About us
Welcome to the Ecstatic Dance Temple®
We run Ecstatic Dance, Conscious Movement events held in healthy, smoke-free, drug and alcohol-free environments.
More info on our events here: https://urubu-events.eventbrite.com/
Without drugs or alcohol express yourself. Sweat your prayers on the dance floor. Let it out and connect with yourself and with others in a fresh new way. Breathe deeply and ground your attention inwards. The invitation for this evening is to begin to quiet the mind and enter into your body temple, befriending all that you may find.
"Each of us is a moving centre, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most of us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to ecstatic states of consciousness, to be swept away." -Gabrielle Roth
Ecstatic Dance/ Movement Meditation is an opportunity to find freedom in our own ability to feel and move with all that is and with everything that arises in our body, heart and mind! This practice encourages moving with a grounded body, focus, abandon, grace and ease.
There is no experience necessary, just a willingness to move and be moved!
Classes are facilitated by Seth Newman, Seth is an Art of Being© graduate, IATE Graduate, Bioenergetics practitioner, certified Trance Dance teacher and is the pioneer of live music ecstatic dance events in the UK, with his band the Urubu Collective. He brings a wealth of experience holding heart centred spaces.
Upcoming events
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CATHARSIS: Psytrance & Electronica infused Ecstatic Dance + Cacao Ceremony
Tufnell Park tube station, Fortress Road, London N19 5BQ, GBECSTATIC DANCE LONDON presents:
CATHARSIS: Psytrance & Electronica infused Ecstatic Dance + Cacao CeremonyFor booking and more info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1988027727449?aff=oddtdtcreator
We’re chuffed to bring CATHARSIS back on Saturday 2 May 2026 - a night for lovers of deep electronic journeys and full-bodied dancefloor expression.
Originally launched in Camden in 2019, Catharsis became a legendary monthly gathering - a fusion of rave energy, ecstatic dance, and raw, unapologetic self-expression. It carried us right up to the beginning of the pandemic… and now, it returns.Expect:
⚡Hypnotic psytrance & cutting-edge electronica
🍫Ceremonial-grade cacao ceremony to open the heart
🔥A powerful, high-vibe dancefloor of conscious movers
No experience needed. Just come as you are.WHAT IS CATHARSIS?
Catharsis is liberation. It’s purification through movement. It’s freedom, fire, and full permission to be yourself.
This is your invitation to:
• Drop the mask
• Release what’s been held in
• Move anger, power, passion, joy
• Reconnect with your wild, playful, tender human
All held within an electrifying psytrance and electronica soundscape.THE SPACE
Since 2009, we've been creating something unique in London:
Clean, sober, high-energy dancefloors - where the high comes naturally through music, movement, breath, and connection.
No alcohol. No drugs. No exceptions.
Please respect the container: If you arrive intoxicated, you will not be admitted or may be asked to leave (no refunds).Ecstatic Dance London
We love to dance. We love music. We create spaces to connect, awaken, and transform.📣Join our WhatsApp group:
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✨Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/ecstaticdance_london?igsh=MXFmdm01NzRtd2xndg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr2 attendees
URBAN RETREAT: Transformational Wellness - Ecstatic Dance London
Tufnell Park tube station, Fortress Road, London N19 5BQ, GBJoin us for these monthly transformational rite-of-passage urban retreats from Winter Solstice 2025 to Summer Solstice 2026.
One Day/3-Month Bundle/Full 6-Month Pass
One Saturday a Month 11:45am-9:45pm
Step into a day of movement, breath, cacao ceremony, nervous system reset, and ritual.Book a single day, a season, or walk the full path.
Please note: Meetup has incorrect dates. Please confirm the correct date via Eventbrite. Thank you!
More information & booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977608427041?aff=oddtdtcreator
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URBAN RETREATS – Join us for our Epic Transformational Day Retreats
You’ll build emotional resilience, deepen body awareness, strengthen boundaries, unlock creativity, and reconnect with your natural vitality.Each of our all day gatherings offers tools to release stress, regulate your nervous system, expand your relational confidence, and reconnect with joy through movement, breath and ritual.
Participants often describe feeling clearer, softer, more alive, and more connected to themselves and community.
How can you join?
• One Day Pass – book the exact date(s) you want
• 3-Month Bundle – choose any 3 dates (consecutive or non-consecutive)
• Full 6-Month Pass – attend the entire journey
All events are alcohol-free, drug-free, phone-free and open to all levels.
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DATES
All events run approx 11:45am–10pm
• Sat 20 December 2025 — Winter Solstice Gathering
• Sat 24 January 2026 — The Ritual
• Sat 21 February 2026 — The Big Love Experience
• Sat 21 March 2026 — TRYBE®
• Sat 25 April 2026 — Rebellious Spirit
• Sat 23 May 2026 — The Ritual (Return)
• Sat 20 June 2026 — Summer Solstice Gathering
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WHAT HAPPENS EACH MONTH
Each gathering follows a 3-part structure:
1. Morning Workshop (11:45am–2:30pm)
Depending on the month:
Creative Flow Dojo® / Tantric Trance Dance / Bioenergetic Alchemy / TRYBE® Trance Dance / Rebellious Spirit Movement / etc.
Sessions include: guided creativity, shamanic trance dance, bioenergetics, emotional release, embodiment, movement meditation.
2. Afternoon Workshop (3:30pm–5:45pm)
A mix of Conscious Connections practices, Ritual Breathwork, Bioenergetic Breathwork, inner-work processes or relational embodied practices.
3. Evening Ecstatic Dance + Cacao (7pm–9:45pm)
A no-talking, phone-free ecstatic dance with cacao ceremony. Featuring different genre events.
Always includes: cacao ceremony + optional fruit social.
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THE THEMES MONTH BY MONTH
DEC — Winter Solstice: Envision 2026 + Ritual Breath + MEDICINA
JAN — The Ritual: Tantric Trance Dance + Ritual Breath + SHAMANIC BASS TEMPLE
FEB — The Big Love Experience: Bioenergetic Alchemy + Breath of Love + MY ECSTATIC ODYSSEY
MAR — TRYBE®: Shamanic Trance Dance + Rage Ritual™ + PRANA MYSTIC
APR — Rebellious Spirit: Embodiment + Bioenergetics & Breathwork + RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
MAY — The Ritual (Return): Tantric Trance Dance + Ritual Breath + SHAMANIC BASS TEMPLE
JUN — Summer Solstice: Trance Dance + Breathwork + MEDICINA
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TICKET OPTIONS
FULL DAY PASS (Standard Single Day)
• Full Day – £60
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3-MONTH SEASON BUNDLE
Choose any 3 months across the cycle.
Attend the full days on those dates.
• 3 x Bundle Price: £150 (Save £30)
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FULL 6-MONTH PASS — THE SOLSTICE PATH
Your complete transformational arc from darkness to height of summer.
Includes:
• All 7 full-day gatherings: £245 (Save £105)
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WHO THESE EVENTS ARE FOR
• Anyone craving deeper embodiment, clarity and community
• Ecstatic dancers, creatives, seekers, and stressed Londoners
• People wanting structure, ritual and soulful modern practice
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THE RITUAL: Tantric Trance Dance + the Gathering & Ritual Breath + Shamanic Bass
Tufnell Park tube station, Fortress Road, London N19 5BQ, GB🌿The R I T U A L 🍃
✅Saturday, May 23 2026
✨Urban Retreat & Ecstatic Dance Gathering🌀Join us to step over the threshold into “the Ritual” and gift yourself a full day of transformation, healing, empowerment and reset.
💫You’ll be guided through a breakthrough programme including:- *Welcome Ceremony
- *Tantric Trance Dance process
- *Conscious Connections & Ritual Breathwork
- *Group Sharing / Integration time
- *Shamanic Bass Temple - Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony
🧘You’ll leave feeling recharged, lighter, clearer and deeply connected to your true self.
You’re welcome to come for the whole day or drop into individual sessions. All are welcome!
For booking and more info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1987903571094?aff=oddtdtcreator- TANTRIC TRANCE DANCE RITUAL🍃
Join us for this Blindfolded Tantric-Shamanic Dance Journey!
💫Through this unique transformational dance process, you will be guided into befriending all the aspects of your Being. Your Embodied Nature, your Hearts deep longing, and your personal connection to the Great Mystery.
🧘An Active Meditation and Alchemical Practice for the 21st Century!
This is a very unique dance experience, a blending of ancient and contemporary transformational tools, including: Bioenergetics, Ecstatic Dance, Emotional Release (Catharsis), Chakra Journeying, Vipassana Meditation, Latihan ... with the powerful use of a blindfold - all these elements woven together to invite you into a deep state of presence, awakening & celebration.
🌀Our video of the Tantric Trance Dance Ritual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddj19xC-b0 - THE GATHERING: Human Connection Ritual Workshop
You are invited to slow down… feel, and be seen. To come as you are.
This is where inner exploration meets collective awakening!
You are warmly invited to join us for THE GATHERING!
In the heart of the city,
Have a pause & take ... a breath.
Step out of the noise and into presence.
The Gathering is a Human Connection Ritual that blends modern breathwork with conscious connection practices.
The Gathering invites you to slow down, feel, and be seen.
Come as you are. Leave more yourself.
Through embodied practices and conscious breathwork, we remember what it means to be fully alive... within ourselves, and with one another. - SHAMANIC BASS TEMPLE - an Ecstatic Shamanic Dance Journey! + Live Percussion + Cacao Ceremony + Mesmerising Visuals + Fruit Social & Hangout
❤️ IMAGINE: A night of Dynamic, Soul-Stirring TRIBAL Rhythms and GLOBAL Bass
💚 DREAM: a beautiful Cacao Ceremony with Positive Intention Ritual + Tarot Cards Altar
💛 CREATE: Dance Your Dreams into Creation with our Huge Dancefloor, Live Percussion & Awesome Visuals!
✨Step into this transformational & very powerful personal growth all day retreat!
👉Dance, Move, Connect, Release, Meditate & Celebrate with us!
✅Saturday, May 23 2026
🧘Ecstatic Dance, Delicious Cacao, Epic Music!
🌀MUSIC VIBES: Shamanic Bass-Heavy World Dub|Tribal Breaks| Global Bass| Drum & Bass - 📣Join us for this One-of-a-Kind Transformational Urban Retreat.
It’s an exploration of the practices and principles of Embodied Relating with 3 beautiful journeys!
✨The RITUAL✨ all-day workshop Includes:
1. Tantric Trance Dance Ritual
2. Conscious Connections & Ritual Breath Workshop
3. Shamanic BASS Temple - Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony
“We have come to be danced... not the nice invisible, self conscious shuffle... but the matted hair flying, voodoo mama shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance... the strip us from our casings, return our wings, sharpen our claws & tongues dance... the shed dead cells and slip into the luminous skin of love dance..”
- Jewel Mathieson
2 attendeesURBAN RETREAT: Transformational Wellness - Ecstatic Dance London
Tufnell Park tube station, Fortress Road, London N19 5BQ, GBJoin us for these monthly transformational rite-of-passage urban retreats from Winter Solstice 2025 to Summer Solstice 2026.
One Day/3-Month Bundle/Full 6-Month Pass
One Saturday a Month 11:45am-9:45pm
Step into a day of movement, breath, cacao ceremony, nervous system reset, and ritual.Book a single day, a season, or walk the full path.
Please note: Meetup has incorrect dates. Please confirm the correct date via Eventbrite. Thank you!
More information & booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977608427041?aff=oddtdtcreator
⸻
URBAN RETREATS – Join us for our Epic Transformational Day Retreats
You’ll build emotional resilience, deepen body awareness, strengthen boundaries, unlock creativity, and reconnect with your natural vitality.Each of our all day gatherings offers tools to release stress, regulate your nervous system, expand your relational confidence, and reconnect with joy through movement, breath and ritual.
Participants often describe feeling clearer, softer, more alive, and more connected to themselves and community.
How can you join?
• One Day Pass – book the exact date(s) you want
• 3-Month Bundle – choose any 3 dates (consecutive or non-consecutive)
• Full 6-Month Pass – attend the entire journey
All events are alcohol-free, drug-free, phone-free and open to all levels.
⸻
DATES
All events run approx 11:45am–10pm
• Sat 20 December 2025 — Winter Solstice Gathering
• Sat 24 January 2026 — The Ritual
• Sat 21 February 2026 — The Big Love Experience
• Sat 21 March 2026 — TRYBE®
• Sat 25 April 2026 — Rebellious Spirit
• Sat 23 May 2026 — The Ritual (Return)
• Sat 20 June 2026 — Summer Solstice Gathering
⸻
WHAT HAPPENS EACH MONTH
Each gathering follows a 3-part structure:
1. Morning Workshop (11:45am–2:30pm)
Depending on the month:
Creative Flow Dojo® / Tantric Trance Dance / Bioenergetic Alchemy / TRYBE® Trance Dance / Rebellious Spirit Movement / etc.
Sessions include: guided creativity, shamanic trance dance, bioenergetics, emotional release, embodiment, movement meditation.
2. Afternoon Workshop (3:30pm–5:45pm)
A mix of Conscious Connections practices, Ritual Breathwork, Bioenergetic Breathwork, inner-work processes or relational embodied practices.
3. Evening Ecstatic Dance + Cacao (7pm–9:45pm)
A no-talking, phone-free ecstatic dance with cacao ceremony. Featuring different genre events.
Always includes: cacao ceremony + optional fruit social.
⸻
THE THEMES MONTH BY MONTH
DEC — Winter Solstice: Envision 2026 + Ritual Breath + MEDICINA
JAN — The Ritual: Tantric Trance Dance + Ritual Breath + SHAMANIC BASS TEMPLE
FEB — The Big Love Experience: Bioenergetic Alchemy + Breath of Love + MY ECSTATIC ODYSSEY
MAR — TRYBE®: Shamanic Trance Dance + Rage Ritual™ + PRANA MYSTIC
APR — Rebellious Spirit: Embodiment + Bioenergetics & Breathwork + RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
MAY — The Ritual (Return): Tantric Trance Dance + Ritual Breath + SHAMANIC BASS TEMPLE
JUN — Summer Solstice: Trance Dance + Breathwork + MEDICINA
⸻
TICKET OPTIONS
FULL DAY PASS (Standard Single Day)
• Full Day – £60
⸻
3-MONTH SEASON BUNDLE
Choose any 3 months across the cycle.
Attend the full days on those dates.
• 3 x Bundle Price: £150 (Save £30)
⸻
FULL 6-MONTH PASS — THE SOLSTICE PATH
Your complete transformational arc from darkness to height of summer.
Includes:
• All 7 full-day gatherings: £245 (Save £105)
⸻
WHO THESE EVENTS ARE FOR
• Anyone craving deeper embodiment, clarity and community
• Ecstatic dancers, creatives, seekers, and stressed Londoners
• People wanting structure, ritual and soulful modern practice
⸻1 attendee
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