. Grieve. Inspire.

*OUTDOORS THIS SUNDAY*
It has been AWHILE since we've all danced in the sun together! It's shaping up to be a beautiful sunny week and weekend. We're looking forward to dancing in the beautiful outdoors with you all!

Dance as Medicine presents:
San Rafael Ecstatic Dance w/ALIA
@ San Rafael High School - softball field
170 3rd St, San Rafael CA 94901
Sun, Nov 2: 11am-1:15pm
$23-33 sliding scale

Park in the main parking lot in front of this high school off of 3rd St and enter through the gate on the West side of the school.

Coming from E Bay or SF or you're a Senior (over 65)? Take $3 off

Check Dance as Medicine for all our events:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/danceasmedicine/
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We're going to be OUTDOORS (just this Sunday) as a special treat for the nature loving dancer in us.
ALIA will be our DJ and guide.

DJ ALIA is an Electronic Music Producer, DJ, Vocalist, and Producer of the Feminine Medicine™ Project based in the San Francisco area. Inspired by the global bass movement and the West Coast festival scene, ALIA's music is an evocative, lush journey into her own blend of bass-heavy electronic dance beats, melodic frequencies, gorgeous feminine voices, conscious lyrics, and sacred psychedelic textures.

Described as feminine and fierce, elegant and gritty, ethereal and primal, her music offers a vast emotional and danceable landscape that unfolds in a pulsing, hypnotic journey that moves both bodies and hearts.

https://soundcloud.com/aliafrequency

Come join the amazing community we co-create every week! It is our dance church and sanctuary! A place to connect and re-connect with yourself and others. A place where ALL are welcome and all emotions are welcome. Like other Ecstatic Dances, we are talk-free, substance-free, shoe-free and FREE spirited!

San Rafael Ecstatic Dance w/ALIA
Sunday, November 2, 1:15pm $23-32
@ San Rafael High School - softball field
170 3rd St, San Rafael, CA
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Sunday Dance DJ schedule:

11/2 ALIA
11/9 Liquid Love Drops
11/16 Qoi
11/23 Jesse Klein
11/30 Dragonfly
12/7 AguaMayyim
12/14 Soul Grafitti
12/21 Presencia
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Guidelines for our dance

• BE PRESENT (no phones or cameras)
• NO TALKING (no talking on the main dance floor – soft voice/whispering is ok in the back of the room)
• EMBODIMENT (be aware if your body movement is causing danger or if your voice/sounds are disruptive to those around you)
• SUBSTANCE FREE (no intoxicants of any kind)
• CONSENSUAL (make eye contact and confirm a “YES” before engaging with others, respect others space - crossed arms, looking or moving away means “NO”)
• GROUNDING (no outside shoes)
• RESPECT (respect your own & other’s space, expression, and autonomy)
As your host (Dan Z aka DJ DZ), NEVER hesitate to bring anything to my attention that you feel needs to be addressed. ❤
DJ DZ brings the dance to the people and the people to the dance! Cause we can never have too much movement and liberation in our lives!