Featured Ecstatic Dance Event -The VOID
Date: Tuesday, August 22nd
Time: 7-9 pm EST
Location: The DAAC (1553 Plainfield Ave NE #4, Grand Rapids, MI)
Payment: $15 cash at the door or Venmo/PayPal @lexamaxdi in advance
(NO refunds)
**Bring water, journal, yoga mat or cushion to sit on**
About the experience
The void. A space that has little words to adequately express its entirety. This dance is an opportunity to explore what the void means, experientially sense it through movement and embodiment and begin or deepen your relationship with the void. There’s no right nor wrong. Trust and surrender are what the void calls us to show up with. Trust and surrender. Surrender and trust.
In the darkness of an in between chrysalis stage of life/death, the womb or recesses of the mind, the void meets us with love and a willingness to embark on a journey of mystery and unknown.
All are welcomed to join in this dance! Let your intuition guide and show up if called.
We will begin the journey with a meditation/grounding, intuitive ritual and brief sharing circle. After, the dance will commence and close with a sharing circle.
About Ecstatic Dance
It's a free form dance, with no choreography. Simply intuitive movement. The dance playlist creates a wave of rhythms to facilitate journeying. The intention is to form community connection and connection with one's body/mind and soul.
Ecstatic Dance Guidelines
- This is a substance free event. Please show up as you are.
- No photographs or video recording is permitted, unless the whole group consents.
- No verbal communication on the dance floor. Feel free to leave the dance floor if you need to speak with someone.
- You may dance with or interact with others during the dance but provide clear nonverbal communication to say yes or no to engage with another. Honor your needs!
- Have fun, respect the collective space and yourself and listen to your body!
*EVERYbody is welcome, regardless of ability. This event is a supportive space to move your body as much or as little as you'd like. Listen to what your body needs throughout the dance and feel free to honor it's needs.
River's Bio
Dance has been a soulful companion throughout my life. I first discovered ecstatic dance in the Red Woods of California in 2019 and became inspired to share this embodied, community driven and holistic practice. It has been a gift to host and co-create events in Lansing and Traverse City, Michigan, along with British Columbia, Canada. Ecstatic dance offers organic body movement, feeling waves of e-motions and connecting in a space that is supportive and liberating. Dance feels like home and sharing it is a calling and return to love.
~Osteopathic Healer, Artist and Ecstatic Dance Facilitator~
Connect with River via email at amaxd@me.com or Facebook @AlexaMagsoudi
Hope to see you there!