Weekly Dance Temple 14 Feb

Join us for a weekly ecstatic dance session, Fridays from 18h to 20h30, in the cozy wooden shala at Terra Lodge. ✦ ☾ ✹ THIS WEEK: We start with a guided warmup to tune into the body and drop the turnings of the mind. This week will be something special for the Valentine mood, guided by guest Florian, with some ice-breakers and full activation of both the body and the imagination. Our resident DJ Gingaí will then weave us through digital music with the refreshing presence of natural and elemental sounds, acoustic instruments and the anchoring touch of the human voice in a journey around the world and beyond. Closing, we surrender to the earth's embrace with a meditative sound journey deeply rooted in gratitude, to leave the experience grounded and refreshed. ✦ ☾ ✹ EXTRA INFO: 🧦 In order to be super comfortable during the moment of shavasana we invite you to bring warm clothes. 🧙‍♂️ Feel free to dress up or dress down. It's only important that what you wear is comfortable and allows you to move freely. 🍫 Cacao boost will be available for those that feel the call to commune with this plant medicine. ✦ ☾ ✹ WHAT IS ECSTATIC DANCE: If it's your first ecstatic dance, fear not! We're here for you :) ecstatic dance is an international movement where we dance in a certain frequency. It's a group journey that we embark on together, and being in that group frequency is what the experience is all about. To arrive at that, there are a few guidelines we hold dear: - Ecstatic dance is a conscious movement practice for all, we come as we are to share a journey together as a tribe, as one family. - The djset follows the shape of a wave: inviting you to explore stillness, flow, chaos, storytelling with the body, expressing, releasing, tapping into emotions and states of being, eventually returning to stillness. "Movement is a conversation with your own body that no one else needs to understand." - You are invited and encouraged to listen to your heart/body and always respond with choices that make your experience safe, personal and authentic for you throughout the whole session. - During the dance itself we don't speak. Communication is still encouraged, a facial expression can mean a thousand words, a hug can mean a million, the invitation is to drop into a state of deeper connection with the body and the senses rather than the mind. - Respect each other’s practice and space, always engage from a place of presence, notice the subtleties. - We collectively hold the space together and each dance always has seasoned dancers who are available should you have any questions. This is a safe space for you to be YOU and all that that means as your dance unfolds. ✦ ☾ ✹ SPREAD THE LOVE: Feel free to share with your friends and trusted soul fam. I'm beyond delighted you chose to join us for this co-creation of a free, ecstatic and loving celebration of life.