Ecstatic Dance Journey from Activation to Relaxation

Ecstatic dance is an environment without observers, judgements, posturing, attitudes, conversations, shoes or alcohol. A space where everyone can feel safe to be spontaneous, try new things and push their edges. This is the dance you dance when nobody is watching. Allowing your body to move freely without judgments or concerns for the “grace” or beauty of the dance, just getting lost in the dance into a space of no-mind. Collectively creating a space of high energy to support in our growth and expansion in our own lives.

Cacao Ceremony means relating to cacao with gratitude, intention, and reciprocity. This fruit is raw cacao brewed into a delicious drink that can help us open our hearts and connect deeper to positive intentions in your life. It is your intentional choice, and ultimately your surrender, that allows you to connect to the full experience cacao has to offer. We will all journey through this ceremony using the power of imagination and visualization to allow for profound moments to arise.

This event is for anyone open to connect, explore and express parts of yourself that wants to shine through. To feel the playfulness of coming together as a community and meeting new people. To practice mindfulness to raise our awareness in our physical bodies. To activate parts of our mind that have incredible power in creating and navigating through life in the most effective ways. To dance to the music with curiosty to expand and receive a moment that is completely new and fresh. To find stillness through guided meditation and receive the ancient didgeridoo vibrations through your body to support in cleansing and realigning any energies within that have been impacted through the difficulties of life.

The liberating atmosphere creates a melting pot of acceptance and the fearlessness with which others move gives permission and courage to dance without inhibition. Everyone is welcomed.

What to expect?

5:00pm - 5:15pm: Arrival & Opening circle

5:15pm - 6:00pm: Mindful Movement

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Cacao Ceremony

6:30pm - 8:00pm: DJ Tribal House Dance Set

8:00pm - 8:30pm: Guided meditation & Didgeridoo sound bath

8:30pm - 9:00pm: Closing Sharing Circle

Arrival: Please make sure to arrive on time.

Guidelines:

No shoes - This allows us to connect with our feet and the ground in a more natural way. To feel the movement in our muscles and the vibrations from the ground beneath.

Sober - No alcohol or drugs - We are reminding ourselves that we can experience the blissful states of ecstacy without alcohol or drugs.

Collective silence - This allows us to give our thinking brain a rest and tune into our physical body and it's ways of communicating without words.

No phones - Phone free zone - please keep phones off/silent.

Respect - Coming to a space of mindfulness practice means we are all apart of creating safe space for one another which means respecting ourselves and the ones around us.

What to bring:

A water bottle

A small towel in case you sweat

Wear comfy clothes that give you a full range of motion

An open & curious mind

Your perfectly imperfect self

FACILITATOR:

Joseph Duggan is an adventurer into the parts of life less traveled. Developing his connection as a Reiki practitioner, Movement coach, Fitness trainer, DJ, Didgeridoo sound healing and deeper exploration into the practices of Mindfulness, Meditation and Spiritual discovery, he has been accumilating a map to cultivate alignment and balance in one's life. Having lived in many places, being apart of many cultures in different roles, he has searched for the insight into how to live a life in harmony. When society's approach to wellness fell short, the search for new ways to heal and grow became his priority from a very young age. Now, harnessing a lifetime of experiences, trial and error, success and failures, he is creating a facilitated journey through movement, sound and awareness. With any experience coming together as one, we co-create the collective experience and are equally important.

VENUE: THE ELBOWROOM YOGA STUDIO - 61 MANOR STREET

From manor street. Walk up manor street away from the liffy and stay on the Right hand side. We are the large building with grand steps out the front and a dark blue dooway with an alley down the side.

From the LUAS (red line)- Get off at the Smithfield stop and walk into Smithfield square. Keep walking to the top of the square towards North King Street. At the top of the square you will see The cobblestones pub (nice pub by the way). Walk along side the pub on the cobble stone road. At the T-junction at the top, go left. Keep walking until you get to manor street with Walshes pub on the corner, turn right up the hill.

There are bike lanes around most of the route to the building. There is also a Dublin bikes sharing point at Smithfield LUAS stop. Manor picture house has secure bike locks inside the yard for you to use. However, as we do live in Dublin, please always double lock your bike. Once D-type and one chain is a good tip as the pesky theives normally carry one type of lock busting tool.

Parking on street parking and Free parking on Kirwan st (one way street) on Saturday and some streets off Aughrim st.

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