This Monthly 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!

April 30th is the last dance for the spring season! Come dance & welcome the summer together with us :)

April 30th, DJ Grundstoff is on the decks! 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.

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The dance journey as a whole, is not guided.We begin with a short introduction to Ecstatic Dance guidelines and what it can be, a few words to welcome new dancers. A 6-8 minute floor exercise will open the dance, but there is nothing that you have to do. Every expression is welcome. Floor crawling, shaking, large movements, stillness - follow your body. Dance alone or dance together, move as you please between these elements and more.

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

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PROGRAM 19/3:

19.00 - Doors open. 

19.15 - Charmed Chocolates starts serving Cacao.

19.30 - DOORS CLOSING! Please be on time. Gathering circle, drinking cacao together for those who choose.

Short intro to the Ecstatic Dance practice and a short intro to Ceremonial Cacao.
Breathing, centering and grounding. Light soundscapes with soft instruments.

19.45 - 21.45 - Dance journey with DJ Grundstoff slowly sets off. 

21.45 - 22.15 - Dance journey ends. Finishing circle. Light soundscapes with soft instruments.

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MUSIC/JOURNEY:
In Ecstatic Dance with our team, 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. 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. Sometimes the DJ set will be accompanied with live instruments.

YOUR HOSTS:
Sandra Grundstoff has 25+ years background with facilitating yoga, meditation and free dance. As a DJ, she has been active in Copenhagen conscious scene since 2016. She is very inspired by Dance Mandala and has a down-to-earth approach, aiming to hold an accepting space that is both free and safe, where the music and your own body is the primary guide. 

Chrell Ionstrøm Kemnitz is a talented jack-of many-instruments, yoga teacher since 20 years+ and a multi-faceted body artist - fire staff dance, slackline, fencing and street performance are just a few of his tricks. As a fairly new-born DJ with his debut in 2021, he has a natural sense for teasing bodies to move.

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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. (Arrangers will sometimes take photos. No photo where you can be recognized will be published without consent.)

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Please be aware that Ecstatic Dance as well as Ceremonial Cacao can bring us to vulnerable states. Be sensitive when seeking contact, take responsability for your own yes/no and respect the (verbal or non verbal) no of others. Own your experience and create the best possible evening for yourself and others.

No ticket refunds, but you can sell your ticket to another dancer in the fb event page.