Calan Mai (Beltane): Full Moon Bluebell Ecstatic Dance

🌕 Calan Mai / Beltane: Full Moon Ecstatic Dance 🌕

📍 Location: Ancient bluebell woodland in Cardiff (exact location and parking details shared after booking)
📅 Date: Friday 1st May
⏰ Time: 6:15pm – 8:15pm
🎧 Silent Disco Ecstatic Dance in Nature

Join DJ Adra for an ecstatic dance experience in ancient Welsh woodland. This is a substance-free, conscious movement space held in nature.

Calan Mai / Beltane marks the turning of the year into summer. The land is becoming fully awake and life surges forward with growth and momentum. In this threshold of fire, fertility, and celebration, we move out of spring’s slower rhythms and into a rising current of movement and aliveness.

🌿 The Dance Floor

Under the Full Moon, the forest becomes a living dancefloor with an invitation to move, release, and return to something instinctive within you.

We gather in this rare and sacred moment beneath the trees, stepping back into rhythm with the land and reconnecting with something instinctive, wild, and deeply alive within you.

The dance becomes ritual, a space to release what is ready to move, to welcome what is emerging, and to soften into transformation.

A silent disco sound journey unfolds through the woodland so you can move freely and intuitively in your own way. Among bluebells and moonlight, sound and silence weave together, holding space for embodiment, expression, and release.

Let the land, your body, and the night guide you.

If you feel the call, come and join us beneath the Flower Moon.

🌿 What is Ecstatic Dance?

Ecstatic Dance is a free form, music led, conscious movement practice. Your body leads and movement unfolds naturally with no pressure, no performance, and no expectation.

DJ Adra holds the journey as a wave of sound and energy, guiding dancers through grounding, momentum, release, and stillness while responding to the room and what is alive in the moment.

Everyone is welcome, especially first timers. The invitation is simple be present with the music, your body, and the moment. We dance with wireless headphones for a fully immersive experience.

🌱 Our Dance Guidelines

To keep the space safe, grounded, and nourishing for everyone

👣 No shoes we dance barefoot to stay grounded
🤫 No talking let the body speak on the dance floor
📵 No phones stay present with yourself and the music
🚫 No substances this is a drugs and alcohol free space
✋ Respect boundaries yours and those of others
🎧 Silent disco headphones provided immersive shared sound experience

🌿 Why on the Land?

Out here, movement is shaped by the living world around us. The earth underfoot, the shifting light, the wind through trees, all become part of the dance.

It offers a chance to:
🔹 Reconnect with your body through the natural world
🔹 Move in rhythm with the land rather than distraction or noise
🔹 Feel grounded, present, and part of something larger

This is dance as connection, embodiment, and return to nature.

🌀 Flow of the Evening

⏰ 6:15pm Arrival
⏰ 6:30pm Walk to our secret woodland dance floor
⏰ 6:40pm Opening Circle and Warm Up
⏰ 6:45pm Ecstatic Dance Journey
⏰ 8:15pm Closing Circle

🕊 We are in nature so these timings are approximate. Please arrive on time as we walk in together.

🧍 What to Expect (Physical Experience)

• Uneven natural woodland terrain
• Extended periods of standing, walking, and dancing
• No formal seating provided
• Outdoor natural conditions throughout
• No toilet facilities on site
• Limited phone signal in the woodland

🌿 Meeting Point

Exact location and parking details will be included in your booking confirmation email. A reminder with final directions will be sent 24-48 hours before the event. From there we will walk together to the woodland site.

Approx. 20-25 minutes from Cardiff city centre.

Please allow extra travel time due to Friday evening traffic leaving Cardiff.

💫 What to Bring

💧 Plenty of water (no water available on site)
👕 Comfortable clothes to move and sweat in
🧥 Warm layers for later in the evening
🔦 Torch or headtorch (recommended for walking out, sunset is 8:35pm)

🤍 This Dance Is For

🔹 Anyone drawn to nature rhythm and open air movement
🔹 First timers curious about Ecstatic Dance
🔹 Experienced dancers and regular movers
🔹 Those who don’t usually dance but feel called to try
🔹 Anyone craving release expression and connection under the Full Moon
🔹 Those seeking a shared grounding experience in land and community

All bodies and all ways of moving are welcome.

💟 GENERAL SAFETY
Please take care of your own wellbeing during the event. The terrain can be uneven slippery or dark in places and our dancefloor is the natural woodland and outdoor space.

You attend at your own risk and are responsible for your own wellbeing throughout the event.

💟 WEATHER CONTINGENCY
We welcome all weather as part of the journey while asking you to come prepared for changing conditions.

A decision will be made at 10am on the day guided by the forecast and conditions on site. This is an outdoor event and will go ahead in light rain. Only extreme weather will result in cancellation.

If the event cannot safely go ahead tickets can be transferred to another event or refunded. All attendees will be kept informed by email with any updates.

🎶 About the Facilitator

Adra Morwyn is a Welsh Ecstatic Dance DJ and Conscious Dance Facilitator based in Cardiff and has been creating musical mischief in various forms for over 20 years.

He builds dance floors that are vibrant playful and deeply grounded inviting a return to the body and the innate wisdom of movement. He is known for holding safe expansive dance spaces that are open and welcoming enough to support both newcomers and experienced dancers alike.

Drawing from a wide and eclectic exploration of sound across underground organic electronic and textured musical landscapes he crafts carefully structured sets that hold clear emotional and energetic arcs. These journeys guide dancers from grounding and presence through rhythm and release into expansion celebration connection and integration keeping the floor alive and in flow with the room.

Trained with Dance The Medicine DTM Adra brings somatic awareness into his facilitation supporting dancers to drop into the body follow sensation and allow movement and energy to unfold naturally. His approach prioritises nervous system safety inclusivity and accessibility while allowing space for depth intensity and uplift where appropriate.

He is trusted for his ability to hold the full Ecstatic Dance arc with clarity and care creating spaces that feel both grounded and transformative.

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