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About Ecstatic Dance

Across time and culture, dance has long been revered for its power to heal body, mind, and soul, strengthen the bonds of community, and facilitate communion with spirit and nature by allowing us to discover deeper aspects of who we are as human beings. Dance is also used as a form of worship, prayer, meditation, celebration, story-telling, and to commemorate important rites of passage. Ecstatic or trance dancing bestows a sense of amazing grace and an experience of unity and wholeness, an opening of the heart and mind that can bring you into communion with something much larger than your self.

Cut off from its healing and esoteric roots, western culture has reduced dance to a form of entertainment, a way to socialize, or to attract a mate. It’s generally not thought of as a way to pray, meditate, evoke visionary experience, or commune with spirit and nature. Yet in the past decade or so, it seems that the ancient understandings of dance as a healing and spiritual modality are impressing themselves upon the modern mind, as if welling up from old, vibrant memories of the tribal soul within. The idea of dance as a symbolic language of the psyche that can initiate healing, visionary, and ecstatic experience through rhythm and movement is being explored by increasing numbers of people searching for new levels of health, wholeness, and spiritual connection.

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