Dancing through Gateways | Opening body, heart and mind to states of trance

“When we dance, we go beyond thought and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.”
-- GOA GIL

Our brains are hardwired for trance. Many of our ancestors have accessed states of trance as a way of asking for inspiration, guidance or healing. It can bring ecstatic awareness and experiences that extend beyond the physical senses and the cognitive mind. The gates to our inner knowing and intuitive mind can open. Deep healing can occur in altered states of consciousness.

In our culture today many of us are experiencing a lack of ecstasy that we might try to fill with other means. The dancing path is an on-going journey from inertia to ecstatic trance. To be in a state of ecstasy means to be fully alive.

In this workshop we will move within the 5Rhythms® maps to anchor into our bodies, so that we can then open our hearts and minds to moments of ecstatic trance. Breath practices, ritual and embodiment tools will support us on our journeys.

We will integrate our experiences through heart centred sharing and compassionate witnessing.

No previous experience is required. Every body is welcome.

Testimonial:

“There are so few opportunities, especially in an urban context, to move with freedom in a wordless, safe container, to be able to feel and sense this complete non-judgemental, supportive and connected community.

Music/rhythm provides the juice, the motivation and energy, and dance becomes a meditation of movement.  It's this authenticity of self-expression that I simply can't find anywhere else.

I left the workshop with more openness after so much release, more alive, aligned and attuned with the universe, grounded, clear, lighter, and grateful!”

— Previous Workshop Participant