Ean Golden - Ecstatic Dance Oakland - Sunday @ Sweets

Name: Ean Golden - Ecstatic Dance Oakland - Sunday @ Sweets
Start: 2025-03-16T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-03-16T13:11:00-07:00
Location: Sweets Ballroom

Schedule

Sun Mar 16 2025 at 10:00 am to 01:11 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Sweets Ballroom | Oakland, CA

Ecstatic Dance Oakland - Sweets Ballroom
Sunday March 16th - DJ: Ean Golden
Contact Improv: Marcus van Duren
Yoga: Satya Gita
Circle & Meditation: Katie McClung
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DJ: Ean Golden
For more than 20 years, Ean Golden has been touring the worlds largest clubs and festivals, changing the landscape of Dj technology forever. He is the leading expert in modern DJing and created the "controllerism" movement of DJ performance. He’s created equipment used by artists including Skrillex, Bassnectar and Stimming, as well as designing some of the top selling DJ technology in the world for companies like Native Instruments and Novation. With an online community of millions who follow him on his blog and Facebook, Ean has garnered deep respect and legendary status as a innovator who continues to raise the bar for what a DJ can do.
www.eangolden.com/

Contact Improv: Marcus van Duren
Marcus van Duren is a dancer and teaching artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marcus has intensively studied movement and dance performance since his discovery of contact improvisation in 2013. He has had the pleasure of studying with Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Frey Faust, Scott Wells, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ray Chung, Martin Keogh, Nita Little, Sarah Shelton Mann and many others. Marcus actively investigates new ways of moving and understanding movement as a member of the international Axis Syllabus community. In addition to appreciating dance as a performing art, Marcus sees dance, especially contact improvisation, as a life practice. Marcus is endlessly curious about how dance can be used to access different states of being and uncover new ways of relating to self and other.

Yoga: Satya Gita
Satya Gita is a long-time, devoted practitioner and teacher of yoga. In her more than 20 years of practice, she has studied many forms of yoga, including Jivamukti, Integral, Ashtanga, Standing Wave Yoga, Forrest, and Anusara. Born in Oslo and raised in Trondheim Norway, she studied dance at The London Contemporary Dance School and on Africa’s Ivory Coast before moving to New York to study and teach at Jivamukti. She was also certified at the Integral Yoga Institute and studied Standing Wave.
Satya then created and implemented a yoga program for Harbin Hot Springs, an internationally known retreat center in California. During this time, she founded her own teaching style called Anahatha Yoga, which utilizes physical postures and alignment to open energetic dimensions and pathways in the body. Preparing the body in this way opens the student’s awareness to more subtle dimensions of Being in an embodied way. She has been teaching and developing this form for 18 years, as well as training and certifying others in the approach. She continues to offer classes and workshops using Anahatha yoga to help students deepen in themselves.
https://satyaaune.com/about-satya

Circle & Meditation: Katie McClung
Katie McClung is a yoga instructor, visual artist, musician, educator, and dance enthusiast who has been a part of the ecstatic dance community for over a decade. She has also been a non profit program manager and events manager for many years. Katie combines her skills, interests, talents, and playfulness in order to create an inviting space and joyous experience for dance attendees.

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Timing: (Arrive when you Wish)
9:45am - Doors Open
10am - Contact Improv (Main Floor)
10am - Yoga (Upstairs)
10:45am - Opening Circle
11am - Ecstatic Dance
1pm - Sound Healing / Meditation
1:11pm - Good Day! - Time for Picnic
After Dance Picnic is held next to Lake Merritt near the Fairyland Sign by Whole Foods on Grand Avenue & Harrison.
Tickets:
Available at the door with Cash / Card / Venmo
$25 Drop-In
$20 Circle Passes sold in 5 packs ($100)
@ Sweets Ballroom
1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA
19th St. BART
Secured Covered Parking: Dalziel Garage
250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
$6.30
Volunteer Opportunity: Show up at 9am sharp! for Opening
or ask at the door for Closing Opportunities.
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All are Welcome.
Ecstatic Dance is a Freeform Conscious Dance, Mixed by a Seasoned DJ for a Continuous Sonic Journey. Move however you wish, without verbal guidance, shoes, or booze. Music will flow through various Tempos, Genres, Intensities, and Emotions, so that Dancers may Experience, Express, and Transform their own Energies on the Dancefloor Together.
Ecstatic Dance can be your:
1. Physical Exercise
2. Mental Therapy
3. Connection to Spirit
4. Social Connection with Others
5. Personal Connection with Self
We only ask that you refrain from:
1. Talking on the Dancefloor
2. Using your Phone
3. Wearing Shoes
4. Using Substances (Be Yourself!)
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Website:
https://ecstaticdance.org/dance/oakland-ecstatic-dance-sunday-morning/
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@ Sweets Ballroom
1933 Broadway, Oakland, CA
19th St. BART
Secured Covered Parking: Dalziel Garage
250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
$6.30