Okay, so I've recently fallen madly in love with ecstatic dance! Ecstatic dance is simply unguided, free-form dancing to music of all genres in a private or public forum - sometimes I refer to is as Spirit Dancing. Seattle has tons of venues for ecstatic dance, apparently it's pretty popular here. For my first time, I attended a women's ecstatic dance with some women from my community - we started off with a few Qi Gong exercises to warm up, then the music started and we danced, got silly, and even twirled like disco-ballerinas for the next few hours to everything from hip-hop, to pop, electronic, celtic, world beats, and more!! I had so much fun shakin' it, and there was never a moment of awkwardness. Afterwards, its like we were totally blissed out on our own endorphins and I was on that magical, natural high for days. A few weeks later, I attended a coed ecstatic dance on Capitol Hill, which was ever better than the first - I guess the male energy brought something else into the mix! Anyway, if you haven't heard about this lovely Kundalini-inspired artform, now you have - try it, it's an awesome remedy for stagnancy, procrastination, lack of creativity, exhaustion, anxiety, depression, and more! If there aren't ecstatic dances held where you live, no worries. All you need is music and some space (silence actually works too), just 'shake it' like no one's watching and allow your body to express itself through its own healing moves - it knows what to do, all you have to do is follow!
Your Friend,
Rainfaerie
Thanks for sharing this post. I've only recently had the lovely experience of ecstatic dancing. I wish i had more places to partake in them here in Miami. Glad to hear you've had the chance to experience it. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks! That's awesome, I wish I'd known about it when I lived there. Maybe Id've hosted one :)
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