TURNING: A Fall Kirtan Ecstatic Dance Journey

Saturday 10/24 • 5:30-9:30pm
TURNING: A Fall Kirtan Ecstatic Dance Journey
With Ananda Lila Kirtan + Zig Tahir + Friends
Northshore Healing Center
6185 N Canfield Ave, Chicago, IL
Join us for a sacred evening of community, mantra, music, movement & connection as we honor the turning of the seasons, and the powerful threshold between Summer and Fall.
As nature turns inward, we gather to honor endings, release, transformation, and new beginnings. In this liminal time, when the veil between worlds grows thin, we create space to connect with our hearts, our ancestors, our inner wisdom, and the mystery of becoming.
Through kirtan, mantra, ecstatic dance, meditation, and deep integration, we will open our voices, move energy, release what no longer serves, and surrender into the unfolding of a new season.
Come sing. Come move. Come release. Come celebrate.
JOIN US TO SHARE:
5:30 - 6:00 PM | Opening
6:00 - 7:30 PM | Mantra Music with Ananda Lila Kirtan
7:30 - 8:45 PM | Ecstatic Dance with DJ Zig Tahir
8:45 - 9:00 PM | Integration
9:00 - 9:30 PM | Closing Circle
This is an 18+ event.
TICKETS/INFO:
Offering: $60 at Door **
https://www.nshealing.com
(**Please inquire about volunteer options and financial arrangements)
LOCATION:
Northshore Healing Center
6185 N Canfield Ave, Chicago, IL
WHAT TO BRING/SELF CARE:
• Water bottle
• Snacks or food that you may need. And feel free to eat or take breaks as needed for nourishment. Light healthy snacks, tea and water will be provided.
• Yoga mat or cushion for sitting and resting.
• Comfortable clothes for both dancing, and for sitting and resting.
GUIDELINES FOR OUR DANCE:
• Please come on time
• Come sober, refrain from intoxicants before and during event
• No talking on the dance floor during ecstatic dance
• No electronic devices in the dance area during ecstatic dance (No Phones, No Camera/Video)
• Respect everyone's personal space
• HAVE FUN! Move as you wish. Listen to your body.
Please review our Ecstatic Dance Guidelines before attending: https://www.artistzig.com/ecstatic-dance-guidelines.html
MORE INFO:
https://anandalilakirtan.wixsite.com/mysite
773-720-3455
[email protected]
www.facebook.com/anandalilalove
YOUR GUIDES:
Ananda Lila Kirtan (MANTRA MUSIC)
Ananda Lila Kirtan is a world music ensemble, blending chanting and music with ritual and meditation for healing and transformation. As a family of musicians, Ananda Lila loves to weave ancient chants from different traditions with newly birthed sacred songs. Ananda Lila features eclectic organic sound blending accordion, harp, world music rhythms, transcendent voices and ambient gong and soundscapes, creating a fusion of East & West, with Eastern European and Middle Eastern grooves meeting ambient and folk flavors. With a grateful heart, Ananda Lila Kirtan has been sharing kirtan and sacred sound experiences in the Midwest since 2010 at places such as: Kirtan Festival Milwaukee, Midwest Yoga and Kirtan Fest, The Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple, Yoga Now Chicago, Yogaview, Ahimsa Yoga, Unity Church, The Theosophical Society, Vedanta Center of Chicago, Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Center, Flower of Life Yoga, Oneness Festival, Home of Harmony. https://anandalilakirtan.wixsite.com/mysite, https://www.facebook.com/anandalilalove
https://www.youtube.com/.../UCAwtDOjlkygdHdh0yDf.../featured
Zig Tahir (ECSTATIC DANCE)
Zig is an artist, ecstatic dance facilitator, and lifelong explorer of movement, creativity, and conscious connection. Since discovering Ecstatic Dance in 2023, he has experienced firsthand the profound freedom and transformation that can emerge when we allow the body to become our guide.
Deeply inspired by nature, rhythm, art, and indigenous wisdom traditions, Zig creates spaces where people feel safe to move authentically, reconnect with themselves, and experience the healing power of community. His thoughtfully curated musical journeys invite participants to explore the full spectrum of human expression—from stillness and vulnerability to joy, liberation, and celebration.
Zig is also one of Inner Haven’s resident artists. His artwork is on display throughout the gallery and reflects the same spirit of curiosity, beauty, and soulful exploration that he brings to every dance experience. Connect with Zig on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ArtistZig/
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WHAT IS KIRTAN
From Jai Uttal:
Kirtan is part of an ancient form of yoga known as bhakti, or the yoga of devotion. In Bhakti we experience the power of Love, we feel the extraordinary and transformative power of expressing our feelings and emotions through songs and mantras, and we are graced with the healing power of sacred sound. This practice of calling to the divine creates a bridge between the individual and the eternal, opening the heart and welcoming the spirit. Mysteriously, as we chant, this sonic medicine intertwines with molecules both near and far, and purifies all that it touches. By singing we became a reservoir of sacred sound and project healing energy throughout the world.
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From Krishna Das:
At first we feel our practice is about me, and my happiness, my calming down. But everything that we do affects everybody all the time, even people we see on the street. This is the essence of dedicating your practice for the benefit of all beings.” Kirtan, he adds, is one way of “extending loving kindness to the whole world.”
Kirtan, he says, is a profound spiritual practice. As he once told the Washington Post: “When people come to sing for an evening of chanting, they’re not coming for entertainment. They’re coming to enter into this place in the heart…it’s participatory, and the motivation for doing it is to enter deeply into ourselves. So I’m entering into myself; they’re entering into their selves, but ultimately there’s only one of us.”