Ecstatic Dance Toronto

WELCOME TO ECSTATIC DANCE TORONTO

We are Toronto’s leading weekly Ecstatic Dance Community with nearly 800 dances offered and counting. Literally, thousands have danced, healed and celebrated with us since our first dance in January 2006. Join our growing dance community!

The best way to stay in touch with us is to sign up to receive our newsletters at the bottom of this page: www.ecstaticdancetoronto.com.

We invite you to dance, sweat and connect with yourselves and each other. This is a place where you can feel free to move and express whatever is alive in you and whatever comes up when you shake up your cells. It is also nonverbal, barefoot, alcohol/drug-free to keep the experience intentional. Together we create a safe space for dance and authentic connection that is healing, inspiring and uplifting. Community, music and dance is our medicine.

The need for conscious, intentional, non-judgemental, undivided community gatherings has never ever been greater! We create a space where our dancers can experience the healing force of dance. We bring diversity by sharing global music. When you join our dances, know that you are part of a global movement of humans devoted to the healing, repair and conscious awakening of humanity.

“Ecstatic Dance is the way we use to gather as a community and dance to rhythms and beats for the purpose of celebration, healing, transformation and prayer.”  Julia Ray, Ecstatic Dance Toronto Visionary

All are welcome. Community. Music. Dance. Ecstatic Dance is a chance to dance freely and move however you want to all kinds of rhythms, beats and genres with a room full of beautiful people doing exactly the same thing! Find yourself dancing 🙂

We are back and dancing EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT! Go to our website for full details: www.ecstaticdancetoronto.com

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"Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...
It is an outer expression of the inner spirit."
~ Ted Andrews
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Our DJs will be sharing uniquely crafted musical journeys for your energies to root, renew and flow like a river running clear, strong, wild and free.

Invite your dancing friends and share the love of dance, music and community! Make Ecstatic Dance a regular part of your healthy life because it's that good!

There is a structure to the night so try to arrive on time to get the most of your dance experience. The evening starts slow and builds to an energetic peak and then moves back down to a quiet meditative place. Every night is a different and unique musical and dance experience. Ultimately this is a dance class/practise/gathering where we find our own way to move and dance to all the rhythms and beats of life. So enlivening, so freeing and sooo much fun!!!

Ecstatic dance is freestyle dance - move however you wish - honour your body - dance with bare feet - no experience necessary - all ages, genders, cultures, sizes are welcome - respect yourself and one another - bring comfortable clothes to move in - bring water to drink - alcohol-free and recreational drug-free - safe and sacred space - let the music take you on a journey - see you on the dance floor

Health is not only the non-existence of sickness, but also a state of complete physical, emotional and social well-being. Many of our regular dancers have told me over the years that ecstatic dance has played a significant role in restoring their well-being and health.

Dance has long been revered for its power to restore both body and mind. Through time and culture it has also reinforced the bonds of community and allowed us to uncover the deeper aspects of who we are as human beings. Dance has also been used as a manner of worship, celebration, story-telling and myth-making, and to celebrate important rites of passage. Dance is an essential part of life! What are you waiting for?

"Dancers are the athletes of God." Albert Einstein