Ecstatic Dance Toronto
Schedule
Thu, 15 Feb, 2024 at 07:30 pm to Thu, 30 Jan, 2025 at 10:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Sts Cyril & Methody Church | Toronto, ON
About this Event
Are you looking for a DANCE GATHERING that does not involve drugs and alcohol? A new way of connecting to yourself and others that is healthy and natural!
Who are we?
We are a conscious weekly dance gathering centred around the love of dancing to good music with others. Every week is a real, grounded, joyful, exuberant and liberating gathering of beautiful human beings. You’re all welcome to come dance and express however you wish.
Ecstatic dance is freestyle dance - move however you wish - honour your body - dance with bare feet - no experience necessary - all ages, genders, cultures, sizes are welcome - respect yourself and one another - bring comfortable clothes to move in - bring water to drink - alcohol-free and recreational drug-free - safe and sacred space - let the music take you on a journey - see you on the dance floor
Join Toronto’s leading weekly Ecstatic Dance Community with nearly 900 dances offered and counting. Literally, thousands have danced, healed and celebrated with us since our first dance in January 2006. Join our growing dance community!
Learn more about the space that we create, our intention, our guidelines or join our newsletter and register for dance here: www.ecstaticdance.ca
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"Coming to dance revives my soul, every time!
The playfulness, the community, the dance has truly
changed my life and I encourage everyone to come!"
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We invite you to ...
We invite you to dance, sweat and connect with yourselves and each other. This is a place where you can feel free to move and express whatever is alive in you and whatever comes up when you shake up your cells. It is also nonverbal, barefoot, alcohol/drug-free to keep the experience intentional. Together we create a safe space for dance and authentic connection that is healing, inspiring and uplifting. Community, music and dance is our medicine.
“Ecstatic Dance is the way we use to gather as a community and dance to rhythms and beats for the purpose of celebration, healing, transformation and prayer.”
Julia Ray, Ecstatic Dance Toronto Visionary
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Our DJs draw inspiration from many genres and craft fun, unique journeys for your energies to root, renew and flow like a river running clear, strong, wild and free. Don't miss this opportunity to dance! There is freedom in motion.
Details:
Doors Open 7:30pm. (You can come after Opening Circle)
7:30p | WELCOMING DANCE | Arrive. Stretch. Socialize. Ground. Breath.
8:00p | OPENING CIRCLE | Gently Guided Movement Exercise & Meditation
8:15p | 1.5HR ED JOURNEY | Ecstatic Dance DJ of the Week
9:45p | CLOSING CIRCLE with Sounding & Sharing (totally optional)
...until 10:30p | COMMUNITY-INSPIRED SOCIAL TIME, SNACKS, MUSIC MAKING, SINGING, SOUNDING, DANCING
YOU BRING:
- Your own personal supply of water (you can refill your water bottle)
- Comfortable clothes for the entire evening
FEE: $25-$30 Cash at the Door or Interac: [email protected] or register here through Eventbrite
Location: Sts Cyril & Methody, 237 Sackville Street, Toronto, M5A 3G1
What is the Church like to dance in?
INCREDIBLY SPACIOUS. Our weekly dances are held in a 5000 sq. ft. chruch hall with high ceilings, huge windows, amazing hardwood floor & a crystal clear high fidelity sound system.
Where is it happening?
Sts Cyril & Methody Church, 237 Sackville Street, Toronto, CanadaCAD 25.00 to CAD 30.00