🔥 Ecstatic Dance 🔥

HOMECOMING - A dance to return yourself after a season of change. Coming home to the body, the heart and the present moment. 

You are invited to join a powerful dance journey designed to awaken your energy, shake out stress and reconnect you to your body’s wisdom.  No judgement. No choreography. 

We dance fortnightly on Sundays in a beautiful hall surrounded by the stunning magical Derbyshire countryside. This venue offers the perfect container to give the busy mind a rest, unwind and let your body lead the way. 

✨ What is Ecstatic Dance 

Ecstatic Dance is medicine for the body, heart and spirit. 

It’s a freeform, barefoot, sober dance journey where you’re invited to move exactly as you feel  — no steps, no performance, no judgement, no pressure to be anything other than yourself.

In Ecstatic Dance, we explore movement as a form of healing.

• You might feel joyful and expansive
• You might move through frustration, sadness, resistance, or release
• You might find yourself flowing, shaking, stretching, or resting
• You might move through many different emotions during the same dance.

Everything is welcome. There is no right or wrong way to dance.

✨ What to Expect

• A grounding opening meditation
• A journey through various styles of music danced as a wave of energies for example: slow and spacious, flowing, building into tribal rhythms, electronic and ecstatic peaks, then settling back down into deep calm.
• We dance with wireless headphones for a fully immersive journey.
• A safe, drug and alcohol free, barefoot space
• Move, play, shake, stretch, rest, express, release, connect, transform

✨ Schedule 

1.45 - 2 pm Arrive, get your headphones, settle into the space.

2 - 2.30 pm Welcome and opening meditation.

2.30 - 4 pm Ecstatic Dance Journey - the music builds like a wave — rising, intensifying, softening — supporting you to move through layers of energy and emotion.

4 - 4.30 pm - Relaxing and closing circle (no pressure to say or do anything in the closing circle)

✨ Guidelines 

The following guidelines help ensure we keep the space safe and supportive for all:

• No talking on the dance floor - helps us stay present in our dance.
• Barefoot dancing - this is encouraged to ground. Socks can be worn.
• Sober space – no alcohol or drugs.
• Mobile phones on silent and away - this is screen free time! No photos or filming is permitted during the dance.
• You do you – All movement welcome - big, small, wild, still, eyes open or closed.  All should respect themselves and others’ expressions through dance without judgment.

✨ Venue and Practicalities 

ADDRESS: Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall, Mill Lane, Holloway, Matlock, DE4 5BD

PARKING: There is plenty of free car parking in the village and along Mill Lane itself. Please be respectful of residents when parking. 

WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU:

• Comfortable layered clothing (it can get chilly when we relax at the end)
• Water bottle
• Glasses + headphones + dancing are sometimes not the best of friends!  If you wear contact lenses, they might be more comfortable for you
• Curiosity, openness, and your beautiful self

✨How to stay connected with the Ecstatic Dance Matlock community ✨

• If you’d like to join the Ecstatic Dance Matlock WhatsApp community group (for updates, on-the-day info, post dance playlist and connection), click here: Join via WhatsApp
• Follow on Instagram @ecstaticdancematlock 
• Follow on Facebook @ecstaticdancematlock

I can't wait to welcome you!