
Kaia is in lockdown abroad. Contact Sarah who will be continuing Ecstatic Dance Ottawa once restrictions ease.
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Ecstatic Dance Ottawa
41 Rosemount Ave, Hintonburg
1st & 3rd Thursdays Sept-June
$15 at the door, $10 students, $5 supervised children
Doors open 7:00 pm 7:15 cacao is served – $5. Please arrive at 7:10 for cacao. Dance starts 7:30.
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* Free parking in school lot across the street.
* Dress to move and sweat. Bring a water bottle.
* Air conditioning
Next Ecstatic Dances: Fall 2019
September 19, October 3 & 17; November 7 and 21 DJ Kaia; December 5 & 19 DJ Sarah
Gratitude
November 21
Gratitude immediately opens our hearts, connecting us to Love, life force, Mother Earth and our vibrant moving bodies. Come dance to a wave of world and electronica rhythms, starting slow and gentle, building to a climax, then softening down into openness. Enjoy the dance journey woven through if you wish.
Connection
November 7
Dance your loving, open connection to yourself, to others, and to all life. We move together, breath together, sensing each other while deepening our sense of our authentic, free selves.
Freedom
October 17
Dance your wild, authentic freedom! Fly! Let down any walls that keep you limited, discover and move through limitations, and allow yourself to move in new ways. What we discover on the dance floor we take into our lives.
Core Strength
September 19
Heart, spirit and spine are a powerful core within us that can be opened and empowered through conscious movement. When strong, they allow us to live authentically, love fearlessly and speak truth to power. This vibrant dance invites us to be fully embodied, exploring what is open and steady within us while being curious about what contracts or caves us in. We’ll discover power in our movement and increase our freedom to move authentically from this strong core.
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Nature
October 3
Connecting to mother earth through loving and fully inhabiting our bodies, we pray with our feet, our open hearts, and our intentions, dancing into being a life we feel excited to be an intrinsic part of.
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What is Ecstatic Dance?
Ecstatic Dance allows us to move in totally free expression to wonderful varied music. Each week is a different theme, taking you on a transformative journey. The music is interesting, musical, varied, spanning from lilting ethnic through celtic, world beat, electronica, rhythmic chant and drumming. The music starts gently, inviting embodied awareness and authenticity, builds to a vibrant crescendo then drops into lilting songs, spiritual message, and ends in mindful stillness. An opening circle introduces the theme when the dancers are warmed up, the closing circle allows sharing, creating warmth and interconnection between dancers.
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Past Ecstatic Dances
Past dances
September 5, 2019
Dance your inner, free spirit nature – gently, freely or wildly. Connect to your inner light and find your authentic expression, in whatever way it comes, naturally moving to changing rhythms and melodies. Great beats, inspiring lyrics, and a soft sweet landing in warm, open stillness at the end.
DJ: Kaia $15, $10 students, $5 cacao
Doors open at 7:00. Cacao cups served at 7:15. Please arrive by 7:10 so you have time to take your cacao in an intentional way.
April 18
Earth Prayers
December 20, 2018
Winter Solstice
Kaia will be facilitating the first half of the set, then handing over to Sarah for the second half. Sarah will be facilitating Ecstatic Dance Ottawa until Kaia returns in Spring.
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December 6
Magic!
Express the magical self that arises from open acceptance and embodied awareness. In centred, relaxed ease, we tap into our mystical life force so even a crescendo of wild expressive dance feels effortlessly flowing. Magic arises from love and wonder – expect the unexpected!
Cacao served at 7:15 – $
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November 29
Healing Moves
Our innate visceral intelligence unleashes when we allow ourselves to move in a way that’s totally natural, simply inspired by present moment music and feelings. A facilitated warm up will kick-start this dance, sharing ways to open our bodies, energize the spine and up the healing possibilities while enjoying uplifting lyrics and great rhythms our dance doubling as powerfully liberating therapy if we feel to – here’s how!
November 15
Release
Be all that you can be! The dance floor is the most fun way to release all that isn’t resonant with your higher self. Invite yourself into your cells to move out visceral memory.
Full or half cup of cacao $10/$5 available – contact Kaia to order one – served before the dance.
November 1
Samhain
At Samhain, the veil thins, allowing access to the spirit worlds and their intuitive wisdom. Celebrate our ancestors, guides and nature spirits moving to music flavoured with Celtic, mystical and Wiccan sounds.
Full or half cup of cacao $10/$5 available – contact Kaia to order one – served before the dance.
October 18
Shamanic Healing
Journey through release to healing! Our bodies have intrinsic wisdom and know how to release and heal when allowed to move freely. Earthy tribal rhythms and a melodic soundscape quickly drop us in a grounded open state releasing this healing wisdom.
Live drumming jam interval. Cacao beans at the opening circle. Full or half cup of cacao $10/$5 – contact Kaia to order
October 6
Thanksgiving
September 20
Equinox!
September 6
Joyous Reunion