🔥 Ecstatic Dance 🔥

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. 

Beyond the Known is a journey into curiosity, possibility and trust. Beyond the edges of what is familiar lies a liminal space, somewhere between what we know and what we cannot yet see.  

Through music and free movement, we will journey from the known into the unknown with curiosity, allowing the body to lead and discover what lies beyond the edges of what is familiar.  Giving ourselves permission to explore, play and discover what becomes possible when we step beyond the familiar.

✨ 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. 

Please arrive promptly to start at 2pm. 

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!