Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Dance First Member Spotlight on Melissa Micheals and Golden Bridge!

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is on Melissa Micheals and the Golden Bridge team!

Today we are giving love to Melissa Micheals and the Golden Bridge Team! Melissa is a social artist dedicated to promoting collective renewal through the liberation of the creative spirit. She is the founder of Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving and empowering people through body-centred initiatory processes, mentoring, and community action. A first-generation teacher of the 5Rhythms®️ and a Registered Somatic Educator and Therapist, Melissa holds a doctorate degree in Education, Leadership and Change.

Monday Love to your Inspiring Ideas

“Some of our finest work comes through service to others”

~ Gordon Hinckley

Help us out here. We’ve been brainstorming some various ways that the Dance First Association could expand and evolve and be a more valuable resource and service for folks in the conscious dance community, both for active movement facilitators and modality founders as well as participants in the field at large.

As you probably know, Dance First began as a pivot from the original Conscious Dancer Magazine project. From 2007 to 2013 we published some 23 print editions of a full-color magazine plus several online guides and supplements. In those years we touched upon pretty much every major modality and conducted interviews with many of the pioneers in the movement including Gabrielle Roth, Vincent Arjuna Martí, and Anna Halprin.

Online Series: Our Creation Stories: Performance Rituals for Remembering ~ with Joy Cosculluela

September 20 @ 10:00 am - October 11 @ 12:00 pm PDT

Through the lens of Indigenous wisdom, we humbly re-learn and remember our interconnectedness with people and land. We tap into nature’s bodies to reconnect with who we are — our creation stories or cultural origins that live within our bones. Where do we come from? What is my ocean? What is my mountain? Who are my people?

Monday, August 30, 2021

Moving Into Wellness Earth Dance Gathering

October 30

| $95

Movement Insights brings you a gathering of the exceptional Moving into Wellness conscious dance facilitators restoring center and grounding our roots into the earth. Through the day participants will be guided through a series of movement modalities including morning personal practice, gathering circle

Noon JourneyDance

August 31 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $20

Join me at Movement Insights to move on the floating bamboo floor together every Tuesday for live-streaming Noon JourneyDance w/ Toni Bergins!

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Ecstatic Dance Global Friday zoom jam

Ecstatic Dance Global Friday zoom jam

August 27

ECSTATIC DANCE GLOBAL FAMILY….

Ecstatic Dance is a free form movement practice that you do from home, anywhere on earth and in your body. Some do it for exercise, to connect, as a spiritual experience, some do it for celebration, self care, expression, meditation, as a way to heal the body/mind, for the music, medicine and to connect to a loving supportive community. You can do this as you clean your home, ride in and airplane, around the table, pool, in the jungle, at the office, in your yoga space, at the beach, in the forest, while taking care of your kids ( kids are welcome), from the hospital, in bed, on the treadmill, from rehab center ( these are all places people have joined from)

Ecstatic Dance Sunday zoom jam

ECSTATIC DANCE GLOBAL FAMILY….

Ecstatic Dance is a free form movement practice that you do from home, anywhere on earth and in your body. Some do it for exercise, to connect, as a spiritual experience, some do it for celebration, self care, expression, meditation, as a way to heal the body/mind, for the music, medicine and to connect to a loving supportive community. You can do this as you clean your home, ride in and airplane, around the table, pool, in the jungle, at the office, in your yoga space, at the beach, in the forest, while taking care of your kids ( kids are welcome), from the hospital, in bed, on the treadmill, from rehab center ( these are all places people have joined from)

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Ecstatic Dance Breda: DJ Mystica (BE) + Cindy Molle

September 3

Max 35 tickets! We dansen met minder mensen om afstand te kunnen houden. #covidconscious. Tickets via: https://shop.ikbenaanwezig.nl/…/ecstatic-dance-breda-dj…

“Ecstatic Dance with a feminine touch”.

De sets van ★ Mystica ★ kenmerken zich door een kleurrijk palet van zorgvuldig gekozen nummers die met een zekere intentie of gevoel resoneren, die zij vervolgens weeft tot een kunstwerk dat spreekt van emotie, een spiritueel inzicht en levenservaring. Het verhaal van haar sets gaat soms diep, over de viering van het leven, inspireert of wakkert de helende werking van muziek aan.

Ecstatic Dance Special: Nykkyo Energy DJ + Cacao Ceremonie Iris Ãnuenue

September 10

Max 35 tickets! We dansen met minder mensen om afstand te kunnen houden #covidconscious. Tickets via: https://shop.ikbenaanwezig.nl/…/ecstatic-dance-breda…

★ Nykkyo Energy DJ ★ staat bekend om zijn ultieme diepgelaagde emotionele muziek en hoge energie-uitbarstingen, die menig danser tot nieuwe onbekende delen van zichzelf brengt. Blokkades oplost die de danser meer naar het authentieke zelf brengt.

BMC with Nina Wehnert. 21-24 Oct. Algarve/ Portugal

October 21

FLUID BODY
Body-Mind Centering® into Dance

REGISTER
https://bit.ly/BMCNinaWehnertPortugal
We support local community with discounted tickets.

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Presence of Breath™ A Transformational Breath® Weekend in September! with Adelle Brewer

September 10 - September 12

The Presence of Breath™ Introductory Training offers five full Transformational Breath® sessions, combined in a program format with an introduction to the highly acclaimed “Presence Process” book by Michael G. Brown.

Read More Here

The Phoenix Rising Retreat at Eagle’s Nest

Dance from the Heart – Virgo New Moon Circle

September 7 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

| Free – $55

Craving a nurturing sacred container to explore new moon magic in September? Join us in an evening of grounding, centering, dance, and meditation as we move through and invoke the sacred elements to support our greatest, highest healing.

Dance First Member Insight from Brietta Leader, creator of WildCore Movement!

This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Jennifer Joy Jiménez, founder of Transcendance™!

Judgment

The topic of judgment feels extremely relevant in these ‘Soulful’ times. I have been acutely aware of the self-judgment, the judgment I create about others, and how it affects my energy, triggering my curiosity. I want to share that I love to be wrong about other people. In my years of SoulMotion training, I would catch myself judging a ‘book by its cover’ or a person by the way they looked.

Monday Love to your Community Conversations

“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

~ Truman Capote

How do you help hold your community together? What’s your method of connecting people? Where do you welcome new folks into the mix?

“New normal” or not, this past year and a half of rolling with the changes is certainly inspiring some innovation. Regardless of where you live or what kind of community you’re part of, the modes and methods of connection have all seen considerable adjustment.

Sunday, August 22, 2021

5 OF HEARTS

September 17 - September 19

The 5Rhythms® and their connection to the our basic emotions, the heartbeat level maps, are wonderful tools for self-enquiry.

The practice is as simple as it is deep. It’s formless form provides us a wonderful balance between sufficient structure and enough ample freedom to let our bodies and hearts find their very own dance.

Voyages to the heart

August 31 - September 4

Deep into the rhythms – Voyages into the Heart
5 days workshop 31/8- 4/9 2021
09:30 – 13:30

Description:
5rhythms is a dance meditation practice, designed to allow us explore our unique ways of relating to life’s energies.

Empreintes / Prints

Empreintes / Prints

September 4

Atelier Approfondissement

La danse est par essence un art éphémère. Chaque mouvement en génère un autre et ainsi tout s’y transforme constamment. Elle est aussi l’art de la pleine conscience et de l’intensité de l’instant. Chaque mouvement compte, vibre, nous recrée et recrée notre environnement. Tout est là, maintenant, dans la trace qu’imprime le geste sur le sol, dans l’air, dans la rencontre.

Thursday, August 19, 2021

The Universal Dancer Podcast with Leslie Zehr

August 22 @ 2:00 pm UTC

The Universal Dancer Podcast with Leslie Zehr and her guest Toni Bergins Creator of JourneyDance™

In this episode, Leslie and Toni will explore how creativity heals. They will also delve into embodiment, emotional release, well-being, and spiritual connection through dance.

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

JUICE

September 3 - September 4

How is your life force right now?

Do you feel the call to dance deep, connect to the fluid succulent parts of yourself, to refresh, (re)juice and rejoice in the spirit of your essence?

Come join us, and as a group we’ll move through the Waves maps of the 5Rhythms dynamic movement practice together.

Sun and Moon Dance

Sun and Moon Dance

September 4 - September 5

SUN AND MOON DANCE, 5Rhythms® workshop

The open, mystical space of the top of the Mosor mountain next to the coastal town of Split calls us to step outside our ordinary space and time – 700 m above the sea level, detached from the everyday life, supported by the deep silence of the solitary mountain and rocks, by the open sky and the magic of the Moon, the stars and the Sun, by the wide vista that spreads beyond and even further over the sea horizon.

INTIMITA (Heartbeat In Training)

September 10 - September 12

A week end workshop, retreat style.

I love this venue, the perfect place to hold a small and intimate group.

The venue is a totally ecologically restored farm with a beautiful dance hall.

In this week end we explore the map of intimacy.

Ecstatic Woods – Re-Light My Fire : Conscious Workshops & Ecstatic Dance

September 25

Deze dag wordt georganiseerd door Ecstatic Dance Breda en Yoga Studio Origa. Re-Light My Fire is een mini-retreat voor slechts ca. 20 deelnemers.
We verwelkomen je graag op een mooi gelegen en inspirerende plek aan de rand van een klein water, waar je jezelf onmiddellijk kan verbinden met de natuur. Precies op de grens van België en Nederland. Samen met een exclusieve kleine groep deelnemers voor transformerende dag met Authentic Movement, meditatie, live muziek, Despacho Ceremonie en Ecstatic Dance

Dance The Change – silent parties for a cause!

August 23

Just a quick announcement to let you dancers all know that Dance The Change is currently doing monthly events & the next one is Sunday August 22nd, from 2-5pm at Snow Park/Lake Merritt. We will be doing monthlies Aug/Sep/Oct & then pivoting back to weekly events by November (maybe sooner if we get a team to help make it happen – DM me if interested! Looking for helpers to organize DTC events). Mark your calendars for Sunday September 19th 2-5pm for the next monthly. Also, we are working on collaborating with a few other silent disco collectives to do a large Bay Area Silent Disco Festival which is looking to be freakin’ FANTASTIC! Stay tuned for more info on that soon.

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Ecstatic Dance Breda: DJ Mystica (BE) + Cindy Molle

September 3

Max 35 tickets! We dansen met minder mensen om afstand te kunnen houden. #covidconscious. Tickets via: https://shop.ikbenaanwezig.nl/…/ecstatic-dance-breda-dj…

“Ecstatic Dance with a feminine touch”.

De sets van ★ Mystica ★ kenmerken zich door een kleurrijk palet van zorgvuldig gekozen nummers die met een zekere intentie of gevoel resoneren, die zij vervolgens weeft tot een kunstwerk dat spreekt van emotie, een spiritueel inzicht en levenservaring. Het verhaal van haar sets gaat soms diep, over de viering van het leven, inspireert of wakkert de helende werking van muziek aan.

Ecstatic Dance Global Saturday jam from home on zoom

Ecstatic Dance Global Saturday jam from home on zoom

August 22

| free

ECSTATIC DANCE GLOBAL FAMILY….

Ecstatic Dance is a free form movement practice that you do from home, anywhere on earth and in your body. Some do it for exercise, to connect, as a spiritual experience, some do it for celebration, self care, expression, meditation, as a way to heal the body/mind, for the music, medicine and to connect to a loving supportive community.

Monday, August 16, 2021

Intuit Somatic Movement

Intuit somatic movement is a space to be as you are. As we dance we listen with the body.
Our embodiment is the clearest way to hear what needs to be attended to.
It might be our emotions or insight into our own internal guidance.
Many of us are dancing with I don’t know right now, how do we befriend the mystery,
finding freedom in the uncertainty if only for a moment while we are in motion and in stillness.

This is a guided journey of 8 songs to move with our inner world to transform our outer world.
We will meet over 12 weeks to develop community of like hearted people.

Dance from the Heart – Heart on Fire New Moon Circle

August 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

| Free – $55

Communal Space for Rhythm, Ritual & Release – No dance experience necessary!

Craving a nurturing sacred container to explore release and what it means in your body?

We will be exploring release in a gentle and restorative space, remaining grounded, fluid, and compassionate to whatever may arise during the next full moon.

Full moons are typically ripe for release as they may light up our deepest truths when the dark sky is lit up in full lumination

Dance First Member Insight from Transcendance founder Jennifer Joy Jiménez!

This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Jennifer Joy Jiménez, founder of Transcendance™!

Hello, Fellow Conscious Dancers!

If you’re like me, you may have had a “before finding conscious dance” story and an “after finding conscious dance” story.

Before finding conscious dance, I was a professional modern dancer and a “body abuser.” I had a slew of very deep, rooted limiting beliefs and habits that kept me in pain mentally, emotionally, and physically. I never felt thin enough, good enough, or worthy. It felt like I was living in a “dark cave.”

Monday Love to your Moments of Movement

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”

~ Aldous Huxley

Are you getting enough movement in your day-to-day life? Have the shifts in our society caused a shift in your practice? What kind of adjustments have you made to deal with our evolving reality?

Since our world turned upside down well over a year ago a lot of things have changed. Remember when all the dances started to shut down? “We’re closing down for three weeks out of an abundance of caution.” or “See you next month!” Well, overly optimistic would be an understatement, to say the least.

Here in the East Bay where I was the host and resident DJ at Dance Jam we shut down in a hurry and left it open-ended. We’ll dance again in person when the danger has past and there’s no need for masks indoors. It doesn’t help that our room only opens up on one end so the best we can do is use fans to keep the air moving, there’s no way to have it flowing through.

Friday, August 13, 2021

Moving Paths Nov-Dec

November 10 @ 9:30 am - December 22 @ 12:30 pm EST

Using movement, meditation and speaking, we enquire into the truth of the moment: within oneself, with each other, and in the world.

Moving Paths Sept

September 1 @ 9:30 am - October 20 @ 12:30 pm EDT

Using movement, meditation and speaking, we enquire into the truth of the moment: within oneself, with each other, and in the world.

You commit to a seven-week cycle, 3 hours on a Wednesday morning. You’re with the same small group of people for that seven weeks, then it opens up to newcomers if there’s space.

BODYWERK: A 5Rhythms® Waves Happening

August 24

REGISTER HERE FOR 8/23: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/bodywerk-a-5rhythms-waves…

Forget dancing like you’re used to. Forget your strategies and training. Forget the contracted – buttoned up – perfection pinched – filtered frills … and all the ways you’ve been told how you should be, move, behave and feel.

Butoh Festival Amsterdam 8-9 October

October 8 - October 10

Butoh international Festival. Munganga Theatre. Amsterdam 8-9 October

UNCONVENTIONAL, EXPERIMENTAL, CONTROVERSIAL

14 performers

Transformation : Workshop 5 Rythmes, TRE et Système Nerveux Brussels

Transformation : Workshop 5 Rythmes, TRE et Système Nerveux Brussels

October 23 - October 24

Information in English:
https://www.creativmove.com/transformation

“L’art de la régulation du système nerveux par le mouvement.”

Lorsque notre système nerveux retrouve de la fluidité pour naviguer entre ses différents états, une transformation peut prendre forme dans notre être et notre présence au monde : nous pouvons être en lien plus facilement, notre capacité d’adaptation se déploie et notre joie de vivre rayonne. Le mouvement et le corps sont essentiels pour cette fluidité.

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Deep Dancing with live Music

April 16, 2022 - April 18, 2022

I am so happy to invite you for this workshop. Together with Johan Bysell and his beautiful improvisatoric live music and the map of the 5Rhythms together we will create a sacred space and a workshop of deep dancing in the beautiful venue of Strandgaarden Retreat and surroundings like the beach and garden.

Lava Hot Springs retreat

April 22, 2022 - April 24, 2022

6th annual retreat. Dance & soak. Save the date! Always magical!

DETAILS TBA

This 5Rhythms® moving meditation workshop is open to all levels of experience. It explores how we can embody change and bring greater awareness to our interaction with it. Simple and profound, the 5Rhythms® practice will offer you valuable life tools to dance through changes with grace.

Un-Masked: The Joy of Finding your Original Face

March 12, 2022 - March 19, 2022

Being aware of our outer and inner lives is a process of peeling back the faces and outdated masks with which we normally identify. The faces are endless: the smart one, the suspicious one, the confident one, the beautiful one, the rich one etc. Keeping these faces operating and alive is exhausting. They are impermanent and not our original nature.

Sole to Soul Ongoing Closed Group

March 24, 2022 - March 27, 2022

This workshop is the second of two follow-up workshops for those who completed the five day intensive retreat at Easter 2021. We will continue to deepen our group and individual journeys, focusing on the territory of the mind – our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves, others and the world we live in. We will explore ways for our conditioning to move and break free from the prison walls they have erected.

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Dance First Member Insight from Leslie Zehr, creator of The Alchemy of Dance!

This weeks Dance First Member Insight is from Egypt-based Leslie Zehr, creator of The Alchemy of Dance.

Moving through the Pandemic

Interesting times. Fortunately for me, the pandemic was not a great struggle—but there are always limits. Being an introvert, I have a high tolerance for being alone. My children and grandchildren all live in Egypt. We made a pact to only interact with each other—so I had contact with them.

Monday Love to your Musical Memories

“ Music is life itself ”

~ Louis Armstrong

(more notes from a musical memoir…)

In which a curious student befriends a family of fans.

When the Bus Trip reached its end, we returned to Colorado and settled down. The idea of moving elsewhere never happened and to hear my parents tell it, one of the reasons we came back to Grand Junction was because I had friends there. I found myself back at Scenic Elementary for my 6th grade year, only now I was in the same grade as kids who had formerly been a year behind me. So some of the kids who had been in my class before were now a year ahead, and I started a pattern of hanging with the next grade up that persisted right through high school. Gwen P., who I had been friends with in elementary school, was now a 7th grader, and her younger brother Dave was now in my class, and their older brother Tim was two years ahead.

Monday, August 9, 2021

Dance Your Medicine Retreat 2022

February 5, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - February 11, 2022 @ 11:30 am EST

| $997 – $3497

DANCE YOUR MEDICINE is a multi-day, eco luxury retreat about remembering, recharging and reaching our peak vitality through intentional movement and community. Together, for 6 days and 5 nights, we will imbibe pristine nature and food, dance to luscious music, embrace our sensuality and learn how to harness it for creating good in the world.

Dance Your Medicine – Costa Rica Retreat February 2022

February 5, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - February 11, 2022 @ 4:00 pm CST

| $997 – $3497

DANCE YOUR MEDICINE is a multi-day, eco luxury retreat about remembering, recharging and reaching our peak vitality through intentional movement and community. Together, for 6 days and 5 nights, we will imbibe pristine nature and food

Friday, August 6, 2021

Ecstatic Dance Global Sat Jam

Join us every Wednesday 9:30-11am , Saturday 7:00-8:30pm and Sunday 10:30-12noon EASTERN TIME ZONE (check your time zone). Doors open 30 minutes prior to the dance for silent meditation or enjoy the soft music and get yourself warmed up, ready. Links to join from any geographic location and in your body, are below. Our dances are offered for a donation or free. Your donations help us to keep things flowing and you are encouraged to join no matter what. Your presence and energy add so much and we are happy you’ll join. Camera can be on/off or tilted to the side. More information is below.

Ecstatic Dance Global “New Moon” Lions Gate

Join us every Wednesday 9:30-11am , Saturday 7:00-8:30pm and Sunday 10:30-12noon EASTERN TIME ZONE (check your time zone). Doors open 30 minutes prior to the dance for silent meditation or enjoy the soft music and get yourself warmed up, ready. Links to join from any geographic location and in your body, are below. Our dances are offered for a donation or free. Your donations help us to keep things flowing and you are encouraged to join no matter what. Your presence and energy add so much and we are happy you’ll join. Camera can be on/off or tilted to the side. More information is below.

Butoh dance workshop with Ezio Tangini

It involves an exercise of the state of the body focused on the exhalation, to allow to develop a state of widespread occurrence, organic, non-hierarchical. Breathing and relaxation are the basis of internal awareness of the performative action, danced. The breathing technique is the foundation of the performative application and It determines it.

Online Special Event – Honoring Anna Halprin: Halprin Work and Legacy ~ with Janice Ross

August 20 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PDT

| Free

Janice Ross, Professor in the Department of Theater & Performance Studies at Stanford University, author of Experience As Dance and longtime friend, will offer an ONLINE lecture slide show on the Halprin work and legacy.

Online Special Event – Honoring Anna Halprin: WORLDWIDE PLANETARY DANCE

Anna’s expressed wish for her memorial, as stated to me and Rana, was that she wanted people to connect with her spirit in the way that was dearest to her heart, Planetary Dance.

The Power of Feeling II

September 30 @ 10:00 am - October 14 @ 1:00 pm EDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

New Series – Women’s Power: The Power of Love
3 Dance Alchemy Evenings for Women online through Istituto Osho Miasto
Thursdays September 30, October 7th and 14th
10am-1pm PST, 7-10pm CEST, (19:00-22:00)
in English with Italian translation
It is not necessary to have done the previous Power of Feeling workshop

Dance Alchemy Heart Meditations

September 3 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT

|Recurring Event (See all)

| $10

Dance Alchemy Heart Meditation begins with a fun free-dancing warmup for the body. We then enter into a Dance Alchemy process which delves into a certain issue we all can relate to, followed by a Heart Meditation and optional sharing.

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