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Weekly Ecstatic Dance at Lacy Park. Join us every Wednesday at 5:30pm for a journey through a slow warm up to shake out the stress of the week and complete with a guided sound bath.
The Core Agreements of Ecstatic Dance
- Move however your body wants — This is the center. There is no choreography, no correct way, no performance. The floor is yours to express as you feel called, in whatever shape that takes.
- Self-expression over performance — You are not dancing for anyone. The movement is internal, felt, and personal — the point is your own experience, not how it looks.
- No talking on the dance floor — The floor is a wordless space so that sound and movement stay the primary language. Verbal conversation breaks the embodied trance for yourself and others (this supports the journey aspect of the music).
- Silence in the space — Extended quiet permits you to arrive, settle, and drop into your body.
- Sober presence — No alcohol or drugs, so you journey with an unclouded, safely supported nervous system. This is one agreement among the others — it keeps the container clear and protects everyone's embodied process, but it is not the purpose of the gathering.
- Consent and boundaries around touch — No touching without clear, explicit permission. No sexual advances on the floor. This makes the space safe for deep vulnerability, especially for those doing healing work. It also typically includes no new partners "in the room" — the floor is not a pickup space.
- Eye contact with permission — A soft, permission-based eye contact that can deepen connection without being an invitation or a demand. You honor someone's gaze or decline it freely.
- Barefoot / move freely — Dancing barefoot (or with clean indoor-only shoes) connects you to the floor and to the body's grounding, while protecting the practice space.
- No photos or recordings — What happens on the floor stays on the floor. This protects privacy and vulnerability (which matters doubly for anyone doing trauma or matrilineal healing work).
- Respect the space and others — Clean up after yourself, notice how your movement and energy affect the room, and take responsibility for your own experience: you arrive, you dance, you own what arises.
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East LA Ecstatic Dance at 11am EVERY SUNDAY
Lacy Park, 1485 Virginia Rd, San Marino, CA 91108, USA, San Marino, CA, USWe meet every Sunday for a chill dance in the grass with sound bath afterward by our host, Cris Beasley aka More, Queen. She sings in light language which you can follow off to a floatly altered state of consciousness where deep reprogramming is possible. Here's a track for you to try out with nighttime animals from Oaxaca, MX and a guided meditation.
Bring yoga mats, blankets, pillows, and whatever you need to be comfortable for this latter part. You're very welcome to bring a picnic lunch for afterwards as well to stay as long as you like. Come for the dance, the sound bath, the picnic, or all of the above.
Meet at the Daimyo Oak, pictured above, just to your right if you enter via the rose garden. Here's the exact map pin. If by some chance there was already a group there, please wander onward to see where we are. Follow the music!
We gratefully accept donations at the event, but none are required to attend. This is truly intended to be a community, not a group of customers. We are committed to this being inclusive place, regardless of gender, race, sexual preference, or economic circumstances. On weekends, there is a $4 fee for non-residents of San Marino which is payable to the park at the entrance gate via cash or card.
Free parking is abundant on the streets on either side.
Ecstatic dance is a free-form, guided movement practice where there's no choreography, no steps to learn, and no wrong way to move — just you and the music, letting your body express whatever is alive in the moment. As a curated flow of sound moves you, it becomes meditation in motion: a way to release tension that words can't reach, feel into your emotions rather than think about them, and reconnect with the pure, uncomplicated joy of simply moving. Because there's no performance and no fixed outcome, each session is deeply personal, yet the shared container makes it powerfully collective — a safe, judgment-free space where you can be playful, expressive, and unpolished, and walk away feeling a little more like yourself than when you arrived.
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