Rainbow River equinox ecstatic dance and contact improv retreat

🌾 Harvest the Body: A 2-Day Equinox Immersion in Ecstatic Dance & Contact Improv

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A celebration of embodied balance, gratitude, and transition

The Autumn Equinox, like Labor Day, honors a turning point—from the expansive, outward energy of summer into the inward, reflective time of fall. This immersion invites dancers to:
• Celebrate the work the body has done—physically, emotionally, spiritually
• Tune into balance—between giving and receiving, doing and being, self and other
• Surrender into the seasonal shift—harvesting the wisdom of movement, and softening into stillness

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🌟 Sample Structure:

Day 1: Effort & Expansion — The Harvest Dance
• Opening circle with intention setting around what you are harvesting in your life and body
• Contact Improv: Rooting into connection – ground, weight, presence
• Ecstatic Dance: Full-spectrum expression – wild, free, celebratory
• Journaling prompt or art offering: What have you labored for this year? What fruits have grown?
• Sunset ritual: grounding into the body and earth

Day 2: Integration & Surrender — The Balancing Dance
• Morning meditation or breathwork with equinox imagery (equal light/dark, inhale/exhale)
• Contact Improv: Listening & yielding – softness, support, flow
• Ecstatic Dance: Inner alchemy – intuitive, slower arc, somatic spaciousness

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Text questions here: 941-928-8866

$300 pp payable in full. There are 4 people per cabin. 2 bedrooms (1 queen, one with 2 singles) and a living room pull out full futon, kitchen and large porch.

Facilities have lots of hiking, pool, lake, and community room for dance sessions . Bring your own food with something for a pot luck dinner share on sat and sun evening. You can pay thru c enmo/paypal/zelle. Reach out for links.

Here’s a YouTube of last one https://youtu.be/FjDaLTTmLIw?feature=shared

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWqwwiU6jWrSmf7dhc36vyoL97MmEGsAv8i1WzHQVZby0slw/viewform?usp=header