This 3 hour Ecstatic Dance event is an invitation to approach dance as a moving meditation, as a way to sweat your prayers and celebrate being alive, with all that it includes. There will be an event every month from September 2021 and onwards :) >>

November 27th, Charmed Chocolates will offer Ceremonial Cacao as a supplement to the dance! You can choose to buy a dance tickets with cacao or without.

Ceremonial Cacao can enhance your dance, energize the body and connect you more deeply with yourself and others. It's soft yet deep, supporting you to tap into your full potential on the dancefloor. This gentle medicine works with your natural energy, guiding you to greater ecstasy while keeping you grounded.

Mirdharam Khalsa will support the space by creating a soundscape in the end and the beginning, with gong, chimes etc.

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Expect only a minimum of instructions – an opening circle, a short centering, a few words to welcome new dancers, until the music takes over. Dance alone or dance together, move as you please between these elements.

The general Ecstatic Dance guidelines apply – see the end of the page.

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PROGRAM 16/10:

19.00 - Doors open.

19.15 - Newman starts serving Cacao.

19.30 - Doors closing. Gathering circle, drinking cacao together for those who choose. Soundscape by Mirdharam.

Intro to Ecstatic Dance practice and to Cacao. Breathing, centering and grounding.

19.45 - DJ Grundstoff slowly sets off the dance journey.

21.45 - Dance journey ends. Soundscape by Mirdharam. Finishing circle.

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In Ecstatic Dance with DJ Grundstoff you will journey from slow to intense, landing back into slow again at the end. In between, you will experience a variety of emotional and energetic landscapes; playful, light, blissful, aggressive, breathtaking, disturbing, sexual, melancholic, soft, fast, slow.

Our intention is to create a wave for you to experience yourself and your moving body in different ways, an uplifting journey with room for many aspects of being human.

Expect tunes and voices from south america, balkan, spain, scandinavia, india and more. Expect flavors of swing discoteque, movie soundtrack, cirkus and psytrance. Expect some singing bowls, some glitch and some playfight, and through all of this, a red thread of electronic downtempo.

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Ecstatic Dance – 4 Simple Guidelines:

1. We dance barefoot

This allows us to connect more fully with the ground.

If unsuitable, please wear soft shoes, no hard heels.

2. We dance without talking

This makes it easier to be in our bodies rather than our thoughts.

No verbal instruction from the facilitators, no conversations on the dancefloor.

3. We get high on the same vibes

No mind altering substances including alcohol.

4. We dance off screen

No mobile phones / photo & filming on the dancefloor

(Note: arrangers will be taking some photos. Nothing personal will be published without consent.)

Note: Please be aware that ecstatic dance and cacao can bring us to vulnerable states. 
Be sensitive when seeking contact, ake responsability for your own yes/no and respect the no of others.