19th Jan Ecstatic Dance & Cacao

Sunday 19th January ✴ 10:00 - 13:30

City-Limits Dancentre, Hillsborough, Sheffield

✴Early bird tickets available until midnight Wed 15th January✴

After the snow... Ecstatic Dance Sheffield is back for our first dance of 2025!

Welcoming back Rachi on the decks and with Rachael Caroub facilitating, you are warmly invited to this powerful gathering, with the intention to really anchor in and dance our prayers for 2025!

In honour of her work in Mexico with the sacred medicine Mama Cacao, Rachael Caroub will be offering a beautiful cacao circle to begin the dance, open our hearts & send us into 2025 with love. ✨️🤎 Please select a ticket that includes cacao if you wish to drink 🤎 ✨

Expect a fun, upbeat, sensual, powerful, flavourful & spicy musical deep dive! 🦋

Schedule:

• 10am - Doors open, registration, dance area goes into non-verbal space. Feel free to socialise outside or come into the area and drop into the practice early - stretch, meditate, move. Please leave bags, shoes, phones outside of the space. Bring water bottles inside 🙃 there are refills available.
• 10:30 - Doors close, opening circle begins*
• 10:40 - Cacao and short guided warm up
• 11:00 - Unfacilitated ecstatic dance journey
• 13:00 - Closing circle
• 13:30 - Space closes

***please arrive before the opening circle so that we can all start our journey together and explain the guidelines. We cannot guarantee entry after this time. Thank you!

Guidelines:

• Non-verbal dance space: this helps us to drop out of our mind and into our body (sighing / laughing / crying / sounding etc all allowed but leave the chit-chat for outside please!)
• Barefoot practice: Ecstatic Dance is generally a barefoot dance practice helping us to ground and connect to the earth (if you need to wear shoes, please bring indoor shoes and let a member of our team know. Socks can be slippy and dangerous).
• No drugs/alcohol: clear mind to embrace all that is alive in you beautiful you!
• Phone-free zone: let's de-screen! Please leave phones outside! The team may take short videos for promotional reasons - if you do not want to be in a video/photo, please let us know before or after the dance.
• Respect each other's personal space and freedom of expression: no need to dress to impress! This is not a space where you need to look good … this is a movement meditation.
• Feel free: dance how you want; as much or as little movement as is right for you - this is a non-judgemental space.  Feel free to close your eyes, bring a blindfold, dance to the wall... you do you!

What should I wear/bring?

Wear comfy clothes you can move freely in - layers are useful as you might get really hot dancing then cool down when seated.

Bring your beautiful self, a water bottle and curiosity!

What is Ecstatic Dance?

Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation that has been taking the world by storm ⚡️Together we journey for ~2 hours to the most epic music from all genres, cultures and energies. We create a container for total freedom in expression, to move with whatever is present and to liberate ourself from whatever is holding us back.

Ecstatic dance is transformative, fun, playful, deep... it releases endorphins, keeps us fit and strong, releases emotions, empowers us, challenges us, connects us to community, ourself, a "higher power" or source energy... it really can be one of the most magical and elevating experiences life has to offer!