What we’re about
At Manawa, we’re on a mission to build a community without judgment or competition. Instead, we want to create an environment filled with love, kindness, and respect towards oneself and others.
Our events are all about self expression through ecstatic dance and the arts connecting us to ourselves, to be guided by our hearts, we belief that each of us has a unique heartbeat, connecting us through frequency and energy.
Together, we can create a space where everyone feels valued and heard, and where the heartbeat of the people is felt in every interaction, and where we arrive at the realisation that we are one with the world and the universe.
He manawa o te tangata. The heartbeat of the people.
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See all- Manawa Ecstatic Dance AlchemyThe Button Factory, Auckland
Manawa is a movement.
Our mission is to create safe spaces where people can explore and express their inner worlds through ecstatic dance and the arts in Tāmaki Makaurau, the ancestral land of the Ngāti Whātua, Tainui, and Ngāti Pāoa peoples.Ecstatic Dance is a free-form movement and dance practice that focuses on self-expression, liberation, and connection.
There are no specific steps or structured routines; instead, it encourages participants to move in ways that feel natural and authentic to them, guided by Ecstatic Dance DJs' carefully curated sound journeys.This allows our bodies to express emotions, feelings, and energies freely, leading with their manawa (hearts) and connecting deeply with themselves and the community.
We believe in the profound healing power of self-expression, viewing it as essential medicine for the soul.
This process not only heals but also serves as a guiding force, encouraging individuals to live authentically and deeply from the manawa (heart)
No dance experience is required; everyone is welcomed as they are.To ensure the safety and comfort of all participants, we adhere to strict guidelines:
No alcohol
No shoes
No phones
No talkingWe also encourage everyone to wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle.
Tickets!
Online: Normal: $27 Concession: $22
On the door: Normal: $30 Concession: $25Manawa
At Manawa, we’re on a mission to build a community without judgment or competition. Instead, we want to create an environment filled with love, kindness, and respect towards oneself and others.
Our events are all about self expression through ecstatic dance and the arts connecting us to ourselves, to be guided by our hearts, we belief that each of us has a unique heartbeat, connecting us through frequency and energy.Together, we can create a space where everyone feels valued and heard, and where the heartbeat of the people is felt in every interaction, and where we arrive at the realisation that we are one with the world and the universe.
He manawa o te tangata. The heartbeat of the people.
Website: https://www.manawa.one/
Instagram: instagram.com/manawa.one
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manawa.oneAlchemy has been forged in the Somatic Dance container, training with Blase and Sarsha Hope and discovering a deep love for creating healing soundscapes for people to move to.
Alchemy made her debut at NZSpirit in 2024 and has since played at various venues and events, including establishing Kerikeri Ecstatic Dance, which ran throughout 2024. She brings enchantment to the dance floor, merging music and movement to create an immersive self-expression experience. Her forte lies in organic tribal house, world music, deep bass, and high-energy EMD dance numbers—you can trust your body will be compelled to move when she unleashes her sound on the dance floor.
Instagram: georgialeighalchemy
Come along for the journey as Alchemy transmutes a dance experience that will be unforgettable. 🔥💃🏽
- Manawa Ecstatic Dance Bass ChakraThe Button Factory, Auckland
Manawa is a movement.
Our mission is to create safe spaces where people can explore and express their inner worlds through ecstatic dance and the arts in Tāmaki Makaurau, the ancestral land of the Ngāti Whātua, Tainui, and Ngāti Pāoa peoples.
Ecstatic Dance is a free-form movement and dance practice that focuses on self-expression, liberation, and connection.
There are no specific steps or structured routines; instead, it encourages participants to move in ways that feel natural and authentic to them, guided by Ecstatic Dance DJs' carefully curated sound journeys.
This allows our bodies to express emotions, feelings, and energies freely, leading with their manawa (hearts) and connecting deeply with themselves and the community.
We believe in the profound healing power of self-expression, viewing it as essential medicine for the soul.
This process not only heals but also serves as a guiding force, encouraging individuals to live authentically and deeply from the manawa (heart).
No dance experience is required; everyone is welcomed as they are.
To ensure the safety and comfort of all participants, we adhere to strict guidelines:No alcohol
No shoes
No phones
No talkingWe also encourage everyone to wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle.
See you on the dance floor!Tickets!
Online:
Normal: $27 Concession: $22
On the door:
Normal: $30 Concession: $25Manawa
At Manawa, we’re on a mission to build a community without judgment or competition. Instead, we want to create an environment filled with love, kindness, and respect towards oneself and others.
Our events are all about self expression through ecstatic dance and the arts connecting us to ourselves, to be guided by our hearts, we belief that each of us has a unique heartbeat, connecting us through frequency and energy.
Together, we can create a space where everyone feels valued and heard, and where the heartbeat of the people is felt in every interaction, and where we arrive at the realisation that we are one with the world and the universe.He manawa o te tangata. The heartbeat of the people.
Website: https://www.manawa.one/
Instagram: instagram.com/manawa.one
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manawa.oneBass Chakra
The Bass Chakra connects us to the Earth, to vital essence, to rhythm, and raw embodiment.With deep reverence for the being-ness of all things, Bass Chakra places music and movement in service to connection to self, other, and the ecological context that supports us.
Drawing on ritual elements, ancestral wisdom and decades of holding space, Bass Chakra can be described by these words:
Strength. Passion. Clarity. Vitality. Sensual. Intentional. Fierce. Lush. - Manawa Ecstatic Dance DJ RanaNeeds location
Manawa is a movement.
Our mission is to create safe spaces where people can explore and express their inner worlds through ecstatic dance and the arts in Tāmaki Makaurau, the ancestral land of the Ngāti Whātua, Tainui, and Ngāti Pāoa peoples.Ecstatic Dance is a free-form movement and dance practice that focuses on self-expression, liberation, and connection.
There are no specific steps or structured routines; instead, it encourages participants to move in ways that feel natural and authentic to them, guided by Ecstatic Dance DJs' carefully curated sound journeys.This allows our bodies to express emotions, feelings, and energies freely, leading with their manawa (hearts) and connecting deeply with themselves and the community.
We believe in the profound healing power of self-expression, viewing it as essential medicine for the soul.
This process not only heals but also serves as a guiding force, encouraging individuals to live authentically and deeply from the manawa (heart)
No dance experience is required; everyone is welcomed as they are.To ensure the safety and comfort of all participants, we adhere to strict guidelines:
No alcohol
No shoes
No phones
No talkingWe also encourage everyone to wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle.
Tickets!
Online: Normal: $27 Concession: $22
On the door: Normal: $30 Concession: $25Manawa
At Manawa, we’re on a mission to build a community without judgment or competition. Instead, we want to create an environment filled with love, kindness, and respect towards oneself and others.
Our events are all about self expression through ecstatic dance and the arts connecting us to ourselves, to be guided by our hearts, we belief that each of us has a unique heartbeat, connecting us through frequency and energy.Together, we can create a space where everyone feels valued and heard, and where the heartbeat of the people is felt in every interaction, and where we arrive at the realisation that we are one with the world and the universe.
He manawa o te tangata. The heartbeat of the people.
Website: https://www.manawa.one/
Instagram: instagram.com/manawa.one
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manawa.oneRana Hamida
Is a well established artist that has over 6 years experience in various art forms including music, singing, dance, Somatics and storytelling. In the past year she started sharing her embodied wisdom and expertise with many interested souls who expressed the desire to connect deeper with themselves, unblock, and free their inner space to hear the subtle guidance of their inner guru.
Her anchor is being in surrender to the present moment. And with conscious discipline exploring and Passing stories of somewhere deep within the essence of Now. Releasing the past and singing the future in its folds.
Separation dissolves in the process of remembering our unique flow, to get lost and found in the wonders of our presence.
Over the past 7 years across Oceana ( New Zealand, Australia ) and India, People from all around the world have been experiencing Rana's music as it transforms through various genres such as Progressive trance, full on psytrance and Dark Forest to Folktronica, ethnic deep house and techno - different waves taking her audiences on deep journeys and experiences while also accompanying her dj sets with live vocals. She also has a live experimental band called " Yet Undefined " where musical landscapes are made and shared on the spot.
Join her ecstatic journeys with an ever expanding mind to dissolve the boundaries where we merge into the one within - ever deepening, ever transforming, ever remembering.Check her music at :
FB : https://www.facebook.com/music...
Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/pbdE...
IG : https://www.instagram.com/djra... - Manawa Ecstatic Dance Mini FestivalThe Button Factory, Auckland
Manawa is a movement.
Our mission is to create safe spaces where people can explore and express their inner worlds through ecstatic dance and the arts in Tāmaki Makaurau, the ancestral land of the Ngāti Whātua, Tainui, and Ngāti Pāoa peoples.Ecstatic Dance is a free-form movement and dance practice that focuses on self-expression, liberation, and connection.
There are no specific steps or structured routines; instead, it encourages participants to move in ways that feel natural and authentic to them, guided by Ecstatic Dance DJs' carefully curated sound journeys.This allows our bodies to express emotions, feelings, and energies freely, leading with their manawa (hearts) and connecting deeply with themselves and the community.
We believe in the profound healing power of self-expression, viewing it as essential medicine for the soul.
This process not only heals but also serves as a guiding force, encouraging individuals to live authentically and deeply from the manawa (heart)
No dance experience is required; everyone is welcomed as they are.To ensure the safety and comfort of all participants, we adhere to strict guidelines:
No alcohol
No shoes
No phones
No talkingWe also encourage everyone to wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle.
Tickets!
Online:
Normal: $38
Concession: $33
(No Booking Fee)On the door:
Normal: $43
Concession: $38Manawa
At Manawa, we’re on a mission to build a community without judgment or competition. Instead, we want to create an environment filled with love, kindness, and respect towards oneself and others.
Our events are all about self expression through ecstatic dance and the arts connecting us to ourselves, to be guided by our hearts, we belief that each of us has a unique heartbeat, connecting us through frequency and energy.Together, we can create a space where everyone feels valued and heard, and where the heartbeat of the people is felt in every interaction, and where we arrive at the realisation that we are one with the world and the universe.
He manawa o te tangata. The heartbeat of the people.
Website: https://www.manawa.one/
Instagram: instagram.com/manawa.one
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manawa.oneLadyfem crafts multi-genre music journeys which create intrigue, taking dancers through different movement expressions with sounds to tantalise.
A regular DJ within somatic dance spaces, she is skilled at curating soundsxapes that transcend boundaries for people who want to move.
Expect luch bass lines which feel delicious in your body, sprinkled with a few surprises and woven together the sacred to bring something truly unique.
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femke.burger.5
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladyfem/Dj MoRpHo, aka Juliana Botero, has a mission to heal the world through the language of universal music. Being in love with music her whole life, intrigued with spinning records and making crowds of people dance, began in the electronic scene in 2004, identifying with funky electronic, tribal and fusion of sounds in her mix.
Dj morpho has a great musical influence from masters like Dj fatboyslim, chemical brothers, massive attack. Her big inspiration comes from Fatboyslim and his fantastic style, mixing multiple genres in his set.
Dj Morpho combines in her electronic set not only her contagious energy and great smile with multiple musical genres such as funky house, tribal, minimal, Latin fusion and many more.In her ecstatic Dance set she transports you on a wave of 5 healing rhythms, mixing different musical genres with a unique and special touch. indigenous, ethnic, Hindu, African rhythms and more. Currently DJ MoRpHo provides her healing gift through vibrational sounds and movement, combining music for celebrating life, moving energy and empowering human beings, surfing waves of awakening.
“Let's dance without judgment, without fear, barefoot and free... and be happy” DJ MoRpHo
Website: www.djmorpho.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dj_morpho/
